Canderous Ordo

Canderous Ordo, also known as Mandalore the Preserver, was a human male Mandalorian warrior of Clan Ordo who united the Mandalorian clans under his rule as Mand'alor during the Dark Wars in the Old Republic Era. Originally a commander of Mandalore the Ultimate's forces in the Mandalorian Wars, the defeat of the Mand'alor and the appropriation of his relics of leadership by the Jedi Knight Revan effected the fragmentation of Mandalorian society, all while Ordo turned to mercenary work. Settling on Taris for a time under the employ of crime lord Davik Kang, the mercenary escaped the Outer Rim planet onboard the Ebon Hawk just as a blockading Sith fleet bombarded the surface. He begrudgingly aided the crew — which included Jedi Knight Bastila Shan and the decreasingly amnesiac Revan — in foiling the attempts of Darth Malak to destroy the Republic through the Battle of the Star Forge.
For his assistance in ending the Jedi Civil War, Revan entrusted the Mandalorian with the Mask of Mandalore — one such aforementioned relic — through which Ordo reunited his compatriots under his leadership. The henceforth-dubbed Mandalore the Preserver was present in his base on the Onderonian moon of Dxun when the Jedi Exile arrived in search of other survivors of a recent Jedi Purge instigated by the Sith Triumvirate. Forming a coalition with the Exile and the Republic, the Preserver's forces was contributory to the defeat of the Triumvirate in the Dark Wars, though the Mandalore's alliance with the Republic neither lasted nor found much popular support among his people. The related disdain for Revan salient throughout the Mandalorian populace also influenced Ordo to hide the Mask as Revan previously did, stowing the relic in a haunted tomb on Dxun under the guardianship of Revan's assassin droid HK-47, decreeing only a descendant of the Knight could reclaim the Mask to heal the cultural antagonism.
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