#staying a civilian keeping deltas out of dirty job that cross line of soldiering into something more dangerous and wanting for clones

[cienie-isengardu]

My RepCom Musing: "Too dirty and political“

Remember how Walon’s mindset was “I steal. You don’t” when Delta Squad helped him get inside bank on Mygeet?

His opinion about Kal’s Nulls may change from “hooligans” to very talented, good lads through the course of the story but apparently, Vau’s mindset about not letting his boys crossing a line between soldiering and the dirty, criminal world did not, as was seen again, in Order 66:

"What do you want us to do, Sarge?"

Vau summoned Mird back to his side with a silent gesture. "Nothing."

"Sarge, we can-"

"No. You can't. Sorry. This crosses the line from soldier to ... well, I don't want you involved with this. I needed Zey to know what I was doing, but it's better you don't ask why, either."

"Okay, Sarge." Scorch activated his helmet comlink, wondering if Vau didn't think they were good enough to take on RDS. "I'll get the schematics of the security cells, and we'll have you an operational plan inside half an hour."

"Scrap the plan, Scorch, but the schematics would be very welcome. Get some rest. Kashyyyk is going to wring you dry."

"Okay, Sarge." They had time to give him a bit of help. "We wouldn't foul up, honest."

"I know. But this is too dirty and political even for special ops. Concentrate on Kashyyyk. Real soldiering to be done there."

And yes, freeing Jilka Zan Zentis out of RDS custody was more done for benefit of Besany and Ordo (and Skirata) than anything else but Vau drew the line and kept to the resolution that members of the Delta Squad were soldiers first and foremost - their mission were sanctioned by Republic military and whatever happened and whoever they killed during said missions did not make them criminals. Vau used their help to get into the bank but did not want them to steal. Now Scorch was more than willing to help but Vau refused to drag his boys into a dirty, too political job and risk their life and reputation if something went wrong. I already talked a bit about how often Vau is the one doing the dirty jobs (in contrast to Kal, narrative-wise) so him being so adamant about Delta not crossing the line speaks a lot about Vau, doesn’t it?