Mandalore

For seven millennia, Mandalore has been the prime base for the seminomadic Mandalorian warriors. Though Mandalorian influence has fallen precipitously since its peak in 3660 BBY, the planet is the centerpiece of the Mandalore sector and the surrounding territory that makes up Mandalorian space.

Grid Location: O-7
Region: Outer Rim
Terrain: Jungles, seas, deserts
Diameter: 9,200 km
Length of Day: 19 standard hours
Length of Year: 366 standard days
Population: 4 million
Sentient Species: Humans
Species Mix: Humans (81%), other (19%)
Languages: Mando’a, Basic
Government: Clan leader
Major Exports: Starships, mercenaries
Major Imports: Raw materials
System/Star: Mandalore/Mandalore

Planets in the System:

Planets	Type	Moons
Nog	Searing rock	0
Akkaan	Airless rock	4
Tracyn	Volcanic rock	4
Kalevala	Toxic desert	0
Mandalore	Terrestrial	2
Mandallia	Terrestrial	1
Bonagal	Gas giant	34
Shukut	Gas giant	30
Werda	Ice ball	0

Detailed History

In approximately 7000 BBY, the Taung leader Mandalore the First led his followers from Roon to the new world, which they renamed in his honor (Mandal’ore in their own tongue). They tamed the jungles and slaughtered the gargantuan mythosaurs, leaving their skeletons to bleach in the sun. By the time of the Great Sith War in 3996 BBY, the clans—under the leadership of Mandalore the Indomitable—had already abandoned the planet to conquer far-flung systems. Their crusade intensified over the following decades and won the Republic receded under the Mandalorian Wars, which broke out in 3965 BBY. Mandalorian space (with Mandalore’s capital of Kalevala as its governmental center) extended across a majority of the galactic northern quadrant before Mandalore the Ultimate’s defeat at the hands of the Jedi Revan in 3960 BBY. Mandalore remained the center of a vastly shrunken kingdom, with many from its clans turning to banditry or mercenary work.

Subsequent Mandalorian history has seen bitter struggles between a dizzying number of factions: warriors trying to honor ancient codes; expansionists seeking to conquer neighboring systems; reformists hoping to join galactic society; and outlaws refusing to acknowledge any law beyond the Mandalorian gun. Mandalore’s apex as a militant society arguably came in the centuries after the Rusaan Reformations, but the sector was devastated by Jedi-led Republic troops in the 730s, a disaster that led the so-called New Mandalorians to renounce violence in an effort to save their planet.

For centuries the New Mandalorians were ascendant, opposed only by splinter groups of nomads arguing with one another about who was the proper heir to the old ways. Yet these romanticists would eventually put an end to the New Mandalorians, and make Mandalorian armor once more an emblem of fear in the Outer Rim.

Mandalore’s return to its warrior roots couldn’t stop its fortunes from crumbling during the Empire’s reign, however. Under the rule of an Imperial overseer, the Supreme, Mandalore became a slave trading hub. In 3 ABY, Mandalorian Supercommando Fenn Shysa destroyed the Supermassive base inside the skeletal mythosaur called the City of Bone.

During the Yuuzhan Vong war, Boba Fett attempted to protect the planet by appearing to work with the invaders as a collaborator. Fett and a revived legion of supercommandos then had to protect Mandalore against a Vong counterattack when its true intentions became known. After the Vong’s defeat, Fett reluctantly accepted the leadership of the Mandalorians and tried to reclaim their ancient role as a galactic power.