True Mandalorians [Belief]

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Founded around 60BBY, the True Mandalorians were a Mandalorian group of supercommandos who remained loyal to Jaster Mereel, their leader and reigning Mand'alor, when Mereel's reformist ideals for the Mandalorians were met with opposition. Assembled from the standing full-time army of the planet Mandalore, and a number of prominent Mandalorian clans, the True Mandalorians were a highly organized and skilled group of solderis whose moral code put them in heated opposition to the Death Watch. They were followers of the Supercommando Codex, and the True Mandalorians believed in Jaster Mereel's ideals for a Mandalorian culture in which honor and decency was valued over the barbarism and brigandage favored by the Death Watch.

The True Mandalorian army existed primarily as a fighting force to combat and destroy the threat of the Death Watch, for whom the organization's members harbored a strong hatred. When not embroiled in conflict with their rogue Mandalorian foes, the True Mandalorians would sometimes offer their martial services to prospective parties as a mercenary company. Jaster Mereel saw an honest nobility in mercenary work, which had become a staple in the Mandalorian culture over the centuries. Among themselves, the True Mandalorians fostered a strong sense of camaraderie, respect, and care for each other's well-being, exemplifying the Mandalorian tradition of looking out for one's comrades on and off the battlefield.

In writing his Supercommando Codex, Mereel chose to become a reformist, one who sought to restore honor to the clans and reinstitute the old warriors codes that had been largely forgotten over time. To that end, Mereel revived and modernized the ancient Canons of Honor that the Mandalorian Crusaders and Neo-Crusaders had followed, creating a series of several hundred commandments governing moral Mandalorian behavior, which he entitled the Supercommando Codex. The Codex, like the Canons before it, drew heavily from the Resol'nare, the six central tenets of the Mandalorian culture. From the Codex, Mereel preached that any Mandalorians who wished to fight would no longer engage in the shameful activities of raiders and brigands. Instead, Mandalorian warriors were to conduct themselves as highly-paid soldiers and honorable mercenaries.