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browwiw
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9/27/07 5:38pm
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RE: All Helmet, No Head - The Mandalorian Discussion Group and Index***Mandos and Morality***8/10
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Well, the SWAG is back and taking requests again. We must restrain ourselves and not deluge them with requests for custom Mandos and clone troopers. Must...fight...temptation...
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Corran_Fett
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9/28/07 5:48am
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RE: All Helmet, No Head - The Mandalorian Discussion Group and Index***Mandos and Morality***8/10
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 I'm already on my way to place a request... 
I have already some of my other OCs illustrated by great fan artists, and I actually encourage you to place Mando requests at SWAG. We're seeing far too less Mando illustration from the official side, so why not work against that? 
So if anyone else's got his own little sketch of his custom Mando, or had it done by someone else, please don't hesitate to post it. It should serve as great inspiration for everyone.
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Corran_Fett
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10/16/07 7:19am
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Two new additions to the index, everyone! 
Title: The Hunt
Author: whiskers
Characters: Mandalorian OC, other OCs
Timeframe: Legacy comics - 133 ABY
Status: WIP
Title: Hell is for Heroes
Author: The_Mandalorian_
Characters: Bruno Len (OC), Fenn Shysa
Timeframe: The last days of the 212 Mandalorian Protectors campaign during the Clone Wars
Genre: Action/Drama | One-Poster
Summary: This gritty Clone Wars tale follows a squad of four Mandalorian Protectors dispatched to the fiery volcanic planet of Mustafar on a suicide mission that leads them to question the Mandalore's integrity and sanity.
Notes: I've been dying to be a part of the Mando fic community, so here it is. My first Mandalorian Protector story!
Status: Complete
By sure to give those writers some cool feedback. And on a sidenote, the adventurous story of a certain Mandalorian bounty hunter/assassin/mercenary/gun-for-hire that has been on hiatus for over a year now has been updated. I'm sure everyone knows what I'm talking about. If not, well, then you better find out ASAP! 
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Quiet_Mandalorian
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11/3/07 5:09pm
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Thanks for the plug, Corri'ka. 
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brodiew
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11/7/07 10:43am
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RE: All Helmet, No Head - The Mandalorian Discussion Group and Index***Two new stories on 10/16!
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I've never thought much about the Mandalorians until recently. Fett was a cool characters in the movies, but I never read the books that featured him.
That has changed. I am really enjoying Fett's story during LOTF. Are there any fics in the index that deal with Fett or Mirta, for that matter, during LOTF?
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Corran_Fett
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11/7/07 12:11pm
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Yeah, my pleasure Qui'buir. 
brodiew posted:
That has changed. I am really enjoying Fett's story during LOTF. Are there any fics in the index that deal with Fett or Mirta, for that matter, during LOTF?
First of all, nice to have another new Mando fan here. Welcome, ner vod.
Regarding your question... none of the Mando index fics (the few that there are^^) are set in LotF, and so far Fett has only had a small role in my first short story. But that's NJO. It seems generally that the few members here are also OC writers as well, hence the lack of many canon figures apart from cameo roles.
I am, however, rather confident that there is a fic like you're looking for out there. I dunno if Fett himself has an Index, but I'm sure there is a LotF one. Maybe ask there. If there's neither, my bad... maybe I'm confusing that with the Legacy Comics Index, as I can't seem to find a LotF index right now.
Generally, we're trying here to keep Fett out of the picture as much as possible. He sure isn't a Mando role model, even though he's Mandalore. That doesn't mean that I discourage discussion regarding Fett and his Mandalore status here, I just don't want this to be a Fett index.
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brodiew
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Thanks for the response, Corran. I appreciate it. I'll look about. So most of the fics posted here are KOTOR era Mandalorian fics?
That's a shame. I know little of the history, but I'm enamored of the Spartan-esque nature of the post NJO Mandalorians.
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Corran_Fett
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brodiew posted:
So most of the fics posted here are KOTOR era Mandalorian fics?
Not at all. Only Darth_Garak's stories are set there, the others are from post-RotJ (like those of Q_M and me) or set somewhere in The Saga or Beyond.
brodiew posted:
That's a shame. I know little of the history, but I'm enamored of the Spartan-esque nature of the post NJO Mandalorians.
Well, the Mandos have been like that since before the Clone Wars. Since before Jaster Mereel, perhaps. So when you don't like KotOR, I think still most of the other fics should be worth checking out for you. Since there are only the few stories, I think every single one captures the aspects of Mando culture you're looking for quite well. Except the the four KotOR ones, which are just as good, but have a different kind of Mando, so to say.
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browwiw
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brodiew posted:
...but I'm enamored of the Spartan-esque nature of the post NJO Mandalorians.
I swear to Perun that if we get into that argument again I'm dumping you all for a Battlestar Galactica fan forum.
Seriously, though, I was never that much enamored with the KotOR Mandos. I appreciate what the game creators came up with (I'm still hoping for Karen to introduce the fight circle in the Rep Com novels. That seems like a perfectly reasonable way to deal with in-squad conflict...). I still hold the position that the Djun Mandos are self absorbed romantics that should come to grips with reality and go home and help their families and society recover.
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Quiet_Mandalorian
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browwiw posted:
I swear to Perun that if we get into that argument again I'm dumping you all for a Battlestar Galactica fan forum.
That reminds me...
browwiw posted:
I always hesitate to talk about the morality and ethics of fictional cultures because, well...they're fictional and we can only interpret them from our own moral filters and preferences. As real people, we believe what we believe and try to make their entertainment preferences somehow play well with those beliefs.
Attempting to make them jive with real-world religions or secular philosophies is futile. It won't work because they are fictional and, thus, inscrutable.
Not quite.
It's quite correct to insist that fictional religions and ideologies not be exact copies of those that exist in the real world, given that the universe that they exist in may be, and often is, entirely different in many ways from our own, but while the "fictional = inscrutable" argument might possibly carry some weight in other imagined societies, attempting to apply it to Star Wars is somewhat nonsensical, as there arises the problem that despite wildly divergent histories, canon sources continually depict most human cultures in the GFFA as resembling human cultures on Earth to the point where, so far as the Star Wars universe is concerned, the most logical conclusion would seem to be that there are certain constants of human nature that we can expect to be fixed and universal, whether humans themselves are the lone sentient race in their galaxy or merely one of many.
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browwiw posted:
brodiew posted:
...but I'm enamored of the Spartan-esque nature of the post NJO Mandalorians.
I swear to Perun that if we get into that argument again I'm dumping you all for a Battlestar Galactica fan forum.
Seriously, though, I was never that much enamored with the KotOR Mandos. I appreciate what the game creators came up with (I'm still hoping for Karen to introduce the fight circle in the Rep Com novels. That seems like a perfectly reasonable way to deal with in-squad conflict...). I still hold the position that the Djun Mandos are self absorbed romantics that should come to grips with reality and go home and help their families and society recover.
I didn't meant to upset you, browwiw. I was merely makeing an observation as someone not familiar with this corner of the SW universe. And, I liked it.
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Quiet_Mandalorian
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brodiew posted:
I didn't meant to upset you, browwiw. I was merely makeing an observation as someone not familiar with this corner of the SW universe. And, I liked it.
I wouldn't worry about upsetting Brow. Taking offence at the opinions of others is something in the way of a hobby for him.
Besides, I like it too.
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Hello, QuietMando.
Your epic sure looks interesting, but I get intimidated by epics that are well on their way.
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brodiew posted:
Hello, QuietMando.
Hi! Welcome to the wild, wooly and wonderful world of Mandalorian mercs. 
brodiew posted:
Your epic sure looks interesting, but I get intimidated by epics that are well on their way.
Well, I wouldn't worry too much about that. It's not going anywhere at the moment. 
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browwiw
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brodiew posted:
I didn't meant to upset you, browwiw. I was merely makeing an observation as someone not familiar with this corner of the SW universe. And, I liked it.
I'm not upset in the least bit. That was just me being playfully sardonic. I obviously wouldn't pull stakes for a BSG fansite. I mean...really.
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