Clan Auk

Clan Auk, also known by Basic-speakers as Clan Auchs, was a Mandalorian clan.

History
Aliit Auk was formed sometime after the devastating Mandalorian Excision, a war which saw many Mandalorian worlds reduced to mostly wastelands as a result of nuclear bombardment by the Galactic Republic's Jedi-led Judicial Forces. Like other clans that managed to survive, the Auks took to rebuilding their numbers and established a domed city on Mandalore's toxic deserts, which became known as Aukmorut. The Auks, like the majority of Mandalore's other clans, remained in isolation and spent centuries building their warrior force. At some point before 100 BBY, the Auks fell into a state of civil war as two chieftains contended for legitimacy. During this period of infighting, several explosives nearly destroyed all of Aukmorut, forcing survivors of the civil war to find other settlements under the control of other clans. Some Auks remained in the ruins of Aukmorut and returned to isolation with the goal of one day being strong enough to take to the wider galaxy as warriors. They eventually did, and in around 90 BBY led a string of pirate raids and terrorist attacks in Republic systems that bordered the Mandalore sector; the Auks were just one of many Mandalorian groups that threatened the Republic's security.

After their fleet was largely destroyed in a space battle with the Judicial Forces, the Auks returned to their ruined city on Mandalore where they once more remained in isolation until eventually reemerging during the Great Clan Wars (44 BBY-32 BBY) to become part of a confederation of warlike clans known as the Death Watch. Under the Death Watch (headed by Clan Vizsla), the Auks' warriors fought in several large-scale battles with rival clans and Supercommando militias. During one fateful battle, the Auks, numbering less than 300 by this point, were defeated by Supercommando forces and the survivors were captured, later to be publicly executed at their foes' stronghold. The few who survived either went into exile or continued fighting under the Death Watch, but were too few in number to be considered a legitimate clan any longer. The chieftain's son, a survivor in the conflicts, traveled to the Mandalorian agriworld Vorpa'ya, where he started a family of his own and resorted to a life of peaceful farming far away from the Mandalorian community's conflicts.

This family, the last of the Auk clan, would remain as farmers and hunters for over a century before the birth of Yaga Auchs, who left his family's farm to fight in the army of Mand'alor Chernan Ordo, who had been leading a campaign against the Fel Empire during the Sith-Imperial War (127 BBY-130 BBY). Yaga, now a commander of his own company, accompanied Ordo during their attempt to occupy an Imperial-controlled city on Botajef. After days of fighting, having endured several hundred casualties, Ordo's forces began to question his legitimacy as a tactician, as the Mandalorian attackers made little to no territorial gains since landing on Botajef. Yaga took this as an opportunity and betrayed Ordo and managed to convince his forces to recognize him as Ordo's successor. Yaga withdrew the thousands of Mandalorian soldiers fighting on Botajef and returned to Mandalore, where he forcefully secured his position as the new ruler of the Mandalorian clans. While he obviously faced much opposition from rebellious clans, he managed to defend his position against the "rebels" and, after restoring Clan Auk, established a dynasty that reshaped the Mandalorian Confederation's system-of-government into a dynastic monarchy that remained in power for nearly a century after Yaga's death, until they were eventually overcome by rival clans and the Confederation's government, as established by Fenn Shysa more than two centuries earlier, was returned to its state prior to Yaga's betrayal.