Mandalorian Guard / Legends The Mandalorian Guard was an organization that encompassed the combined law enforcement and public safety services of the Outer Rim world of Mandalore . Also known as the Mandalorian police , the officers of the Mandalorian Guard were responsible for upholding the law , maintaining public welfare , and protecting their fellow Mandalorians . Within New Mandalorian territory , the Mandalorian Guard answered to the pacifist government ' s Prime Minister , dispatching organized patrols of grey - armored officers to provide the people a sense of order and security , while locally based constables served to enforce the law elsewhere on Mandalore . Description . The Mandalorian Guard was an agency that oversaw the combined duties of law enforcement , public safety , and emergency services for the planet Mandalore , the Mandalorians ' cultural homeworld located in the galaxy ' s Outer Rim Territories . Highly trained and well organized , the Guard was an elite police force whose members were drawn from a multitude of clans , united by a shared desire to protect the Mandalorian people . The New Mandalorian government monitored the Guard for potential threats to their society , even as a portion of the Mandalorian Guard served the pacifist sect and conducted themselves in accordance to their peaceful ideals . The Guard ' s New Mandalorian police units answered to the office of the New Mandalorian Prime Minister . Ranks that saw use in the Mandalorian Guard included sergeant , captain , and constable . Guardsmen were traditionally trained in the use of blasters , flamethrowers , and other heavy weapons ; those who served within the pacifistic society of the New Mandalorians preferred to make use of stun batons and shields as their primary tools , falling back upon more lethal weaponry only as a last resort . Members of the Guard were also trained to be able to work together as a unit , and were capable of piloting vehicles such as speeders and shuttles . Among the Mandalorian Guard ' s elite units were the Mandalorian Secret Service — who served the New Mandalorian Prime Minister and received additional training with jetpacks — as well as the Mandalorian Royal Guard , a detachment charged with protecting the leader of the New Mandalorians and their council of ministers . The Mandalorian Patrol was a division of the Guard that acted as a Planetary Security Force for both Mandalore and the surrounding sector of space , intercepting suspicious vessels with potentially deadly force . Equipment . Mandalorian Guardsmen typically wore suits of Mandalorian armor in the course of their duties . Due to the New Mandalorians ' desire to distance their society from that of the Mandalorian warrior clans , members of the Guard operating in their territory deviated from contemporary norms as they were more lightly armored , and their plates were of a unique configuration , all colored in a uniform grey . New Mandalorian police helmets also forwent the traditional full - faced design baring a T - shaped visor , for one that left the wearer ' s mouth exposed , and featured an articulated face guard over the eyes and nose that could be raised and lowered with the touch of a button . Mandalorian constables in other parts of Mandalore wore the standard Mandalorian armor of the era , decorated to the wearer ' s preference . Members of the Mandalorian Guard were trained to use a variety of weapons . The most common was the stun baton , favored by those Guardsmen who operated among the New Mandalorians as it ' s non - lethal nature fit their role as maintainers of security . Many Guardsmen also carried large , handheld shields that could halt blasterfire , and Mandalorian manacles were a regular component of Mandalorian police equipment ; forged from nearly impervious " beskar " iron , the manacles were used to bind a captive ' s limbs . Though the pacifistic New Mandalorians asked restraint of the Guard , several members carried blasters , including WESTAR - 35 blaster pistols , in order to meet the needs of the job . Flamethrowers , such as the BT X - 42 , and other heavy weapons were also available to Guardsmen should the need for them arise . The Mandalorian Guard utilized a number of vessels built by MandalMotors , a Mandalorian company headquartered in Mandalore ' s capital city of Keldabe . Mandalore ' s police force used " Buirk ' alor " - class airspeeders — displaying the word " POLICE " in " Mando ' a " lettering at the nose — to patrol the skylanes of New Mandalorian cities , capitalizing on the speeders ' powerful engines to quickly respond to emergencies . The Guard also made use of " Balutar " - class swoops , fast and nimble speeder bikes whose patrol models carried twin cannons , and had access to " Aka ' jor " - class shuttles for missions that required travel beyond the capability of an airspeeder , including transit between Mandalore and it ' s orbiting moon , Concordia . History . The Mandalorian Guard was established as a police and emergency services organization on the planet Mandalore . Over time , the Guard earned a reputation for attracting Mandalorians into its ranks who wished to aid and protect their people . Following the rise of the pacifist New Mandalorian faction in the aftermath of the Mandalorian Excision , elements of the Mandalorian Guard chose to offer their loyalty and service to the peaceful sect . Despite the New Mandalorians ' attempts to forgo violence , the Mandalorian police force remained an active part of their society in order to ensure the welfare of the public and to maintain security . In the aftermath of the Great Clan Wars , during which the Death Watch — a radical and violent Mandalorian splinter group — tried and failed to bring about the destruction of the peaceful New Mandalorians , the pacifist faction ' s newest leader , Duchess Satine Kryze , used her influence to reorganize the Mandalorian Guard . Over the years , individual units of the Guard had become power bases for singular clans , and Kryze moved to break up these clan concentrations via engineered promotions and a reform of the chain of command that saw units of the Guard composed of members from multiple clans . However , tensions developed between the Guard and the New Mandalorian Duchess as veteran Guardsmen grew resentful of less - qualified members being promoted in place of their more deserving peers for no reason other than their clan ties . While recovering from their losses suffered over the course of the Great Clan Wars , Death Watch attempted to recruit several of these dissatisfied Guardsmen to their cause , though they remained cautious of the New Mandalorian government ' s efforts to monitor the Guard . The Mandalorian Patrol , the Guard ' s Planetary Security Force , was also known to have Death Watch sympathizers among its membership at this time , focusing their attention more on criminal activity than the Mandalorian radicals . During this time , childhood friends Fenn Shysa and Tobbi Dala grew up off the coast of Mandalore ' s largest continent , eventually joining the Mandalorian police force as constables of the local province . After finishing a day ' s work , the two Mandalorian lawmen would enjoy a few mugs of Mandallian Narcolethe together . In 21 BBY , amidst the galaxy - spanning Clone Wars , the New Mandalorian capital city of Sundari came under the attack of a terrorist bomber associated with the violent Death Watch . When the culprit chose to take his own life following a chase through the city with Jedi Master Obi - Wan Kenobi , Duchess Satine Kryze elected to return the body of the deceased man to his family on Mandalore ' s moon , Concordia . A squad of Mandalorian police officers accompanied Concordia ' s Governor Pre Vizsla in greeting the Duchess ' shuttle upon her arrival at the spaceport hangar . While on Concordia , Kryze discovered the Death Watch was being led by Governor Vizsla with the support of the Confederacy of Independent Systems , only escaping a nearly fatal encounter with the Mandalorian radicals due to the efforts of Obi - Wan Kenobi . Later , having returned to Mandalore , Kryze was escorted from the Sundari Royal Palace to the city ' s docks by the Mandalorian Guard , where her personal starship the " Coronet " was waiting to take her to Coruscant . As the Duchess stood before the Galactic Republic senate to denounce the threat of Death Watch , insisting that they did not speak for the whole of Mandalore , a Mandalorian Guardsman was sent to scout the Death Watch ' s hideout on Concordia . There , he witnessed a massing of Death Watch soldiers equipped with " Kom ' rk " - class fighters and AAT tanks , and the scout reported his findings back to the New Mandalorian Prime Minister , Almec . The Death Watch army was ultimately forced to stand down when the Confederacy withdrew its support for their campaign . Later that year , with Republic trade routes to Mandalore closed , the New Mandalorian people were forced to invest heavily in black market dealings in order to attain supplies . Corruption and greed spread through both the New Mandalorian government and the Mandalorian Guard , and several Guardsmen working with the New Mandalorian customs department allowed a group of Moogan smugglers to operate out of a dock warehouse , importing shipments of tea they then diluted with toxic levels of slabin to maximize profits . A number of New Mandalorian children fell ill as a result of drinking the poisoned tea , leading to an investigation into the source of the illness by Duchess Kryze and the Mandalorian Royal Guard . Tracking the smugglers to their base , a group of Mandalorian police and Royal Guardsmen led by Kryze confronted the corrupt Guardsmen protecting the warehouse , engaging the rogue officers and the smugglers inside in a firefight that ended with several smugglers dead and the others taken into custody . During the shootout , two members of the Mandalorian police were wounded by blasterfire , including the police captain . Kryze subsequently ordered the warehouse and its contents burned , and in spite of the Guard captain ' s concerns over the loss of valuable forensic evidence , the Mandalorian police obeyed the Duchess ' orders and proceeded to burn down the warehouse with several flamethrowers retrieved from their airspeeders . The Mandalorian Guard were among those hit hardest by the forces of the Shadow Collective during their attack on the New Mandalorian people . Pyke Syndicate thugs and Black Sun foot soldier s landed at the Sundari docks and ambushed members of the Guard . The criminal contingent overpowered the police , violently subduing and imprisoning the New Mandalorians in shipping containers . In Peace Park , Black Sun soldiers and Pyke gunmen opened fire on the crowd , killing police and civilians alike in an indiscriminatory manner . And at the Mandalore Banking Center , the Pykes led a team to rob the facility , using the combat prowess of their Sith Lord ally Savage Opress to carve through the defending members of the Guard and enter the bank . Within short order , the Shadow Collective ' s operatives had overwhelmed New Mandalorian Guard forces across Mandalore , shaking the people ' s faith in Duchess Kryze ' s ability to keep them safe . Relief from the criminal onslaught came only with the arrival of the Death Watch , who struck back at the gangsters holding the docks of Sundari , securing the area and freeing the Guardsmen the gangsters had taken hostage , while other Death Watch troops subdued the Shadow Collectives forces throughout the city . Death Watch leader Pre Vizsla personally defeated the Sith Savage Opress , turning him over to police custody . For their actions against the Shadow Collective , the Mandalorian Guard and the people of Sundari were vocal in their praise of Death Watch . With the people ' s backing , Vizsla deposed Duchess Kryze and installed himself as the New Mandalorians ' leader . When the former Advanced Recon Commando known as Spar defected from the Republic ' s Grand Army , he came to Mandalore following the death of the clone army ' s progenitor , the Mandalorian bounty hunter Jango Fett . With the support of Fenn Shysa , by now a minor clan chieftain and a respected Mandalorian constable , Spar became the new " Mand ' alor " — " Mandalore the Resurrector " — and began recruiting Mandalorian soldiers for a new group of supercommandos known as the Mandalorian Protectors . In pursuit of his goal , Spar turned to Shysa ' s comrades in the Mandalorian police force , drawing close to two hundred willing recruits from their ranks to form the backbone of the Protector army . The Mandalorian Protectors entered the Clone Wars on the side of the Confederacy , becoming a renowned shock force capable of doing in one day what the Separatist droid army couldn ' t accomplish in a month , but their role in the war ultimately came to an end after succumbing to a devastating Republic ambush on Norval II . As the Clone Wars drew to a close in 19 BBY , the victorious Galactic Republic was transformed into the Galactic Empire , and the new government set its sights on occupying Mandalore just as its predecessor had during the Clone Wars . Though the Empire ' s initial relations with Mandalore were cordial , the Imperial presence soon became a tyrannical occupation , enslaving and strip - mining Mandalore . To resist the Imperial occupation , a new iteration of the Mandalorian Protectors rose under " Mand ' alor " Fenn Shysa , who again called upon elements of the elite Mandalorian police to aid in his guerrilla war with the Empire . Though it took time , in the end the Protectors were able to overcome the Imperials ' hold on Mandalore , defeating the Empire ' s forces in the City of Bone , before driving them fully from Mandalorian space . Behind the scenes . Mandalorian police were first mentioned in the " Star Wars Insider " article " The History of the Mandalorians " , written by Abel G . Peña and published in January of 2005 as part of the magazine ' s eightieth issue . Four years later , in 2009 , the " Galaxy at War " sourcebook again mentioned units of Mandalorian police and their impact on the foundation of both iterations of the Mandalorian Protectors . On January 29 , 2010 , the Mandalorian Guard appeared in full with the debut of " The Mandalore Plot , " the twelfth episode of the . The Guard would go on to reappear in several subsequent episodes of the series , including " Duchess of Mandalore , " " Corruption , " " The Academy , " and " Shades of Reason . " The Encyclopedia , hosted on StarWars . com from September 13 , 2011 to July 1 , 2014 , provided an informational entry for the Mandalorian Guard . While other sources suggested that the Mandalorian Guard and the Mandalorian Royal Guard were distinct , separate units , the Encyclopedia entry referenced both organizations as though they were interchangeable , even linking the Mandalorian Guard entry to the Wookieepedia article for the Royal Guard instead of this one . The Guard ' s entry in the canon ical Databank , which replaced the Encyclopedia on StarWars . com , continues to refer to both groups in an interchangeable manner . The 2013 release of " " , a reference book co - author ed by Jason Fry , Daniel Wallace , and Ryder Windham , outlined further information on the Mandalorian Guard , including new context that denotes the Royal Guard as an elite unit of the Mandalorian Guard .