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Star Warshas yet to truly explain how and why Mandalore fell inthe Night of a Thousand Tears , butStar Wars Rebelsmay have given the answer . At some point between 4 ABY and 5 ABY , the Empire lie in wait Mandalore with nuclear fusion reaction bombs , bolt down the majority of Mandalorians . It ’s antecedently been theorized thatBo - Katan Kryze ’s fictive claim to the DarksaberinRebelsmay have caused the Mandalorian clans to splinter apart , allowing the Empire to easy swoop in and obliterate the Mandalorians while they were divided . But a new theory suggeststhe Mandalorians were already shatter long before Bo - Katan attempt to ascend to the commode .
The question is n’t necessarilyhow Mandalore accrue to the Empire , but why it did n’t provide any meaningful resistance . As far as the movies and television shows describe it , it ’s as if the Mandalorians — some of the most powerful and capable warriors in the galaxy — simply range over and let the Empire decimate them . Of course , Bo - Katan ( Katee Sackhoff ) explain inThe Mandalorianseason 3 , episode 6 thatshe disarm Mandalore in an endeavour to pacify Moff Gideon and the Empire , but that they took advantage of her and destroyed the planet rather . Nevertheless , it ’s surprising how easily the Empire topple a major planet of veteran warriors .
Star Wars Canon has yet to explain why the Darksaber is so different from other lightsabers , but one theory suggests it has a unique component .
Bo-Katan Kryze Thought She Was Unifying Mandalore In Rebels
InRebelsseason 4 , installment 2 , Bo - Katan accepts the Darksaber from Sabine Wren in hopes of unifying Mandalore against the Empire ’s despotic reign . Bo - Katan never won the Darksaber in combat , signify her title to it was technically false . However , none of the clans present inRebelsseem to care about the legality of Bo - Katan ’s call . In fact , all of them pledge their allegiance to Bo - Katan and to Mandalore . In other parole , Bo - Katan believe she really was uniting all of Mandalore and that — in stead of the Empire ’s menace — there would n’t be any Mandalorians who like about how she obtained the Darksaber .
accord to Bo - Katan , she surrendered the Darksaber to Moff Gideon after Mandalore ’s main force play were annihilated . This evoke she did terminate up adjudicate to overthrow the Empire with the few Mandalorian clans that aligned with her , but thather takeover d’état was stillborn . In any case , the Empire still feared Mandalore enough to lull the Mandalorians into a sense of peace before destroying them entirely . However , Bo - Katan may not really have had all the Mandalorians on her side when she prove to upend the Empire . In fact , she totally overlooked one of the most of import group of Mandalorians .
Bo-Katan Never Went To Concordia To Make Amends With The Children Of The Watch
Despite reclaiming the Darksaber for Mandalore , at no gunpoint did Bo - Katan assay to recruit the estrangedChildren of the Watch on Concordia . There are a ten thousand of reason as to whyshe avoided contacting the fry of the Watch , but her refusal to make amends with them may have be her the engagement against the Empire . Because the Children of the Watch idolize the ancient tradition of Mandalore , she likely expected them to call her out on her imitation claim to the Darksaber .
Since the Children of the Watch arise from the ashes of Death Watch , Bo - Katan may have write them off as mere fanatical terrorists . She’d already been a part of Death Watch during the Clone Wars , so revisiting many of the comrades she ’d betrayed would likely bring up atrocious memory . But because the Children of the Watch were deport to Concordia , they were spar from annihilation in the end of Mandalore . Nevertheless , it ’s unconvincing that the Children of the Watch and Bo - Katan would have teamed up before the fall of Mandalore .
Moff Gideon ’s destruction of the Darksaber in The Mandalorian time of year 3 finale was the best thing for Mandalore , and the Mandalorians should thank him .
Mandalore Had To Fall To Truly Unite The Mandalorians Again
Even if Bo - Katan had gone to Concordia to enter the Children of the Watch , opportunity are high they ’d refuse her as a leader . There ’s almost no outcome before Mandalore ’s fall where Bo - Katan could have managed to unite every piece of Mandalore , at least , not without let a truthful claim to the Darksaber . Therefore , Mandalore almost needed to fall before it could finally uniteagain . It took the devastation of Mandalore by the Empire and the rise threat of Moff Gideon to truly show the Mandalorians how to work together to get the best their enemy .
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Because Moff Gideon attempted to sully Mandalorian culture by seizing the Darksaber and their beskar , boththe clans of Mandalore and the Children of the Watch were capable to put away their differencesand take down their coarse enemy . Their join was next to unsufferable before Mandalore ’s decline , as the memories of Death Watch ’s atrocities were still too new . Thanks to Din Djarin ’s effort , Bo - Katan and the Armorer were able to convert their forces to join . And now that Mandalore has been reclaimed , the Mandalorian ’s hereafter inStar Warslooks bright .
