Naastau

Naastau was a Human male Mandalorian who operated as a treasure hunter, pirate, arms dealer, freedom fighter, and later businessman.

Overview
Naastau first fought in the Mandalorian civil war (pre-32 BBY) against the Death Watch, and was a staunch follower of the Supercommando Codex. It was during this time that he obtained his companion droid, R2-T741 (nicknamed "Artie)", during a raid on a Republic Judicial Forces base. Following the civil war, Naastau took up treasure hunting and sought out both Jedi and Sith artifacts. He was one of few treasure hunters in the galaxy who successfully sought out holocrons and talismans, and as such he found himself working for some of the underworld's most notorious figures such as the infamous pirate lords (and both obsessive treasure collectors) Maz Kanata and Hondo Ohnaka. In these adventures from abandoned (sometimes rigged) temples to the palaces of his employers' rival collectors, Naastau developed a knowledge of Jedi and Sith history that rivaled that of the Jedi Temple's librarians.

His treasure hunting exploits eventually earned him a hefty contract with the Black Sun as an assassin, during which time he faced a multitude of legendary targets, including Jedi Masters.

In the first months of the Clone Wars, Naastau was captured during a mission on Coruscant and brought before Republic intelligence officers, who offered him legal immunity in exchange for military service, which he accepted. After a year of Republic servitude, Naastau saw an opportunity to leave the Republic after narrowly surviving the Battle of Humbarine and deserted the battlefield to become an agent of Count Dooku, who became impressed with Naastau not only for his experience in fighting Jedi, but for being among the last of the true Supercommandos in the galaxy. Dooku also gifted Naastau an A-series assassin droid called A-X to assist him in his hunts. After a brief but successful career hunting Jedi under Dooku, Naastau returned to the Mandalore sector to fight in the Siege of Mandalore.

He continued fighting on Mandalore into the Imperial era until he sustained a blaster injury that destroyed the entire upper right side of his face, requiring a cybernetic to see again - after this injury, Naastau left the Mandalore sector to operate as a pirate and arms dealer, selling stolen Imperial munitions to resistance groups. Naastau and his seedy entourage remained at large for over a decade before they were defeated by the Imperial Navy in the Harloen system, after which point Naastau once more rejoined the freedom fighters back in the Mandalore sector.

During the Galactic Civil War, Naastau joined the Rebel Alliance as a privateer and spent three years running supplies on his ship into heavily contested areas, often being the last of his fellow privateers to survive these supply runs. Shortly after the Battle of Hoth, Naastau was part of a group of privateers assembled by General Han Solo to move a huge resupply shipment through an Imperial blockade to a Togruta resistance on Shili. As Solo and his lieutenants were meeting with the Togruta commanders, Naastau had a sudden change of heart and stole some of the prototype disruptors in the shipment and escaped off-world, inadvertently alerting the Imperial Army presence on the planet to the secret base in the process. This, of course, ended Naastau's privateering contract and sullied his name with Rebel High Command, and he once more returned to the Mandalore sector.

Rather than continue his life of warfighting, however, Naastau opted to "retire" and with the wealth he accumulated over the years purchased an abandoned space station on the sector's border with the Mid Rim and converted it into a luxury casino and resort station named the Supreme Strategist, which quickly became the most popular civilian space station in that part of the galaxy and, unbeknownst to the New Republic, a hub for the Black Sun. In 6 ABY, Luke Skywalker, in his quest to retrieve as much Jedi lore as possible, traveled to the space station in hopes of acquiring some parts of Naastau's artifact collection; while Naastau initially refused, his mind was changed when Skywalker helped Naastau and his associates defend the station from a gang of Imperial bounty hunters that were tracking Skywalker. Sometime later, Naastau set up an asteroid mining operation in over a dozen uninhabited star systems, which was in reality a front for an arms trafficking ring that worked with a number of groups including Leia Organa's controversial paramilitary, the Resistance, running supplies to their secret outposts and providing them information about the First Order's activities in the northern Outer Rim.

Equipment
Naastau wore a black-colored set of Mandalorian armor with grey-colored gauntlets. He, like any other Mandalorian warrior, wielded many weapons throughout his lifetime, however his signature appeared to be a gilded pair of GL-77 blaster pistols which were modified to fire purple-colored blaster bolts, supplemented by various wrist-mounted gadgets.

The modified YV-260 light freighter Faithful One was Naastau's personal ship, which he acquired during his years as a treasure hunter. Faithful One was impressively armed with a dorsal dual ion cannon, ventral heavy laser cannon, and forward dual light turbolaser cannon.