Redemption is no longer possible since the destruction of our homeworld.
But what if the mines of Mandalore still exist?
If I visit the planet
and I can bring you proof that I have bathed in the Living Waters,
then by Creed, I would be redeemed.
The songs of eons past
foretold of the Mythosaur rising up to herald a new age of Mandalore.
Have you ever heard of Bo-Katan Kryze?
Bo-Katan Kryze was born of a mighty house,
but they lost sight of the Way.
She once laid claim to rule Mandalore
based purely on blood and the sword you now possess.
Her rule ended in tragedy.
Bo-Katan, I am going to Mandalore.
That planet has been ravaged, plundered, and poisoned.
There's nothing left.
I don't know what to tell you, pal.
I mean, there are a lot of parts missing.
Fine, I'll push it back out on the street. You heard him, pit droids! Out!
All right, well, I don't appreciate the tone of voice, but I'll fix it.
Oof. Boy, I don't know.
I mean, lucky for you, business is slow.
I gotta order the parts from the Mid Rim.
Let's say, mmm, two months.
All right, settle your snout. I'll put a rush on it.
But you gotta give me half upfront for parts.
Yeah.
I should charge you more considering now I gotta work Boonta Eve.
Me?
You know, I do have a life.
Big holiday. I had big plans!
You know, I just don't sit around here
and work all day, I'm very popular.
Is he gone?
Hey, tell the Jawas the Rodian left.
All right, let's get this thing back together again.
Quickly, before he sees you.
Go, go, go, go, go!
Put those parts back on the speeder.
Paint 'em so they look different. Here you go.
Seriously? For five minutes of work?
You're lucky I'm a softy.
Hey. Scram.
Go strip another speeder. It's Boonta Eve, it's ripe.
Whoo-hoo! You hear that? She's purring like a nuzzle shrew.
No complaints.
Still faster than I know what to do with.
Well, I'll tune her up, just the same.
So, uh, where's my guy?
Huh? There he is!
Now who taught you how to leap like a Lurmen, huh?
Was that his first word?
I think he's talking to me.
Did you hear that? He said "Peli."
I'm here on business.
Oh, are the Hutts back? Are you takin' out Boba Fett?
I need a droid part.
Ugh. Boring!
Hey, get the Jawas back in here before they hit the cantina.
You know how Mos Eisley gets during Boonta week.
I'm looking for a replacement IG memory circuit.
Oh. Hey, grandpa. They haven't made those for a while.
Memory circuit.
Sorry, pal, no chance cubes.
-They can't find the part? -Nope.
I need my droid fixed now.
Which is why I think you should buy this beauty here.
I can't use an astromech.
I need a droid that's rated for spelunking.
Spelunking? What are you spelunking?
I'm going to Mandalore.
I need a droid that can explore ahead of me and test the atmosphere,
make sure it's safe to breathe.
Okay, well...
Uh-uh-uh-uh. Hey! Get right back here. Right back here, scaredy droid.
Come on now, you gotta shine.
This R5 astromech is built for adventure.
What?
Of course you are.
You're supposed to be piloting starfighters
across the galaxy and fighting tyranny.
It's falling apart, and besides, I got no room for it on the N-1.
Nonsense.
R5-D4 is as good as the day it came back from serving in the Rebellion.
And I'll reinstall your droid port
and this little baby here can even co-pilot.
Hey, if you don't settle your bolts, I'll sell you back to the Jawas.
And because it's Boonta,
what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna give you this for half the price
and throw in a free oil bath.
Oh, come on now, don't be a coward.
You're an astromech, act like one.
I wouldn't rely too much on this one. Its circuitry is a little fragile.
I thought you said it was built for adventure.
What? Sorry, I can't hear you!
May the Force be with you!
All right, kid.
You ready for an adventure?
It looks scary. I know.
But it was once green and beautiful, back when the songs were written.
It's Mandalore, the homeworld of our people.
Every Mandalorian can trace their roots back to this planet,
and the beskar mines deep within.
And you know what?
I've never been there either.
I grew up there. On that moon.
Concordia.
And that's Kalevala where we visited Bo-Katan.
It's in the same system.
A Mandalorian has to understand maps and know their way around.
That way, you'll never be lost.
Looks like the fusion bombs from the Purge
disrupted the magnetic field around the planet.
From the surface,
we won't be able to communicate with anyone out of atmosphere,
so we have to be careful.
Down here, we're completely cut off
from the rest of the galaxy.
R5, you ready?
I'm gonna need you to scout ahead and analyze the atmosphere.
That wasn't a question.
Go over to that split in the rock, and take an air sample of the ruins below.
The droid will be fine.
I just need him to take some readings to make sure it's safe.
Don't be a baby.
Just get the samples we need, and hurry up.
Here, look.
You can watch him on the scope.
R5, come in. Do you read me?
It's probably just interference.
Fine. I'll go get him.
Normally, this is droid work.
I was hoping to avoid going out there.
I'll pressurize my helmet, seal yourself in your pod.
Be right back.
Don't worry, kid, I'll be right back.
Yeah, wait.
Okay, you're all right.
Now come on, let's get you back to the ship.
Hang on, kid.
Not until I check the toxicity.
You got an analysis on the atmosphere yet?
The charts were wrong.
The atmosphere is breathable.
Bo-Katan was right.
Mandalore is not cursed.
That's the Civic Center.
This is where Bo-Katan said to go.
The mines should be further down.
I guess we're on our own from here.
These waters should flow down to the mines,
and the Living Waters within.
Look, that passage heads down.
Get to Bo-Katan.
Your Majesty.
An unscheduled visitor.
Let's get rid of him once and for all.
Maybe I didn't make myself clear the last time.
I want to be left alone.
What happened to him?
Download the astromech. Find out where they were.
It didn't always look like this.
Okay, kid. I'm gonna need you to guide me to him.
Can you do that?
This was once a beautiful civilization.
My family ruled it all.
Now it's a tomb.
Let's go.
I know that you're frightened.
But I need you to guide me to him.
I knew quite a few Jedi, you know.
I don't know what they taught you about us,
but there was a time we actually got along quite well.
Fought side by side.
How good are you with the Force?
You must be quite good at it if you got back to me all alone.
Did you think your dad was the only Mandalorian?
Those are Alamites, and we were their next meal.
They used to live in the surface wastelands beyond our cities.
If they survived, I wonder what else might have, too.
Din, are you okay?
Can you hear me?
It's Bo-Katan.
I'm gonna get you out of here, all right?
Can you move at all?
Din, I can't hear you.
Are you trying to say something?
Behind you.
What happened?
I saved your life.
How did you find me?
Your kid.
He's tougher than he looks.
And he's quite the navigator.
Thank you for rescuing me.
You were right.
Mandalore is not cursed.
Was I?
Look around.
There's nothing left.
A great society is now a memory.
I once ruled here for a brief time.
Now, it's destroyed.
Nothing to cling to but ashes.
What is this?
You've never eaten pog soup?
No.
Can you appreciate the irony?
Any Mandalorian worth their armor
was raised on this since they were his size.
You should rest.
I'll get you back to my ship soon enough.
I'm not going with you.
What are you talking about?
I must continue to the Mines of Mandalore
so that I may be redeemed.
I honestly think that it's adorable
that you actually believe these children's stories.
But there is nothing magic about the waters.
Without the Creed, what are we?
What do we stand for?
Our people are scattered like stars in the galaxy.
The Creed is how we survived.
You rescued me and I'll always be in your debt.
But I can't go with you until I fulfill my obligation.
I will take you.
-To the Living Waters? -Yes.
You'd never find them on your own.
Not in all this wreckage.
Thank you.
Don't thank me until you see them.
It's hard to believe that this all was once filled with our kind.
It wasn't that long ago.
You'd never know it looking at all this destruction.
It looks like it's been centuries.
The Empire set out to punish us.
To wipe away our memory.
It must pain you to see it like this
after witnessing its beauty.
What pains me is seeing our own kind fight one another time and time again.
Killing each other for reasons too confusing to explain.
It made us weak.
We had no hope to resist being smashed by the fist of the Empire.
There.
The entrance to the Mines of Mandalore.
This area looks much older.
The mines have been here for thousands of years.
The Living Waters are in the chambers below.
Have you been there?
Yes, when I was a child.
Really?
I was part of the royal family.
I took the Creed and was showered with gifts.
But the rituals were all just theater for our subjects.
They loved watching the princess recite the Mandalorian tenets
as her father looked on proudly.
Such a heart-warming spectacle.
Maybe he was proud.
I know he was.
I didn't embarrass him in front of everyone.
Your father sounds like an interesting man.
I would've liked to have known him.
He was a great man.
He died defending Mandalore.
This is the Way.
What are you lookin' at?
Here you go. The Living Waters.
Hold on.
I want you to get the full tour.
"These mines date back to the age of the first Mandalore.
"According to ancient folklore, the mines were once a Mythosaur lair.
"Mandalore the Great is said to have tamed the mythical beast.
"It is from these legends that the skull signet was adopted
"and became the symbol of our planet."
This is it.
Din? Are you all right?
"I swear on my name."
"And the names of the Ancestors,
"that I shall walk the way of the Mand'alor...
"and the words of the Creed shall be forever forged in my heart."