![]() ![]() ( The Message, War Stories, Serenity: Those Left Behind) Mal fought in many more battles, but the turning point for him and the Independents came with their physical and emotional defeat at the Battle of Serenity Valley on the planet Hera. Mal was also involved in the ground campaign during the Battle of Sturges, which according to Badger was the "bloodiest and shortest battle in all the war", although Mal considered it a distant second. His second-in-command Zoƫ Alleyne Washburne was by his side for most of the war, surviving many dangerous conflicts with him, such as the Battle of Du-Khang in 2510 and a long winter campaign in New Kasmir where he commanded a platoon. Mal volunteered for the Independents army during the Unification War against the Alliance, gaining the rank of sergeant during that time. ![]() He, however, has no idea "who" Mona Lisa was. Though Mal usually seems more practical than intellectual, he occasionally surprised his friends by displaying familiarity with a wide range of literature varying from the works of Shan Yu, a psychotic dictator, to poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His mother, Maude, saw his father killed and their ranch burned, after Maude took issue with a buyout attempt from the Alliance after a terraforming failure caused a drought. Raised by his mother and "about 40 hands," Mal apparently received a fairly decent education growing up. Mal was born on September 20, 2486, and was brought up on a ranch in Seven Pines Pass on the planet Shadow. ![]()
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