I know I said I would step away from the Star Wars Cassian Andor series for a bit…and
technically I did.
But there has been this thought in my head, and I figured I was alone in it, until one
viewer here talked about their thoughts on it.
So, first I want to give a shoutout to Doremi Fasolatido for the inspiration to go on and
make this one.
There is something very familiar with the people of Ferrix.
Well…familiar if you know about different Star Wars cultures.
The way Cassian Andor himself seems more of a loner and an amateur mercenary, the way
the people of Ferrix banded together when their home was threatened by outsiders, and
the use of a Beskar anvil as a bell…now these aren’t the only coincidences between
those of the Ferrix uprising and the Mandalorian culture, but they are the clues that got me
thinking…are the people of Ferrix descendants of a lost tribe of Mandalorians?
Well…that’s what we are going to discuss.
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Now, let’s get on with today’s topic.
Before we move forward, this is just a theory.
And with theories, you have to take them with a grain of salt…until it’s either confirmed
or proven wrong.
Theories are just something to think about.
And they help us look deeper into the Star Wars movies and shows.
Let’s take a look at some of the clues.
The first is the Time Grappler…you know…the guy in the tower striking his hammers against
the anvil at the beginning and end of every day?
Ferrix is full of scrap metal.
They are in no short supply of metals to make a bell.
So, why is this anvil made of Beskar?
How did he get the precious metal?
From what we know from the Mandalorian series, Beskar is meant to only be in the possession
of Mandalorians.
Cobb Vanth reiterates this by saying that the Boba Fett armor he’s wearing is Mandalorian
and it’s Din Djarin’s duty to return it to the Mandalorian people.
And since it’s now confirmed that Boba Fett’s armor is indeed Beskar…well…you get the
picture.
But if you’re thinking it’s not necessarily Beskar that needs to be returned, we also
know the Empire mined the Beskar from Mandalore when they took it over and the Mandalorians
want it back.
Okay, so we saw Din Djarin return about 50 lbs of Beskar from an Imperial client.
This was seen as a great supply.
But what about the Time Grappler’s anvil?
This has to be at least one ton of Beskar.
And the Cassian Andor series takes place during a time when Mandalorians weren’t very giving
of their finest resource.
Okay, maybe the Beskar anvil is made from small bits of Beskar melted down until such
a size was reached.
That brings another clue to the people of Ferrix being of Mandalorian descent.
Or at least in good favor with the Mandalorians.
Why?
Because Beskar can only be forged by a Mandalorian armorer.
That means the anvil was made by a Mandalorian.
Not some lowly scrapper in a steel worker’s union.
Think about this…the Imperial client that Din Djarin dealt with had a supply of Beskar.
The Beskar was enough to make one suit of Mandalorian armor…with some left over for
foundlings.
So, why didn’t the client use the metal to make his own armor?
Because he couldn’t!
As I said, Beskar can only be forged by a Mandalorian armorer.
In typical applications, the Baskar was useless to the client.
He could only use it in trade.
So, the anvil had to have been made by a Mandalorian.
Does that mean the Time Grappler is a Mandalorian?
Not necessarily.
It could have been a gift to the people of Ferrix as a reminder of who they are.
It isn’t that much of a stretch when you think about the lore behind Beskar.
I could go on and on about that.
But let’s move on, shall we?
Let’s take a look at Cassian Andor.
We know he is originally from Kenari.
That isn’t a Mandalorian settlement…nor home world.
But Cassian Andor didn’t grow up on Kenari.
He was found there and taken in by Maarva Andor and raised as her own.
Which culture do we know of that does that?
Other than Jedi taking babies, slave owners keeping young and raising them as servants
or laborers…no one other than Mandalorians.
Once an orphan is found they are brought into Mandalorian society and taught the culture.
The way of the Mand’alor.
Now look at how Cassian Andor acts.
His behaviors and his seemingly careless attitude for the lives of his adversaries.
He doesn’t think twice about killing someone opposing him.
But that alone isn’t enough to call him a Mandalorian foundling.
As I stated before…lost tribe.
With any lost tribes of our own world, we see similarities in them and their parent
culture.
Even though there are distinguished differences, we do see a lot of cultural similarities.
And in Cassian Andor, we can see some of the Mandalorian traditions in him.
He’s mostly been a loner on his exploits throughout the galaxy, but when the time came,
he had a strong sense of community and duty to his people.
Cassian Andor took on being a mercenary of sorts.
One of the honorable professions of Mandalorians.
Although he was out there alone, he still maintained his connection to his family.
And we see that through his interactions with his mother and the flashbacks of his father.
He even went as far as to attack Imperial clones for the death of his father.
Cassian also fights in the same manor as we would see a Mandalorian.
This is highlighted in the first scenes of the Andor series.
When he is approached by the security officers of Morlana One, he dispatches them with ease
through quick hand to hand combat movements.
Considering these officers were kind of drunken idiots, they still would have been trained
in hand-to-hand combat.
But Cassian made short work of them.
Then there are the actual citizens of Ferrix.
The biggest clue is the uprising against their Imperial guests.
When we look at much of the galaxy during this time, most human planets are accepting
of the Imperial rule.
Some even welcome it.
Some are just nonchalant, as they realize it’s just another government in charge and
it’s no different than the others.
Miggs Mayfeld said it better than I have.
But the good citizens of Ferrix are mostly unaware of the atrocities committed by the
Empire…other than individuals like Bix Kaleen, who stays in regular contact with a rebel
outsider…much like Bo-Katan Kryze and Ahsoka…or Satine Kryze and Obi-Wan Kenobi.
But the fact that the general populous has stayed out of galactic affairs, yet still
bound together to fight the Empire speaks volumes.
Then look at the Time Grappler again.
In the moment where he Sparta kicked the stormtrooper out of the bell tower.
He had two weapons in his hands…hammers.
Yet, he didn’t use them.
The hammers and the anvil are either sacred or relics.
When we see Brasso preparing for work, it’s noted that everyone hangs their gloves in
the same location.
It’s the same with the hammers.
As the gloves are stored closer to the workers’ jobs, the hammers are hung close to the Beskar
anvil.
Not taken home to hammer nails in a home remodeling project…they have one purpose…to strike
the anvil.
And they are not to be desecrated by hitting a stormtrooper with them.
They didn’t care about galactic politics…they wanted their anonymity.
Just like Mandalore and its people.
And they didn’t do it by hiding in the forest and resigning to gorilla tactics.
They pronounced their intentions in town square, in front of their Imperial overseers and they
banded together and attacked them openly.
There were no secret plans made.
They didn’t retreat to find a better time to do it.
They decided and they acted immediately.
All while being surrounded by the oppressive Imperial forces.
And it wasn’t about beating the entire Empire.
It was about kicking them off their planet.
Yes, Maarva mentioned her plans to be a rebel, but this could have only meant she want to
rebel against the Empire on her planet.
Not join the larger rebellion.
A lot of the argument against Ferrix being a lost tribe or settlement of Mandalore is
that no one wears the armor.
And I get that.
But let’s take a look at Mandalore during the Clone Wars.
The citizens didn’t wear the armor.
For most cases it was the highly skilled warriors with warrior lineage that wore the Beskar
armor openly.
Even when not in combat situations.
But there is the tenant of the Resol’nare that states a Mandalorian must wear the armor.
But this lost tribe may not know of the Resol’nare.
Or their traditions are so far removed that the warrior culture of their origins are no
longer needed, as they want to be left in peace.
Just as Duchess Satine Kryze and her New Mandalorians.
Then again, this could all be written off as coincidence, and that everything in Star
Wars doesn’t have to have a deeper meaning.
And everything doesn’t have to be connected to Sith, Jedi, or Mandalorians.
Like I said before, this is just something fun to think about.
It would be a great way to connect the Cassian Andor series to the Mandalorian and other
Star Wars projects if this were to be fact.
And we know the creators of the new Star Wars era are trying to connect as much as they
can to the larger stories.
The biggest is what’s been dubbed the Mando-verse.
And IF…big if… this Theory about Cassian Andor and the citizens of Ferrix is at all
accurate, it would tie into the Mandalorian universe nicely.
Much like the Darth Jar Jar theory, it may never be confirmed nor denied.
But I guess time will tell…or it won’t.
But either way, I could go on and on for the next two years about the Cassian Andor series.
It’s that good!
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