Mandalorian Warrior

**Mandalorian Warriors**, also known as **Mandalorian Commandos**, were soldiers of Mandalorian warrior clans that were active throughout Mandalorian cultural history. Many Mandalorian warriors were part of Mandalorian organizations such as Death Watch, Mandalorian Protectors, Nite Owls, and the Children of the Watch, where they served as assassins, bounty hunters, mercenaries, and saboteurs.

## Characteristics

Mandalorian warriors, also referred to as Mandalorian commandos, were Mandalorian soldiers that embodied Mandalore's warrior heritage and served warrior-centric Mandalorian clans. They used various types of Mandalorian armor, including Mandalorian rally master armor. Mandalorian warriors used the military rank of rally master, and the group Death Watch used a rank insignia. Jaig Eyes were a combat honor that adorned the helmets of Mandalorian warriors.

## History

The tradition of Mandalorian shock trooper dated back to the legendary Taung Shadow Warriors. The Taungs fought epic battles on the ancient Coruscant and eventually settled the planet Mandalore, becoming the first Mandalorians. Although the species eventually vanished, Humans and other species of Mandalorians continued the Taung warrior tradition as the Mandalorian shock troopers.
The first Mandalorian shock troopers identified as such were the Mandalorian Crusaders who waged violent and rather primitive crusades during several centuries. These fierce warriors were finally defeated by the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order during the Great Sith War around 4000 BBY. In the next decades, their successor, the Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders, assembled a powerful army in prevision of an apocalyptic war. They conquered many worlds in the so-called Mandalorian Wars, ultimately declaring a total war to the Republic. Although the Neo-Crusaders were defeated and decimated, the Mandalorian culture survived. However, for the next 2,000 years, the few remaining shock troopers would never be united and served almost exclusively as mercenaries. Mandalorian shock troopers therefore fought as mercenaries in the majority of the major galactic conflicts, including the Great Galactic War, the War against Zakuul, and the New Sith Wars.

The reunification of the Mandalorian shock troopers began in the century prior to the fall of the Republic, when the former Journeyman Protector Jaster Mereel created the Supercommando Codex. This new code was a revived and modernized version of the millennium-old Canons of Honor with stronger principles of ethics and honor. A number of clans accepted to follow Mereel's creed but a splinter group of ruthless and amoral Mandalorians known as the Death Watch rejected it. Eventually, the ideological conflict turned to civil war and all the Mandalorian shock troopers roughly organized onto two camps: Jaster Mereel's True Mandalorians and Tor Vizsla's Death Watch. The two factions were virtually annihilated during the conflict but both groups later rose from the ashes during the Clone Wars.

After the Mandalorian Civil War, the New Mandalorians led by Duchess Satine Kryze adopted and created a pacifist society, a sharp turn from Mandalore's warrior culture. Those who did not accept were exiled to Concordia, and by the time of the Clone Wars were thought to have died out. In reality, however, warriors were still active and grouped Death Watch, which was secretly led by Pre Vizsla. The Mandalorian bounty hunter and foundling Jango Fett, who participated in the Mandalorian Civil Wars, was a famous individual who wore a distinctive set of Mandalorian armor, although the New Mandalorian government did not know how he obtained it. Death Watch was active throughout the Clone Wars, eventually joining the Shadow Collective led by Maul and overthrew the New Mandalorian government and civil war erupted once again.

After the rise of the Galactic Empire, Imperial Super Commandos were formed and served the Empire, while other Mandalorian warriors were active in their respective clans. The Mandalorian Protectors remained active in the Concord Dawn system. After the Great Purge of Mandalore against the Mandalorians and the fall of the Empire, at least one group of Mandalorian warriors known as the Tribe operated in secrecy. When Din Djarin was granted his own signet—establishing Clan Mudhorn in the process—and a jetpack by "the Armorer" during the Clash on Nevarro, the act acknowledged that he was a full Mandalorian warrior.