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6. "RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here"
In response to message #4
 
   >Once again, you prove able to understand characters.

Well, for the background, if not the protagonists themselves, I have to acknowledge a significant debt to Karen Traviss, author of what I guess I must now get used to calling the Republic Commando tetralogy (Order 66 came out on Tuesday; I haven't read it yet), and who attempted to do for the Mandalorian culture of the prequel era more or less what John M. Ford did for Klingons in The Final Reflection. The various foreign words scattered through Wish You Were Here are taken from the constructed Mandalorian language she developed for her books.

That is to say, the Mandalorian society that Jango, Fenn, and Khyra came from in UF wasn't much like what you see in the Republic Commando books - but what they're trying to reinvent it as in present-day UF has many parallels. They come from the very end of that civilization, when it was entrenched, hidebound, and in severe decline - indeed, it ceased to exist within a year or two of their going into cryosleep. What Jango and the others are trying to recreate in the 2400s is based largely on what they know of their people's more illustrious, very distant past, when the Mandalorians were a dynamic, mobile society rooted much more in concepts of family and personal ability than in military or political power.

Just how authentic their vision of ancient Mando'ad virtue is might be debatable - none of them was an historian, and modern sources for information on the ancient Mandalorians is virtually nonexistent - but to them it's also irrelevant. It's easy to dismiss them, and many observers have, as posers, full-time roleplayers, like SCA reconstructionists who are so into the drill that they refuse to act like normal people the rest of the year, but they don't care. Their vision of a reborn Mandalorian culture is what it is, and if you don't like it, well, they don't remember inviting you to comment anyway.

>This makes you wonder...what would Boba have been like if Jango had
>lived?

Indeed. That's more or less what I was exploring in the flashback sequences here. Mind you, I'd like to think the UF models live in a saner galaxy, but still...

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   RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here drakensis Sep-18-08 1
   RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here WengFook Sep-18-08 2
      RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Peter Eng Sep-18-08 3
      RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Gryphonadmin Sep-18-08 5
   RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Pasha Sep-18-08 4
     RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Gryphonadmin Sep-18-08 6
          RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Pasha Sep-18-08 7
              RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Gryphonadmin Sep-18-08 8
                  RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here MOGSY Sep-18-08 9
                      RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Gryphonadmin Sep-18-08 10
                          RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here MOGSY Sep-18-08 11
                              RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here mdg1 Sep-18-08 12
                                  RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Zox Sep-18-08 13
                                      RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here MOGSY Sep-18-08 14
                              RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Gryphonadmin Sep-19-08 17
                                  RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here mdg1 Sep-19-08 18
                                  RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here FubarObfusco Sep-19-08 19
                                      RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here MOGSY Sep-19-08 20
                                          RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Peter Eng Sep-19-08 21
                                              RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Wedge Sep-19-08 22
                                          RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here FubarObfusco Sep-19-08 23
                                              RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Gryphonadmin Sep-19-08 24
                                              RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here mdg1 Sep-19-08 27
                                              RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here dstar Sep-19-08 30
                                              RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Senji Mar-23-19 36
              RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Mephronmoderator Mar-22-19 35
   RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here VA_Wanderer Sep-19-08 15
      RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Gryphonadmin Sep-19-08 16
          RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Mephronmoderator Sep-19-08 25
              RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Gryphonadmin Sep-19-08 26
                  RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here CdrMike Sep-19-08 28
                      RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Gryphonadmin Sep-19-08 29
   RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Gryphonadmin Nov-22-08 31
      RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here BZArchermoderator Nov-23-08 32
      RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Zuki Nov-24-08 33
          RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here Gryphonadmin Nov-24-08 34


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