Naastau

Naastau, also known by his codename "Titan" and later formally presented as Gogi Naast, was a Human male Mandalorian Supercommando who lived during the late Rise of the Empire era into the New Republic era and saw combat during the Great Clan Wars, the Clone Wars, and the Galactic Civil War and later founded a casino on Mandalore.

He was regarded by those who knew him as an efficient Jedi killer, having slain more than a dozen Force-sensitives throughout his lifetime.

Great Clan Wars
Naastau began his warrior career in his teenage years after he left his homeworld and traveled to Mandalore where he joined a militia of Supercommandos, under whom he fought against the forces of the Death Watch during the later years of the Great Clan Wars. After being cast out from the militia around 35 BBY, Naastau used the connections that he developed with local chieftains to form a warband of his own. Upon gathering a sizable band of followers, Naastau led his warriors in a series of small raids across Mandalore and its moon Concordia as he pillaged the holdings of rival Mandalorian groups with a small fleet of Amphibious Interstellar Assault Transport (AIAT) gunships captured from a local Republic Judicial Forces garrison. As a result of his constant and seemingly indiscriminate raids, Naastau quickly developed a distasteful reputation among chieftains and governors throughout the Mandalore system - particularly because he was not of Mandalorian heritage - and in late 32 BBY was betrayed and exiled by his lieutenant, who seized control of the warband.

Roving warrior
Now an outcast to his fellow Supercommandos, Naastau began operating as a treasure hunter for various employers throughout the Outer Rim for the following years, which he spent hunting down artifacts such as holocrons, chronicle maps, and kyber crystals. It was during one of his treasure hunting missions on Cularin that he achieved his first Jedi kill. During this time, Naastau acquired his signature starship after he and his droids hijacked a YT-1000 light freighter at an orbital spaceport above Gargon, which he named the Faithful Iron and would continue to pilot for the rest of his life. Around 24 BBY, Naastau took up a contract with the Black Sun as an assassin. Operating across the known galaxy, his targets included crime lords, businessmen, politicians, and even some Jedi investigators. He managed to keep his exploits as a Black Sun assassin in the dark, though by this time he was already wanted by Republic law enforcement for his previous misdeeds as a treasure hunter, and was also a target of interest for bounty hunters in the employ of the Black Sun's mortal enemies, the Hutts.

Clone Wars
During the Clone Wars, Naastau traveled to the Coruscant underworld to assist a local Black Sun contingent in taking over a Coruscant Guard base. During the attack, he was captured by clone shock troopers and imprisoned in the base as the remaining attackers were neutralized. The following day, he was brought before a group of Republic Intelligence agents who offered him legal immunity in exchange for service as part of a specialized unit within the Penal Corps. Under the codename Titan, he was sent to fight alongside numerous Jedi Generals, clone troopers, and other penal troopers at Metalorn and then Humbarine before being relocated to Kamino to train clone troopers as a drill sergeant. He was at Kamino when it was invaded by a Separatist force for a third time and helped defend the cloning facilities in a Nimbus-class V-wing starfighter. Following the events at Kamino, Titan was briefly deployed to Bah-Rinn to help defend an ancient Jedi enclave, where he turned on his Republic commanders and became an agent of Count Dooku, who took interest in the Mandalorian's experience in combating Jedi. Under Dooku's command, Naastau was sent on missions to eliminate a sum of Jedi Knights on many battlefronts, often in cooperation with Dark Acolytes and other Separatist agents. He also participated in some intelligence gathering operations, most notably a mission to the Anaxes Citadel to retrieve the data that ultimately led to Admiral Trench's attack on the fortress world. After months of Separatist service, Naastau went to fight against Republic forces in the Mandalore campaign for the closing months of the Clone Wars. During Order 66, Naastau helped at least one Jedi escape from the clone betrayal.

Imperial Period
Naastau continued fighting on Mandalore until he was captured by the Imperials and transported to a remote prison station, though was almost immediately liberated by his droids. Shortly after, he, among other Mandalorian mercenaries, helped a group of Jedi dissidents and Naboo Security Force members in a failed attempt to repel an Imperial attack on Naboo's capital city of Theed. After leaving Naboo, he turned to arms dealing and began selling stolen munitions to anti-Imperial organizations across the galaxy; Naastau often gathered his merchandise by carrying out heists on Imperial armories and convoys. He also still occasionally dabbled in "treasure hunting" during this time, and attacked Jedi survivor hideouts for their archives on more than one occasion. At different periods of time, Imperial task forces - some led directly by members of Inquisitorious - were sent by Emperor Palpatine's direct orders to eliminate Naastau and retrieve the archives he had acquired over his many years of treasure hunting, though he evaded all of these attempts and even slew at least one Inquisitor in one such pursuit.

Around 10 BBY, Naastau and some of his Mandalorian associates assembled a pirate gang that attacked various Imperial and merchant assets along the Hydian Way until it was destroyed by an Imperial Navy task force in 6 BBY, after which point he returned to Mandalore and continued operating against the Imperials as a freedom fighter.

Galactic Civil War
As the Galactic Civil War soon engulfed the galactic community, Naastau became convinced the Mandalorians were doomed to subjugation and once again left his adopted homeworld to fight as a privateer under the Rebel Alliance. As a Rebel privateer, Naastau partook in a number of space battles and supply missions over the years and briefly saw combat on notable fronts including Tatooine, Sullust, and Hoth. Shortly after his participation in the Battle of Hoth, he was involved in a supply mission to Shili, during which he violated his contract and stole the supplies following a hostile confrontation with the other smugglers and Rebel personnel involved. He later returned to Mandalore once more in late 3 ABY and participated in the pivotal Battle of the City of Bone, after which he "retired". With the wealth he accumulated over his many years of fighting, Naastau established a large casino and a chain of restaurants across Mandalore; the majority of his patrons and employees, like him, were associated with the Black Sun.

Later activities
Naastau largely settled in his career as a casino owner, seeing little to no conflict since his retirement. He maintained connections with the Black Sun and even allowed many of his restaurants to be used as strongholds for Black Sun-aligned gangs. His restaurants became renowned for serving exotic meats, which gangsters were sent across the galaxy to illegally hunt.

He was alive as of the First Order-Resistance War, and even assisted the Resistance by sending smugglers to provide food rations to some of their hidden outposts near the Mandalore sector.

Character
Naastau had fluctuating personality that at times changed for the better or worse. His motivation for his actions were unknown, some believing that he simply wanted to fight whereever he could for the sake of glory and likely as a result of mental illness. Since his time fighting in the Great Clan Wars, he was a heavy alcoholic and addicted to various stimulants; it was apparently rare to encounter him sober. Despite his gruff character, Naastau was regarded by his peers as being extremely intelligent, and many claimed that he thought, in a sense, that it was his "natural duty" to acquire the galaxy's lesser-known secrets at any cost, hence his attraction towards the artifact hunting profession. He had no real alignments, as he often shifted between factions in major galactic events, though was ultimately loyal to himself, his armor, and his ship above all else.

Equipment
Throughout his extensive combat career, Naastau wore several sets of durasteel Mandalorian armor, at least one of which having been enhanced with various gadgets and modifications. Naastau was often assisted by several droids including Artie and Magna in his operations.

Although he used dozens of different blasters over the years, Naastau's signature weapons were two modified WESTAR-35 blaster pistols which fired red-colored blaster bolts. One of these pistols was modified to be able to fire a charged purple-colored "orb" of electrical energy that was capable of disabling droids and small vehicles.