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welikethoseoddslove · 2 years

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Adventure (A Din x reader story pt.5)

Warnings: Okay I KNOW what I said before but trust me I've got a treat coming with the next one. Good quality spicy time on the way but not in this one. Just genre-typical injuries and language. Some pining Mando Also gif not mine.

Pairing: Mando x reader

Previous Ch. Summary: In an attempt to stop the Mandalorian from harming the Child, you fight, he knocks you unconcious. Realizing why you were trying to stop him after finding the Child, he carries you back to Kuiil. But all you know is you wake up on a strange ship, in a strange bed, with a Mandalorian standing over you.

You open your eyes and you’re staring at a metal ceiling. Your memories failing to come back to you right away you try and get your bearings. A prison? No…you check yourself for restraints but there are none. Instead you find a soft blanket and some ointment on the bruises littering your limbs. You hear a hiss of a ramp door being opened. Oh that sound was so familiar to you, from your days before the valley.

You were on a ship.

You almost let out a shriek as the Mandalorian appears in the doorway. The memory of the fight comes back to you.

You were on his ship. You jump to stand but your head spins, you fall back, sitting on the bed.

“Why am I here?” You ask, as demandingly as you can while still grimacing at your pounding head.

“I am sorry. I didn’t mean to frighten you. We’re still in the valley. You had been unconscious for hours…and Kuiil was getting worried. We decided to move you up here where the ship could keep track of your vitals.”

“Why are you helping me? I attacked you.”

“I know.” He answered simply…you could have sworn you heard a smile in his voice.

“So? What happened?”

“I found the Child. I know you just wanted to protect him.”

“He’s alive?” You said, maybe it was whatever was in this ointment but you felt like you could cry.

“I won’t harm him, but I do have a job to do.”

“I won’t let you take him!” You said weakly. He didn’t answer but you imagined he was raising his eyebrows at you. He crossed his arms and leaned against the doorway, watching as you stood, woozy and unbalanced to look him in the eyes.

“Fine. I can’t stop you from taking him to whoever paid you…obviously,” you gestured to your many injuries, he tilted his helmet, listening,

“But I won’t leave his side.”

You thought he would protest. Escort you off the ship. But he said nothing.

“I don’t have an extra bed. You’ll have to sleep on the floor of the cockpit.” He said as he turned to walk away.

Your eyes went wide. Were you really going out into the world again? After all this time? But what other choice did you have?

You packed your things with Kuiil, explaining everything to him. After a teary goodbye (in private, of course, there was no way you would let that stoic metal-man see you like this), you left the lovely and now peaceful valley, and boarded the Razor Crest.

You dropped your bag on an empty looking corner and followed the pilot into the cockpit. Wordless, he situated the Child on one passenger seat and you took the other, he sat, expertly flipped some switches and without warning launched into space, looked between the two:

The sleeping child and the man who barely said a word.

This was going to be interesting.

------------------------ He didn’t speak to you except for basic commands, “Don’t sleep there.” “Get the Child.” “Time to land.” The Mandalorian had dropped the Child off with the buyer, taken the reward, you were furious, you had insisted you stay behind.

The buyer agreed but as soon as the towering soldier had left, Storm Troopers threw you out of the building. You were no match for them.

You banged on the door desperate to be let in for hours into the night. You were so tired, and all you wanted was to know if the kid was alright.

That’s when he came back. Slumped against the door you had just been thrown out of, nursing your most likely broken rib, eyes…just giving up on staying open…you felt strong arms wrap around you.

One arm under your knees, the other supporting your head…you remembered the feeling of his leather gloves digging in to your skin when he had been sitting behind you on the blurrg-mount. In your delirium you sighed, feeling, somehow, so utterly protected.

He gingerly placed you down in his bed. “Stay here.” He whispered softly to your sleeping form. “I’ll get the kid, then let’s get out of here.”

He pulled the blankets over you and shut the door.

You had fallen into a much-needed sleep. You hadn’t slept since being unconscious and that was what? Four days ago? The ship was monitoring your vitals and would alert The Mandalorian if anything went bad while he was out.

He returned with the Child and took off. The Razor Crest now in space, and any ship tailing them having been long since blown out of the sky, he felt safe enough to go back to check on you.

Of course he didn’t need to. He could pull up all your vitals on his comm or his ship or even his helmet…but…he wanted to.

He didn’t want to admit it, but your sleeping form was such a sight. Your hair and how it draped over your strong shoulders, the curve of your chest as you breathed long and slow, how your lips parted slightly when your face was this relaxed…

He shuddered with a sharp intake of breath as he leaned against the doorway, looking down at you. The sound of his metal pauldron hitting the door frame made you stir.

You moved for the first time in hours, and yelped at the sharp pain in your side. Your rib. Oh you had forgotten!

“My side” you got out through breaths of pain.

He sprung into action going to get some bacta ointment from his first aid kit he kept…somewhere. He rummaged through things.

“Mandalorian?” He heard you call meekly from around the corner. He realized he hadn’t said what he was doing. “Here!” he called back. He would have to work on that. He was so used to being on his own, never having to explain what he was doing, in most cases, he was safter when he didn’t explain what he was up to. “I’m just getting you some bacta cream, it will absorb into the skin quickly. It’s like a-“

“Heh I know what Bacta is, Mandalorian.” You almost laugh from the other room, but it’s too painful.

“You know what Bacta is?” He appears in the doorway once again, repeating your words back to you. Wondering how a girl of your age seemed so comfortable with military-grade first aid.

“mhmm” you answer. You could tell he was intrigued, but you’d leave that for another time. He bent down on a knee at your bedside.

You liked him curious.

The next chapter gets spiiiiicy, wanna read it?

#mando s2 #the mandalorian #mando x you #mando season 2 #mando x reader #mando x y/n #din x reader #din djaren #din djarin #din djaren x reader #grogu #mando the himbo #the mandalorian x you #the mandolorian x reader #the mandalorian fanart #mando and grogu #din the daddy

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r4ndom45 · 1 year

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Finished mandalorian. There is a lot of people that say that it is a very good show, and so i decided to see whats was all the fuss about.

It is indeed a great show. It was one of the shows that were able to keep me paying attention every second. I hope the third season is as good as the other 2.

Cant wait for march 1st!

#star wars #mando season 1 #mando #mando s2 #the mandalorian

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communistkenobi · 1 year

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something I’ve noticed while rewatching other star wars properties after having watched andor is that it’s difficult to watch them without thinking about andor, almost as if andor has produced a new interpretive lens for the star wars universe. and I’m setting aside all comparisons of narrative quality or pacing or cinematography for a moment, because I don’t mean those things.

for example, rewatching the mandalorian, din’s amban rifle is really cool. it’s a weapon that is illegal to have in the new republic, and it functions not only as a mid-to-long range weapon, it also acts as a fairly heavy duty taser. now as I said, this weapon is very cool. I like it a lot! but its function and existence is meant to be separate from who din is as a person - the fact that he has a weapon that doubles as a taser is not meant to be a commentary on his character aside from “this guy is a badass.” to be fair, I think what it’s meant to be is a tool of his trade - he’s a bounty hunter, he hunts people, tasers are handy for that. but there is no larger observation being made about the type of person who would use a weapon like that, or the type of society that would produce a weapon of that kind. there is no discussion in the mandalorian about how the specific economic and social demands being made of din require him to use what is by all accounts an incredibly vicious (and outlawed) weapon to “just do his job.” that is a settled matter that is not intended to be part of the narrative arc of the story.

but in andor, a taser prod is used as a weapon by the prison guards in narkina-5, and in fact the entire floor the prisoners stand on acts as a kind of collective spatial taser. these are not just meant to be narrative obstacles for our hero to overcome, they are actively saying something about the institution that uses it - that the very fact of their existence is evil, that a society who produces those types of weapons are making a particular kind of statement about how they view control and punishment of the people they govern. tl;dr, andor is making that kind of weapon political, and is asking the audience to consider it not just as a tool of the empire but as an ideological expression of the empire itself.

and so to get to the point I’m trying to make, I think a lot of things in star wars are very much settled matters. while the canon seems to constantly be re-litigated and retconned, fundamental premises are not really considered questionable or up for debate, especially a lot of the established visual traditions. and I think what andor is doing is presenting the audience with these very questions - it is reinvigorating the politics of star wars by insisting that a lot more things in the universe are up for debate, that they are politically and socially produced by the fictional societies and cultures and governments that exist in star wars, and every piece of equipment and clothing and relationship says something about those fictional people. it is asking you to view star wars as a universe that is infused with political meaning, and that politics is not a discrete category that things like tasers or prisons or arranged marriages or administrative process can be separated from. to take down the empire in andor, you don’t just have to remove the head of state or kill all the stormtroopers; you need to destroy all the tasers, too

#sw.txt #mando.txt #andor #hm. not sure I’m making my point #like you can probably disagree with what I’m saying #it would be helpful if I remember more sw lore but I’m rusty #anyway I am going to take a shower. hopefully this makes sense lol #this is not a dunk on mando btw it’s just the example that got me thinking about this #I think on average mando skews more politically charged than not #although s2 dampens a lot of that. ANYWAY

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tremendouskoalachild · 1 month

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filoni and favreau: NO tie-ins for our shows!! only we can play with our ocs! don't tell us what to do, story group 🙄 don't you know we're making it up as we go along. oh you want to make a comprehensive reference book for star wars? too bad, we haven't established even a vague timeline like 5 seasons in. you want basic information about the setting we're writing in? fuck off. yeah we can borrow other writer's characters. no you can't write books and comics with ours. adapt the show as is and sell merch of green baby

#anti mandoverse #this may be too mean and i might delete it lol #also corrections welcome since i haven't properly kept up with that whole clownshow since i guess mando s2 #anyway i was just reminded how much i love properly thought out worldbuilding and tie-in campaigns #save me the acolyte you're my only hope

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not-a-big-slay · 1 year

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SPOILERS

Can someone teach these dads the word lightsaber?

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thefrogdalorian · 3 months

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You're laughing. The Mandalorian & Grogu movie isn't going to release until 2026 meaning we have to survive basically two more years without Din Djarin and his son and you're laughing.

#mando movie #din djarin #the mandalorian #i'm not going to make it guys i'm just not they better be in skeleton crew lol #or ahsoka s2 i know its unlikely but i need them????#no it's fine we'll make it #right. RIGHT????

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paulinagilart · 2 years

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the king and queen of tatooine

I drew this so fast after the mando s2 finale lol

#boba fett #fennec shand #the book of boba fett #star wars #the mandalorian #the mandalorian s2 #i am very happy with how the textures came out ngl #playing with brushes in photoshop was super fun #i really loved drawing them in a playing card style #boba #fennec #mando s2 #tbobf #tbobf fanart

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shiversdownyourspleen · 1 year

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Who’s gonna win?

#I haven’t seen always sunny my b #star wars #the bad batch #the bad batch s2 #the bad batch season 2 #tbb #tbb s2 #bad batch #star wars the bad batch #the mandolorian #mando #mandolorian season 3 #the mandalorian #the mandalorian s3

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sluttysuperheroes · 4 months

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Two moments in Star Wars fandom I wish I could time travel back to: right after TFA came out and right after Mando s2 finale. Take me back take me BACK take me baaaaccckk right now. Take me back to when we believed Disney could queerbait us in any way that matters

#god fuck Star Wars ain’t shit now #we’ve fallen so far #this used to be a real country #the high after TFA and mando s2… nothing like it #Star Wars #dinluke #finnpoe

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itsjayro · 5 months

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Does anyone miss mando season 1 & 2. Like what it used to be? When it was just this simple story of a father & his son & every now and then a friend would show up and they’d team up. I kinda wish that the mando storyline & rebels storyline weren’t forced to be the same storyline. I think both are hindered by that & have to make compromises & both are not what they should be. Just my opinion

#star wars #sw rebels #the mandolorian season 2 #the mandolarian #mando #the mandalorian s2 #din djaren #grogu #baby yoda #boba fett #ahsoka tano #bo katan kryze

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yukipri · 1 year

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I saw somewhere someone says it wasn't the Jedi fault what happened at Galidraan, they were there to arrest and investigate, not to kill, and it was the mando who attack first. Is that true ? I didn't read it

Ahh fandom misunderstandings about Galidraan continue.

Understandable, given it's from a relatively obscure base media but the event comes up a lot in fan works. I'll do my best to break it down.

All you need to know about the Massacre on Galidraan

The following info is all from the Legends comic Jango Fett: Open Seasons, specifically focussing on the 3rd installment, Winter. Here's a photo of my physical copy I have open as I type this, so you know I'm not pulling this info out of my ass.

First, some crucial facts:

1: Galidraan was not a Mandos vs Jedi conflict.

It may appear that way at first glance, and likely seemed that way to many outsiders across the Galaxy who only read about the massacre in a heavily censored news article. But while the battle was the True Mandalorians fighting against the Jedi and ultimately all dying except for Jango, that is not what the conflict was about.

2: There were 4 factions involved in Galidraan.

People oftentimes boil it down to Mandos vs Jedi, but that isn't accurate, because there were 4 parties involved:

The True Mandalorians (Haat Mando'ade; Jango's people)

The Jedi

Death Watch (led by Tor Vizsla, who killed Jaster, Jango's mentor)

The Governor of Galidraan

I have no idea why some fandom takes on Galidraan forget to mention the last two, when they are why the massacre took place at all.

3: The party responsible for the conflict on Galidraan was DEATH WATCH, with the Governor of Galidraan as their accomplice.

The Jedi were used, and the True Mandalorians were victims.

You can endlessly debate whether or not the Jedi or the True Mandalorians could have taken different actions to have possibly prevented the massacre. And it's true, it might have been possible! There were certainly other actions that both sides could have taken.

HOWEVER. That discussion can ONLY take place after understanding that both sides were very intentionally, and very MALICIOUSLY manipulated by a third party.

This was not a normal Jedi vs Mandos clash. Neither the Jedi nor the True Mandalorians would have fought (would have even been on the planet in the first place!) without these manipulations, so to ask which of the two was to blame without first understanding that Death Watch set them up is failing to get Galidraan at all.

Here's what happened at the Massacre of Galidraan:

Jango and the True Mandalorians took a job from the Governor of Galidraan to kill his political opponents. The True Mandalorians are mercenaries, and this was just a job for them. It's also implied that Jango knew in advance that the Governor of Galidraan had been harboring Tor Vizsla and funding Death Watch*, and he intentionally took the job in order to get the Governor to owe him and pay him with information on them.

Jango and the True Mandalorians killed the Governor's political opponents, just as they were hired to do, and upheld their agreement. When Jango goes to collect payment, it was a trap—Tor Vizsla and Death Watch were waiting for him, and attempted to kill him.

Jango escapes, but his jetpack is damaged, as are his comms (or perhaps more likely, his comms were intentionally blocked). This is important because Jango now knows explicitly that they were set up: that the Governor of Galidraan was always working with Death Watch, and that he and his people being called to this planet was a trap in order to kill them. He tries to warn the True Mandalorians (Myles, his second, to be exact) to evacuate, but is unable to reach them because of his comms connection.

Back with Death Watch and the Governor, after Vizsla fails to kill Jango, they watch as the Jedi land on planet. The Governor states: "Yes, as you [Tor Vizsla] instructed, I begged for [the Jedi/the Republic's] help. Informed them that the Mandalorians were slaughtering political activists, which is basically true."

So, let's get this straight: the Governor of Galidraan, who personally HIRED the True Mandalorians to get rid of his political opponents, is now calling the Jedi to say "Oh no the Mandalorians are killing political activists!" And he did so under the explicit orders of Tor Vizsla. He explicitly backstabbed the True Mandalorians.

Should note that the True Mandalorians do follow a code, and only killed the specific people considered a threat (aka combatants). The True Mandalorians did not touch civilians, but as you can see from frames above, Death Watch goes ahead and kills them to make false evidence against the True Mandalorians and therefore justify their slaughter.

Again: Death Watch/Tor Vizsla and the Governor of Galidraan EXPLICITLY set up the True Mandalorians/Jango.

Next: Jango gets back to the True Mandalorians' camp as soon as he can, and arrives just as a large group of Jedi arrive, led by Dooku. Their lightsabers are already drawn.

Dooku says to them: "You stand accused of murder. Surrender now and we will ensure that you are fairly treated."

The girl next to Dooku, presumably young Komari Vosa, adds, "But fight us, and we will bring swift justice!"

Jango's response: "Mandalorians, open fire! And shoot the loudmouth first!"

And so the battle begins.

Without any of the previous context, sure, it might be easy to say "Jango's responsible, he fired first." But take a moment to think about what led up to this moment.

Jango knows, explicitly, that Death Watch and the Governor are working together.

He knows that Death Watch just wants him dead, and in fact very literally just escaped being killed.

He knows that he and his people are caught in a trap, and that Death Watch and the Governor want them all dead.

He probably isn't sure how they're going to be killed—until he arrives back at camp, and sees a shitton of Jedi with their lightsabers drawn, who are accusing them of a crime they did not commit. And he must have thought, ah, that would do it.

This isn't a normal encounter with the Jedi. It's true that Mandalorians have reasons to dislike Jedi as a whole, but Jango didn't shoot first because of that.

Jango shot first because he recognized that the Jedi were the weapon that Death Watch and the Governor chose for the execution of himself and his people. And he wasn't wrong.

Could Jango have maybe stopped to have a gentlemanly chat with Dooku and say "Good sir, we did not commit any murder, you were told false information and are being manipulated and we the True Mandalorians have been set up. Please put away your lightsabers so we can talk"? I mean. He could have. But.

With all of the context above, his decision to raise arms also makes sense.

After the battle, all fo the True Mandalorians present have been killed except Jango, as well as roughly half of the Jedi. Many of those Jedi were killed by Jango himself, with nothing but his bare hands—this is how he gains his infamous reputation as a "Jedi Killer." But to him, he was acting in self-defense.

The Jedi—or rather, at least Dooku—realize that they have been used only after the fact, and that they've done something horribly wrong and have killed innocents. Surrounded by the bodies of Jedi and True Mandalorians, and having just watched Jango strangle one last Jedi, Dooku says:

"What have we done...?"

In the "present" of the comic (pre-clone deal), Dooku also tells Sidious about Galidraan, "It was a misguided mission from the start. And not the first of the Council's many...poor decisions."

So what happened afterwards?

Jango alone was captured alive, and for some darn reason the Jedi turned him over to the Governor of Galidraan*. The Governor sold Jango to slavers and he was forced to work on a spice transport, until an opportunity arose to escape.

After escaping, did Jango seek out the Jedi?

No.

He beelined straight back to Galidraan, where the Governor, who had sold him and worked with Death Watch, had taken his armor (Jaster's armor) as some sort of twisted war trophy. He recovered his armor, and threatened the governor to get info on Tor Vizsla's location.

After that, did he go on a revenge campaign against the Jedi?

No.

He went straight for Tor Vizsla, who was PERSONALLY responsible for the deaths of the True Mandalorians at Galidraan. And he fought him. And killed him.

(or more specifically, injured him then let dire-cats eat him alive. Looks like Fetts have always had good luck with animals)

So that's the facts about Galidraan.

After Thoughts:

I hope this breakdown of the events makes it explicitly clear that Death Watch and the Governor were at fault for Galidraan, and that it was never a Mandos vs Jedi conflict. The same thing would have happened had Death Watch chosen a different executioner—though to be fair, not much can kill a trained group of Mandalorian mercenaries like the True Mandalorians.

Could both the True Mandalorians and Jedi have taken different actions that could have averted tragedy? Possibly. But just as likely, had Jango tried to talk, word would have reached the Jedi's ears that oh no, more Mandalorians are slaughtering the Galidraan women and children! (what Death Watch was doing while the True Mandos and Jedi were fighting) and then one of the more hot headed Jedi like Vosa probably would have been like "These negotiations are a distraction! Even now you're killing innocents—we fight!" And the True Mandos would have been killed anyway.

Again, they were set up. The True Mandalorians to be killed, the Jedi to be used as their ignorant executioner. They were not the only parties involved, and any attempt to peacefully negotiate their way out of it would have been hindered by the true aggressors, who already had contingency plans at the ready. And also, both parties were already expecting certain things of the other: Jango knew the Jedi had been sent to kill them (though not why the Jedi believed they should), and the Jedi thought they were a bunch of murderers, not a professional group simply hired for a job.

This is just my personal take, but while I don't think either Jango nor Dooku acted unreasonably at the time of the battle, there were two points where I think they could have made better decisions (marked with * above):

1) When Jango decided to take a job on Galidraan in the first place, knowing in advance that the Governor was friendly with Tor Vizsla and Death Watch. Admittedly, the comic doesn't provide much context for this, and perhaps the intel Jango had suggested a more distant connection, or something else to imply the Governor would be willing to rat out Death Watch. It seems almost cute that Jango goes ok, well I don't want to just randomly bust this guy's door down to threaten him for info on my arch nemesis, so I'm going to do a job for him and get him to owe me, and then we'll talk.

If there is one not so intelligent move Jango made, it seems like this one, though again there's not much context so perhaps it does make more sense.

2) When the Jedi give Jango to the Governor of Galidraan. I don't know about the rest of the Jedi, but Dooku at least seemed to sense that something had gone horribly wrong with the mission immediately after the battle, before they took Jango into custody. But despite KNOWING this, they didn't take the time to thoroughly investigate (better late than never) before handing Jango to his enemies on a silver platter. I would say that the Jedi ARE pretty responsible for this part, especially since they had reason to know better.

This action of the Jedi handing Jango over also implies that even if Jango had complied and he and all of the True Mandalorians had surrendered to the Jedi in hopes of talks, the Jedi would have handed them all over to the Governor (and Death Watch) to either be turned into slaves or executed. So no, I don't think that would have worked out well at all.

(I'm going to give at least Dooku the benefit of doubt, since the comic shows that at least he (and possibly he alone of the Jedi present) recognized that something was wrong. I'd hope that as the leader and presumably most senior member of the group of Jedi, he'd have some sort of authority, but then again, this is the Senate. He might have tried to at least delay Jango being handed over to the Governor until an investigation was conducted, but was perhaps held back by too much legal tape, and had to watch as someone he was sure was a victim was handed over to a suspicious party. Maybe he personally did an investigation afterwards and found that his bad feelings were correct, but when he tried to bring it up with the Council/Senate, he was told to forget about it. That would certainly shatter what remaining faith he had in the Republic and the Jedi, and possibly also lead him to search out Jango specifically as a candidate for the clone project—but again, this is purely speculation. Either way, Galidraan forms a potentially very fascinating connection between Dooku and Jango that predates Sidious.)

On the Jedi:

While the Galidraan conflict isn't about the Jedi, and they were simply used, I think internally, it does reveal some deep flaws in the Jedi Order as a whole, and that Dooku's criticisms of how they acted are fair. Dooku tells Jango, "[Galidraan] was the last of my foolish errands for the Senate. And the Jedi."

The Jedi are supposed to be peacekeepers, are supposed to understand and help people across the Galaxy, which their connection to the Force is supposed to help with. But by becoming an entity controlled by a political power that responds to mission requests through that chain, the Jedi are at risk of being used for various political agendas, sometimes to terrible consequences—like at Galidraan.

The quote above shows that the orders for the Jedi came from the Senate, who got them from the Governor of Galidraan. The fact is that the Jedi are a completely external force with zero familiarity with Galidraan or its current happenings, who were summoned by a government to do their bidding. If there was any investigation done, it clearly wasn't enough, and the Jedi were essentially turned into super deadly government attack dogs.

Galidraan laid bare the great danger that the Jedi can be, when their power is given to the wrong hands. Again, the Jedi were used—but that they could be used, that they likely have been used in the past and will be used in the future so long as they are beholden to a Republic whose orders they must follow—that's something to think about.

Again, it's not about Jedi vs Mandos. Sure, the fact that the Jedi have bad history with Mandos may have affected the lack of depth in their investigation. But it could have just as easily been "Group of X people are murdering innocents!" and the very same thing could have happened. This conflict revealed far less, "wow the Jedi really hate Mandos!" and more, "the Jedi and the Republic have a flawed relationship, and obeying government orders does not necessarily a peacekeeper make."

Given that the Jedi decided to give Jango to the Governor, I think it's very likely that no deep investigation was ever done into Galidraan, and if it was, it was covered up. After all, it's against the Republic's interests to show that they passed manipulated info to the Jedi, because they can't have the Jedi wanting to question future orders or worse, refuse to obey! And in a way, it's against the Order's interests to show that they not only fucked up by going to the mission at all, but further fucked up by handing the last surviving victim to the enemy after the fact. Add to that the fact that Death Watch was on site actively manipulating evidence and muddling the truth, and Jango no longer has anyone left alive to vouch for him so it's only his word, it's very likely that the truth really never got out of the small circle of those personally involved.

Perhaps the Jedi taught about Galidraan internally as a cautionary tale about being careful about the orders they're given. But given the above, I think that's incredibly generous and frankly unlikely.

On Jango Fett

This leads me to a final point: I disagree that Jango passionately hates and wants revenge on the Jedi.

At least, based on this story, as well as his depiction in the Bounty Hunters video game (which is supposed to be a sequel to this comic, even though its depiction of the start of the cloning contract isn't mutually compatible with the version in this comic) Jango doesn't actually really appear to care all that much about the Jedi at all.

You can say what you will about his actions, but he always has a very clear target for who his enemy is, and he goes straight for them. Immediately post Galidraan, it was the Governor of Galidraan and then Tor Vizsla specifically—not even the rest of Death Watch!

And while there isn't all that much official info on what Jango did after he killed Vizsla until he was pulled into the cloning project, I see zero evidence that he was consumed by revenge, or that he attempted to hunt down the rest of Death Watch or kill any Jedi despite the harm they have done to him in the past.

In fact, from his depiction at the start of the Bounty Hunters game, which I think is the best source of this period of his life that I can think of, it looks like Jango just kind of threw himself into bounty hunting work. After all, one does not have the reputation as "best bounty hunter in the galaxy" overriding "former Mand'alor, leader of the True Mandalorians" unless he did, well, a lot of bounty hunting.

He was a loner who didn't have any friends, which implies he didn't go looking for any surviving True Mandalorians—and there must have been, not everyone could have been in that battle. I suspect it's out of guilt, but that's a separate discussion. He didn't go hunting Jedi specifically, because presumably not many Jedi (who still identify as Jedi) have bounties on them, and "Jedi Killer" would certainly be a reputation louder than bounty hunter if that was his main focus.

But no. He was just a sad, lost dude who's really good at killing people so continues the Honorable Mercenary traditions of his people who are now gone, all by himself. Even the contest that lead to him being chosen as the Prime clone was originally just another job, and he just happened to meet Montross in the process, but he didn't really go out of his way to hunt him down either, despite how he was personally responsible for Jaster's death.

However—if you don't know that about Jango, and again don't have a full understanding of what happened at Galidraan (which again, I doubt many people do), I think it would be very easy to go oh! The Jedi killed all his people! So of course he hates Jedi!

(Which then provides a reason for why the Sith would think he would want to work with them to hurt Jedi—but does NOT explain why the Jedi would not think it suspicious that he's the Prime clone for an army supposedly made to help them. But that too is a separate exploration.)

All of this makes Jango a very fascinating character for me, and I could go on to explore his motivations and actions so much more—and in fact I do!!! All of those explorations of Jango and his motives and past are included as a large part of my fic, The Prime Override! So I won't go into it more here, this post is long enough, but you can check out my thoughts there! (LMAO sudden self-promo)

But anyway!!! I hope this whole thing was interesting for you, and that it helped you understand what happened at Galidraan better!

Again, the comic is Jango Fett: Open Seasons, written by Hayden Blackman, art by Ramon Bachs, Raul Fernandez, and Brad Anderson, published by Dark Horse Comics in 2002.

While I believe the standalone comic is out of print (I had to hunt down my copy on ebay), it's all included in Marvel Unlimited's digital comic library. It's also in the Star Wars Omnibus: Emissaries & Assassins collection, which might be cheaper because it's more recent.

As tragic as Jango's past is, it's one of my favorite Legends stories and I recommend reading the story for yourself if you can!

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Adventure (A Din x reader story pt.4)

Warnings: Language, Violence (blasters, knockout, and hand to hand combat), also gif not mine

Pairing: Mando x reader (I knowww, it's not spicy yet, but you've got to fight him first...they're will be spice in the next one)

Previous Ch Summary: Preparing to fight the Mandalorian in an attempt to stop him from bringing harm to the child, you get flustered talking to him at the farm. But that moment is over as soon as you realize it's now or never, you've got to face him.

“Come on now, you’re a Mandalorian! Your ancestors rode the great Mythosaur. I’m sure you can handle this foal.” It was only after saying that up to the dark visor of the helmet that you realized how in awe you sounded. I mean why shouldn’t you be? All those stories when you were a kid? How could you not feel…just a bit like you were meeting a fairytale hero…Oh shut up, you thought to yourself, don’t go all soft for the guy who’s gonna kill you tomorrow.

The Mandalorian turned and went back to practicing. About a half hour later he finally mounts the blurrg and it doesn’t throw him. Kuiil decides he’s ready.

Kuiil sets up his mount as the Mandalorian checks something on his blaster before hopping on his blurrg. You’re amazed at how comfortable he looks all of a sudden, as if he’s been doing it all his life. You look to Kuiil, realizing it might be the last time you see him. Knowing you’ve been betraying him all this time, stopping all these bounty hunters…your heart sinks lower than it ever has. The back of your neck goes hot with anger at yourself. Why did it have to end like this? You had everything, you had peace in your life, and you just had to get involved and ruin it! You want to apologize to Kuiil before he goes…but you can’t think of an excuse as to why you would be apologizing.

“Have a safe journey, my friend.” You say, smiling, getting a little misty eyed, looking up at the kind man.

“See you soon, my child.” He turns his mount and the Mandalorian follows. Your happy face falls to a frown as the two of them turn their backs fully to you.

Your jaw stiffens, you take a deep breath and look up, eyes narrowing

It’s time.

You run back to the barn, sling your bag over your shoulder and arm yourself. You put reins on your favorite young blurrg and set out. You take the shortcut you have mapped out on all these rides you’ve been going on recently. You reach a part you’re familiar with, this is where you killed the first bounty hunter. You dismount your blurg and tie her to a rock, loose enough if you never make it back she’ll be able to pull herself free within the hour. She’d find her way home. You pat her on the nose and she pants at you. You tell her to stay and put your finger to your lips. She quiets obediently. You’d miss her.

You hide

“That is where you’ll find your quarry.” You hear a rustling of credits. “Please. You deserve this.”

Oh, he was trying to pay Kuiil. You shook your head, that would never happen. You chuckle. Grateful for the many things Kuiil had given you freely, never accepting anything in return. A cot, a job, training in mechanics through coaching you on repairs around the farm, a friend…

You miss most of the rest of their conversation, consumed by your own thoughts, you hear a blurrg leaving which snaps you out of it. Kuiil would be long gone in a few minutes.

From your hiding place you hear the Mandalorian dismount, setting his blurrg free. He slings his Amban Rifle from his shoulder into his right hand and climbs up a rock, lowering himself to the ground with one arm he looks through the scope, eyeing the guard set-up of the encampment.

This is it, you think, now or never. You have to at least try to stop him. Adrenaline coursing through you making you buzz with energy, yet somehow keeping your actions laser focused, you leap up to an overhang and grab on, swinging yourself up to the ledge.

Now you’re looking down on the Mandalorian, still looking through his scope at the encampment in the distance. You stand. Legs apart, hips facing your target, steadied by one foot placed slightly out of line with the other, just like you were taught back in the old days. Quietly, you unclip your blaster, aim with both hands at the unarmored nape of his neck, you can’t afford to miss this shot and you pull the-

Whoosh

You dodge as the blast skims your right ear. How quickly did that man turn around? He’s laying on his back, rifle pointed up you, ready to shoot again.

You shoot, not aiming well, just so he doesn’t first. He rolls to the side to dodge it and you jump down on him from the rocky platform, to land you have to let go of your blaster. He tries to stand but you knee his arm up at a painful angle. He groans and tries to push you off him. You grab hold of his belt and try to pull his smaller blaster off it, hoping to arm yourself with something. He grabs your arm and twists it, in pain you let go of the small gun, it goes flying.

You adjust to the angle your arm is being held at and wind up, with your free arm you come down on the unarmored bit between his shoulder and his helmet with your elbow. He contorts in pain, but as he’s still holding your arm the two of your lose your balance on the small rocky platform and you’re both sent rolling down the ledge and back into the sandy valley he had just come from.

When you recover from the fall you both jump to your feet. Your blasters left up above, it’s hand to hand from here on out.

“Why are you doing this?”

You would love to answer better but all you can muster, out of breath and panting, is: “Don’t hurt him.”

Confused by your answer the bounty hunter doesn’t react right away when you come at him with a roundhouse kick. It hits him and he groans, steadying himself. You smirk. Your legs have always been your best weapons.

But you get ahead of yourself, a fist lands on your shoulder and you hear a pop. You throw a punch blind with pain, it’s poorly placed, he grabs it and pulls you by your outstretched arm into his next punch, right to the side of your head. Your eyes are the first to go. Everything turns fuzzy.

Then just darkness.

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