1297, Duchess Satine
The Galidrong Campaign marked the turning point at which the Jedi Order fell from its transcendent position as guardians of the Milky Way Galaxy and became a political tool of the Galactic Republic. This battle took place in 44BBY, twelve years before the Battle of Naboo, or nine years before Tang Xiao arrived in this world.
The course of the campaign itself was actually very simple—within Mandalorian-controlled territory, Galidrong's governor had long been secretly sheltering and supporting Death Watch. At the time, the civil war between the True Mandalorians and Death Watch had been escalating. Having lost public support, Death Watch suffered defeat after defeat and could no longer withstand the True Mandalorians' attacks.
So Galidrong's governor devised a conspiracy, one that also dragged the Jedi Order into it.
In fact, during the civil war between the True Mandalorians and Death Watch, Death Watch had sturdy Beskar steel armor, and the True Mandalorians had it too; Death Watch had superb combat skills and battle-hardened warriors, and the True Mandalorians had those too. However, as inheritors of Mandalorian tradition, the True Mandalorians enjoyed widespread support for their honor and heritage. Death Watch, which knew only smashing, looting, murder, and arson, had no support at all.
Thus, the civil war should originally have ended with Death Watch being driven out and destroyed. The True Mandalorians had nearly achieved that. They had already forced Death Watch into a desperate corner, but then things changed.
Galidrong's governor first publicly declared that a rebellion had broken out within his territory and asked the True Mandalorians to come deal with it. Jango Fett therefore led the True Mandalorians' elite forces to suppress the rebellion.
It was a planetary-level contract. The already small True Mandalorian force naturally deployed in full, and Jango Fett also