Roain_Xantos posted:Well, the Mando'ade are a lot like the Sith in that respect.
Quiet_Mandalorian posted:Roain_Xantos posted:Well, the Mando'ade are a lot like the Sith in that respect.Or Jedi...
Roain_Xantos posted:Well, yeah. lol. I just had the whole [yoda] always two there are. no more, no less. [/yoda] thing stuck in my head.
Quiet_Mandalorian posted:Roain_Xantos posted:Well, yeah. lol. I just had the whole [yoda] always two there are. no more, no less. [/yoda] thing stuck in my head.And that statement also corresponds rather nicely with the status of Obi-Wan and Yoda after the Purge.
Roain_Xantos posted: Well, the Mando'ade are a lot like the Sith in that respect. You can't just kill most of them. They all have to be dead if you want to wipe them out completely. As long as there's one Mando'ad , they live on. I don't know if even killing them all would work.
browwiw posted: Make we wonder if there any other, lesser known, Mando merc corporations out there.
Corran_Fett posted: I wouldn't be too sure about that... take Ghez Hokan, Kal Skirata and Walon Vau, and you'll notice, they're all pretty different Mando'ade. Sure, that doesn't apply for everyone, but some Mandos are just different than others. Not that if only one survives, a little change of culture isn't good; it's actually necessary, to survive in future and avoid another extinction. Mandos seem to be experts of changing their way of life and risking extinction more than once, however.
Roain_Xantos posted:Technocrat...
Corran_Fett posted:I wouldn't be too sure about that... take Ghez Hokan, Kal Skirata and Walon Vau, and you'll notice, they're all pretty different Mando'ade.
Corran_Fett posted:Sure, that doesn't apply for everyone, but some Mandos are just different than others. Not that if only one survives, a little change of culture isn't good; it's actually necessary, to survive in future and avoid another extinction. Mandos seem to be experts of changing their way of life and risking extinction more than once, however.
Corran_Fett posted: Good question, but apart from QM's Death Watch, I haven't got any other ideas, either. Even the Protectors don't necessarily seem to be a real "merc company", taking Goran Beviin for example. While he's a Protector, he does lots of other jobs as a "freelancer" when he isn't called by the Mandalore. Sure, Solo hires them to protect Centerpoint and the Vong hire them to "lay the battlefield", but even then not every Supercommando takes the job. What I'm trying to say is that the Protectors don't work as an army with a standing rank of members, but rather like some sort of an agency that gets the Protectors (the individuals) a job together with others of their kind. They're not always fighting in large groups or under the banner of the Protectors, like we see with Beviin and the Jeban ladies.
Quiet_Mandalorian posted: Though all essentially similar, in many ways.
Quiet_Mandalorian posted: I can't seem them needing to change much further. Making contact with the rest of the galaxy from time to time as elite, highly-trained mercenaries seems unlikely to incur the undying emnity of anyone in the way that the Mandos of Revan's day might have, and the widely-dispersed lifestyle that they currently follow is probably the most effective in terms of pre-empting prospective attempts at wiping them out for the nth time.
Quiet_Mandalorian posted: (names such as "Honour Guard",[...]
Darth_Garak posted: As a side note I'm wondering what the Mandalorians will be doing in the Legacy era (the comic books, I mean, which happen a 100 years after the Legacy books).
Darth_Garak posted: On that note did the Mandalorians ever rebel (openly or not) against the Galactic Empire? My story for the challenge will be in that era and I want to know.
browwiw posted: Though, personally, I like the look of the Phase II armor the best. Still hoping we'll get to see the Phase II version of the Katarn armor...
browwiw posted:Anyway, the only named female Mandalorians I know of are the mother and daughter in A Practical Man. Their names elude me at the moment.
browwiw posted:I know this is 'just' fanfic and nobody expects a Nebula Award winner, but I hold myself to unrealistic standards.
browwiw posted:The weirdest and probably most workable idea I've had is a Mandalorian Jedi apprentice at the LotF-era Ossus Academy. Of course, the character is a teenage female because if you're gonna write fanfic you have to have a super-powered teenage female protagonist with lovely hair. If I'm gonna go fanfic, I might as well dive into the shallow end head first. To make it worse, she'll be Koyle little sister, just so Koyle say, "I talked Mom and Dad out of coming for you themselves. Even I'm not cynical enough to want to see another Jedi temple on fire."
Corran_Fett posted: This is the best thing you can do! I'm racking my brains to have my stories stick to canon as good as possible, and do hours and hours of researched for so little details like the date of an event or the name of a city, things that readers don't even spot, but it makes you just feel good. Again, to keep a high standard for yourself is a great thing!
browwiw posted:The weirdest and probably most workable idea I've had is a Mandalorian Jedi apprentice at the LotF-era Ossus Academy. Of course, the character is a teenage female because if you're gonna write fanfic you have to have a super-powered teenage female protagonist with lovely hair. If I'm gonna go fanfic, I might as well dive into the shallow end head first.
Bale posted:How do you guys think this compares with the characterization of Boba in the EU?
