Nobu Katsumoto is a radical human separatist and violent insurgent active on Hanar following the Gelt Incursion of 429 IE. A survivor of the fusion blast that destroyed Gilead City, he rejects both Gelt-led governance and any Compact-backed efforts to rebuild, advocating violent exclusion of all outsiders—including non-human species.
By 430 IE, Katsumoto leads a rogue faction of separatists notorious even among Hanar’s human enclaves. During the events of “Half Shell,” his followers escalate tensions by killing and eating a member of a newly arrived alien species, an act that threatens to ignite interstellar war. When confronted, Nobu shows no remorse, offering the responsible follower as a “gift” to the aliens and demanding a deadline for their removal. His cold justification—that the shelled beings are not of his species—mirrors a larger, darker prejudice at odds with the multicultural ideals of Hanar’s new society.
Nobu remains a persistent and dangerous destabilizing force, embodying violent extremism and deep-seated xenophobia on the postwar frontier.
Appearance: Storming Amargosa, Suicide Gambit, “Half Shell“