The Emperor's Hand: Mara Jade! | Manda-LORE 

Nicely done. I made the cut! Hooyah!

Always did love Mara and her real world counterpart Shannon McRandle. She may have been a Skywalker by name and not blood but she definitely proved herself a Skywalker in spirit and resolve.

Mara Jade is one of my favorite characters of the EU.

One of the most badass women in all of Star Wars. A true role model in how one can turn their lives around and become a hero. And she didn't even come from a special lineage. I look forward to adding her action figure to my collection as it is certainly a long time coming.

As Mark Hamill said best about Mara Jade, “Best woman I never had.”

Mara is such a great character.

A truly formidable woman: the arc of her character growth shows her aggressive tendency becomes second to defending those she learns to love.

Mara is the best character in the Star Wars expanded universe. A dangerous professional spy and assassin, a loving wife and mother, and just a beautiful woman.

Thank you, that was extremely entertaining, really liked Mara Jade, this filled in a few holes in her timeline.

Hands down, my most favorite Star Wars character overall, I first met her in game Empire at War and it's expansion Forces of Corruption.

What really annoys me about TCW when disney canon didn't exist is they had that episode with Cad Bane where he was kidnapping force sensitive children for Palpatine and that could have been an excellent hint at Mara Jade's origin as she would be the right age to be one of the Acoylytes Palpatine was talking about, but of course the Jedi needed to prevail and they foiled Palpatine's plans. What a waste.

One of the Best Force wielders of her time. Of course she was great if she chose purple. All the best do :P

Been rewatching some of your older videos. This channel deserves so much more attention

Here is a few suggestions Do a video on the Mandalorian Wars, Jedi Civil War, The first Jedi Purge in KOTOR 2, or the New Sith Wars.

Mara is my favorite character in legends, thanks for the video.

Better known to all as Best Girl

Can you do a video on Han and Lela’s legends kids

20 minutes?! This was worth the wait!!

I’ve really been enjoying the lore videos on this channel. The Mandalorian videos have been especially enjoyable as they are a personal favorite of mine.

Thanks for sharing! I've always wondered about the story behind Mara Jade.

Man if anyone deserved to be in the movies..... Edit: then again, I'd hate to see such a badass character be thoroughly ruined.

I'd simp like hell for Mara or Jan Ors but I always love me red heads. Top tier character 🤌👌 great video sir! Love it!

this is a great video filled with great information!! what about doing a video about the Sith god Adendu

I love the Mara J Lord. Keep up the good work!

This channel should be so much bigger. I love the old lore. Subscribed and shared.

Thanks for the info Manda-Lore

The only character from the EU i love as much as i do Luke from the movies. Disney Star Wars is garbage.

One on Ben Skywalker or Vestara Khai next would be awesome.

The sequels erased Mara, Ben and Jaina from canon. But the woke sequels only hurt the stars wars franchise.

4:21 Not much is hotter than a tan redhead. Edit, wait, her primary role as Hamd was to stamp out Imperial corruption? She’s gotta big job, then - one of the biggest in the galaxy. Was it The Crimson Empire story where she fulfilled Sidious’ final command by killing the Sabaoth clone of Luke? That was a slick piece of storytelling. I’d have liked a story of Vader taking her down a notch, and I never really bought into her marrying Luke - she was WAY too much for the farm boy. Although Legends Luke isn’t so much of a boy scout. Still.

Love these videos!

A great character, one that should be in the official canon, Hear that Disney!!!

Awsome stuff, here's a video idea, vulture droid

Thank you, I was looking a solid vid on Mara's history. New subscriber!-:-)

I commend you on a well put together video. I have one question. For curiosity sake, why did you not include the events of the Timothy Zahn novel "Survivor's quest" in the timeline? Given that Mara was a Timothy Zahn character creation.

Oh, could you do a video about some of the old sith like Darth Nihilus?

nice, some of this stuff I didn't know, thanks Manda-LORE

I'm pretty sure to have read since very many years on Wookieepedia that the events of ESB find place on 1 ABY and the events of ROTJ on 4 ABY.

Man I wish that Mara Jade was sill canon! she was so cool .

Can you do one on Jaina Solo.

Thank you for doing a video on Mara Jade Skywalker. Maybe you can do a future video on Vestara Khai, the 16-year-old Sith girl from the Fate of the Jedi series? :)

Yeah, that was awesome. Too bad we didn’t get that in the last 3 movies!!! Would have been epic!!!

Dude awesome transmission . Thanks

Nice video and commentary. Even dressing up.

Really hope they bring mara and her son Back into canon. Such a great family dynamic. Just have ben skywalker become cade skywalker and your good.

Can you do the Viscount-class Star Defender

My personal Expanded Universe timeline ends at 15:40 the stories after (the "Troy Denning era") derailed all the character growth by basically ignoring the last 10 New Jedi Order books. Then Karen Traviss derailed all of Mara Jade's growth of her last 30 years to set her up going out of character so she could basically make her Mace Windu and repeat the Mace vs Palpatine fight but replace Anakin Skywalker appearing with a plot Mcguffin poison needle. They basically hinted that Mara Jade was in hell or at the minimum purgatory after trying to murder Jacen after that too... it was a complete misunderstanding of everything Mara Jade Skywalker was as a character and all her growth as a character. It's like they only read her backstory on wookieepedia up to the beginning of Heir to the Empire and thought she was still that character and utterly ignored her character in the Hand of Thrawn duology and Survivors Quest where she regretted her past and refused to be that woman anymore If Mara was to be killed off, they should have had the one writer who truly understood her character, Timothy Zahn, do it... and James Luciano should have been the one writing Jacen Solo to explain his massive character derailment to go darkside randomly after all his growth past his old fears that now he randomly hasn't grown past anymore. Jacen is still a hero, Tahiri Veila moved past Anakin Solo's death, Mara Jade Skywalker earned her Jedi Master title and didn't choose to go back to her assassin days randomly, Luke Skywalker wasn't an idiot who didn't notice Jacen Solo falling and think it was impossible, etc...

Wish we saw her in the Sequels

Great explanation! Keep up the good work.

Mara jade the one true owner of the Skywalker lightsaber

Very well organized Intel report Manda-LORE.

Wait? What source is this? I remember the last command was simply, Skywalker. In which she believed ment Luke killed Sidious when in fact Sudious was referring to Anakin.

Mara was 100% dead after Jacen killed her, she didn't know how to become a force ghost, that's why her body didn't vanish at first it did later but I don't think it's a proof of Mara becomming a force ghost, rather some kind of ritual. Her manifestation appeared to Luke and Ben in FOTJ, but I belive it was just that, her memory used by the Whills to comunicate with Luke and Ben and help to defeat Abeloth. Same thing with Anakin Solo and Jacen. They were all fully dead and while I belive something remained from her consciousness in the netherworld, as with everyone else, including non force sensitives like Jango or Padme, she deffinitely wasn't able to comunicate with the living. As for Cade having a vision of her, that was it, just a vision just like a vision of vader he also had and that was confirmed.

Well, she did never really served the dark actively cuz she was manipulated into the conviction to serve justice n in her ddirect capacity n inside the knowledge she had of her targets n the reasons, she really has been. In terms of her method to use the force, she also was a light sider. Tho' her temper wasn't discouraged, she still wasn't trained to use it as her method to channel the force. Further her anger was seperate from her professional mindset n had nothing to do with hate cuz her use of the force as tool for her job was not personal n she wouldn't allow her judgement to be clouded, leading to really investigate the claims n search those who r guilty n also declair her targets not guilty if she was sure they r. She was by no means just an assassin. Also did we get the confirmation of her not being a dark sider from when she discusses the issue with luke, as well as from vader's statement of her only having some jedi training. I think it's unlikely that it included much philosophy of'em, only practical techniques to use her talent. Her phase after palps' death was actually the first time when she was driven by hate that was personal n her rational based clearly on a selfish perspective. All she blamed luke for was fueled by selfpity n nothing else. She didn't even tried to see anything bad or evil in him to justify her desire to kill him for herself. She was fully ok with hating him 4 her fate of which he had no way to knowor to regard it in his actions eitherway, what she was fully aware. Neither had the order to kill him any meaning exept to hopefully get rid of it. She wasn't compelled by it, it instead turned into another part of her selfish reasons. From her mindset this was the only time we know of her life, that she really would've fallen in theory, but it also was when she was mostly avoiding to channel the force at all, which prolly safed her from really going dark. The 2nd time is of course just after she gave jacen a last warning n told him to b aware of his embrace of the dark side n purposful decision to become a sith. From there she must've known to make herself a target. She not just prepaired herself to a confrontation but all butt drove him into it. Once he didn't bite she went to literally "hunt down n kill him" n welcommed her anger that now was as personal as it can get. Yet even that was not out of a selfish motive, not even latent but pure motherly instinct to protect her child. Besides his influence on ben, nothing of jacens crimes would've been enough to keep her handling the situation that way n it is therefore still a mindset for a forceuser that seems to b really "grey". Her drawing on that hate for the force would've been just as much a practicality without the philosophical underpinnings of the dark side as her "jedi" training was regarding the light side n her personal decision for either path. By knowing n accepting to went into her death if she fails, it was even not unlike the way kenobi refused to keep fighting vader. Tho' she accepted her probable end as a base for a radically different course of action, it was still that decision of forfitting her life for what she believed her best possible chance to protect ben. It's self sacrifice for the sake of others, which is as much a light side thing as it can b and absolutely fundamental in the jedi principles. The exploitation of a corrupting way to use the force, knowing she won't b able to corrupt others anyway n had no goal that included harm to others while bennefiting her not at all, is likely a smaller danger to fall further if she made it, than stuff countless jedi do only after needing to lie to themself or ignore their motives which makes the actual danger. Since it remains a decision at all time no matter how far fallen, so with the certainty to have no selfish reasons at the core to drive ur actions there is no desire to fear 4 the power that seemingly waits, cuz it isn't needed outside that final fight she faced. She either succeeds n is done or fails n is dead.

I wonder how the heck do you have a stable family when you are a Skywalker

Hey Tadd Lar'ken, I got a question, I have been wanting to read some Star Wars Dark Horse comics set in the Galactic Civil War era (or Rebellion era) since all I've read of comics are the Republic comics (issues 49-80), Purge, Dark Empire, Jango Fett: Open Seasons, Darth Vader comics, and Obsession. Do you have any recommendations for any SW Dark Horse comics set in the Rebellion era?

Jedi, there can only be one, I am the God of kingdom come, Don’t lose you head, Don’t lose your head !

I apologize, yesterday I looked in Wookieepedia that following Legends timeline the events of Episode V happen on 3 ABY and the events of Episode VI on 4 ABY, that's weird and now I feel confused.

Good video

Why wasn't this the sequels

Too bad these 160 cm of a well-written character are now disconsidered by Disney.

4:47

There is an error at the minute 9:29 of the video, Luke lost his right hand and his blue lightsaber in Bespin on 1 ABY, not on 3 ABY.

Real talk how old is your character

Mara Jade must be brought back into Disney Star Wars as with every major pre-Return of the Jedi character and event.

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Mara jade fell in love with maul

Su-Cuy gar is pronounced (soo-coo-EEE gahr)

Couldn’t listen the helmet

A real shame Mara Jade is a non canon character.

Don't get me wrong, I love SW content and especially Mandalorians, but I can't decipher every word you're saying. It's annoying to skip back just to hear a word or two

George Lucas disliked this video 😄😅🤣

I don't like star killer.