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Reverend_Tegoth Registered: Jan '05	Date Posted: 4/20/05 5:28am Subject: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide - Date Edited: 4/24/05 5:10am (2 edits total) Edited By: Raven
	Alrighty, to start things off, here is a list of all of the dialogue in KOTOR either spoken by Canderous or somehow referencing the Mandalorians (all numbered lines are Canderous', the rest are labeled appropriately): 1. Too bad. I was looking forward to cracking some heads. 2. Those Vulkars are dumber then a Coruscant granite slug! They actually think being in that pathetic little gang of theirs makes them important. Gadon keeps his Hidden Beks in line, but Brejik's getting dreams of grandeur. If Davik's smart, he'll smack that young punk back down. 3. I'm someone you don't want to get on the bad side of, and I'm not one for small talk. I don't have time to stick around here, anyway. Davik's got me working on a special assignment. 4. Settle down, kid. We've already lost enough men to those damn rakghouls! The last thing we need now is more casualties from a needless firefight. Hm… by the looks of you I'd say you're down here for the same reason we are: to salvage something from those downed Republic space pods. Let me give you some advice: forget about it. Do yourself a favor and just head back the way you came. 5. Trying to pick a fight with a Mandalorian - I can see you're not too bright. But I'm on a mission for Davik, so I don't have time for fun and games. 6. Looks like we've got company! Get those blasters ready, boys! 7. Damn! I told Davik this salvage mission was a bad idea! His men aren't trained for this kind of thing, and I can't babysit them all! Okay, boys… we're getting out of here before I lose anyone else. I can't carry all this salvage back by myself! You'd be smart to get out of here as well. Even if you can handle the rakghouls I doubt there's anything worth finding anymore. 8. Davik sent me down here with this motley crew to scavenge whatever we could from the Republic escape pods that crashed during the recent battle overhead. But the Lower City gangs got here first. Anything worthwhile in those Republic pods is probably in their hands now. Davik won't like that. 9. What are you, an off-worlder? Everybody knows Davik. He's a member of the Exchange. You know - the interstellar crime syndicate. Smuggling, gambling, extortion - Davik controls it all here on Taris. That's why I'm working for him. But lately the Lower City gangs have been giving my boss some trouble. 10. This isn't really the place to have these kinds of conversations, but I guess I could spare a couple seconds for you - after all, you did help us out with those rakghouls. The Lower City is overrun with gangs, but the two most important ones are the Hidden Beks and the Black Vulkars. Used to be the Beks were the big dog and kept the others in line, but lately the Black Vulkars are moving in on Bek turf and challenging them for control. The Vulkars are even starting to defy Davik! Take these escape pods, for example. Everyone knows Davik would want first crack at them, but I know for a fact those damn Vulkars have already sent their own salvage party down here. 11. Come on boys… let's move out! 12. I saw you in the swoop race. Very impressive. You seem like you know how to get results. That's just the kind of person I'm looking for. 13. My name's Canderous Ordo. I work for Davik Kang and the Exchange; the hours aren't great, but they promised me a fortune to work for them and I have nothing better to do. Mandalorian mercs like me are in high demand. But lately Davik hasn't been paying me what he promised. I don't like getting cheated, so I figure it's time for me to break the Sith quarantine and get off this backwater planet. 14. I've got a plan to escape Taris, but I can't do it alone. I need someone I know can get the job done to help me. That's where you come in. 15. I ain't talking to you. I'm talking to your friend, aren't I? I saw you win that swoop race, and I started thinking. Anyone crazy enough to race like that is probably crazy enough to break into the Sith military base. I need someone to steal the Sith launch codes from the base. Without those codes any ship leaving the atmosphere will be disintegrated by the Sith fleet's automated defense guns. 16. Here's the deal: you bring me those launch codes and I can provide the vehicle to get off the planet - Davik's Flagship, the Ebon Hawk! 17. Uh-uh. Not yet. First, you bring me the launch codes. Then I'll tell you the rest of my plan. 18. Getting in won't be easy: the Sith base is protected by an encrypted security system. It would take a top of the line astromech droid to slice through it. Lucky for you I know just the place to get a droid like that. Davik was having one custom built by Janice Nall. Just tell her Canderous sent you and she'll sell you the droid. Then you can use it to get the launch codes from the Sith base. 19. Davik paid for the droid, but I'm the guy he put in charge of this mission. He won't care how I come up with those codes. Normally I'd do this myself, but everyone knows who I work for. If I broke into the Sith base, they'd send an army down on Davik's estate to get those codes back. That's why I need you. 20. I'm going to wait in Javyar's cantina. You come find me when you've got those launch codes and I'll make sure we both get off this rock. 21. I figured you'd be back. Neither one of us is getting off this planet unless we work together. Now, I know the Sith military base had a break in. I know it was you. I know you've got those departure codes I need. So what do you say? We join forces and I can get you inside Davik's base - and right to the Ebon Hawk. We can go right now. 22. Fair enough. But don't take too long. As soon as you're ready to get inside Davik's estate, come speak to me. The sooner we get off this rock the better. 23. Davik's always looking to recruit new talent. I'll tell him how you won that swoop race and mention that you're interested in working for the Exchange. I'll say I brought you in so that he could check you out. He'll have you stay at his estate for a couple days while he runs some background checks on you - that's standard procedure. 24. You got another plan, sister? Or are you just objecting 'cause you didn't think of it? 25. I can say the same about you. That makes us even. Fortunately we both want to get off this rock, right? While Davik's checking you out, we steal the Ebon Hawk and escape Taris. Come on - I've got an airspeeder nearby to take us to Davik's estate. The sooner we're off Taris the better! 26. Watch yourself, Calo. You may be the newest kath hound in the pack, but you aren't top dog yet! 27. This is a special case, Davik. I ran into someone the Exchange might want to recruit. You may have heard something of their exploits already. 28. Okay, we're inside. Now all we have to do is figure out a way to get past the Ebon Hawk's security system and we can get the rest of your group and get off this planet! No sense waiting around here, though. The sooner we get off Taris the better. 29. Yeah? What do you want? 30. You want to hear tales of my exploits? Of the wars I've seen and fought, the enemies I've seen die by my hand. Heh, sure, I'll humor you. My name's Canderous of the Mandalorian clan Ordo. I've been fighting across the galaxy for 40 of your years. For my people it's the honor and glory of battle that rules us. It's through combat that we prove our worth, gain renown and make our fortunes. 31. Times have changed now. The Mandalore clans have been scattered across the Outer Rim, the Republic is in decline and the Sith Empire raises to take it's place. The clans as they were aren't a threat, but the galaxy still fears us. Ha! People think we war out of spite, or bloodlust. They don't understand, and fear that. We only wanted the challenge of the battle, and glory from it - win or lose. And we lost. But now I have no real challenges. Crushing Davik's enemies and the pathetic gangs in the Lower City of Taris could not be considered the most glorious of tasks. When I think of the battles I've fought… the thousands I've killed… the worlds I've burned… I weep for my past. We'll never speak of this again. We've got work to do, so let's get to it. 32. grunt Yeah, I know about Taris. I wasted the last two years in this rat-hole working for Davik. I suppose an accurate way to describe this place would be 'cesspool' or 'dump'. You got the rich people on top, the poor people being crushed underneath, and people like me trying to make a living doing the crushing. It's not exactly what you'd call spiritually fulfilling work, but it get's the bills paid. And on Taris, money can go a long way to making things easier. You have anything else you want to ask? 33. Your choice. I'm here if you want something done right. 34. Let's get this ship fired up. We'll pick up the rest of your friends and then we have to get off of this planet! 35. I was one of the best youth warriors in clan Ordo in my time. No one before me had mastered the power of our Basilisk war droids as quickly as I had. Except Mandalore himself of course. In those days we were sweeping across the Outer Rim. Destroying all who fought us. Young Mandalores would prove themselves in real combat with unknown opponents above a thousand worlds. Each brought back the story of his achievements. 36. I remember it well, orbiting high above a placid world, its defenses just stirring. As was tradition, I would go ahead of the first wave to find enemies in the thickest fighting. I remember sitting there in my armor, linked directly with the Basilisk thrumming beneath me. My heart racing with fear at the coming battle. 37. Every new warrior has to fear to understand how to beat it. You must know that. The doors opened in front of me and the air was sucked out of the drop bay, scattering crystals of frozen vapor across my path. I can't describe what it feels like to look directly down at a world, falling continuously as you circle it, with barely fifteen centimeters of armor plate protecting you. When the magnetic locks disengaged on my droid I plunged out of the drop bay towards the battle that waited below. 38. The exhilaration, the euphoria I felt as I streaked into the atmosphere, dodging self-guided projectile and beam weapons, was unmatched. A 80 kilometer plunge through the atmosphere, dodging and weaving, the outside of my armor glowing like the sun with the heat of re-entry. And with barely thirty meters to spare, I twisted and skimmed the surface, firing at the giant beam generators that were in my path. The explosion from that sent shockwaves that leveled the entire complex around it. It was the moment of my life. 39. I'll never forget those times. But… things are different now. We can't go on fighting the way we had. There are too few of us left now. But I don't really want to talk about this anymore. I trust I've satisfied your curiosity for now? Is there something else you want to know? 40. From what we saw from space this world (Dantooine) doesn't have a lot of people. I couldn't really have found much work here anyway, so I never had an interest. It looks like a farm world. The Republic has thousands of these places - ones that get by farming crops and hunting herds of native beasts. But I might have underestimated this place. It seems to be more then I had thought. You have anything else you want to ask? 41. Ha! Stimulants make a warrior out of even the weakest human! 42. You want another story, eh? You want to hear about some other world getting wasted? Heh, I knew you were the type. Your stagnant Republic has never seen some of the strange creatures and races we fought on the Outer Rim in those years. Heh, and you never will now. 43. If a world isn't strong enough to defend itself, it's basically forfeit. But this story is about something a little different. We were going through the asteroid fields of the Crispin system at the very edge of the galaxy, playing with the pirates and smugglers we found there. The main belt in the Crispin system consists of mainly small rocks covered in frozen methane gas shells and the pirates were using them for cover. Ha! I remember using a thermal generator to cause the outer layer of one of the asteroids to vaporize in a picosecond. It blew out and shredded the three smugglers using it for cover! But… that was a mistake… 44. The asteroid I had targeted was smaller then most, maybe a dozen meters on a side. On the outside it looked the same as any other: just a ball covered in frozen gas. But something must have been inside it… something inactive in the cold. The heat of my blast might have triggered something or woken something up. After I had hit, spots of light and heat appeared all over the thin shell still covering it, evaporating the gases. What lay underneath looked like some sort of rocky growth… a deformed rock pitted by scores of micrometeorite scars. I think something even older might have been inside that. 45. Maybe (an asteroid)… but maybe not. It started rotating - faster and faster as we watched it. After a second it started spraying fire - thermal projectiles that melted our armor like wax. We were caught completely by surprise. Before we could counter-attack, it fled at an incredible speed. 46. We couldn't catch it, but we could follow its hyperspace wake. We followed its trail as far as we could, heading away from the galactic core. When it finally led beyond the edge of our galaxy, we abandoned our efforts. Anything that wants to commit suicide in that great void is not worth our trouble trying to catch. That's the only story I have for now. I'll tell you some more stuff later, if we get the chance. 47. I don't have as many strange stories like the last one I told you, but I do have a couple about me and the stuff I've done. In one battle above the world of Althir, my unit managed to defeat a force of Althiri ten times out own size. That battle gained me command of an entire sub-sect of my clan. 48. For five days they had managed to hold off our forces, keeping us to the outer rings of their world, preventing us from attacking it directly. My task was to assault one of their flanks with a false attack. The Althiri would be drawn out by the units I had sent in. Once they had surrounded those units, the bulk of my forces would attack from the rear and defeat them in detail. 49. Things did not go as I had planned. I saw an opening - a mistake they had made in the disposition of their forces - and took it! While fending off our main force, they had let their fleet split in two! The center of their entire fleet was left exposed! I turned my forces and assaulted the center of their fleet, decimating them! 50. Their slow, ponderous ship could not turn to face us without being overwhelmed. Their command vessels were destroyed in seconds. Their ranks were thrown into chaos. It was most amusing to watch the surviving ships scatter and flee. Several even tried to dive through the plane of the rings to escape us! They were shredded by the rings, or crashed into rocks, or were destroyed by our forces as we pursued them. Warriors do not flee from a battle if they are losing. They fight to the end! As we did against your Jedi Revan. Another time maybe I'll tell you about how the war with the Republic went. For now, let's just get on with things. 51. Hm… I think I'll tell you a bit about the recent war we had with the Republic. That might be more familiar to you. The one where the Jedi Revan beat my people. We started by conquering worlds just outside the Republic. We did it quietly so the Republic wouldn't really know what was going on until too late. When we finally did hit the Republic worlds, they had no idea we were coming. We came in through three invasion corridors in adjacent sectors. Anyone who put up a fight - or wouldn't fight - was crushed. We razed whole worlds trying to provoke the Republic into fighting us. I don't particularly enjoy wiping out worlds for its own sake, but the cowardly tactics the Republic defenders used left us little choice. 52. Hiding in the homes of civilians. Using families as shields. Thinking we would not use appropriate force on their bases inside major cities. They underestimated our resolve and what measures are acceptable in war. Those who cannot defend themselves should not be around those who can in battle. If annihilating a city is the kind of power it takes to overwhelm a Republic shield device, then that's what we did. Necessary force to destroy all opposition. 53. I have no time or patience for cowards! They deserve to be hunted down and exterminated like vermin! There was no honor in wiping them out like rats. But some of your forces did redeem the Republic in our eyes… especially later… 54. Later… when Revan had joined the war. But we'll get back to that, we've wasted too much time already. 55. We fought against the Republic forces for some time, over the course of many battles. At the start, they were not much of a threat to speak of, but once the Jedi Revan had taken charge, things began to turn against us. The Republic fleets began to use more then just basic tactics. Feints, counterattacks, mass deceptions. Revan was a genius on the field. Revan abandoned worlds of their defenses so that others would be too fortified to strike, and was willing to make sacrifices in order to advance goals. And in the end, Revan proved too much for us. 56. The Sith had gone - retreated into their empire. They sealed themselves off from the rest of the galaxy. We thought it would be centuries before they'd come back. It's amazing that they could rebuild their fleet so fast. But at the time it looked like the galaxy was in our grasp! I still remember that final battle in the skies above Malachor V. The two fleets filling the space around it, outshining the stars… 57. It was not your ships or your men or your vaunted 'fight for freedom' that won this, the final battle of the war. It was by the actions of one person, the Jedi Revan, that you prevailed. Revan's strategies and tactics defeated the best of us. Even Mandalore himself was taken aback by the ferocity, the tenacity and the subtlety of Revans plans. Revan fought us to a standstill and then began pushing back. We didn't really have a chance. 58. It was what we had wanted all along, in a way. We wanted to fight the best in a battle that would be remembered for centuries. And we did. 59. I don't hold a grudge against Revan, and neither do any of my people. It was the greatest moment of my life to be in that battle. If Revan had been a Mandalorian, nothing in the galaxy would have stopped us. But wishing for the past to be different is useless. Better to look to the future. As we should now. We'll talk more later, I think. 60. The war we had with the Republic was supposed to be the most glorious battle of our history, but… it was a very costly one. I guess we didn't think of how much we could lose in it. 61. There weren't many of us left after that last battle. Mandalore himself was killed at the hands of the Jedi Revan. The best of us could not defeat him! After that last battle, those of us that survived were stripped of our weapons, our armor, and our Basilisks. Revan's forces destroyed them while we were forced to watch. Those who hadn't fled earlier were left with nothing to call their own: no weapons, no armor… only the honor of having fought in the battle we just lost. For many this was not enough. While the rest of us were sent into exile on the Outer Rim, they tried to relive the old days - raiding worlds. They're nothing more then bandits now. 62. Yeah I found work (as a mercenary) on Taris. Enforcing for Davik was not… stimulating. The gangs on Taris and Davik's rivals were trash. They give no thrill in battle, no honor or glory in defeating them. It was like stepping on bugs. I sought worthy challenges, but the best that Taris could offer were nothing to me. But I think now - with you - I may finally find opponents worth fighting. 63. Maybe later I'll tell you about what it was like to work for Davik. For now, though, we should get on with our lives. JAGI: Ah, so we meet again, Canderous. It has been quite a long time. 64. Jagi?? 65. He… he was a warrior under my command up to the battle of Althir. But I thought… JAGI: You thought I was dead, didn't you! You thought all of us that you had sent on that attack had perished! You sent us to die in a foolish attack while you directed your forces elsewhere! You broke from the battle plan and let us die for it, so that you could have the "honor" of being the first to the enemy commander! 66. I… I did what was prudent at the time. If I had not done it, the battle would have… JAGI: The battle would have been won anyway! I am tired of your excuses, Canderous. I have spent years tracking you down since the clans were banished, and I will not rest until I have had my vengeance! JAGI: I challenge you Canderous. I challenge you to fight the fight you fled that day above Althir. In the dune seas of Tatooine, I will be waiting for you. I have spread the news of the challenge since I learned you had landed on this world. All the surviving Mandalorian clans know of what I do here, and that we shall meet on Tatooine to settle this debt of vengeance once and for all. If you fail to meet me there, you shall be stripped of all honor and forever cast out of our society! It will be you and me alone in the dune seas of Tatooine: a final battle that can only end in death. I shall be waiting for you there, Canderous. 67. I've been given a challenge I can't ignore. We've got to go to the dune seas of Tatooine so I can find Jagi and kill him for his insult to me! 68. This is between me and Jagi. You don't have to get involved. If you're lucky, he might spill something before I spread him in a paste over the dunes. 69. The sooner we get to Tatooine the better. JON: Those Mandalorian brutes have killed my daughter! 70. You should have protected her better. And you call yourself her father. JON: And what am I supposed to do against a dozen Mandalorians and Duros? Nothing… There was nothing I could do… HANDON: It seems Calder was seeing my wife. Right under my nose, no less! 71. Well, if you can't keep her, it's your own fault. 72. Echanis make delicate weapons with too little firepower. Lightweight stuff, if you ask me. SHERRUK: Ah, so this is the meddler. You have caused us far too much trouble for a mere Jedi. 73. Now this is what I've been waiting for! SHERRUK: I will add your head to those of the other Jedi I have killed, and take yet another lightsaber for my own! Now you will know why the Mandalorians are feared! DORAK: …I will begin forty years ago with the war of Exar Kun. Like Malak and Revan, Exar Kun was a Jedi that fell to the dark side and led an army against the Jedi and the Republic. Exar Kun was defeated, but the war left both the Republic and our own Order severely weakened. For twenty years we struggled to rebuild, trying to erase the scars of the terrible conflict. DORAK: Twenty years ago the Mandalorians, aware the Republic was in a weakened state, began conquering small worlds on the Outer Rim. They were careful to choose only planets outside the Republic's jurisdiction. After much debate, the Senate chose not to intervene. As long as the Mandalorians avoided planets that were members of the Republic itself, there would be no retaliation. DORAK: The Mandalorians stockpiled resources from their conquered worlds, preparing for a massive assualt. Seven years ago they launched a simultaneous attack in three separate sectors of Republic space. The Senate had no choice but to retaliate with the entire Republic fleet. The Mandalorian Wars had begun. DORAK: The Republic petitioned the Jedi Council for aid, but there were many factors to consider before we allowed ourselves to be drawn into another conflict so soon after the war with Exar Kun. While the Jedi Council preached patience, there were many among our Order who were eager for us to join the battle. Two young knights in particular demanded immediate action: Revan and Malak. They rallied many of the Jedi to their cause and, against the wishes of their Masters, joined the Republic fleet battling the Mandalorians. Revan was a brilliant military leader, and the Republic fleet began to win victory after victory. Four years ago the Mandalorians surrendered unconditionally. PC: Here is the diary, Nurik, but you may keep your money. I need no reward for this task. 74. Mighty generous of you. A little too generous, if you ask me. 75. So, Bastila, I heard a rumor that the Vulkers captured you without much of a struggle. It must be embarrassing to be bested by a handful of street thugs. 76. Whatever you say. All I know is that if we had more Jedi like Bastila fighting against us in the Mandalorian Wars, my side might not have lost. 77. Insults? Maybe if your Master had trained your lightsaber to be as quick as your tongue you could have escaped those Vulkars, you spoiled little Jedi princess! 78. That's the problem with you Jedi. Always chanting about peace and control, never up for a good fight. Well, except for Revan, I guess. HK-47: I had completed an assassination in Mandalorian space… though I have no knowledge of what my target was or who sent me. Regardless, my motor function had been damaged and I could not return to wherever I had been sent from. A Mandalorian soldier claimed me as 'booty', I believe. He repaired me… poorly, I might add… and proceeded to use my assassination protocol to raise his rank. HK-47: At any rate, it seems that my Mandalorian owner finally decided to send me against Mandalore, himself. My poorest performance, sadly. HK-47: I was captured by this Mandalore during the attempt. He was able to reverse my programming and send me after my own master. It was quite distressing. There was little I could do. Needless to say, I dispatched the Mandalorian soldier efficiently. PC: So you couldn't kill Mandalore, hey? HK-47: Statement: With all due respect, master, he is the leader of the Mandalorians. Perhaps my old master was foolish to send me after him. PC: So you killed that master directly. HK-47: Statement: So I did. I am not very proud of that, master. The soldier seemed very startled, I must say. HK-47: There are a few Mandalorian implants that I can activate, now. They will improve my performance. JAGI: Ah so you managed to come after all. I see you brought friends. 79. You brought some of your own as well. JAGI: Ha! Indeed I did. I foresaw that you might need help so I arranged a distraction. JAGI: I do not need to hear your excuses, Jedi! I know why he brought you! 80. Enough of this talk, Jagi! Let us do what we came here to do. JAGI: We both know the stakes here, and we both know what we must do. It is only in death that this can end. 81. This is a matter of honor. I cannot stand by this insult. I must do this. JAGI: In the battle above the world of Althir, he ordered us to attack the enemy flank, promising us support. But when he saw better prospects for his own glory, he abandoned us and left us to die surrounded by enemies! 82. If I had not attacked when I did, the battle would not have been won so easily! JAGI: It would still have been won! You sent your own men to die there Canderous. I cannot forgive you for what you did to us! You will pay! 83. That's not the way it happened… 84. The Althiri were fighting hard. I saw a break in their defenses that left their center exposed. I had to take the chance. If I had not done what I did, many more warriors would have died and the battle would have taken much longer. I stand by my decision. JAGI: You coward! You glory hunter! You were given direct orders and were part of a plan! You had a responsibility to us! 85. I… I can regret their loss, but it was necessary. PC: Jagi, what he did was a smart tactical move. JAGI: He left us to die when his responsibility was to us! Instead he went hunting more glory for himself! PC: He may have saved other lives by doing what he did. JAGI: He cost us ours! But… but I do see your point… But… Why did you have to leave us there to die while you chased glory somewhere else? 86. I saw a chance and had to take it. It ended the battle quicker then we would have otherwise, and many of our warriors may have died. Mandalore taught us that opportunism and flexibility in battle were to be admired. You may contradict me, but do you contradict him as well? JAGI: No! I… I… I see that I have been wrong. I have not been true to the teachings of Mandalore. You were right. I was wrong to question your honor. But I must now cleanse mine with my life. 87. And so it shall be. 88. We Mandalorians believe in loyalty to our brothers-in-arms. You have allied yourself to this hunter; betraying him now is disgraceful! 89. Anybody else get the feeling that finding this star map in the back of this krayt dragon's cave is more then just a coincidence? 90. I see you brought some back up, Calo. Realized we were a bit much to handle on your own, eh? 91. I… I think this has affected me in ways that I didn't anticipate… I think I'll need time to sort things out. Thanks for what you did, whatever your intentions might have been. I just need… time. 92. Tatooine is one big desert with rocks sticking out. I heard that some of my people came here after the war, but I don't know what happened to them. The world of my clan - Ordo - was much like this. Dust basins and rock crags. But my world at least has some green around the equator - this place is just sand all over. There are some vicious people on this world, but the desert is the real enemy. Trips out in the desert - especially the deep desert - should be taken very carefully. 93. This thing with Jagi… I… I don't know. Give me some time and I'll be able to sort this out on my own. IRIDORIAN MERCENARY: I am not for hire. Perhaps the Mandalorian or the Echani can help you - though they lack the stomach for certain jobs. IRIDORIAN MERCENARY: They lack the resolve to do what needs to be done. The Echani believe in a non-existent warrior code of honor, and the Mandalorians prize credits above bloodshed. But I am Iridorian. Honor comes from slaying your opponent, and the true reward of any job is the taste of your foe's dying blood on your tongue. MANDALORIAN MERCENARY: Canderous! I haven't seen you since the Republic broke our ranks at the battle of Malachor! 94. Ergeron, I see you've got some new guns to add to your collection. Times must have been profitable for you after the war. MANDALORIAN MERCENARY: Very profitable. When the Republic defeated our fleets, I learned a valuable lesson: it's far better to be a freelance mercenary in a war then to be a soldier for the losing side. If you're here to offer me a job, I'm not interested right now. I've got so many offers I can't keep up as it is. Maybe that Iridorian skullslacker at the bar, or the Echani nerfherder cowering in the corner is available. MANDALORIAN MERCENARY: Nothing, except the Echani are a bunch of fey dancers, prancing into battle with tiny weapons not fit for Mandalorian children. They hardly wear any armor because it slows them down when they run away. But the Echani are better then the Iridorians. Those savages keep hacking at fallen foe even after death, mutilating the corpse out of pure blood lust. I even heard they'll turn on each other when the battle fever hits. Who wants to work with someone like that? I can pretty much name my price right now, especially since the Republic is so desperate for mercs all of a sudden. PC: Don't you hate the Republic for defeating your people? MANDALORIAN MERCENARY: I'm a realist. It was war, after all. And even though the Republic destroyed my people, the leaders of the armada were Revan and Malak, so I hate the Sith just as much. And with this war, there's plenty of opportunity to take bloody vengeance against both sides and make a nice profit along the way. We Mandalorians are always practical. Not like those bloodthirsty Iridorians, or those honor-bound Echani. 95. Water worlds never had much of an appeal for us to conquer. They may put up a good fight in their own environment - no match for us, of course - but they don't really have anything of value either. The thing this world (Manaan) is good for is a substance known as Kolto. Kolto is the single best healing substance in the galaxy. But the Mandalore are not as weak and fragile as your Republic and Sith warriors. When we enter battle, we carry weapons powerful enough to pulverize cities. Both in our wars, and in our own personal combats, there are no survivors. So Kolto does not hold the appeal it does for your peoples. 96. Well… It has big trees - in case your eyes don't work anymore. But I do know that there is one exceptional race on this world: the Wookiees. The Wookiees, although primitive compared to us, are surprisingly capable warriors. They're pretty strong and pick up combat techniques pretty quick. I think they're more then a match for the average Republic or Sith trooper. When we were looking for targets, we considered this world carefully. We were wondering if we'd have to use larger weapons then our war droids if we wanted to clear the damn forests so we could fight in the open. Too many trees means they can go into hiding too easy. And what's a continent or two turned to glass if we get the whole world after? 97. whisper I'm amazed at how many people that works on. The entire galaxy must be filled with weak-minded fools. 98. Hmph. Maybe we should have brought the Wookiee out. This place looks… untamed. 99. Mighty generous of you. A little too generous, if you ask me. 100. They were Mandalorian. Poachers, probably. They use stealth units to stalk their prey. Their kind were among the first to flee when the war turned against my people. Bloody cowards! Mandalorian Commander: You have interrupted our hunt, interloper. The inhabitants of this world could do little against us, but you appear to be a threat. 101. More then threat enough for you! Mandalorian Commander: Another Mandalore, is it? Will you draw arms against those you should serve? We'll see who lives this day! 102. Now this is what I live for! 103. You could give me a shot to delay my healing mods from kicking in. A small incendiary grenade will leave burn marks that will make it look like I was injured while making repairs to the ship. Make my wounds bad enough and the Sith'll drag me off to the morgue or the medical facility to die. When my healing mods kick in I'll come save the rest of you. 104. I'm the best chance we've got, and everyone knows it. But you're the boss, so I'll bow to your authority. I still think it's best… unless you've come up with another plan. 105. Don't you worry about that. I know how to deal with the guards. They won't know what hit them! 106. lev40_candtalker: This is Canderous. We're at the Ebon Hawk. Like we figured, it's under heavy guard. But don't worry… we'll figure out a way to take care of them. 107. lev40_candtalker: It's Canderous. We took care of the guards. We're inside the Ebon Hawk and all systems are go. As soon as you guys join us we can get out of here. 108. Everyone knows it was Malak who gave the order to attack your people, Carth. You can't blame Revan for that. 109. You defeated the Mandalore clans in the war, Revan. You were the only one in the galaxy who could best us. We had never met one like you before, and never since. How can you even ask if I'll follow you? Whatever you are fighting, it will be worthy of my skill. I'm your man until the end, Revan, no matter how this plays out. 110. Working for Davik was like driving a spike through the side of your head… Sure you get something new in there, but in the end, you've lost something as well. Beating up people who wouldn't - or couldn't - pay, strong-arming his competitors, killing who he said. It was busy work, nothing decent. 111. I've killed many people. I can't say I'm proud of it, but I have. Criminals, competitors, businessmen, police… women, children… Jedi were a better challenge, but they hardly ever poked around in the Under City… Until you came along… But I never wanted to challenge you. Never felt the need. Maybe I knew I couldn't win… just like all those years ago. 112. PC: A wise decision. 113. Yeah, probably. Heh. You'd likely have beaten me again. Maybe you would have. But you're not who you were back then, I can tell. You've changed… and maybe I have too. I remember a time when I could do anything I wanted… Kill, maim, murder… It was all the same to me. But now… now that I'm older, I can look back and regret… 114. PC: Regret in a Mandalorian is unbecoming. 115. In a Mandalorian… I'm not even sure what that is anymore. The Mandalorian are gone, defeated by the Republic and swept away by time. I look back and regret all the chances I had as a warrior, and then all the chances I had since then. I shouldn't be getting like this, not when so many other things are happening… but… It feels like… like something has changed inside and I don't know what it is. Bah! This is unbecoming of a warrior! Let's get on with everything before I start getting sentimental or something. 116. Korriban is a Sith world, that's for sure. I mean, just look at this place. Rumor has it that the leader of our clans at the time, Mandalore, did go down. They say the Sith perform terrible magics here. 117. You should turn around and move along, kid. You don't want the trouble we'd give you. 118. You couldn't find your backside with both hands AND your friends'. (Mandalorian) Sith Victim: Use… use whatever method you wish, Sith. You will not break my will! My mind is my own, and I will tell you nothing! (Mandalorian) Sith Victim: I know your language, Sith - but I won't give you the satisfaction of speaking it! (Mandalorian) Sith Victim: If… If you speak the truth… then use the console to put me… in a catatonic state… Your people will… remove me, throw me away. I can survive for long periods… in this state. I can escape, then… (Mandalorian) Sith Victim: Th-thank… y-you… It is in… it is in my ship. The cache… it is in a trap door… hidden on my ship. Use it… I no longer… need. I give it to you… in exchange for my life… human… 119. The old man's right: this planet's a technological graveyard. I saw dozens of downed ships out there. That disrupter field must have wiped them all out. 120. I'm not happy with the way my life has turned. I'm not the Mandalore I once was. I don't even think I'm the merc I was when I joined you. I think… I think I need something more then killing and fighting in my life. I need a purpose or something like that. 121. The way the Mandalorians - we - fought… it holds no appeal for me. To rape and ravage worlds for the thrill of battle… It gets old. Very old. Honor in battle. Cheating death. Comrades in arms. The code of the Mandalore. I think I'm something different now. Maybe more, maybe less. PC: You aren't a Mandalorian now? 122. No… the time of the clans is past. I don't think the galaxy wants them anymore. Maybe in the future, but not now. Once my time with you is done, once you have moved on to greater things, I'll find my own way once again. Maybe the Mandalorian clans will be reborn again. Maybe even under the Republic… or the Sith. But dreaming about the future is stupid right now. We should get down to our business and finish it. If we survive all this… maybe we could talk about it then. 123. This world is… odd. It looks like a battlefield, but the environment here is lush and green. Whatever happened here was a long time ago. I have seen many strange worlds in my time, but this world is stranger still. I don't like this place. Something happened… or is happening here and I don't like it. We should get out of here as soon as possible. 124. Hold on a second - you understood these goggle-eyed freaks? You must have come to this planet and learned the language back before the Jedi messed up your mind. Back when you were still Revan. 125. You're Revan and I'll follow you anywhere. It doesn't matter who you're fighting against, I'll be at your side. Mandalorians don't have any great love for the Republic anyway. Light side, dark side - it doesn't make any difference to me, Revan. I'll stick by you no matter what comes. 126. This looks like the end of our partnership. The battle we fight here will change the face of the galaxy. You, Revan, are the single greatest warrior of this age, and any battle we fight will bring me honor. I'll stay by your side through anything. I don't think I'm ready to give up this life of mine, this life of fighting, not quite yet. We have things we need to do here. I'm your man until the end, whatever path you take. -----signature----- Passion about fiction is great when it's fun and lighthearted, or when it provides respite or sheds light on real issues. But save your anger about it - on both sides of the argument - and channel it into improving real lives. - Karen Traviss
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Reverend_Tegoth Registered: Jan '05	Date Posted: 4/20/05 5:30am Subject: RE: The Complete KOTOR 1 Mandalorian Reference Guide - Date Edited: 4/20/05 5:40am (1 edits total) Edited By: Reverend_Tegoth
	Out of those lines, here are the ones that most directly reference the Mandalorians (all lines not labeled are spoken by Canderous): Mandalorian mercs like me are in high demand. You want to hear tales of my exploits? Of the wars I've seen and fought, the enemies I've seen die by my hand. Heh, sure, I'll humor you. My name's Canderous of the Mandalorian clan Ordo. I've been fighting across the galaxy for 40 of your years. For my people it's the honor and glory of battle that rules us. It's through combat that we prove our worth, gain renown and make our fortunes. Times have changed now. The Mandalore clans have been scattered across the Outer Rim, the Republic is in decline and the Sith Empire raises to take it's place. The clans as they were aren't a threat, but the galaxy still fears us. Ha! People think we war out of spite, or bloodlust. They don't understand, and fear that. We only wanted the challenge of the battle, and glory from it - win or lose. And we lost. But now I have no real challenges. Crushing Davik's enemies and the pathetic gangs in the Lower City of Taris could not be considered the most glorious of tasks. When I think of the battles I've fought… the thousands I've killed… the worlds I've burned… I weep for my past. We'll never speak of this again. We've got work to do, so let's get to it. You got the rich people on top, the poor people being crushed underneath, and people like me trying to make a living doing the crushing. It's not exactly what you'd call spiritually fulfilling work, but it get's the bills paid. I was one of the best youth warriors in clan Ordo in my time. No one before me had mastered the power of our Basilisk war droids as quickly as I had. Except Mandalore himself of course. In those days we were sweeping across the Outer Rim. Destroying all who fought us. Young Mandalores would prove themselves in real combat with unknown opponents above a thousand worlds. Each brought back the story of his achievements. I remember it well, orbiting high above a placid world, its defenses just stirring. As was tradition, I would go ahead of the first wave to find enemies in the thickest fighting. I remember sitting there in my armor, linked directly with the Basilisk thrumming beneath me. My heart racing with fear at the coming battle. Every new warrior has to fear to understand how to beat it. You must know that. The doors opened in front of me and the air was sucked out of the drop bay, scattering crystals of frozen vapor across my path. I can't describe what it feels like to look directly down at a world, falling continuously as you circle it, with barely fifteen centimeters of armor plate protecting you. When the magnetic locks disengaged on my droid I plunged out of the drop bay towards the battle that waited below. The exhilaration, the euphoria I felt as I streaked into the atmosphere, dodging self-guided projectile and beam weapons, was unmatched. A 80 kilometer plunge through the atmosphere, dodging and weaving, the outside of my armor glowing like the sun with the heat of re-entry. And with barely thirty meters to spare, I twisted and skimmed the surface, firing at the giant beam generators that were in my path. The explosion from that sent shockwaves that leveled the entire complex around it. It was the moment of my life. I'll never forget those times. But… things are different now. We can't go on fighting the way we had. There are too few of us left now. But I don't really want to talk about this anymore. I trust I've satisfied your curiosity for now? Is there something else you want to know? You want another story, eh? You want to hear about some other world getting wasted? Heh, I knew you were the type. Your stagnant Republic has never seen some of the strange creatures and races we fought on the Outer Rim in those years. Heh, and you never will now. If a world isn't strong enough to defend itself, it's basically forfeit. But this story is about something a little different. We were going through the asteroid fields of the Crispin system at the very edge of the galaxy, playing with the pirates and smugglers we found there. The main belt in the Crispin system consists of mainly small rocks covered in frozen methane gas shells and the pirates were using them for cover. Ha! I remember using a thermal generator to cause the outer layer of one of the asteroids to vaporize in a picosecond. It blew out and shredded the three smugglers using it for cover! But… that was a mistake… The asteroid I had targeted was smaller then most, maybe a dozen meters on a side. On the outside it looked the same as any other: just a ball covered in frozen gas. But something must have been inside it… something inactive in the cold. The heat of my blast might have triggered something or woken something up. After I had hit, spots of light and heat appeared all over the thin shell still covering it, evaporating the gases. What lay underneath looked like some sort of rocky growth… a deformed rock pitted by scores of micrometeorite scars. I think something even older might have been inside that. Maybe (an asteroid)… but maybe not. It started rotating - faster and faster as we watched it. After a second it started spraying fire - thermal projectiles that melted our armor like wax. We were caught completely by surprise. Before we could counter-attack, it fled at an incredible speed. We couldn't catch it, but we could follow its hyperspace wake. We followed its trail as far as we could, heading away from the galactic core. When it finally led beyond the edge of our galaxy, we abandoned our efforts. Anything that wants to commit suicide in that great void is not worth our trouble trying to catch. That's the only story I have for now. I'll tell you some more stuff later, if we get the chance. I don't have as many strange stories like the last one I told you, but I do have a couple about me and the stuff I've done. In one battle above the world of Althir, my unit managed to defeat a force of Althiri ten times out own size. That battle gained me command of an entire sub-sect of my clan. For five days they had managed to hold off our forces, keeping us to the outer rings of their world, preventing us from attacking it directly. My task was to assault one of their flanks with a false attack. The Althiri would be drawn out by the units I had sent in. Once they had surrounded those units, the bulk of my forces would attack from the rear and defeat them in detail. Things did not go as I had planned. I saw an opening - a mistake they had made in the disposition of their forces - and took it! While fending off our main force, they had let their fleet split in two! The center of their entire fleet was left exposed! I turned my forces and assaulted the center of their fleet, decimating them! Their slow, ponderous ship could not turn to face us without being overwhelmed. Their command vessels were destroyed in seconds. Their ranks were thrown into chaos. It was most amusing to watch the surviving ships scatter and flee. Several even tried to dive through the plane of the rings to escape us! They were shredded by the rings, or crashed into rocks, or were destroyed by our forces as we pursued them. Warriors do not flee from a battle if they are losing. They fight to the end! As we did against your Jedi Revan. Another time maybe I'll tell you about how the war with the Republic went. For now, let's just get on with things. Hm… I think I'll tell you a bit about the recent war we had with the Republic. That might be more familiar to you. The one where the Jedi Revan beat my people. We started by conquering worlds just outside the Republic. We did it quietly so the Republic wouldn't really know what was going on until too late. When we finally did hit the Republic worlds, they had no idea we were coming. We came in through three invasion corridors in adjacent sectors. Anyone who put up a fight - or wouldn't fight - was crushed. We razed whole worlds trying to provoke the Republic into fighting us. I don't particularly enjoy wiping out worlds for its own sake, but the cowardly tactics the Republic defenders used left us little choice. Hiding in the homes of civilians. Using families as shields. Thinking we would not use appropriate force on their bases inside major cities. They underestimated our resolve and what measures are acceptable in war. Those who cannot defend themselves should not be around those who can in battle. If annihilating a city is the kind of power it takes to overwhelm a Republic shield device, then that's what we did. Necessary force to destroy all opposition. I have no time or patience for cowards! They deserve to be hunted down and exterminated like vermin! There was no honor in wiping them out like rats. But some of your forces did redeem the Republic in our eyes… especially later… Later… when Revan had joined the war. But we'll get back to that, we've wasted too much time already. We fought against the Republic forces for some time, over the course of many battles. At the start, they were not much of a threat to speak of, but once the Jedi Revan had taken charge, things began to turn against us. The Republic fleets began to use more then just basic tactics. Feints, counterattacks, mass deceptions. Revan was a genius on the field. Revan abandoned worlds of their defenses so that others would be too fortified to strike, and was willing to make sacrifices in order to advance goals. And in the end, Revan proved too much for us. The Sith had gone - retreated into their empire. They sealed themselves off from the rest of the galaxy. We thought it would be centuries before they'd come back. It's amazing that they could rebuild their fleet so fast. But at the time it looked like the galaxy was in our grasp! I still remember that final battle in the skies above Malachor V. The two fleets filling the space around it, outshining the stars… It was not your ships or your men or your vaunted 'fight for freedom' that won this, the final battle of the war. It was by the actions of one person, the Jedi Revan, that you prevailed. Revan's strategies and tactics defeated the best of us. Even Mandalore himself was taken aback by the ferocity, the tenacity and the subtlety of Revans plans. Revan fought us to a standstill and then began pushing back. We didn't really have a chance. It was what we had wanted all along, in a way. We wanted to fight the best in a battle that would be remembered for centuries. And we did. I don't hold a grudge against Revan, and neither do any of my people. It was the greatest moment of my life to be in that battle. If Revan had been a Mandalorian, nothing in the galaxy would have stopped us. But wishing for the past to be different is useless. Better to look to the future. As we should now. We'll talk more later, I think. The war we had with the Republic was supposed to be the most glorious battle of our history, but… it was a very costly one. I guess we didn't think of how much we could lose in it. There weren't many of us left after that last battle. Mandalore himself was killed at the hands of the Jedi Revan. The best of us could not defeat him! After that last battle, those of us that survived were stripped of our weapons, our armor, and our Basilisks. Revan's forces destroyed them while we were forced to watch. Those who hadn't fled earlier were left with nothing to call their own: no weapons, no armor… only the honor of having fought in the battle we just lost. For many this was not enough. While the rest of us were sent into exile on the Outer Rim, they tried to relive the old days - raiding worlds. They're nothing more then bandits now. Yeah I found work (as a mercenary) on Taris. Enforcing for Davik was not… stimulating. The gangs on Taris and Davik's rivals were trash. They give no thrill in battle, no honor or glory in defeating them. It was like stepping on bugs. I sought worthy challenges, but the best that Taris could offer were nothing to me. But I think now - with you - I may finally find opponents worth fighting. Maybe later I'll tell you about what it was like to work for Davik. For now, though, we should get on with our lives. JAGI: Ah, so we meet again, Canderous. It has been quite a long time. Jagi?? He… he was a warrior under my command up to the battle of Althir. But I thought… JAGI: You thought I was dead, didn't you! You thought all of us that you had sent on that attack had perished! You sent us to die in a foolish attack while you directed your forces elsewhere! You broke from the battle plan and let us die for it, so that you could have the "honor" of being the first to the enemy commander! I… I did what was prudent at the time. If I had not done it, the battle would have… JAGI: The battle would have been won anyway! I am tired of your excuses, Canderous. I have spent years tracking you down since the clans were banished, and I will not rest until I have had my vengeance! JAGI: I challenge you Canderous. I challenge you to fight the fight you fled that day above Althir. In the dune seas of Tatooine, I will be waiting for you. I have spread the news of the challenge since I learned you had landed on this world. All the surviving Mandalorian clans know of what I do here, and that we shall meet on Tatooine to settle this debt of vengeance once and for all. If you fail to meet me there, you shall be stripped of all honor and forever cast out of our society! It will be you and me alone in the dune seas of Tatooine: a final battle that can only end in death. I shall be waiting for you there, Canderous. I've been given a challenge I can't ignore. We've got to go to the dune seas of Tatooine so I can find Jagi and kill him for his insult to me! This is between me and Jagi. You don't have to get involved. If you're lucky, he might spill something before I spread him in a paste over the dunes. The sooner we get to Tatooine the better. JON: Those Mandalorian brutes have killed my daughter! You should have protected her better. And you call yourself her father. JON: And what am I supposed to do against a dozen Mandalorians and Duros? Nothing… There was nothing I could do… DORAK: …I will begin forty years ago with the war of Exar Kun. Like Malak and Revan, Exar Kun was a Jedi that fell to the dark side and led an army against the Jedi and the Republic. Exar Kun was defeated, but the war left both the Republic and our own Order severely weakened. For twenty years we struggled to rebuild, trying to erase the scars of the terrible conflict. DORAK: Twenty years ago the Mandalorians, aware the Republic was in a weakened state, began conquering small worlds on the Outer Rim. They were careful to choose only planets outside the Republic's jurisdiction. After much debate, the Senate chose not to intervene. As long as the Mandalorians avoided planets that were members of the Republic itself, there would be no retaliation. DORAK: The Mandalorians stockpiled resources from their conquered worlds, preparing for a massive assualt. Seven years ago they launched a simultaneous attack in three separate sectors of Republic space. The Senate had no choice but to retaliate with the entire Republic fleet. The Mandalorian Wars had begun. DORAK: The Republic petitioned the Jedi Council for aid, but there were many factors to consider before we allowed ourselves to be drawn into another conflict so soon after the war with Exar Kun. While the Jedi Council preached patience, there were many among our Order who were eager for us to join the battle. Two young knights in particular demanded immediate action: Revan and Malak. They rallied many of the Jedi to their cause and, against the wishes of their Masters, joined the Republic fleet battling the Mandalorians. Revan was a brilliant military leader, and the Republic fleet began to win victory after victory. Four years ago the Mandalorians surrendered unconditionally. HK-47: I had completed an assassination in Mandalorian space… though I have no knowledge of what my target was or who sent me. Regardless, my motor function had been damaged and I could not return to wherever I had been sent from. A Mandalorian soldier claimed me as 'booty', I believe. He repaired me… poorly, I might add… and proceeded to use my assassination protocol to raise his rank. HK-47: At any rate, it seems that my Mandalorian owner finally decided to send me against Mandalore, himself. My poorest performance, sadly. HK-47: I was captured by this Mandalore during the attempt. He was able to reverse my programming and send me after my own master. It was quite distressing. There was little I could do. Needless to say, I dispatched the Mandalorian soldier efficiently. PC: So you couldn't kill Mandalore, hey? HK-47: Statement: With all due respect, master, he is the leader of the Mandalorians. Perhaps my old master was foolish to send me after him. PC: So you killed that master directly. HK-47: Statement: So I did. I am not very proud of that, master. The soldier seemed very startled, I must say. JAGI: Ah so you managed to come after all. I see you brought friends. You brought some of your own as well. JAGI: Ha! Indeed I did. I foresaw that you might need help so I arranged a distraction. JAGI: I do not need to hear your excuses, Jedi! I know why he brought you! Enough of this talk, Jagi! Let us do what we came here to do. JAGI: We both know the stakes here, and we both know what we must do. It is only in death that this can end. This is a matter of honor. I cannot stand by this insult. I must do this. JAGI: In the battle above the world of Althir, he ordered us to attack the enemy flank, promising us support. But when he saw better prospects for his own glory, he abandoned us and left us to die surrounded by enemies! If I had not attacked when I did, the battle would not have been won so easily! JAGI: It would still have been won! You sent your own men to die there Canderous. I cannot forgive you for what you did to us! You will pay! That's not the way it happened… The Althiri were fighting hard. I saw a break in their defenses that left their center exposed. I had to take the chance. If I had not done what I did, many more warriors would have died and the battle would have taken much longer. I stand by my decision. JAGI: You coward! You glory hunter! You were given direct orders and were part of a plan! You had a responsibility to us! I… I can regret their loss, but it was necessary. PC: Jagi, what he did was a smart tactical move. JAGI: He left us to die when his responsibility was to us! Instead he went hunting more glory for himself! PC: He may have saved other lives by doing what he did. JAGI: He cost us ours! But… but I do see your point… But… Why did you have to leave us there to die while you chased glory somewhere else? I saw a chance and had to take it. It ended the battle quicker then we would have otherwise, and many of our warriors may have died. Mandalore taught us that opportunism and flexibility in battle were to be admired. You may contradict me, but do you contradict him as well? JAGI: No! I… I… I see that I have been wrong. I have not been true to the teachings of Mandalore. You were right. I was wrong to question your honor. But I must now cleanse mine with my life. And so it shall be. I… I think this has affected me in ways that I didn't anticipate… I think I'll need time to sort things out. Thanks for what you did, whatever your intentions might have been. I just need… time. IRIDORIAN MERCENARY: I am not for hire. Perhaps the Mandalorian or the Echani can help you - though they lack the stomach for certain jobs. IRIDORIAN MERCENARY: They lack the resolve to do what needs to be done. The Echani believe in a non-existent warrior code of honor, and the Mandalorians prize credits above bloodshed. But I am Iridorian. Honor comes from slaying your opponent, and the true reward of any job is the taste of your foe's dying blood on your tongue. MANDALORIAN MERCENARY: Canderous! I haven't seen you since the Republic broke our ranks at the battle of Malachor! Ergeron, I see you've got some new guns to add to your collection. Times must have been profitable for you after the war. MANDALORIAN MERCENARY: Very profitable. When the Republic defeated our fleets, I learned a valuable lesson: it's far better to be a freelance mercenary in a war then to be a soldier for the losing side. If you're here to offer me a job, I'm not interested right now. I've got so many offers I can't keep up as it is. Maybe that Iridorian skullslacker at the bar, or the Echani nerfherder cowering in the corner is available. MANDALORIAN MERCENARY: Nothing, except the Echani are a bunch of fey dancers, prancing into battle with tiny weapons not fit for Mandalorian children. They hardly wear any armor because it slows them down when they run away. But the Echani are better then the Iridorians. Those savages keep hacking at fallen foe even after death, mutilating the corpse out of pure blood lust. I even heard they'll turn on each other when the battle fever hits. Who wants to work with someone like that? I can pretty much name my price right now, especially since the Republic is so desperate for mercs all of a sudden. PC: Don't you hate the Republic for defeating your people? MANDALORIAN MERCENARY: I'm a realist. It was war, after all. And even though the Republic destroyed my people, the leaders of the armada were Revan and Malak, so I hate the Sith just as much. And with this war, there's plenty of opportunity to take bloody vengeance against both sides and make a nice profit along the way. We Mandalorians are always practical. Not like those bloodthirsty Iridorians, or those honor-bound Echani. They were Mandalorian. Poachers, probably. They use stealth units to stalk their prey. Their kind were among the first to flee when the war turned against my people. Bloody cowards! You defeated the Mandalore clans in the war, Revan. You were the only one in the galaxy who could best us. We had never met one like you before, and never since. How can you even ask if I'll follow you? Whatever you are fighting, it will be worthy of my skill. I'm your man until the end, Revan, no matter how this plays out. Working for Davik was like driving a spike through the side of your head… Sure you get something new in there, but in the end, you've lost something as well. Beating up people who wouldn't - or couldn't - pay, strong-arming his competitors, killing who he said. It was busy work, nothing decent. I've killed many people. I can't say I'm proud of it, but I have. Criminals, competitors, businessmen, police… women, children… Jedi were a better challenge, but they hardly ever poked around in the Under City… Until you came along… But I never wanted to challenge you. Never felt the need. Maybe I knew I couldn't win… just like all those years ago. PC: A wise decision. Yeah, probably. Heh. You'd likely have beaten me again. Maybe you would have. But you're not who you were back then, I can tell. You've changed… and maybe I have too. I remember a time when I could do anything I wanted… Kill, maim, murder… It was all the same to me. But now… now that I'm older, I can look back and regret… PC: Regret in a Mandalorian is unbecoming. In a Mandalorian… I'm not even sure what that is anymore. The Mandalorian are gone, defeated by the Republic and swept away by time. I look back and regret all the chances I had as a warrior, and then all the chances I had since then. I shouldn't be getting like this, not when so many other things are happening… but… It feels like… like something has changed inside and I don't know what it is. Bah! This is unbecoming of a warrior! Let's get on with everything before I start getting sentimental or something. I'm not happy with the way my life has turned. I'm not the Mandalore I once was. I don't even think I'm the merc I was when I joined you. I think… I think I need something more then killing and fighting in my life. I need a purpose or something like that. The way the Mandalorians - we - fought… it holds no appeal for me. To rape and ravage worlds for the thrill of battle… It gets old. Very old. Honor in battle. Cheating death. Comrades in arms. The code of the Mandalore. I think I'm something different now. Maybe more, maybe less. PC: You aren't a Mandalorian now? No… the time of the clans is past. I don't think the galaxy wants them anymore. Maybe in the future, but not now. Once my time with you is done, once you have moved on to greater things, I'll find my own way once again. Maybe the Mandalorian clans will be reborn again. Maybe even under the Republic… or the Sith. But dreaming about the future is stupid right now. We should get down to our business and finish it. If we survive all this… maybe we could talk about it then. You're Revan and I'll follow you anywhere. It doesn't matter who you're fighting against, I'll be at your side. Mandalorians don't have any great love for the Republic anyway. Light side, dark side - it doesn't make any difference to me, Revan. I'll stick by you no matter what comes. This looks like the end of our partnership. The battle we fight here will change the face of the galaxy. You, Revan, are the single greatest warrior of this age, and any battle we fight will bring me honor. I'll stay by your side through anything. I don't think I'm ready to give up this life of mine, this life of fighting, not quite yet. We have things we need to do here. I'm your man until the end, whatever path you take. -----signature----- Passion about fiction is great when it's fun and lighthearted, or when it provides respite or sheds light on real issues. But save your anger about it - on both sides of the argument - and channel it into improving real lives. - Karen Traviss
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Reverend_Tegoth Registered: Jan '05	Date Posted: 4/20/05 5:32am Subject: RE: The Complete KOTOR 1 Mandalorian Reference Guide - Date Edited: 4/20/05 5:40am (1 edits total) Edited By: Reverend_Tegoth
	Finally, here is a list of Mandalorian items in the game. I didn't think about including these until late in the process, so I may have missed a couple of items (specifically, shields) so if anyone wants to contribute the text to anything I missed it would be appreciated: Cassus Fett's Battle Armor: The armor of Cassus Fett, the most wanted man in known space. Famous for killing the captain of a flagship Republic frigate at the Battle of Jaga's Cluster, he is presumed dead. Cassus Fett's Heavy Pistol: Cassus Fett was rarely seen without this adaptable blaster. Famous for killing the captain of a flagship Republic frigate at the battle of Jaga's Cluster, he is presumed dead. Mandalorian Assualt Armor: This was the armor of the Mandalorian elite frontline troops, a sight that Republic soldiers were all too familiar with during the war. Mandalorian Assualt Rifle: These weapons are almost overpowered for their size, but the Mandalorians prefer them that way. They do not make a habit of being subtle in their war making. Mandalorian Battle Armor: Republic soldiers saw this armor all too often during the Mandalorian Wars. It's understandable that the conflict could drag on when a fanatical enemy is so defensively outfitted. Mandalorian Blaster: The Mandalorian Blaster is a slightly more powerful version of the basic pistol common throughout the galaxy. Mandalorian Datapad 2: This is a personal log in the Mandalorian language. "This hunt is no challenge. How will attacking unarmed creatures train us to use these Jedi toys? You want new warriors to learn? Watching a comrade lop his own arm off fighting a real opponent would teach more then these pointless battles. I obey, Mandalore, but with protest. The blending field generators on the swoops grant near perfect camouflage. Why only attack unarmed opponents?" Mandalorian Head: This is the head of the leader of the Mandalorian warriors who were killing the Rakatan scouts. Mandalorian Heavy Pistol: Mandalorians boast that a shot from one of these pistols can take a starship out of commission. It's an ovious exaggeration, but for safety's sake, most listeners just smile and nod. Mandalorian Heavy Repeater: With this weapon, the Mandalorians again demonstrate a complete lack of subtlety. The only thing better then a big blaster, apparently, is one that shoots faster. Mandalorian Helmet: This is the helmet of a fierce Mandalorian warrior, taken from a group that stalked the Shadowlands of Kashyyyk for wounded or unwary prey. Mandalorian Melee Shield: Mandalorians don't fear melee combat, but anything that absorbs physical damage brings them a step closer to victory, and these forearm shields are a favorite. The units are discarded once their maximum activations have been expended. Mandalorian Power Shield: An improvement by the Mandalorians on their basic forearm shield, this variant proved decisive in several battles with the Republic. The units are discarded once their maximum number of activations have been expended. Mandalorian Ripper: A weapon similar to this energy-propelled slug-thrower belonged to Jugger Wraith, a bounty hunter who plagued the Republic years ago. Thirty-seven Mandalorians were executed for being him until sightings declined. As a type of disrupter, this weapon ignores most personal energy shields. -----signature----- Passion about fiction is great when it's fun and lighthearted, or when it provides respite or sheds light on real issues. But save your anger about it - on both sides of the argument - and channel it into improving real lives. - Karen Traviss
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Reverend_Tegoth Registered: Jan '05	Date Posted: 4/20/05 5:38am Subject: RE: The Complete KOTOR 1 Mandalorian Reference Guide
	As you can see, there is no reference in the entirety of KOTOR 1 that states that collecting money for fighting is in any way dishonorable to the Mandalorians. In fact, Canderous is quite friendly with another Mandalorian mercenary, and when he disparages his time with Davik he says he could find no challenges, and that is what upset him about his time on Taris. So again, it seems that there is nothing in the Mandalorian code of old that says it's wrong to collect money for fighting, so long as the fight itself is an honorable one. Towards the end of the game it would also seem that Canderous had grown disparaged with the code of the Mandalorians that allowed for the killing of innocents as casualties of war, and yearned for the Mandalorians to be more honorable. Hundreds of years later, when Jaster finally reunites all of the clans, Canderous will get his wish. -----signature----- Passion about fiction is great when it's fun and lighthearted, or when it provides respite or sheds light on real issues. But save your anger about it - on both sides of the argument - and channel it into improving real lives. - Karen Traviss
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Cynical Registered: Oct '04	Date Posted: 4/20/05 6:03am Subject: RE: The Complete KOTOR 1 Mandalorian Reference Guide
	SPOILER: . . . . . . Actually, Canderous goes on to become Mandalore in KotOR II, thereby reforming the mandalorians, if only for a few years, in his own vision.
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Rogan_Agar Registered: Dec '04	Date Posted: 4/20/05 6:31am Subject: RE: The Complete KOTOR 1 Mandalorian Reference Guide
	Impressive... -----signature----- SL-1059 --- 501st Legion --- German Garrison --- Western Squad "... You were the Chosen One!" Obi-Wan Kenobi ROTS
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Fist_of_Mandalore Registered: Mar '05	Date Posted: 4/20/05 6:34am Subject: RE: The Complete KOTOR 1 Mandalorian Reference Guide
	Great job Reverend! Next, start on KotOR 2! And then on to Republic Commando and any other place we find reference to Mandalorians. Making a Mandalorian repository thread, where any knowlege that anyone has of the Great Clans of our Beloved Mandalore shall be deposited, would be a good idea, A little time-consuming though. -----signature----- Mortis est Gloriam
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Reverend_Tegoth Registered: Jan '05	Date Posted: 4/20/05 6:39am Subject: RE: The Complete KOTOR 1 Mandalorian Reference Guide
	I'm aware of (KOTOR 2 SPOILER)... ...Canderous becoming Mandalore, but unfortunately he fails to unite all of the clans, who once again fall apart and become immoral. Later Jaster will finally combine them all, and then, after the Jedi wipe them out, his teachings will go on to influence the next generation of Mandalorians, helping to insure that they remain an honorable culture. -----signature----- Passion about fiction is great when it's fun and lighthearted, or when it provides respite or sheds light on real issues. But save your anger about it - on both sides of the argument - and channel it into improving real lives. - Karen Traviss
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CeiranHarmony Registered: May '04	Date Posted: 4/20/05 7:39am Subject: RE: The Complete KOTOR 1 Mandalorian Reference Guide
	applauds GREAT...I second the vote for the same thing for KOTOR II. and do you know any homepage or source or way how I can access all the KOTOR II dialogue without having to play it sixty times to get nearly every conversation and transcribe it? -----signature----- www.njoe.com (Govsec Author) "Less is more!" Union In Love with the Star Wars Atlas Dark Horse: Star Wars: Invasion (best idea ever!!!) My life is an Idiots Array, PURE SABBACC
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Reverend_Tegoth Registered: Jan '05	Date Posted: 4/24/05 2:46am Subject: RE: The Complete KOTOR 1 Mandalorian Reference Guide
	I've gone ahead and PM'ed the Mods and asked them to change this thread to a General Mandalorian Reference Guide, official or otherwise. If they do so I'll start posting the bits of Jaster's Supercommando Codex from the Boba Fett young adult books. Otherwise I'll post it elsewhere. -----signature----- Passion about fiction is great when it's fun and lighthearted, or when it provides respite or sheds light on real issues. But save your anger about it - on both sides of the argument - and channel it into improving real lives. - Karen Traviss
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Tricky Registered: Jul '01	Date Posted: 4/24/05 11:48am Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide
	I wish I had a supercomputer to play KOTOR2!! Great thread, Reverend. You're going to post the Codex here, right? -----signature----- "Six pints of bitter," said Ford Prefect to the barman of the Horse and Groom. "And quickly please, the world's about to end." We like to Suckadelic.com. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book
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Fist_of_Mandalore Registered: Mar '05	Date Posted: 4/24/05 12:11pm Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide
	There are bits from Mereel's Codex in the young adult books? Nice. I now demand that you post them, so there. Nyah nyah. -----signature----- Mortis est Gloriam
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Reverend_Tegoth Registered: Jan '05	Date Posted: 4/24/05 4:17pm Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide - Date Edited: 4/24/05 4:36pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Reverend_Tegoth
	Alrighty, here are all the things from the first three young adult Boba books that can be interpreted as being part of the Jaster's Codex (since Abel's article has confirmed that "Jango's code" and Jaster's Codex are one and the same) or Mandalorian culture. In most instances I assume that since the Mandalorians Warriors have been wiped out Jango simply replaced the word "Mandalorian" with "Bounty Hunter." “Boba was ten, nearly but not quite old enough to be on his own.” #1, p2 “A Bounty Hunter must always be ready to go anywhere and face any danger. That was from Jango Fett’s code, the rule by which he lived.” #1, p3 “’Remember: no friends, no enemies. Only allies and adversaries.’ That saying was from Jango Fett’s code.” #1, p4 “Always be polite to a client. That was part of Jango’s code.” #1, p7 “’A bounty hunter never complains,’ said Jango, in that special voice he reserved for his code.” #1, p8 “The bounty hunter is free of attachments was one of (Jango’s) sayings. Another was: Life feeds on death.” #1, p11 “He could hear his dad’s voice in his ear: Vary your routine. Patterns are traps.” #1, p12 “’Never call attention to yourself.’” #1, p19 “Say no more than necessary. That was a favorite saying of Jango Fett.” #1, p25 “Always be polite. Especially to your enemies.” #1, p25 “’He who hires my hand…’ ‘…hires my whole self,’ finished Boba, grinning up at his dad. #1, p49 “Then, in his mind, he heard his father’s voice: Do that which you fear most, and you will find the courage you seek.” #1, p51 “Imagination, (Jango) often said, is a warrior’s most important weapon.” #1, p85 “He thought of his father and his code: A bounty hunter never gets distracted by the big picture. He knows it’s the little things that count.” #1, p102 “’There are three things you need, now that I am gone. I can only point you toward them. These three things you must seek and find on your own. The first is self-sufficiency. For this you must find Tyranus to access the credits I’ve put aside for you. The second is knowledge. For knowledge you must find Jabba. He will not give it; you must take it. The third and most important is power. You will find it all around you, in many forms. But beware, sometimes it is dangerous. And one last thing, Boba… Hold onto the book, keep it close to you. Open it when you need it. It will guide you when you read it. It is not a story, but a Way. Follow this Way and you will be a great bounty hunter someday. I was sure of it when I was alive, and I am sure of it still…’” #1, p112-113 “Never tell the whole truth in a trade. A favor is an investment.” #1, p117 “Money is power.” #1, p132 “Watch out for things that go to well.” #1, p143 “Self-sufficiency you will learn from the Count.” #2, p14 “The worse things are, the calmer you need to be.” #2, p87 “Remain calm at all costs was Jango’s way.” #2, p118 "'Remember, son - trust no one, but use everyone.'" #3, p2 "Trained as a great Mandalorian warrior, Jango had learned the most important lesson of all: Prepare for the worst." #3, p4 "Never seek out help." #3, p49 "Fear is energy, Jango had taught him. And you can learn to control it. If you concentrate, you can change your energy, from fear to excitement. Then you can use that energy, instead of being used by it." #3, p63 "'A bounty hunter gambles with his life every day,' Jango always said. 'Only a fool would gamble with money, too.'" #3, p94 -----signature----- Passion about fiction is great when it's fun and lighthearted, or when it provides respite or sheds light on real issues. But save your anger about it - on both sides of the argument - and channel it into improving real lives. - Karen Traviss
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CeiranHarmony Registered: May '04	Date Posted: 4/25/05 1:39am Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide
	so lets count wich rules Boba broke during his life, though Boba had his own personal codex hehe.. f.e. his marriage with sintas broke the attachment rule^^ and I think for mandalorians it wasn´t forbidden, but for bounty hunters it is better that way. though Bobas marriage, I love. -----signature----- www.njoe.com (Govsec Author) "Less is more!" Union In Love with the Star Wars Atlas Dark Horse: Star Wars: Invasion (best idea ever!!!) My life is an Idiots Array, PURE SABBACC
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QuentinGeorge Registered: Dec '03	Date Posted: 4/25/05 2:00am Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide
	Oh, it's pretty funny all of this, isn't it Reverend? Well, I'll tell you what isn't so funny - right now, Darth Mane is in his room, crying like a little girl! ...wait, I guess that is a little funny. -----signature----- Yar
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Fist_of_Mandalore Registered: Mar '05	Date Posted: 4/25/05 3:15am Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide
	It's funny cuz its true . And Reverend, how do you get all this stuff? Do you have some site you can go to or do you play the games and read the books over and oer and over... -----signature----- Mortis est Gloriam
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