The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

1295. The Fall of the Mandalorians

Under the leadership of the Ultimate Mandalorian, the Mandalorians quickly recovered from the trauma of war over the next few decades. And because he let go of the recruitment criteria for the Mandalorians, many planets around him expressed their willingness to join. After all, the level of force that the Mandalorians showed before is also desirable.

These planets and races all know that although the Mandalorians lost the war with the Galactic Republic, it was not their lack of combat effectiveness that caused their failure, but the resources they possessed were not as good as their counterparts.

So the Mandalorians quickly returned to their pre-war levels, and were even stronger.

On the other hand, after losing a whole generation of elites and young and strong Taoists, they inevitably declined. The Tao people first lost their position on Mandalorian, and then their population dropped sharply. During these decades of recuperation, the Tao people still failed to recover their strength. On the contrary, other races, especially the human race, gradually replaced them. their dominance over the Mandalorians.

This is very ironic.

The Taos and the philosophers were old enemies on the planet Coruscant. The two sides had fought to the death for many years. However, in the end, it was the descendants of the philosophers who continued the Mandalorian power established by the Taos.

During this process, some Tao people who could not accept this fact chose to leave the Mandalorians and went to other places to find a new hometown and a new start, wanting to emulate what Mandalorian I did back then.

And those Tao people who stayed, tried to regain the honor in their own way-the Mandalorian way, made enough military exploits, and then challenged the Ultimate Mandalorian according to the Mandalorian tradition .

But they couldn't wait for this day after all, because the Mandalorians faced increasingly fierce and brutal wars, which made the increasingly rare Tao people finally go extinct.

Maybe there are still fires left by the Tao people who left in the unknown remote areas of the Milky Way, but in the Milky Way, the Tao people civilization that once flourished has actually died out.

But the Mandalorian civilization founded by the Tao people continued.

In the later years of the first Ultimate Mandalorian, the power of the Mandalorians had expanded to its peak. At this time, the area they occupied even surpassed the Hutts entrenched in the Hutt space!

It's just that the Mandalorians chose relatively remote star areas for their external expansion during this period, and there was no direct conflict of interest with the Galactic Republic. However, when the Mandalorians expanded to the limit, the conflict between them and the Galactic Republic inevitably broke out.

At this time, almost all Mandalorians, including the old first Ultimate Mandalorian, believed that the inevitable final battle between them and the Galactic Republic had arrived. The shame will be repaid!

So under the leadership of the great strategist Karsus Fett, the invincible New Mandalorian Crusaders went out again, and their soldiers pointed directly at Alderaan, one of the most developed planets in the Galactic Republic at that time.

The Galactic Republic was unprepared for the outbreak of this war, when all their attention was on the Sith Empire. But strictly speaking, it is not completely unknown. At that time, the leader of the Jedi Covenant, an extreme force organization independent of the Jedi Knights, realized that the situation might be wrong, so he sent his shadow, Se Lester Mohn went to investigate.

As a result, Celeste Morn did detect something, but it was the shadow of the ancient Sith Lord. She traced all the way to the planet Taris. On this planet that was about to be destroyed, she found that the people on the planet were desperately resisting the Lak ghouls that kept pouring out of the underground city.

So she went all the way into the dungeon, and finally found the Sith artifact left by Kanes-Moore--Moore's amulet.

She then found the planet Jabul and discovered the millions of Mandalorian crusaders assembled by Karsus Fett on this planet. As a result, at this time, she, who was controlled by Moore's amulet, directly activated the power of the amulet to wipe out all the millions of troops.

The Mandalorian Armada that followed could only destroy the planet Jabul through orbital bombing, which severely damaged the power in the hands of Karsus Fett.

But Celeste Moen failed to spread the news—in order to suppress the power of Moore's amulet, she entered Drapa's stasis chamber and fell into a deep sleep for thousands of years, until she was later captured by Don Xiao dug it out.

On Karsus Fett's side, although he lost a forward base and millions of troops, the Galactic Republic was unprepared for the invasion of the Mandalorian Crusaders, which made his offensive against the Galactic Republic unstoppable.

The Galactic Republic, which suffered successive disastrous defeats, once came to the brink of disintegration, but at this time, the Jedi knights Revan and Malak stood up. Together, they defeated the mighty Mandalorian Crusaders, and fought all the way to the Mandalorians. Inner World, eventually destroying the entire Mandalorian crusade.

The supreme leader of the Mandalorians, Ultimate Mandalorian, was also killed. This is the plot in the generation of "Star Wars-Knights of the Old Republic", which will not be described in detail.

After Revan defeated the Mandalorians, he confiscated the helmet that was the symbol of the supreme leader of the Mandalorians and passed down from generation to generation, leaving the Mandalorians without a leader. But then he lost his memory and the helmet returned to the planet Mandalorian, so I won't say much about these things.

In short, after this tragic war known as the Mandalorian War, the era of the Mandalorian as a centralized empire is over. Although the Mandalorians recovered their helmets and regained their traditions, the glory of the Mandalorian Crusades could never be reproduced.

After that, the Mandalorians also participated in many wars, large and small. They also split and reunited with the Sith Empire and the Galactic Republic. The Mandalorian-Sith Alliance collapsed two or three times and rebuilt two or three times. There are so many plots, and it also contains a lot of content from the second generation of "Knights of the Old Republic".

However, in the three thousand years from around 4000BBY to around 1000BBY, ​​if you look at it as a whole, the strength of the Mandalorians is constantly weakening and declining.

This also fully demonstrates that the extremely martial culture of the Mandalorians is actually not conducive to the development of a civilization. They are militaristic, constantly launching wars on every target around them, and the final outcome is to let themselves be destroyed in the war.

So going back to the war between the philosophers and the Tao people on the planet Coruscant in ancient times, if the victors were the Tao people, it would certainly be impossible to establish such a glorious and powerful Galactic Republic. Maybe their ending at that time will not be much different from the Mandalorian now.

It is not without reason that the philosophers, composed of thirteen human tribes, eventually became the masters of the galaxy.

During the period from 4000BBY to 1000BBY, ​​the Mandalorians gradually spread out. They went alone or formed a small team to make a living in other parts of the galaxy. All they know is the ability to kill, so they basically become mercenaries and bounty hunters.

Because of the Mandalorian's strong combat effectiveness and the character of doing what it says, it made them famous in the world of mercenaries and bounty hunters. When it comes to mercenaries and bounty hunters, the first thing everyone thinks of is the Mandalorian.

At this time, the world of Mandalore, with the planet Mandalore at its core, has declined so much that it can hardly exert influence on its surroundings. They can only linger in front of the increasingly powerful Galactic Republic. And in fact, the planet Mandalorian at this time is already part of the Galactic Republic.

So in 1058BBY, another powerful Mandalorian leader launched the "Return Movement", calling on those Mandalorians from all over the galaxy to return to their hometown, and wanted to rebuild the glory of the Mandalorian Crusade. I won't mention the name, lest you read the confusion, just know this matter.

This person did indeed, and in the next few hundred years, the Mandalorians did indeed begin to become stronger again.

From the perspective of the Galactic Republic, the threat of the Mandalorian Crusade, which once became a haze in the heart of the Republic, seems to hang in the sky again.

And at this time, the Galactic Republic had just ended its final decisive battle with the Sith Empire, and it was devastated. The Galactic Republic, which wanted to recuperate, announced the abolition of all military-related activities during the Lusan reform. The change made the Republic very afraid of the re-emergence of the Mandalorians.

Therefore, the senators of the Galactic Republic and the then speaker chose to solve the Mandalorian problem once and for all—massacre!

What is even more ironic is that this massacre was also supported by the Jedi Order!

The Jedi Knights at that time, because they had just ended the war with the Sith Empire, experienced thousands of years of war, the Jedi Knights were still a very powerful military organization, not the role of the guardian of the Galactic Republic later. , so their attitude towards the Mandalorian is also very clear.

And for the Mandalorians who have just seen the dawn of their rise, this means the end.