Naastau

Naastau was a Human male Mandalorian warlord, pirate, and mercenary active from c. 35 BBY until the Galactic Civil War. During the Great Clan Wars that ravaged the Mandalore sector in the decades preceding the Clone Wars, Naastau reformed the Aka'liit, a centuries-old military order bent on eradicating foreign influence on and around Mandalore. As warlord of the Aka'liit, Naastau led his warriors throughout the sector in raids on merchant fleets, mineral depots, and rival Mandalorian settlements. Sometime after the warfare throughout Mandalorian space had largely settled, Naastau was betrayed and usurped by one of his lieutenants, believing the Aka'liit under Naastau had devolved into warmongering pirates. With his name slandered among the Mandalorian community, Naastau left the sector and began working across the galaxy for the Black Sun crime syndicate as a smuggler and assassin. Eventually the Clone Wars began and Naastau, sensing both a financial and social opportunity in the pan-galactic conflict, took up a contract as a Republic mercenary and spent the war fighting on many fronts against Separatist forces alongside many different clone units including detachments of the Republic Special Operations Brigade. When the war ended and the Republic was reformed into the Galactic Empire, Naastau returned to Mandalore to find that much of the planet was under Imperial occupation. Morally pressured to preserve Mandalore's identity, Naastau enlisted in a local resistance movement commanded by Mandalorian supercommando and future Mand'alor Fenn Shysa. Naastau spent the next nearly two decades serving Shysa's insurgency in their guerrilla attacks on Imperial convoys and prison camps on Mandalore. Shysa eventually awarded Naastau the name Gogi Naast; gogi was a title granted to a veteran or elderly Mandalorian warrior whose duty was to train and oversee the Verda Prudii (Mando'a for shadow soldiers), who operated in Shysa's forces as scouts and infiltrators. The Mandalorian insurgency carried on into the Galactic Civil War and Naastau became convinced that the resistance, having made little progress, would fail and once more left Mandalore to become a privateer for the Rebel Alliance, using a heavily modified bulk freighter as his flagship as he attacked Imperial cargo ships throughout the Outer Rim. In 3 ABY, Shysa declared his success in ousting the Empire from Mandalore, and Naastau returned to his homeworld intent on once again restoring. Shysa, however, claimed that Naastau leaving for the Alliance just a few years earlier was an act of abandonment, and barred Naastau from having any position of authority among the Mandalorian clans again, including the title of gogi. Regardless, Shysa could not ignore Naastau's contributions to Mandalore and named him a hero of Mandalore. Naastau retired in his hometown and fathered a son named Calyr who would go on to fight in the Yuuzhan Vong War as a starfighter pilot for the New Republic.

Since his youth, Naastau had a drinking habit and also used various other psychoactive substances such as Marcan herb. In battle, Naastau first wore black Mandalorian armor with red markings. After joining Fenn Shysa's resistance, Naastau began to wear armor that was colored green, much like Shysa and many other Mandalorian freedom fighters. Naastau avoided the use of jetpacks and frequently changed his weapon of choice, with blaster repeaters and light blaster pistols being his most frequented weapon classes. Naastau primarily traveled aboard the Aka'liit fleet, which was composed mainly of Crusader-class corvettes. After his fleet was disbanded following the Great Clan Wars, Naastau's new method of transportation between star system was his armed barge, which was formerly used by his family to scavenge for valuable scrap at the site of space battles.