Mandalorian-Jedi War

"History lesson. The Jedi won the war with Mandalore."

- Kanan Jarrus to Sabine Wren

The Mandalorian-Jedi War was a series of conflicts fought between the Mandalorians and the Jedi Order. Mandalorian technology advanced when they collided with the Force-wielding Jedi, whose abilities they didn't understand. In response, their arsenal and armor was designed to combat them, and often won as a result. The Mandalorian crusaders fought against the Jedi during their crusades. During the fall of the Old Republic, members of House Vizsla liberated the darksaber, a unique lightsaber created by Tarre Vizsla, the first Mandalorian ever inducted into the Jedi Order, from the Jedi Temple.

The last great struggle between the Jedi and the Mandalorian warlords resulted in a large battle that caused a cataclysm, scorching much of the planet Mandalore's surface into lifeless white desert, uninhabitable outside of hermetically sealed dome cities, and ending the conflict with the Jedi victorious.

Behind the scenes
"The Mandalorian-Jedi War that I have in my mind is very much derived from the oldest style of thinking of Mandalorians, which was that their weapons, their arsenal, their technology had a massive increase once they collided with the Jedi and found these force-wielding people that had abilities they didn't understand. Their armor is a reaction to the Jedi, and I've always believed that because that seemed to be something that would be in the DNA of the Joe Johnston designs of them as super commandos. Their arsenal was very much designed to combat the Jedi. For example, I wouldn't know the details of the conflict that the fans have referred to. I played the video games though, so I'm aware of it in the games, and I like a lot of the things in there. So, when there are all these things in common and there's stuff that people know, I think 'Well, why don't we use that?'"

- Dave Filoni

The conflict between the Mandalorians and the Jedi was first mentioned, albeit indirectly, in "The Mandalore Plot," the twelfth episode of the canon animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars' second season, which originally aired on January 29, 2010. Identified as the Mandalorian-Jedi War by Dave Filoni, it included all canon conflicts between the two factions, comprising what Star Wars Legends sources referred to as the Mandalorian Crusades, the Mandalorian Wars, and the Mandalorian Excision.