The Fourth Scourge of Star Wars

1294. The History and Traditions of the Mandalorians

[The plot of Mandalorian is about to begin. This two-in-one chapter mainly gives you a general introduction to the origin and culture of Mandalorian and Mandalorians. After watching it, if you watch the show "The Mandalorian", you may have a lot of new experiences. 】

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Mandalore, a remote but legendary planet in the Milky Way...

The Mandalorians, a legendary race in the galaxy...

In the Milky Way, almost everyone knows the prestige of the Mandalorian. As long as the Mandalorian is mentioned, people will always think of the image of the brave mercenary and their iconic armor.

The armor of the Mandalorian is very unique and very retro. On the full-coverage helmet, there is a T-shaped gap for sight and breathing. Even with the development of science and technology, the addition of electronic imaging technology and various sensor technologies, this T-shaped gap is still preserved on the helmets of the Mandalorians, which seems to be their symbol.

And indeed it is.

The Mandalorians are a very traditional race, and they do have very old traditions.

Few people know that the ancestors of the Mandalorians actually came from Coruscant, and few people also know that the Mandalorians were not actually the human race that is more widespread in the Milky Way today.

The planet Coruscant was not completely ruled by humans prior to existing historical records. At that time, on Coruscant, there were two major racial forces—the Zhell, which consisted of thirteen human tribes, and the Taungs, a brave humanoid race.

Tao Ren's style and appearance are quite fierce. In fact, to some extent, he is similar to the Predator we are familiar with, both in terms of culture and appearance, except that Tao Ren's mouth is normal, not the four-petal mouth of the Predator. . [Easter Egg Chapter Attachment 1]

There was a protracted war between the Philosophers and the Taos for control of the planet Coruscant.

During the war, because of a devastating volcanic eruption, almost all the settlements of the philosophers were destroyed, and the philosophers were almost wiped out. The Tao people once believed that they had won the war, because the volcanic ash covered the sky, so from then on, the Tao people called themselves Dha Werda Verda, in the language of the Tao people, this is the "son of shadow". the meaning of.

And Dha Werda Verda has also become an epic sung by Tao people from generation to generation and has been passed down continuously.

But human resilience is beyond imagination. After lingering in the underground world for several years, the philosopher made a comeback and defeated the Tao people in one fell swoop with a stronger and stronger posture.

The Tao people, who were almost massacred and almost wiped out, had no choice but to leave Coruscant and wander towards the edge of the galaxy.

The philosopher also officially became the owner of the planet Coruscant. Thirteen human tribes spread out and brought their culture, technology and genes to every corner of the galaxy, thus establishing the dominant position of the human race in the galaxy. But there is no need to say more about this.

Many Tao people who escaped from Coruscant and wandered around went to settle on the planet Loen in the outer ring.

But the environment of the Loen planet is very harsh, and it is very difficult for the Tao people to even survive, let alone develop and grow. This situation was not changed until much later, during the reign of a Tao ruler known as Mandalorian I.

After persistent exploration and search, Mandalore I finally found a habitable planet in the outer ring star region in the northeast of the Milky Way. There are no intelligent races on this planet, only a huge dragon-shaped creature living here.

So Mandalore I led his own tribe to emigrate to this planet, settled here, and after a long period of reproduction and expansion, he finally brought this planet under his own control.

At this time, the time has come to 7,000 years ago, and the Galactic Republic has been established for more than 18,000 years.

On the one hand, it became a bereaved dog with no fixed place to live, but on the other hand, it grew and expanded its power to the entire galaxy. In the wars between philosophers and potters in ancient times, the winners and losers were like this.

In order to commemorate the great leader of Mandalorian I, descendants named this planet Mandalore. After that, all Tao leaders called themselves 'Mand'alor'. In the language of the Tao people, this means 'the only ruler'.

Others call themselves the Mandalorians, or Mando'ade, meaning sons and daughters of Mandalore. From this time on, the title of Mandalorian officially began to exist.

And because there was a T-shaped gap on the helmet worn by Mandalorian I, this design was also used by Mandalorian later.

These are all tributes to Mandalorian I, because if he had not led the Tao people to settle on the planet Mandalore, the Tao people who lingered on the planet Loen could only end up being lost in the long river of history.

At that time, the Mandalorians who gained a firm foothold on the planet Mandalorian were an alliance formed by a large number of warlord clans. In order to snatch limited resources and living space, the Mandalorians began to actively expand outward.

The martial Mandalorian warriors wear sturdy armor and hold powerful weapons, making them invincible.

Initially, the expansion war of the Mandalorians was just a simple act of expansion. They expanded their power to several surrounding galaxies, and this expansion lasted for nearly 3,000 years.

Until later, they encountered an insect race, the Nevoota. There are not many records about this race, but it is likely to be a descendant of the Kilik swarm that ruled the Milky Way for thousands of years. .

Around 4024 BBY, a bloody war broke out between the Mandalorians and the Nevotas. Facing the invasion of the Mandalorians, the bloodthirsty Nevotas attacked the Mandalorians with almost overwhelming power.

The number of Nevotas is almost a hundred times that of the Mandalorians, and they are tireless and fearless of death, causing extremely heavy losses to the previously invincible Mandalorians.

The war lasted for three years, and finally the Mandalorians won a complete victory, and the Nevotas were exterminated as the ending.

But the price of this victory was very high. The population of the Mandalorians dropped sharply and they had to temporarily recuperate. And because the process of the war was so bloody and cruel that those Mandalorians who survived believed that they finally won the victory because of the blessing of God.

So such an image of a god evolved from war began to appear in the minds of the Mandalorians. This image was concretized into the image of a mighty warrior wearing thick armor and a helmet with a T-shaped gap.

Thus, Kad Ha'rangir, the god of destruction, came into being. In fact, a large part of the image of Kad-Harangir comes from Mandalorian I who led the Mandalorians to the planet Mandalorian 3,000 years ago.

There are positives and negatives. The Mandalorians also created another evil god, the god of laziness, Arasuum. exist.

After that, the Mandalorians will hold rituals before going out to try to gain the power of Kad-Harangir, the god of destruction, and repel the temptation of Arasum, the god of laziness.

From then on, Mandalorian warriors called themselves "Mandalorian Crusader" (Mandalorian Crusader), and their armor was also called "Crusader Armor".

The crusader armor on each soldier is different, and they also show their own personality on the armor. Mandalorians often like to install a part of the powerful enemy they killed as a totem on their armor, as a symbol of their blessing from the god of destruction, and they also believe that such a totem can help repel the god of laziness temptation.

So in the episode of "The Mandalorian", we can see that the Mandalorian has an almost paranoid worship of his armor, which is the reason.

It was also from this period that the Mandalorians' wars of external expansion also began to take on a very strong religious character, while at the same time there was a touch of romanticism.

And the dissemination and assimilation of religion also began to play a role and effect. In the previous expansion wars, the hostile races of the Mandalorians all ended in extermination without exception, but after that, a very small number of powerful races began to be recognized by the Mandalorians during the war, and at the same time They themselves also accepted the religion and culture of the Mandalorians, thus becoming Mandalorians other races besides the Tao race.

A typical example is the giant race on the planet Mandalia.

Around 4000BBY, ​​the leader of the Mandalorians was ruled by a Tao called Mandalore-Invincible. Mandalorian-The Invincible is even crazier and more brutal. Under his rule, the expansion of the Mandalorian Crusaders is getting faster and faster, and they are pointing directly at the inner and core circles of the galaxy.

It was also at this time that the Mandalorians had small-scale contact with the Galactic Republic for the first time, and both sides also knew of each other's existence.

However, at the same time, the Sith Empire, which was also undergoing expansion activities, also had initial contact with the Mandalorians.

The core planet of the Sith Empire, Korriban, is also roughly in the northeast of the Milky Way, but the planet Korriban is more remote, even close to the edge of the Milky Way.

Therefore, as the Mandalorians and the Sith Empire continued to expand, the exchanges between them gradually began.

The powerful Sith Lords of the Sith Empire admired the powerful Mandalore Crusaders very much and wanted to incorporate them into their army.

So the Sith Lord Ulic Qel-Droma (Ulic Qel-Droma, creator of the Dark Reapers) fought a duel with that Mandalorian. He defeated Mandalore with overwhelming strength, and Mandalore was also convinced by his strength and was willing to form an alliance with the Sith Empire.

This is how the first Sith-Mandalorian alliance was created.

It was also at the same time that the Mandalorians saw the power of the Force for the first time. Some of them began to extensively study the mysteries of the Force, studying how to defeat those powerful warriors who use the Force.

After the establishment of the Sith-Mandalorian Alliance, the Sith Lords Ulic-Quel-Jormag and Exar-Kun became the commanders of the Mandalorian army, and they immediately began to attack the Galactic Republic. war operations.

Not much to say about the course of the war. Even with the help of the Mandalorian Crusade, the Sith Empire still has a huge gap in strength compared with the Galactic Republic, which has occupied the most prosperous and richest region of the galaxy for 21,000 years.

The result of the war was a fiasco.

During the war, the entire Mandalorian Crusade was destroyed, and almost all of them, including their leader Mandalore, died in foreign lands.

At this time, a surviving Mandalorian warrior found the body of the leader Mandalorian in the sea of ​​corpses on the battlefield, took off his helmet, and brought it back to the planet Mandalorian.

The warrior put on the helmet of Mandalore and was recognized by the tribes on the planet Mandalorian as the new leader. He called himself "Mandalore the Ultimate" (Mandalore the Ultimate), and this title later replaced Mandalore as the title of the leader of the Mandalorians.

Somewhat ironically, the first Ultimate Mandalorian was a human. In the structure where the Tao people accounted for almost 99% of the Mandalorians, a human being like him who accepted the way of Mandalorian is a rare among the rare.

In fact, the Tao people who had already fallen could not stop a human being like him.

In the following time, this ultimate Mandalorian stopped all external expansion actions, and concentrated on developing the economy and recuperating, so that the war-torn Mandalorians could prosper again.

Because in this war, the most important race of the Mandalorians, the Tao, their younger generation was almost killed and injured, and this race began to decline.

And this ultimate Mandalorian is also very open-minded. He let go of the restrictions of the Mandalorian, and began to recruit and accept people of other races to join the Mandalorian family. It is also from this era that Mandalorian is no longer a title of Tao people, but a collective term for all people who have accepted the way of Mandalorian.

In the episode of "The Mandalorian", the "This is the way" (this is the right way) that the tin cans can't leave their mouths refers to such a thing.

If you want to be more specific, This is the way, it’s about the Mandalorians advocating war, worshiping the strong, and worshiping the god of destruction Kad-Harangir as a religious thought.

This very enlightened ultimate Mandalorian is actually strictly speaking a Taoist-Mandalorian. In the long history of the Mandalorians, like Mandalorian I, he is one of the few great men who are remembered for non-war factors. The series of reform measures he made actually laid the cultural foundation of the later Mandalorians.

His most trusted confidant is the great strategist Cassus Fett, also a human being. He also proposed a series of reforms, one of which was to rebuild the Mandalorian Crusade and unify the armor of the Mandalore Crusade.

The armor of the reconstructed New Mandalorian Crusader has been redesigned, adopting a shape similar to that of the legendary god of destruction Kad-Harangir, the most conspicuous of which is the T-shaped helmet gap.

From then on, the T-shaped helmet gap and this uniform armor style are no longer exclusive to Mandalore as the ruler, but have become symbols of all Mandalorians.

There is a lot of information to be found in this chapter, so the update is a bit late, and it is actually New Year's Eve... Sorry everyone...