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Reverend_Tegoth Registered: Jan '05	Date Posted: 6/17/05 10:04pm Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide
	Star Wars: Jango Fett #1 The comic begins with Boba Fett on Kamino, playing with what appear to be action figures representing Jango and some battle droids. "Nothing stops the Mandalorian Warrior!" Boba shouts as he plays. A droid comes in that Boba identifies as MU-12 and tells Boba it is time for lunch. He asks the droid when his father will be home, and the droid responds: "The answer is the same every time you ask, Master Boba. Your father will be home when he is done working." Meanwhile, after making his way into the heart of his estate and disposing of around a dozen of his guards, Jango completes his current bounty by blasting the Black Sun Vigo Antonin into oblivion. He then returns to the palace of his employer, Dreddon the Hutt. Upon arriving, however, he discovers Dreddon very, very dead at the hands of Zam Wessel. The two bounty hunters hold each other at gunpoint, Jango declaring that Dreddon was supposed to pay him handsomely for the job he has completed. "This was a high-priced job. You think it was easy to kill a Vigo?" Zam reacts to these words with shock. "What?" She exclaims. "You killed Vigo Antonin? Vigo Antonin hired me to kill Dreddon!" The two bounty hunters realize that, having each killed the other's employer, nobody is going to get paid that day. They decide the smart thing to do is put away there guns and walk away. "You first." They both say simultaneously. Putting away her gun and walking up to Jango sultrily, Zam says: "You know Jango, that's the problem with us. Neither one of us wants to make the first move. Take care of yourself, Jango… Until next time. Back on Kamino, Boba is now playing with toy ships, making loud "VRROOM!" and "ZOW!" noises as he does so. "That has to be one terrific pilot to get out of that jam, Boba." His father says as he enters the room. Boba is overjoyed to see Jango, running up to him with a huge grin on his face. "Daddy! I'm so glad that you're home!" As he picks up and embraces his son, Jango tells him: "So am I." MU-12 Welcomes Jango home and tells him that Boba was a very good boy while he was gone. It asks Jango how his assignment went and Jango tells it that there was a payment problem. MU-12 says that there might be an opportunity for him to make up the lost wages as an urgent and intriguing holo arrived for Jango while he was gone. Putting Boba down he tells him that he has to tend to something for a minute. "Okay." Boba responds. "But can we play starships when you're done?" He asks. "I'd love to play starships when I'm done." Jango tells him. Boba leaves and Jango plays the holo. It's a message from a Dug named Fernooda He says that Jango's reputation as the greatest Bounty Hunter in the galaxy has gotten the attention of his employer who wishes to hire Jango's services. He also says that the exact nature of the job will be discussed only in person, that the fee involved is quite sizable, and that he can be contacted at the Twirling Twi'lek on Coruscant. MU-12 asks Jango if he will be taking the job. "I'd rather not." Jango says. "I'd rather stay here on Kamino with Boba. It's not right to leave again so soon… but I do have to make up for lost profits on the last job." Walking up to Boba, Jango tells him that they have to talk. "You just got home, but you're going away again." Boba says. "I… Yes." Jango confirms. He tells Boba that he has to attend to something that has come up. "It doesn't mean I love you any less. You understand that, don't you?" Boba tells him that he does. "But… do you have to go right now?" "No… Not right now." Jango says, and plays starships with his son. Later Jango walks into the Twirling Twi'lek. A dancing girl tells him that she'd do almost anything to get a peek under his helmet, but he tells her that he's there on business. Jango walks up to the bartender, who has his back to him. He tells the twi'lek that he's looking for Fernooda. The bartender starts to get smart, then turns around and sees that he's dealing with Jango Fett. "S-Sorry, J-Jango - I didn't know it was you! He's in the back. P-Please, no trouble. All right?" Flipping the man a coin, Jango replies: "We'll see." But as Jango heads to meet the Dug a rodent-looking creature walks up to him. "You Jango Fett. You supposed to be toughest Bounty Hunter in the galaxy." The being says, then it's partner, a large Whiphid, attacks Jango. Jango takes him out with one shot (possibly a sabredart) then turns on the rodent creature. "Do you want this to be the luckiest day of your life… or your last?" Jango asks him, his blaster pistol pointed at the being's head. When the being hastily responds that it would prefer the former, Jango slams it's head into the wall, knocking the creature unconscious. Turning to the rest of the crowd in the club, Jango asks if anyone else feels the need to prove themselves. When no answer is forthcoming Jango turns and walks away. "Good," he says. The green lit room in back contains the dug that Jango has come to meet. Fernooda says that he trusts the "unpleasantness" in the other room wasn't too troublesome for Fett. "Nothing out of the ordinary." Jango replies. Fernooda offers Jango a chair and tells him that his employer will be most pleased that Jango has accepted the assignment. Jango replies that he prefers to stand, and that he hasn't accepted anything yet. Fernooda says that Jango is here because of a rare artifact from the planet Seylott. It is a religious idol of the planet's indigenous culture. The piece was part of Fernooda's employer's extensive collection of primitive art before a member of Seylott's native species stole it. It is believed to be heading back to Seylott. Fernooda's employer is offering 50,000 credits for the artifact's safe return. "That's a great deal of money for a curio." Jango observes. Fernooda explains that it's a rare piece and his employer is quite proud of his collection. Jango says that he doesn't take any job without knowing who he is working for. Fernooda counters that his employer wishes to remain anonymous - hence the large reward for the artifact's retrieval. Jango tells Fernooda that if he's not going to find out who he's working for then the price doubles. Smiling, the dug agrees. He then tells Jango that no one must know about their deal. "In this line of work," Jango responds, "you don't last very long if you've got a big mouth." Fernooda says that it was a pleasure doing business with Jango. "We'll see." Jango replies, as he exits. Fernooda immediately takes out a small cylinder and activates it with a BEEPT. "He took the job." Fernooda says into the cylinder. Flying Slave-1 into Seylott's atmosphere, Jango contacts MU-12. He tells the droid that there doesn't appear to be much on the surface besides jungle and that the natives are apparently primitives on the brink of extinction. He also says that the thief must have stowed away to get off planet, because there's no way the Seylotts have the technology to build or fly ships. Every lead Jango has followed confirms that the thief was heading back to return the idol to their Holy Temple, and Jango says that he would be surprised if he were more then a few hours behind him. He tells MU-12 that he expects to be home within a day (maybe less) and asks about Boba. MU-12 replies that Boba misses him, but is otherwise quite well. Jango tells the droid that he's had a couple of misfires with his jetpack. "Didn't I ask you to give it an overhaul?" MU-12 confirms that Jango did, but says that he departed so quickly that MU-12 didn't have time to finish the job. However, MU-12 suspects that it is only a sporadic malfunction and it's possible Jango won't experience any further difficulty. "How reassuring." Jango says with a scowl, then cuts off the communication, interrupting MU-12 midsentence. "Sell you for scrap if you didn't take such good care of my son." Jango grumbles to himself. Arriving on foot at the Temple, Jango finds them in a state of disrepair. Inside Jango must cross a massive pit-like hole where it appears the floor has worn away. He attempts to inch his way across the edges, but they give away and he plummets into the hole. His jetpack misfires, so Jango fires a grappling hook and pulls himself out of the hole. Waiting for him are massive beetle like creatures that attack with huge pinchers and tentacle like tongues. Jango defeats them through a combination of continuous blaster fire and an inflammatory explosive. Following the sounds of alien chanting, Jango discovers a huge statue resembling the appearance of the natives, beneath which the idol he is searching for is being prayed over by one of those same natives. Jango approaches and tells the Seylott to hand over the idol and he won't be hurt. Instead the being gets to it's feet and in two quick maneuvers force pushes Jango's pistol from his hand and then Jango himself down some stairs. It then grabs the idol and makes a break for it, but Jango (muttering "Damn Force-sensitives.") pulls out his other blaster and cuts him down. Grabbing the idol, Jango tells the badly wounded being "This is coming with me." The being pleads with Jango not to take the idol. He says it is the destroyer of worlds and that the infant (the idol) must not be taken from the mother (the statue), but instead returned to her womb. "Destroyer of worlds?" Jango responds. "It's a piece of stone." Dying, the Seylott repeats that the infant must rest with it's mother, and adds "or suffer the infant's rage" before falling still. Jango takes one last look at the statue before walking away. He doesn't get far before Zam Wessel steps out of the shadows and puts a blaster pistol to his head. "We have to stop meeting like this, Zam." Jango says. "People will talk, won’t they?" She responds. Zam tells Jango to hand over the idol. "He hired you too, didn't he?" Jango asks. Zam confirms that Fernooda was hedging his bets and hired them both. She had to make up for lost credits because Jango killed her last employer, so she took the job and sat back while Jango did all the hard work. "We really would make a hell of a team, Jango. You know that?" Zam says. Jango responds that he always works alone. "That's the shame of it. We both do. We've known each other so long, Jango. And I don't have any idea what you're hiding under that helmet of yours. How about a peek?" "Maybe another time," Jango replies, but when Zam insists and shoves her pistol into his chest, he relents. "Since you asked so nicely…" "Hmmm…" Zam says with a sly grin as she looks upon Jango's unmasked face. "I don't know if that's what I expected or not, but…" Before she can finish her sentence, Zam finds herself suddenly in the grip of a tongue belonging to one of those huge insect things from earlier in the story. The idol drops from Zam's grip, and Jango grabs it and runs. "Jango!" Zam screams after him. He gets almost all the way out of the temple before he sighs heavily and runs back in for her. Charging in guns and vibroblades flashing, Jango tells Zam to drop any and all of her explosives that she's carrying. "Aren't we a little close?!" Zam yells. "No." Jango responds, cutting her free of the beast and tackling her into the deep hole he fell into earlier. "And this is helping us how?" Zam asks, as they plummet. As the explosives detonate above Jango's jetpack misfires over and over before finally catching any sending flying into the remaining force of the explosions above. The impact sends them flying to the ground, where Jango covers Zam's body with his own. When the smoke clears Jango asks Zam if she's all right. "Fine… I'm fine Jango." Zam says, and then her eyes catch sight of something beside them. "I think…I think that must be some kinda sign." Jango turns to see his Mandalorian helmet on it's side, half buried in sand. "Yeah… Yeah I guess maybe it is, Zam." Jango helps Zam to her feet and Zam thanks him. "Sure." Jango replies. "No. I mean, thank you. For coming back for me." "It… seemed like the right thing to do." "It was." Zam reaches over and picks up Jango's helmet. She offers to trade it for the idol. "I don't think so." Jango says. Handing him his helmet, Zam says that she didn’t either, and that she considers them even. "This is the part where I say take care of yourself, Jango… Until next time." "There's going to be a next time?" Jango asks. "Oh… I think you can almost count on it." Later, Jango hands the idol over to Fernooda. The dug says that he hopes it wasn't too much trouble for Jango. "No more then usual." Jango replies. Fernooda hands over Jango's payment and asks about the fate of the thief. "He is no longer a consideration." Jango tells him. "Though it would have been useful to know that he was a Force sensitive." "Goodness." Fernooda says. "That must've slipped my mind. I forgot to mention it?" Jango grabs the Dug by his throat. "You did - just like you forgot to mention that you'd hired another bounty hunter… as insurance. You lied to me. No one's ever lied to me twice." Jango tells Fernooda that their business relationship is at an end and that he is not to contact Jango. "Do I make myself understood?" Jango asks him. "Yes." The Dug croaks. Shoving him aside, Jango tells him that that's good, because if he ever sees Fernooda again he'll kill him. After Jango leaves, Fernooda hands over the idol to his employer, an Annoo-Dat General, and assures him that neither his identity nor his involvement have been compromised. Later Jango arrives on Kamino and is met by Boba on the landing pad. "Are you going to be staying awhile this time, Daddy?" Boba asks. "Don't worry, Boba." Jango responds. "Nothing could drag me away." -----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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KarenTraviss Title: Author: -Har d Contact -Tri ple Zero -LOTF Registered: Mar '04	Date Posted: 6/17/05 10:49pm Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide
	Leto II posted: As the saying goes, the reason that the sun never sets on the British Empire is that God doesn't trust the British in the dark. ] I've never heard that line and I love it. They don't call us Perfidious Albion for nothing! Leto II posted: Of course, to hear this one particularly embittered Indian-born professor of Modern Anglo History tell it, no English soldier died disease-ridden in some foreign field, no English sailor was drowned in a wreck of shattered oak in the Atlantic, no English cavalryman ever charged futilely into opposing guns, no English airman plummeted to a fiery death, no English town sent its sons to walk into machine gun fire...oh, no; not while they had their oppressed colonial minions to do their bidding. The problem with the ethnic argument on this is that armchair historians miss the class angle. It wasn't white men screwing over the colonised races - and I could include Ireland in that: it was upper class white men screwing over the colonised races AND the white working class, who also did most of their dying for them.* Oops! Revealed a powerful motivation in my clone/ Mando fiction there. (This is why I get very agitated in a Portsmouth sense when anyone is foolish enough to tell me that "you English" did this or that to "my people". I did naff all, mate. And neither did most English folk. But our masters* did - and they did it to us, too.) -----signature----- Website: http://www.karentraviss.com Blog: http://www.livejournal.com/users/karentraviss/ "Karen, put that stormie down at once!"
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Quiet_Mandalorian Registered: Apr '05	Date Posted: 6/18/05 2:06pm Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide
	Alion_Sangre posted: might have to do with the fact that when we see Dyzz in one panel of Dark Empire the stuff he's wearing makes a medieval knight's plate armor look light and easy to move in That's got to be pretty heavy-duty gear then, because (apart from some specially-made armours specifically built for the joust) a medieval full plate harness weighed no more than 55-to 60 lbs, about as much as a modern soldier's rifle, helmet, body armour, ammunition, L.B.V. and other gear. -----signature----- Fey'la was right! Bring Asyr Sei'lar to justice!
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Alion_Sangre Registered: Dec '01	Date Posted: 6/18/05 2:20pm Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide
	Dyzz Nataz's Ithullian infantry armor is pretty heavy; if I remember the d6 stats it drops his move score from 10 to 8. He had some toys in it, like extendable gauntlet blades and a flamethrower, but compared to the Mandalorian Neo-Crusader armor it seemed pretty bulky, let alone the more modern True Mandalorian/Supercommando gear. -----signature----- BEWARE OF STRESSED NERD Now POSTING: Halberd Squadron - see profile for link. "Gratuitous acts of senseless violence are MY forte!" I've become intolerant of stupidity in my old age.
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razzy1319 Registered: Jun '04	Date Posted: 6/18/05 6:45pm Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide
	probably been asked before... if jango was the last true mandalorian, who were and who trained the mandalorians who trained the clones after jango's death? -----signature----- In Space No One Can Hear Your Scream, Except For The BattleCry Of A Galactic Marine -Fictional BattleCry My Kind Weren't Made To Kneel -Fictional Clone Trooper Worst Admin Ever - http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/User:WhiteBoy/Kuralyov
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Reverend_Tegoth Registered: Jan '05	Date Posted: 6/18/05 7:29pm Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide - Date Edited: 6/18/05 7:29pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Reverend_Tegoth
	razzy1319 posted: probably been asked before... if jango was the last true mandalorian, who were and who trained the mandalorians who trained the clones after jango's death? Just so you know the answers to your questions are contained within the bold print posts in this thread . That having been said, it goes like this - Jaster is Mandalore and trains Jango to be a Mandalorian SuperCommando. Jaster dies, Jango becomes Mandalore. Jango trained Spar (an ARC trooper) and taught him about Jaster's SuperCommandos. Spar, yearning to continue Jaster's SuperCommando tradition, fled Kamino and grouped together around 200 Protectors (cops) from the planet Mandalore and taught them the SuperCommando tradition. Claiming the title of Mandalore, he called his group "Protectors". Almost all of this group is wiped out during the Clone Wars. One of the survivors, Shysa, decides years later to continue Jaster's SuperCommando traditions and revives the Protectors. He becomes the next Mandalore. Finally, for unknown reasons and under unknown circumstances, Shysa sacrifices himself to save Boba Fett. Boba Fett becomes the next, and current, Mandalore. -----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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razzy1319 Registered: Jun '04	Date Posted: 6/18/05 8:40pm Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide
	^^^^ i meant walon vau, skirata and etc. -----signature----- In Space No One Can Hear Your Scream, Except For The BattleCry Of A Galactic Marine -Fictional BattleCry My Kind Weren't Made To Kneel -Fictional Clone Trooper Worst Admin Ever - http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/User:WhiteBoy/Kuralyov
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Reverend_Tegoth Registered: Jan '05	Date Posted: 6/18/05 8:55pm Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide
	Sorry for the misunderstanding . Has it been confirmed that Skirata and the others were Mandalorian? To be honest, I assumed that they weren't - just beings that were military experts, some of which admired the Mandalorian 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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DarthMane2 Registered: Sep '03	Date Posted: 6/18/05 9:35pm Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide
	Pretty much. Karin Traviss has said that we will find out more about the OTHER Mandalorian trainers in her new Republic Commando book. Walon Vau is one them. Which the game RC implies anyway. Not to mention that one of the ROTS cross section ,or equipment guide's ,has a little box under in the Clone Trooper section telling of how the RC's were trained by Mandalorian Supercommado's. Plural. So it seems Jango wasn't the only one left afterall. -----signature----- "Infidel defilers. They shall all drown in lakes of blood. Now they will know why they are afraid of the dark. Now they will learn why they fear the night." "When in doubt,... attack"- George S. Patton still Strad's #1 fan
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Tam_Elgrin Registered: May '04	Date Posted: 6/19/05 12:23am Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide
	>>"Not to mention that one of the ROTS cross section ,or equipment guide's ,has a little box under in the Clone Trooper section telling of how the RC's were trained by Mandalorian Supercommado's."<< It was the Visual Dictionary, yeah. -----signature----- hey, who turned out the lights?
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KarenTraviss Title: Author: -Har d Contact -Tri ple Zero -LOTF Registered: Mar '04	Date Posted: 6/19/05 2:05am Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide - Date Edited: 6/19/05 3:24am (1 edits total) Edited By: KarenTraviss
	Reverend_Tegoth posted: Sorry for the misunderstanding . Has it been confirmed that Skirata and the others were Mandalorian? To be honest, I assumed that they weren't - just beings that were military experts, some of which admired the Mandalorian culture. It's always scary when you see your one-liners from a book turn up as continuity elsewhere. * coughs and clears throat * * skirts carefully around spoilers * Skirata, Vau and tha majority* of the Cuy'Val Dar (Those Who No Longer Exist, i.e. the training sergeants recruited secretly by Jango to train the clone special forces) were Mandalorians. Skirata and Vau both have a very murky past. Skirata wasn't a Supercommando as such, and existed on the fringes, as befits a covert/ black ops man. He just helped them out when they were busy. He did a lot of work for a lot of people...and then Jango called him to Kamino, and all that changed. It's like a really, really violent and not very photogenic version of Charlie's Angels. And I'll probably regret saying this, but I'll remind everyone that the Mandalorians aren't a single ethnic type, or even ethnic at all now. They're a cultural type. I'll explain more in RC:TZ and elsewhere in due course how that works at the detailed level and why it's so important. * Not all: remember the Sullustan cryptography expert in RC:HC? -----signature----- Website: http://www.karentraviss.com Blog: http://www.livejournal.com/users/karentraviss/ "Karen, put that stormie down at once!"
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Thrawn McEwok Title: TFN EU Staff Registered: May '00	Date Posted: 6/19/05 2:25am Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide - Date Edited: 6/19/05 2:27am (1 edits total) Edited By: Thrawn McEwok
	Leto: you're entirely right, of course... ... though with one caveat... ... the way this little federal superstate of ours works is that you have a lot of Englishmen doing useful and heroic things, and then, in a ratio of about 10:1, the occasional lurking Welshman (called "Giggs" or "Owen", or something), and, when things are working right, also in a ratio of approximately 10:1, a Scotsman (you can tell because he's dour and called something like "Fergusson" or "Souness", or "Stein" or "Busby") standing on the touchline giving orders... 'Twas always thus... snarks at Karen's attempts to incite a class war, and quietly suggests that the Mandalorians are the Norman French of the GFFA -The Imperial Ewok -----signature----- A/T = OTP :===8[#]8===: Kyp/Jaina fans: stand up and be counted!
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KarenTraviss Title: Author: -Har d Contact -Tri ple Zero -LOTF Registered: Mar '04	Date Posted: 6/19/05 2:40am Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide
	Thrawn McEwok posted: snarks at Karen's attempts to incite a class war, and quietly suggests that the Mandalorians are the Norman French of the GFFA -The Imperial Ewok Of course they are. Where do you think I got these great recipes? Ewok a la mode de Caen Ewok au Calvados And venturing beyond le pays Normand, might I recommend Brandade d'Ewok or Confit d'Ewok washed down with a good Hugel Muscat or Tokay d'Alsace? -----signature----- Website: http://www.karentraviss.com Blog: http://www.livejournal.com/users/karentraviss/ "Karen, put that stormie down at once!"
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Thrawn McEwok Title: TFN EU Staff Registered: May '00	Date Posted: 6/19/05 2:54am Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide
	KT: well, lasagne, Norman England's one real contribution to world cooking (no, really!), can be made with any sort mincemeat, including Fett clones... And technically, you do realise that a Mandalorian Ewok is a possibility... I always suspected that Erpham Warrick, Wicket's great-grandfather, was something special... Yub'ut - The Imperial Ewok -----signature----- A/T = OTP :===8[#]8===: Kyp/Jaina fans: stand up and be counted!
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KarenTraviss Title: Author: -Har d Contact -Tri ple Zero -LOTF Registered: Mar '04	Date Posted: 6/19/05 3:00am Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide
	Thrawn McEwok posted: And technically, you do realise that a Mandalorian Ewok is a possibility... - The Imperial Ewok It is, but only if the lads run out of field rations... -----signature----- Website: http://www.karentraviss.com Blog: http://www.livejournal.com/users/karentraviss/ "Karen, put that stormie down at once!"
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