Hey everybody and welcome to Leia’s Lair. In today’s video
we will be going over what exactly happened to the planet Mandalore?
In Season 3 Episode 1 of the Mandalorian, Mando and Grogu pay a visit to the armorer
who sets them on a redemption quest to the now-destroyed planet of Mandalore.
The planet, though once a vibrant place, is now considered uninhabited,
barren and poisoned. So what exactly happened? How did the planet end up in such a deplorable state?
To understand this, we have to go over a bit of history. Mandalore, during the Clone Wars,
was under the rule of Satine Kryze (sister of Bo-Katan Kryze). Eventually she would be
overthrown, imprisoned, and eventually killed by Sith Lord Maul. At the end of
the Clone Wars, Mandalore was liberated (the Siege of Mandalore) from Maul by an
intervention force of Galactic Republic clone troopers, led by former Padawan Ahsoka Tano,
who had allied with Bo-Katan Kryze's Mandalore resistance.
However, within hours of the siege’s end, Palpatine had transformed the Republic into the
Galactic empire, and using troops still stationed on Mandalore, he ordered the occupation of the
planet. Bo-Katan, who had recently been appointed Regent of the planet, refused to comply with
Imperial Rule, so the Empire installed Gar Saxon (a former commander of Maul) to rule the planet
and gave him considerable power in the process. While many Mandalorians disagreed with this,
they had been weakened by the recent Siege, and instead of standing up against the Empire,
they opted to comply. The Empire would continue to rule Mandalore for years to come.
Now, flashforward to 2 BBY, a young Mandalorian, Sabine Wren, claims the ancient darksaber from
Maul on Dathomir. After training with the blade, she returned to her clan on Krownest, where Saxon
also arrived to take the Darksaber for himself. After Wren's mother, Ursa Wren, killed the viceroy
to protect her daughter, Clan Saxon and Clan Wren began a civil war amongst the Mandalorian people.
During a mission to Mandalore, Clan Wren united with Bo-Katan and her clan. These
clans and other clans would eventually unite to form a resistance against the Empire.
Sabine would gift the newly appointed resistance leader, Bo-Katan, the darksaber,
something viewed as very taboo and likely to leave a curse on the planet.
Realizing they would never be able to control Mandalore and wanting to
make sure that no one else could, the Empire launched the “Great Purge” of
the planet. Bo-Katan and her people attempted to ward off the Empire,
but were not able to. This lead to the near-total genocide of the Mandalorian people.
Bombers laid waste to settlements on Mandalore and destroyed cities in what became known as
the Night of a Thousand Tears.Gunships equipped with repeating blasters wiped
out fields of Mandalorian recruits. The Mines of Mandalore, which supplied the beskar ore,
were also destroyed, with the Empire take all the ore, making it hard to come by in the Mandalorian.
It was during this time that Moff Gideon acquired the darksaber from Bo-Katan,
something we don't know a ton about yet, but will hopefully find out this season. That
leads us to where we are now in the Mandalorian. Obviously there were some survivors of the purge,
such as Bo-Katan and the NIte Owls. Others, such as the Tribe, had been living on the
moon Concordia when this happened, and now believed the planet to be cursed.
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