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OK, so here's an idea for a thread:

Do you ever get into a discussion about something on these boards with someone, and you find it really interesting, but you feel bad about carrying it on because you're derailing the OP's thread?

Cause I find that all the time. Especially when something starts off as a rules discussion and goes off into finer points of Star Wars lore.

So I thought, why not make a thread that can never go off topic, because there is no topic? A place to just enjoy debating all anything and everything tangentially related to Star Wars and the Star Wars roleplaying game.

Think of something you want to raise? Raise it! Got a good discussion going in another thread that's off-topic? Bring it over here!

There's only one rule - no criticism of people, only criticism of statements. Attack the argument, not the man (or woman, as the case may be).

Any questions?

Well, I don't know officially, but here's what I think:

Why not all of those things?

I mean, we're talking about a multi-planetary, multi-species culture that spans thousands of years. Sometimes the warrior thing was dominant, sometimes the pacifists took over as a generational reaction to the warrior thing.

Maybe the polished cubic ecumenopolis is the home of the peaceful Mandos, and the militant ones go and live on frontier farms because they hate the whole lawful vibe.

Maybe the pacifists hated the fact that everyone else in the galaxy saw the armoured fighter as the "typical" Mandalorian so much that they put a lot of work into outlawing that aspect of their culture.

But I would say that Jango was definitely Mandalore... of the "True Mandalorians", the faction split off to become mercenaries when the pacifists started running things. When he became a notorious bounty hunter the Mandalorian government made sure to put out the word that he wasn't really a Mando.

So yeah, I say, in this instance, bring on the inconsistencies. It's finally given the Mandalorians some depth, and actually made their history richer.

Apr 6, 2011 -- 1:10PM, RobShanti wrote:

What in blazes is the story now with Mandalorians?

I say that the Clone Wars series version goes.  It is the most recent (newer typically overrules), it is considered a higher-level source by the holocron system (T-level, not C like all other Mando sources), and Lucas is involved in the cartoon. 

Apr 6, 2011 -- 1:32PM, Jedi_Comedian wrote:

So yeah, I say, in this instance, bring on the inconsistencies. It's finally given the Mandalorians some depth, and actually made their history richer.

If it was presented this way, as two parts of the same group, maybe this would work.  Otherwise inconsistencies like this don't add depth to Star Wars, they just make the EU even less sensical.  What you have is a fandom explaination, which doesn't really mean much.  Unless you can get future authors to play by that, it is worthless.

As far as the Mandalorians of the cartoon go... Whatever happened to death watch? For that matter, what happened to Aurra Sing and Slave I? (And btw, why was it ever called Slave I in the first place? Usually you start numbering things with the second one...)

Bottom line, Season 2 left us with a lot of good potential stuff for Season 3, none of which actually got used.

But anyway, I'd say Jango was definitely not Mandalore. Going back to the old days, Boba Fett was described as a bounty hunter who wore armor similar to that worn by a group of evil warriors who were defeated by the Jedi during the Clone Wars. The evil warriors would presumably be the Mandalorians (or at least the death watch faction). Boba and by extension Jango were never affiliated with them, they just used similar tech. In that sense, the new cartoon continuity is simply a better reflection of Lucas' original idea than the standard EU stuff.

Apr 6, 2011 -- 2:26PM, fairytalejedi wrote:

(And btw, why was it ever called Slave I in the first place? Usually you start numbering things with the second one...)

They also number when you make/buy batches.  So if they had 3 ships all at once they'd name then Slave I, Slave II, and Slave III.  I don't know if that's the case here of course but it is one way it could happen.