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"Mandalore. Right turn off the Hydian Way. Can't miss it."

―Boba Fett

The Mandalore system contained the planet Mandalore and the cognominal star. The system was in the Outer Rim in the Mandalore Sector, not too far from Ojoster Sector. Mandalore (Manda'yaim in Mando'a) was the planet on which the Mandalorian culture first formed.

"Visit Mandalore before Mandalore visits you. Take home some souvenirs—a slab of uj cake and a smack in the mouth."

―Baltan Carid

Taungs under the leadership of Mandalore the First settled the planet prior to 7,000 BBY. They drove the native mythosaurs to extinction, using their skeletons to construct cities of bone. The planet was named after the great leader. The Taungs thereafter called themselves Mandalorians. The Mandalorians traveled from Mandalore and conquered many worlds. After failing to conquer Onderon, they briefly settled on its moon Dxun.

The Mandalorians adopted other species into their ranks, and the last of the original Taung species eventually died out due to the Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders all-out attempt to conquer the Republic during the Mandalorian Wars.

The planet became part of the Republic (possibly c. 200 BBY), but was marginalized and grew destitute.

During the Clone Wars, the planet joined the Confederacy, viewing the Republic as a corrupt oppressor. The Mandalorian Supercommandos led by Mandalore the Resurrector were tasked with protecting their planet. They fought on Zaadja, New Bornalex, and New Holstice. Their most stunning victory was at the Second Battle of Kamino. Darth Sidious assigned them to capture Senator Amidala on Norval II, but Palpatine arranged for them to be ambushed by the Jedi. The Super Commandos assaulted the planet, accompanied by Battle Legionnaire droids. They were wiped out by the Jedi, save three survivors: Tobbi Dala, Fenn Shysa, and the Resurrector himself.

During the reign of the Galactic Empire, Mandalore fell under the jurisdiction of the Suprema, a non-Human Imperial advisor. The planet legalized slavery to escape its deep poverty. The Suprema ran the slave trade from the City of Bone, built inside the skeleton of a mythosaur. Fenn Shysa and Tobbi Dala began a resistance. The Zann Consortium engaged in piracy over Mandalore during this period, even kidnapping the Supreme Strategist and defeating the Mandalorian clan leader.

After the Battle of Hoth, Leia Organa came to a resistance camp near Keldabe, a beautiful hideout in the planet's treetops. Fenn Shysa and Tobbi Dala, two of three surviving Mandalorian Supercommandos, were helped by Leia in ridding the planet of slavers (at the cost of Dala's life), destroying the City of Bone and killing the Suprema. Shysa became a symbol of hope, rallying the people of the planet against Grand Admiral Miltin Takel and the Empire.

After a long struggle Fenn finally freed the Mandalore Sector, and kept Mandalore safe.

Althir was a remote, independent world that was located outside of the borders of the Galactic Republic. It had a system of rocky planetary rings which may imply that it was a gas giant.

It was the site of two major battles fought by the Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders during the Old Sith Wars. The first battle was fought in the early years of the Mandalorian Wars at some point between the years 3,976 and 3,963 BBY. The battle was a confrontation between the invading Mandalorian forces commanded by Canderous Ordo and Althiri defenders. The Mandalorians emerged victorious and they conquered the planet, but they were not destined to hold it very long.

The second battle was fought several years after the Mandalorians had invaded the Republic, circa 3,960 BBY. It was a confrontation between Republic forces under the command of the Jedi Revan and the Mandalorian army. Revan led the Republic to victory and his forces eradicated the Mandalorian regime on Althir.

Basilisk was a Core world in the Arrowhead of the Slice, near Coruscant.

Basilisk was home to the Basiliskans, an intelligent lizard species. They were the creators of the Basilisk War Droids, that were rumored to be modeled after themselves. During their war with the Mandalorians around the year 3,997 BBY, the Basiliskans chemically poisoned their own planet, in a last effort to defeat their conquerors. Despite receiving Jedi/Republic reinforcements under Sidrona Diath at the Battle of Basilisk, the Mandalorians conquered the planet and enslaved the remaining Basiliskans.

After the war, the Mandalorians found a new use for the Basiliskans. With their tough hides and claws (not to mention how easily they could be trained) and their intelligence, the Mandalorians used them as weapons for aerial and ground fighting during later wars. Because of this the Basiliskans degenerated and become nothing more than savage beasts. As such, they were re-named the Lagartoz War Dragons.

The planet was once more fought over during the Clone Wars.

Concord Dawn was an arid, sparsely populated world inhabited mainly by farmers. It was located in the Mid Rim.

The world was home to a number of Mandalorians — Concord Dawn was the birthplace of Jango Fett as well as his mentor Jaster Mereel. The law on Concord Dawn were the Journeyman Protectors. The planet was caught up in the Mandalorian Civil Wars in 58 BBY.

Concord Dawn was the home to the Karatos Plague. All inhabitants of Concord Dawn were inoculated against it at birth.

Dxun (pronounced /'dʌksɪn/) was the largest of four moons that orbited the Outer Rim world of Onderon. Like its parent planet, it was covered almost entirely by dense jungles that were populated by many species of fierce, predatory animals.

"We claimed this moon decades ago when we reforged ourselves after Exar Kun's defeat. Some of us call it home."

―A Mandalorian Neo-Crusader, circa 3,951 BBY

After assuming the leadership of the Mandalorians, Mandalore the Ultimate made Dxun his stronghold, from which he planned his attack on the Galactic Republic.

In 3,963 BBY, the Mandalorian Wars expanded into a galaxy-wide conflict when the Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders began their invasion of the Republic. From their headquarters on Dxun, Mandalore's forces attacked and took nearby Onderon in mere hours. A battle with the Republic forces took place on the moon, but it was little more that a rear-guard holding action by the Republic.

Years later, after the Jedi Revan and Malak had entered the war and pushed the Mandalorian forces back to their original Dxun staging-grounds, a far more bloody battle was fought. The Republic attempted to capture the Mandalorian headquarters on Dxun. Republic forces managed to defeat the Mandalorians, but the victory came at a heavy cost. The Mandalorian outposts were entrenched and well defended by hidden mines, traps, anti-air turrets, and the ferocious inhabitants of the jungle itself. During the bloody battle, the Republic lost ten soldiers for every Mandalorian killed. The Jedi Exile, who was in command of the battle, was forced to sacrifice dozens of her soldiers, sending them on a suicidal charge to disable the minefield that was the last obstacle keeping them away from the Mandalorian fortress.

After the battle, the Republic military did not bother to demolish many structures that the Mandalorians had built; nor did they uncover the many hidden weapons caches providently left in case the Mandalorians were someday to return.

In 3,956 BBY, Canderous Ordo took the title of Mandalore and gathered a handful of Mandalorians, most of whom were mercenaries at the time, on the Dxun moon, in the rebuilt headquarters of the old Mandalore. There they regrouped, concealing their presence from both the Republic and the native Onderonians, silencing all scouts who came anywhere near their encampment. Canderous hoped that, one day, the Mandalorians of Dxun would regain their former glory.

The Jedi Exile landed in the jungles of Dxun when her ship, the Ebon Hawk, was severely damaged in a space battle over Onderon where Republic forces commanded by Colonel Tobin attacked them unprovoked, almost definitely under General Vaklu's orders. While exploring the jungle, the Exile was attacked by three of the Zhug brothers, who were also stranded by the space battle and looking to collect on her bounty. Later, the Exile was discovered by a group of Mandalorians, who brought her to the new Mandalore. She needed to get to Onderon to search for Jedi Master Kavar, but Canderous told her that she would need to prove herself first. The Exile performed several tasks for the Mandalorians and proved herself honorable, and Canderous made good on his word, providing a shuttle and accompanying her to the city of Iziz.

Gargon was a planet in Mandalore Sector, held by gangsters. Grand Admiral Miltin Takel was from Gargon. It was the headquarters of Grand Admiral Josef Grunger until liberated.

Much of the galaxy's phobium was mined on Gargon.

Kerest was the Kerestian homeworld. It was locked in an ice age. The planet was discovered by the House of Tagge.

Kuar was a Deep Core world of flat, rocky, dusty plains. It was on the Koros Trunk Line between Empress Teta and Foerost.

The planet was conquered by the Mandalorians, who wiped out the indigenous Kuarans and used the planet to stage their attack upon the Empress Teta system. On the Plains of Harkul, Ulic Qel-Droma defeated Mandalore the Indomitable in combat, winning his loyalty.

Palpatine later kept a lab full of pathogens on the planet, including the Emperor's Plague.

Native fauna included combat arachnids, and six-legged yellow reptiles with prehensile tails.

Malachor V was an Outer Rim planet located in the Malachor system. Its original terrain and climate was unknown as following the Battle of Malachor V, it became a cracked and twisted wasteland covered with jagged cliffs and plagued by constant lightning storms. It was inhabited by monstrous storm beasts. The gravity of the planet was unstable, which made it dangerous for starships to stay there for very long.

Malachor became the site of the final battle of the Mandalorian Wars, during which the most terrible atrocity of the war was committed. Malachor was a taboo world in Mandalorian culture, something that the Jedi General Revan used against them in order to win the war. Revan amassed an enormous fleet composed, not coincidentally, of Jedi and Republic soldiers whose loyalty to Revan was in question, at the planet, providing the Mandalorians with a target that was too good to pass up. At the head of this force Revan placed one of his top generals, the soon-to-be Jedi Exile.

During the Battle of Malachor V, Revan single-handedly slew Mandalore the Ultimate aboard the warlord's flagship. As Republic and Mandalorian forces outsystem from the planet itself continued to clash, the Jedi Exile ordered the activation of the Mass Shadow Generator superweapon with a single, wordless nod towards its inventor, Bao-Dur, in order to prevent the Mandalorian forces they faced from overwhelming them and moving on to attack Revan's forces from behind. In an instant, Malachor's gravity crushed every combatant in and around its atmosphere—Mandalorian, Republic, and Jedi alike. Malachor's surface was transformed into a barren, shattered and lifeless wasteland, with all of Revan's enemies eliminated in a single stroke. The planet was left scarred from the battle as the surface had been crushed. Long afterward, there was still evidence of crashed Republic cruisers buried deep within the surface.

In 3,951 BBY, Kreia located the Jedi Exile, the only Jedi who had fought at Malachor V and not been killed or corrupted. Plotting revenge against her apprentices, Kreia began orchestrating events to set up a final confrontation between herself and the Exile at the Trayus Academy. After slaying Darth Nihilus, the Exile arrived at the Academy and defeated the Sith there, including Darth Sion and Darth Traya (Kreia).

While the Exile fought in the Academy, Bao-Dur, the technician who had originally designed the Mass Shadow Generator, ordered his remote to reactivate the superweapon in an effort to destroy the tainted world of Malachor V for all time. Despite G0-T0's attempts to thwart it, the remote succeeded in its task. As the Exile departed Malachor in the Ebon Hawk, the dead planet crumbled under the pressure of the mass shadow's gravity, leaving behind only asteroids and the wreckage of many hundreds of blasted warships, a grim memorial to the Battle of Malachor V.

Ordo was the homeworld of the Mandalorian Clan Ordo, and eventually home to future Mandalore, Canderous Ordo. Mostly a barren desert planet, Ordo had some vegetation around its equator.

Shogun was a Mandalorian planet in the Quence sector in the Outer Rim conquered by one of the ancient Mandalores years before the Great Sith War. The surreal world was also the place where Fenn Shysa died saving Boba Fett's life.

Togoria was a planet in in the Thanos sector in the Mid Rim, with grassy plains, dense forests and rolling hills, and was the homeworld of the Togorians. Humans were not permitted on the planet uninvited unless they crashed (crashing was only allowed once). The planet originally joined the Confederacy of Independent Systems and later allied with the Rebel Alliance.