“The Mandalorian” Season 3 is really starting to live up to the show’s name. While the prior two seasons largely focused on the ins and outs of bounty hunting, the heinous doings of the Imperial remnants, and how to take care of a 50-year-old toddler, Season 3 is all in on the lore of Mandalore. In Episode 2, Din Djarin and Grogu venture back to the planet, bringing it to the live-action “Star Wars” universe for the first time. And while there, they have to contend with Mandalore’s complicated and violent history.

It’s true that the devastation seen in “The Mandalorian” Season 3 was caused by the Empire’s purge, but the planet was already in a rough place before that tragic event. In “The Clone Wars,” domed cities like Sundari are the only real settlements on Mandalore, as the world’s natural landscape was decimated long ago in both civil wars and battles with the Jedi. The so-called Mandalorian Cataclysm has been mentioned in the modern canon, but it takes place so far in the past that few details have been revealed.

As “Star Wars” continues to build out the modern Mandalorian story in the New Republic era, it would make sense to go back in time and also show the civilization’s history. Let’s see Mand’alor the Great tame the mythosaur. Let’s see the creation and first use of the Darksaber. There are a ton of exciting stories to tell in Mandalore’s past, and they’re all now relevant to the ongoing “Mandalorian” saga.