Gilamar Skirata
The most important step is always the next one
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a short addition to the Mandalorian Resource Wars
- Image Credit: Images from Dark Horse's and Marvel's Jango Fett: Open Seasons Comic Series
- Links:
Mandalorian Resource Wars - Vong Wastes
GENERAL INFORMATION
- Event Name: Battle of Little Ironweed
- Participants:
Orphaned Mandalorians - Yuuzhan Vong
- Mandalorians
[*]Results: The Mandalorians pushed back the Vong and began a campaign to push them back into the Vong Wastes of Mandalore, marking the start of the Vong-Mandalorian War. This eventually led to the walling off many of the larger Vong Wastes on Mandalore.
CHRONICLE INFORMATION
The battle of Little Ironweed began long before its legendary conclusion at the orphanage. One day prior to the end of the battle a mass of Vong Forces assaulted a Mandalorian military base near the small town of Shuror. En route to aid the soldiers in preparing for battle against Sansa Corda's Mandalorian forces, a group of Mandalorian orphans was shot down over the base. With their headmaster killed in the crash and recognizing that the next target of this Vong incursion would be Shuror, the nearest town, the orphans took it upon themselves to prepare for the Vong. On their way they managed to put out a distress call to any and all Mandalorians near by. They arrived much faster than the Vong who were traveling on foot and were able to spend a day preparing food, weapons, and the old bes'uliik in the shed. The children and teens also modified heavy farming equipment that would work as a mobile weapons platform which fired large metal nails.
In an act of Mandalorian bravery unprecedented since the days of the Clone Wars, the orphans utilized the huge fields of Mandalorian Ironweed to set up explosive traps, ambushes, and raids on the Vong. The orphanage itself would later fall under siege as the Vong's superior strength pushed back the orphans. However, when all seemed lost, two groups of Mandalorians, one serving Sansa Corda and the other in open rebellion, converged on the Vong and together the forces were able to push the Vong back. Impressed with the valor and ingenuity of the little "Iron-blooded" Orphans Sansa Corda declared them to have passed their Verd'gotten and the Mandalorians who were of age (14+) were treated as adults. The leader of the orphans declared himself alor of Clan Sarad and adopted the rest of the orphanage before following the combined force into what would become known as the Vong-Mandalorian War. Upon his return Clan Sarad became one of the most well known clans on Mandalore, despite its size. The story of the "Iron-Blooded Orphans" that held back the tide of a Vong invasion would become the rallying cry for Mandalorian on both sides of the Civil War to come together and reunite under a single banner.
