The Worlds Of ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3

Star Wars

Apr 22

Artwork if Din Djarin, Grogu, other Mandalorians, and the worlds Season 3 visited — Image Source: StarWars.com

The Mandalorian’s third season brought viewers to worlds new and familiar, creating a season visually balanced between what we’ve seen already in the franchise and new locales for interesting exploration. With The Mandalorian and Grogu fast approaching, CultureSlate figured it was time to remind fans of these worlds, as they are unlikely to appear in the film but could get a mention in the dialogue.

Recalling the past exploits of our main characters on these worlds should also provide a solid refresher ahead of the upcoming big-screen adventure. Season 3 jumps us across the galaxy, from the edges of the universe far, far away with worlds in the Outer Rim, to scenes right at the Core, and Coruscant itself, as a seat of New Republic power. Yet the series also highlights that the Mandalorians have a world of their own to reclaim, which they succeed in doing, opening up hope for their future.

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Armorer’s Planet

Located somewhere in the galaxy, the Armorer’s Planet has yet to receive a name. Despite its anonymity, it is a world Din Djarin had visited before, and deduced that his covert might use it as a hiding place as they grew in the wake of the massacre on Nevarro back in Season 1, or the location was shared with him through some unknown means. It is also possible it is located in Mandalorian space, a region of the Outer Rim in and around Mandalore, home to many worlds settled by Mandalorian culture.

Regardless of how he locates the world, Din Djarin finds his way back to his covert and, after bathing in the sacred waters of his adoptive people’s homeworld, begins to help train Grogu with the other Foundlings. Bringing Bo-Katan with him after she is left without resources or a place to live, the two of them spearhead an effort to save Paz Vizsla’s son from the world’s hostile native wildlife after he’s grabbed and carried to the large creature’s nest. The planet is left behind though, when the covert goes back to Nevarro to fight the pirate forces holding the world hostage, with many likely moving to Mandalore after its liberation.

Kalevala

Found in the same star system as the planet Mandalore, Kalevala is a hilly, cliff-dotted world with verdant life, now a sad sister to the war-blasted remains of nearby Mandalore. The seat of House Kryze, and home of Bo-Katan during The Mandalorian Season 3, this quiet world, and its marvelous Kryze manor, are not kept out of the firing line for long. After the Mandalorian heiress visits Mandalore, saving Din’s life in the process, Gideon’s forces relentlessly pursue the pair of them. Bo-Katan loses her family’s home, one of the last things she has left, and she decides to follow Din Djarin back to his covert where both of them are accepted.

Tatooine

Peli Motto and R5-D4 in front of Din Djarin — Image Source: StarWars.com

Tatooine is only a pitstop for Din Djarin this season, and we are only shown the growth of Peli Motto’s garage and landing berth during the metal-clad warrior’s brief visit. Across the seasons of the show, Peli has gradually accumulated droids, and now presents one for Din Djarin’s usage: R5-D4, well known to fans for their odd history in beyond-Legends storytelling. But R5 also has a small history in canon, one this show adds to as he accompanies Din in his journeys across the season. Nervous, but ultimately dependable, R5 is a droid with links to the Rebel Alliance and now, the New Republic. His fate after the season is currently unclear, but it is likely he returned to Peli Motto, or is now living on Adelphi, rather than serving Din.

Mandalore

A world extensively explored in canon media previously, Mandalore at the time of The Mandalorian is in even worse condition than seen in Star Wars Rebels. Essentially nuked by the Galactic Empire in response to the continued unrest and resistance to their rule, Moff Gideon is named as the one responsible for ordering the strikes on the planet, which reduced its already arid landscape into a blasted wasteland. Even its domed cities did not escape this destruction, each of them being left a cracked, ruinous shell, to be taken over by the planet’s original inhabitants, the Alamites. Multi-eyed, furry aliens, they lurk in the ruins while Mandalorian survivors traverse the ruined landscapes, avoiding immense creatures woken from their slumber or brought closer to the surface by all of the destruction.

Meanwhile, all off-world Mandalorians (or at least those who follow the Watch) believe Mandalore to be uninhabitable after the cleansing of its surface. This lie serves the Empire’s servants well as, in the wake of the Battle of Jakku, Moff Gideon establishes a presence on Mandalore, using the site of his ultimate triumph as the fertile ground for his exploration of cloning. Yet his secret facility is eventually unearthed and destroyed by the Mandalorians of the Armorer’s covert and Bo-Katan’s forces. Reunited, they begin again on their scarred planet, and will hopefully prosper over the coming years and decades.

Nevarro

Nevarro during The Mandalorian Season 3 is a thriving world, its skies clear, its population clearly booming, with further expansion and civic improvements aiming to make more opportunities and better lives. Greef Karga continues to run the city with an ever-more voluminous robe, but all is not right in this corner of the galaxy. Pirates under the leadership of Gorian Shard harass the planet’s lines of trade, lurking at the edges of the system, and putting pressure on Greef to accept the scum and villainy back onto the planet.

Eventually, this harassment becomes an active takeover, and Nevarro City is seized. The New Republic doesn’t get involved, resulting in Carson Teva telling Din Djarin and his Mandalorian covert of the threat, prompting a Mandalorian intervention that saves the day as the pirate forces are annihilated. Newly free to settle Nevarro if they wish, it appears only Din Djarin and Grogu take Greef up on that offer, though we can’t say for certain. As the show’s third season came to an end, we saw them enjoying themselves in a small home built out on the volcanic soil, meaning at least two Mandalorians now reside on the world.

Plazir-15

Part of an unincorporated sector of space, and probably the 15th planet in the Plazir system, Plazir-15 is a beautiful world of luxury and benevolence, with the general population supported by a large class of worker droids largely made up of repurposed battle droids from the Clone Wars. Initially ruled by an unelected monarchy, the population has recently been introduced to democracy by the time The Mandalorian Season 3 begins. Unaligned with the New Republic, the planet required protection in the form of Bo-Katan’s Mandalorian forces who now serve as mercenaries for hire under Axe Woves.

Seeking out Mandalorians for the effort to reconquer Mandalore, Din Djarin and Bo-Katan find themselves diverted to handle a local mystery in one of the planet’s large domed cities, successfully stopping an aged Separatist from causing trouble at the cost of the planet’s droid workforce. It is in one of the world’s large open fields that Bo-Katan then fights Axe Woves for control of her forces, and where Din Djarin once again offers her the Darksaber. Taking it, Bo-Katan now leads her people again, in a quest to save their home. Plazir-15 also looks to be established as a trading and diplomatic partner for Mandalore in the future, after good relations are established due to the solving of the mystery.

Coruscant

Coruscant is visited in two very different ways in Season 3, first in a more detailed flashback by Grogu as he remembers the events of Order 66, and then focusing on the machinations of Elia Kane in the modern day. Pretending to be a reformed officer of the Imperial remnant, Elia gets close to Dr. Pershing so she can set him up for a procedure that she sabotages, destroying his mind to ensure he cannot spill Moff Gideon’s secrets. Later, she helps block New Republic support to Nevarro with a few well-placed comments and further communicates the failure of the pirates to Moff Gideon.

We travel across Coruscant in these scenes across a few of the season’s episodes, from the industrial reaches, to the slums and dark streets, to open, light-filled offices and the magnificent opera house well known to fans of Revenge of the Sith. We get a diverse snapshot of the world across this season, and despite being explored before, this season shows everything that Coruscant has to offer.

Adelphi

Located in the Kibilini sector, Adelphi is an outpost of the New Republic in the Outer Rim that has just been established or reinforced during the time of The Mandalorian. Only briefly seen in the show, it is primarily an airbase for starfighters running operations over a wide area, with its pilots made up of rookies and veterans of the Galactic Civil War. Din offers his services to the New Republic at this base as the series comes to an end, and it appears that Adelphi will be heavily featured in The Mandalorian and Grogu, with Din Djarin and Grogu likely stopping off somewhat frequently to get their missions or debrief afterward. Adelphi is later seen as even more significant to the New Republic, having a space station parked in orbit with their military personnel aboard.

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