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TauntaunScout Line Captain
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Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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So I've been thinking. I posted this over on the Legion board too. We all have a ton of old gaming miniatures which, lets face it, we're never gonna paint and no one wants to buy. We should really audit our collections. I mean a deep and thorough cleanse of the storage boxes. Anything the least bit questionable is out, for good. Err wholly and completely on the side of "empty space is worth more than stupid little toys". We can probably all get rid of at least a solid dozen or two or three pounds of weird old unidentifiable DnD minis and broken Warhammer bits from failed conversions and stuff. It'll be great, we'll all have so much better organized collections going forward, maybe even clean off some serious shelf space. And it's just stuff anyways, we can't take it with us when we die, better to purge it now so our grandkids don't have that much more junk to figure out what to do with. To really make it stick, so we absolutely cannot walk back this decluttering, we'll all mail them all to one forum member who is good with tools and stuff and has a workspace. We'll have that person melt them down into pot metal. Then we'll take one of those 3D printer Beskar bars and coat it in rubber, to make a mold. We'll pour the pot metal into it and make some real heavy Beskar bars. And we'll give them out to people and say "This is from The Great Purge". |
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Barbarossa41 Ensign
Joined: 30 Sep 2019 Posts: 29 Location: Victorian exclave, Hutt River Province
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Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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I just realised this.
Jango Fett would be exiled from the Mandalorian culture.
In Ep. II, he TALKS to Obi-wan without his helmet on, and doesn't seem to wrestle with the potential of exile, so had probably done so before. (to others, obviously) _________________ Alea Jacta Est - Julius Caesar |
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Whill Dark Lord of the Jedi (Owner/Admin)
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Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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Barbarossa41 wrote: | I just realised this.
Jango Fett would be exiled from the Mandalorian culture.
In Ep. II, he TALKS to Obi-wan without his helmet on, and doesn't seem to wrestle with the potential of exile, so had probably done so before. (to others, obviously) |
Possibly. But it is also possible that Jango Fett is not a Mandalorian. He could just be someone who uses Mandalorian armor, which of course could still be frowned upon by true Mandalorians but not to the extent of a Mandalorian who shows his face to others. The other possibility is, this tradition may not be universal to all clans. Or perhaps not all clans in Jango's era. _________________ *
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cheshire Arbiter-General (Moderator)
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Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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We see Mandalorians take off their helmets in Rebels. I had assumed that during the Empire there was an additional purge on Mandalorians, and at that point the culture had some kind of cultural reform resulting in a more ossified code of "we don't remove our helmets." _________________ __________________________________
Before we take any of this too seriously, just remember that in the middle episode a little rubber puppet moves a spaceship with his mind. |
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CRMcNeill Director of Engineering
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Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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An alternate possibility (suggested by Dredwulf60 here) is that, if Mando culture is part religion, then there will likely be different sub-sects of Mando culture, with what we see in the TV series being an ultra-orthodox one. _________________ "No set of rules can cover every situation. It's expected that you will make up new rules to suit the needs of your game." - The Star Wars Roleplaying Game, 2R&E, pg. 69, WEG, 1996.
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cheshire Arbiter-General (Moderator)
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Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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Religious and creed-based organizations are hardly homogeneous, so that seems pretty reasonably too. _________________ __________________________________
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CRMcNeill Director of Engineering
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Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2020 12:45 am Post subject: |
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cheshire wrote: | Religious and creed-based organizations are hardly homogeneous, so that seems pretty reasonably too. |
And by extension, the idea of bands of Mandalorians fighting to death over minor doctrinal differences, never mind the major ones... _________________ "No set of rules can cover every situation. It's expected that you will make up new rules to suit the needs of your game." - The Star Wars Roleplaying Game, 2R&E, pg. 69, WEG, 1996.
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Dredwulf60 Line Captain
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Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2020 12:05 pm Post subject: |
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CRMcNeill wrote: | cheshire wrote: | Religious and creed-based organizations are hardly homogeneous, so that seems pretty reasonably too. |
And by extension, the idea of bands of Mandalorians fighting to death over minor doctrinal differences, never mind the major ones... |
Yep.
Deathwatch vs Supercommandos was a big one in Legends.
In regards to Cheshire's point; if the Imperial purge helping to create/ re-create/ or strengthen the taboo against helmet removal;
In a secular version of this, in my mandalorian-based game, the players' clan has realized that when they do illegal things all the victims/ witnesses see are mandalorians.
It makes it very difficult to know who is actually under that armor, for the same reasons that bank robbers wear disguises.
If a culture is suffering from a pogrom it becomes important to become faceless so that the hunters can't gauge how successful they are being.
This is interesting to me due to the allusion in the show that the mandos were all remaining underground and only one of them could go into public at a time. Since you don't know who is under the helmet...it could be just one guy who keeps wearing different gear, or 200 who share a couple sets of gear to seem like only a dozen people or 200 individuals who are seen from time to time. |
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Whill Dark Lord of the Jedi (Owner/Admin)
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Raven Redstar Rear Admiral
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Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 12:05 am Post subject: |
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I kind of gathered that they used the child's genetic material for Palpatine already... As soon as I saw Imperial Scientists going after a member of Yoda's species, I figured that they were gonna go there. _________________ RR
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Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 5:35 am Post subject: Re: The Mandalorian Season 2 speculation |
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I told you
Still they have to keep it secret. 30 yrs later everone was shocked as the Emperor return. Everyone. _________________ Don’t Let the Rules Get in the Way of a Good Story. |
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MrNexx Rear Admiral
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Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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Wife and I have started watching. I'm enjoying it, obviously, but I'm also in love with how much she's enjoying it... she's not a Star Wars fan, in general, so her liking it is great. _________________ "I've Seen Your Daily Routine. You Are Not Busy!"
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Whill Dark Lord of the Jedi (Owner/Admin)
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Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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MrNexx wrote: | Wife and I have started watching. I'm enjoying it, obviously, but I'm also in love with how much she's enjoying it... she's not a Star Wars fan, in general, so her liking it is great. |
My wife and son loved it. (My wife is a more moderate Star Wars fan, but she says she likes all of the movies except II and III.) I thought The Mandalorian was pretty good. It was better than I thought it would be. Definitely the best television Star Wars product ever made. _________________ *
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MrNexx Rear Admiral
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Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2020 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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Whill wrote: | MrNexx wrote: | Wife and I have started watching. I'm enjoying it, obviously, but I'm also in love with how much she's enjoying it... she's not a Star Wars fan, in general, so her liking it is great. |
My wife and son loved it. (My wife is a more moderate Star Wars fan, but she says she likes all of the movies except II and III.) I thought The Mandalorian was pretty good. It was better than I thought it would be. Definitely the best television Star Wars product ever made. |
We were discussing it, and it is definitely a Western, but more of a Clint Eastwood western than her main fandom, Firefly/Serenity, which I'd almost class a Wagon Train Western... serialized stories following the same characters. _________________ "I've Seen Your Daily Routine. You Are Not Busy!"
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