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Reverend_Tegoth  296 posts
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Date Posted: 5/15/05 2:41am Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide - Date Edited: 5/15/05 2:41am (1 edits total) Edited By: Reverend_Tegoth
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi - The Sith War #3 (of 6)

In the Empress Teta system Mandalore stands alone in the war room on Cinnegar, analyzing the abortive attack on Coruscant. "Why did we fail?" He ponders. "My warriors must know. Our honor demands it. What did we forget? How was my master Ulic so easily captured?"

A thought occurs to him: "Or did Aleema call a retreat before the tide had turned? Has she betrayed us? I must consider this further..."

Later, Mandalore approaches Aleema. He says he has come to discuss plans for rescuing Ulic Qel-Droma. She tells Mandalore not to worry about Ulic - that he will be scolded by the Jedi and forget about them. She says that with Ulic captured and Exar Kun off dabbling with his converts on Yavin Four that the war is up to them. "I am so glad you're here to offer your strength, Mandalore." She says to him. "We have risked too much to deny ourselves victory."

Next she tells Mandalore to get the entire fleet ready - all weapons primed, all warriors armed. She says they will do a double-feint and strike the Kemplex Nine Jump-Station after all. Since the Republic forces thought Kemplex Nine was a diversionary tactic of Ulic's they will have left it virtually unguarded.

"You must take advantage of that." She tells him. "You are my general, Mandalore."

Mandalore sets Aleema's orders in motion, following them to the letter. Knowing that his troops will see to it that they are carried out, Mandalore leaves on a mission of his own.

"I swore an oath to Lord Ulic. I still serve him, and I must find some way... some way..."

Mandalore burns out the engines of his ship to get to Yavin Four as fast as he can. There he finds Exar Kun, and tells him that he must speak with him. "My master, Ulic Qel-Droma, has been captured. The Republic will place him on trial. I must rescue him... or die trying."

"Very well," Exar Kun replies, "let's go free poor Ulic. Perhaps he'll take my advice from now on when I warn him against rash actions."

Mandalore, Exar, and a group of Massassi warriors burst in on the Republic senate chamber as Ulic's trial is underway. A Sith spell cast by Kun freezes every non-Jedi in the room, forcing them to watch and not react, while the Massassi apparently subdue the Jedi.

"I have sworn my loyalty to you, Lord Ulic. Forgive me for taking so long to arrive." Mandalore says, as he approaches Qel-Droma. "Thanks, Mandalore." Ulic responds. "I'm impressed at the depth of your devotion."

After Exar Kun and his old Master duel to the death, with Kun the victor, the group walks away unchallenged, having successfully rescued Qel-Droma.


 

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Date Posted: 5/15/05 3:08am Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide
Sheesh...you are right, Mandalore here is a bloody gimp.

 

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Reverend_Tegoth  296 posts
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Date Posted: 5/15/05 3:21am Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi - The Sith War #4 (of 6)

At the beginning of this issue Mandalore reveals to Qel-Droma that Aleema has betrayed him. "Your capture on Coruscant was no accident, my Lord Ulic... You were betrayed by Aleema, I have proof." Uliq accepts this.

Exar Kun sends dark Jedi apprentices to assassinate their former Masters, most of whom succeed. Then Ulic and Exar reveal their plot to use Naga Sadow's old ship, complete with its device that allows a user to "wrench fire from the stars," in the attack against Kemplex Nine. Exar trains Aleema to use the device so that she may lead the attack, a decision that doesn't sit well with Mandalore.

"I am your war commander, Lord Ulic! Have I disappointed you in some way? Why do you deny me the chance to lead this mission? Why do you give it to... her? You know what she has done to you in secret." Ulic tells Mandalore that he is fully aware of Aleema's treachery, but that she must be allowed to serve them this one, final time.

After successfully attacking Kemplex Nine, Aleema triggers the star device to obliterate her Jedi pursuers. Unfortunately for Aleema the device causes the star to supernova, destroying Sadow's ship and killing her in the process.

 

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Reverend_Tegoth  296 posts
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Date Posted: 5/15/05 3:54am Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi - The Sith War #5 (of 6)

While Ulic and Exar attack the Great Jedi Library on Ossus, Mandalore has taken most of his men and is striking at the Dark Citadel of Iziz on Onderon. Ulic still carries sufficient Mandalorians for the task at hand, however, including "Squad Viper Alpha" who charge into battle on their Basilisk War Droids. After a bit of a fight Exar strolls in and out of the Great Library, taking what he can, while Ulic engages his brother in lightsaber combat (Reverend's Note - where, as Ulic lops off Cay's cybernetic limb, we get to witness Cay Qel-Droma scream "MY ARM!" for approximately the one-millionth time since the character was introduced) and cuts him down. The issue ends with Ulic weeping over Cay's corpse.


 

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Date Posted: 5/15/05 11:45am Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide
So that image really tickled you, did it, Reverend? grin

 

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Fist_of_Mandalore  2926 posts
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Date Posted: 5/15/05 1:42pm Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide
I personally like crying jedi and severed limbs. There seems something so...canonical about it tongue

 

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Reverend_Tegoth  296 posts
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Date Posted: 5/15/05 5:24pm Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide
Karen - You know it happy ! Not only was the imagery hilarious (if a tad disturbing), but it also points out what ridiculous lengths people will go to in order to tear down something they dislike. So those are at least two reasons that I considered it worthy of signature material tongue . Hope you're enjoying the thread!

 

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Date Posted: 5/15/05 5:37pm Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi - The Sith War #6 (of 6)

In orbit around Onderon, Mandalore orders his men to attack. "We have reached Onderon, the former home of the Dark Jedi, Freddon Nadd. You will conquer this place for our Lord Ulic Qel-Droma, as ordered. The city dwellers have no chance against us. Launch!"

Once every season Onderon's moon Dxun comes so close to Onderon that their atmospheres merge and beasts from Dxun can cross over to the planet. As the Mandalorians soar down on their Basilisk War Droids, however, the rulers of Onderon realize that this is something far worse then simple monsters. The warriors of Onderon mount their flying war beasts in order to defend their city against the invaders.

As Mandalore approaches the city he thinks to himself that the Mandalorians will conquer the city before Ulic can finish his attack on Ossus, and demands that the city of Iziz surrender immediately. Knowing that Republic reinforcements are on their way and that they need only hold out until they get there, the warriors on Onderon refuse. Fortunately for them, the primitive technology of the beast-riders proves equal to the mechanical might of the Mandalorian war mounts. When the leader of the Onderon warriors tells Mandalore that he's no different from the monsters from the Dxun moon, Mandalore replies: "We are different. Very different-- For we shall conquer."

The sky battle between the Mandalorians and the beast riders rages on until finally the Republic reinforcements arrive and come pouring down. The Republic demands that the Mandalorians surrender, and informs them that their Lord Ulic Qel-Droma has been defeated.

"No--" Mandalore says. "Surrender is betrayal! We fight, we conquer, or we die!"

Though the Mandalorian warriors fight ruthlessly, the Republic fighters and the beast-riders heavily outgun them. Seeing his orbiting battleships destroyed and his troops decimated, Mandalore knows only one way that they might survive: "Warriors," he cries, "fall back to the Dxun moon! We can elude pursuit in the wild jungles there."

Flying through the crossing atmospheres over to Onderon's moon, many Mandalorians are shot down by the Republic, including Mandalore himself. He crashes onto the surface of Dxun where he is quickly surrounded by large, apparently ravenous monsters.

The other surviving Mandalorians search the jungles for their lost leader. One of them discovers his fallen mask and, knowing that tradition must continue, puts it on, saying: "Now I am the new Mandalore!"


 

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Reverend_Tegoth  296 posts
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Date Posted: 5/15/05 9:43pm Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide
Here are all the Mandalorian and Ghez Hokan references from the first 50 pages of Republic Commando: Hard Contact:

"Di'kut" probable Mandalorian insult.

"ner vod" probably Mandalorian for "my brother"

When we first see Ghez Hokan he is slapping around a Weequay lackey for wasting his time. He also does something to the Weequay that causes it to emit a "sort of incoherent animal sound that beings made when pain overwhelmed them."

"After a while he started singing very quietly, almost under his breath: Kom'rk tsad droten troch nyn ures adenn, Dha Werda Verda a'den tratu. They were the wrath of the warrior's shadow and the guantlet of the Republic; Niner knew the song. It was a traditional Mandalorian war chant, designed to boost the morale of normal men who needed a bit of psyching up before a fight. The words had been altered a bit to have meaning for the armies of clone warriors."

From the same war chant: "Gra'tua cuun hett su dralshy'a. Our vengeance burns brighter still."

The planet Qiilura is a technically neutral and filled with farming communities that produce valueable exports. Regardless the population lives at near subsistance level because Neimodian traders effectiviely own the planet. They enforce their stewardship through a militia controlled by Ghez Hokan - "a Mandalorian so unpleasantly violent that he was actually asked to leave the Death Squad (Reverend's Note - I believe that Karen has confirmed that this refers to the Death Watch) for enjoying his work too much." Currently a seperatist scientist is developing a nanovirus on Qiilura that will specifically target the clones. Omega squad, a team of Republic Commandos, have been ordered to destroy the nanovirus and capture the scientist.

They are also told that a Jedi Master Kast Fulier and his Padawan have already been sent there, but haven't been heard from in several days.

A Gurlanin shapeshifter known as Valaqil appears to recognize Fett's face when he sees the commandos unmasked.

"Atin" is Mandalorian for "stubborn"

Master Fulier's Padawan, Etain, is struggling to escape Qiilura with holoschematics that contain valuable intel. She is worried about her Master - worried that Hokan might have done something to him simply because he doesn't much care for Jedi. "Play warriors, he called them. He despised anyone who didn't fight with hard metal or their fists. Mandalorians were tough; but Hokan operated at a totally different level of brutality. Etain had realized that the moment she and Fulier had walked through what was left of a four-house village that must have displeased him in some way. She would never erase those images from her mind..."

"CLASSIFIED HIGHEST: ENCRYPTION ONLY

You're the best in your field - the best soldiers, tacticians, sappers, communicators, survival experts. I picked you personally because I want you to train the best commandos in the galaxy. You'll have everything you need, whatever you want, except one thing - home. This is a top-secret project. You'll not tell anyone where you're going and you'll not leave Kamino, ever. as far as your friends and family are concerned, you're already dead. - Jango Fett, recruiting his handpicked commando instructors, the Cuy'vul Dar - in the Mandalorian tongue, 'those who no longer exist'"

Ghez Hokan despised the Neimodians for their elaborate and wholly inappropriate granduer. He considered Lit Ankkit, his employer, to be both a bean-counting coward and a complete and utter di'kut. As he approaches Ankkit's villa Hokan carries his helmet under his arm and has his shatter gun, knives, and rope-spike provocatively visable on his belt. Hokan is in a hurry to get the meeting over with so ignores all the servants and minions and pauses only to flick a flower and inhale through parted lips the scent it sprays into the air.

Ankkit tells him that he has summoned him to check on the progress of Ghez's conversations with the Jedi. Hokan replies that if there had been any, he would have called Ankkit. "You haven't killed him, have you?" The Neimodian inquires. "I need to know if his activities will affect market prices."

"I'm not an amatuer." Hokan responds.

"But one has to do the best with the staff one has, yes?"

"I do my own dirty work, thanks. No, he isn't talking. He's rather... resistant for a Jedi."

When Hokan realizes that the Neimodian is looking down on him, he must resist an impulsive urge to cut Ankkit down to size. He knew that for all his height the Neimodian was soft and weak and that his only strength was in his bank account. When he blinks his passionless red eyes at Hokan, he almost reaches for his rope-spike.

"Have you confirmed that he has an associate?" Ankkit asks.

"He's a Jedi Master." Hokan says. "He was seen with a Padawan."

Ghez then thinks to himself that while Fulier couldn't have been good at calculating odds he was at least prepared to stand up for himself, despite all the soft mystical nonsense he spouted. "Hokan admired guts, even if he rarely tolerated them. They were always in short supply."

Ankkit tells Hokan to be sure to find the Padawan and find out what information Fulier has. Hokan, while having become practiced at controlling his urge to lash out, sees no reason to keep his mouth to the same standards. "If I succeed," he said, 'it'll be because I take pride in my work."

"You need the credits." Ankkit replies.

"For the time being. But one day, Ankkit, I won't need you at all."

"You must learn to accept your reduced station in the galactic order, Hokan. This is no longer the heirarchy of brute force in which your warrior ancestors thrived. Today we need to be soldiers of intellect and commerce, and no amount of strutting around in that museum-piece uniform will revive your... glorious past. Alas, even the great Jango Fett succumbed to a Jedi in the end."

Fett was a source of pride among the remaining handful of Mandalorians in diaspora - even if he fought for money, he was still the best. Ankkit knew how much his comment would sting, but Hokan was determined not to let that show on his face to prove it. Hokan had tried to keep it out of his mind while interrogating Fulier, because as much as he wanted to blame all Jedi for the humiliation of a cultural hero he had to be clear why he was smashing the Jedi's bones. Revenge was unprofessional.

"Do you keep gdans as pets, Ankkit? I hear some offworlders do try."

Ankkit replies that he does not.

"But if you did keep one, and didn't feed it well, would you be surprised if it bit you?"

Ankkit says that he supposes not.

"Then feed me well."

Having said that Hokan leaves without being dismissed, and quickly too, to avoid Ankkit being able to get the last word. As he put on his helmet Ghez thought to himself that he didn't care if Ankkit rented out the whole planet to Seperatist scientists - they weren't honorable enough to fight with real weapons either. They got bugs to do their work for them, which was a disgrace - it was unnatural.

Reaching into his blood-red jacket Hokan removes and examines Fulier's lightsaber. He thought to himself that it was surprisingly easy to activate, though he suspected that mastering it would be another matter. Hokan then used the blade to gracefully cut a tarmul hedge in half and thought: "The lightsaber wasn't bad for a soft Jedi weapon." He suspected that the lightsaber looked at odds with his traditional Mandalorian helmet and its distinctive T-shaped visor, but a warrior had to adapt and Fulier had questions to answer.



 

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KarenTraviss  2326 posts
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Date Posted: 5/16/05 2:04am Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide
<< Not only was the imagery hilarious (if a tad disturbing), >>

Yes, it messed with my mind too. I had to take some tablets.

I have to confess all this to Tim sooner or later. I hope he understands that I was defending his honour... grin

Enjoying the thread. If I don't comment, it just means that it's getting into spoiler detail territory for me.

But it's lovely to know that lots of other people are as Mando-ed out as I am. Some of my buddies are looking at me funny these days...

 

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Date Posted: 5/16/05 2:12am Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide - Date Edited: 5/16/05 2:23am (1 edits total) Edited By: KarenTraviss
<< Hokan is in a hurry to get the meeting over with so ignores all the servants and minions and pauses only to flick a flower and inhale through parted lips the scent it sprays into the air. >>

Only quibble - it's Ankkit who smells the flower, not Ghez:

"Qiilura's commercial overlord was watering pots of flowers on the windowsill. He paused to flick one with his fingertip and it sprayed a powerful, sickly scent into the air. He inhaled with parted lips."

Apologies - that was ambiguous in the context of the passage. and I failed to pick it up at copyedit stage.


(And I'm really sorry I had to have Ghez end up the way he did. I admired the guy.)

 

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Reverend_Tegoth  296 posts
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Date Posted: 5/16/05 2:18am Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide
I thought it was weird that Hokan smelled the flower "through parted lips."

I just thought there was some sort of "hard men don't sniff through their nose!" kind of thing going on there that, being only a semi-hard to kind-of-smooshy man myself, I didn't get tongue .

 

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Date Posted: 5/16/05 4:10am Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide - Date Edited: 5/16/05 4:11am (1 edits total) Edited By: KarenTraviss
Yeah - Neimies have those almost noseless faces that would mean they would have to inhale through their mouth to sniff something deeply. (Much as a wine taster does to get the full aroma of a glass exposed to as much of their palate as possible. A bit like Hannibal Lecter, actually...)

Ghez would have sneered at the plant, worked out if it was either edible or of any use as a weapon, and then ignored it.

 

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Reverend_Tegoth  296 posts
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Date Posted: 5/16/05 4:17am Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide
From the Star Wars Roleplaying Game Revised Core Rulebook:

Jango Fett

The bounty hunter Jango Fett is a resourceful, self-reliant man with few loyalties. The harsh lessons of life have taught him independence, and he learned early on that he is his own best ally and that no one else can be trusted - not his family, not his friends, and not the bounty hunters who taught him their profession.

Life on the frontier has honed his survival skills and hardened his heart. Jango starts out as an enforcer for a mining company. When he earns enough to buy passage offworld, he dreams of eventually collecting enough credits to purchase a remote, heavily defended fortress where he can retire away from the rest of the galaxy.

The young Jango learns the intricacies of his chosen trade from contacts all over the Outer Rim. Over time, his reputation grows. Jango eventually finds himself on the seedy Outland Transit Station, at the edge of Hutt space, where he meets the mysterious Tyranus. He is charged with a mission to locate and terminate the leader of a group of Force-using raiders, the Bando Gora. If Jango succeeds Tyranus promises him a staggering bounty of one million credits.

With the aid of the shapeshifting Bounty Hunter named Zam Wesell, Jango Fett fulfills the contract. Tyranus immediately offers the bounty hunter another million credits if he agrees to become the living template for an army of clones. Jango excepts, on the condition that the Kaminoan scientists first create a perfect duplicate of him - an artificially created son whom Jango names Boba.


 

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Date Posted: 5/16/05 4:25am Subject: RE: The Official Mandalorian Reference Guide - Date Edited: 5/16/05 4:25am (1 edits total) Edited By: Reverend_Tegoth
KarenTraviss said:

Yeah - Neimies have those almost noseless faces that would mean they would have to inhale through their mouth to sniff something deeply. (Much as a wine taster does to get the full aroma of a glass exposed to as much of their palate as possible. A bit like Hannibal Lecter, actually...)

That makes perfect sense, and I can even remember reading the book the first time and remarking upon how the Neimodian had to sniff that way due to an inconvenient lack of nostrils.

Somewhere between then and when I transcribed the passage I had forgotten that...


Ghez would have sneered at the plant, worked out if it was either edible or of any use as a weapon, and then ignored it.


I guess I just figured you were showing us a glipse of the more tender and loving side of Ghez Hokan tongue .

 

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