Rook Kast

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**Rook Kast** was a female Mandalorian who served as the leader of the Shadow Collective's Mandalorian Super Commandos during the Clone Wars. Kast and her commandos served with Darth Maul, leader of the Shadow Collective, in several battles against the Separatists, Sith, Galactic Republic, and Jedi Order.

## Biography

### Early Service to Darth Maul

A Mandalorian female born on Mandalore, **Rook Kast** was the leader of the Mandalorian Super Commandos, Mandalorian soldiers who served the Sith Lord Darth Maul and were a part of his criminal alliance, the Shadow Collective, during the Clone Wars. After Maul was bested in combat by his former master, Darth Sidious, he was imprisoned in the Spire, a Separatist prison on the planet Stygeon Prime. Kast and Commander Gar Saxon followed Sidious and Maul to Stygeon, and were tasked by Mandalorian Prime Minister Almec, whom Maul had selected as the public leader of Mandalore after his takeover of the planet, with infiltrating the Spire and rescuing Maul.

### Liberating Darth Maul

The pair dispatched two commando droids on the balcony of the prison's third level before updating the Prime Minister on their progress. After setting charges on the balcony entrance, Kast and Saxon entered the prison and made their way to level seven, where Maul was being held. As they approached his cell, they encountered a quartet of droidekas and several B2 super battle droids, but managed to deactivate the super battle droids and fire a missile at the destroyer droids, clearing the way to Maul's cell. Once Maul was freed, the two Mandalorians blew a hole in the prison wall and shot a zipline out towards their Gauntlet fighter, allowing the three to escape the planet and return to a Shadow Collective base on the moon of Zanbar. However, they were unaware that the Separatists had tracked them back to their base.

### Fight Against the Separatists

Sighting several incoming C-9979 landing crafts in Zanbar's atmosphere, Kast informed Maul that Separatist forces had arrived. The Zabrak ordered his troops to engage the Separatist Droid Army, resulting in a battle which saw heavy losses for both factions. As the battle neared its end, Maul engaged General Grievous, leader of the Droid Army, in a lightsaber duel. Kast, aboard Maul's Gauntlet fighter, the *Nightbrother*, ordered the pilot to lower the ship closer to Maul, allowing him to jump onboard. Maul ordered Kast to take them away from the moon, and the remaining troops at Zanbar regrouped with the larger Shadow Collective force and traveled to a Black Sun base on Ord Mantell.

In Ord Mantell City, Kast attended a meeting with Maul, Saxon, Black Sun leader Ziton Moj, and Pyke Syndicate member Fife. Maul, knowing that Separatist leader Count Dooku, Grievous, and the Droid Army would be coming for them, laid out a plan for the other four on how to deal with the incoming Confederate forces. After receiving word that a shuttle from Dathomir had arrived, which was carrying Nightbrothers to aid the Shadow Collective, Maul and Saxon left to greet the shuttle, while Maul ordered Kast to inform the others of his plan. The Separatists forces soon arrived, bombarding the city from space before landing their own troops. As the Mandalorians, Black Sun, and Pykes engaged the Separatists on the planet surface, Maul and Kast took the *Nightbrother* into Ord Mantell's orbit and boarded Grievous's dreadnought. Maul stormed the ship's bridge and threatened to kill Grievous if he did not shut down the Separatist droids. Grievous complied, which led to a swift Shadow Collective victory, resulting in the capture of Grievous as well as Dooku, who had been battling the Nightbrothers on the surface of Ord Mantell.[2]

The Shadow Collective took their captives back to[8] Vizsla Keep 09, a Mandalorian supply outpost hidden in the rings of Phelbos,[9] and Maul contacted his old master, Sidious, informing him of their capture. Maul ordered Kast to lock Grievous away in the outpost's brig while he spoke with Dooku. A Galactic Republic task force, led by Jedi Generals Mace Windu, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Tiplee, and Aayla Secura, soon arrived at the Keep and began to do battle with the Mandalorian forces. Kast informed Maul that the Jedi had arrived in the third hangar, leading to Dooku temporarily allying himself with Maul. The two Sith began dueling the Jedi, quickly leading to the death of Master Tiplee. Kast fired a missile in Secura's direction, resulting in both her and Windu being rendered unconscious. Maul, Dooku, Kast, and Saxon retreated from the outpost aboard the *Nightbrother*[8] and traveled to Dathomir.[3]