Topic: The Mandalorian Wars...
The Mandalorian Wars…
The true Mandalorian Wars…
Okay, well if you know me (like most of you do) you have no problem understanding why I made this RPG. Quite frankly I’m one of the biggest Mandalorian fans ever… so that should explain everything. Here we go:
War in the Unknown Regions (3,976-3,966 BBY)
The true Mandalorian Wars were raging almost ten years before the Republic ever intervened. This era became known as the War in the Unknown Regions. The Mandalorians conspired with the Sith in an ambitious scheme aimed at conquering their common foe. Knowing his people were not yet ready to challenge the Republic directly, Mandalore began his crusade by leading his rebuilt clans in a brutal campaign along the Outer Rim Territories, on the edge of Republic Space.
During this period the Republic Senate chose not to intervene in the Mandalorians’ campaign for conquest, wary of allowing the Republic to become embroiled in another galaxy spanning conflict after the devastation wrought during the Great Sith War. They refused to take action unless the Mandalorians threatened to invade the Republic itself… meanwhile, Mandalore planned to do just that.
The False War (3,966-3,964 BBY)
The Republic finally did intervene when the Mandalorian threat converged on Taris’s resource worlds of Vanquo, Tarnith, Suurja and Jebble, the Republic Senators chose to make a stand. Taris was granted Republic membership and in the months to follow the Republic deployed its Outer Rim fleets in a lengthy defensive formation which was intended to protect Taris and its dependant worlds from the Mandalorian predators.
By 3,964 BBY the Mandalorians’ crusade had appeared to have ground to a halt; the Mandalorians had failed to conquer a populated system in the Outer Rim for more than a year. Appearances, however, were deceiving. Mandalore the Ultimate and Cassus Fett had engineered this False War as it would later be termed. Withholding the majority of his forces and feigning weakness, Mandalore initiated a deceptive campaign designed to mobilize the Republic while simultaneously lulling it into a false sense of security.
The Revanchist
Amid such uncertain times, radical new factions began to coalesce within the Jedi Order. An outspoken Jedi Knight, who would become known in the popular media as "The Revanchist," warned of the danger posed by the Mandalorian clans. She lobbied for the Jedi Order to take an active role in the Republic's war effort, but the Jedi High Council was hesitant to be drawn into another armed conflict. The struggle with the Sith during the Great Sith War took a very heavy toll on the Jedi Order and it had yet to fully recover. In the face of a looming Mandalorian threat, the Jedi Masters grew cautious lest they repeat the mistakes of the past; they were wary of the dark side and they sensed that an unknown hand was at work behind the new war.
The Jedi Council seemed content to watch and wait as the border war escalated along the Outer Rim, but a growing movement within the Jedi Order refused to stand idly by. The young and charismatic Revanchist began to recruit Jedi followers to combat the Mandalorians, and her friend Alek was the first to join her cause. Well known and admired within the Order, the two Knights were able to quickly enlist a number of like-minded volunteers and form them into a faction that would come to be known as the Revanchists. Anticipating a Mandalorian invasion, they scouted the battlefront without the knowledge or consent of the Jedi Council.
And so we begin…