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originally posted in:The New Dojo
3/16/2017 10:46:29 PM
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[b][i][u]So you want to join the Mandos...[/u][/i][/b]
Cannon sits on a tree stump, sharpening his sword. He's in his full armor, save the helmet, which lies in the grass.
He appears to be waiting for someone, Nathaniel to be exact.
[spoiler]Open to Roy.[/spoiler]
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"Well than. Should I sit down?"
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"Probably a good idea." Cannon gestures to the fallen tree he's sitting on.
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[b]Nathaniel sat down beside him, listening intently to Cannon's coming words [/b]
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"Alright. So, originally, the Mandalorians were all one species, called the Taung. Ugly, gray skinned guys with fangs and yellow eyes. They came from Coruscant, back before it was a city. The oldest records of them we have is from a war between them and the original humans on Coruscant, which they lost due to sheer numbers. The Taung were driven off Coruscant and eventually ended up on a planet called Roon."
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[b]Nathaniel nodded, taking it in [/b]
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"Eventually the Taung decided to pack up and move to Mandalore, settling down and killing the native Mythosaur beasts that lived there. Their leader took the title of Mand'alore the first, and united all of them beneath him. He eventually lead them on crusades to conquer neighbouring planets in a series of wars."
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[b]Nathaniel nodded once more, enthralled in the story[/b]
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"A few generations later, the mask of the Mand'alore fell to a new leader. Mand'alore the Indomitable. He believed he had a vision in which he was told the old Taung gods were false, and that they should worship warfare, which he considered to be the one true way a civilization could advance. He leads a series of crusades, killing entire species. The Basilisks, Fenelar, and several other species were hunted into extinction. Eventually, he waged war against Dxun and Onderon, two planets that were part of the Galactic Republic. He lost. The mask was found in the jungles of Dxun where it would later be taken up by another known as Mand'alore the Ultimate."
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"The mask is what makes the leader then?"
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"More or less. It's like the king's crown, a symbol of authority. Whoever wears it has the right to challenge other for the position of Mand'alore." Cannon tells him.
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"Ah I see. Continue, please."
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"Alright. So, Mand'alore the Ultimate realized the Taung were not numerous to survive, so he opened the ranks to any and all who would join and follow the canons of honour, the six actions I told you about. People from every species joined him, and he organized them into the first true army in Mandalorian history. He even took on a human as his second in command, a man known as Casus Fett."
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"Smart guy sounds like..."
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"Yeah, and bloodthirsty. He organized the Mandalorians into a war machine, frenzied them up with promises of loot and glory, then went to war against the Galactic Republic. He almost won too, if the Jedi known as Reven hadn't stepped in."
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"That took an unexpected twist. He sounded nice.."
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"He believed the Mandalorians had the right to rule because we were the strongest. Reven eventually killed him and took the mask, hiding it. The Mandalorians turned to infighting and scattered."
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"And than? What followed that?"
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"Eventually a bigger threat showed up. A Mandalorian veteran known as Canderouse Ordo met and unknowingly befriended Revan. Eventually, Reven recruited him to help fight the Sith, and gave him the mask. At this point the Taung were extinct, but their vulture lived on. Ordo took the title of Mand'alore the Preserver and united the remaining clans."
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"Did he do it well at the very least?"
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"Yeah. Thanks to him the Mandalorians retook Mandalore and reunited. We helped defeat the Sith and then began to rebuild."
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"I'm assuming you weren't just left alone."
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"Heck no. A while later, under Mand'alore the Uniter, we had rebuilt ourselves to the point that other systems actually paid us to protect them from threats. We were on the path to becoming a superpower. Mandalore was industrialized. The warrior class lead society, with the artisans and workers supporting them in return for protections from threats. It was a bear perfect system, the clans ruling their own households while the Mand'alore kept us all in line. We were powerful."
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"And than the empire? Or something else?"
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"Worse. The Jedi. The Galactic Republic didn't like that we were getting stronger. So they tried to make us join them. Naturally we said no, and so they attacked us. We weren't prepared, and they glassed Mandalore from orbit. Two thirds of the planet became a toxic desert. We call it the great annihilation. They then proceeded to set up their own puppet government and import citizens from other planets to drive us out."
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"The monsters... Bunch of a holes."
