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{{Quote|They called themselves the "Death Watch" and followed a barbarian called Vizsla, who believed that the Mandalorians should conquer the galaxy.|[[Dooku]], about Tor Vizsla and his followers|Jango Fett: Open Seasons}}
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{{Quote|They called themselves the 'Death Watch' and followed a barbarian called Vizsla, who believed that the Mandalorians should conquer the galaxy.|[[Dooku]], about Tor Vizsla and his followers|Jango Fett: Open Seasons 1}}
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'''Tor Vizsla''' was a [[Sexes|male]] [[Human]] [[Mandalorian|Mandalorian warrior]] and the first leader of the [[Death Watch]] faction during the [[Mandalorian Civil War]]. He founded the splinter group following [[Jaster Mereel]]'s ascension to [[Mandalore]]&mdash;leader of the Mandalorians&mdash;in [[60 BBY]] in direct competition against Mereel's promulgation of the [[Supercommando Codex]]. While Mereel sought to root out what he saw as immoral banditry that had taken hold among the Mandalorians, Vizsla wished to continue their marauding ways, with the ultimate goal of starting a new [[Mandalorian Wars|Mandalorian War]] and conquering [[the galaxy]] in the name of his [[Clan Vizsla|forefathers]]. To this end, he and his supporters waged war against Mereel's [[True Mandalorians]] for several [[year]]s, with heavy casualties on both sides, until Vizsla was [[Battle of Concord Dawn|seemingly killed]] on [[Concord Dawn]].
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'''Tor Vizsla''' was a [[Sexes|male]] [[Human]] [[Mandalorian|Mandalorian warrior]] and the first leader of the [[Death Watch]] faction during the [[Mandalorian Civil War]]. He founded the splinter group following [[Jaster Mereel]]'s ascension to [[Mandalore (title)|Mandalore]]&mdash;leader of the Mandalorians&mdash;in [[60 BBY]] in direct competition against Mereel's promulgation of the [[Supercommando Codex]]. While Mereel sought to root out what he saw as immoral banditry that had taken hold among the Mandalorians, Vizsla wished to continue their marauding ways, with the ultimate goal of starting a new [[Mandalorian Wars|Mandalorian War]] and conquering [[the galaxy]] in the name of his [[Clan Vizsla|forefathers]]. To this end, he and his supporters waged war against Mereel's [[True Mandalorians]] for several [[year]]s, with heavy casualties on both sides, until Vizsla was [[Battle of Concord Dawn|seemingly killed]] on [[Concord Dawn]].
   
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Vizsla and the Death Watch later reappeared on [[Korda 6]] where he managed to [[Battle of Korda 6|trap]] the True Mandalorians and [[Death|kill]] Mereel as the Mandalore was betrayed by his [[Montross|second-in-command]], forcing the True Mandalorians to retreat. After several more years in hiding, he laid another trap for the True Mandalorians and Mereel's successor, [[Jango Fett]], in which a strike team of [[Jedi]] were manipulated into [[Battle of Galidraan|slaughtering]] Vizsla's enemies for him. The only survivor of the battle, Fett was sold into [[slavery]] and spent several years aboard a [[spice transport]]. He managed to escape, however, and recovered a suit of [[Mandalorian armor]] from [[Galidraan]]. Fett then hunted Vizsla to [[Corellia]] where Fett destroyed Vizsla's ship, the ''[[Death Rattle]]'', and fought Vizsla [[unarmed combat|hand-to-hand]] on the [[planet]]'s surface. Vizsla injected Fett with a [[poison]] to knock him out, but before he lost consciousness, Fett slashed open Vizsla's stomach. Attracted by the scent of [[blood]], a pack of [[dire-cat]]s attacked, killing and devouring Vizsla, leaving Fett to wake up the following day, unharmed.
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Vizsla and the Death Watch later reappeared on [[Korda Six]] where he managed to [[Battle of Korda Six|trap]] the True Mandalorians and [[Death|kill]] Mereel as the Mandalore was betrayed by his [[Montross|second-in-command]], forcing the True Mandalorians to retreat. After several more years in hiding, he laid another trap for the True Mandalorians and Mereel's successor, [[Jango Fett]], in which a strike team of [[Jedi]] were manipulated into [[Battle of Galidraan|slaughtering]] Vizsla's enemies for him. The only survivor of the battle, Fett was sold into [[slavery]] and spent several years aboard a [[spice transport]]. He managed to escape, however, and recovered a suit of [[Mandalorian armor]] from [[Galidraan]]. Fett then hunted Vizsla to [[Corellia]] where Fett destroyed Vizsla's ship, the ''[[Death Rattle]]'', and fought Vizsla [[unarmed combat|hand-to-hand]] on the [[planet]]'s surface. Vizsla injected Fett with a [[poison]] to knock him out, but before he lost consciousness, Fett slashed open Vizsla's stomach. Attracted by the scent of [[blood]], a pack of [[dire-cat]]s attacked, killing and devouring Vizsla, leaving Fett to wake up the following day, unharmed.
   
 
==Biography==
  
==Biography==
 
===Hunting Jaster Mereel===
  
===Hunting Jaster Mereel===
 
{{Quote|They dressed themselves up as patriots wanting a return to the good old days of the Mando empire, but it was just a cover for organized crime.|[[Kal Skirata]]|Imperial Commando: 501st}}
  
{{Quote|They dressed themselves up as patriots wanting a return to the good old days of the Mando empire, but it was just a cover for organized crime.|[[Kal Skirata]]|Imperial Commando: 501st}}
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Tor Vizsla was a [[Human]] [[Sexes|male]] member of the [[Mandalorian]] clan [[Clan Vizsla|Vizsla]].<ref name="CWCE" /> In [[60 BBY]], [[Jaster Mereel]] took the title of [[Mandalore]], claiming leadership over the Mandalorian clans that still followed the [[Six Actions|old ways]].<ref name="HOTM" /><ref name="NEC">''[[The New Essential Chronology]]''</ref> He instituted his [[Supercommando Codex]] as a new moral standard for all Mandalorians to follow, asserting that Mandalorians should conduct themselves honorably as nothing more than highly-paid [[Mercenary|mercenaries]] rather than conquerors.<ref name="OS" /><ref name="HOTM" /> He also hoped to eliminate the public perception of Mandalorians as amoral killers.<ref name="CSWE">''[[The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia]]''</ref> Vizsla opposed this reform, however, and sought the title of Mandalore for himself. He advocated the belief that the Mandalorians should return to their roots as [[Mandalorian Crusaders|conquerors]], claiming that it was their birthright to wage a second [[Mandalorian Wars|war]] for control of [[the galaxy]].<ref name="HOTM" /> Gathering like-minded Mandalorian hardliners to his cause, he led a violent [[Mandalorian Civil War|coup]] against Mereel's [[True Mandalorians|supporters]] and formed a splinter group which he cast as the [[Death Watch]], adapting his clan sigil to symbolize the movement.<ref name="OS" /><ref name="CWCE" />
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Tor Vizsla was a [[Human]] [[Sexes|male]] member of the [[Mandalorian]] [[Clan Vizsla]].<ref name="CWCE" /> In [[60 BBY]], [[Jaster Mereel]] took the title of [[Mandalore (title)|Mandalore]], claiming leadership over the Mandalorian clans that still followed their traditional [[Resol'nare|warrior culture]].<ref name="HOTM" /><ref name="NEC">''[[The New Essential Chronology]]''</ref> He instituted his [[Supercommando Codex]] as a new moral standard for all Mandalorians to follow, asserting that Mandalorians should conduct themselves honorably as nothing more than highly-paid [[Mercenary|mercenaries]] rather than conquerors.<ref name="OS" /><ref name="HOTM" /> He also hoped to eliminate the public perception of Mandalorians as amoral killers.<ref name="CSWE">''[[The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia]]''</ref> Vizsla opposed this reform, however, and sought the title of Mandalore for himself. He advocated the belief that the Mandalorians should return to their roots as [[Mandalorian Crusaders|conquerors]], claiming that it was their birthright to wage a second [[Mandalorian Wars|war]] for control of [[the galaxy]],<ref name="HOTM" /> and destroy the hated pacifist regime of the [[New Mandalorians]].<ref name="TEGW">''[[The Essential Guide to Warfare]]''</ref> Gathering like-minded Mandalorian hardliners to his cause, he led a violent [[Mandalorian Civil War|coup]] against Mereel's [[True Mandalorians|supporters]] and formed a splinter group which he cast as the [[Death Watch]], adapting his clan sigil to symbolize the movement.<ref name="OS" /><ref name="CWCE" />
   
 
Scattering Mereel and his men on [[Concord Dawn]] in [[58 BBY]], Vizsla's forces [[Battle of Concord Dawn|hunted]] them across the [[planet]]. Finding a young [[Jango Fett]] [[Concord Dawn harvester|working]] in his [[Fett (Elder Journeyman Protector)|father]]'s [[Fett homestead|fields]], Vizsla questioned the boy while his companion held him at gunpoint. Learning that Jango's father had been sheltering Mereel, Vizsla brutally [[Torture|interrogated]] the [[Journeyman Protector]]. When he refused to talk, Vizsla had one of his men put a [[blaster]] to his son's head, threatening to [[Death|kill]] the boy if the elder Fett didn't cooperate. Before any harm could come to her son, [[Jango Fett's mother]] shot and killed the Death Watchman holding him. The elder Fett urged him to run and the boy ran for the fields with several of Vizsla's men in pursuit. As they caught up to the young Fett, he was saved by Mereel and his remaining followers. Hearing the ensuing [[Lightfight|firefight]] in the fields, Vizsla ordered his men to burn them while they murdered Jango's parents and kidnapped his [[Arla Fett|sister]].<ref name="ImpCom">''[[Imperial Commando: 501st]]''</ref> Confident the fire had finished off his nemesis, the Death Watch settled in for two days of rest and recreation to celebrate their victory in a nearby town. There, they came under attack from Mereel and what remained of his army. During the battle, Vizsla took cover inside his [[Death Watch tank|tank]] and Jango placed an explosive on its underside. When the explosion cleared, Mereel searched the debris and, though no body was found, Vizsla was presumed dead.<ref name="OS" />
  
Scattering Mereel and his men on [[Concord Dawn]] in [[58 BBY]], Vizsla's forces [[Battle of Concord Dawn|hunted]] them across the [[planet]]. Finding a young [[Jango Fett]] [[Concord Dawn harvester|working]] in his [[Fett (Elder Journeyman Protector)|father]]'s [[Fett homestead|fields]], Vizsla questioned the boy while his companion held him at gunpoint. Learning that Jango's father had been sheltering Mereel, Vizsla brutally [[Torture|interrogated]] the [[Journeyman Protector]]. When he refused to talk, Vizsla had one of his men put a [[blaster]] to his son's head, threatening to [[Death|kill]] the boy if the elder Fett didn't cooperate. Before any harm could come to her son, [[Jango Fett's mother]] shot and killed the Death Watchman holding him. The elder Fett urged him to run and the boy ran for the fields with several of Vizsla's men in pursuit. As they caught up to the young Fett, he was saved by Mereel and his remaining followers. Hearing the ensuing [[Lightfight|firefight]] in the fields, Vizsla ordered his men to burn them while they murdered Jango's parents and kidnapped his [[Arla Fett|sister]].<ref name="ImpCom">''[[Imperial Commando: 501st]]''</ref> Confident the fire had finished off his nemesis, the Death Watch settled in for two days of rest and recreation to celebrate their victory in a nearby town. There, they came under attack from Mereel and what remained of his army. During the battle, Vizsla took cover inside his [[Death Watch tank|tank]] and Jango placed an explosive on its underside. When the explosion cleared, Mereel searched the debris and, though no body was found, Vizsla was presumed dead.<ref name="OS" />
   
 
===Laying traps===
  
===Laying traps===
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{{Quote|Finally I get to wipe you from Mandalorian history forever&hellip;|Tor Vizsla upon [[Jaster Mereel]]'s death|Jango Fett: Open Seasons}}
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{{Quote|Finally I get to wipe you from Mandalorian history forever&hellip;|Tor Vizsla upon [[Jaster Mereel]]'s death|Jango Fett: Open Seasons 2}}
 
[[File:Vizsla-HotM.jpg|left|thumb|200px|The explosion of his tank horribly scarred Vizsla.]]
  
[[File:Vizsla-HotM.jpg|left|thumb|200px|The explosion of his tank horribly scarred Vizsla.]]
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However, Vizsla was [[Battle of Korda 6|encountered]] alive in [[52 BBY]], albeit extensively scarred by the explosion. Luring the True Mandalorians into an ambush on [[Korda 6]], the Death Watch decimated more of Mereel's forces with help from the native [[Kordan]]s.<ref name="CSWE" /> Vizsla appeared on the battlefield aboard a [[Tank (vehicle)|tank]] and gunned Mereel down himself when the Mandalore was abandoned by his own second-in-command, [[Montross]]&mdash;who sought leadership of the Mandalorians for himself. When the True Mandalorians retreated, leadership passed to Jango Fett who swore to hunt down Vizsla once and for all.<ref name="OS" />
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However, Vizsla was [[Battle of Korda Six|encountered]] alive in [[52 BBY]], albeit extensively scarred by the explosion. Luring the True Mandalorians into an ambush on [[Korda Six]], the Death Watch decimated more of Mereel's forces with help from the native [[Kordan]]s.<ref name="CSWE" /> Vizsla appeared on the battlefield aboard a [[Tank (vehicle)|tank]] and gunned Mereel down himself when the Mandalore was abandoned by his own second-in-command, [[Montross]]&mdash;who sought leadership of the Mandalorians for himself. When the True Mandalorians retreated, leadership passed to Jango Fett who swore to hunt down Vizsla once and for all.<ref name="OS" />
   
 
When the [[Governor of Galidraan|governor]] of [[Galidraan]] agreed to pass information about the Death Watch's whereabouts on to Jango Fett in exchange for his Mandalorians putting down a [[Battle of Galidraan|rebellion]] in [[44 BBY]], Vizsla set yet another trap for his foes. He coerced the governor into requesting help from the [[Jedi Order]],<ref name="CSWE" /> claiming the Mandalorians were slaughtering [[Politics|political]] activists. When Fett met the governor at his castle, Vizsla attempted to kill him, firing on Fett from behind a curtain where he hid with several of his men. Fett retreated, leaping out a nearby window and activating his [[jetpack]], but Vizsla disabled it with a shot from his [[blaster pistol]], sending Fett hurtling to the ground below.<ref name="OS" />
  
When the [[Governor of Galidraan|governor]] of [[Galidraan]] agreed to pass information about the Death Watch's whereabouts on to Jango Fett in exchange for his Mandalorians putting down a [[Battle of Galidraan|rebellion]] in [[44 BBY]], Vizsla set yet another trap for his foes. He coerced the governor into requesting help from the [[Jedi Order]],<ref name="CSWE" /> claiming the Mandalorians were slaughtering [[Politics|political]] activists. When Fett met the governor at his castle, Vizsla attempted to kill him, firing on Fett from behind a curtain where he hid with several of his men. Fett retreated, leaping out a nearby window and activating his [[jetpack]], but Vizsla disabled it with a shot from his [[blaster pistol]], sending Fett hurtling to the ground below.<ref name="OS" />
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{{Quote|You think this scratch is going to kill me?''"<br />"''No&hellip; But they will.|Tor Vizsla and Jango Fett, moments before Vizsla's death.|Jango Fett: Open Seasons}}
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{{Quote|You think this scratch is going to kill me?''"<br />"''No&hellip; But they will.|Tor Vizsla and Jango Fett, moments before Vizsla's death.|Jango Fett: Open Seasons 4}}
 
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After years aboard a [[spice freighter]], Fett made his escape during a [[pirate]] attack. Returning to Galidraan, he recovered his [[Mandalorian armor|armor]] and held the governor at gunpoint, demanding to know where he could find Vizsla. The governor told him the Death Watch had left Galidraan only two days prior, heading for [[Corellia]]. Over Corellia, Vizsla sat in a prominent seat on the [[Bridge (starship)|bridge]] of his [[Starship|ship]], the ''[[Death Rattle]]'', tended to by a [[Twi'lek]] servant when his troops detected an incoming projectile on the ship's [[sensor]]s. Fett used a [[Jango Fett's starfighter|starfighter]] to disable the ''Death Rattle''{{'s}} engines while he himself stormed the bridge by smashing his way through the main [[viewport]]. As the ship began to break up, Vizsla fled toward the [[escape pod]]s, ordering his men to abandon ship. Fett gave chase and they scuffled briefly before making their way down to the planet aboard a pod of their own.<ref name="OS" />
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After two years aboard a [[spice freighter]], Fett made his escape during a [[pirate]] attack. Returning to Galidraan, he recovered his [[Mandalorian armor|armor]] and held the governor at gunpoint, demanding to know where he could find Vizsla. The governor told him the Death Watch had left Galidraan only two days prior, heading for [[Corellia]]. Over Corellia, Vizsla sat in a prominent seat on the [[Bridge (starship)|bridge]] of his [[Starship|ship]], the ''[[Death Rattle]]'', tended to by a [[Twi'lek]] servant when his troops detected an incoming projectile on the ship's [[sensor]]s. Fett used a [[Jango Fett's starfighter|starfighter]] to disable the ''Death Rattle''{{'s}} engines while he himself stormed the bridge by smashing his way through the main [[viewport]]. As the ship began to break up, Vizsla fled toward the [[escape pod]]s, ordering his men to abandon ship. Fett gave chase and they scuffled briefly before making their way down to the planet aboard a pod of their own.<ref name="OS" />
   
 
The two men fought savagely with their fists, evenly matched, until their brawl carried them over a cliff and into a river. When they washed ashore, Vizsla injected Fett with a [[poison]] that made him near-lethargic. Before he could deliver the death blow, however, Fett slashed Vizsla's stomach open with a pair of blades ejected from his [[gauntlet]]s. As Fett slipped into unconsciousness, the Death Watch leader was attacked, killed, and eaten by a pack of [[dire-cat]]s who were attracted by the scent of his [[blood]] but ignored Fett completely.<ref name="OS" /><ref name="CSWE" />
  
The two men fought savagely with their fists, evenly matched, until their brawl carried them over a cliff and into a river. When they washed ashore, Vizsla injected Fett with a [[poison]] that made him near-lethargic. Before he could deliver the death blow, however, Fett slashed Vizsla's stomach open with a pair of blades ejected from his [[gauntlet]]s. As Fett slipped into unconsciousness, the Death Watch leader was attacked, killed, and eaten by a pack of [[dire-cat]]s who were attracted by the scent of his [[blood]] but ignored Fett completely.<ref name="OS" /><ref name="CSWE" />
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{{Quote|We conquered whole star systems. We had an empire. When cities heard our armies were coming, populations fled before a shot was fired. Now we cling to a pathetic sector of dirtball planets, we scramble for the crumbs that the cowardly ''aruetiise'' throw when they want us to fight for them, and they use us as a breeding stock for their clone armies. The ''aruetiise'' will always treat us like an animal species to be used for their convenience until we stand up for ourselves again.|Lorka Gedyc|Imperial Commando: 501st}}
  
{{Quote|We conquered whole star systems. We had an empire. When cities heard our armies were coming, populations fled before a shot was fired. Now we cling to a pathetic sector of dirtball planets, we scramble for the crumbs that the cowardly ''aruetiise'' throw when they want us to fight for them, and they use us as a breeding stock for their clone armies. The ''aruetiise'' will always treat us like an animal species to be used for their convenience until we stand up for ourselves again.|Lorka Gedyc|Imperial Commando: 501st}}
 
[[File:Vizsla_brutal.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Pre Vizsla continued his kinsman's legacy of brutality.]]
  
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Vizsla and his followers were largely reviled by the Mandalorian community long after his death.<ref name="ImpCom" /><ref name="O66">''[[Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel]]''</ref> Jango Fett's [[Cloning|clone]] son, [[Boba Fett]], believed that destroying the Death Watch had been his father's lasting legacy for the Mandalorians.<ref name="Sacrifice">''[[Sacrifice]]''</ref> While the True Mandalorians remained defeated, however, the Death Watch carried on in secret for decades, continuing to resurface years after Vizsla had been killed.<ref name="ImpCom" /><ref name="TMP">{{TCW|The Mandalore Plot}}</ref><ref name="SWG">{{SWG|An Empire Divided}}</ref>
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Vizsla and his followers were largely reviled by the Mandalorian community long after his death.<ref name="ImpCom" /><ref name="O66">''[[Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel]]''</ref> Jango Fett's [[Cloning|clone]] son, [[Boba Fett]], believed that destroying the Death Watch had been his father's lasting legacy for the Mandalorians.<ref name="Sacrifice">''[[Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice]]''</ref> While the True Mandalorians remained defeated, however, the Death Watch carried on in secret for decades, continuing to resurface years after Vizsla had been killed.<ref name="ImpCom" /><ref name="TMP">{{TCW|The Mandalore Plot}}</ref><ref name="SWG">{{SWG|An Empire Divided}}</ref>
   
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Another member of Vizsla's clan, [[Pre Vizsla]], took over clandestine leadership of the splinter group while acting as the governor of [[Mandalore (planet)|Mandalore]]'s [[moon]], [[Concordia]], and publicly supported [[Duke|Duchess]] [[Satine Kryze]] of [[Kalevala]]. Under Pre Vizsla's leadership, the Death Watch undertook a [[terrorist]] bombing campaign during the [[Clone Wars]] against Kryze's [[New Mandalorians]] who controlled the [[city]] of [[Sundari (city)|Sundari]]<ref name="TMP" /> and conspired with the [[Confederacy of Independent Systems]] in order to reconquer the whole of the planet.<ref name="DOM">{{TCW|Duchess of Mandalore}}</ref> Their plot was foiled when Jedi Master [[Obi-Wan Kenobi]] came to Mandalore to investigate rumors that Kryze was building a secret army to fight for the Separatists, discovering Pre Vizsla's [[Death Watch hideout|hidden base]] and uncovering his true allegiances in the process.<ref name="TMP" />
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Another member of Vizsla's clan, [[Pre Vizsla]],<ref name="TCWCE">''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia]]''</ref> took over clandestine leadership of the splinter group while acting as the governor of [[Mandalore]]'s [[moon]], [[Concordia]], and publicly supported [[Duke|Duchess]] [[Satine Kryze]] of [[Kalevala]]. Under Pre Vizsla's leadership, the Death Watch undertook a [[terrorist]] bombing campaign during the [[Clone Wars]] against Kryze's New Mandalorians who controlled the [[city]] of [[Sundari]]<ref name="TMP" /> and conspired with the [[Confederacy of Independent Systems]] in order to reconquer the whole of the planet.<ref name="DOM">{{TCW|Duchess of Mandalore}}</ref> Their plot was foiled when Jedi Master [[Obi-Wan Kenobi]] came to Mandalore to investigate rumors that Kryze was building a secret army to fight for the Separatists, discovering Pre Vizsla's [[Death Watch hideout|hidden base]] and uncovering his true allegiances in the process.<ref name="TMP" />
   
 
By the end of the Clone Wars, leadership of the Death Watch had passed to [[Lorka Gedyc]], who advocated cooperation with the new [[Galactic Empire]] as a means of regaining the Mandalorians' strength. Former members of the ''[[Cuy'val Dar]]''&mdash;a group of training sergeants handpicked by Jango Fett to train the [[Grand Army of the Republic]]'s [[Clone commando]]s&mdash;[[Dred Priest]] and [[Isabet Reau]] actively recruited for the Death Watch in the city of [[Keldabe]]. Priest remarked to fellow ''Cuy'val Dar'' member [[Mij Gilamar]] that Gedyc had changed the Death Watch for the better from the way it had been under Tor Vizsla.<ref name="ImpCom" />
  
By the end of the Clone Wars, leadership of the Death Watch had passed to [[Lorka Gedyc]], who advocated cooperation with the new [[Galactic Empire]] as a means of regaining the Mandalorians' strength. Former members of the ''[[Cuy'val Dar]]''&mdash;a group of training sergeants handpicked by Jango Fett to train the [[Grand Army of the Republic]]'s [[Clone commando]]s&mdash;[[Dred Priest]] and [[Isabet Reau]] actively recruited for the Death Watch in the city of [[Keldabe]]. Priest remarked to fellow ''Cuy'val Dar'' member [[Mij Gilamar]] that Gedyc had changed the Death Watch for the better from the way it had been under Tor Vizsla.<ref name="ImpCom" />
   
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By [[1 ABY]], Vizsla's movement had passed largely into legend. [[Teti Viba]], having styled himself "[[Overlord (Death Watch)|Overlord]]" of the Death Watch, had moved the group's [[Death Watch Bunker|headquarters]] from Concordia to the forest moon of [[Endor]]. There, they continued to operate in secret, having allied themselves with [[Black Sun]], until a band of [[spacer]]s in the employ of Imperial [[Commander]] [[D'krn]] infiltrated their bunker, killed Viba, and took a [[Prime clone|sample]] of his [[blood]] to create a new batch of [[stormtrooper]]s.<ref name="SWG" />
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By [[1 ABY]], Vizsla's movement had passed largely into legend. [[Teti Viba]], having styled himself "[[Secret Mandalore|Overlord]]" of the Death Watch, had moved the group's [[Death Watch bunker|headquarters]] from Concordia to the forest moon of [[Endor]]. There, they continued to operate in secret, having allied themselves with [[Black Sun]], until a band of [[spacer]]s in the employ of Imperial [[Commander]] [[D'krn]] infiltrated their bunker, killed Viba, and took a [[Prime clone|sample]] of his [[blood]] to create a new batch of [[stormtrooper]]s.<ref name="SWG" />
   
 
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Described by Count Dooku as a barbarian,<ref name="OS" /> Vizsla was indeed brutal and vicious in his methods.<ref name="CSWE" /> On Concord Dawn, he commanded his troops to slaughter the young Jango Fett's family, and later permitted them to take whatever they wanted from a local town. When he orchestrated the Battle of Galidraan, he ordered the governor of the planet to tell the Jedi that Fett's Mandalorians had been slaughtering women and children. When the governor protested that there was no evidence of such crimes, Vizsla promised that he would create some.<ref name="OS" />
  
Described by Count Dooku as a barbarian,<ref name="OS" /> Vizsla was indeed brutal and vicious in his methods.<ref name="CSWE" /> On Concord Dawn, he commanded his troops to slaughter the young Jango Fett's family, and later permitted them to take whatever they wanted from a local town. When he orchestrated the Battle of Galidraan, he ordered the governor of the planet to tell the Jedi that Fett's Mandalorians had been slaughtering women and children. When the governor protested that there was no evidence of such crimes, Vizsla promised that he would create some.<ref name="OS" />
   
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Vizsla wore a suit of [[black]] Mandalorian armor which he adorned with a [[red]] [[cape]] and his clan sigil on the shoulders.<ref name="CWCE" /> His gauntlets mounted several weapons including a [[wrist rocket]], [[flamethrower]], [[whipcord launcher]], and poison injector. He also used various [[blaster rifle]]s and pistols in combat, as well as a tank on at least two occasions. He also possessed a personal starship, the ''Death Rattle''.<ref name="OS" />
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Vizsla wore a suit of [[Color|black]] Mandalorian armor which he adorned with a red [[cape]] and his clan sigil on the shoulders.<ref name="CWCE" /> His gauntlets mounted several weapons including a [[wrist rocket]], [[flamethrower]], [[whipcord launcher]], and poison injector. He also used various [[blaster rifle]]s and pistols in combat, as well as a tank on at least two occasions. He also possessed a personal starship, the ''Death Rattle''.<ref name="OS" />
   
 
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The character of Tor Vizsla was created by ''[[Star Wars]]'' writer [[W. Haden Blackman|Haden Blackman]] for the four-part [[Comic book|comic]] series ''[[Jango Fett: Open Seasons]]'', released on [[May 1]], [[2002]] shortly before the premier of ''[[Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones]]''. Initially known simply as "Vizsla", he was finally given a first name on [[August 18]], [[2009]] in ''[[The Essential Atlas]]'' by authors [[Jason Fry]] and [[Daniel Wallace]].
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The character of Tor Vizsla was created by ''[[Star Wars]]'' writer [[W. Haden Blackman|Haden Blackman]] for the four-part [[Comic book|comic]] series ''[[Jango Fett: Open Seasons]]'', released on [[May 1]], [[2002]] shortly before the premier of [[Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones|''Star Wars'': Episode II ''Attack of the Clones'']]. Initially known simply as "Vizsla", he was finally given a first name on [[August 18]], [[2009]] in ''[[The Essential Atlas]]'' by authors [[Jason Fry]] and [[Daniel Wallace]].
   
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The name ''Tor'' translates to "justice" in [[Mando'a]].<ref name="Mando'a">[http://www.karentraviss.com/html/mando.htm Karen Traviss's ''Mando'a'' page]&mdash;Features downloadable ''Mando'a'' word lists, a grammar guide, and sound files made by Karen Traviss of spoken ''Mando'a'' (last update of the ''Mando'a'' dictionary: April 2009)</ref>
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The name ''Tor'' translates to "justice" in [[Mando'a]].<ref name="Mando'a">[http://www.karentraviss.com/page20/page26/downloads/files/MandoaApril09.xls]&mdash;Features downloadable ''Mando'a'' word lists, a grammar guide, and sound files made by Karen Traviss of spoken ''Mando'a'' (last update of the ''Mando'a'' dictionary: April 2009)</ref>
   
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''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars (TV series)|Star Wars: The Clone Wars]]'' supervising director, [[Dave Filoni]], applied the name Vizsla to Pre Vizsla, the primary antagonist of the three-part Mandalorian story arc of [[The Clone Wars: Season Two]] as a reference to the [[Expanded Universe]] material, also including the name and symbol of the Death Watch.<ref name="Ready for Battle">{{InsiderCite|115|Ready for Battle}}</ref> The two characters were later connected by the ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia|Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia]]'', which [[retcon]]ned the Death Watch insignia into the symbol of [[Clan Vizsla]].<ref name="CWCE" />
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''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars (TV series)|Star Wars: The Clone Wars]]'' supervising director, [[Dave Filoni]], applied the name Vizsla to Pre Vizsla, the primary antagonist of the three-part Mandalorian story arc of [[The Clone Wars: Season Two]] as a reference to the [[Star Wars Legends|Expanded Universe]] material, also including the name and symbol of the Death Watch.<ref name="Ready for Battle">{{InsiderCite|115|Ready for Battle}}</ref> The two characters were later connected by the ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia|Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia]]'', which [[retcon]]ned the Death Watch insignia into the symbol of [[Clan Vizsla]].<ref name="CWCE" />
   
 
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"They called themselves the 'Death Watch' and followed a barbarian called Vizsla, who believed that the Mandalorians should conquer the galaxy."
―Dooku, about Tor Vizsla and his followers[src]

Tor Vizsla was a male Human Mandalorian warrior and the first leader of the Death Watch faction during the Mandalorian Civil War. He founded the splinter group following Jaster Mereel's ascension to Mandalore—leader of the Mandalorians—in 60 BBY in direct competition against Mereel's promulgation of the Supercommando Codex. While Mereel sought to root out what he saw as immoral banditry that had taken hold among the Mandalorians, Vizsla wished to continue their marauding ways, with the ultimate goal of starting a new Mandalorian War and conquering the galaxy in the name of his forefathers. To this end, he and his supporters waged war against Mereel's True Mandalorians for several years, with heavy casualties on both sides, until Vizsla was seemingly killed on Concord Dawn.

Vizsla and the Death Watch later reappeared on Korda Six where he managed to trap the True Mandalorians and kill Mereel as the Mandalore was betrayed by his second-in-command, forcing the True Mandalorians to retreat. After several more years in hiding, he laid another trap for the True Mandalorians and Mereel's successor, Jango Fett, in which a strike team of Jedi were manipulated into slaughtering Vizsla's enemies for him. The only survivor of the battle, Fett was sold into slavery and spent several years aboard a spice transport. He managed to escape, however, and recovered a suit of Mandalorian armor from Galidraan. Fett then hunted Vizsla to Corellia where Fett destroyed Vizsla's ship, the Death Rattle, and fought Vizsla hand-to-hand on the planet's surface. Vizsla injected Fett with a poison to knock him out, but before he lost consciousness, Fett slashed open Vizsla's stomach. Attracted by the scent of blood, a pack of dire-cats attacked, killing and devouring Vizsla, leaving Fett to wake up the following day, unharmed.

Biography

Hunting Jaster Mereel

"They dressed themselves up as patriots wanting a return to the good old days of the Mando empire, but it was just a cover for organized crime."
―Kal Skirata[src]

Tor Vizsla was a Human male member of the Mandalorian Clan Vizsla.[4] In 60 BBY, Jaster Mereel took the title of Mandalore, claiming leadership over the Mandalorian clans that still followed their traditional warrior culture.[3][5] He instituted his Supercommando Codex as a new moral standard for all Mandalorians to follow, asserting that Mandalorians should conduct themselves honorably as nothing more than highly-paid mercenaries rather than conquerors.[1][3] He also hoped to eliminate the public perception of Mandalorians as amoral killers.[6] Vizsla opposed this reform, however, and sought the title of Mandalore for himself. He advocated the belief that the Mandalorians should return to their roots as conquerors, claiming that it was their birthright to wage a second war for control of the galaxy,[3] and destroy the hated pacifist regime of the New Mandalorians.[7] Gathering like-minded Mandalorian hardliners to his cause, he led a violent coup against Mereel's supporters and formed a splinter group which he cast as the Death Watch, adapting his clan sigil to symbolize the movement.[1][4]

Scattering Mereel and his men on Concord Dawn in 58 BBY, Vizsla's forces hunted them across the planet. Finding a young Jango Fett working in his father's fields, Vizsla questioned the boy while his companion held him at gunpoint. Learning that Jango's father had been sheltering Mereel, Vizsla brutally interrogated the Journeyman Protector. When he refused to talk, Vizsla had one of his men put a blaster to his son's head, threatening to kill the boy if the elder Fett didn't cooperate. Before any harm could come to her son, Jango Fett's mother shot and killed the Death Watchman holding him. The elder Fett urged him to run and the boy ran for the fields with several of Vizsla's men in pursuit. As they caught up to the young Fett, he was saved by Mereel and his remaining followers. Hearing the ensuing firefight in the fields, Vizsla ordered his men to burn them while they murdered Jango's parents and kidnapped his sister.[8] Confident the fire had finished off his nemesis, the Death Watch settled in for two days of rest and recreation to celebrate their victory in a nearby town. There, they came under attack from Mereel and what remained of his army. During the battle, Vizsla took cover inside his tank and Jango placed an explosive on its underside. When the explosion cleared, Mereel searched the debris and, though no body was found, Vizsla was presumed dead.[1]

Laying traps

"Finally I get to wipe you from Mandalorian history forever…"
―Tor Vizsla upon Jaster Mereel's death[src]
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The explosion of his tank horribly scarred Vizsla.

However, Vizsla was encountered alive in 52 BBY, albeit extensively scarred by the explosion. Luring the True Mandalorians into an ambush on Korda Six, the Death Watch decimated more of Mereel's forces with help from the native Kordans.[6] Vizsla appeared on the battlefield aboard a tank and gunned Mereel down himself when the Mandalore was abandoned by his own second-in-command, Montross—who sought leadership of the Mandalorians for himself. When the True Mandalorians retreated, leadership passed to Jango Fett who swore to hunt down Vizsla once and for all.[1]

When the governor of Galidraan agreed to pass information about the Death Watch's whereabouts on to Jango Fett in exchange for his Mandalorians putting down a rebellion in 44 BBY, Vizsla set yet another trap for his foes. He coerced the governor into requesting help from the Jedi Order,[6] claiming the Mandalorians were slaughtering political activists. When Fett met the governor at his castle, Vizsla attempted to kill him, firing on Fett from behind a curtain where he hid with several of his men. Fett retreated, leaping out a nearby window and activating his jetpack, but Vizsla disabled it with a shot from his blaster pistol, sending Fett hurtling to the ground below.[1]

Satisfied the trap was a success, Vizsla and the Death Watch took their leave to create evidence of civilian deaths while the Jedi, led by Master Dooku, arrived at the Mandalorian camp and killed every Mandalorian except for their leader. Jango Fett was handed over to the governor, who promptly had him sold into slavery.[1]

Endgame

"You think this scratch is going to kill me?"
"No… But they will."
―Tor Vizsla and Jango Fett, moments before Vizsla's death.[src]
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Vizsla fought against Jango Fett on the surface of Corellia.

After two years aboard a spice freighter, Fett made his escape during a pirate attack. Returning to Galidraan, he recovered his armor and held the governor at gunpoint, demanding to know where he could find Vizsla. The governor told him the Death Watch had left Galidraan only two days prior, heading for Corellia. Over Corellia, Vizsla sat in a prominent seat on the bridge of his ship, the Death Rattle, tended to by a Twi'lek servant when his troops detected an incoming projectile on the ship's sensors. Fett used a starfighter to disable the Death Rattle's engines while he himself stormed the bridge by smashing his way through the main viewport. As the ship began to break up, Vizsla fled toward the escape pods, ordering his men to abandon ship. Fett gave chase and they scuffled briefly before making their way down to the planet aboard a pod of their own.[1]

The two men fought savagely with their fists, evenly matched, until their brawl carried them over a cliff and into a river. When they washed ashore, Vizsla injected Fett with a poison that made him near-lethargic. Before he could deliver the death blow, however, Fett slashed Vizsla's stomach open with a pair of blades ejected from his gauntlets. As Fett slipped into unconsciousness, the Death Watch leader was attacked, killed, and eaten by a pack of dire-cats who were attracted by the scent of his blood but ignored Fett completely.[1][6]

Legacy

"We conquered whole star systems. We had an empire. When cities heard our armies were coming, populations fled before a shot was fired. Now we cling to a pathetic sector of dirtball planets, we scramble for the crumbs that the cowardly aruetiise throw when they want us to fight for them, and they use us as a breeding stock for their clone armies. The aruetiise will always treat us like an animal species to be used for their convenience until we stand up for ourselves again."
―Lorka Gedyc[src]
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Pre Vizsla continued his kinsman's legacy of brutality.

Vizsla and his followers were largely reviled by the Mandalorian community long after his death.[8][9] Jango Fett's clone son, Boba Fett, believed that destroying the Death Watch had been his father's lasting legacy for the Mandalorians.[10] While the True Mandalorians remained defeated, however, the Death Watch carried on in secret for decades, continuing to resurface years after Vizsla had been killed.[8][11][12]

Another member of Vizsla's clan, Pre Vizsla,[13] took over clandestine leadership of the splinter group while acting as the governor of Mandalore's moon, Concordia, and publicly supported Duchess Satine Kryze of Kalevala. Under Pre Vizsla's leadership, the Death Watch undertook a terrorist bombing campaign during the Clone Wars against Kryze's New Mandalorians who controlled the city of Sundari[11] and conspired with the Confederacy of Independent Systems in order to reconquer the whole of the planet.[14] Their plot was foiled when Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi came to Mandalore to investigate rumors that Kryze was building a secret army to fight for the Separatists, discovering Pre Vizsla's hidden base and uncovering his true allegiances in the process.[11]

By the end of the Clone Wars, leadership of the Death Watch had passed to Lorka Gedyc, who advocated cooperation with the new Galactic Empire as a means of regaining the Mandalorians' strength. Former members of the Cuy'val Dar—a group of training sergeants handpicked by Jango Fett to train the Grand Army of the Republic's Clone commandos—Dred Priest and Isabet Reau actively recruited for the Death Watch in the city of Keldabe. Priest remarked to fellow Cuy'val Dar member Mij Gilamar that Gedyc had changed the Death Watch for the better from the way it had been under Tor Vizsla.[8]

By 1 ABY, Vizsla's movement had passed largely into legend. Teti Viba, having styled himself "Overlord" of the Death Watch, had moved the group's headquarters from Concordia to the forest moon of Endor. There, they continued to operate in secret, having allied themselves with Black Sun, until a band of spacers in the employ of Imperial Commander D'krn infiltrated their bunker, killed Viba, and took a sample of his blood to create a new batch of stormtroopers.[12]

Personality and traits

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Tor Vizsla's full armor

Described by Count Dooku as a barbarian,[1] Vizsla was indeed brutal and vicious in his methods.[6] On Concord Dawn, he commanded his troops to slaughter the young Jango Fett's family, and later permitted them to take whatever they wanted from a local town. When he orchestrated the Battle of Galidraan, he ordered the governor of the planet to tell the Jedi that Fett's Mandalorians had been slaughtering women and children. When the governor protested that there was no evidence of such crimes, Vizsla promised that he would create some.[1]

Vizsla was also narcissistic[3] and egomaniacal.[6] He resented Jaster Mereel for stealing the title of Mandalore from him[1] and fed his ego by claiming that he and his followers would conquer the galaxy as their Mandalorian forefathers had intended. His followers were little more than sycophantic thugs held together by the force of his charisma.[3]

Equipment

Vizsla wore a suit of black Mandalorian armor which he adorned with a red cape and his clan sigil on the shoulders.[4] His gauntlets mounted several weapons including a wrist rocket, flamethrower, whipcord launcher, and poison injector. He also used various blaster rifles and pistols in combat, as well as a tank on at least two occasions. He also possessed a personal starship, the Death Rattle.[1]

Behind the scenes

The character of Tor Vizsla was created by Star Wars writer Haden Blackman for the four-part comic series Jango Fett: Open Seasons, released on May 1, 2002 shortly before the premier of Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones. Initially known simply as "Vizsla", he was finally given a first name on August 18, 2009 in The Essential Atlas by authors Jason Fry and Daniel Wallace.

The name Tor translates to "justice" in Mando'a.[15]

Star Wars: The Clone Wars supervising director, Dave Filoni, applied the name Vizsla to Pre Vizsla, the primary antagonist of the three-part Mandalorian story arc of The Clone Wars: Season Two as a reference to the Expanded Universe material, also including the name and symbol of the Death Watch.[16] The two characters were later connected by the Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia, which retconned the Death Watch insignia into the symbol of Clan Vizsla.[4]

Appearances

Sources

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 Jango Fett: Open Seasons
  2. ↑ The Official Star Wars Fact File 124
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 SWInsider "The History of the Mandalorians" — Star Wars Insider 80
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Star Wars: The Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 The New Essential Chronology
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
  7. ↑ The Essential Guide to Warfare
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Imperial Commando: 501st
  9. ↑ Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel
  10. ↑ Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "The Mandalore Plot"
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Template:SWG
  13. ↑ Star Wars: The Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia
  14. ↑ TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Duchess of Mandalore"
  15. ↑ [1]—Features downloadable Mando'a word lists, a grammar guide, and sound files made by Karen Traviss of spoken Mando'a (last update of the Mando'a dictionary: April 2009)
  16. ↑ SWInsider "Ready for Battle" — Star Wars Insider 115
  17. ↑ The Essential Reader's Companion
  18. ↑ Star Wars: Darth Maul—Death Sentence 1
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