Can someone explain the state of the Mandalorians in Episode 3 of “The Mandalorian”

[Captainlonestar]

Semi- Spoilers ahead if you haven’t seen episode 3.


In Episode 3 we are “introduced” to some of the other Mandalorians in the chapter. One of them states they scatter like rats underground while one of them goes to the surface. Why are the Mandalorians like the Brotherhood of Steel (Fallout) in this show? Obviously they’re lacking numbers. What exactly was the “great purge?” Why does the Empire own the Beskar that’s so valuable from planet Mandalore?

 

[intwenothor]

I don't over think these things. It's a TV show. Maybe they'll gives us those answers later, maybe they won't.

I'm hoping for a Space version of White Heaven in Hell.

 

[Fett 4 Real]

Semi- Spoilers ahead if you haven’t seen episode 3.


In Episode 3 we are “introduced” to some of the other Mandalorians in the chapter. One of them states they scatter like rats underground while one of them goes to the surface. Why are the Mandalorians like the Brotherhood of Steel (Fallout) in this show? Obviously they’re lacking numbers. What exactly was the “great purge?” Why does the Empire own the Beskar that’s so valuable from planet Mandalore?

More then likely they succeeded in killing the Mandos even after rebels destroyed the machine Sabine created to target them.

 

[Mythos Fenn]

More then likely they succeeded in killing the Mandos even after rebels destroyed the machine Sabine created to target them.

Unfortunately most likely this. At the end of Star Wars Rebels, they teased that the Mandalorians were beginning to rise up to fight the Empire for their independence. With everything that The Mandalorian has hinted at so far, it seems as though it did not go quite as well as they had planned. It will be interesting to see how everything pans out from here considering Bo Katan was heralded as the new Mandalore right at the end with the dark saber. Seeing that in live action would be pretty fantastic.

 

[Grimstuff]

Yeah, definitely feels like a plotline that Dave Filoni/Favreau have been keeping in their pocket and hinting at for a while now, between Clone Wars and Rebels there's two major mandalorian siege plotlines that are as of yet unrevealed. He definitely has a soft spot for them.

It also definitely seems like the purge has caused the Mandalorians to return to the old ways too, because they were as a majority definitely not that dogmatic and ritualistic as of CW and Rebels. Or perhaps the hardcore doomsday prepper Deathwatch types were the only ones to survive, leaving that the only remaining Mandalorian culture left.