Rook Kast

Rook Kast was a human female Mandalorian warrior who led the Shadow Collective's super commandos during the Clone Wars. After Maul, leader of the Shadow Collective, was imprisoned by the Sith on Stygeon Prime, Kast and commando Gar Saxon freed Maul and brought him to a Shadow Collective base on Zanbar. They were tracked by the forces of the Confederacy of Independent Systems and, in the ensuing battle, forced to flee to Ord Mantell. From there, they repelled a Separatist attack. Kast and Maul captured the Droid Army General Grievous in orbit, while Maul's ground forces captured the Separatist leader, Count Dooku.

The Shadow Collective took their prisoners to a Mandalorian asteroid base, which was assaulted by the Galactic Republic and Jedi Order in an attempt to capture Dooku themselves. Kast, Maul, Dooku, and some of Maul's forces fled and set a course for Dathomir. They were tracked by Darth Sidious, the Dark Lord of the Sith, who fought alongside Dooku and Grievous in destroying the Shadow Collective forces. Kast recovered Maul from the battle, and they fled the planet.

Later, Kast participated in the Siege of Mandalore and helped lure an unsuspecting Ahsoka Tano into the undercity of Sundari. There, she and several other super commandos surrounded the former Jedi Padawan for Maul, but she eventually managed to escape. Shortly afterwards, the super commandos managed to capture ARC Trooper Jesse and interrogate him. After his interrogation, Maul managed to rally the Mandalorians for one last push, but this led to defeat and Kast's capture at the hands of Bo-Katan Kryze.

Following the rise of the Galactic Empire, Kast and her remaining Mandalorian super commandos continued to serve Maul. She joined Maul, leading the restored Shadow Collective on the planet Janix, and aided the former Sith in his revenge plot against the other syndicates for abandoning the Collective at the end of the Clone Wars. During this time, Kast organized a raid on a bank tower and later another to rescue the crime boss Looti Vario from imprisonment in the city's police headquarters. With Vario in the custody of the Shadow Collective at their base in Sector 14-Q, Kast later led an infiltration of a Pyke shipment, using the intel Maul forced Vario to reveal.

After an ambush on Maul's safe house, Maul, Kast and her mercenaries relocated to a new base, just as the Imperial occupation of Janix began. Soon after, the Imperials blocked all travel from the planet, they tracked Kast and her allies to their new base, initiating a devastating battle, that cost the lives of many of her forces. Following the battle, Maul convinced Kast that they needed to ally themselves with Jedi Master Eeko-Dio Daki, his Padawan Devon Izara and Tactical Defense Force Captain Brander Lawson to escape the planet and rendezvous with Dryden Vos.

While Maul and Kast's forces navigated an underground passageway alongside the Jedi, Two-Boots, and Brander and Rylee Lawson, they engaged the Inquisitors First Brother and Eleventh Brother, as well as their TK stormtrooper forces by an acid lake. When the survivors emerged from the tunnel at the edge of the foggy jungle, Kast offered to scout ahead with her last surviving Mandalorian mercenary. However, Kast soon ran back to Maul and reported that she had encountered someone in the fog. Moments later, the Mandalorian warrior was Force-pulled back into the fog and killed by Darth Vader with a throat crush.

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