It's simply our way. Taking life is never something to trivialized. The preservation of life, all life, should remain paramount. [A shift of his shoulder nacelles, not quite a shrug, but recognition that not everyone shares this philosophy.]
Our species lost sight of that. We destroyed our planet and almost annihilated each other in the process. Hundreds of other worlds and species paid the price for our inability to control our warfare.
[Wing's reasons for melee combat are the same, to behold the consequences of his actions, though he doesn't enjoy the feeling. Instead it's to bid them on their way and perhaps ask forgiveness.]
Though these things...if they are indeed the minions of the antithesis of Primus, then they are an affront to life itself. [That sounds a whole lot like a no mercy clause.]
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Our species lost sight of that. We destroyed our planet and almost annihilated each other in the process. Hundreds of other worlds and species paid the price for our inability to control our warfare.
[Wing's reasons for melee combat are the same, to behold the consequences of his actions, though he doesn't enjoy the feeling. Instead it's to bid them on their way and perhaps ask forgiveness.]
Though these things...if they are indeed the minions of the antithesis of Primus, then they are an affront to life itself. [That sounds a whole lot like a no mercy clause.]