The new chapter is coming along nicely, but RL has been getting in the way today, and I have work tomorrow. I am going to get as much done on the chapter tonight as I can, and if that gets it to where it can be posted, that will be ideal. Otherwise, I will finish the chapter and make my pass for threadmarking omakes and assigning bonuses after I get back from work tomorrow.
As a note, I am going to introduce a new status for omakes, given that they do have consequences. Pending Canon, or Pending Semi-Canon. In those cases, when I have such an omake, I will make a post stating potential consequences from that omake and leave it up to a vote of the thread whether or not that omake becomes canon or semi-canon, in order to keep consequences from getting piled to the point where they crash the quest under their building weight. This status will be effective from the next chapter onward. Omakes posted so far will be exempt.On one other note, as a WoG, Anakin cannot become a member state or system of the Republic. He might be on good terms with individual members of the Republic, he might get along well with some of the Republic's officials, but in the end, he is not and cannot become a member of the Republic, even if he wanted to. The Republic has, among other things, thoroughly poisoned the well with regard to this area. There has been a thousand-year dark age because of the Reformation. The Republic is a symbol of a thousand years of suffering for Anakin's people. That doesn't go away. That is something that has been embedded into the culture, deeply. Anakin's relationships with the Republic will be relationships with individual members, but his relationship with the greater state will be, at best, distant cordiality.
FaxModem1 said:
Some warriors, some who do the actual work when they're not fighting. Question becomes of the hierarchy between the two groups, and if the full time are akin to the Shogun, sitting on their butts while everyone else works, acting as aristocrats over those who farm.
Old Mandalorian hierarchy within the Clan is the same as within most Mandalorian Clans that aren't Death Watch or New Mandalorian. For the full time warriors, they are expected to work for the Clan as much as anyone else, rather than acting as aristocrats. If the fields need to be guarded from bandits or invasive animals, the warriors are the ones who pull that duty. If the warriors need backup in battle, the part-time warriors will don their armor and join them on the battlefield. The leader of the Clan has overall charge of the Clan, and draws from the Clan's senior members, both full-time warriors and part-time warriors, as advisors.
Every Mandalorian can fight. Every Mandalorian has armor available to them. Any Old Mandalorian could don their armor, take up weapons, and join the full-time warriors on the battlefield. That's a basic tenet of the Resol'nare. But the Clan has needs beyond just having warriors to fight its battles, and so there are those among the Clan who almost never actually set foot on the battlefield, but instead provide support. Armorers, technicians, farmers, medics, and so on. But if the fields need plowing, and there's no other means available, the warriors are expected to lend a hand around the farms, because they're all part of the greater Clan and expected to contribute to it.
But the full-time warriors trying to play aristocrat tends to last about fifteen minutes. Long enough for the rest of the Clan to don their armor and issue an attitude correction the old-fashioned way.
FaxModem1 said:
Again, some are willing to work, while others are full time fighters, same problem emerges between those who work and those who don't.
We saw how Din Djarin had religious conflicts any time a civilian life interfered with a Mandalorian one
Similarly, the Faithful have a solid mix of full-time and part-time. Many of them live civilian lives, but they're always ready to answer the call to battle, just as their own code demands. Faithful fill roles like engineers, farmers, medics, and pretty much every role out there in a civilian career, but all of the Faithful are ultimately able to shift to be warriors at need.
FaxModem1 said:
These ones actually work, but in a Spartan sort of way, where they resolve any bad times by attacking others.
Traditionalists are, in some ways, the closest of the Mandalorian factions to being New Mandalorians without giving up the Resol'nare. Most Traditionalists are part-time, working in various civilian careers. When they need credits, however, there's always work for a bounty hunter or mercenary in the galaxy, and being capable of fighting in part of the Mandalorian religion. Everyone is expected to be able to defend themselves, at minimum.
FaxModem1 said:
Again, full time warriors and invade others for food and/or labor.
Someone has to work the plow, and if the full time warriors aren't the ones doing it, who does, and what's the relationship between the two?
There's a reason Samurai and Knights were rich lords having rule over peasants.
Mandalorians have an answer to the usual issue of the warriors tending to assert themselves as the ruling power over the peasants. Namely, every Mandalorian is expected to be capable of fighting. Every Mandalorian spends time learning to fight as they grow up. Generally, a Clan's warriors who try to assert themselves as a superior caste get a swift, usually bloody reminder that all Mandalorians can fight when needed. You can't be Mandalorian and be incapable of fighting in defense of yourself and others if needed, and that means that the usual social divides tend to shift. Heavily. The full time warriors are part of the greater community of the Clan, which is expected to stand together as a single unit. Houses are similar, though on a bigger scale, with the warriors simply being the 'face' of the Clan to the galaxy as the Clan's protectors against its enemies.
