Strove Vangasa

"You are without a doubt the worst smuggler I've ever heard of.''" "Ah! But you have'' heard of me."

- Darth Nox and Strove

Strove Vangasa (born Sathar Gerthlin), also known as the Strove, was a Force-sensitive male Human/Zeltron hybrid smuggler captain and later Republic privateer and general who lived during the Cold War and the Galactic War. Secretly the natural-born son of Light Sith Lord Beren Gerthlin and Zeltron Jedi Knight Sarra Vandoor, Strove was kidnapped by a pirate-gang known as the Marauders as an infant, with the intention of bringing the boy to his father, Lord Beren, as a reward. However, the leader of the Marauders, Vedf'aden'sabosen, who was mostly known throughout the galaxy by his core name Faden, took the boy to the planet of Elrood and instead chose to raise him as his own, while teaching him all about thieving and smuggling. Not knowing the boy's original name, Faden named the boy "Strove Vangasa", after his own mentor who died years ago.