With the release of Clone Wars Season 7 Episode 9 OLD FRIENDS NOT FORGOTTEN, some of you are
wondering, who exactly is Rook Kast?
We haven’t seen her in any of the previous Clone Wars Episodes, so who is this high Ranking
Member of Maul’s Mandalorian Government?
I’m going to break the complete history of Rook Kast and how she came to serve Maul.
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Rook Kast was a Mandalorian warrior born on the planet Mandalore, who served as leader
of the Mandalorian Super Commandos, under rulership of former Sith Lord, Darth Maul.
Because of her high ranking position within Maul’s forces, she became a prominent figure
inside of his shadow collective, which is a group composed of the Galaxy’s top criminal
syndicates and crime families.
Her first appearance came in the Son of Dathomir comic series, which for those of you who don’t
know, were originally intended to be animated and turned into episodes for the Clone Wars
series.
Rook Kast was intensely loyal to the shadow collective and to Maul himself, personally
coming to evacuate and rescue him on multiple occasions, including after an intense duel
with General Grievous.
When the Black Sun clan and the Pyke Syndicate announced that they would be leaving the shadow
collective after multiple failures to protect Shadow Collective bases, Rook Kast personally
threatened to hunt down and kill the leaders of the crime syndicates who failed to show
loyalty.
Like all Mandalorians, Rook Kast wore traditional Beskar Mandalorian armour over a black body
glove.
She also, however, had a unique style of Mandalorian Jetpack, which was capable of launching missiles
and stun grenades when needed.
On each of her arms, Kast wore traditional Mandalorian vambraces, containing ziplines,
which later came in handy when rescuing Maul from the Galaxy’s toughest prison.
As a Mandalorian Super Commando, she painted her Beskar armour red and black, symbolising
her loyalty to Maul as the true ruler of Mandalore.
I did see a lot of people saying that they thought she was Sabine Wren for a few seconds
before realising that she would be too young.
This is not Sabine Wren, but those people are actually not entirely incorrect!
While she of course is a completely different person that is unrelated to Sabine, Rook Kast
was actually the inspiration for her character design in Rebels, which is why they look so
similar!
Shortly after Maul’s takeover of Mandalore, where he executed the leader of Deathwatch
and holder of the Darksaber, Pre Vizsla, Maul appointed Rook Kast to lead his Mandalorian
Super Commandos forces, also placing Gar Saxon under her command.
After Maul was captured by Sidious and taken to the horrid “Spire” prison on the outer
rim world of Stygeon prime, Rook Kast and Gar Saxon were ordered by Prime Minister Almec,
who was Maul’s puppet, to rescue their fallen lord.
The two quickly travelled to Stygeon Prime, detonating blast charges on the walls of the
prison, allowing them to enter the facility.
They were faced by an extreme amount of droid forces, but Kast and Saxon were able to disarm
each of them without issue.
The two then rushed their way into Maul’s cell to rescue their leader, taking him out
of the prison on a zip line, which as we know, Rook Kast has stored in her Mandalorian armour.
Following this, the group escaped to Rook Kast’s Gauntlet Mandalorian fighter, allowing
them to escape to the Deathwatch outpost on the moon Zanbar.
Unfortunately for them, they were tracked by General Grievous’ fleet.
After they were tracked to Zanbar, a fierce battle ensued on the surface, with Maul engaging
in a direct duel with General Grievous.
Upon realising that the base on Zanbar was now lost, Rook Kast ordered the Pilot of her
Gauntlet ship to drop down to the surface so that they could rescue Maul.
Following the failure of her troops at Zanbar, Maul ordered them to regroup with the rest
of the Shadow Collective on Ord Mantell, where they would again be tracked by Grievous and
forced to fight another fierce battle to defend the headquarters of the Shadow Collective.
While initially leading the fighting on Ord Mantell himself, Maul was pulled away from
the fight as a shuttle arrived on the planet from Dathomir, with a group of Nightbrothers
on board to assist with the battle.
When leaving to greet the nightbrothers, Maul placed Rook Kast in charge of the battle forces
and to inform the rest of the Shadow Collective of his plan.
As the fighting raged on, Maul and Rook Kast boarded Maul’s ship called “The Nightbrother”,
which I have to say is such an awesome name for a ship, and stealthily approached General
Grievous’ command ship.
As soon as they were close enough to board Grievous’ ship, Maul cut a large hole in
the hull of the ship with the Darksaber, allowing himself and Kast to rush onto the bridge.
Maul and Rook Kast stormed the bridge of the ship, threatening to Kill Grievous if he did
not deactivate the droids that were currently invading the Shadow Collective headquarters.
Grievous complied with Maul’s order, but was captured anyway.
Following this, Maul and his Super Commando forces travelled to a mid rim asteroid base,
where the Shadow collective held a base of operations.
Upon arrival at the asteroid base, Grievous was brought to a prison cell by Rook Kast
and locked away.
Some time later, Rook Kast noticed an incoming task force of Jedi, led by Obi Wan Kenobi,
Mace Windu, Tiplee and Aayla Secura.
She quickly informed Maul of the Jedi’s impending arrival, forcing Maul to ally himself
with Count Dooku, who he had captured along with Grievous, to escape.
Maul and Dooku ferociously fought the Jedi in a tough duel, until Grievous broke out
of his cell, allowing him to execute Jedi Master Tiplee.
This only continued the fighting, as the Jedi desperately hoped to capture Grievous, Maul
and Dooku.
Their duel was abruptly ended however, when Rook Kast fired a missile at the Jedi, knocking
Aayla Secura and Mace Windu unconscious.
After the encounter on the asteroid base, Rook Kast and Maul again captured Dooku and
began to transport him to Dathomir, the homeworld of Maul.
Kast held a blaster to Dooku’s head throughout the whole journey to Dathomir to ensure that
he would not try to escape.
When they arrived on Dathomir, she handed Dooku off to the Nightbrothers, who brought
him to their village centre and placed his body under the control of Maul’s Mother,
Talzin.
Eventually, sepratist forces once again managed to track Maul and Kast to Dathomir, but this
time they simultaneously attacked the other Shadow Collective worlds.
After losing many of their own ships and not receiving any assistance from Maul, the Pyke
Syndicate and Black Sun clan sent a hologram to Maul and Kast on Dathomir, threatening
to leave the Shadow Collective.
In return, this caused Rook Kast to threaten to track down and kill them herself if they
would not comply with the orders of Maul.
Following this, Rook Kast saved Maul’s life from the force lightning of Count Dooku by
pulling him into their ship, while Mother Talzin blocked it from reaching him, allowing
them to escape Dathomir.
This finally leads us to the point where we are now in Clone Wars Season 7 Episode 9.
Rook Kast, along with all of Maul’s loyal Super Commandos once again regrouped in the
Mandalorian Capital city of Sundari, in preparation for a full force invasion by the republic.
Following the arrival of the Republic forces on Mandalore, Prime Minister Almec gave Rook
Kast the crucial task of contacting the rest of the Shadow Collective members which had
previously broken ties with Maul, to inform them about the impending invasion.
Following her contact with the other members of the shadow collective, Kast travelled into
the undercity of Sundari as part of a trap to lure out Maul’s greatest enemy, Obi Wan
Kenobi.
Unfortunately for her and Maul, Kenobi never arrived, instead they were greeted by former
Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano.
Following Ahsoka’s arrival in the underground tunnels, Rook Kast emerged from her hiding
and fired an explosive at the Republic forces, disorienting a large portion of them, eventually
leading to their deaths.
Finally, Kast and the other Super Commandos surrounded Ahsoka, setting the stage for their
leader, Maul, to arrive.
I absolutely can’t wait to see what happens to Rook Kast in the next episodes of the Clone
Wars and where her story goes!
She’s absolutely one of my favourites from the Son of Dathomir comics, so It’s awesome
to finally see her animated.
That was the full story of Rook Kast so far!
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