Mandalorian Protectors The Mandalorian Protectors — or the Mando Cabure when translated in the Mandalorian language of " Mando ' a " — were an organization of Mandalorian supercommandos founded during the galaxy - spanning Clone Wars by the ARC trooper turned " Mandalore the Resurrector , " Spar . Created in the image of the True Mandalorians of years past , the Mandalorian Protectors were formed from two hundred members of the Mandalorian police , with an additional dozen troops comprised of former members of the Death Watch splinter group , and a thousand BL - series Battle Legionnaire droids . Entering the Clone Wars on the side of the Confederacy of Independent Systems , the Mandalorian Protectors fought against the Galactic Republic as a hard - hitting shock force , gaining a reputation among Confederacy commanders as an in - demand unit capable of defeating foes in a single day that their legions of battle droids could not conquer in a month . However , due to the machinations of the Sith Lord Darth Sidious , who secretly manipulated both sides of the war for his own gain , the Mandalorian Protectors were led into a trap on the planet Norval II , where their army of Battle Legionnaire droids were destroyed by Republic clone troopers , and all but three soldiers — Fenn Shysa , Tobbi Dala , and the broken " Mand ' alor " Spar — were killed . At the end of the Clone Wars , as the Republic transitioned into the Galactic Empire and turned its sights on the Mandalorian homeworld of Mandalore , Fenn Shysa took up the leadership of the Mandalorians and the title of Mandalore . With the new Empire moving to establish a foothold on the planet , Shysa and Tobbi Dala began to train a new incarnation of the Mandalorian Protectors as a covert force to combat the Imperial presence should it prove hostile ; his worst fears were realized as the Empire began to enslave the Mandalorians and strip - mined their world for valuable " beskar " iron . The Mandalorian Protectors fought against the Imperial occupiers in a guerrilla war for years , before finally killing the leader of their operations in an attack on the Empire ' s base within the City of Bone . Their numbers dramatically increased with an influx of freed Mandalorian slaves , the Protectors moved against Imperial Grand Admiral Miltin Takel and forced him from Mandalorian space , truly freeing themselves from the Empire at last . The Mandalorian Protectors under Shysa went on to join forces with the Alliance of Free Planets , first against the extra - galactic Nagai species , then in conjunction with the Nagai against their more dangerous mutual foe , the Tof . Shysa also rallied the Protectors in aid of Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker , to combat the forces of Lord Shadowspawn . In 21 ABY , Fenn Shysa died on the planet Shogun , and leadership of both the Mandalorians and the Mandalorian Protectors fell to the bounty hunter and culturally - estranged Mandalorian , Boba Fett . The tradition of leading the Protectors in the defense of Mandalore and its people came to an end under Fett ' s leadership , instead becoming a mercenary fighting force . When the Yuuzhan Vong invaded from beyond the known galaxy , Fett pretended to ally the Mandalorians with the would - be conquerors in a deal to spare Mandalorian space from their aggression , while secretly ordering the Mandalorian Protectors to gather intelligence on the Vong to deliver to the New Republic . When the Yuuzhan Vong learned of the Mandalorians ' deceit , they launched a devastating attack on Mandalore that killed one third of the world ' s meager population before the Protectors were able to repel the Vong . From that point , Fett led the Mandalorian Protectors in open warfare against the Yuuzhan Vong and in defense of the galaxy . Description . Organization and philosophy . Created by Spar — " Mandalore the Resurrector " — during the Clone Wars , the Mandalorian Protectors were a group of Mandalorian supercommandos that originally numbered two - hundred and twelve soldiers strong , their ranks comprised of two hundred members of the Mandalorian police and a dozen former members of the radical Death Watch splinter group . Despite their allowance of former Death Watch troops , the Mandalorian Protectors were assembled in the image of the True Mandalorians , the army of supercommandos loyal to Jaster Mereel and Jango Fett who opposed the Death Watch during the Mandalorian Civil War decades prior to the Clone Wars . Following in the footsteps of the True Mandalorians , the Mandalorian Protectors placed an importance on high moral standards , exemplified in the Supercommando Codex author ed by Jaster Mereel . The Codex outlined honorable behavior through a modernization of the ancient Canons of Honor and elaboration on the six " Resol ' nare " , which the Protectors heeded . Although Mandalorians of the era traditionally held little regard for official rank and preferred an informal command structure with the ultimate authority belonging to the " Mand ' alor " , a title which meant " sole ruler " in the " Mando ' a " language and represented the traditional leader of the Mandalorian clans , the Mandalorian Protectors instituted a more rigid structure comprised of numerous military ranks during the Clone Wars . The lowest rank in the Protector army was " verd ' ika " , the equivalent of private in Basic , held by soldiers typically assigned infantry duties . Above " verd ' ika " were the ranks of " alor ' uus " and " ruus ' alor " , which translated as corporal and sergeant , respectively . Ranks above these were considered officer ranks , and included " ver ' alor " , " alor ' ad " , and " al ' verde " — lieutenant , captain , and commander . Despite the institution of more solid ranks , all incarnations of the Protectors remained under the leadership of the reigning " Mand ' alor " . The second incarnation of the Mandalorian Protectors , created by Fenn Shysa after the Clone Wars and upon his ascension as " Mand ' alor " , was brought together after the Galactic Empire moved to establish a garrison on the planet Mandalore . Beginning as a fledgling , covert resistance , by the time of the Galactic Civil War , the new Mandalorian Protectors had become a guerrilla fighting force against a growing Imperial slaving operation that targeted Mandalore ' s citizens . Their numerical strength was nebulous , as their ranks were depleted by Imperial counterattacks , only to be bolstered with every Mandalorian slave the group rescued . After freeing the Mandalorian homeworld from its Imperial occupiers , the Mandalorian Protector ranks were swelled by an influx of volunteers from the countless slaves they had set free . With the Empire gone , the Mandalorian Protectors became literal protectors , establishing a patrolled border around Mandalorian space where they acted as a home guard . Occasionally , members of the Protectors during this era would take up mercenary work , but only with the express permission of " Mand ' alor " Shysa , and only if the job in question posed no threat to innocents . That all changed with the death of Fenn Shysa and the ascension of Boba Fett as his replacement as both " Mand ' alor " and leader of the Mandalorian Protectors . The traditions fostered under Shysa were largely discontinued , and Fett led the Protectors primarily as a mercenary force . Tactics and equipment . During the Clone Wars , the Mandalorian Protectors wore personally - owned sets of Mandalorian armor into battle , decorated with sigils on the chest plates or helmets denoting their affiliation to the Protectors . Green , a color traditionally associated with the concept of duty in the Mandalorian culture and a popular choice of armor color among Mandalorians , was commonly utilized by members of the Mandalorian Protectors to adorn their armor plates . On their backs , the Mandalorian Protectors wore jetpacks , allowing them to take to the air , and several wielded EE - 3 carbine rifles . Their meager two hundred troops were bolstered by a legion of one thousand BL - series Battle Legionnaire droids , designed by Fenn Shysa and supplied by Baktoid Combat Automata after the Protectors allied with the Confederacy of Independent Systems . These already formidable droids were equipped with Mandalorian battle harness es , providing a range of additional weaponry that included numerous laser emplacements , a powerful claw arm , and a large trip hammer . Under Spar , the Mandalorian Protectors operated as a powerful shock trooper force for the Confederacy . Utilizing weapons technology superior to that of the Separatists ' B1 battle droids and Spar ' s own intimate knowledge of the Grand Army of the Republic from his days as an Advanced Recon Commando , Spar led the Protectors in hard - hitting blitzkrieg assaults . One successful strategy he implemented was to command the Protectors ' Battle Legionnaire combat droids to attack the enemy ' s front line , while the Protectors used their jetpacks to drop into the middle of the enemy position , behind their lines , and strike . Assignments that took the Confederacy ' s droids months to accomplish could be finished by the Protectors often within a single day . When the Protectors were reformed under Fenn Shysa in the advent of the Imperial occupation of Mandalore , their resources were severely limited . The group lacked the deadly Battle Legionnaire droids it had so enjoyed during the Clone Wars , and over time , even Mandalorian armor became scarce as sets of armor were confiscated by the Imperials that took over Mandalore . Shysa ' s Protectors were forced to act as an insurgent fighting force , using their familiarity with the forests of Mandalore to launch hit - and - run attacks on Imperials . Instead of actually winning battles , their focus turned to harassing the Empire ' s slaving operations and rescuing slaves whenever they could . After the Empire ' s presence on Mandalore and surrounding Mandalorian space was forcefully removed , the Mandalorian Protectors recovered their stolen armor and weapons , and their numbers were greatly expanded by the newly freed slaves who wished to join them . The Protectors returned to their risky but hard - hitting tactics they had employed during the Clone Wars . The Mandalorian Protectors acquired a fleet of " Pursuer " - class enforcement ships from the MandalMotors company , and established a defensive patrol with the vessels to defend Mandalorian space . When presented with a hostile capital ship encroaching upon their region of space , the Mandalorian Protectors would forcibly board the ship , capture its bridge , and deliver it to Mandalore ' s spaceport in Keldabe , Mandalore ' s capital city . At the time of the Nagai – Tof War , the Protectors owned a squadron of twelve " Cabur " - class starfighters . During the early stages of the galaxy ' s war against the Yuuzhan Vong , the Mandalorian Protectors under Boba Fett acted as spies and double agents , agreeing to work for the extra - galactic invaders while secretly gathering intelligence and samples of their bio - technology in order to discover their weaknesses . By engaging one of the Yuuzhan Vong warriors , the Protectors learned that crushgaunts were effective in breaking the aliens ' Vonduun armor . Protector forces made use of older " Pursuer " - class enforcement ships during the war with the Yuuzhan Vong , in addition to " Meteor " - class Q - Carriers , " Gladiator " - class fighters , ancient dungeon ships , and a small fleet of " Firespray " - class attack crafts . By 44 ABY , the Mandalorian Protectors also had access to a number of " Canderous " - class assault tanks , QuickStryke assault sled s , Vyrhawk fighter - bomber s , and multiple " Tra ' kad " starships . History . Formation . The roots of the Mandalorian Protectors could be traced back to the Advanced Recon Commando Alpha - Ø2 , better known by the nickname of Spar . A clone of the Mandalorian soldier Jango Fett , Spar was born on the planet Kamino , a water - covered world in the region of the galaxy known as Wild Space , where he was one of millions of clone troopers bred to serve the Galactic Republic . However , Spar was unique among his clone brethren in that he had somehow inherited the memories of his progenitor , Jango Fett . Knowing he would be reconditioned were the Kaminoans in charge of the army ' s production to find out about Fett ' s memories , Spar resolved to escape the ocean planet . Having befriended the Mandalorian doctor , Mij Gilamar — one of the one hundred members of the " Cuy ' val Dar " brought to Kamino by Fett to train the army ' s clone commandos — Spar was smuggled off Kamino in the cargo hold of Jango Fett ' s ship , " Slave I " , as payment for a favor Fett owed to Gilamar . After the death of Jango Fett in the opening battle of the Clone Wars at Geonosis , Spar journeyed to the planet Mandalore with the intent to rebuild an army of Mandalorian supercommandos the likes of which hadn ' t been seen since the True Mandalorians were struck down decades earlier on Galidraan . In need of soldiers for his new Mandalorian Protector army , Spar recruited two hundred Mandalorian police , and another dozen recruits came from former members of the Death Watch faction . Among the first to rally to Spar ' s call were Tobbi Dala and his life - long friend Fenn Shysa , a local constable and Mandalorian clan chieftain . Shysa convinced Spar to act as Jango Fett ' s heir , believing that Fett ' s reputation as a Jedi killer could be used as a symbol of strength for the Mandalorians , and spread the rumor that led many to believe Spar was Fett ' s son . Spar won out over the pacifistic New Mandalorian faction that had been ascendant on Mandalore for centuries but had recently been broken by the machinations of a reborn sect of the Death Watch . As a symbol that the traditional warrior ways would regain their prominence over the New Mandalorians ' pacifism , in addition to being an inspiration to his troops , Spar claimed the title of " Mand ' alor " , taking the sobriquet of " Mandalore the Resurrector . " The Clone Wars . With his authority as " Mand ' alor " , Spar officially allied the Mandalorians and the planet Mandalore with the Separatists of the Confederacy of Independent Systems , and the Mandalorian Protectors seized the facilities of the MandalMotors company in Keldabe , Mandalore ' s capital city , for exclusive use by the Confederacy . The Mandalorian Protectors ' numbers were bolstered by a battalion of BL - series Battle Legionnaire droids , designed in part by the Protector Fenn Shysa , and constructed in a limited , thousand - unit run by Baktoid Combat Automata in Separatist - owned droid foundries . Under Spar ' s leadership , the Mandalorian Protectors became renowned as a Separatist shock force . While the Confederacy ' s droid army relied on the relatively weak tactic of simply overwhelming Republic ' s military forces with sheer numerical advantage , the Mandalorian Protectors made use of superior weaponry and elite training to outmatch their foes . Other units of Protector supercommandos were deployed to perform more covert operations on behalf of the Confederacy . Over time , the Mandalorian Protectors garnered a reputation for effectiveness , and were in high - demand among the Separatist leadership . When faced with Republic holdouts that their onslaught of droids could not defeat , sometimes even after a several month - long engagement , Confederacy commanders would requisition the aid of the Mandalorian Protectors , who were often capable of eliminating the problem within a single day . The Mandalorian Protectors struck hard against the Republic at the Battle of Null and again during the battle on Zaadja , securing victory for the Separatists , though the fighting on Zaadja wrought a number of Protector casualties . At New Holstice , the Mandalorian Protectors engaged the Grand Army of the Republic ' s 327th Star Corps under Clone Commander Bly . Though they were eventually forced to enact a full retreat , the Protectors had reduced the 327th to an effective fighting force of only sixty percent . After the death of a prominent Confederacy leader , the Mandalorian Protectors executed a blitzkrieg assault on New Bornalex , where they faced off against the Galactic Marines . Amidst the battle , Commander Bacara and the Marines earned themselves a fierce reputation for literally tearing the Protector ' s super battle droids reinforcements apart using their suits of powered spacetrooper armor , but the Protectors were ultimately able to claim victory over the Republic at the cost of a significant number of their own Battle Legionnaire droids . In another blitzkrieg attack in response to the Separatist leader ' s death , the Mandalorian Protectors struck at the clone troopers ' homeworld of Kamino . There , they besieged the cloning facilities , devastating them in a move that earned the Protectors the ire of Kaminoan scientists like Taun We for decades after . The Mandalorian Protectors ' role in the Clone Wars finally came to an end when they were contacted by Darth Sidious , the secretive Sith Lord that had orchestrated and manipulated both sides of the Clone Wars for his personal gain . Darth Sidious contracted the Protectors to capture Republic senator Padmé Amidala on Norval II , but in his alter - ego of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine of the Galactic Republic , Sidious simultaneously arranged a trap to await the Mandalorian forces . When the Protectors arrived at Norval II , Republic troops ambushed them , and in the resulting battle , the Protectors ' Battle Legionnaire droids were all but wiped out and only three of the Protectors escaped alive : Spar , Fenn Shysa , and Tobbi Dala . The three returned home to Mandalore , where a shell - shocked Spar stepped down as " Mand ' alor " , despite Shysa ' s repeated attempts to get him to reclaim the title . Rebirth and insurgency . Following the end of the Clone Wars and the Republic ' s transformation into the Galactic Empire , the new Empire set its sights on occupying Mandalore , just as the Republic had attempted during the Clone Wars . Though the clan chieftains agreed to the Empire ' s request to purchase land on Mandalore in order to establish a base in the sector , Fenn Shysa was wary of the Imperial interest in the Mandalorian world ; as the Empire arrived , Shysa accepted the title of " Mand ' alor " in accordance with public opinion , succeeding Spar , who eventually left Mandalore to wander the galaxy . The Empire ultimately purchased the defunct , mythosaur - shaped amusement park outside of Keldabe known as the City of Bone , and while Imperial forces worked to install their new garrison within the park ' s skeletal shell , Shysa likewise began to lay the foundation for a new organization of Mandalorian Protectors in case they one day needed to resist the Empire . Together with Tobbi Dala , Shysa began training a contingent of new recruits , including volunteers from the Mandalorian police , even seeking the aid of Mandalorians formerly with the " Cuy ' val Dar " — Jango Fett ' s hand - picked band of soldiers contracted to train the Republic ' s clone commandos — and attempting to recruit the clone deserters of Clan Skirata in order to seamlessly infiltrate the ranks of the Empire ' s clone stormtrooper s . Shysa ' s fears regarding the Empire were vindicated when the Imperial presence became an tyrannical occupation , focused on enslaving the Mandalorian populace and strip - mining Mandalore of " beskar " iron ore , a highly valuable and highly resilient metal capable of withstanding blows from even a lightsaber . The new generation of Mandalorian Protectors became outlaws , fighting a covert war against the Imperial slavers and their leader , a Shimholt known as the Suprema , who had begun to confiscate the armor of Mandalore ' s warriors . Without the Battle Legionnaire droids they had fought beside in the Clone Wars , and Mandalorian armor growing in rarity among the troops , the Mandalorian Protectors were forced to become an insurgent force making due with their training and what little equipment they had . Shysa personally undertook victimless mercenary work to help finance the Protectors ' operations , including the race to acquire the Tessent . The Protectors focused their efforts on harassing Imperial slaving operations , attacking slaver convoys , and freeing Mandalorian slaves . Reduced to hit - and - run missions , the Mandalorian Protectors ' guerrilla tactics were based on their members ' familiarity with the Mandalore ' s forests , allowing them to vanish into the planet ' s plentiful veshok trees before the Imperials could muster a counter attack . The damage these raids caused did not go unnoticed by the Empire : a bounty was put out for Shysa , and it was during one such attack that Tobbi Dala was captured by the Imperials . When the bounty hunter Dengar came to Mandalore for the price on Shysa ' s head , he was captured by the Mandalorian Protectors and held hostage in the hopes of initiating a prisoner exchange with the Imperials , swapping Dengar for Dala . The Mandalorian Protectors ' plans were derailed by the arrival of Princess Leia Organa on Mandalore , seeking Dengar for information on the whereabouts of her close friend and love , Han Solo . Organa became involved with the Protectors after stumbling into one of their strikes against a convoy of slavers , and upon learning that Dengar was being held in their custody , set out to free him and take the bounty hunter off world . Her plan backfired , however , when Dengar signaled the Imperials once he was free , and Organa was captured , taken to the Imperial base within the City of Bone . With Dengar gone and Dala still imprisoned , now joined by Organa , Shysa decided to personally mount a rescue attempt . He ordered the Mandalorian Protectors to get into position at the edge of the forest near the City of Bone , and dressed himself in stormtrooper armor stolen from a scout to get himself inside . Once he had made it into the base , Shysa located Organa , knocked her trooper escort unconscious , and freed her . Together with the Princess ' protocol droid , C - 3PO , Shysa and Organa made their way to Tobbi Dala ' s cell , where they disabled another stormtrooper and freed Dala . From a window , Shysa fired a flare , signalling the waiting Mandalorian Protectors to attack ; the Protectors charged from the forest , assaulting the exterior of the City of Bone . In the resulting chaos , Shysa and the others recaptured Dengar , and stole an airspeeder to make their escape , destroying the master control unit that powered the energy cuffs binding the imprisoned slaves in the process . Set loose , the slaves revolted , while Shysa and his allies stormed the Suprema ' s office in order to open the blast doors trapping everyone inside the base . There , the Suprema shot and wounded Tobbi Dala before being violently subdued by Shysa ; the mortally wounded Dala demanded that Shysa leave him behind to open the doors so that his old friend could escape with Organa , Dengar , and the former slaves . Though the slaves and the " Mand ' alor " speeder made it out , Dala closed the blast doors behind them , knowing full well that the Imperial squadron pursuing them would not be able to stop or break off from their course in time , and the resulting explosion from both fuel and ammunition would consume the base from within . Dala sacrificed himself to destroy the Imperial base and the Suprema . Most of the freed slaves volunteered to join the Mandalorian Protectors , bolstering their numbers by the hundreds , as the Protectors rearmed with liberated weapons and reclaimed armor . Shysa rallied his soldiers to strike at Grand Admiral Miltin Takel , Imperial overseer of the Mandalore sector , eventually ousting the Grand Admiral and his forces from Mandalorian space . Protectors of Mandalore . Under Shysa ' s leadership , the Protectors flourished , and the reinvigorated unit of supercommandos returned to the devastating high - risk tactics that made them famous during the Clone Wars . Following the Battle of Endor and the death of Emperor Palpatine aboard the second Death Star , the Mandalorian Protectors effectively locked down the Mandalore sector , which they patrolled with a fleet of " Pursuer " - class enforcement ships from MandalMotors . Acting as a home guard , when hostile ships ventured into Mandalorian space , the Protectors attacked and boarded the vessel , taking command of its bridge and delivering it to Mandalore ' s spaceport in the capital city , Keldabe . When not defending the Mandalore sector , the members of the Mandalorian Protectors occasionally accepted for - hire mercenary work from outside independent parties , but only if the job in question did not cause harm to innocents , and only with the approval of " Mand ' alor " Fenn Shysa . In 4 ABY , Mandalore came under attack by the Nagai , a chalk - white species from the satellite galaxy Firefist . Shysa led the Mandalorian Protectors in defense of the planet , but their forces were not enough to keep the Nagai at bay , leading Shysa to the forest moon of Endor where he and the Protectors accepted a commission with the Alliance of Free Planets , committing their troops and a squadron of twelve " Cabur " - class starfighters to the Alliance forces during the Second Battle of Endor , and continuing to aid in the war effort against the Nagai . When it came to light that the Nagai had arrived in the galaxy while fleeing from the aggressive Tof race , who had pursued them from their home galaxy and began to strike at the new worlds they found , the Nagai joined forces with the Alliance of Free Planets to oppose them . Though the Tof presence was eventually defeated , the Nagai abandoned Mandalore and other worlds they had won , and returned to their home galaxy of Firefist to take back their homeworld of Nagi from the Tof ; Shysa led the Mandalorian Protectors to follow them , and aided the Nagai in retaking their home planet before returning back to Mandalore . After the Alliance of Free Planets had transitioned truly into the New Republic , around six hundred Mandalorian mercenaries were contracted by the Galactic Empire to defend an Inner Rim world from the New Republic . The mercenaries captured several trineutronium power plants , threatening to detonate them if New Republic vessels attempted to land on the surface , in a devastating blast that would kill more than three and half billion sentients living on the planet . Amid negotiations at an asteroid base within the system , between the mercenary commander and diplomatic negotiator Leia Organa , Fenn Shysa was asked to intervene as " Mand ' alor " . Though Shysa appealed to the mercenaries ' sense of honor and duty to their " Mand ' alor " as laid out in the " Resol ' nare " , it was only when Shysa ' s associate Lando Calrissian stated that the New Republic would acquiesce to their terms and refrain from landing ships , informing the mercenaries that since the Imperial presence had already fled the star system they were unlikely to be paid , that the Mandalorians agreed to cease hostilities . Calrissian subsequently hired the mercenaries to aid the Jedi Knight and New Republic General Luke Skywalker in his fight against the darksider Lord Shadowspawn . The six hundred mercenaries were eventually won over by Shysa , joining the ranks of the Mandalorian Protectors before touching down on the planet Mindor . There , they became a critical part of Lord Shadowspawn ' s defeat , assaulting and capturing the dark Force - user ' s defensive fortifications among Mindor ' s volcanos with the help of stormtrooper defectors , before helping to evacuate innocent civilians from the area and subsequently protecting them when the troopers attempted to slaughter the civilians on the command of Shadowspawn . Nearly forty years after the Clone Wars , the Mandalorian Protectors ' actions during the war returned to haunt Shysa as the Kaminoan scientist Taun We hired bounty hunter Boba Fett to kill Shysa , the last living Protector responsible for attacking Kamino in service to the Confederacy of Independent Systems . Fett hunted Shysa and eventually confronted him on the planet Shogun in 21 ABY , where the two came under attack by the Sevvets . Shysa was mortally wounded while saving Fett ' s life , and begged Fett to promise to replace him as " Mand ' alor " upon his death . Unable to save him , Fett gave Shysa his word , before mercifully killing Shysa rather than leave him to the Sevvets . Fett departed Shogun with Shysa ' s helmet , with which he erected a memorial to the fallen Mandalorian leader on Mandalore , in the Keldabe suburb of Bralsin . True to his word , Fett succeeded Shysa as " Mand ' alor " . Yuuzhan Vong War . The Mandalorians were among the first beings in the galaxy to have contact with the extra - galactic Yuuzhan Vong . Approached by their advanced scout Nom Anor , under the alias of " Udelen , " the Mandalorians were contracted to engage in mercenary work throughout the galaxy that was unknowingly in accordance with the Yuuzhan Vong ' s agenda for galactic domination . In 25 ABY , " Mand ' alor " Boba Fett and a small assembly of other Mandalorians bore early witness to the Yuuzhan Vong fleet as it entered the galaxy . Aboard one of their " miid ro ' ik " warships , Fett learned of Anor ' s deception and the Yuuzhan Vong ' s plans to conquer , enslave , and terraform the worlds of the galaxy to suit their societal and religious demands . Faced with the reality that the Yuuzhan Vong would see the known galaxy transformed into something unrecognizable , Fett offered the invaders a deal : in exchange for the Mandalore sector ' s immunity from harm , the Mandalorians would continue to work for the Yuuzhan Vong . His offer was accepted by Anor , but in truth , Fett had already begun to plot against them , collecting penetrating radar schematics and bio - samples from the organic vessel where he met with Anor to be analyzed later . The Mandalorians were seen by most as under the employ of the Yuuzhan Vong , when in reality , they acted as double - agent spies , and saboteurs . At Birgis , the Mandalorian Protectors Cham Detta and his brother Suvar , Tiroc Vhon , Briika Jeban and her daughter Dinua , and Goran Beviin , were tasked with destroying a spaceport . However , together with Fett , they attempted to pass along intelligence they had collected to a female New Republic pilot amidst the fighting , and got her off world aboard Cham Detta ' s " Gladiator " - class starfighter under the cover of a false pursuit . Though the New Republic authorities later received the intelligence the Protectors had passed on , they believed it to be fraudulent and ignored the information due to its supposed enemy source , and as such , New Holgha was left vulnerable to the Yuuzhan Vong ' s attack three months later . However , during the battle on New Holgha , the Protectors saw an opportunity to win the New Republic ' s trust when they were informed of a Jedi being hunted by a Yuuzhan Vong subaltern named Bur ' lorr . Rescuing the Jedi — a New Republic Intelligence agent by the name of Kubariet — the squad of Mandalorians attempted to delay and mislead the Yuuzhan Vong warrior , but the encounter quickly erupted into a fight . The Mandalorians wrestled Bur ' lorr to the ground , where Goran Beviin was finally able to squash his throat with a pair of crushgaunts ; however , the sharp spikes of Bur ' lorr ' s armor had slipped between Briika Jeban ' s armor plates as she fought him to the ground , and inflicted a deep stab wound to her chest . Despite every attempt to save her life , Jeban died of blood loss and her orphaned daughter was adopted by Beviin . Their rescue of the Jedi Kubariet earned the Mandalorians his trust , and through him , the Mandalorians were able to pass on useful information to the New Republic while keeping up appearances as loyal soldiers for the Yuuzhan Vong . Fett trained and inducted new recruits to the Mandalorian Protectors on Raxus Prime , a waste - covered world in the Outer Rim , where only the strongest were allowed to join the Protectors ' ranks . Over time , the Yuuzhan Vong began to notice that the Mandalorians weren ' t being as effective as they should have been , and eventually discovered Fett ' s duplicity . As recompense for the Mandalorians ' double - cross , the Yuuzhan Vong launched an attack on Mandalore in 29 ABY , and Fett led a legion of the Protectors ' supercommandos in defense of the planet . Unlike the other planets the invaders had sought to terraform , the Vong intended to destroy the Mandalorian homeworld : the Yuuzhan Vong blew large craters into Mandalore ' s surface using singularity ordnance , destroyed wide tracts of forested landscape and poisoned once fertile farmland . Close to one and a half million Mandalorians were killed during the attack , but through the use of underground tunnels , Mandalore ' s rough terrain , and sheer martial ability , the Mandalorians defeated and ultimately repelled the Yuuzhan Vong . Though Mandalore ' s population had been reduced by nearly a third , the Mandalorians , both living and dead , were remembered as the only people to defeat the Yuuzhan Vong on their own . Having turned openly hostile against Mandalore , Fett led the Mandalorian Protectors against the Yuuzhan Vong in defense of the galaxy . Deploying in " Pursuer " - class enforcement ships and aboard " Meteor " - class Q - carriers from an ancient dungeon ship , the Mandalorian Protectors liberated the planet of Gyndine from the Yuuzhan Vong that occupied it , and later drove the extra - galactic aliens from Tholatin . At Caluula Station , Fett and a number of Mandalorian Protectors including Baltan Carid , a Calibop , and Bothan Mandalorian , engaged an attacking force of Yuuzhan Vong warriors , allowing the majority of the station ' s inhabitants to flee toward the planet below or into hyperspace . The Protectors fought so fiercely as to strike the fear of Mandalore into the Yuuzhan Vong . The war finally came to an end later that year , when the Yuuzhan Vong were defeated at the galactic capital of Coruscant and peacefully exiled to the living planet , Zonama Sekot . Further actions . In the wake of the Yuuzhan Vong War , the Mandalorian people were left to repair the damage done to their world by the extra - galactic invaders , without any aid from the Galactic Alliance — a multi - governmental political conglomerate established during the war formed from the New Republic , Imperial Remnant , and a number of other independent states — despite their role in defending several worlds threatened by the Yuuzhan Vong . The importance placed on rebuilding led Boba Fett to declare Mandalore a neutral world during the Second Galactic Civil War , between the Galactic Alliance and a new Confederation , though the " Mand ' alor " did not attempt to ban an individual ' s right to mercenary work for either side . By 41 ABY , the Yuuzhan Vong War - era Mandalorian Protector Cham Detta had become a bartender at the " Oyu ' baat " cantina in Keldabe , and his one - time comrade Goran Beviin , had come to spend the majority of his time working on his family ' s farm . Because of Mandalore ' s established neutrality , when " Mand ' alor " Fett was contracted by Imperial Admiral Natasi Daala to provide aid to her old colleague , Gilad Pellaeon , Fett took a cadre of fifty Mandalorian commandos with him to Fondor , instead of the Protectors . In 44 ABY , after a number of Jedi had fallen victim to a mysterious Force psychosis and gone mad , the then Galactic Alliance Chief of State , Natasi Daala , hired a contingent of one thousand Mandalorian Protectors under the command of the ruthless soldier Belok Rhal , to lay siege to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant in order to force the Jedi to surrender their afflicted Knights , Sothais Saar and Turi Altamik . Rhal ' s detachment of the Protectors jammed communications and established a heavily armed perimeter around the Temple , utilizing multiple " Tra ' kad " starships , several " Canderous " - class assault tanks , and numerous other ground vehicles , in addition to QuickStryke assault sleds , and a number of Vyyrhawk fighter - bombers . Rhal publicly demanded the Jedi release Saar and Altamik into Galactic Alliance custody within thirty - six hours , under threat of hostile action should they refuse . When interim Grand Master Kenth Hamner ' s apprentice , Kani Asari , was sent out to negotiate with Rhal , the man went against every ideal the Mandalorian Protectors had traditionally stood for and shot the unarmed Asari dead on the Temple steps , decreeing that any other Jedi beside Altamik and Saar that came out of the Temple would meet the same fate , and any attempt to recover Asari ' s body would result in the destruction of the Temple . The siege eventually came to an end after Luke Skywalker , the Jedi Grand Master in exile , put an end to the source of the mysterious psychosis , and both Altamik and Saar were publicly shown to be cured of the disease . Notable Mandalorian Protectors . Spar . An Alpha - class Advanced Recon Commando originally known by the designation Alpha - Ø2 , Spar deserted the clone trooper homeworld of Kamino before the start of the Clone Wars . Unique among his clone brethren due to the genetic memories of Jango Fett he possessed , Spar traveled to Mandalore following the death of Fett at the start of the Clone Wars , where , with the support of clan chieftain Fenn Shysa , he claimed the title of " Mand ' alor " and set out to create a new army of Mandalorian supercommandos . As the newly christened Mandalore the Resurrector , Spar recruited two hundred and twelve Mandalorian soldiers to his army known as the Mandalorian Protectors , and won out over the pacifist New Mandalorian faction , leading the Mandalorians into an alliance with the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars . Under Spar , the Mandalorian Protectors became a devastating force for the CIS , often doing in days what their army of droids could not accomplish in months . However , the Protectors eventually fell victim to the machinations of Darth Sidious , the Dark Lord of the Sith manipulating both sides of the war for his own gain . As the secret leader of the Confederacy , Sidious ordered the Mandalorian Protectors to capture Senator Padmé Amidala at Norval II , while ordering Republic troops to ambush the Protectors there , as the Republic ' s Supreme Chancellor Palpatine . The Mandalorian Protectors were decimated in the resulting battle , with only Spar and two others — Fenn Shysa and Tobbi Dala — emerging from the conflict with their lives . The shell - shocked Spar abandoned his place as " Mand ' alor " , and refused Shysa ' s attempts to get him to reclaim the title once they had returned to Mandalore . Spar eventually left to wander the galaxy , finally coming to the Extrictarium Nebula where , suffering from clone madness , he was shot and killed by the vengeful daughter of Boba Fett , who mistook the clone for her father . Fenn Shysa . Fenn Shysa was a Mandalore native , born on a small province off the coast of Mandalore ' s largest continent . Over time , he grew to become a well - respected clan chieftain and , together with his childhood friend Tobbi Dala , a local constable . Aware of his homeworld ' s history of being marginalized by the Galactic Republic , and the destitute state that loomed over a number of Mandalorians living on the planet , when Spar called for recruits to his force of Mandalorian Protectors , Shysa more than willingly joined , spurring Spar to become the new " Mand ' alor " and spreading the rumor that the clone deserter was truly Jango Fett ' s heir . Shysa designed the Protectors ' Battle Legionnaire droids in part , and fought alongside them throughout the Clone Wars at New Bornalex , Null , and Kamino , up until the disastrous battle at Norvall II , where Shysa was one of only three Mandalorian Protectors to make it out of the fight alive , along with his good friend Tobbi Dala and Spar . Spar abandoned his post as " Mand ' alor " , and though Shysa would attempt to get him to reconsider , it was Shysa himself who succeeded Spar as " Mand ' alor " following the rise of the Galactic Empire . As the Empire established a presence on Mandalore , it was Shysa who began to reform the destroyed Mandalorian Protectors , forming them into a guerrilla fighting force to covertly resist the Empire . Under Shysa ' s leadership , the Protectors harassed convoys of Imperial slavers and freed Mandalorian slaves , until they finally broke the Empire ' s hold over Mandalore during the battle at the Imperial base in the City of Bone . Shysa then led the Mandalorian Protectors to oust Imperial Grand Admiral Miltin Takel from Mandalorian space , and rebuilt the Protectors into an organization capable of defending the entire Mandalore sector . His ties with the Alliance of Free Planets led Shysa to rally the Protectors to the government ' s aid during the Nagai – Tof War , and he aided the subsequent New Republic at the Battle of Mindor , against the darksider Shadowspawn . However , Shysa ' s actions against Kamino during the Clone Wars had far - reaching repercussions , and decades later , the Kaminoan scientist Taun We hired the renowned bounty hunter , Boba Fett , to kill Shysa . Fett confronted Shysa on the planet Shogun , where the two came under attack by the Sevvets . Shysa was mortally wounded while saving Fett ' s life , and asked that Fett succeed him as " Mand ' alor " . Fett gave his word , before killing Shysa in an act of mercy , rather than leave him to suffer with the Sevvets . Tobbi Dala . Growing up alongside Fenn Shysa , Tobbi Dala stood together with his childhood friend whether it involved becoming constables or drinking mugs of Mandallian Narcolethe after a long day , and when Shysa readily joined the Mandalorian Protectors , Dala was quick to join , as well . Dala fought for the Mandalorian Protectors throughout the Clone Wars , until the battle at Norvall II , when he was one of only three Protectors to survive a Republic ambush , along with Shysa and Spar . Dala returned to Mandalore after the battle , eventually joining up with Shysa ' s reborn force of Mandalorian Protectors , covertly battling against the newly risen Galactic Empire and the Imperial occupation of Mandalore . During one of the Protectors ' raids on an Imperial slaving convoy , Dala was captured and imprisoned in the Empire ' s Mandalore base within the City of Bone . Around the same time , the bounty hunter Dengar had attempted to collect an Imperial bounty on Fenn Shysa , only to fail and be captured by Mandalorian Protectors . The Protectors negotiated a prisoner exchange with the Empire , offering Dengar for Dala ; this plan was ruined , however , by the arrival of Princess Leia Organa , who sought Dengar for her own purposes . She freed the bounty hunter but was betrayed and taken by the Imperials , herself . Shysa mounted a rescue of both Dala and the princess under the cover of a Protector assault on the City of Bone . Shysa succeeded in freeing both Dala and Organa , but Dala was mortally wounded in a confrontation with the Imperial overseer , the Suprema . Dala demanded Shysa leave him behind and rescue the Mandalorian slaves that had been captured by the Empire , sacrificing himself once they were away to blow up the City of Bone and break the Imperial hold on Mandalore . Boba Fett . The cloned son of " Mand ' alor " Jango Fett , Boba Fett had only just begun his Mandalorian training when his father was killed at the Battle of Geonosis . Though he set out to follow in his father ' s footsteps as a bounty hunter , rising to earn a place of both esteem and notoriety as one of the greatest bounty hunters of his era , Fett remained estranged from his Mandalorian heritage for the majority of his life . It was only when Kaminoan scientist Taun We , whom Fett had grown up with on Kamino , offered a bounty on the life of Fenn Shysa for the damage he and the Mandalorian Protectors had wrought on Kamino during the Clone Wars , that Fett was brought back into contact with the Mandalorian culture . Fett hunted Shysa to the planet Shogun , where they were both attacked by the Sevvets and Shysa was mortally wounded while saving Fett ' s life . As he was dying , Shysa asked that Fett become the next " Mand ' alor " after he was gone , believing in the symbolic strength of the Fett name . Fett gave Shysa his word , before mercifully killing him so as to spare him from suffering under the Sevvets . True to his word , Fett became the new " Mand ' alor " , leading the Mandalorians during the Yuuzhan Vong War and bringing the Mandalorian Protectors to bear against the extra - galactic invaders in defense of the galaxy . Together with the Protectors , Fett fought off the Yuuzhan Vong ' s attack against Mandalore , and engaged them at worlds such as Gyndine , Tholatin , and Caluula . After the war came to an end and the Yuuzhan Vong settled peacefully on the living planet Zonama Sekot , Fett made a priority of helping Mandalore rebuild . With a third of the planet ' s population killed in the battle with the Yuuzhan Vong , Fett called for two million Mandalorians throughout the galaxy to journey to Mandalore in order to reinvigorate the planet ' s infrastructure . He declared the world neutral during the conflict between the Galactic Alliance and the Confederation , and donated a portion of his accumulated personal wealth to the restoration of Mandalore . Behind the scenes . The Mandalorian Protectors first appeared in " Star Wars " canon in the sixty - eighth issue of Marvel ' s " Star Wars " comic series . Entitled , the issue was written by author David Michelinie , illustrated by Gene Day , and published in February of 1983 . They appeared again in the subsequent issue , " " , and the leader of the Mandalorian Protectors , Fenn Shysa , continues to make further appearances throughout the series . Details of the Mandalorian Protectors ' exploits during the Clone Wars and beyond were later provided in " The History of the Mandalorians " , a Star Wars Insider article written by Abel G . Peña and published in the March 2005 issue of the magazine . The article retcon s the idea of the Protectors being led during the war by Boba Fett — an idea made impossible following the release of the second prequel film and the revision of Boba Fett ' s origins within — by introducing the rogue clone trooper Spar to fill the place of Fett . " The History of the Mandalorians " also provides information on the Protectors ' equipment and vehicle usage . The later sourcebook , " Galaxy at War " by Daniel Wallace , supplements this with a significant amount of additional information on the history , tactics , and organization structure of the Mandalorian Protectors . Karen Traviss ' s novel " " , the fourth entry in her " Republic " and " Imperial Commando " novel series , featured Fenn Shysa and Spar as a prominent secondary characters . The end of " Order 66 " , and Shysa ' s continued appearance in Traviss ' next novel , " " , hint at Shysa ' s formation of the second iteration of the Mandalorian Protectors as the Empire begins to establish a presence on Mandalore . " Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor " , a 2008 novel by Matthew Stover , featured Shysa during his tenure as a Mandalorian Protector , mentioning the group , and introducing a number of Mandalorian mercenaries who join Shysa by the novel ' s end .