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multiverseforger · 4 years ago

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The Legacy of Sabine Wren in the Rebel Alliance

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

HOMEWORLD

Krownest[1]

Mandalore[2]

BORN

21 BBY,[3] Mandalore[2]

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

SPECIES

Human[4]

GENDER

Female[4]

HEIGHT

1.7 meters[4]

MASS

52 kilograms[5]

HAIR COLOR

Multi-colored[4]

EYE COLOR

Brown[4]

SKIN COLOR

Tan[4]

CHRONOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL INFORMATION

CLAN(S)

House Vizsla[6]

Clan Wren[6]

AFFILIATION(S)

Galactic Empire[7]

Alliance to Restore the Republic[8]

Spectres[9]

Mandalorian resistance[10]

MASTERS

Kanan Jarrus (lightsaber combat)[11]

[Source]

I'm surprised to see you so swayed by Sabine Wren. You seem to be as impressed with her as I am."

"I had my doubts, Rau, but she came back to face her past and her bold initiative has impressed me. She has become a courageous leader. She reminds me of the best of who we were, and could inspire us to become more than we have been of late.FENN RAU AND BO-KATAN KRYZE

Sabine Wren was a human female Mandalorian warrior and revolutionary leader during the early rebellion against the Galactic Empire. Her artistry during the rebellion inspired the symbol of the Alliance to Restore the Republic, and her claim over the ancient Mandalorian weapon known as the Darksaber made her a symbol to Clan Wren and the hopes of freeing her people's homeworld of Mandalore from the rule of the Empire.

Prior to becoming a rebel, Wren was a cadet at the Imperial Academy of Mandalore. She built weapons she believed would be used for peace but were instead used against her family and her people. Wracked with guilt, Wren left Mandalore and was branded a traitor by the Empire and her mother, Ursa Wren, leader of the clan. Wren worked as a bounty hunter alongside her friend Ketsu Onyo before being recruited by Captain Hera Syndulla and the Jedi Kanan Jarrus to join their rebel crew aboard the starship Ghost. Together, the crew fought against the Empire and used Wren's art as a symbol of hope. They became part of a larger rebel movement, with Wren's work continuing to inspire the fledgling rebellion.

In 2 BBY, while hunting down the rogue Sith Lord and former Mandalorian ruler Maul, Wren discovered the Darksaber on Dathomir. She initially wanted nothing to do with it, but Jarrus and Fenn Rau, a Mandalorian Protector of Concord Dawn who joined the rebellion, convinced her to wield it so she could unite the Mandalorian people and bring them into the rebellion. Wren returned to her family and convinced them of the Empire's treachery, helping to kill Gar Saxon, the Imperial Viceroy of Mandalore, in the process. After aiding her family in the Mandalorian Civil War, Sabine returned to aid the Rebel Alliance's struggle against the Empire. Wren and the Ghost Crew eventually returned to Lothal. During this time, Jarrus was killed, but she and the other members of the Lothal resistance group went onto fight to liberate the planet. While they succeeded, it was only after her friend Ezra Bridger disappeared into hyperspace with the Star Destroyer Chimaera. After the Empire's fall in the Battle of Jakku, Wren and Ahsoka Tano launched a search for their missing friend.

Biography

Early life

What happened to your real family?"

"The Empire. What happened to yours?EZRA BRIDGER AND SABINE WREN

A human[4]female, Sabine Wren was born on the planet Mandalore[2] in the waning years of the Galactic Republic, into Clan Wren of House Vizsla.[6] Her mother Ursa[12] was a member of Death Watch[6] during a time when Mandalore had fallen into chaos after the collapse of the New Mandalorian government, near the end of the Clone Wars.[13] She was raised in part on Mandalore[14] but also considered Clan Wren's ancestral home of Krownest[12] to be her homeworld.[1] Trained from an early age in Mandalorian warrior culture,[15] Wren forged her distinctive armor with her family,[6] and also inherited her Nite Owls[16] helmet from someone whose identity she was reluctant to reveal.[15] Her father, artist Alrich Wren, took Sabine to see the statue of Tarre Vizsla while her younger brother Tristan Wren was only an infant.[17]

After the Clone Wars ended, the Galactic Empire established a presence on Mandalore and opened an Imperial Academy, which Wren attended as a Imperial cadet. As a youth, she believed in the Empire[18] and, even as it put her through some "rough stuff,"[18] followed its orders blindly. During her time at the Academy, she studied the tactics of Twi'lek Resistance leader Cham Syndulla[19] and Mandalorian Protector leader Fenn Rau[6] during the Clone Wars. This would eventually put her at odds with the Imperial establishment there, and led to a nightmarish experience.[7]

Sabine Wren and Ketsu Onyo became bounty hunters after leaving the Imperial Academy.As a young and idealistic Imperial cadet, Sabine built an Arc Pulse Generator that she nicknamed the "Duchess," which reacted with the beskar alloy inside the Mandalorian armor, incinerating the armor and disintegrating their wearers. The weapon was regarded by many Mandalorians as an abomination because it turned their armor against them; Mandalorian armor held a sacrosanct place in Mandalorian culture since it was passed down from generation to generation.[10] As Wren witnessed the Empire subjugating Mandalore, she was wracked with guilt at her own role in helping the Empire build the weapon used to oppress her people.[11]

When she spoke out against the Empire, Sabine's mother, her father, and her brother sided with the Empire and cast her out. Estranged from her family,[11] Sabine Wren escaped the Imperial Academy with the help of her friend, Ketsu Onyo, and deserted the Empire.[20] Sabine's decision to renounce the Empire had serious ramifications for her family. Her father became a hostage of Viceroy Gar Saxon, the Emperor's Hand and the Imperial puppet ruler of Mandalore. Her mother Ursa was forced to prove her clan's loyalty to the Empire while her brother Tristan was forced to serve in Saxon's Imperial Super Commandos so that the family could remain in Saxon's favor.[11] Before fleeing Mandalore, Sabine also destroyed her weapon. However, the Empire was able to use her research to build another arc pulse generator.[10]

During her escape from Mandalore, Wren received no small amount of help from Wookiees, for which Wren felt she owed them a debt.[14] Wren and Onyo then became bounty hunting partners; the two were like sisters, though Wren was the softer of the two. Together, they dreamed of joining the criminal organization Black Sun, all the while doing things just for money and caring only about themselves in an attempt to survive.[20] Ultimately, they parted on bad terms[16] due to Onyo getting "greedy" and leaving Wren for dead.[20]

At some point, while on the run from an Imperial attempt to capture her after she had left the Academy, a man named Janard saved her life by knocking over a stack of freight containers to block the Imperials' path while she escaped.[18] Eventually, the brutal Imperial crackdown on her homeworld and the consequent loss of her family pushed Wren into open rebellion

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wunderscheisse · 7 years ago

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I adore the wridger kids. Do you have any lore on them to share? Who's closer to which parent? Who takes after who? How close are they to the rest of the ghost crew? Etc. If you don't mind. I understand if you're busy.

Aww hey, thanks for the interest! I’m glad to hear you like the little dweebs!

As for your question I do have a lore, although it’s very loose. It’s more like, I have many little ideas, I just haven’t consistently tied them together (yet). It’s also surprisingly kind of a sad lore - well compare that I don’t usually draw too much angst or if I do, it feels cringy lol but anyways here are some factoids for you (and for anybody who ever wondered about my dingus AU):

Orah is the older and the more vivid kid. (4 yrs older than her little brother) I think she would be more close to Ezra, since she is force sensitive and she does start her jedi training with her father, but eventually ends up at Luke’s jedi academy, where Ben corrupts her to the dark side (they weren’t close friends per se, but they were the few of the older kids at Academy, and both Ben and Orah questions things way too much and starts to develop a distrust in Luke. Well, as in Ben starts to influence her “Snokey dark side shit” on her too. So it’s not a honest friendship at all.)

Janard is a very timid kid, called by many the “crybaby”. Although, as he gets older, he learns to tough it up and becomes an excellent mandalorian warrior - while he keeps his kind and gentle side. Since he is not force sensitive, he finds more interest in his mother’s hobbies, hence why he gets more mandalorian upbring. His relationship with his sister was always very caring and genuine (Orah always protected him from other kids who bullied/made fun of him) so when he finds out that Orah turned dark, he decides to go after her and bring her back. (as for where Ezra is at this time, I don’t wanna say much - mostly bc there are two versions in my mind and one of them is the…well, more angsty one.)

MORE FACTOIDS:

Originally, I wanted to include my version of Dawn Syndulla in this lore. And I was an evil binch too and like in the Rebels endgame canon, Kanan was dead/or on somekindof lone jedi journey somewhere, (I never actually decided on that ngl)

Currently I kept the canon, and it’s only Hera and Jacen. Jacen becomes an excellent pilot, but he is not force sensitive in this AU - so I can conveniently make him and Janard having this nice little common thingie they can connect through. Also acting like a big bro figure.

This AU also has a “Mandoginger” kid (Bo Katan and Fenn Rau) named Satine, who is around the same age as Jacen and they are constantly having banters and compete over who the better pilot is and who’s parent is the better pilot. She also acts very much like a sister around Janard and she helped a lot in his mando training back in the day.

The Wren/Bridger household has its own droid named Becky (B3-K1) a feminine programmed astromech. She accompanies Janard on many occasions.

One zygerrian fan OC I made (who isn’t related to anybody lmao) is named Akilah, who befriends Janard on his quest to find his sister. (I posted about her once)

I do have these guys laying around too. They supposed to be three oprhan kids saved by Ezra and Sabine and brought back either to Lothal or Krownest during the last years of the war. I think now that we have the Rebels ending, we could make them as force sensitive kids found by Ahsoka and Sabine on the Ezra quest. And maybe stayed with Ahsoka so they don’t have to die at Luke’s Academy lol idk I’ll try to come up with something clever one day

#star wars #star wars rebels #sabezra #Ellinor's art #bluebean #wridgers #Question Tiem #anonymous #long post #who needs freetime when you can make self indulgent AUs amirite

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steamship-historical-society · 2 years ago

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Check out this 1963 Corvette that was purchased new and shipped to Italy. In 1968, it was shipped back to the U.S. on board the Italian Line’s Leonardo Da Vinci. The shipping label is attached inside the glove box. The car was in a private collection for the last five years, until SSHSA Facebook follower Ron Janard recently sold it at a Mecum Auction. These images of the Corvette were sent in by Ron. The image of the Leonardo Da Vinci is from the Braun Brothers Collection, SSHSA Archives. You can see more images from this collection at bit.ly/BraunBrothers. https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce1NvD9M49j/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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phoenixyfriend · 3 years ago

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OKAY gonna kick this off by saying I wrote up an entire thing and have scrapped most of it because wow do I not have a coherent train of thought when trying to debate while emotional. @atagotiak helped me turn it into something that doesn't go in circles and backtrack across itself. And this does get me emotional. Because... reasons.

So, I do actually recognize that New Mandalore has some deeply questionable visuals. I've touched on them a few times, including in this post. With the first and foremost Mandalorian being Jango Fett, and the show already being on shaky footing with regards to race, the visuals being entirely white and blonde is sketchy as hell. It's uncomfortable to see and uncomfortable to think about, because we've seen in the Senate and on other planets that they can animate diversity, even if their budget may have been low for this episode (see: one of the more infamous screenshots used to talk about the homogeneity has three women with the exact same haircut).

We can all agree (or at least, all of us with sense) that Filoni fucked up here. The creative team made everyone on Mandalore white. This is a bad thing, because space should really not have that kind of homogeneity unless the planet/culture is incredibly insular or incompatible with other species.

But here's the thing:

The creative team for Open Seasons did the same thing. Not one of the depicted True Mandalorians is a person of color, except for Jango himself.

(He's also very white-washed, so maybe some of these characters were meant to be men of color? But the clones were white-washed in TCW, so if that's our point of argument, we need to extend benefit of the doubt to either both, or neither.)

The diversity of Mandalore pre-Satine is a fanon creation. It's a good fanon, but it's not a reason to decide she's evil. It's a reason to yell at the creators for doing racial homogeneity on Mandalore.

Death Watch is also really, really white. Every existing Mandalorian since KOTOR, as of TCW, was really, really white. I'm going to include a list of every Mandalorian I found that wasn't a white human at the end, but if we don't include the video games set in the old republic (some 4000 years pre-canon), then these are the Mandalorian humans of color:

Jango Fett, his family, and any clones of his

Clan Wren - Asian, from Star Wars: Rebels (released after public negativity to Filoni's animation choices in TCW)

Ketsu Onyo - black, from Rebels (released after public negativity to Filoni's animation choices in TCW)

Janard - profile says "Skin tone: Tan," (race ambiguous) from a comic based on Star Wars: Rebels (released after public negativity to Filoni's animation choices in TCW)

Novoc Vevut - black, from the comics "Legacy of the Force," takes place several decades post-OT in Legends

OId Teroch - ambiguous race, from the X-Wings miniatures game, profile says "Skin tone: Dark"

Shyla Varad - ambiguous race, from Imperial Assault card game (released 2014), profile says "Skin tone: Tan"

Mandalore the Lesser - ambiguous race, from codex entries and Legends timeline, profile says "Skin tone: Tan", almost 4000 years pre-canon

Jango and his people. Characters introduced after Filoni got backlash for white Mandalore. Novoc. Two characters from a card game, one of whom is racially ambiguous enough that she might be white anyway. A character from the KOTOR period.

(Din counts as 'characters introduced after Filoni got backlash,' but even then it's a borderline case since Pedro Pascal refers to himself as a Hispanic white man, so I'm not including him.)

That's it. The 'Diverse Mandalore' that people say Satine got rid of hadn't existed in over three thousand years, because the Star Wars writers have always been racist.

If we criticize Satine for not having a Mandalore that looks like KOTOR because her creators were bad at their jobs, then we criticize Jaster for the same thing. If we retcon the True Mandalorians to be more diverse, then we do the same to the New Mandalorians.

My issue with the 'the visuals are questionable' is based on a lot of things, but a big one is the double standard I outline above. Every faction of Mandalore is uncomfortably white in anything set in the decades leading up to the empire, because creators are racist. If we talk about New Mandalore being a problem because of those visuals, then we need to do the same for True Mandalorians.

Sundari being mostly white has been retconned by canon. The True Mandalorians being mostly white has not... mostly because they aren't canon anymore at all, but we'll see if that changes, now that Jaster's been name-dropped in the live-action.

I'm starting with this to make it clear that I am more than aware of what the major criticism is, because that's where I started and was my first instinct as well. As I've just explained, though, it's irrelevant, because it was done to every other faction as well.

Whether canon demographics or retconned, Satine's people are no whiter than any other Mandalorian group of that century. That's where we start.

We then get into policy and behavior.

Satine's policies are explicitly anti-war and, with how this plays into her people's history, staunchly anti-imperialist. She is shown eating minimally when her people are running low on food, indicating that she refuses to distribute wealth with the inequality we see from leaders like Orn Free Taa. Her only explicit weaponry ban is for outsiders, unlike fanon claims, and the armor ban is also fanon.

(Also pretty much every faction has some No True Scotsman going on, and since Almec's already a dick, I don't feel bad about dismissing his commentary as a panicked rejection of attempts to tie Mandalore to the war, a war they cannot afford to get dragged into.)

There are some questionable things she does, to be sure, but...

Do you know the backstory for Kal Skirata?

He was born Falin Mattran. His parents died due to a war, and he was found and adopted a year later by Munin Skirata, a rather traditional Mandalorian, who wasn't affiliated with either Jaster or Tor's factions.

Falin was not allowed to keep his name. He wanted to. He was not allowed. He was raised to be Mandalorian, to be Kal, by the Skirata Clan. His adoptive father trained him to the point of abuse, where even other traditional Mandalorians called it a bit much. They did not interfere.

This is textbook forced assimilation.

Death Watch also takes children, likely not limiting themselves to orphans, and brainwashes them. They claim they are traditional. (Remember when I mentioned devşirme?)

Jaster Mereel was known as the Reformer because he tried to make Mandalorians better, more honorable, while retaining tradition.

He once said "the natives are poorly armed and have no standing army. [...] This should be easy credits." Even if it was unintentional, the imperialist influence on his phrasing is ten times more apparent than Satine's.

All of Jaster's soldiers appear to be men. Jaster sent an eight-year-old into battle. It could be argued that it was the only choice in the situation, maybe, but he still did it.

Jango, prior to Galidraan, took jobs to kill political activists, for money. Not slavers, not drug lords, not CEOs. Political activists. Later, he knowingly participated in a genocide.

Do you know how many genocides, both full and cultural, are present in Mandalorian history? How many they enslaved? Mandalore's cultural legacy is hell for the people they conquered, no matter how cool they looked in armor and jetpacks.

I will take the argument that Satine's visuals are sketchy and so she's better as a villain when people do the same for Jaster's just-as-sketchy visuals and his even sketchier language and behavior.

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Mandalorians of color, or racially ambiguous, via me going through every profile on this page and checking the character design/description. I may have missed a few, but I was as thorough as I could manage.

Jango Fett, his family, and any clones of his

Janard - profile says "Skin tone: Tan," (race ambiguous) from a comic based on Star Wars: Rebels (released after public negativity to Filoni's animation choices in TCW)

Clan Wren - Asian, from Rebels (released after public negativity to Filoni's animation choices in TCW)

Ketsu Onyo - black, from Rebels (released after public negativity to Filoni's animation choices in TCW)

Novoc Vevut - black, from the comics "Legacy of the Force," takes place several decades post-OT in Legends

OId Teroch - ambiguous race, from the X-Wings miniatures game, profile says "Skin tone: Dark"

Shyla Varad - ambiguous race, from Imperial Assault card game (released 2014), profile says "Skin tone: Tan"

Mandalore the Lesser - ambiguous race, from codex entries and Legends timeline, profile says "Skin tone: Tan", almost 4000 years pre-canon

From the video games:

(VGOR - Video Game, Old Republic - several separate games all set some 3600-4000 years pre-canon)

Tarro Blood - VGOR, formerly of Alderaan, became a Mandalorian later in life

Tyrus Brokenblade - VGOR, ambiguously Asian (has green eyes, likely mixed race)

Randun Ard - VGOR, profile says "Skin tone: Dark"

Amzartho - VGOR, profile says "Skin tone: Dark"

Roggar Den - VGOR, profile says "Skin tone: Dark"

Karin Dochek - VGOR, profile says "Skin tone: Tan"

Dorrick - VGOR, black

Duran Gorr - VGOR, profile says "Skin tone: Tan"

Heta Kol - VGOR, profile says "Skin tone: Tan"

Deth Kregg - VGOR, black

Lem-Ofars - VGOR, black

Njanner-Pok - VGOR, profile says "Skin tone: Tan"

Ohta - VGOR, profile says "Skin tone: Tan"

Pit Rauhut - VGOR, profile says "Skin tone: Tan"

Rellu - VGOR, profile says "Skin tone: Tan"

Reedendu - VGOR, ambiguous due to lighting, but I think black

Bask Sunn- VGOR, profile says "Skin tone: Tan"

Tanik - VGOR, black

Zenzo - VGOR, black

Artus Lok - VGOR, black

Jagi - VGOR, black

Black UnNamed - customizable player character from Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed

Hetl Darkrunner - customizable player character from Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided

Not Human:

Jaing - comics, survivor of the Old Republic

Dagg - VGOR

"Mad Akk" Geden - VGOR

Zakxon Gewchi - VGOR

Grut - VGOR

Huntmaster - VGOR

Johun - VGOR

Vol Kolla - VGOR

Vort Norman - VGOR

Kassor Quade - VGOR

Renegin - VGOR

Dao Stryver - VGOR

Tosk - VGOR

Xev - VGOR

Xor - VGOR

Beld Yulan - comic "Knight Errant," set approx. one millennium pre-canon

Mandalore The First - "The Old Republic: Revan", Taung Mand'alor, at least 7000 years pre-canon

Mandalore the Indomitable - several Legends comics, Taung Mand'alor, almost 4000 years pre-canon

Mandalore the Ultimate - several Legends comics, Taung Mand'alor, almost 4000 years pre-canon

Demagol - KOTOR Legends comics (also set almost 4000 years pre-canon)

Garon Borm - KOTOR Legends comics

Deedo - KOTOR Legends comics

Frazznik - KOTOR Legends comics

Jaska - KOTOR Legends comics

Kra'ake - KOTOR Legends comics

Wargo - KOTOR Legends comics

Koblus "Ko" Sornell - KOTOR Legends comics

Haarm Sornell - KOTOR Legends comics

Gheedor Sornell - KOTOR Legends comics

Unidentified Chagrian female Mandalorian Knight - KOTOR Legends comics

Unidentified felinoid female Mandalorian Knight - KOTOR Legends comics

Unidentified Mandalorian Ewok - Fett Club, non-canon

Feskitt Bobb - Star Wars Miniatures (tabletop game)

Alfreda Goot - Scoundrel's Luck, a CYOA Han Solo book

Akaavi Spar's father - VGOR

Akaavi Spar's mother - VGOR

Unidentified Bothan Mandalorian - "The New Jedi Order: The Unifying Force" - Legends novel published in 2003

Unidentified Calibop Mandalorian - "The New Jedi Order: The Unifying Force" - Legends novel published in 2003

"Satine should have been a villain" is just. I've seen it a few times and. Ffffff please tell me more about why you think a woman doing "my community should do less colonialism/imperialism/child abuse" is the bad guy, without revising what she, her people, or the Traditionalists whose culture (of imperialism, child soldiers, and freaking devşirme, depending on the sect) is being "ruined" by her saying "yeah, you don't get to kill people for money anymore."

Mandalorian history is filled with Mandalorian armies committing genocide, both full and cultural. Why, for the love of all that is good and holy, why would you accuse Satine of doing exactly the thing she is canonically an activist against?

People just. Take Satine's best traits. And transplant them onto Jaster Mereel.

Then they say she'd be better as a villain because she's erasing a culture whose best traits (egalitarianism, diversity, compassion, a desire to help the weak and abused) are either informed traits, wholesale fanon, OR STOLEN FROM NEW MANDALORE.

Revising canon so that the True Mandalorians aren't uncomfortably racist and killing political activists for money (see: Open Seasons) so that their portrayals match up to their stated values is fine, but... claiming the pacifist is a more interesting villain because the culture she erased is diverse and progressive in fanon is... why. Why is it more interesting to write a pacifist, progressive character as the bad guy than to explore her in the context of the deeply messed up culture she was raised in.

I just. This is a woman who is shown displaying compassion at every turn and explicitly stated to have gone through hell for her beliefs, who rations when her people do, who said "no more war" because her people killed so many and then each other.

It's so much more interesting to investigate what she went through. It's so much less pro-imperialist to just RETCON THE DEMOGRAPHICS (the way canon did) and reimagine Satine as a woman of color to ditch the White Blonde Politician weirdness than to say "actually, the gun-toting mercenaries who said things like 'the natives are poorly armed' (thanks, Jaster) are the morally best option for this culture."

Hell, there's room to go 'oh hey, Kalevala was likely a planet that was colonized, since it's not Manda'yaim, which means Satine is possibly descended from people who, like Kal Skirata, were forcibly assimilated into Mandalorian culture way back.'

Just. Why is "the pacifist activist who is on decade number three of changing her own culture from the inside to be less British/Danish/Ottoman/Mongolian/Japanese/Roman Empire-esque should be the bad guy" your go-to?

#sw discourse #mandalore discourse #star wars wank #mandalore #sw rebels #tcw #Satine Kryze #Jaster Mereel #Jango Fett #Kal Skirata #genocide mention #forced assimilation #phoenix posts

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