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3. No, I can't reconsider. It's sweet of you to keep asking, but I had to make my decision nearly a year ago. When I was finishing 501st in January this year, I was told about a significant continuity change coming up in the Clone Wars cartoon. (As was mentioned and shown in a couple of books that came out in the summer - this is not confidential information of any kind now.) I was told that the Mandalorians were being revamped as long-standing pacifists who'd given up fighting centuries ago and that Mandalore was now a post-apocalyptic wasteland devastated by war. I was told not to refer to (recent) Mandalorian history because of that, as it was obviously at odds with the old continuity in my novels. That's fairly common procedure for any franchise - but unfortunately it wasn't that simple in practice. The two Commando series - and quite a few older books and comics, come to that -were based entirely on that original history, and basic logic meant that the fundamental plot of the series could never have existed if this had been a pacifist society. Neither could any of the characters or their motives have existed, because they were wholly based on a global warrior culture living on a non-nuked Mandalore. I had some discussion in January with the editor about possible ways around the problem, but after that, I heard nothing to indicate that the position would change, so the plan went ahead to wind up my existing storyline in the two books that were already in the pipeline. It was too late for me to rewrite 501st even if the changes hadn't made that pretty well impossible.

My point of view
Dose will simply call himself and his people True Mandalorians of the old ways and look down upon any Pacifist Mandalorian. Something similar to the Deathwatch Mandalorian split.

Screw that. I just don't consider the new stuff canon at all. I know they make changes all the time and the people who have grown accustomed to one thing always get the shaft when the continuity folks try to retcon, but I'm still going to play my Mandalorian how I've always played her. I'm not letting this decision (which is obviously for the money they are raking in with having it fit into the Clone Wars series) force me to change several years' worth of story.

In my mind, the real Star Wars canon and the Clone Wars cartoon series are separate entities. I'm sure I'm going to hear about how I'm a stubborn idiot now for not bending to the "great will of Lucas" (or rather his subcommittees, etc.) or at least for not accepting the facts, but I don't care. This is one of the most ridiculous changes to something solid that I've seen in a long time.

(takes a deep breath) NOOOOOO!!! WHY DO YOU SEEK MY TEARS? LUCASFILM? ANSWER MEEEEE!!!!!!

ok, I'm calm. I can accept this, really I can (sniffle.) Always look on the bright side of things... for example there's the Death Watch which should be cool... and I love the entire post-appocalyptic genre so that might turn out ok... and if all else fails this site provides some pretty awesome fanfiction.
Yes, I can live through this. (wanders off singing "I will survive")

I forsee George Lucas being mobbed at the next convention he appears at by a giant wave of armor clad bodies wearing T-shaped visors.... at least until he calls it off...

Lucas and his whole company are so lucky that they have loyal fans. You'd think we all would have quit after the prequel series, but here we are. We get spoonfed a pretty decent history filled with Mandos and candy, and they friggen take it away. It's kind of hard being a fan of something when you just get ass-raped all of the time.

I guess in the end all this really messes up is the Clone Wars era. From my understanding, the Legacy era Mandos seem to follow what we're used to under Alpha. It's unfortunate that KT's story is getting slaughtered so they could put a Moulin Rouge reference in TCW. But whatever. I'm not part of the LucasArts company making big bucks to fuck around with canon.

I do have to admit a post-apocalyptic Mandalore is bad ass and I'm already thinking about rewriting my Mando characters into that.

As upset as I am, good for her. I wouldn't want to make any more money for Lucas anyway.

I haven't read ImpCom yet so don't spoil anything, but it sounds to me like there's no real ending to it. That's disappointing, but still, I'm glad she's sticking it to the man.

I love Fallout so the wastland Mandalore sounds awesome. Only problem is that my character is founded on SWG, so in the GCW time frame. This is like 750 years later so I imagine with the tech and time its pretty close to reformed by now.

You know, I think I know what this about, they're trying to turn the Mandalorians into Med Max versions of Jedi.

Also, Mandalore got hit by the Genesis Device after season 2 of Clone Wars. Think about it, it makes sense.

Forgive my ignorance, but...Med Max?

(Also, I am surprised that Dae'buir has posted nothing in this thread, either way. ;P I've been waiting with bated breath for a rant one way or t'other.)

I ignore that, personally. I see the New Mandalorians as a kind of a heretic faction similar to the Death Watch and the Neo-Crusaders when thiking in universe, but the nuked Mandalore I ignore completely. The reason for me to ignore it is because it adds nothing to the continuity besides complications, since the preceding continuity has been very consistent and made sense for everything. Mandalore as a forest world makes sense because they were nomads, they didn't act from Mandalore for the majority of the Mandalorian history so the Jedi and the Republic had no reason to attack it. A nuked Mandalore would simply make the Mandalorians non-nomadic and therefore a simple military, like all of the militaries in the clone wars series.... they're all homegrown. That they were pacifists makes them even more alike all the previous cultures in the series, with the Twi'leks and the Rodians both retconned extensively as well. I think this series offers much, much, much more inconsistencies than any other SW media before it, but I can't understand why they have to collide. Why can't they make stuff fit? Of all the planets and species in SW media, why can't they allow it to fit? That I won't understand.

But yeah, it's all fiction so we as fans can cherry pick. I suggest we do, since there's nothing we can say to change it. It's all about money for companies, and we're not the majority... sadly.