Naastau

Naastau, also known by his mercenary codename "Titan", was a Mandalorian Human male 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.

Naastau, known initially by a different birthname, began his warrior career in his teenaged years after he left his homeworld of Oort and traveled to Mandalore where he joined a militia of Supercommandos; it was at this time that he took on the name Naastau and learned elements of the Mandalorian language. 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 consolidating his forces as a warlord, Naastau led his warriors in raids across Mandalore and its moon Concordia as he pillaged the holdings of Death Watch and their allies. As a result of his constant and seemingly indiscriminate raids, Naastau quickly became despised among chieftains and governors throughout the Mandalore system and in late 32 BBY was betrayed and exiled by his lieutenant, who seized control of the warband. Naastau began operating as a treasure hunter throughout the Outer Rim for the following years. During this time, Naastau hijacked a TL-1200 transport at an orbital spaceport above Gargon, which he named the Faithful Iron and would go on to use for the rest of his career.

Around 24 BBY, Naastau made his way to Ord Mantell where he took up a contract with the Black Sun crime syndicate as an assassin. Operating across the known galaxy, his targets during this time included crime lords, businessmen, politicians, and even some Jedi.

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 a mercenary within the Grand Army of the Republic. Under the codename Titan, he was sent to fight alongside numerous Jedi Generals and clone troopers at Atraken and then Metalorn for several months 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 and helped defend the cloning facilities in the battle. 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 employers and began fighting as an agent of the Separatists. After participating in some espionage missions, Naastau went to fight in the Siege of Saleucami as part of a Separatist special forces unit. In the later months of the battle, Naastau was placed in command of a squadron of captured TX-130 Saber-class fighter tanks that clashed with Republic forces in the streets of Saleucami's capital city, Taleucema. He was briefly redeployed to fight as a Separatist mercenary in the Battle of Kashyyyk, though not too longer after he was sent back to Saleucami.

When Separatist forces withdrew from Saleucami, Naastau returned to treasure hunting for much of the early Imperial Period, though still occasionally carried out tasks for the Black Sun. He also served as a mercenary on Naboo shortly after the Clone Wars' end where he helped a group of Jedi dissidents and Naboo Security Force rogues in a failed attempt to repel an Imperial attack on Theed and briefly participated in the subsequent Naboo insurgency. Around 10 BBY, Naastau traveled to Mandalore, which was under Imperial occupation, to fight the Imperials as a freedom fighter under the command of Fenn Shysa. As the Galactic Civil War soon engulfed the galactic community, Naastau, convinced Mandalore was doomed to subjugation, once again left his adopted homeworld to assemble a collective of pirates that called themselves the Blaster Brethren. Initially, the Brethren preyed on Imperial shipping lines as Rebel privateers, though as the Galactic Civil War progressed the Brethren ended their contract with the Alliance and began attacking Rebel ships and supply stations as well. In 4 ABY, the Blaster Brethren were destroyed by an Imperial Navy task force and Naastau once again traveled back to Mandalorian space. There, he and a few other veteran Supercommandos independently raided the strongholds of an Imperial splinter cell. Sometime later, Naastau was contracted by the Reborn and participated in several of their operations against the New Republic and the New Jedi Order including an attack on Nepsis VIII's Jedi enclave in which he slew nearly a dozen Jedi. After years of fighting for the Empire Reborn, Naastau left his warrior lifestyle behind and lived out the rest of his days as a businessman on Oort.

Throughout his extensive combat career, Naastau wore a set of black-colored durasteel Mandalorian armor that was enhanced with various modifications and gadgets. While he wielded various different weapons throughout his lifetime, Naastau's signature weapon was a modified DC-15s blaster pistol which he acquired during his service as a Republic mercenary in the Clone Wars.