What Is the Mando Culture? (Page 2 of 3)

hmmm. something i noticed, is that Kad means "saber" and Kal means "knife". they have the same first two letters. wonder if KT meant to do that? sorry, a bit off topic

Yeah that is understandable but there are many different military cultures in the world that just arent as well known, but the celts where my biggest connection especially after KT connected them,  mainly because they held off the romans, and then married them
and then the dance that KT has the clones doing in Triple 0 is reminiscent of the Maoi Haka

The Old Mando's did  fight for honor and glory, the ones that do that now will drop it all if they are told to By mandalore

Where'd you get most of this info?  Sounds like stuff I want to be reading   

The Mandalorian Wars Mando's did activly seek war, though.  It's pretty obvious when you listen to Canderous talk about it.  And they did it as a whole, not peicemeal like most later Mandos  *Jango/Boba/others randomly looking for money through violence.....IF that's what they were doing; but that's a different debate*

Thanks, I really need to get those

See i dont find the Legacy books to be confusing, they make more sense if you read the Dark Nest Trilogy first

well not so much NJO because it explains things well in legacy as far as that goes

yeah, but a couple of NJO deaths are shockers, or ruin the actual experience. more spoilers than anything.

With KT's RepCom series *possibly* complete and the new sources of information coming from the *gag* Clone Wars TV series, seems like a good time to bring this thread back to life.

Has anybody changed their idea of what the Mando culture is?  Do any of the new members have a different idea?  Just curious if theres any new thoughts swirling around out there

Are the stats set up by KT really being totally thrown aside?  I thought there were several million people who claimed to be Mandalorian in belief or liniage, both on Mandalore and spread across the galaxy.

The more I hear the more it sounds like the pacifists and a hand full of Death Watch are about the only "Mandos" left period

i agree here, after every major defeat the mando's would do Ba'slan shev'la. translated Strategic disappearance according to KT, and every source ive seen said the same time they disappear and regroup and fight again, which after jango's encounter with the deathwatch a Ba'slan Shev'la would be fitting in my opinion, so a pacifists taking power would make sense because there was no one else since the death watch seems to operate more in the merc aspect. correct me if im wrong please because im not well versed in pre-clone war's mando history, but with the  end of the clone wars it and with the attempts of Fenn Shysa i can see the more acceptable mando's reemerging

This question is one of the original reasons I started this thread.  Despite all the love I've heard expressed for the True Mandalorians and the utter hate and dispise I've heard said about the Death Watch *most of which is driven by KT and her work*, I can honestly say I am not really sure what the difference is between the two factions, or which one I would more closely align with for that matter.

My original version of the two was based on source material like Wiki and my copy of SW: The New Essential Chronology.  The Chronology states:

"Following the Mandalorians' extinction of the Ithulians a century and a half earlier, some clan members had expressed a desire to shed the amoral ways of the "Mandalorian Mercs."  Eventually, the charismatic Jaster Mereel came to lead the clans as Mandalore, and set down an idealistic code of conduct in the Supercommando Codex.  A Mandalorian named Vizsla attracted followers fond of the old ways, who formed the Death Watch faction.  Armed conflect broke out approximately 60 B.B.Y."

My original interpretation of this passage was that Jaster and the True Mandalorians were tired of the ways of the aimless mercenary lifestyle and wanted to return to the era of Revan; the Honor bound crusaders who sought glory in battle at the expense of the rest of the galaxy.  KT's *and everybody elses for that matter* interpretation seems to have been the reverse.  Probably my fault for never having actually seen the original material, but that's where I was coming from

Therefore, if the type of Mando I just described above is more like a Death Watch then a True, *and I hope I don't get banned from the site for admitting this*, I might have to say that I'd be more in line with them than Jaster's/Jango's ideals. 

But that being said, from what I've heard Vizsla and her companions didn't live up to their own ideals; they were back-stabbers and merciless raiders rather then honor bound crusaders on any level.  I think my ideal Mando that I originally believed was the True Mandalorians is actually some mixture of the two groups... mine only exists within my own characters, and not actually existing any more in current canon *the only ones we had were the KotOR era Mandos.* 

Things have become so poluted with new material that it's hard to say exactly what either group is anymore, especially with the Death Watch being written for again in the TV show.  Does anybody think they have the most current and up to date version of what each group was/is?  And what it was that made them so different that it caused a civil war?