Traviss: Mandos just as important as Jedi, Sith

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Traviss: Mandos just as important as Jedi, Sith

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So the paperback edition of Sacrifice also includes a mini-book by Traviss dealing with Fett right before and at the start of the Yuuzhan Vong invasion.

It's typical Traviss, with lots of Mando'a, wonderfulness of Mando culture, and how great Fett is for overcoming his hatred of Jedi for the greater good.

However, there are two items that really stand out, even on the usual KT scale:

The opening quote (KT, you're not Frank Herbert):
Warmaster, we think too often in terms of dualism: Jedi or Sith, light or dark, right or wrong. But there are three sides to this blade, not two, opposed and similar at the same time. The third edge is the Mandalorian. All three sides care nothing for caste or species, only adherence to a code that unites. The Mandalorians remain: the most formidable enemy of the Jedi: but the Sith are not always their allies. The Mandatorians even worshipped war itself, then simply turned their backs on their god. You might begin to understand them one day.



-Vergere, explaining galactic politics to the Yuuzhan Vong shortly before their invasion of the galaxy, 25 A.B.Y.
Damn, talk about the author inflating the importance of her pet characters...

And then, this little exchange between Boba Fett and Nom Anor:
"You still try to bargain with me," said Nom Anor.



"That's my price. It goes up when I find clients haven't been totally open with me." Like not mentioning a galactic invasion. Fett was the one doing the buying now, though: he was buying time. "You're going to have to fight for every meter of ground here. Thousands of sentient species, countless worlds, and every one will put up a fight. You need us. If only to deal with the Jedi."
Emphasis mine.

Poor Yuuzhan Vong. They would be so helpless against the Jedi without help from Fett and his Mandos... oh, wait. :roll:

How long will this be allowed to go on?
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:lol:

She really loves talking up the importance of her irrelevant sideshow hicks, eh?

Star Wars: Jedi. Sith. Mandalorians.

Yeah, I'm sure the fans think that way. How about no?

"The most formidable enemy of the Jedi?" What a fucking dumbass, that would be the Sith, idiot. By any measure.
How long will this be allowed to go on?
For as long as fanboys buy any old shit with "Star Wars" on it, as opposed to picking and choosing. In any event, even if the (quite unprecedented, in my view) massive negative reaction to her lastest turd had filtered up to the relevant honchos at LFL, I bet this shit was written before the hardcover came out.
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Re: Traviss: Mandos just as important as Jedi, Sith

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Delusional Bitch wrote:Warmaster, we think too often in terms of dualism: Jedi or Sith, light or dark, right or wrong.
No, we don't. The Yuuzhan Vong have absolutely no comprehension of either the Force or the users of the Force.
But there are three sides to this blade, not two, opposed and similar at the same time. The third edge is the Mandalorian.
No, it isn't. The Mandalorians of Vergere's time were a tiny bunch of mercenary thugs reduced to the backwaters of galactic civilization and incapable of assembling a fighting force, and even more impotent at the outset of the Yuuzhan Vong invasion.

Furthermore, the Mandalorians have absolutely nothing to do with the Force.
All three sides care nothing for caste or species, only adherence to a code that unites.
Like every government, religion, etc. in existence.
The Mandalorians remain: the most formidable enemy of the Jedi: but the Sith are not always their allies.
Someone should watch the Star Wars movies. Hell, even when the Jedi were fighting the Mandalorians, it was only a small portion. The rest of the Jedi Order simply ignored them. Yeah, huge threat there.
You might begin to understand them one day.
Why bother? It's not like they ever mattered.
"That's my price. It goes up when I find clients haven't been totally open with me." Like not mentioning a galactic invasion. Fett was the one doing the buying now, though: he was buying time. "You're going to have to fight for every meter of ground here. Thousands of sentient species, countless worlds, and every one will put up a fight. You need us. If only to deal with the Jedi."
It's funny because that's exactly what didn't happen.
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Vympel wrote: "The most formidable enemy of the Jedi?" What a fucking dumbass, that would be the Sith, idiot. By any measure.
Remember, Traviss thinks the clones who carried out Order 66 were Mandos.
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The delusion displayed by these writings is just hilarious. Have fun trying to write around that new anti-Mando virus, bitch. Assuming LFL even gives her any more books, of course. :lol:
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Tell me about this virus.
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Vympel wrote:Tell me about this virus.
No don't. Or at least put it in small font under a spoiler tag.
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Vympel wrote:Tell me about this virus.
Apparently in the last junk pile of the EU, someone unleash a virus that anyone has Boba or Jango genes(I think) will die if they stay on the Mando homeworld or someshit. Thus forcing Boba Fett from being some big hub-bub and placing some hippie as the new leader of the mandos.

Course the self same book had Daala become the leader of the Republic, so I wouldn't reccomend reading it.

The Invincible thread better explains this.
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What was it that Kreia said about the Mandolorians again, at the end of KoTOR 2? Something about ending as "the shell of an armour upon the shell of a man, too easily slain by a Jedi", right? I guess her awesome, precognative abilities failed to account for Traviss. :lol:

EDIT: Found the quote.

"They will die a death that will last millennia, until all that remains is their code, their history, and in the end, the shell of their armor upon the shell of a man, too easily slain by Jedi."
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Ghost Rider wrote:*insert unfiltered spoilers here*
Wow, thanks a lot for letting those of us who are waiting to read the damn book know about it
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What is this shit? Mandalorians were only important during that KOTOR era, and only because they were at war, after that, they lost most of their planets, and were reduced to being bounty hunters and most of them were dead.

And what is this shit with this virus?

Also, SilverWingedSeraph, doesnt Kreia say something about a Jedi kiling the last Mandalorian?
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By 137 ABY, Mandalorians are once again irrelevant, have no role in Galactic affairs and practically non-existent.

(There's one former Mandalorian who become an Imperial stormtrooper and then defected to the Galactic Alliance).

So I wouldn't worry.
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Darth Ruinus wrote:Also, SilverWingedSeraph, doesnt Kreia say something about a Jedi kiling the last Mandalorian?
Yes, and she's obviously refering to Jango Fett as the last Mandalorian.
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QuentinGeorge wrote:By 137 ABY, Mandalorians are once again irrelevant, have no role in Galactic affairs and practically non-existent.

(There's one former Mandalorian who become an Imperial stormtrooper and then defected to the Galactic Alliance).

So I wouldn't worry.
And then Traviss will write about a descendant of Boba Fett once again rebuilding the Mandos, and lecturing the Jedi on how evil they are. And Cade Skywalker will become Mando...
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137ABY is Dark Horse's domain. Further, Stradley thinks Traviss is shit.
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He thinks Mandalorians are even shitter, courtesy of one Fandalorian who nagged him incessantly on the Dark Horse forums to put Mandos in the Clone Wars comics.

Result? Hundreds of Mandalorian corpses in one issue, and Commander Bly saying, "The Mandalorians are in full retreat, General Secura" in another.
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ROFLMAO. Any correspondence in the forums about that?
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Post by QuentinGeorge »

Here you go.

Dead Mandalorians on Zaadja

Battle of New Holstice (unfortunately the picture has the text bubble cropped out)

For an added tidbit, it was an ongoing joke that Mandalorians favoured pink armour, and here's a bit from a Dark Horse editorial.

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Found one of the old Dark Horse forum threads taking the mickey out of Mandos...

http://www.darkhorse.com/boards/viewtop ... fedfa25298

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No, wait, this is the one you want to read:

http://www.darkhorse.com/boards/viewtop ... sc&start=0 (forum thread for dead mando issue)

http://www.darkhorse.com/boards/viewtop ... sc&start=0 (forum thread for coward mandos)
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So, there is one more piece of badly written Travissite Fandalorian wanktardry out there in the post-Bantam canon. Those surprised, please raise their hands...

That said, I do find Vergere's cluelessness amusing; comparing the M'an'do'lo'ree'an's to the Jedi, never mind the Sith, is just plain hilarious... :shock: :lol: It also fit my profile of her as deluded and insane.

However, one could complain about the writing; that does not really sound like Vergere would, a typical Travissite bland description. She completely fails to capture the enigmatic little imp's style of wording.
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If I ever get a gig writing for Del Rey / Lucasbooks, I'll have the Mando'ade almost be totally wiped out by a new faction of mime-performer / warrior weathermen-accountants know as the Lemon'ade.
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Darth Hoth wrote:So, there is one more piece of badly written Travissite Fandalorian wanktardry out there in the post-Bantam canon. Those surprised, please raise their hands...

That said, I do find Vergere's cluelessness amusing; comparing the M'an'do'lo'ree'an's to the Jedi, never mind the Sith, is just plain hilarious... :shock: :lol: It also fit my profile of her as deluded and insane.

However, one could complain about the writing; that does not really sound like Vergere would, a typical Travissite bland description. She completely fails to capture the enigmatic little imp's style of wording.
To be fair, Vegere hasn't spent decades living under the Yuzhan Vong yet.
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Despite what A Practical Man says, It really makes no sense for Vergere to be worried about Mandalorians. When she left the Republic to join the Vong, the Mandalorians had been wiped out to a man on Galidraan, and they wouldn't exist again until Spar resurrected them in the Clone Wars.

Vergere is telling Nom Anor to be worried about a group of farmers!
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PainRack wrote:To be fair, Vegere hasn't spent decades living under the Yuzhan Vong yet.
I thought that she had always been a manipulative, fanatical, crazy, double-dealing little imp who used fancy language and obnoxious riddles/wordplays to get her way...
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