Yeah, go cry somewhere else Karen Traviss. This is the awesome thing about the Star Wars EU--no matter what happens to upset continuity, something else in the future can fix it.
Which is exactly what's happened with the Mandalorian problems presented by The Clone Wars. Various publications over the last few years--a new Star Wars Atlas, a new RPG guidebook, issues of Insider (to name just a few)--have gone ahead and corrected the New Mandalorian issues.
670 BBY
Mandalorian war with the Republic ends, and a small faction of pacifists--the New Mandalorians--emerges. Being a small minority, however, they don't represent Mandalore as a whole and are really no more than a fringe group.
200 BBY
After the Ithullan genocide, many Mandalorians begin expressing desire to move away from savagery and brigandry.
60 BBY
Jaster Mereel (Mandalore) founds the True Mandalorians group, around the reformist concept of acting as high-paid soldiers and acting as honourable mercenaries.
Tor Vizsla dreams of an opposite path for Mandalorians and founds Death Watch; his goal to return his people to their ancient roots as raiders and conquerers.
The True Mandalorians and Death Watch go to war in the Mandalorian Civil War. The New Mandalorians, having no real fighting force (and therefore neither the ability to fight nor representing a threat to the True Mandalorians or Death Watch), sit the civil war out.
60-44 BBY
Most of the True Mandalorians killed, Jango Fett becomes the new Mandalore. Most of Death Watch also killed in the war. The final blow of the war came when Jango Fett killed Tor Vizsla in single combat. With no enemy left to fight and no army to lead, Jango Fett leaves to pursue a career as a bounty hunter.
With the True Mandalorians all but wiped out and Death Watch fragmented and scattered, the civil war ends and the New Mandalorians are the only authority left on Mandalore.
22-20 BBY
Jango Fett is killed at Geonosis. With the last True Mandalorian dead and the Republic occupied by the Clone Wars, Death Watch re-emerges under Pre Vizsla to challenge the New Mandalorians.
20 BBY
ARC Alpha-02 aka Spar, having deserted the Grand Army of the Republic, arrives on Mandalore and is eventually takes up the mantle of Mandalore as Mandalore the Resurrector.
Mandalore the Resurrector founds the Mandalorian Protectors in the image of the True Mandalorians. As a warrior group once more, the Protectors supplant the New Mandalorians as leaders of their society. As an ARC clone, Spar/Mandalore had no love of the Republic, who he saw as oppressive and the Jedi, who were willing to lead a slave army. He leads Mandalore to ally with the Confederacy for the remainder of the war.
So long story short, the New Mandalorians are a flash in the pan who were in power for a very short time in the grand scheme of things.
Which is exactly what's happened with the Mandalorian problems presented by The Clone Wars. Various publications over the last few years--a new Star Wars Atlas, a new RPG guidebook, issues of Insider (to name just a few)--have gone ahead and corrected the New Mandalorian issues.
670 BBY
Mandalorian war with the Republic ends, and a small faction of pacifists--the New Mandalorians--emerges. Being a small minority, however, they don't represent Mandalore as a whole and are really no more than a fringe group.
200 BBY
After the Ithullan genocide, many Mandalorians begin expressing desire to move away from savagery and brigandry.
60 BBY
Jaster Mereel (Mandalore) founds the True Mandalorians group, around the reformist concept of acting as high-paid soldiers and acting as honourable mercenaries.
Tor Vizsla dreams of an opposite path for Mandalorians and founds Death Watch; his goal to return his people to their ancient roots as raiders and conquerers.
The True Mandalorians and Death Watch go to war in the Mandalorian Civil War. The New Mandalorians, having no real fighting force (and therefore neither the ability to fight nor representing a threat to the True Mandalorians or Death Watch), sit the civil war out.
60-44 BBY
Most of the True Mandalorians killed, Jango Fett becomes the new Mandalore. Most of Death Watch also killed in the war. The final blow of the war came when Jango Fett killed Tor Vizsla in single combat. With no enemy left to fight and no army to lead, Jango Fett leaves to pursue a career as a bounty hunter.
With the True Mandalorians all but wiped out and Death Watch fragmented and scattered, the civil war ends and the New Mandalorians are the only authority left on Mandalore.
22-20 BBY
Jango Fett is killed at Geonosis. With the last True Mandalorian dead and the Republic occupied by the Clone Wars, Death Watch re-emerges under Pre Vizsla to challenge the New Mandalorians.
20 BBY
ARC Alpha-02 aka Spar, having deserted the Grand Army of the Republic, arrives on Mandalore and is eventually takes up the mantle of Mandalore as Mandalore the Resurrector.
Mandalore the Resurrector founds the Mandalorian Protectors in the image of the True Mandalorians. As a warrior group once more, the Protectors supplant the New Mandalorians as leaders of their society. As an ARC clone, Spar/Mandalore had no love of the Republic, who he saw as oppressive and the Jedi, who were willing to lead a slave army. He leads Mandalore to ally with the Confederacy for the remainder of the war.
So long story short, the New Mandalorians are a flash in the pan who were in power for a very short time in the grand scheme of things.
I tell you Teal'c, hockey is the coolest game on Earth!
Did you not say it is played on ice, O'Neill?
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