Rise of the Mand’alor
What little we know of Mandalore’s ancient history reads like much of its more recent history as well—a world of scattered clans and factions just as likely to fight each other as they were external threats. Thousands of years before the events of the Star Wars movies, however, those factions would become united under the banner of Mand’alor, a warrior worthy of leading all Mandalorians into battle. One of the first we know of is Tarre Viszla, the first Mandalorian to be inducted into the Jedi Order. Rising to knighthood, Viszla constructed his own unique lightsaber: a black-bladed sword with a hilt made out of beskar, the legendary alloy mined on Mandalore and other worlds inhabited by the clans, called the Darksaber.
Viszla would use the sword to unite the myriad clans of Mandalore to become a leader of not just his own family house, but all Mandalorian clans. But his death would bring about generations of conflict between his home and the organization that took him in.
