Naastau

Naastau was a Human male Mandalorian warlord, mercenary, and freedom fighter active from the Great Clan Wars until the Galactic Civil War.

Around the year 35 BBY, the young Naastau reestablished the Aka'liit, a centuries-old Mandalorian military order bent on restoring power to Mandalore's warrior clans. As warlord of the restored Aka'liit, Naastau assembled a fleet of Crusader-class corvettes and also acquired various kinds of tanks and land skiffs and began raiding trade posts, mineral depots, villages, shipyards, and resupply stations controlled by rival clans. These raids throughout the Mandalore sector continued for five years until 30 BBY when one of Naastau's lieutenants betrayed him, convincing his peers that Naastau did not deserve the ancient honor of commanding the Aka'liit. Naastau was imprisoned and sold to the Hutt Cartel, who sent Naastau to fight in a gladiator pit on Nal Hutta. Naastau was armed with a shield and curved sword as he faced several other slaves and different predator species, all of whom he defeated. As a reward for his triumph, Naastau was offered a contract to serve the Hutt Cartel as a bodyguard of the Grand Hutt Council, which he declined. With the only other choice given to him being to continue fighting as a gladiator across Hutt Space, Naastau decided to fight his way to a hangar and flee Nal Hutta in a stolen space barge.

Naastau made his way to Ord Mantell in 29 BBY, where he took up a contract with the Black Sun crime syndicate as a smuggler. The Mandalorian outcast spent the following years smuggling military equipment to Black Sun warehouses across the galaxy, often engaging in firefights and pursuits with police units, enemy gangsters, and Republic Judicial Forces. Eventually the Black Sun's upper echelons took notice into Naastau's prowess and began sending him on jobs as an bounty hunter. As a Black Sun assassin, Naastau piloted a modified AEG-77 transport throughout the galaxy as he hunted down his employer's enemies. His most notable operation in this time was the attempted assassination of Jabba the Hutt, in which Naastau and several dozen other Mandalorian mercenaries managed to occupy Jabba's palace on Tatooine while battling with hordes of Gamorrean and Weequay guards for several hours before the Mandalorians were called back by their employers.

In 22 BBY, a few weeks into the Clone Wars, Naastau was captured by Republic agents while meeting with Black Sun contacts in the Coruscant underworld. He was brought before a group of high ranking Republic Intelligence officers, who would pardon Naastau from his crimes if he agreed to provide details of the Black Sun's assassin network and their potential targets. Naastau agreed on the condition that he could serve the Grand Army of the Republic as a paid mercenary, which the officers reluctantly accepted. Naastau, adopting the codename Titan, was first deployed under the Republic Special Operations Brigade's command across the Outer Rim on missions involving espionage, infiltration, and hostage rescue. In 20 BBY, Titan obtained the rank of Master Chief and was relocated to Kamino, where he and other mercenaries helped train new contingents of clone ARC troopers. During his time as a trainer, Kamino was attacked by Separatist forces led by General Grievous. Titan participated in Kamino's defense, piloting a black-colored V-wing starfighter alongside clone squadrons as they ousted the Separatists. Titan's starfighter was shot down by a straying torpedo, and Titan crash-landed in an armory, causing a chain-reaction among the rooms explosives and ammunition that severely damaged Titan's right leg; he spent the rest of the battle in a Republic medical station, receiving cybernetic enhancements in his knee. After the defense, Titan began serving security jobs aboard Republic merchant ships traveling through the Hydian Way.

When the Clone Wars ended in 19 BBY and the Republic transitioned into the Galactic Empire, Naastau's contract was terminated and he returned to his homeworld of Mandalore to find that much of the world was occupied by an Imperial puppet government. Naastau didn't mind this at first and settled in his home city of New Haven, which remained independent, to live a civilian lifestyle for several years. In 7 BBY, Naastau was caught in the city of Keldabe selling blaster pistols to a group of anti-Imperial protesters and was arrested by Imperial police officers. Naastau and many protesters were held in the Keldabe jailhouse for over a week before being liberated by armed insurgents led by Fenn Shysa. Naastau joined Shysa's insurgency and participated in guerrilla attacks on Imperial slave camps throughout Mandalore.

As their insurrection dragged on into the Galactic Civil War, Naastau became convinced that the Mandalorians would fail to overturn the Imperials and once more left Mandalore, traveling to the Core Worlds region where he spent the next three years attacking Imperial cargo ships as a Rebel privateer. It was during this time that Naastau discovered that had fathered a son during his exploits with the Black Sun; his son, named Calram, was already in his twenties by the time of Galactic Civil War and had been fighting for the Rebel Alliance as a starfighter pilot. In 3 ABY, Naastau was informed by old associates that Shysa's insurgency was successful in ousting the Empire from Mandalore, and Naastau returned to Mandalore with his son son, who adopted the name Calyr, intent on establishing a clan of their own. While Shysa considered Naastau to be a heroic and brazen warrior, he declared that Naastau was barred from any legal position of authority among on Mandalore for leaving his home sector before Mandalore was liberated, meaning that Naastau was not eligible to be a chieftain. Naastau subsequently retired in his home city while his son returned to the Rebels as a pilot and later served the New Republic as a deck officer.