AU where the clones aren’t commissioned by force-users, but by Mandalorians, in a desperate bid to find the next Manda’lor.Â
At the time of Jango Fett’s tenure as Manda’lor, Mandalorians are in decline, and the search for willing and worthy successors to the title grows increasingly difficult with each ruler’s term.
At Fett’s insistence, a sample of his own DNA is collected and prepared. When he dies, gestation of hundreds of thousands of clones begins. The concept of Manda, you see, is not belief in a collective soul, but rather in a collection of souls—a spiritual reservoir that souls return to and from, in a cycle of death and rebirth. Out of a million souls, surely one will be the Mand’alor reincarnate.Â
Young clones who bear the signs will undergo tests of recognition. The candidate who correctly identifies the ceremonial helm and the personal belongings of previous Manda’lore will be raised as de facto leader and moral authority among Mandalorians, a scholar and warrior alike, commander of supercommandos. By the time they reach adulthood, the presumptive Mand’alor will be a deeply respected figure.Â
What the Mandalorians neglected to consider is that, just as they increased the odds that one of the clones would be a vessel for the next Mand’alor, so too were the odds in favor of one or perhaps two or three force-sensitive clones among them.Â
And how would they know the difference? A force-sensitive clone would be able to sense the historical significance in the objects, armor, and weapons favored by past Mand’alore. A force-sensitive clone would also be unmatched in battle and possessed of an intuition their closest brothers would come to rely on.
