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The Shadow Mandalorians
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General information
Founder(s) Pre Mando
Leader(s) Al'Ori'Ramikade
Co-Leader Yusanis Nightslasher
Members
Headquarters
Location(s)
Historical information
Formed from Mandalorians
Format
Date founded 32 BBY
Date fragmented 30 BBY
Date reorganized
Date restored 30 ABY (as Mando Werda)
Date dissolved Before 127 ABY
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Era(s)
Affiliation(s)
"Those Death Watch vandals never saw it coming. Can you imagine—twenty men dead on their end without a single blaster fire, as if the shadow itself had eaten 'em alive! That's witchcraft! No wonder they call themselves the Shadow Mandalorians."
—A witness, describing The Shadow Mandalorians' anti-Death Watch operation

The Shadow Mandalorians, also known as Mando Werda in Mando'a, were a small coalition of Mandalorian mercenaries and Aka'liit clansClan Ordo, Clan Skirata, Clan Fett, Clan Kryze, Clan Eldar, and House Vizsla. Led by two Mandalorian comrades, Pre Mando and Rage Ordo, the coalition operated independently during the Clone Wars, though its members' rights to mercenary work for intergalactic governments were not banned. The group's neutrality was broken in 19 BBY when its clans were enslaved by the newly formed Galactic Empire that forced the Mandalorians to participate in the Great Jedi Purge under the Imperial insignia.

In 16 BBY, The Shadow Mandalorians aligned with Fenn Shysa's Mandalorian Protectors on the planet Mandalore that had been occupied by the sinister Imperial Commander Suprema and Grand Admiral Miltin Takel. The Mandalorian army liberated their homeworld and ousted the entire Imperial fleet from the Mandalore Space in 4 ABY. As a unit within the army of the Mandalorian Protectors, the Shadow Mandalorians were responsible for securing the northern region of the Mandalore Sector and safeguarding the citizens of Sundari on planet Mandalore after the fall of the Empire.

After the devastating Yuuzhan Vong invasion of the galaxy that had left Mandalore severely crippled and nearly destroyed, Aadila Ordo assumed the command of the Shadow Mandalorians, ensuring its wellbeing. In the following years, the unit continued its combat-security operations within the sector on behalf of Clan Ordo and, primarily, the Mandalorian Protectors army. When called upon by the reigning Mand'alor, the Shadow Mandalorians always rallied to his cause.

Organization and Founding

"Cuy'val Dar was dismissed. Most of us have returned to Mandalore. Others have tried to stick together in coalitions. There was Mando Werda—they called themselves the descendants of the legendary Dha Werda Verda. Sometime later, they headquartered on Dxun. Haran knows how they've lived in the jungles amongst the predators, but, surprisingly, that was the very thing that had been protecting them from the regular Death Watch raids: the osik Kyr'tsad couldn't even make it to the Werda's campsite—they were torn to bits by those jungle beasts. It seemed that the dini'la Werdas were able to somehow communicate with the jungles and its inhabitants. Witchcraft!"
—Unidentified Mandalorian, about The Shadow Mandalorians

Originally, the Shadow Mandalorians was a pseudonym of a small mercenary group operating within the Outer Rim Territories. Founded by the Trandoshan hunter, ex-Herald of Scorekeeper Pre Mando, previously known as Vrohssk, in 32 BBY the squad consisted of Mandalorian bounty hunters and Aka'liit representatives Rage Ordo, Quelix Skirata, and Joskey Fett, with the latters being the survivors of the Great Clan Wars, and the former—the veteran of the Mandalorian Civil War. The origins of the group's pseudonym stemmed from an ancient Mandalorian war chant, Dha Werda Verda, "Warriors of the Shadow" in Mando'a. Being the Shadow Warriors in a literal way, the squad undertook complex bounty hunting contracts that involved hostage rescue, medical supply runs, assassination, negotiation, and demolition. The brotherhood was fragmented in 30 BBY following the disappearance of Rage Ordo and Quelix Skirata to the waterworld of Kamino where they had been involved in a top-secret program for a total period of eight standard years.

During the Clone Wars, the once existing minor brotherhood was expanded into a proper Mandalorian tribe. Henceforth the Shadow Mandalorians were considered an independent community of various Mandalorian clans working toward rebuilding the True Mandalorian society based mainly on the concept of the Supercommando Codex. Their ideology was the very reason that put them in conflict with the True Mandalorians' long-standing adversary, the Death Watch. The Shadow Mandalorians opposed the Death Watch and assisted the Onderonian government in ousting the Death Watch raiders from Onderon in 21 BBY. They also participated in evicting the Death Watch occupants from the Ming Po town on the planet Carlac and the mining facilities on the moon Concordia in 20 BBY. Unlike Mandalore the Resurrector, Pre Mando and Rage Ordo did not lead the Shadow Mandalorians into an alliance with neither the Galactic Republic nor the Confederacy of Independent Systems amid the Clone Wars, and, to avoid the pressure from the pacifistic New Mandalorians, they headquartered the tribe in Japrael system on Dxun far from the political outrage, though they did not attempt to ban their clansmen's right to mercenary work for either side.

As the newly formed Galactic Empire rose to power, many independent governments were dominated by its political regime. The pressure in the galaxy escalated as the Core worlds fell under the Imperial sphere of influence. Their dreadful conquest was then directed at occupying the Mid Rim Territories, prompting the Shadow Mandalorians to flee their headquarters on Dxun. The coalition headed to the tropical planet Rishi in the Outer Rim Territories that was considered an outlaw's heaven. Little did they know, though, that the entire Outer Rim would soon be besieged by the second wave Imperial army headquartered on Kamino.

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