Post-Purge Armors

Little is known what happened to Mandalore after it was re-liberated by a combination of forces from the nascent Rebel Alliance: former Death Watch members led by Duchess Satine’s sister, Bo-Katan Kryze; rebellious Mandalorian houses that had remained on the world; and the Mandalorian Protectorate based on the moon of Concord Dawn. What is known is that at some point, the Galactic Empire struck back at Mandalore, initiating a period of occupation and apparent genocide known among surving Mandalorians as the Great Purge.

Knowledge of just how devastating the Great Purge was is of varying degrees among surviving Mandalorians, who scattered into individual nomadic tribes and enclaves across the galaxy, intending to keep the true scale of survivors unknown on a galactic level. At least some of these enclaves returned to the more traditional armor designs that preceded the New Mandalorians’ cultural prominence. Individual Mandalorians would customize the overall look and coloration of their armor, as well as eventually imprinting it with the mark of their own clan. But one consistent trait seen so far in Star Wars’ exploration of this period was the practice of an individual “earning” a full suit of beskar-crafted armor, exchanging plasteel armor pieces for newly forged plates, once they had found a way to retrieve the now-rarer Mandalorian iron to give to an enclave’s armorer.

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