.:Sam:. Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Simple question, quite eager to find out. ~ .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Down Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Duh, ofcourse! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inyri Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 You'd have to ask him. It was never stated in the films whether either Jango or Boba Fett considered themselves Mandalorians (obviously wearing armor means nothing -- just remember Jodo Kast the imposter ). As I recall Boba actually resurrected the Mandalorian ideals somewhere in the EU, but part of me wants to say that neither he nor Jango initially intended that. I think I remember reading somewhere that the armor was just kind of an aesthetic choice, potentially to strike fear into their enemies/marks. Since I have no source for this I (and you) should consider it speculation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.:Sam:. Posted April 7, 2008 Author Share Posted April 7, 2008 A thought stirred to me. If Jango Fett is in fact, however not confirmed, a Mandalorian it means the Grand Army of the Republic is also Mandalorian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inyri Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Well that certainly isn't true. By Jango's time, the Mandalorian race was long gone (IIRC it was even long gone by KotOR's time), so it was mostly a recruitment thing (random folks saying 'hey, I want to be a Mandalorian'). In fact I'm fairly certain there weren't really any Mandalorians left at that time in history. So the clones would have had to decide to be Mandalorians, which, being mindless clones, they really couldn't have. After all, you wouldn't say someone is born a Democrat, would you? It's a choice, not a birthright (or a cloneright, I guess!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Fett Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 If you've played the game Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, you should know this already, but Jango is not Mandalorian by blood, though he was raised by a Mandalorian called Jaster Mereel. Therefore, he grew up as a Mandalorian, though was not actually one of them through birth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miltiades Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 So the clones would have had to decide to be Mandalorians, which, being mindless clones, they really couldn't have. Some clones, such as a lot of the normal Clone Troopers and Omega Squad consider themselves Mandalorians, while others, like Delta Squad, don't. Most got raised as Mandalorians by the sergeants, such as Kal Skirata, which considered themselves Mandalorians (as in Mandalorian Canderous Ordo - not the race, of course). That's what I gathered from the Republic Commando novels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Skywalker Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 If you've played the game Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, you should know this already, but Jango is not Mandalorian by blood, though he was raised by a Mandalorian called Jaster Mereel. Therefore, he grew up as a Mandalorian, though was not actually one of them through birth. Yeah, but, what about Cassus Fett? He's appearing lately in the KOTOR comics and his armor and gun are available in the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamqd Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 To be Mandalorian hasn't meant the race since the Mandalorian Wars, but yes Jango was an adopted Mando from a child, and lead a group of Mandalorians in the Mandalorian Civil War Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greggomonkey Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 in kotor there are no actuall mandos there are just the ones that are recruited and become a "mandalorian" the actual mandos died out years before the kotor saga began. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamqd Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 they are Real Mando's in Tales of the Jedi: Knights of the Old Republic, well The Sith War to be exact Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD-Rom Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 He's a Mandalorian...sort of. He was trained and raised in the Mandalorian way, I think, but he's obviously not of the Mandalorian species, no. Those died out millenia ago (from Jango Fett's timeline). Pretty much the only things left of the original Mandos are their traditions, lifestyle, code, and the honor associated with it. And their iron. And their obssession with T-shaped visors and big machines. And their awesomeness, don't forget that. So basically, just like the Sith, the Mandos themselves seem to have disappeared from the galaxy, but left behind, apparently, everything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miltiades Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 in kotor there are no actuall mandos there are just the ones that are recruited and become a "mandalorian" the actual mandos died out years before the kotor saga began. I'm not sure if they really died out. Mandalore the Ultimate, being a real Mandalorian himself, recruited outsiders into the Mandalorian ranks because the original Mandalorians were few. So chances are, the real Mandalorians were still alive at the time of KotOR, but they became extinct eventually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astor Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 I think Canderous *might* have been a 'real' Mandalorian... When you talk to him at one point in K1, he says 'I've been fighting in your galaxy for 50 of your years'. Although, that could just be a cultural time difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miltiades Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 I think Canderous *might* have been a 'real' Mandalorian... Uh... Canderous is human. The original Mandalorians were a species called the Taung. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astor Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Ah yes, you are right. I looked it up. I'm not overly familiar with things pre-KOTOR. I was just highlighting that the sentence sounded strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD-Rom Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 I think Canderous *might* have been a 'real' Mandalorian... When you talk to him at one point in K1, he says 'I've been fighting in your galaxy for 50 of your years'. Although, that could just be a cultural time difference. Probably, since he was raised as a Mandalorian, or else he would've looked like a Predator look-alike or even a hybrid, which raises some questions as to whether the Mandos are creatures from another galaxy altogether who just happened to find a hyperspace route a long time ago, leading to a galaxy far, far away... Edit: Damn, somebody already answered this while I was typing! Oh well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miltiades Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 I was just highlighting that the sentence sounded strange. He must've been fighting for something else before the joined Mandalorians. The line 'In your Galaxy' probably means, within the borders of Republic space or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jvstice Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 According to the Karen Travis Republic Commando books, being mandalorian has nothing to do with genetic identity and everything to do with cultural identification and adherence to the mandalorian way of seeing the world anyway. Mandalorians "adopt" people into their way of life all the time. Remember Mira from Kotor 2 and the converssations about her childhood. If she saw herself as mandalorian after she had that upbringing, she would be one. So I'd say it's a pretty good bet that Jango and Boba Fett were mandalorian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miltiades Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 According to the Karen Travis Republic Commando books, being mandalorian has nothing to do with genetic identity and everything to do with cultural identification and adherence to the mandalorian way of seeing the world anyway. Mandalorians "adopt" people into their way of life all the time. Remember Mira from Kotor 2 and the converssations about her childhood. If she saw herself as mandalorian after she had that upbringing, she would be one. At that time, yes. It was different 4,000 years ago. But from the Mandalorian Wars onwards, it's how you describe it, yes. Jango & Boba are therefore Mandalorians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DraakStraal Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Jango fett is a mandolorian at one point he was mandalore. go to starwars.wikia.com to find out anything about star wars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 There are buttload of Mando related books and comics that explain all this... if you dont want to read them all, go somewhere like sw.com, The CUSWE(Completely Unofficial SW Encyclopedia), or Wookieepedia to get the skinny mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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