A Foundling was a term used to describe a type of Mandalorian who was not born Mandalorian, but adopted into their culture.[3] The bounty hunter known as "the Mandalorian" was once a foundling after an attack by the Confederacy of Independent Systems[2] when he was a young boy left him orphaned.[3] During the New Republic Era, "the Mandalorian" obtained beskar as a down payment from an Imperial remnant. He gave the beskar piece to an armorer who forged it into a pauldron, with the excess meaning to s... {open}