FLAVOR TEXT: Mandalore and the Mandalorians

The writers over at the Star Wars Extended Universe had a dilemma. They needed to create an entire race of people based off of one side character in the original movies who barely spoke as whose most defining personality was "jetpack." So, they had created this cool tribe full of warrior-nomads who all lived by their own defined code and called them "Mandalorians." And then the writers must have taken a holiday, because when it was time to name the planet someone just copy+pasted "Mandalorian."

And then when it was time to name the generations of clan leaders responsible for uniting the tribes into a nation someone just dropped the "ian" and said that every leader has the name "Mandalore." And then when fictional historians went back to name the specific wars fought against these people they named each of the 3 separate wars spanning thousands of years "The Mandalorian Wars." So here you are, America. We did a Star War and it's all about the Mandalorians, a race of intergalactic space cowboys who wear full body armor and wield space-flamethrowers.

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