Unidentified Death Watch assassin/Legends

"First, send a Death Watch assassin to Coruscant. The Duchess of Mandalore must die."

- Count Dooku to Pre Vizsla

This mandalorian worked as an assassin for the Death Watch around 21 BBY, in the apogee of the Clone Wars and the new pacifist government from Mandalore. In the beginning of the war, Death Watch allied to the separatist movement with Count Dooku, and principally focused in carrying out attempts on Mandalore to overthrow Duchess Satine Kryze. After many failed assassination attempts against her, Kryze decided to travel to the galactic capital Coruscant to present her case before the Congress, a part of the Republic in order to prevent the Senate from sending troops to Mandalore to confront the Death Watch’s threat. As the leader of the terrorist group, Pre Vizsla, was eager to invade Mandalore and fight against the Republic. Then Vizsla received orders from Dooku to dispatch an agent to Coruscant to murder the duchess.

Vizsla send this assassin to the planet with the task to search for the Duchess and to kill her, before she could convince the Senate to not promulgate a law that would approve a military occupation on Mandalore. The Assassin sabotaged the controllers the Duchess’ airspeeder when she was transporting, but her Guards managed to save her from a near collision. After the first attempt, the assassin intercepted the Duchess when she met with one of her contacts from the Ministry of Intelligence who had vital information. The assassin killed Kryze’s contact, and managed to trick the police to blame the Duchess of the homicide and tried to intercept her across the hallways of Coruscant. The assassin pursued the Duchess to a park, where he tried to use a Sniper rifle to eliminate her, but he lost her sight when she took a deviation out of the place. The assassin followed her to an adjacent alley to the park, where he thrown a thermal detonator at her, but he was confronted by Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, who was protecting Satine. The assassin tried to fight against him, but the Jedi defeated him, a reason for him to abort his mission, run from the world, and return to Concordia, where the main Death Watch’s base is located.

Death Watch’s assassin
"A diplomatic mission! As dissent threatens to tear apart the peaceful Mandalore system, Duchess Satine struggles to protect her people against the escalating violence. Betrayed by two of her trusted allies, Satine now travels to Coruscant. There, she hopes to convince the Senate that a destructive splinter group, Death Watch, does not represent the entire Mandalorian government…"

- A dossier of the HoloNet

This mandalorian was an assassin part of the Death Watch who lived during the last years of the Galactic Republic. At some time, prior to the First year of the Clone Wars, the Galaxy-wide conflict between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, the New Mandalorians political party was elected to rule the planet Mandalore. The new government, headed by the Duchess Satine Kryze, maintained a pacifist ideal of integration that disagreed the warrior beliefs of the old Mandalorians. As an act of security, the government exiled all of its warriors from the system to de Mandalore’s moon, Concordia, an agricultural province in which they held a civilization under the promise to not return to violent actions.

However, Concordia’s governor, Pre Vizsla, was in fact Death Watch’s leader; a group that during long time followed the warriors ideals so disagreed by Kryze’s government; and who planned to depose the New Mandalorians throw violent acts, turning the Death Watch into a terrorist group that operated in the whole Mandalorian sector, which included the System, Mandalore and Kalevala.

During the Second year of the ongoing war, Vizsla allied his forces with the Confederacy of Independent Systems, seeking to prepare an invasion on Mandalore. Confederate Head of State, Dooku, promised to Vizsla reinforcements and Support in the actions he would take, but he told him that the First thing he should do before to besiege Mandalore, was to kill Satine Kryze, as the Duchess proved several times to be a serious threat against the interests of the group. After Kryze and Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi visited Concordia, they discovered Death Watch’s facilities on the moon and left with their finding. Then Kryze planned to travel to Coruscant, the galaxy’s capital, to expose her situation before the Republic’s Senate, to prevent a Republic Military presence on Mandalore.

After another failed assassination attempt against Kryze, Dooku contacted Vizsla and told him to send an assassin to Coruscant in order to eliminate the Duchess before she could convince the Congress; with Kryze’s death, the sending of, Republic troop’s to Mandalore would be definitive and would give Death Watch the opportunity to invade the planet, with the support of the Mandalorian people and the Confederacy. Vizsla send this assassin just to the galactic capital, with the mission to kill Duchess Satine.

Hunting Satine Kryze
"Duchess Satine escaped again, but I took out an informant. Not sure if he successfully delivered something to her, but it looked like a handoff.''" "''Find her! Whatever she’s carrying may compromiso our plan."

- The Assassin and Pre Vizsla

The Assassin arrived on Coruscant by day and managed to gain access to the personal airspeeder that would transport the Duchess out of the Senate Building, and emplaced some explosive charges in the navigation system of the vehicle so it could collide when they tried to takeoff.

After an unfruitful attempt to talk before the Parliament during a session trying to convince the Senate to allow the Mandalorian Government to take charge of the Death Watch without any kind of intervention, Duchess Satine Kryze walked away from the Congress on her airspeeder. The assassin, watching from below how the speeder flied through the city, activated the charges and the vehicle suffered the effects immediately. The speeder’s driver, Aramis, tried to deviate the vehicle toward  a platform, in wich the Duchess guards put her in safety, while the speeder and the pilot crashed into a building quickly.

The night of that same day, the assassin received information that Kryze was going to meet with a worker from the Ministry of Intelligence Davu Golec in a sector part of the Coruscant’s Underworld. The assassin believed Golec could turn out to be dangerous if he gave Kryze vital data about Death Watch’s plans, therefore, he killed him first, standing at a podium in front of the place where they were going to meet. When Kryze arrived disguised to meet with Golec, the assassin pinpointed the worker with a sniper rifle, but had to hide from the near police. The assassin noticed that Golec had given Kryze a handoff, so he shot the worker from his position and he killed him. Kryze then realized of the assassin’s presence, and took a weapon to defend herself. The mandalorian tried to kill her, but went into hiding when a probe droid blamed the duchess for killing Golec and called the rest of the police to arrest her. The assassin ran across the corridors of the Coruscant’s underworld keeping in sight the Duchess who was running a couple of meters under him. When Kryze was cornered by an alley, the assassin fired the sniper rifle, but the shots hit an adjacent wall. The Duchess ran to prevent further shots and to evade the police who were pursuing after her. The assassin followed her track pointing his rifle until the duchess took a detour under a bridge and lost her sight. The Mandalorian had to hide to avoid drawing attention among the civilians nearby and went to higher levels.

The police continued pursuing Kryze and a general alert was issued in the lower levels. The assassin managed to draw the attention from him and contacted Vizsla in Concordia using a manual holoprojector. The mandalorian assassin told Vizsla that he took out the informant from the Ministry and he believed that with the police warning in would not be necessary to kill Kryze, but he also told him that Davu Golec had given the duchess something. Vizsla told the assassin to proceed with the mission, and to kill her as soon as possible, because what she had could pose a serious danger to their plan.

The assassin followed the track the police to a park were several persons used layers. The Assassin believed that Kryze could be among the crowd, so he stood on a platform overlooking the scene looking at all the passerby with his Electrobinoculars. The mandalorian observed the places in which the police droids interrogated civilians, and then he glimpsed a woman wearing a crimson layer. The assassin compared his face with that of Kryze when she turned around and discovered that it was the Duchess. However, when the assassin was going to shoot with his rifle, the duchess and her companion took a way out of the park and he lost her sight again.

The mandalorian followed them to a corridor with exit to the lower levels. When Kryze and her hooded companion were walking throw the corridor, the assassin placed over a platform of advertising not far above them. When they were just under him, the assassin tossed them a thermal detonator. Nevertheless, the duchess companion turned out to be Obi-Wan Kenobi, a Jedi, who pushed the duchess with The Force in time to save her from dying because of the grenade explosion. The assassin got down to kill Kryze, but was attacked by Kenobi, who, wielding his Lightsaber, cut in half the mandalorian’s rifle. The assassin was able to take Kenobi’s weapon giving him a blow with what remained of his rifle. Then the assassin tried to hit Kenobi again, but the Jedi pushed him away against a wall. The mandalorian launched him back, leaning against Kenobi and hitting him against another wall violently. The assassin tried to hit him repeatedly, but the Jedi evaded and blocked the attacks; and finally struck a blow in the helmet covering the assassin’s face. The Mandalorian, determined to kill Kenobi extracted from a tape a gun, but the Jedi launched on the assassin and threw him to the floor. The mandalorian threw the Jedi back, and the duchess took the Lightsaber and gave it to the jedi. The assassin shot Kenobi with his gun, but the Jedi Master managed to deflect the shots and threw the Mandalorian with the use of the Force to a wall. With the violent shove, the assassin tried to regain his balance, but Kenobi threw him to an advertisement off the low levels. In order to avoid falling to the void, the Assassin activated the controls of his jetpack and fled to another area of Coruscant, falling on his mission.

Subsequently, the object that Golec had given to Kryze turned out to be a Datacard with information that would stop the sending of Republic troops to Mandalore. The assassin returned to Concordia, where Vizsla contacted Dooku to begin the invasion, but was told that he hadn’t reinforcements and therefore the invasion would not succeed. The assassin and the other forces of the terrorist group remained on the moon.

Personality and traits
"Blast it!"

- The Assassin after losing sight of Kryze

This Death Watch Assassin was pretty creative, and capable to fight in melee combat, he also possessed sniper skills. When he pursued the duchess Kryze on Coruscant, the assassin tried to kill her several times from balconies or very high places. He knew how to proper use a sniper rifle, explosives, a jet pack, and the varied functions of his Mandalorian armor.

This assassin wasn’t a coward, as he could fight Kenobi without weapons and keep up, and he even got ahead of the Jedi several times. Even as he was struggling with a Jedi, the Mandalorian was not intimidated by the use of the Force. When the police followed Satine Kryze under the false thought that she was the murderer of Davu Golec, the assassin went into hiding in order to draw attention from him, because he knew he could be found by the police as well, although he acted in front of many civilians.

The Mandalorian didn’t believe the Duchess could pose a threat if she was alone in the under levels of Coruscant, being pursued by the police, although Pre Vizsla told him to look after her because she could still be a danger for the plan they had prepared. However, although the assassin was very skilled in many forms of melee combat, he couldn’t keep up with Kenobi and chose to flee from the Jedi and a certain defeat.

Equipment
The Assassin of the Death Watch was equipped with a gray mandalorian armor that had the symbol of the organization to which he belonged recorded on a pad. The mandalorian used an sniper rifle several times, and could use it and also manage the face comparation function of the rifle, and the Electrobinoculars.

The assassin had a jet pack, which he used to fly from falling when Kenobi threw him to the lower levels of Coruscant. The mandalorian also carried with him a WESTAR-35 blaster pistol which he used to shot Kenobi when they fought in close combat. The assassin also charged a grenade that he tossed to Kenobi and Kryze when they passed through an alley, and also used a manual holoprojector when he contacted Pre Vizsla on Concordia.

Behind the scenes
The “Mandalorian Assassin” appeared for the first time in "Duchess of Mandalore", the fourteenth episode of the Second Season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, as the antagonistic character who tries to kill the Duchess Satine Kryze several times. However, despite the important role of the character, his name has not been revealed and he is only known as a conjecture.

This Mandalorian Death Watch assassin was voiced by Dee Bradley Baker, who also voices all of the clone troopers in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series.

Notes and references
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