Babes with Blades

It was 12 years since the Visray

laid waste to our home world.

Run!

12 years since they ripped her

from all that she knew.

But 12 years since she escaped her captors

surviving on the dark streets of Draiga.

Relentlessly pursued,

the orphan child became a savage fighter.

Only flickers of her life before the Visray...

...remained.

I want her taken alive, is that clear?

Well, go and get her then!

Not so clever after all.

Section Commander wants her taken alive.

We're not going to kill, sir!

We're here to teach you all a lesson

on how to catch one girl who's eluded you for so long.

You see?

All aggression, no finesse.

So much for the mighty Sarnians.

Finally she's gonna get what she deserves.

Now you belong to me.

Do what I saw or.

Your turn to suffer.

People paid good money to see the last

of the Sarnians fight in the ring.

Come on, Tallarin!

Azura!

Don't let her get away!

She escaped to the loading tower.

Send units on top we need to shut it down.

Send reinforcements now!

I have word that a new group of colonists are trying

to stir up unrest and are stealing from the empire.

They are calling themselves Freedom Fighters

and they're growing ever more confident

in their attacks, Ma'am.

How tiresome.

You know the drill, find them and kill them.

Which is your favorite item, Peltarion?

I've always been drawn to this one, Ma'am.

An excellent choice aside from its aesthetic beauty

this represents my greatest conquest.

The single remaining living thing from

the home world of our greatest enemies.

The Sarnians treasured these flowers

now all that remains is this

and the girl.

You sent for me, Ma'am?

Do you like my collection, Sef?

It's very nice, Ma'am.

Nice.

I expected more from you, Sef.

It's a wonderful collection.

I like dichotomy.

Weapons of war alongside artifacts of great beauty.

Peltarion here tells me that with his help

you have finally captured the Sarnian girl.

Your plan worked well, Ma'am, she's ready to fight now.

Excellent.

I can't have rumor spreading that

a Sarnian roams free on this world.

It's an embarrassment at the very least.

I want the arena games to go ahead as usual.

Keep the violent lusts of the mob sated.

Show them that working with us has its benefits

and at the same time we'll squeeze their water supply.

Let them know the sooner the rebels have given up,

the sooner the water will flow freely.

When their children are dying of thirst

we'll soon see how long the fire of rebellion burns.

I look forward to seeing

the last Sarnian fight in the arena.

It's okay.

I want to help.

It's all right.

I need to treat your wounds.

I mean you no harm, I only want to help.

I've never seen one like you before.

I thought none of your kind survived.

They didn't.

I know nothing of my kind.

I know only the dark streets of this place.

All that remains of Sarnia is faded memories

of a dead world.

Don't speak like that.

Defeat begins up here.

If you are to survive this place, you need hope.

Without hope you're truly in hell and you'll die out there.

What do you care?

I'm nothing to you, human.

You're just like them.

I'm human but I'm no Visray.

You're all the same to me.

Are we?

I never saw your world before it was poisoned

but we've all heard the stories of your people.

How they fought, they were a symbol of hope.

A sign that a Visray could be challenged.

A false hope.

Not while you live.

Not while you fight.

You're living proof that the empire can be defied.

You're insane.

I'm a prisoner and a slave.

I live at their whim as do you.

Yes.

It was Sorrentine herself that ordered the poisoning.

And that's why she rules here in this cess pit?

A reward for defeating the empire's greatest threat.

It wasn't always this way.

She has stripped this planet bare.

And leaves us with nothing.

Rest.

They'll be coming for you again.

There's only two of them.

It's almost too good to be true.

Then we hit it, lightning raid.

Yeah, get as much as we can and get out.

Our people need those supplies.

Let's move.

Whoa, whoa, hey guys.

You haven't seen a petite little lady around here, have you?

Black hair, black eyes.

About this high?

No, there she is!

Guard.

Fill those bags.

I think someone's coming.

Okay, we have to move now.

Just a few more.

Quickly!

Someone's coming, we have to go now!

Okay okay, we're coming.

Let's go!

Hang on, hang on, hang on.

Come on!

Woo, we're all right.

It was too close.

That's what makes it such a rush.

It's not a game do you remember that?

We got out, we got the stuff, and no one got hurt.

Okay.

Okay, we need to head back to camp.

We need to deliver this stuff to the people who need it.

Sector 17 desperately needs medical supplies.

Okay.

Then we eat, I'm cooking.

What, you don't like my cooking now?

No one likes your cooking, Brook.

Aw, shit.

I can't hear you, scum!

I can't hear you.

Who else brings you the best, the brilliance,

and the most brutal in entertainment?

Who else can promise you and guarantee you

blood for your edification?

Tonight I bring you something very special.

I bring you more than death, I bring you extinction.

And this right here is from a world we brought down low

a long time ago.

We thought her kind were dead.

It just shows you how wrong you can be.

Ladies and gentlemen, serfs, slaves,

and all sorts of scum, I give you

Azura of Sarnia.

As her opponent, your champion back by your demand,

the beautiful, the deadly Andromeda.

Yes, come on!

So this is her, then?

Yes, Commander.

She seems quite unprepared.

I tested her myself, Ma'am.

She's not without courage.

Could be entertaining to watch her die.

For you, perhaps, but these animals

will want more than that.

I hope for your sake you did not rush

her into combat too early.

But you said...

Go on!

Disappointing.

Hardly a product of old Sarnia.

Kill her, Ma'am, let the Sarnian die at your order

like the rest of her kind.

Kill kill kill!

We build her up then we crush the myths

of her people once and for all

when we her humiliate her again in the arena.

It's good to have some comfort today, I really miss this.

You think you have it tough?

There's 500 people out there that would give anything

for what you have.

Together we can..

Together what?

We can barely keep ourselves hidden and supplied.

Your big plan is to make us a target to the Visray.

If they discover what we're building, it's all over.

I was just saying, that's all.