I doubt it, considering she is dead. That was probably just a generic clawdite.

Yes it is I saw that to grabbed the image

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Somewhat excited for this now. However, I hope they don't mess up with any of the established canon of the Karen Traviss books(Republic Commando, etc...)...

Before KOTOR, the Mandalorians were at war with the sith, Kinda making them anti-heroes. in KOTOR, they were villains.
I like to think of them as galactic mercenary muscle.
Karen traviss' stories arent "glorifications" for the Mandalorians, all she is doing with them is giving them more exposure, because in all honesty, they needed it. sure, they are cutthroat Mercs, and the best at it. theyre technology I.E, Crushgaunts and Basl'ikas are turning them into a people of industry, supplying the galaxy with the best of defenses and weaponry. Kinda like Haliburton, but way cooler and less full of crap.
so with that said, they are transitioning to a more productive aspect in the galaxy....far from villainy.

yea, theres a ton of grey area, thousands f years of it.
im just grateful they are putting the time and effort into the Mandalorians, because to me, they are the cream of the crop. the baddest of the bad. who else is going to make cortosis armor to fight off jedi? who else even has those kind of resources?
im tired of clones, rebels and imperials. lets get some new info on the beginnings of the seperatists, ya know?
And yea.....they will be villains in the show...WHICH IS STUPID!
Mandalorians trained the ARC Troopers for crying out loud!

cortosis does have the same properties as Mando'ade iron. you are right.
what remains to be a mystery is, how the Imperials got access to the cortosis.
remember tho, in the LOTF novel series, the Mandos are wheeling and dealing there technology all over the place, and they are now in business with the NR and the Imperials. so the Imps could have very well dealed on Gauntlets.

When we are arguing over which Mandalorian armor it is and we have this many examples...it's time to re-evaluate some things.

If I remember correctly, cortosis originally came in two forms. One is lighsaber resistant and highly maleable, then there is one that shorts out lightsabers but is not malleable. That means that they either found a way to work with the strong cortosis, or they rewrote canon. I remeber the rebellion era Empire having cortosis, though. The Mandalorians after the Mandalorian Wars were not necessarily villains. They were contract mercenaries. They could be hired by a villain or a hero to get the job done. Boba Fett falls into that category. Jaster's Mandalorians were not necessarily villains, but the Deathwatch were. Mandalorians are more shades of grey rather than anything else.

hey I might like this season. I hope it redeems the first.

we'll see

Sorry, but that's your opinion, and in this case,it's wrong. It IS canon. LFL signed off on the RC novels and the LOTF novels that Traviss wrote, and thus they are official canon for the SW universe. Now of course, something that you have to remember, is that Traviss writes her stories from a VERY tight 3rd person perspective, without an "omniscient narrator" like a lot of books have. So, in this case, it's referred to as an "unreliable narrator", and so you have to take things in the books with a tiny grain of salt. Yes, Traviss' books tend to paint the Mando'a in a "glorified" light, but that's mainly because it's written from the perspective of the Mando'a. Well of course they don't think they are as ruthless as the rest of the galaxy thinks they are.

But if you look close enough through all those stories, you see that the Mando'a are pretty much the same in those novels as they have been in any other piece of SW fiction. They are pretty much only concerned about what is best for them and their family, and are willing to screw over anyone else who gets in their way. Occasionally they adopt someone new into the family (a la Boba being adopted by Jango, Jango being adopted by Jaster, etc.), but otherwise, outsiders are treated as such.

I'm definitely interested to see how Dave Filoni and his team portray the Mando'a in the CW cartoon. And personally, even though I like Traviss' novels, I'd love for the Mando'a in the cartoon to be ruthless villains as well. Seeing them from a different light now and then is interesting, but I agree that they best serve the SW universe as bad guys, especially during the CW era. :)