Great Clan Wars

The Great Clan Wars (Hra'yr Akaan) were a series of large-scale conflicts between Mandalorian factions that engulfed the Mandalore sector from 44 BBY to 32 BBY, lasting twelve years.

History
The war primarily involved clans of the three factions that dominated Mandalorian politics: the honor-bound Supercommandos, the warlike Neo-Crusaders, and the pacifistic New Mandalorians. A number of independent city-states also participated in the fighting. While conflicts of the war took place throughout the Mandalore sector, a majority of the fighting was centered on Mandalore and its moon Concordia. An individual named Vrox assumed control of the New Mandalorian government and founded the Mandalorian Guard to combat their traditionalist counterparts, though were unable to capture much ground beyond their strongholds in an inhospitable desert. As the war continued for over a decade, many of the clans that weren't completely destroyed in the fighting began forming alliances and securing their hold over individual provinces. After Vrox was captured by Republic forces and much of the clan fighting was reduced to occasional firefights, the Great Clan Wars was considered to have ended, though territorial struggles between some clans continued to rage on. Many of the Supercommandos that survived the battles, numbering in the low hundreds, traveled elsewhere in the galaxy to find work as mercenaries and pirates.

The Republic deployed at least 15,000 soldiers of the Judicial Forces on Mandalore to secure the New Mandalorians' hold on the planet, though after more than half of the Republic forces present were killed in battle, they were later withdrawn.