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 pursued politics on Mandalore as an acting representative and the chieftain of Clan Werda.

Great Clan Wars
Naastau began his warrior career in his teenage years after he left his homeworld of Oort and traveled to Mandalore where he joined a militia of Supercommandos, under whom he fought against the forces of the Death Watch. 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 small-time warlord, Naastau led his warriors in raids across Mandalore and its moon Concordia as he pillaged the holdings of rival Mandalorian groups. 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.

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 that he achieved his first Jedi kill. During this time, Naastau acquired his signature starship after he and his droids hijacked a YU-410 light freighter at an orbital spaceport above Gargon, which he named the Faithful Iron and extensively modified the ship aboard the StellarTech Station. 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 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.

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 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 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 numerous missions to eliminate Jedi Knights on many battlefronts, often in cooperation with Dark Acolytes and other Separatist agents. He also participated in some intelligence gathering operations. After months of Separatist service, Naastau went to fight as a freebooter in the Mandalore campaign for the closing months of the Clone Wars. He spent much of the campaign disrupting enemy supply lines, liberating captured Supercommandos, and assassinating high-profile Republic personnel. 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 stole critical intelligence from Imperial data centers and assisted in the creation of a few illegal hyperlanes for the Black Sun. These activities eventually caught the attention of Emperor Palpatine himself, who deployed a task force of intelligence agents led by a member of the Inquisitorius that made multiple failed attempts to assassinate Naastau. Around 10 BBY, Naastau lost interest in arms dealing and 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 opposing the local Imperial garrisons as part of the Journeyman Protectors. Because of his operations as a pirate, Naastau was ranked number eighteen on the Imperial Navy Most Wanted Persons List.

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 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 continued fighting in Fenn Shysa's wars until around 10 ABY. He also spent much of this time involved in Mandalorian politics, and represented the Mandalorian Confederation in relations with the New Republic's military leaders on several occasions. He continued serving the Mandalorian government as a military representative into the reign of Boba Fett, at some point even briefly becoming the overseer of the Office of External Military Relations.

Possible death
During the late Yuuzhan Vong War, a Mandalorian diplomatic ship that Naastau was captaining was attacked by a Vong fleet, who deployed massive grutchin swarms that eradicated the ship's crew, except for Naastau. Naastau was captured by the Yuuzhan Vong though quickly escaped. New Republic intelligence learned of these events and ordered a fleet in the area to find and eliminate Naastau, fearing that the Mandalorian may have been corrupted by Vong implants, which were used on thousands of Humans to turn them into mindless slave-soldiers for the Vong. While this wasn't the case for Naastau, a Republic cruiser had no hesitation in bombarding his transport as it was entering the Mandalore sector. Although an escape pod was sighted by the cruiser's crew, Naastau was not sighted again. This attack was kept in the dark to prevent discourse between the New Republic and the Mandalorians. The Mandalorian government assumed that Naastau died of old age in an undisclosed location, and held a brief funeral ceremony in Keldabe. One of Naastau's old associates claimed to have been contacted by him a year after these events, hinting that he was still living as a hermit.

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 GL-77 blaster pistols which fired red-colored blaster bolts. He acquired these pistols prior to the Clone Wars after capturing a Pantoran diplomat on Coruscant per a bounty; the diplomat's guards wielded the pistols, and Naastau took them after eliminating both guardsmen.