3. Taungsday
This is perhaps probably the most obscure pull I’ve ever seen from a Star Wars factor. Taungsday–mentioned in a jokey “Mondays, am I right?” type of means in this episode–is the third day of a Coruscant week, and this was established in a now-deleted weblog for Hyperspace subscribers in 2009. And no Star Wars character had ever talked about it in-universe earlier than this episode of The Mandalorian. There’s much more which means to this title, although, than simply its bizarre origin.
The Taung, who’re an alien species native to Coruscant, don’t have any presence to talk of in the present Disney canon exterior of this one bit, however they have been vital to the galaxy’s historical past in the outdated Expanded Universe canon. Back then, the Taung lived on Coruscant earlier than it was a planet-wide metropolis, however they have been largely supplanted by people in historic occasions earlier than the Galactic Republic was shaped with the planet as its capital.
When these historic people drove a lot of the Taung off Coruscant, they fled to the outer rim, the place they stayed for hundreds of years till a warlord united your complete species for a warfare of conquest towards a brand new planet that will develop into their new birthright as a species. That planet was Mandalore, and these Taung have been the unique Mandalorians.
None of that’s half of the present Star Wars continuity, however we’re speaking about lots of of 1000’s of years earlier than the time of any Star Wars story. This does not have a lot bearing on the current so you possibly can embrace this in your headcanon with out it affecting anything, actually.
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