Clan Wraith... It’s head, a Rallymaster of Mandalore’s own Vanguard. Gold, and black armor... its said each and every one have died somehow. Died, and come back from the dead...
But not in the usual way... not in the Mandalorian ‘you burn your past, when you join us’ way. Hoth was where i first saw it happen. Black armor should stand out in the snow. it should stand out like a sore thumb. We were discussing the target. The White Maw Raid Commandant who targeted imperial convoys with his ships. I’ll never forget what he said.
There were six of them. six and an HK droid. the Moff was FACING me. Facing US. Facing THEM. and he still panicked. He never saw them approach. never heard them. he was facing the direction they came from, and he never saw them. The look of fear on his face. He told me afterwards, “They could have walked right in, and killed us all...”
The survivor we took prisoner told us another story.
The Star of Courascant was silent. completely quiet. Not a single alarm, no explosions. Then he just walked in. He walked in and found the bodies. Not a single footprint in the Snow. not a bloody one. Renegat Vous was tracking them. The White Maw’s Great Hunter. proclaimed them to be ghosts, favored hunter’s by the Scorekeeper, and swore to hunt them down. He never found them. another mando ended his life not long after.
They said there were corpses all over. bodies and scorched tech from flame throwers. The one image they saw. Was a mandalorian walking past a security cam, he stared right into it, and in flury of snow kicked up by the wind, he was gone. The hunting party searched the ship... and never found them. It wasn’t until a full four days later, the White maw realized the mandos had reached the darkest depths of that wreck, and killed off the Comendant. they left the place filled with bodies... and just.... vanished. like they’d never been there.
A Sith Lord was tracking them, she said she had never seen anything like it. She lost sight of them almost immediately, said it was like they voidwalked right from the base, to their target, to the cantina on Hoth. Not a single step in between. The Mando spoke two words, when he presented the comendant’s head.
The moff said there was no proof they’d done it. The Mandalorian said he wasn’t gonna ask again. It was like the others could smell trouble brewing. like they knew, the leader of the pack was about to start a firefight. The celebrating warriors, stopped partying, and got real quiet. The Moff could sense something. The Sith advised they pay. She said she sensed ‘a disturbance’ as though the scales of fortune had shifted. That was it.
Night fell, and they were gone, no tracks, no sign of their ship. A lot of stuff just gets swallowed up on inhospitable planets. they say the sands of Tatooine swallow up everything. Hoth too. But these mandos weren’t swallowed up. They were ghosts. and they came back from the dead, to go a hunting.
