Mandalorians! I have questions for you :)

[Fatty]

Despite the Mandalorian factions no longer present on the map, we would all be fools to assume that all the Mandalorians have dried up! So, I'm making a little survey to, 1) See how many are active now, and 2) Poll the differences among them.

So please if you are reading this, answer above whether or not you have a Mandalorian character, whether or not you are currently using them, or if you don't have one whether or not you would like to make one.

Then please answer where you think they would align, whether presently existing, or where you think they would align if you don't currently have one but might be thinking of having one. Are they more of a dark Mandalorian, or more of light Mandalorian (I phrase it this way, as I assume most will be neutral, so I'm curious which way you see yourself leaning more towards if you had to choose).

Additionally, I am interested in knowing where all our Mandalorians are grouped up now that they aren't on the map

Thank you for reading and answering this survey, if you have!

 

[Briika Munin]

[member="Fatty"]

Yes, I have an active Mando, actually two.

I am a NFU so I don't lean one way or the other. (You don't have that option in your survey.) I view the Force for those that wield it just as another tool in their wheelhouse, not necessarily light nor dark.

And I am in a minor Mando faction presently. Too early to gage yet if it will go major IMO, though a good possibility.

 

[Fatty]

[member="Briika Tor"] The question isn't exclusive to force users, it's one of philosphical morality. That if given a scenario where one option is clearly 'dark' and one is clearly 'light', over the course of their life which would they choose more often, ignoring an individual scenario's modifiers (i.e., if given the choice to kill someone you hate, obviously you won't spare them, or if you had to choose between the life and death of stranger, you'd choose life as there is nothing motivating you to kill them).

It's intended to be a difficult question, to really look at the heart of you character, and choose one or the other, even if you feel it is wrong.

 

[Strider Garon]

Coming back from the dead. Was upset to see the mandos wiped and activity level dropped.

 

[Julius Sedaire]

Coming back from the dead. Was upset to see the mandos wiped and activity level dropped.

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results” - Albert Einstein.

The Clans couldn't learn this, and so eventually they used up all their writers, losing them to burn out and frustration. When those who were active and left drifted for the aforementioned reasons, it fell apart. If you want to diagnose that problem's source, i'm happy to speak in private with you on it, but I guarantee you won't care for what I tell you. And this is not the place to do it, so let's focus on the active question rather than beating a horse that died long before you left, and only got turned into so many bottles of glue in your absence.

[member="Fatty"], I voted in the pole. I chose an alignment at random, for reasons I talked to you about. But I still feel the question is un-needfully restrictive and can break characters. But I feel the Mandos need some time to rest before we all race to do the same old thing as before. And that if something comes, it needs to come about organically, ICly, and after character dev. Otherwise, the cycle repeats. Hence, I am in no faction, and adamantly will not be under this face, other than as a consultant or merc.

 

[Captain Larraq]

Let the old girl rest. The Mandalorians had been propped up on a stick, injected with steroids, and attached to a defibrillator for a long time before the faction was finally allowed to die. Picking up the corpse and putting it back on the stick is not a route to success.

Leave Mandalore and the people that live there alone for a while. If you want to roleplay a Mando, just do the Fett thing and merc it up for a while. When a couple months have gone by and if the forum finds itself with an abundance of active Mandalorian characters clamoring for a home...

Create some sort of coalition, cabal, alliance, exc that includes the Mandalorians and a handful of other cultures working together. If people find themselves wanting to do an Alor Council or to do the Mandalore thing, then they can organize themselves as a subfaction of a larger group, similar to what the Witches of Dathomir did when they were active.

But by and large... trying to jump right back into it is a bad idea.

 

[Strider Garon]

We, as in the current mando writers, are doing what we want to do. Taking our time and rping. Having fun. When we decide we want back on the map, it will be a decision made as a group when we think the time is right. Story right now is survival and rebuilding.

 

[Garrus Garon]

As a nominally active player, someone who is trying to become active again I play three characters with an active Mandalorian affiliation. I would say two of them likely lean towards a darker alignment while the third gravitates more towards a light alignment. All of them could be considered to be members of the Mandalorian Faction but to also act independently and take contracts that they choose.

 

[Ardgal Raxis]

Opinion on prior faction reason for falling in the spoiler bellow:

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themselves wanting to do an Alor Council or to do the Mandalore thing,

(Emphasis added)

This was what killed the Clans, the intensely tight closed-minded elitism with some on the top and everyone else wanting to get in seen as an outsider who had to kiss a lotta butts to even be considered for the possibility to be a pee-on. There were folks within who were the leaders and held on to their "power" with a level of intensity that I haven't even seen from people about things that really matter like jobs and money. I know because I tried with two different characters and got the same treatment both times--and I know a host of other people who did the same. But that is neither here nor there.

When there is this intense level of elitism, its hard to wanna work with anyone. Good writers with good characters go find their creative outlet somewhere else. Granted, not everyone within was bad. There was a lot of good, but it takes a minimum of 3 good words to counteract every bad, so.... yeah, I imagine it is the same and higher with good people to out weigh the bad.

However, all that aside I think that Fatty is bringing up great questions and food for thought. After all, once people watch a sporting event or political election the big talk is what could have gone differently and what is/could happen next time. Good questions, good food for thought.

 

[Strider Garon]

I blame force users

 

[Preliat Mantis]

Lessons learned, amirite