Canderous Ordo
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| Star Wars character | |
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| Position | Mandalorian, Mercenary, Mandalore |
| Homeworld | Ordo |
| Species | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Height | Unknown, estimated 1.88m (6'2") |
| Affiliation | Brotherhood of the Sith (but not a Sith), Exchange, Mandalorians, Galactic Republic |
| Portrayed by | John Cygan (voice) |
Canderous Ordo is a fictional character in the Star Wars video games Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords.
[edit] Biography
In the game, Revan may be either male or female. He is canonically considered male, so will be referred to as such.
Born in 4014 BBY, Canderous was a veteran Mandalorian warrior who fought in the Great Sith War and the Mandalorian Wars against the forces of the Old Republic and the Jedi. After the defeat of the Mandalorian clans, Canderous came to be employed as an enforcer for a crime lord named Davik Kang on the planet of Taris. When the Sith blockaded the planet, Ordo decided it was time to move on. Assisting Revan in stealing the Ebon Hawk from its current owners, Canderous escaped the planet. Canderous followed Revan in his goals, despite often disagreeing with his choices during the course of his plans.
During his time with Revan, Canderous told many stories of when he was a raw recruit. He was apparently talented, and in the first story he relates to Revan he describes how he fought in a Basilisk War Droid above a planet. He tells how he dropped 80km onto the surface of the planet, and pulled up with 30m to spare. He then proceeded to destroy the shield generators of the camp, earning his colors as a good recruit.
When Revan left for the Unknown Regions, he knew he could not take any of his friends with him: the path ahead was certain doom for any who travelled it. After Revan ordered Canderous to unite the scattered remnants of the Mandalorians, Canderous soon took on the name and position of Mandalore, leader of the Mandalorians. He set up a base on Dxun, a small moon orbiting Onderon.The base Mandalore used was an old base from the Mandalorian Wars that the Mandalorians had abandoned at the final battle of Dxun.
Only a select few knew Canderous was the new Mandalore: some time after leaving Revan, Canderous had sealed himself in a full-body suit of armor. It was rumored that he never took off this armor. While it seems Canderous did this to avoid his people realizing their leader was allied with Revan, comments from Kreia imply that there was a second reason for his actions: Canderous did not wish to see his face, the face of a man Revan abandoned. Five years after the end of the second Sith War, Canderous returned to the galactic scene when he pledged himself and his warriors to the service of the Jedi Exile, much as Mandalore the Indomitable had done with Exar Kun decades before.
Canderous is a true warrior, and although some would call him a fanatic, or even a murderer, he is bound by his honor and the pressures of the militaristic Mandalorian way of life. Canderous is always impressed by a show of force, and is an advocate of fighting before diplomacy. He respects Revan for his brilliant military campaigns against the Mandalorians and feels no regret or anger about being bested (since it was by a clearly superior foe). A reflection of his militaristic view of war is shown in a moment of random dialogue between himself and Carth Onasi. When Canderous asks Carth about his experiences in the Mandalorian Wars, Carth is revealed to be traumatized by his experiences to which Canderous responds with disappointment and disgust at Carth's view on war.
Predictions by the mysterious Force-user Kreia indicate that Canderous goes on to many other battles after the events of The Sith Lords. In these battles, Revan's reasoning behind his order to Canderous is explained: in ordering Canderous to reunite the Mandalorians, they would be remembered for thousands of years to come. It can be argued that without Canderous's battles after the events of The Sith Lords, the Mandalorians would not have been remembered as strong, honorable warriors - and without that legacy, there would have been no need for Jango Fett (and, later, Boba Fett) to become the deadly warriors their lives shaped them into.
If the player choses to question Canderous about his battles, Canderous will in one story reveal how his fleet saw a ship in the unknown regions that resembles a meteor but flies like a ship and fires magma-like projectiles, sounding closely similar to the yorik-coral fighters of the Yuuzhan Vong, who invade the New Republic several thousand years later in Expanded Universe.
In the game his voice is provided by John Cygan, who has often provided the voice for Dash Rendar in other Star Wars games.
According to Chris Avellone's comments in the Obsidian Entertainment forum, he is 63 (in Mandalorian ages) in KotOR II.
