If you’re like me, you probably have many questions about the Living Waters. In my mind one of the most interesting is how the Armorer has dealt with not having access a steady supply of the Living Waters to quench newly forged Mandalorian armor pieces in, and how it has effected the Covert members. Some of us in the community have already speculated on this. Well, while rewatching the 2 Mando parts of Ep. 3, I just noticed something very telling about the state of the Covert and the Armorer’s ability to provide/make new armor for them. 🤔

    When Bo and Din land at the Covert and Paz walks out to meet them he is flanked by a handful of Mandos (presumably they are the Covert’s first line of defense if they are coming out first). As you can clearly see in the pic above those Mando’s are wearing Stormtrooper armor! 😱 Three Mandos are shown in this pic alone relying on scavenged Stormtrooper armor to complete their sets. They aren’t the only ones either.

       There are many things we can infer from seeing Mando’s wearing Stormtrooper armor, one of them being they aren’t as strong as they appear and the contributions of Beskar and Living Waters Din has made to the Covert is going to make them much, much stronger than they are now. Soon those Stormtrooper pieces may be replaced with newly forged Beskar pieces.

      We can also definitively say that there’s a shortage of proper armor for all the Mando’s, and that it seems priority is placed on building the ranks (the kid taking the Creed) rather that outfitting each member completely with a full set of Beskar or those Mando’s wouldn’t be wearing Stormtrooper armor that offers little to no protection by comparison. Now, whether this is because of Living Waters, Beskar, or both being scarce remains to be seen, but either way the Covert is on a big come up all thanks to Din….. and that’s going to come with a lot of well deserved respect. 
     So, what do you think about the Mando’s wearing Stormtrooper armor? Will we get to see the Armorer hard at work crafting new armor? 
As always, thanks for looking and let everyone know what you think in the comments. 🙏