Sundari / Legends Sundari was the domed capital city of the New Mandalorian faction of Mandalorians , located on the Outer Rim world of Mandalore , where it stood alongside Mandalore ' s traditional capital of Keldabe . Situated within one of Mandalore ' s white - sand desert regions , the bio - cube city of Sundari hosted a large number of New Mandalorians by the time of the Clone Wars , including the sect ' s leader , Duchess Satine Kryze . Automated transports ferried individuals from the city ' s docks into its interior , which was filled with high - technology structures made of permacrete , " beskar " iron , and transparisteel . Sundari was guarded by its dedicated police force , and the city ' s skylanes were patrolled by their " Buirk ' alor " - class airspeeders . During the early stages of the Clone Wars , Sundari ' s Memorial Shrine was the target of a terrorist attack , orchestrated by the radical and violent Mandalorian splinter group known as the Death Watch . Some time later , the city was struck by an epidemic of poisonings among its youth , the source of which was traced to a shipment of tainted tea delivered to Sundari by a contingent of Moogan smugglers . This incident was part of a larger trend of corruption among its government ' s officials , leading to the arrest of New Mandalorian Prime Minister Almec for his role in allowing the black market to operate on Mandalore , and his subsequent incarceration in a Sundari prison . Two years later , in 20 BBY , Sundari was the primary target of the Death Watch ' s coup against the New Mandalorian regime . Having entered into an alliance with the Sith Lord Darth Maul and assembled an army of criminals known as the Shadow Collective , Death Watch played the role of heroic saviors combating the ordered onslaught of the Collective ' s crime lords who , in secret , terrorized Sundari at Darth Maul ' s command , in order to prove the New Mandalorian government an ineffective body . Winning the favor of the public by protecting Sundari ' s populous when Duchess Satine Kryze and her administration could not , Death Watch deposed the duchess , while their leader , Pre Vizsla , replaced Kryze as the ruler of the New Mandalorians . However , Vizsla ' s command was usurped shortly thereafter by Darth Maul , causing a divide in the ranks of Death Watch between those who pledged their loyalty to the Sith , and those who followed Vizsla ' s former lieutenant Bo - Katan Kryze and refused to recognize the rule of a non - Mandalorian , eventually leading to a vicious battle on the outskirts of Sundari between the two factions . Description . Nestled within a vast , black - colored dome that protected against the inhospitable desert region of the planet Mandalore in which it was located , Sundari was a large bio - cube city , and the capital city of the New Mandalorian faction . Sundari enclosed one of Mandalore ' s largest active mines of " beskar " iron ore within its outer walls , providing the city with valuable resources and a major strategic asset . It was surrounded by a number of other cube cities , smaller in size than the large black dome , and constructed by the New Mandalorians to survive the harsh conditions of Mandalore ' s deserts . On its outer face , Sundari hosted shipping docks for receiving supply shipments to the city , and welcoming visiting starships ; automated transports waited to ferry beings from the docks into the city ' s interior , and officers of the Mandalorian police force patrolled the area . Inside Sundari ' s black dome , the city was comprised of a complex series of rectangular and often cube - shaped buildings , constructed in close quarters with large blocks of permacrete and " beskar " iron , with sheets of transparisteel that ranged from translucent to transparent . Its high - technology structures rose up from the ground and hung from the dome ' s vaulted ceiling , alike , maximizing the space available . Skylanes filled with airspeeders wove between Sundari ' s glass towers , patrolled by police - owned " Buirk ' alor " - class speeders . Near the heart of the city stood the Sundari Royal Palace , home to Sundari ' s leaders , and the tranquil Peace Park that housed the Memorial Shrine . Peace Park was one of several places dedicated to the natural greenery Sundari ' s external desert surroundings denied its people , ranging from plazas to rooftop garden s , but the city ' s vegetation was highly regimented , with everything from shrubbery to trees meticulously tended and trimmed from their natural forms into stark geometric shapes . Sundari ' s most promising youths received an education at the Royal Academy of Government , which prepared them for leadership roles in the New Mandalorian government , while other New Mandalorian children attended another school within the city . Among Sundari ' s financial establishments stood the Mandalore Banking Center , a multistory facility housing wealth - laden vaults . The city boasted its own judiciary courts , and Sundari ' s convicted criminals were held in a prison that stretched downward from Sundari ' s domed heights . By the year 22 BBY , a new hospital was opened in the city , with facilities to treat hundreds of patients , and an outdoor grounds large enough to accommodate several " Aka ' jor " - class shuttles loaded with individuals in need of medical treatment . History . Early history . In 738 BBY , following a significant growth in Mandalorian militancy that alarmed the Galactic Republic and its Jedi protectors , a brief and targeted conflict that came to be known as the Mandalorian Excision broke out between the Republic and the Mandalorians , bringing devastation to several worlds within Mandalorian space . Along with swaths of Fenel , Ordo , and Concord Dawn , portions of Mandalore were transformed into deserts of white sand , while the Mandalorians were disarmed and their planet occupied by Republic forces for decades . From the caretaker government that the Republic left in charge of Mandalore in the aftermath of the Excision , arose the New Mandalorian faction ; a reformist political group , the New Mandalorians renounced violence and the warrior codes of Mandalore ' s past , while preaching peace , neutrality , and tolerance . The New Mandalorians used their talents as builders and inventors to create grand bio - cube cities in Mandalore ' s desert wastes , forging a new society isolated from Mandalore ' s warrior clans . They constructed the domed city of Sundari around one of Mandalore ' s largest active " beskar " mines , and claimed it as their faction ' s capital , in opposition to Keldabe , Mandalore ' s traditional capital that had stood since before the Mandalorian Wars , thousands of years prior . The New Mandalorians ' dedication to peace , their love of advanced technology , and the " beskar " mines of Sundari , allowed for them to claim ascendancy over the disorganized warrior clans on Mandalore for centuries , leading the Republic to officially recognize Sundari as the capital of Mandalore over Keldabe , as Mandalore gained representation in the Galactic Senate . The city came under the protection of the Mandalorian police , as well as units of the Mandalorian Royal Guard . The Clone Wars . Around 22 BBY , in the midst of the galaxy - spanning conflict between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems known as the Clone Wars , Jedi Master Obi - Wan Kenobi journeyed to Sundari on behalf of the Jedi Council in order to ascertain the truth behind rumors claiming that Mandalore — a staunch political ally of the Republic since the rise of the New Mandalorians in the wake of the Mandalorian Excision — was secretly assembling an army for the Separatists of the Confederacy . When he touched down at the Sundari docks , Kenobi was taken by automated transport to the royal palace , where he met with the New Mandalorians ' Prime Minister , Almec , and their leader , Duchess Satine Kryze of the neighboring world , Kalevala . While taking a walk with Kryze in the nearby Peace Park , Kenobi witnessed a terrorist Bombing of the Memorial Shrine housed at the park , by a member of the violent Mandalorian splinter group known as the Death Watch . Kenobi attempted to apprehend the bomber , taking part in a lengthy chase that ended at a dead - end balcony ; after a short struggle , the bomber took his own life by leaping from the balcony ' s edge . Together with Duchess Kryze , Kenobi accompanied the deceased man ' s body to his home of Concordia , one of Mandalore ' s two moons , where he discovered the hideout of the Death Watch among the " beskar " mines that had been previously thought abandoned . Kenobi and Kryze escaped a skirmish with the Death Watch ' s troops , returning to Sundari where they boarded the Duchess ' personal star yacht , the " Coronet " , bound for Coruscant to explain the truth of current Mandalorian affairs to the Republic senate . While Kryze spoke before the Galactic Senate , a New Mandalorian scout reported to Prime Minister Almec in Sundari , informing him of the army Death Watch had amassed on Concordia . Before they could mobilize an attack , however , Death Watch ' s leader , Pre Vizsla , was ordered to stand down by his ally and benefactor , Count Dooku of the Confederacy of Independent Systems . Following Duchess Kryze ' s proclamation that Mandalore would remain a neutral entity in the Clone Wars , Republic funded trade routes to the Outer Rim world were largely severed , and re - prioritized elsewhere . Having cut themselves off from Mandalore ' s farming communities in the parts of Mandalore unspoiled by the Mandalorian Excision , Sundari began to suffer from food shortages without Republic aid , leaving many of its residents starving . To remedy the dire situation , Prime Minister Almec took it upon himself to establish a black market trade network in secret , in order to get food to the New Mandalorian people . The illegal intake of supplies to Sundari came at a dangerous cost : Moogan smugglers arrived in Sundari , bribing their way passed a customs official in order to unload shipments of Ardees Beverage tea . Seeking to increase their total profits from the shipment , the Moogans diluted the tea with the chemical slabin from a warehouse at Sundari ' s docks , but instead of a harmless mixture , the slabin dosage was incorrectly calculated , contaminating the tea . The tea was distributed to a number of New Mandalorian school s , resulting in hundreds of children becoming violently ill , and many were taken to a recently opened hospital in the city . The hospital was set to be toured that day by Duchess Kryze and her offworld guest , Senator Padmé Amidala of Naboo , and upon discovering the outbreak of poisoned youths , Kryze and Amidala set out to discover the source of the illness plaguing Sundari ' s schoolchildren . Upon visiting one school that had been affected , the two politicians discovered the Ardees bottled tea to be the source of the poison , and traced the shipment back to the Sundari warehouse from which the Moogan smugglers were operating out of . Following a brief shootout between the smugglers and several officers of the Mandalorian guard , the operation was dismantled and an antidote was provided to the hospitalized children . The corruption that Kryze and Amidala exposed among Sundari ' s officials — with the superintendent of a school afflicted by the poisoned tea , and the head of the shipping company responsible for dealing with the Moogans among the guilty — the New Mandalorian Duchess requested a member of the Jedi Order come to Mandalore in order to help stop the black market trade network , and lecture against the perils of corruption at the Royal Academy of Government . Agreeing to the request , the Jedi Council dispatched Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano to Mandalore ; Tano landed at the Sundari docks with her master and a detachment of clones from the 501st Legion . Though her master and the clones departed Sundari shortly in order to return to the war , Tano was welcomed to the city by Kryze , Prime Minister Almec , and a group of cadets from the Academy . For two days , Tano lectured at Sundari ' s Royal Academy , speaking on the subject of corruption among government leadership , and the duty of the common citizen to ensure lawful behavior among society ' s rulers . Taking the Jedi ' s words to heart , a group of cadets aware of Sundari ' s food shortages , decided to investigate the city ' s warehouse district for signs of improper conduct . There , the children discovered a government warehouse being used to store black market goods , and a group of smugglers meeting with Prime Minister Almec . Fearing the repercussions of his discovery , Almec moved against the cadets and had them arrested by the New Mandalorian Secret Service , in addition to Duchess Kryze , who had been informed by her cadet nephew Korkie of their findings . Almec incarcerated the Duchess and the students in a Sundari prison , only for Padawan Ahsoka Tano to mount a rescue that resulted in Kryze and the students being freed , while Almec and his conspirators were jailed for their crimes , found guilty on charges of corruption by Sundari ' s courts . With the black market network shut down and its orchestrator in prison , Tano departed Sundari to return to her duties under her master . Later in the war , Sundari hosted a conference at the royal palace , between a delegation from the Republic and Confederacy of Independent Systems seeking a peaceful end to the Clone Wars . Proceedings broke down , though , when the disenfranchised Separatist senator Lux Bonteri stormed into Duchess Kryze ' s throne room accusing the Confederate leader Count Dooku of murdering his mother , Mina Bonteri . The young Bonteri was forcibly removed from the hall by a cadre of Separatist BX - series droid commandos , and taken to the Confederacy ' s C - 9979 landing craft at the Sundari docks where he would have been killed were it not for the intervention of Togruta Padawan Ahsoka Tano , who had returned to Mandalore as part of a security detail for the Republic ' s diplomats . Tano rescued Bonteri , and fled Sundari aboard a Republic vessel . Downfall of the New Mandalorians . In 20 BBY , Sundari and other New Mandalorian territories on Mandalore came under attack by the Shadow Collective , an assembly of criminals drawn from Black Sun , the spice - dealing Pyke Syndicate , and the Hutt Cartel s . These offworld crime lords were secretly in collusion with the Death Watch as their leader , the Sith Lord Darth Maul , had forged an alliance with Death Watch commander Pre Vizsla to topple the New Mandalorians ' pacifist regime . As part of a plan to exemplify the ineffectiveness of the New Mandalorian administration , the Collective ' s thugs rampaged throughout Sundari , overwhelming a police force that proved incapable of defending against the aggressors . Sundari ' s docks fell quickly into Collective control , while Pyke gangsters assaulted the Mandalore Bank ing Center , and Black Sun foot soldier s opened fire on the Peace Park with reckless abandon , killing civilian and police officers alike . Panicked , the people of Sundari gathered at the Royal Palace to demand action from their leaders , only to be advised to remain calm and cautioned to keep to their peaceful principles by Duchess Satine Kryze . It was then that Death Watch appeared , swooping down on the Sundari palace via jetpack , as Pre Vizsla pledged to do what Kryze could not : defend the New Mandalorians against the crime syndicates and keep Sundari safe . Across Sundari , Death Watch ' s soldiers engaged the Shadow Collective ' s criminals in staged battles ; the Collective had played the role of villains to be vanquished by the Death Watch well , and as the Mandalorian warriors triumphed over the offworld gangsters , the populous of Sundari applauded their efforts and lauded the Death Watch as saviors . At the docks of Sundari , Death Watch troops subdued the Black Sun and Pyke forces holding the dock workers captive , freeing the grateful New Mandalorians and taking the criminals into custody . In Peace Park , Pre Vizsla ' s loyal lieutenant Bo - Katan and her handpicked unit known as the Nite Owls rescued a number of New Mandalorian children from Black Sun footsoldiers , binding the gangsters with fibercord , while Vizsla himself apprehended a team of Pyke thugs led by Darth Maul ' s Sith apprentice , Savage Opress , as they attempted to flee the pilfered Mandalore Banking Center . With the backing of the New Mandalorian people now firmly his , Pre Vizsla stormed the Sundari Royal Palace with a cadre of Death Watch soldiers , deposing and imprisoning Duchess Kryze and her supporters , while proclaiming himself the new Prime Minister and " Mand ' alor " , the traditional leader of the Mandalorians . With Vizsla ' s own ambitions met , he betrayed his Sith allies and had both Maul and Opress jailed . Yet Maul had suspected that Vizsla would turn on them once he had what he desired , and planned accordingly , allowing himself to be taken into custody in order to find a more malleable candidate with which to replace Vizsla among the political prisoners Death Watch had arrested . Breaking free of their cell using the Force , Maul and his apprentice came upon the incarcerated former Prime Minister Almec and struck a deal with the disgraced New Mandalorian leader . The two Sith freed themselves from their confines and stormed the Royal Palace , where Maul challenged Vizsla for the right of leadership under the ancient Mandalorian codes Death Watch sought to resurrect . Vizsla and Maul engaged in a furious bout of single combat from which Maul emerged victorious , slaying Vizsla and claiming the right to lead . Almec was instituted as the new Prime Minister — a puppet ruler and the public face for Maul ' s new rule — while Death Watch fragmented between those who bowed to their new Sith leader , and those who refused to obey a non - Mandalorian . The Death Watch rebels rallied behind Pre Vizsla ' s lieutenant , Bo - Katan , and fled the Royal Palace amid a heated firefight with their former comrades . With his new authority , Almec appeared before the people of Sundari to announce his reinstatement and the death of Pre Vizsla , blaming the deposed Duchess Kryze for his murder , before assuring the New Mandalorians that Vizsla ' s goals of remilitarization would live on . Weeks after she had been imprisoned , Duchess Kryze was rescued from jail by Bo - Katan and a team of her rebellious Death Watch , along with Kryze ' s nephew Korkie and several of his school friends . The group attempted to escort the deposed duchess out of Sundari , but were pursued and attacked by units of Mandalorian super commandos loyal to Darth Maul . Kryze ' s defenders were defeated and she was recaptured , though not before she could transmit a message to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant , alerting Jedi Master Obi - Wan Kenobi to the state of affairs plaguing Sundari . Intent to rescue his one time lover , Kenobi traveled to Sundari alone , in disguise and aboard a borrowed freighter ; he succeeded in sneaking Kryze from her prison confines , but his escape attempts never made it beyond Sundari ' s docks . Kenobi ' s ship was destroyed and he was captured alongside Kryze , taken back to the Royal Palace where Kryze was killed before his eyes by Darth Maul as revenge for the wounds Kenobi inflicted upon the Zabrak Sith Lord nearly a decade prior . Kenobi was subsequently taken from the palace and bound for Sundari ' s prison , as Maul preferred to let the Jedi live with his anguish rather than kill him outright . Before Kenobi could reach the cell he had been bound for , his captors were ambushed by Bo - Katan and her forces , who quickly killed the Sith loyalists and freed Kenobi , intent on getting the Jedi Master out of Sundari . The group raced through Sundari ' s skylanes with their jetpacks — even Kenobi , who had been gifted a spare by Bo - Katan upon his rescue — fighting off pursuers on the way to Sundari ' s docks , where they found open conflict raging between the two factions of the Death Watch , those loyal to Maul and those loyal to Bo - Katan . Fighting their way through the larger hostilities , Bo - Katan called down a " Kom ' rk " - class fighter / transport to evacuate Kenobi . While she stayed to continue the fight , the Jedi Master was taken from Sundari , and off of Mandalore . At the same time war raged between the fractured Death Watch , the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious arrived in Sundari , having sensed the whereabouts of his former apprentice , Darth Maul . Journeying to the Royal Palace , Sidious confronted Maul and his own apprentice , Savage Opress , over a breach of the Sith Order ' s Rule of Two . The three darksider s became embroiled in a lightsaber duel that raged through the palace throne room , out onto a balcony overlooking Sundari , and then down into the square below . During the fighting Opress was killed , and the duel came to an end soon after as Maul was overpowered by his former master and subdued with the power of Force lightning . However , Sidious elected not to kill the defeated Maul , preferring to keep him alive for his own future purposes . Imperial occupation . As the Clone Wars came to an end , the Galactic Republic was transformed into the Galactic Empire , under the newly crowned Emperor Palpatine . Though the new Empire ' s relationship with Mandalore was cordial at first — offering large sums for mining rights in the " beskar " - rich Tokursh region of the planet , and brokering starship contracts with the MandalMotors company — the Imperial grip on the Mandalorian homeworld later tightened harshly . Aided by elements of the reborn Death Watch , the Empire took control of Mandalore , including the city of Sundari , and operated an Imperial Academy on the subjugated world . Behind the scenes . Sundari was first introduced to " Star Wars " canon in the 2009 " " reference book . The city subsequently appeared in the episode , " The Mandalore Plot , " the newsreel of the following episode " Voyage of Temptation , " and again in the " Duchess of Mandalore . " The series ' episodes " Corruption " and " The Academy " again featured Sundari , as did the episode " A Friend in Need . " " Star Wars : The Clone Wars " marked another return to Sundari , as the city appeared in the episodes " Shades of Reason " and " The Lawless , " as well as the young reader adaptation of those episodes , " " . The city of Sundari shares its name with the mining planet Sundari , first introduced to the " Star Wars " universe in the " Star Wars Adventure Journal " story " Turning Point " , author ed by Charlene Newcomb and published February 1 , 1995 . Since the release of " The Art of Star Wars : The Clone Wars " reference book , the " Star Wars : The Clone Wars " series has referred to Sundari as the capital of the planet Mandalore , a role previously filled by the city of Keldabe , since the release of the of Marvel ' s " Star Wars " comic series in February of 1983 . With the release of " The Essential Atlas " by Jason Fry and Daniel Wallace , Keldabe was again named as the capital of Mandalore , while the pacifist Mandalorians that appeared in the television show were retcon ned to be members of the New Mandalorian faction , with Sundari explicitly deemed the capital of their political faction , per Fry ' s later young reader novel , " Star Wars : The Clone Wars : Darth Maul : Shadow Conspiracy " . The DK reference book " " by Glenn Dakin confused the two Mandalorian capitals , mistaking Keldabe for Sundari , while discussing the Bombing of the Memorial Shrine .