[It takes a few moments before Mando answers. He clearly struck a nerve here! When he does speak up, his voice is calm and measured.]
Would you have had me at the Siege, Bo-Katan? A foundling who had barely taken the Creed, with a secondhand helmet and armour scraped together from scraps, with the thinnest possible layer of beskar?
If not then, would you have had me at the Fall? I had better armour then, and a ship that could have gotten a dozen Mandalorians off the planet, and the flying skills to get between the Empire's blockade. Would you have had me flying that mission, again and again, getting as many people as I could off the planet?
Or would you have turned your nose up at me as a cultist who doesn't follow the right Way, and never asked for my help? Would those born on Mandalore view me as less than because I'm not a blood Mandalorian, and choose to die with their planet rather than accept a single blaster shot from my covert?
[Somewhere along the way, this shifted to the proverbial you and not the specific Bo-Katan you.]
I would have come to the Fall, Bo. I would have run that mission. But I didn't even know it was happening until it was over, because no one thought to ask the covert for help. We would have answered that call, because we're Mandalorians. We would have been there.
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Would you have had me at the Siege, Bo-Katan? A foundling who had barely taken the Creed, with a secondhand helmet and armour scraped together from scraps, with the thinnest possible layer of beskar?
If not then, would you have had me at the Fall? I had better armour then, and a ship that could have gotten a dozen Mandalorians off the planet, and the flying skills to get between the Empire's blockade. Would you have had me flying that mission, again and again, getting as many people as I could off the planet?
Or would you have turned your nose up at me as a cultist who doesn't follow the right Way, and never asked for my help? Would those born on Mandalore view me as less than because I'm not a blood Mandalorian, and choose to die with their planet rather than accept a single blaster shot from my covert?
[Somewhere along the way, this shifted to the proverbial you and not the specific Bo-Katan you.]
I would have come to the Fall, Bo. I would have run that mission. But I didn't even know it was happening until it was over, because no one thought to ask the covert for help. We would have answered that call, because we're Mandalorians. We would have been there.