1295. The Decline of the Mandalorian
Under the leadership of the Ultimate Mandalorian, the Mandalorians quickly recovered from the trauma of the war in the following decades. And because he relaxed the recruitment standards for Mandalorians, many surrounding planets expressed their willingness to join. After all, the level of force shown by Mandalorians before was also desirable.
These planets and races all know that although the Mandalorians lost the war with the Galactic Republic, the reason for their defeat was not that their combat effectiveness was insufficient, but that the resources they controlled were inferior to their opponents.
As a result, the Mandalorians quickly returned to their pre-war levels and became even more powerful.
On the other hand, the Tao people who lost an entire generation of elites and young people inevitably declined. The Tao people first lost their position on Mandalore, and then their population also dropped sharply. During these decades of recuperation, the Tao people still failed to regain their strength. On the contrary, other races, especially the human race, gradually took over. their dominance among the Mandalorians.
This is very ironic.
The Tao and the Philosopher were old enemies with each other on the planet Coruscant. The two sides fought to the death for many years. However, in the end, it was the Philosopher's descendants who continued the Mandalorian power established by the Tao.
During this process, some Tao people who could not accept this fact chose to leave the Mandalorians and go elsewhere to find a new home and a new beginning, hoping to imitate what Mandalorian I did back then.
And those Tao people who stayed tried to regain their honor in their own way - the Mandalorian way, established enough military exploits, and then challenged the Ultimate Mandalorian according to the Mandalorian tradition. .
But they could not wait until this day, because the Mandalorians faced increasingly fierce and cruel wars, which finally drove the increasingly scarce Tao people to extinction.
Perhaps there are still fires left by the escaped Tao people in unknown remote areas of the Milky Way, but in the Milky Way, the once flourishing Tao people civilization has actually died.
But the Mandalorian civilization founded by the Tao people continued.
In the later years of the first Ultimate Mandalorian, the power of the Mandalorians had expanded to its peak. At this time, the area they occupied even exceeded the Hutts entrenched in the Hutt space!
However, during this period, the Mandalorians chose relatively remote star areas for their external expansion, and did not have a direct conflict of interest with the Galactic Republic. However, when the Mandalorians expanded to their limit, the conflict between them and the Galactic Republic still inevitably broke out.
At this time, almost all Mandalorians, including the aging first Ultimate Mandalorian, believed that the inevitable final battle between them and the Galactic Republic had come. The shame will be repaid!
So under the leadership of the great strategist Cassus Fett, the invincible New Mandalorian Crusaders set out again, directly targeting the planet Alderaan, one of the most developed planets in the Galactic Republic at the time.
The Galactic Republic was unprepared for the outbreak of this war, as all of their attention was on the Sith Empire. But strictly speaking, it was not completely unknown. At that time, the leader of the Jedi Covenant, an extreme Force organization independent of the Jedi Order, Lucian Dre realized that something might not be right, so he sent his shadow to Lester Maughan went to investigate.
As a result, Celeste Morne did detect something, but it was the shadow of the ancient Sith Lord. She pursued all the way to the planet Taris, and on this planet that was about to be destroyed, she found that the people on the planet were desperately resisting the Rak ghouls that kept pouring out of the underground city.
So she fought her way into the dungeon, and finally found the Sith artifact left by Karnes-Mul - Muir's Amulet.
Then she found the planet Jabul and discovered the millions of Mandalorian Crusaders gathered by Cassus Fett on this planet. As a result, at this time, she was controlled by Moore's amulet and directly activated the power of the amulet to wipe out all the millions of troops.
The Mandalorian Armada that followed could only be destroyed by orbital bombardment.
The planet Jabul was destroyed, which severely damaged the power in Cassus Fett's hands.
However, Celeste Moon failed to spread the news - in order to suppress the power of Moore's Amulet, she entered Draper's stasis chamber and fell into a slumber that lasted for thousands of years until she was later killed by Don. Xiao dug it out.
On Cassus Fett's side, although he lost an advanced base and millions of troops, the Galactic Republic was unprepared for the invasion of the Mandalorian Crusaders, which made his offensive against the Galactic Republic unstoppable.
The Galactic Republic, which had suffered consecutive defeats, was on the verge of disintegration, but at this time, Jedi Knights Revan and Malak stood up. They teamed up to defeat the invincible Mandalorian Crusaders, and fought all the way to the Mandalorian. Core World, ultimately destroying the entire Mandalorian Crusade.
The supreme leader of the Mandalorians, Ultimate Mandalore, was also killed. This is the plot of the "Star Wars - Knights of the Old Republic" generation, and I will not go into details.
After Revan defeated the Mandalorians, he confiscated the helmet that was the symbol of the supreme leader of the Mandalorians and had been passed down from generation to generation, leaving the Mandalorians leaderless. But then he lost his memory and the helmet returned to the planet Mandalore, so I won't say much about these things.
In short, after this tragic war known as the Mandalorian War, the Mandalorian's era as a centralized empire was over. Although the Mandalorians later recovered their helmets and regained their traditions, the glory of the Mandalorian Crusaders could never be restored.
After that, the Mandalorians also participated in many wars, large and small. They also had divisions and reunions with the Sith Empire and the Galactic Republic. The Mandalorian-Sith Alliance collapsed two or three times and was rebuilt two or three times. There is a lot of plot, and it also contains a lot of content from the second generation of "Knights of the Old Republic". If I really wanted to talk about it, it would probably be a separate book.
However, in the three thousand years from around 4000 BBY to around 1000 BBY, if we look at it as a whole, the power of the Mandalorians has continued to weaken and decline.
This also fully shows that the extremely martial culture of the Mandalorians is actually not conducive to the development of a civilization. They resorted to militarism and continued to wage war against every target around them, and in the end, they were destroyed in the war.
So if we go back to the war between the philosophers and the Tao people on the planet Coruscant in ancient times, if the victor was the Tao people, then it would be impossible to establish such a glorious and powerful galactic republic. Maybe their ending at that time will not be much different from the current Mandalorian.
It is not without reason that the philosophers, composed of thirteen human tribes, eventually became the masters of the galaxy.
During the period from 4000 BBY to 1000 BBY, the Mandalorians gradually spread out. They went alone or formed a small team to make a living in other parts of the galaxy. What they know is the ability to kill, so they basically become mercenaries and bounty hunters.
Because of the Mandalorian's strong fighting power and the character of being true to their word, they have made a name for themselves in the world of mercenaries and bounty hunters. When it comes to mercenaries and bounty hunters, the first thing that comes to mind is the Mandalorian.
At this time, the world of Mandalore, with the planet Mandalore as its core, had declined extremely, and was almost unable to exert influence on its surroundings. They could only survive in the face of the increasingly powerful Galactic Republic. And in fact, the planet Mandalore at this time was already part of the Galactic Republic.
So in 1058 BBY, another powerful Mandalorian leader launched the "Return Movement", calling on Mandalorians from all over the galaxy to return to their hometowns, hoping to rebuild the glory of the Mandalorian Crusaders. I won’t mention my name to avoid confusion, just know this.
This man did indeed do it, and in the next few hundred years, the Mandalorians did begin to become strong again.
From the perspective of the Galactic Republic, the threat of the Mandalorian Crusade, which once became a haze in the heart of the Republic, seems to be looming in the sky again.
And at this time, the Galactic Republic had just ended the final battle with the Sith Empire and was devastated. one
The Galactic Republic, which wanted to recuperate, announced the abolition of all military-related activities during the Ruusan reforms. As a result, the Republic was very afraid of the re-rise of the Mandalorians.
Therefore, the senators of the Galactic Republic and the then Speaker chose to solve the Mandalorian problem once and for all - massacre!
What’s even more ironic is that this massacre was also supported by the Jedi Order!
At that time, the Jedi Order had just ended the war with the Sith Empire. After thousands of years of war, the Jedi Order was still a very powerful military organization and did not play the role of the guardian of the Galactic Republic later. , so their attitude towards the Mandalorians is also very clear.
And for the Mandalorians, who have just seen the dawn of their rise, this means the end.
