Mandalore the Wise

Mandalore the Wise or Te Dral Mand'alor in Mando'a was the leader of the Mandalorians during the Sith Crusade. One of the few Taung left in the galaxy, he was ideal for the role of Mandalore following the death of his predecessor Boba Fett.

Early years
Born on Mandalore, the ancient homeworld on the Mandalorian people, during the Galactic Civil War, Te Dral was born into a rich and powerful family who controlled well over 75% of MandalMotors shares. Although the company was stopped from trading by the Galactic Empire for quite some time, the family still became rich from the illegal trading of arms.

After the collapse of the Galactic Empire in 19 ABY, and fifteen year old Te Dral was given a majority share in MandalMotors by his father who had since became the sole owner of the company. With 56% of the company under his control, and his fathers health failing, Te Dral realized that the time had come for the Mandalorain people to reclaim their rightfull place, as conquerors. Only one thing stood in his way, Fenn Shysa, the then-Mandalore.

Fenn knew that although young, Te Dral's control over MandalMotors made him an influential rival. With many of Mandalore's population in his employ Te Dral could easily cause great civil strife for Fenn Shysa; something Fenn greatly wished to avoid. Under increasing pressure from his "underlings" Fenn attempted to make peace with Te Dral, going so far as to offer Te Dral a position in the hallowed Mandalorian Protectors upon his eightenth birthday.

Te Dral accepted, and upon his eightenth birthday was inducted into the Mandalorian Protectors.

Life as a Mandalorian Protector
With the title of Mandalorian Protector his, Te Dral had become a man of considerable fame on Mandalore. But soon found that becoming a Protector was not all it seemed. He was quickly sent off-world by Fenn Shysa to begin his training. The exact location he was sent to was unknown even to Te Dral, but he knew it was far from his homeworld. Once he had arrived at his new home, Te Dral was thrown into a rigorous training programme. He learnt many skills including how to feed himself of the land, how to survive in extreme weathers and how to avoid being seen by the enemy without technological assistance. He very soon became the greatest student and rose though the ranks, becoming a Commander within a year. It was then that he heard the news he had been waiting for, Fenn Shysa had been slain by another Mandalorian – Boba Fett.

With this new Mandalore Te Dral was in a much stronger position to asert his authority over the Mandalorian peoples. He used his influence to receive a posting on Mandalore, near his home town, and near his headquaters. Once on Mandalore Te Dral abandoned his position and resigned his commission, once again becoming a civilian.

Securing his heritage
A civilian once again, Te Dral set about promoting himself in the eyes of the new Mandalore. He applied for the position of Mandalore's Guard, and succeeded thanks to his past career as a Mandalorian Protector. The details of his time as a Mandalore's Guard are sketchy. It is known that he meet Boba Fett many times, even going so far as to be invited to a banquet in Fett's father's honor.

He served with the Mandalorians during the Second Corellian Insurrection and even under several famous Jedi such as Luke Skywalker and Jacen Solo.

Towards the end of the conflict, Te Dral saw that Fett's health was failing, and that the time had come to promote himself to the rnak of Mandalore. But he had grown to respect the ageing Mandalore so much so that he actually waited until Fett died naturally before commiting his coup d'état.

With the support of his fellow Mandalore's Guard and many of the Mandalorian Protectors, Te Dral returned to his homeworld in force and removed Fett's granddaughter Mirta Gev from power.

The new Mandalore
In the year 46 ABY Te Dral had ceompletely secured control over the Mandalorian peoples. Renaming the loose coalition of planets the Mando'ade Alliance and tightening his grip on its member worlds, Te Dral Mand'alor (as he was now known) removed all threats from Gev's followers after executing their figure-head.

He went on to perform may more acts of great disgust, but also many of great respectability. He constantly drew the attention of the Galactic Senate yet maintained the Mando'ade Alliance's independance from the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances. But even Te Dral realized that the GFFA was not a government to make an enemy off, and he often agreed to relent on many, more serious cases; but stopped short of allowing the GFFA to post Jedi Knights in the GFFA's embassy on the planet Mandalore.

Many more years past and slowly, Te Dral received whispers of a growing power in the Unknown Regions. Cautiously, Te Dral began to rebuild the Mandalorian Fleet which had waned in recent years. Unsurprisingly MandalMotors was given well over 80% of the contracts for new starships, weapons and armors. Te Dral initiated a programme of National Service, forcibly arming his entire population. When the invasion of the GFFA finally came, Te Dral knew that more would be needed if the Mando'ade Alliance was to survive.

The Sith Cursade
It was fortunate for Te Dral that the Mando'ade Alliance was on the far side of the galaxy from the point of the Sith invasion. But even the Mandalorian's would not be able to escape the Sith for long.

Battle of Mandalore
In 63 ABY, the time finally came for the Mandalorian's to show their worth. Darth Abeonis, the Dark Lord of the Decreton Empire had decided that the Sith had spent too long at war with the galaxy without an ally, and decided that the Mando'ade Alliance could be a suitable one. But Abeonis knew that Te Dral would not just surrender his entire domain to the Sith without a fight, and a fight he received.

After many days of fighting, Te Dral began to see that the battle was a lost cause. Despite his years of preperation Mandalore, his homeworld, was lost. His only wish now was to keep his populous alive, even if it meant surrender.

Yet he was spared this misfortune when Abeonis, who was leading the Sith fleet contacted Te Dral with offers of peace, on the condition that he all himself with the attackers. Te Dral, rather reluctantly accepted.