The Blaster Brethren have enjoyed years of rampant raiding, but I assure you their demise is imminent. My scouts have tracked their fleet to Harloen, and there is no better time to make our move.
—Commodore Mogge to his peers
The Blaster Brethren were a pirate organization aligned with the Black Sun crime syndicate and led by the Mandalorian warrior Naastau during the Imperial Period.
History[]
A majority of the Brethren's operations encompassed arms dealing, and the Brethren preyed on Imperial convoys and civilian treasure stations to acquire the munitions that they sold to resistance groups along the Hydian Way.
Their exploits quickly sparked ire in the many Imperial admirals that were in their area of operations, who called upon Commodore Mogge to assemble a task force to defeat the pirates. After years of failed attempts to destroy them, the Brethren were finally intercepted and destroyed above Harloen as they were trying to slip past Harloen's security sensors in order to sell their merchandise. Naastau and a few other Mandalorians survived the encounter though the Brethren remained disbanded.
Looking to leech off of their reputation in the underworld, a mercenary unit from Ord Mantell also began calling themselves the Blaster Brethren sometime after the pirates' defeat above Harloen. At least one of these mercenaries was a former member of Naastau's organization.
Composition[]
The Blaster Brethren had an impressive number of armed vessels at their disposal, which included an Action VI transport, a TL-1200 transport, a YV-929 freighter, AEG-77 gunships, GAT-12 Skipray blastboats, a C-9979 landing craft (on which the starfighters were stationed), a squadron of Z-95 starfighters, and Naastau's personal vessel: a modified YV-260 light freighter known as Faithful One.
Their headquarters was an abandoned mining station built in an asteroid in the outskirts of the Mandalore sector, which they often referred to as "the Den". The asteroid station was used to store extra loot, house captives, and served as a "barracks" for the pirates in-between their operations. After the Brethren's disbandment, the Den remained abandoned until it (and the millions of credits worth of merchandise within) was discovered by scavengers nearly a century later.