Mandalorian Protectors

The **Mandalorian Protectors** or simply known as the **Protectors** are the Mandalorian Royal Guards that directly serve Mand'alor and were one of the only groups that survived centuries of infighting, occupation and destruction of the Mandalorian people.

## History

By the time of the Mandalorian Civil War in 60 BBY the Protectors had been diminished significantly and supported the pacifist government of Mandalore as it was the one with the greatest form of legitimacy in the eyes of the Republic for example. As the Civil War concluded, both the True Mandalorians and Death Watch practically ceased to exist, leaving the Protectors as the sole organization that withstood the great shift in Mandalorian society to a pacifist way of life. In the end however the Protectors remained in name only, having been forced to surrender their traditional armor and weapons.

With the start of the Clone Wars a single Clone going by the name Alpha-02, nicknamed *Spar* fled his birthplace of Kamino and ventured to Mandalore where a new insurgency instigated by the remnants of Death Watch under Pre Vizsla had continued the Civil War, although on a much smaller scale. Here Spar recruited around 200 Mandalorian constables and 12 former Death Watch members in his effort to revive the true Mandalorian Protectors in the image of the True Mandalorians. Spar became Mand'alor the Resurrector and followed the example of his "father" Jango Fett. Under his leadership the Protectors joined the Confederacy of Independent Systems and started fighting the Clone Troopers of te Republic

Some former Protectors that refused to become part of the pacifist Mandalore were hired by the Republic prior to the Clone Wars to train its clone pilots. Among those was Fenn Rau who even personally assisted the Republic in theaters such as the Battle of Mygeeto. By the time of the Clone Wars there were effectively three seperate groups of Mandalorians that called themselves the Protectors: The royal guards of the pacifist regime, the seperatist allies led by Spar and the warriors under Fenn Rau that aided the Republic.

When Death Watch took control of Mandalore with the help of former Sith Lord Maul and the Shadow Collective, the Mandalorian Protectors under Duchess Satine Kryze practically ceased to exist. Some likely joined the new Supercommandos und Pre Vizsla and then after his death Maul, others joined the remained Protector organizations. Around the same time the Protecors under Spar were contacted by Darth Sidious personally and tasked with captured Senator Amidala on Norval II but this mission as a set up by the Sith Lord who saw that the Mandalorians involvement in the war could jeopardize his entire plan and so decided to annihalte them. On Norval II the Protectors were ambushed by Republic troops and almost completely destroyed. Only Spar, Fenn Shysa and Tobbi Dala survived the carnage. The shell-shocked Spar eventually stepped down from his position as Mand'alor, effectively leaving the broken remains of the Protectors in the hands of Shysa.

By the end of the Clone Wars only one Mandalorian Protectors organization remained, the one under Fenn Rau which had allied with the Republic. As one of the last battles of the war, the Republic had invaded Mandalore and removed Maul from power there and given power to former Death Watch member Bo-Katan Kryze. Kryze however did not manage to keep the planet under her control and lost it as soon as the newly formed Empire occupied the world. The Mandalorian Protectors under Fenn Rau fled to Concord Dawn where they made a treaty with the Empire which allowed the Protectors to continue to exist but under the watchful eye of the Empire. Mandalore was given to Gar Saxon who used to be one of Mauls Lieutenants when the planet was still controlled by the former Sith Lord. Saxon wished to destroy the Protectors as they were the only group that could truely threaten his reign and in 2 BBY he succeeded, killing all but Fenn Rau who later joined Sabine Wren of Clan Wren in the Rebellion.

On Mandalore Fenn Shysa attempted to revive his own Protectors with new recruits and fight a guerillia war against the imperial occupants. They attacked imperial slaver convoys on Mandalore and freed the slaves who in turn gladly joined the Protectors cause. In 3 ABY, with the help of Leia Organa and the Rebellion, the Protectors managed to destroy the imperial stronghold as well as defeat Grand Admiral Miltin Takel and finally free their homeworld. Shysa would go on to become the new Mand'alor and take full control of the System as well as other Mandalorian worlds. With Mand'alors approval the Protectors would occasionally accept mercenary work under the condition that no innocents could be harmed. The Protectors would continue to serve Mand'alor Boba Fett in the follwing years and during the Yuuzhan Vong Wars where they defended the sovereignty of the Mandalorian heartworlds.