The History Of Mandalore Explained

The saga of the planet Mandalore is spread across '90s comic book series Tales of the Jedi, the animated series The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels, and the live-action series The Mandalorian. Here is the history of Mandalore explained.

After the runaway success of the original Star Wars in 1977, the future was wide open for sequel The Empire Strikes Back. Among the many abandoned concepts for the second part of the original trilogy was an army of Imperial Super Troopers, armored badasses from the Mandalore system. As conceived by George Lucas and designed by visual effects supervisor Joe Johnston and concept artist Ralph McQuarrie, the Super Troopers would have an ancient grudge against the Jedi and an array of weapons integrated into their suits to combat them.

These concepts would end up forming the basis of Mandalorians as we know them much later, but at the time, the budget simply didn't exist to manufacture dozens if not hundreds of these new costumes, which were much more intricate than the stormtrooper outfits created for the first film. The idea of Super Troopers was scrapped, but the design was undeniably great and a new, individual character was conceived to wear it — the bounty hunter Boba Fett. The costume was given some color and some wear to give it a sense of history and to distinguish it from proper Imperial attire.

Like "Sith" or "Palpatine," the words "Mandalore" and "Mandalorian" are never uttered in the original trilogy, but fans came to know it and associate it with the armor through the wealth of ancillary material released about the film universe throughout the 1980s and '90s.

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The Empire's Super Troopers | 0:00
Legends' long, bloody history | 1:29
The Darksaber unites the clan | 2:54
Embracing pacifism | 3:55
Old ways die hard | 5:14
Darth Maul conquers Mandalore | 6:25
Mandalore wins its independence | 7:48
The new galactic order | 9:12
The houses unite | 10:37
Mandalore may be no more | 12:02
Bo-Katan's return | 13:07

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