A male Mandalorian warrior served as part of the Death Watch group during the time of the Clone Wars. During a Separatist Alliance attack on the planet of Aq Vetina, the warrior rescued the young child Din Djarin from a B2-series super battle droid. As Djarin's parents had died while attempting to keep him hidden, the warrior flew out of the battle with the boy, taking him in as a foundling.
During the Clone Wars, a galactic-wide conflict between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, a Mandalorian warrior was a soldier of the Death Watch, a Mandalorian splinter group which initially served as opposition to the pacifist government of the planet Mandalore before facing internal strike. For its planned coup, Death Watch allied with the Confederacy, but relations eventually broke down between both groups, turning Death Watch into an enemy of the Separatist Alliance. In 20 BBY or 19 BBY, Separatist forces attacked a human settlement the planet Aq Vetina, killing many of the residents. However, members of the Death Watch, including the Mandalorian warrior, arrived to fend off the Separatist B2-series super battle droids. The soldier gunned down a battle droid which was attempting to kill the young boy Din Djarin, who was hidden in a bunker.
The Mandalorian warrior exits the battle with the orphan Din Djarin
Djarin's parents had been killed after hiding the boy, and the warrior beckoned Djarin and helped the boy out of the bunker while other members of the Death Watch landed and gunned down super battle droids. The pair watched the fighting before one of the other Mandalorians gestured the soldier to lift off with Djarin. The Mandalorian warrior complied, and picked up the boy with his consent, flying up from the settlement with the orphan by jetpack. Djarin became a Mandalorian foundling, and swore to the Mandalorian Creed when he was of age. He later reminisced his rescue by the Mandalorian warrior while pinned down in a common house on the planet Nevarro by forces of a Galactic Empire remnant in 9 ABY.
The Mandalorian wielded a blaster and wore blue armor.
The Mandalorian warrior wore blue Mandalorian armor like other members of the Death Watch movement. The warrior's armor had the Death Watch symbol—the image of the Shriek-hawk—on its left shoulder pad, while the right pad had three white stripes, which were also seen on the soldier's chest plate and right thigh plate. The soldier also donned brown clothing under the armor. Beyond the armor, the warrior was equipped with a blaster rifle, a jetpack, a rangefinder, and Mandalorian vambraces. Additionally, the warrior owned a WESTAR-35 blaster pistol.
Aiden Bertola, the actor of young Din Djarin, tries on Brenden Wayne's costume helmet.
The Mandalorian warrior first appeared in a flashback sequence in "Chapter 8: Redemption" of the first season of the Disney+ series The Mandalorian. The episode was directed by Taika Waititi and released on December 27, 2019. Credited as "Mandalorian Warrior," the character was played by Brendan Wayne, who also acted as a body double for Din Djarin, the show's protagonist.
Concept art for the soldier was conceived by artist Christian Alzmann among at least ten versions on the scene itself. In version 7, the artist based the warrior off of the white Mandalorian concept art drawn by Ralph McQuarrie which became groundwork for Boba Fett. Two other versions the Mandalorian warrior and his Death Watch comrades were made to look biblical and dreamy to represent the flashback nature of the scene.
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