Naastau

"Some live on their homeworld, others live in the stars."

- —Naastau "Titan"

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.

Great Clan Wars
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 small-time 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.

Roving warrior
"I was betrayed by my own lieutenants on Mandalore. There was no turning back, so I turned to hunting Jedi artifacts. It made me rich, but I wasn't in it for that."

- Naastau

Naastau began operating as a treasure hunter for various crime lords and artifact dealers throughout the Outer Rim for the following years, which he spent hunting down various artifacts such as kyber crystals, holocrons, and ancient lightsabers. During this time, Naastau acquired his signature starship after he and his droids hijacked a HT-2200 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 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 included crime lords, businessmen, politicians, and at least four Jedi investigators.

Clone Wars
"You've done much for the Republic, but our agents know you didn't have much of a choice. We're offering you freedom, if you're willing to take it."

- A Separatist agent recruits Naastau on Bah-Rinn

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, unaware of his previous attacks on Republic officials, offered him legal immunity in exchange for service as part of a specialized penal unit within the Grand Army of the Republic. Under the codename Titan, he was sent to fight alongside numerous Jedi Generals and clone troopers at Metalorn, Humbarine, and Drongar 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 began fighting as an agent of the Separatists. After participating in a number of espionage operations, Naastau went to fight in the Siege of Saleucami as part of a Separatist special forces unit, where he and his peers carried out a number of assaults on Republic outposts across the planet. In the final month of the Clone Wars, Naastau went to fight under General Grievous' command in the Battle of Kashyyyk.

Imperial Period
"He was known during the Clone Wars as "Titan". Whatever his capabilities, he's doing a great deal of damage to our logistics. He must be stopped!"

- An Imperial Intelligence agent

After his unit was wiped out on Kashyyyk, Naastau lended his service with the Separatists and returned to treasure hunting throughout the early Imperial Period. 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. Following this he gathered a group of veteran Supercommandos and began attacking Imperial armories and convoys to acquire various munitions, which he and his associates then smuggled to a number of anti-Imperial organizations across the known galaxy. A number of Imperial agents were deployed to assassinate Naastau and recover his collection of holocrons that he obtained over his treasure hunting career, though all of these attempts were evaded or repelled. Around 6 BBY, Naastau traveled to Mandalore, which was under Imperial occupation, to fight the Imperials as a freedom fighter under the command of Fenn Shysa and was part of the Mandalorian unit that infiltrated and destroyed the Lancer Station. 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 supply fleets as privateers under the Rebel Navy, though as the war grew more turbulent they began attacking Rebel and merchant holdings 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 for some months. Despite his past dealings with the Imperials, it did not seem that Naastau held a personal vendetta against the Empire, as sometime later Naastau was contracted by an Imperial splinter faction known as the Reborn and participated in several of their operations against the New Republic and the New Jedi Order as the commander of an elite mercenary unit. After his unit was wiped out in a confrontation with Luke Skywalker and a New Republic commando unit in 10 ABY, Naastau went into exile.

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 weapons were a DC-15s blaster pistol and a modified CR-2 heavy blaster pistol.