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TheStar Warsbrand is finally puttingThe Mandalorianat center stage , thanks to the TV show adopt one lone gunslinger in a new version of the iconic armor . Armor bust by Jango Fett and his Logos Boba , two of the most well - known Mandalorians … who were n’t Mandalorian at all .
That ’s the variety toStar Warscanon that has created if not thelargestplot hole in the newStar Warsuniverse , then the most impossible one to explain aside . Jango Fett was the heavy warrior that the Mandalorian culture had produced , making his repute know across the galaxy ( just like his Logos Boba ’s would be one day , too ) . It was for that understanding that he became the model of the Republic ’s Clone Army . So how does his taradiddle make sense if the leaders of Mandalore now take he was an role player ?
We ’ve have a hypothesis to explain it without erasing Jango ’s bequest , but it will require a quick chronicle lesson on the Mandalorian way of life , and computer code of honour . Because the more you learn about the Mandalorian culture … the more it take a shit sense that Jango Fett would n’t be Mandalorian , at all .
Who Are The ‘Real’ Mandalorians?
The casual fan would think that the Mandalorians would be a major player in theStar Warsstory : they ’re deadly , inherently cool , and fatigue fantastic armour . But trying to dive into the history of the warrior polish is more unmanageable than ever , thanks to Disney purchasing Lucasfilm and theStar Warsbrand along with it … and claim all existing novel , comic books , and TV games that chronicle the millenia - retentive Mandalorian chronicle were no foresighted canon . They persist Star Wars ' Legends,‘but are n’t official until stated so . But that does n’t have in mind it ’s been wiped away , either .
Audiences who watchedClone Warshave only glimpsed a bridge of years in the Mandalore culture , and will wrongly assume they know who the Mandalorians really are . A bon ton that started by loving warfare , was eventually punished for its warring way , and is more potential to implode than overture ( hopefullyStar Wars : Rebelsgives them a chance ) . But with an extraction that stretches back thousands of year , even to begin with than the formation of the Old Republic , the report of how the Mandaloriansbecamealso helps to explicate why Jango and Boba Fett would eventually be disowned by them completely .
The Mandalorians Are a People, Not a Race
First things first : the animatedClone Warsmay only show human beings in the Mandalorian armor , but that was never the spirit of their people in the original cosmos . The Mandalorian stand asunder from almost all otherStar Warscivilizations by having no ' monetary standard ' slipstream , thanks to their greatest leader - known asMand’alor- who saved the Mandalorian people from extinction . After encountering the Republic and their ( let ’s be honest , easily dislike - able-bodied ) Jedi warrior Thelonious Sphere Monk , the expansionist Mandalorians were driven back , and paid the price for enmity .
It was then that the keep open Mand’alor rose to claim the rank and masquerade worn by the leader of all who followed the Mandalorian way . Opening the society ’s borders to all who would join , adhere to their codification of honorable warfare , and hero-worship progress and evolution through soldierlike humanities and conquest , the Mandalorian people spread until they laid title to an intact Republic - free part of space . With warfare behind them , acting as mercenaries and bounty Orion became their Modern means of worship .
The exact identity of this history - changing Mand’alor , and the epoch in which he united the kinship group of Mandalore has been changed from canyon to non - canyon . And whileClone Warsportrayed the reform-minded , non - violent , pacifistic New Mandalorians as the only ' rightfulness ' future , Star Warshas always been a mythology well examined from more than one point of view . When united , the Mandalorians are a a unattackable , intelligent , and honorable re - imagining of gunslingers , samurai , or sellswords .
It ’s for that reason that it ’s so easy to take over that Jango Fett may have been deport , or implicitly outcast by anyone truly honoring the Mandalorian elbow room . No matter what the Republic or pacifist might say , theStar Warsuniverse only rewards those who canfightto protect the people and things they wish about . It ’s that feeling that created the Mandalorian way . And if you believethe rumored plot ofThe MandalorianTV show , the new hero may be trying to restore those very values to the Mandalore of theStar Warsfuture .
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Jango Fett is Not a Mandalorian
From a certain power point of position , this is a mix - up asking to take lieu , with Mandalorians defined by armor that could practically be wear by anyone , regardless of their inheritance of belief system . Obi - Wan Kenobi presumed that Mandalorian armor = Mandalorian in " The Mandalore Plot , " time of year 2 , episode 12 ofThe Clone Wars . When begin his questions about potential rogue Mandalorian agents , his questions about Jango Fett observe their ' virulent ' report alive were immediately dismissed by Prime Minister Almec , elucidate with obvious outrage that"Jango Fett was a common bounty hunter . How he evolve that armour is beyond me . "
It ’s here where the plot pickle forms , fundamentally place Jango Fett ’s entire chronicle and role in head . To some , the fact that Prime Minister Almec plays with the truth later in the time of year stand for he ’s consist here , too ( even if there ’s no real cause to ) . But it ’s potential to make this scene work with the loreStar Warsfans have surrounding Jango Fett . specially since his shape of the perfect Mandalorian way of life of combat is exactly why he was chosen as the example for the Grand Army of the Republic .
Was Jango Fett Disowned By Mandalore?
This is speculation on our part , making the premise that theClone Warsteam was hint at a much bombastic story – alternatively of erasing one for kicks . If Almec is one thing , it is performative - ly outraged if it maintain up appearances . Which means his description of Jango Fett as"a uncouth bounty hunter"may have more to do with how he ’s seen by Mandalorians , than if he was a citizen of Mandalore before The Clone Wars . Knowing what we have a go at it about the Mandalore custom , Jango in spades did the one thing his warrior nation would take care down upon . Even if they would n’t learn about it until an endless army of clones circularise across the galaxy .
TheAttack of the Clonesmovie outlines the plan : Jango is charter to contribute DNA to the Kamino cloners , so they can create an army of Fetts . Inthe previousStar Warsnovels , that story was flourish to includethe Cuy’val Dar–“those who no longer live . " These were 100 mass ( mostly fellow Mandalorians ) recruited by Jango Fett to disappear from the wandflower for a decade , coach the clone in the graphics of warfare in total secrecy . by nature , the Mandalorians pass on their opinion , and the Clones they shaped had a good chance of survival .
The question fans will expect is : what take place after the decade was up ? Most of the Cuy’val Dar returned to their lives , or conduct on new 1 . They had the exemption of namelessness … because it was n’t their brass on every Clone soldier . If Jango was as celebrated a bounty Orion as he seemed , every Mandalorian would know that he allowed his rip , his training , his beliefs , and his culture to be passel - produce . copy into thou of soldiers designed to go bad for the Republic , and not Mandalore . If you need us , the idea that Mandalore would repudiate Jango as a traitor iscompletelybelievable .
Boba Fett Became an Outlaw, Like His Father
That ’s our possibility for why Jango Fett could have been publicly and enthusiastically exiled and disowned by every follower of the Mandalorian way . But for Boba Fett , the account is even simpler : he ’s not Mandalorian because … well , he never became one . It ’s safe to presume that Jango passed on some of his finish and Mandalorian ways to his " son " before being kill . But or else of take his declamatory step into the Mandalorian way of life , Boba Fett take up with cutthroat bounty hunters and hired gunman , instead ( a childhood chronicle inClone Wars ) .
If our possibility is precise – or at least base in the same expanded universe fiction theClone Warswriters were leave possible – Boba was probably better off finding his own band of Mandalorian armor instead of trying to regain his sire ’s . And we speculate there is some poetry in Boba really becoming what his father was seen as for bring him into the humanity : a common bounty hunter .
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