Editing Mandalorian (section)

== Publication History ==
What needs to be understood is that the Mandalorians are a lorepoint from old (pre-Thrawn Trilogy and therefore debatably canonical) Legends elaborating upon an aspect of the OT (Boba Fett) that spun off to be one of the more expansive, complicated and liked additions to the Lore. The Mandalorians became the go-to warrior culture of the franchise, and Traviss' revamping of them is actually a relatively late addition. Whenever someone needs a warrior culture not (directly) associated with the Force, they usually tap the Mandalorians for it. 

Another complicated issue is the relationships of the Fetts to their race: Boba Fett is the ur-Mandalorian, and many concepts are at least somewhat based on his character desing or earlier Legends extrapolations of it. 

This results in there being multiple primary sources of Mandalorian lore:
* Old Legends: Primarily The Empire Strikes Back novellization and Marvel's early comic book run. Established Mandalorians as the Boba Fett lookalikes (and therefore Fett as a Mandalorian), and their defeat by Jedi during the Clone Wars, the planet Mandalore, and some of the elements of its culture. Dark Empire established the idea of Mandalorian Iron being impervious to lightsabers, altough the idea didn't really take hold until much later.
* The Old Republic-subfranchise: shows Mandalorian pre-history as nomadic conquerors, the local [[Proud Warrior Race]], and unwitting servants of the Dark Side. This is where some of the least [[Skub|skubby]] lore originates.
* [[Karen Traviss]]: Fleshed out the Mandalorians a lot, including language and several cultural concepts. On one hand a lot of those additions are contentious, on the other hand when divorced from her particular tastes many of the additions are worthy (counter-Jedi doctrines make sense in the Republic, particularly with pre-established history of the Mandalorians). Made Mandalorians into a Force in-sensitive third party in post-RotJ lore, and Boba and Jango into central figures in pre-PT and post-RotJ eras.
* George Lucas, Dave Filoni & John Favreau: George Lucas has this thing where he kinda created and used to own Star Wars, and has pretty strong (if changing) views about it that frequently contradict Legends lore. Filoni not only directly tapped that, he also had Lucas' blessing to ignore and/or adapt Legends. As a result TCW's depiction of the mandalorians is about as irreconcilable with Legends as everything else in the show. [[Rage|This pissed off a lot of the fans of Traviss' version]]. Lucas' original concept of Boba Fett was an Imperial supercommando turned Bounty Hunter, and he kept that with Jango Fett. As a result Filoni changed Jango and Boba Fett to mere bounty hunters. Under Favreau Jango was later confirmed as a foundling, however most of Boba's role in Legends was transplanted into Din Djarin. Under Disney Filoni & Favreau began to implement aspects of Legends with new additions making Mandalorians a warrior culture once more.