Mandalorian Protectors/Legends

The Mandalorian Protectors were the branch of Mandalorians founded by Mandalore the Resurrector, a rogue ARC trooper, during the Clone Wars. The first group of Protectors numbered 212.

In 20 BBY, the Protectors were defeated at the Battle of New Holstice. Shortly afterwards, a number of them were massacred (apparently by their allies, the Geonosians) at Zaadja. At the end of the Clone Wars, all but three perished, but Fenn Shysa reformed them again when he became Mandalore.

Unlike the Mandalorians of old, who were crusaders facing various other races for honor, these Mandalorians simply protected the borders of the Mandalore Sector and the Mandalorian people as a whole. However, they would also protect the Galaxy itself if they felt the need, as they did under Fenn Shysa when they helped defeat the forces of Lord Shadowspawn in the Battle of Mindor.

Under Boba Fett, the Protectors initially chose to ally with the Yuuzhan Vong in the first months of the Yuuzhan Vong War, under the lure of the immense amount of credits offered by the invaders. To this end, Fett initiated a brutal training regimen for his forces on Raxus Prime, killing many of them. By the last year of the war, however, the Protectors had switched sides, possibly due to the end of Vong payment or a (possibly subsequent) attack on Mandalore, and fought at several worlds in the Outer Rim Territories.

Known Protectors

 * Tobbi Dala
 * Boba Fett
 * Mandalore the Resurrector
 * Fenn Shysa

Appearances

 * Battle for Mandalore
 * Star Wars Republic 67: Forever Young (corpses)
 * Marvel Star Wars 68: The Search Begins
 * Marvel Star Wars 69: Death in the City of Bone
 * Forces of Corruption
 * A Practical Man
 * Revenants
 * The Unifying Force
 * Bloodlines