Chapter 1,294 The History and Traditions of the Mandalorians [Happy New Years Day, Everyone!!]
1294, Mandalorian History and Traditions
[The plot of the planet Mandalore is about to begin. This two-in-one chapter mainly gives you a popular science introduction to the origin and culture of the planet Mandalore and the Mandalorians. After reading this, you can go and watch "The Mandalorian"
You may have many new experiences through this drama.】
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Mandalore, a remote but legendary planet in the galaxy...
Mandalorians, a legendary race in the galaxy...
In the galaxy, almost everyone knows the reputation of the Mandalorians. Whenever the Mandalorians are 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 science and technology, the addition of electronic imaging technology and various sensor technologies, this T-shaped gap
The gap still remains on the Mandalorian's helmet, which seems to be their symbol.
In fact, this is indeed the case.
The Mandalorians are a very traditional race, and they do have very ancient traditions.
Few people know that the ancestors of the Mandalorians actually came from Coruscant, and also few people know that the Mandalorians were not actually a widespread human race that now appears in the galaxy.
Before the current historical records, the planet Coruscant was not completely ruled by humans. At that time, there were two major racial forces on Coruscant - the Philosophers (The Zhell), composed of thirteen human tribes, and the brave and capable human beings.
The Taungs.
Tao Ren'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. However, Tao Ren's mouth is normal, not the four-petal mouth of the Predator.
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There was a protracted war between the Philosophers and the Taos for control of the planet Coruscant.
During the war, a devastating volcanic eruption destroyed almost all the settlements of the philosophers and almost wiped out the philosophers. The Tao people once thought they had won the war because the volcanic ash that covered the sky covered the sky.
, so the Tao people began to call themselves Dha Werda Verda from that time on, which in the Tao people's language means 'son of the shadow'.
And Dha Werda Verda has also become an epic poem sung by Tao people from generation to generation and continues to be passed down.
But the resilience of human beings is beyond imagination. After surviving in the underground world for several years, the philosopher made a comeback and defeated the Tao people in one fell swoop with a more tenacious and powerful attitude.
The Tao people, who were almost slaughtered and about to be exterminated, had no choice but to leave Coruscant and wander towards the edge of the galaxy.
The philosopher also officially became the master of the planet Coruscant. The 13 human tribes spread out and brought their culture, technology and genes to every corner of the galaxy, thereby establishing the dominant position of the human race in the galaxy.
.But there is no need to say more about this.
Many of the Tao people who escaped from Coruscant and wandered around settled on the planet Loon in the Outer Rim.
However, the environment of the planet Loon was very harsh, and it was difficult for the Tao people to even survive, let alone develop and grow. This situation remained until much later, when a Tao ruler named Mandalore I came to power.
Got changed.
After persistent exploration and search, Mandalorian I finally found a livable planet in the outer star area of the northeastern part of the Milky Way. There is no intelligent race on this planet, only a huge dragon-shaped creature survives.
it's here.
So Mandalore I led his own tribe to immigrate to this planet, settle here, and after a long period of reproduction and expansion, finally brought the planet completely under his control.
At this time, time has come to 7,000 years ago, and the 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 philosophers and the Tao people in ancient times, the winning and losing sides were as different as each other.
In order to commemorate the great leader Mandalore I, future generations named this planet Mandalore. After that, all the Tao leaders called themselves 'Mandalor'.
In the language of the Tao people, this means 'the only ruler'.
Other people called themselves Mandalorians, or Mando'ade, which means the sons and daughters of Mandalore. From this time on, the name Mandalorians became official.
begin to exist.
And because the helmet worn by Mandalorian I had a T-shaped gap, this design was also used by subsequent Mandalores.
These are all tributes to Mandalore I, because without him leading the Tao people to settle on the planet Mandalore, the Tao people who were lingering on the planet of Loon would have ended up being buried in the long river of history.
At that time, the Mandalorians who had established a foothold on the planet Mandalore were an alliance composed of a large number of warlord clans. In order to snatch limited resources and living space, the Mandalorians began to actively expand outwards.
Martial Mandalorian warriors wear sturdy armor and wield powerful weapons, making them invincible in every battle.
Initially, the expansion war of the Mandalorians 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, the Nievota (a). There are not many records left about this race, but it is likely that they are a descendant of the Killik swarm that ruled the galaxy for thousands of years.
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In about 4024 BBY, a tragic war broke out between the Mandalorians and the Nievotas. Faced with the invasion of the Mandalorians, the bloodthirsty Nievotas attacked the Mandalorians with almost overwhelming power.
Launched an attack.
The Nivotans were almost a hundred times more numerous than the Mandalorians, and they were tireless and fearless of death, causing extremely heavy losses to the previously invincible Mandalorians.
The war lasted for three years and ended with the Mandalorians winning a great victory and the Nievota people being exterminated.
But the price of this victory was very high. The population of the Mandalorians dropped sharply, and they had to temporarily recuperate. And because the process of the war was so bloody and cruel, those Mandalorians who survived believed that they were
It was because of God's blessing that we finally won.
As a result, such an image of a god evolved from war began to appear in the minds of the Mandalorians. 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.
As a result, Kad Ha'rangir, the God of Destruction, came into being. In fact, the image of Kad Ha'rangir comes largely from the man who led Mandalore 3,000 years ago.
People came to Mandalore I on the planet Mandalore.
There are pros and cons. The Mandalorians also created another evil god, the god of sloth, Arasuum. He is the old enemy of Kader Harangir, the god of destruction, and is an evil who lures people towards laziness.
exist.
After this, the Mandalorians will hold rituals before going out to fight, trying to gain the power of Kader Harangir, the god of destruction, and repel the temptation of Arathum, the god of sloth.
From then on, the Mandalorian warriors called themselves the "Mandalorian Crusader", and their armor was also called the "Crusader Armor".
The Crusader armor on each soldier is different, and their own personality is also displayed on the armor. Mandalorians often like to install parts of powerful enemies they have killed as totems on their own armor, as their own
It is a symbol of being blessed by the God of Destruction, and they also believe that such a totem can help repel the temptation of the God of Sloth.
That's why in the episodes of "The Mandalorian", we can see that Mandalorians have an almost paranoid worship of their own armor. This is the reason.
It was also from this period that the Mandalorians' external expansion wars 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 hostile races of the Mandalorians all ended in genocide, but after that, a very small number of powerful ones began to appear.
The race was recognized by the Mandalorians during the war, and they themselves also accepted the religion and culture of the Mandalorians, thus becoming another race besides the Tao race.
A more typical example is the giant race on the planet Mandalia.
Around 4000 BBY, the leader of the Mandalorians was ruled by a Tao named Mandalorian-Invincible. Mandalorian-Invincible became more crazy and cruel. Under his rule, the Mandalorian Crusade expanded.
The pace is getting faster and faster, and it is pointing directly at the inner ring and core circle of the Milky Way.
It was also at this time that the Mandalorians had small-scale contact with the Galactic Republic for the first time, and both sides became aware of each other's existence.
However, at the same time, the Sith Empire, which was also undergoing expansion activities, also had preliminary contact with the Mandalorians.
The core of the Sith Empire, the planet Korriban, is also generally located in the northeast of the Milky Way, but the planet is even more remote, even close to the edge of the Milky Way.
Therefore, as the Mandalorian and the Sith Empire continued to expand, exchanges between them gradually began.
The powerful Sith Lords of the Sith Empire admired the powerful Mandalorian Crusaders very much and wanted to incorporate them into their own army.
So the Sith Lord Ulic Quel-Droma (Ulia), the creator of the Dark Reaper, started a duel with Mandalore. He defeated Mandalore with overwhelming power.
, and Mandalore was impressed by his power and was willing to form an alliance with the Sith Empire.
This was the establishment of the first Sith-Mandalorian Alliance.
It was also at the same time that the Mandalorians 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 used the Force.
After the Sith-Mandalorian Alliance was established, the Sith Lords Ulic Quel-Droma and Exar Kun became the commanders of the Mandalorian army, and they immediately began to attack the Galactic Republic
war operations.
I won’t go into detail about the course of the war. Even with the help of the Mandalorian Crusaders, the Sith Empire still has a huge power gap compared to the Galactic Republic, which has occupied the most prosperous and wealthy region of the galaxy for 21,000 years.
The result of the war was a disastrous defeat.
During the war, the entire Mandalorian Crusaders were destroyed, and almost all of them, including their leader Mandalore, died in a foreign land.
At this time, a surviving Mandalorian warrior found the body of leader Mandalore in the sea of blood and corpses on the battlefield, took off his helmet, and brought it back to the planet Mandalore.
The warrior put on Mandalore's helmet and was recognized by the tribes of Mandalore as the new leader. He called himself the 'Ultimate Mandalore' (Maimate), and this title later replaced Mandalore.
Darlo, became the title of the leader of the Mandalorians.
Somewhat ironically, the first Ultimate Mandalorian was a human. In a structure where the Tao people accounted for almost 99% of the Mandalorians, he, a human who accepted the way of Mandalore, was
The rare among the rare.
In fact, the fallen Tao people could not stop a human like him.
In the following time, the Ultimate Mandalorian stopped all external expansion activities and concentrated on developing the economy and recuperating, so that the war-torn Mandalorians could once again prosper.
Because in this war, the Tao people, the main race of the Mandalorians, almost all their younger generations were killed or injured, and this race also began to decline.
The Ultimate Mandalorian was also very open-minded. He relaxed the restrictions of the Mandalorians and began to widely recruit and accept people from other races to join the Mandalorian family. It was also from this era that
, Mandalorian is no longer a title for Tao people, but a collective name for all people who have accepted the way of 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 Mandalorians who advocate war, worship the strong, and worship the God of Destruction, Kader Harangir, as their god.
This very enlightened Ultimate Mandalore was actually technically a Tao. In the long history of the Mandalorians, he, like Mandalorian I, was one of the few great men remembered for non-war factors. What he made
A series of reform measures actually laid the cultural foundation for the subsequent Mandalorians.
His most trusted confidant is the great strategist Cassus Fett, who is also a human. He also proposed a series of reforms, one of which was to rebuild the Mandalorian Crusade and unify the Mandalorian Crusade.
Darro Crusader Armor.
The armor of the rebuilt New Mandalorian Crusaders has been redesigned and adopts a similar appearance to the legendary God of Destruction, Kader 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 were no longer exclusive to Mandalore as the ruler, but became a symbol of all Mandalorians.
