Mandalore System Biography

The system was home, some 4,000 years before the Galactic Civil War, to fierce masked warrior clans led by the mysterious warlord Mandalore. The clans, made up of deadly but honorable crusaders, rode semiintelligent Basilisk war droids, boasted cutting-edge weaponry, and were considered the best fighters in the galaxy. Th mask and title of Mandalore belonged to no single individual but were traditionally passed down from one warrior to the next on the leader's death.

During the Sith War, the Mandalorians conquered the Kuar System and struck at the neighboring Empress Teta System, forcing the Tetan leader Ulic Qel-Droma to battle Mandalore in one-on-one combat. Mandalore was defeated, and he swore his armies' allegiance to Qel-Droma and the forces of the mystical Krath sect. The warlord was made Qel-Droma's war commander, and his clans won many victories. At the close of the Sith War, however, Mandalore's armies were defeated in their attempt to capture the planet Onderon. Mandalore and his surviving warriors were forced to flee to the Dxun Moon, where Mandalore was killed by a pair of the moon's deadly beasts; a new warrior donned his mask and assumed his title.

Millenia later, the warlike Mandalore people exterminated the Ithullan race, several hundred years before the Battle of Yavin. During the Clone Wars, a group of warriors from the system were defeated by the Jedi Knights. The notorious bounty hunter Boba Fett wears a blaster-resistant armored suit similar to those worn by Mandalore warriors, and his alternate ship, Slave II, was based on a Mandalorian Police ship design. Imperial dungeon ships were originally designed by the Mandalorians and were introduced during the Jedi purge to contain dangerous Force users.