3. Taungsday
That is possibly essentially the most obscure pull I’ve ever seen from a Star Wars factor. Taungsday–mentioned in a jokey “Mondays, am I proper?” type of approach on 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 identify, although, than simply its bizarre origin.
The Taung, who’re an alien species native to Coruscant, haven’t any presence to talk of within the present Disney canon outdoors of this one bit, however they have been essential to the galaxy’s historical past within the previous Expanded Universe canon. Again then, the Taung lived on Coruscant earlier than it was a planet-wide metropolis, however they have been largely supplanted by people in historical occasions earlier than the Galactic Republic was shaped with the planet as its capital.
When these historical people drove many of the Taung off Coruscant, they fled to the outer rim, the place they stayed for hundreds of years till a warlord united all the species for a conflict of conquest towards a brand new planet that will turn out to be 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 a whole bunch 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 might embrace this in your headcanon with out it affecting the rest, actually.
