I never read the Republic Commando series, but I always hated the TCW version of Mandalorians. I’m familiar at least with the old school KOTOR depiction of ancient Mandalorians, with their amazing armor and Basilisk War Droids and all that. The whole saga of Mandalore the Ultimate is awesome and an incredible bit of Stars Wars mythology. It’s such a shame that this style of Mandalorians was never realized in live action or even cartoons. Instead we get this sterile, weird dystopian cube city that belongs in THX-1138 or something. The Mandalorians were originally more or less the Star Wars version of Klingons, only way cooler due to being more shrouded in mystery and having suits with cool gadgets.

It’s cool that the Republic Commando series integrated the Mandalorian warrior-culture stuff into the Clone army. It’s also still kind of baffling to me that the Prequels never even once address the glaring ethical problems with using an army of clones. It would have added some much needed depth for the Jedi to at least talk about it, even if they shrug it off as a necessary evil or something.