1294. The history and tradition of the Mandalorian
[The plot of Mandalore is about to begin. This two-in-one chapter mainly introduces the origin and culture of Mandalore and the Mandalorian. After watching it, you may go and watch the drama "The Mandalorian", and you may have many new experiences.]
Mandalore (Mandalore), a remote but legendary planet in the galaxy...
The Mandalorian (Mandalorians), a legendary race in the galaxy...
In the galaxy, almost everyone knows the reputation of the Mandalorian. Whenever the Mandalorian is mentioned, people will always think of the brave and capable mercenaries and their iconic armors.
The Mandalorian's armor is very unique and very retro. On the full-coverage helmet, there is a T-shaped gap for sight and breathing. Even with the development of technology and the addition of electronic imaging technology and various sensor technologies, this T-shaped gap still remains on the Mandalorian helmet, which seems to be their logo.
In fact, this is indeed the case.
The Mandalorian is a very traditional race, and they do have very ancient traditions.
Few people know that the ancestor of the Mandalorian actually comes from Coruscant, and few people know that the Mandalorian was actually not the Human race that is now widely seen in the Milky Way.
Prior to current recorded history, Coruscant was not completely ruled by humans. At that time, there were two major racial forces on Coruscant - the Zhell (The Zhell), composed of thirteen human tribes, and the brave and capable humanoid race Taung (The Taungs).
Taung's style and appearance are quite fierce. In fact, to a certain extent, he is very similar to the Predator we are familiar with, both in culture and appearance, except that Taung's mouth is normal, not the four-petal mouth of the Predator. [Easter Egg Chapter Attached Picture 1]
There was a protracted war between the Zhell and Taung to compete for control of Coruscant.
During the course of the war, due to a devastating volcanic eruption, almost all the settlements of the Zhell were destroyed, and the Zhell was almost completely wiped out. Taung once thought that he had won the war because the volcanic ash that covered the sky covered the sky, so from that time on, Taung called himself Dha Werda Verda. In the language of Taung, this means 'Children of the Shadow'.
And Dha Werda Verda has also become an epic sung by Taung from generation to generation and continues to be passed down.
But human resilience is beyond imagination. After living in the underground world for several years, the Zhell made a comeback and defeated Taung in one fell swoop with a tougher and more powerful attitude.
Taung, who was almost slaughtered and about to be exterminated, had no choice but to leave Coruscant and wander toward the edge of the galaxy.
And the Zhell has officially become the owner of Coruscant. The 13 human tribes spread out and brought their culture, technology and genes to every corner of the galaxy, thus establishing Human race's dominant position in the galaxy. But there is no need to say more about this.
Many of the Taung who escaped from Coruscant and wandered around settled on Roon of Outer Rim.
But the environment of Roon is very harsh, and it is difficult for Taung to even survive, let alone develop and grow. This situation did not change until much later, when a Taung ruler named Mandalore the First came to power.
After persistent exploration and search, Mandalore the First finally found a livable planet in Outer Rim Territories of Northeastern sector of the galaxy. There is no intelligent race on this planet, only a huge dragon-shaped creature living here.
So Mandalore the First led his own tribe to immigrate to this planet, settle here, and after a long period of reproduction and expansion, finally brought this planet completely under his control.
At this time, time has come to 7,000 years ago, and Galactic Republic has been established for more than 18,000 years.
One side has become a homeless dog with no fixed place to live, while the other side has grown and expanded its power to the entire galaxy. In the war between the Zhell and Taung in ancient times, the winner and loser were as different as each other.
In order to commemorate the great leader Mandalore the First, future generations named this planet Mandalore. After that, all Taung leaders called themselves 'Mand'alor' (Mand'alor). In the language of Taung, this means 'The Sole Ruler'.
The other people call themselves the Mandalorian (Mandalorians), or Mando'ade (Mando'ade), which means Sons and Daughters of Mandalore. From this time on, the title the Mandalorian officially began to exist.
And because the helmet worn by Mandalore the First had a T-shaped gap, this design was also used by the subsequent Mand'alor.
These are all tributes to Mandalore the First, because without him to lead Taung to settle in Mandalore, Taung, which is lingering in Roon, would ultimately end up being buried in the long river of history.
At that time, the Mandalorian, which had a firm foothold in Mandalore, was an alliance composed of a large number of warlord clans. In order to seize limited resources and living space, the Mandalorian began to actively expand outwards.
The martial Mandalorian warriors wears strong armor and holds powerful weapons, making him invincible.
Initially, the expansion war of the Mandalorian was just an act of expansion. They expanded their power to several surrounding galaxies, and this expansion lasted for nearly 3,000 years.
It was not until later that they encountered an insectoid race, Nevoota (Nevoota). There are not many records left about this race, but this is likely to be a descendant of Kilik Swarm, which ruled the galaxy for thousands of years.
Around 4024BBY, a tragic war broke out between the Mandalorian and Nevoota. Facing the invasion of the Mandalorian, the bloodthirsty Nevoota launched an attack on the Mandalorian with almost overwhelming power.
The number of Nevoota is almost a hundred times that of the Mandalorian, and they are tireless and fearless of death, causing extremely heavy losses to the previously invincible the Mandalorian.
The war lasted for three years and ended with the Mandalorian winning a great victory and Nevoota being exterminated.
But the price of this victory was very high. The Mandalorian's population dropped sharply and they had to temporarily recuperate. And because the course of the war was so bloody and cruel, those the Mandalorian who survived believed that they finally won the victory because of God's blessing.
So such an image of a god evolved from war began to appear in the Mandalorian's mind. This image was embodied into the image of a mighty warrior wearing heavy armor and a helmet with a T-shaped slit on his head.
Thus, God of Destruction Kad Ha'rangir came into being. In fact, the image of Card Harangir comes largely from Mandalore the First, who led the Mandalorian to Mandalore 3,000 years ago.
There are positives and negatives. The Mandalorian also created another evil god, Arasuum, God of Laziness (Arasuum). He is the old enemy of God of Destruction Card-Harangir, an evil existence that lures people towards laziness.
After that, the Mandalorian will hold a ceremony before going out to fight, trying to obtain the power of God of Destruction Card-Harangir, and repel the temptation of Arasuum, God of Laziness.
From then on, the warriors of the Mandalorian called themselves "Mandalorian Crusaders" (Mandalorian Crusader), and their armor was also called "Crusader Armor" (Crusader Armor).
Crusader Armor is different on every soldier, and their own personality is also displayed on the armor. The Mandalorian often likes to install a part of the powerful enemy they have killed as a totem on their armor as a symbol of being blessed by God of Destruction. At the same time, they also believe that such a totem can help repel the temptation of the God of Sloth.
Therefore, in the episode "The Mandalorian", we can see that the Mandalorian has an almost paranoid worship of his armor. This is the reason.
It was also from this period that the Mandalorian's external expansion war began to take on a very strong religious character, and at the same time there was also a hint of romanticism.
The spread and assimilation of religion also began to take effect. In the previous expansion wars, the Mandalorian's hostile races all ended in genocide without exception. However, after that, a very small number of powerful races began to be recognized by the Mandalorian during the war. At the same time, they themselves accepted the Mandalorian's religion and culture, thus becoming the Mandalorian and other races besides Taung.
The more typical one is the giant race of Mandaloria.
Around 4000 BBY, the leader of the Mandalorian was ruled by Taung named Mand'alor-the Invincible. Mand'alor-The Invincible is even more crazy and cruel. Under his rule, Mandalorian Crusaders is expanding faster and faster, and is directly targeting Inner Rim of the galaxy and Core Worlds.
It was also at this time that the Mandalorian had small-scale contact with Galactic Republic for the first time, and both parties also knew about each other's existence.
However, at the same time, Sith Empire, who was also conducting expansion activities, also had preliminary contact with the Mandalorian.
The general direction of Planet Korriban, the core of the Sith Empire, is also in Northeastern sector of the galaxy, but Planet Korriban is more remote, even close to the edge of the Milky Way.
Therefore, with the continuous expansion of both the Mandalorian and Sith Empire, the exchanges between them gradually began.
Sith Empire The powerful Sith Lord admires the powerful Mandalorian Crusaders very much and wants to incorporate them into his army.
Therefore, Sith Lord Ulic-Qel-Djoma (Ulic Qel-Droma), the maker of Dark Reaper, started a duel with that Mand'alor. He defeated Mand'alor with overwhelming power, and Mand'alor was impressed by his power and was willing to form an alliance with the Sith Empire.
This is the establishment of the first Sith-Mand'alor alliance.
At the same time, the Mandalorian saw the power of the Force for the first time. Some of them began to extensively study the mysteries of the Force and how to defeat those powerful warriors who use the Force.
After the Sith-Mand'alor alliance was established, Sith Lord Ulic-Qel-Djoma and Exar-Kun became Commander in the Mandalorian army, and they immediately began war operations against Galactic Republic.
I won't go into detail about the process of the war. Even if Sith Empire received help from Mandalorian Crusaders, there is still a huge gap in strength compared to Galactic Republic, which has occupied the most prosperous and rich area of the galaxy for 21,000 years.
The result of the war was a disastrous defeat.
During the war, Mandalorian Crusaders's entire army was destroyed, and almost all of them, including their leader Mand'alor, died in a foreign land.
At this time, a surviving Mandalorian warrior found the body of leader Mand'alor in the sea of blood and corpses on the battlefield, took off his helmet, and brought it back to Mandalore.
This warrior put on the helmet of Mand'alor, and was recognized by the tribes of Mandalore, becoming the new leader. He called himself 'Mandalore the Ultimate' (Mandalore the Ultimate), and this title later replaced Mand'alor and became the title of the leader the Mandalorian.
Somewhat ironically, this first Mandalore the Ultimate is a human being. In the structure where Taung accounts for almost 99% of the number of the Mandalorian, a human being like him who accepted Way of the Mandalore is a rare among rare.
In fact, Taung, who has already declined, cannot stop a human like him.
In the following time, this Mandalore the Ultimate stopped all external expansion actions and concentrated on developing the economy and recuperating, so that the war-torn the Mandalorian could once again prosper.
Because in this war, the most important race of the Mandalorian, Taung, almost all their younger generations were killed and injured, and this race also began to decline.
And this Mandalore the Ultimate was also very open-minded. He let go of the restrictions of the Mandalorian and began to extensively recruit and accept people of other races to join the Mandalorian family. It was also from this era that the Mandalorian was no longer a title for Taung, but a collective name for all those who accepted Way of the Mandalore.
In the episodes of "The Mandalorian", those people who always say "This is the way" (this is the right way) refer to this thing.
If I want to be more specific, This is the way is the religious idea of the Mandalorian that advocates war, worships the strong, and worships God of Destruction Card-Harangir as a god.
This very enlightened Mandalore the Ultimate is actually strictly speaking Taung-the Mandalorian. In the long history, like Mandalore the First, he is one of the few great men who is remembered for non-war factors. The series of reform measures he made actually laid the cultural foundation for the later the Mandalorian.
His most trusted confidant is Grand Strategist Cassus-Fett (Cassus Fett), who is also a human. He also proposed a series of reforms, one of which was to rebuild Mandalorian Crusaders and unify Mandalorian Crusaders armor.
The armor of the rebuilt New Mandalorian Crusaders has been redesigned and adopts a similar shape to the legendary God of Destruction Card-Harangir. The most conspicuous one is the T-shaped helmet gap.
From this time on, the T-shaped helmet gap and this unified armor style are no longer exclusive to Mand'alor as the ruler, but have become symbols of all the Mandalorian.
There is a lot of information to be found in this chapter, so the update is a bit late. It's New Year's Eve... Please forgive me...