In the EU community talk of Madalorians tends to lead to um... "extreme" reactions.

Curiously enough I'm rather neutral on them. At one point I found them to be intriguing villains that were hidden in mystery and mythology.

Now they've been outed recently in the novel Triple Zero by Karen Traviss. I wasn't particularly fond of this novel compared to her previous novel Hard Contact which came out in 2004. I counted HC as one of my favorite books in the Star Wars universe as it added to the clone persona.

Not Triple Zero. Uh uh. This was a celebration of Mandalorians and I have a bit of a problem with it. You see Mandalorians are killers not heroes or honorable people. There's nothing honorable about being a hired hand.

Triple Zero disagrees and tries to so hard to make them out to be just another group of people trying to make there way if not out and out heroes.

Well, they're not. They are killers. Jango Fett was not an honorable or nice person in Attack of the Clones.

Take a look at the Klingons in Star Trek: they are somewhat similar to Mandalorians, very obsessed with their culture and ways. However, the Klingons are no longer villains in the Star Trek story. However, they aren't heores either but they are learning.

Triple Zero doesn't show us Mandalorian culture evolving at all- they're still killers in cool outfits. Either the Mandalorains evolve or the EU writers go back to making them villains.