CT-1946 "Forty-Six"

Personality:

Sarcastic and witty, there’s few moments outside the battlefield that Forty-Six ever finds himself being too serious. However, he developed a keen sense for leadership and a toughened attitude, learning the discipline needed to become the leader he needed to be. He considers those in his squad family and is willing to do anything to keep them safe and return from their deployments. His loyalties lie to his family and the Republic, willing to do the dirty work for them to keep their army strong.

Specialization:


 * Clone Covert Operations Trooper
 * Marksman
 * Solo Operator
 * Close Quarters Specialist
 * Jet Trooper

Weapons & Gear:


 * ZH-73 Blaster Rifle (Customized)


 * DX-13 Blaster Pistol (Customized)


 * LD-1 Target Blaster Sniper (Customized)


 * Vibroblade (Customized)


 * Model G8 (customized)


 * Stealth Ammo Mags


 * Thermal Detonators
 * Personal Sniper Drone
 * Commando Recon Drone
 * Dampener Aerosol
 * Communications Jammer


 * Custom Mandalorian Armor


 * Advanced HUD with Integrated Systems


 * Jet Boots


 * Modified Clone Armor


 * Retractable Vibroclaws

Backstory:

TRAINING RC-6941 was born 32BBY and part of the second wave of Commandos. Unlike the first wave, he and his fellow second wave Commandos were genetically modified to have more independence and free thinking than the other clones. This was not at a cost, as they would soon find their training to be much more rigorous. The Cuy’val Dar, a group of one hundred people enlisted by Jango Fett, seventy-five being Mandalorian, were the instructors of the Clone Commandos during their time at the Killing House, the place in which most of their training took place. Its nickname is derived from its high casualty rate in training, as unlike normal clones, they did not train with stun shots, instead, they trained with live fire. A mistake wasn’t a failure, it was death. RC-6941 was separated into his pod of four, being RC-6972, RC-6950, and RC-6933 with him. Here, they would begin their training as a unit, doing live fire drills of actual combat and anti-terrorism missions. They fought many enemies, ranging from basic B1s all the way to Bounty Hunters in melee combat. They were sharpened and honed warriors, and each were taken separately for specialization training.

It was here that RC-6941 began his work in marksmanship and melee combat, as he was to not only be able to be good with a blaster from far away, he was expected to be able to kill a target at any range. He was placed under the tutelage of Fray Ardeen, a Mandalorian with extensive skill in marksmanship, and Vrid Zivyr, a Mandalorian who thrived off close quarters combat. The two would go on to teach the clone how to improvise in situations regarding assassinations and long distance engagements, as well as close up, instructing him on how he can conceal himself with various things during an assignment. They taught him how to use noise to hide a blaster shot, or how to use his environment to achieve a kill. He was taught to think for himself and see anything as an opportunity for victory, even being stranded with no weaponry. In one exercise ran by Vrid Zivyr, he had to face off against the two Mandalorians. He was set in a simulated environment, where he was imprisoned with no armor, no weapons, and he had to break free and escape. He ended up busting out of the cell and managing to take out Fray Ardeen, but Vrid proved a challenge as the superior hand-to-hand combatant and ended up claiming victory. Despite this, RC-6941 proved to them he had in fact learned to be a tactician and a resourceful combatant, continuing his training.

RC-6941 was soon tasked with creating a simulation for each of his pod brothers, ones that would put their skills to the test in a way that could even lead to their death. He designed one for each of the three, and each of the three designed one for him. In total, all of them had one simulation to beat together, however they were a mixture of all the simulations the clones designed, putting all of them at a point in which they would face major difficulties. They were briefed on the operation, being told RC-6941 would remain back and give overwatch support, while RC-6933 led the other two through the simulation and did a sweep and clear operation.

RC-6941 was perched on a rooftop, his DC-17m in sniper configuration. He could see through his scope the three commandos pushing forward towards their objective building. He meanwhile was searching for any hostiles out in the open that could jeopardize the mission. He saw a training droid on the roof, taking aim at it. He radioed in for the others to wait before pushing as there was a sniper on the roof. The current environment was a dark and stormy night, meaning eventual thunder would mask his shot. Lightning struck, and he counted the seconds that lasted before he could hear the thunder. Only two, meaning he would need to fire quickly next time. He waited and waited, and finally lightning struck, and he counted to himself, one, then two, firing his blaster on two. Thunder rang out, deafening his shot as it struck the droid in the head. He gave the all clear and the three advanced into the building. Finally, however, he realized the test he would be going through, as he couldn’t see inside the building, meaning his position was useless. He had to decide now, does he follow orders and remain or improvise and move in with his brothers. Throughout his training he was taught to think independently and rely on his pod for strength, realizing the correct choice. He moved in, using a grappling line as a zip line to meet up with his squad. He followed them through the building, soon reaching them and setting his DC-17m into standard mode.

Inside the building, night vision was needed to see. They would climb the central staircase, the first floor already being cleared silently. They rose to the second floor, hearing commotion on the level. They stacked up at a door, peeking it slowly. Immediately, blaster fire shredded through the thin door and they were forced to jump back. RC-6933 took a hit to his armor, but he was mostly unhurt. The commandos tossed a thermal into the room blindly, taking out any droids in the small room. Blaster fire came from down the hall now as they were forced to take cover. Their position was exposed, and this seemed to be based on RC-6972’s lacking in adaptability. RC-6933 ordered them to push through this and take them out in a straight gunfight, however they were severely outnumbered twenty to four. Normally they would take these odds, but considering their bad position it wasn’t very keen. RC-6941 tossed a thermal in between the droids and then, causing the roof to cave in a bit and give them a brief moment of safety, as well as taking out some droids. They gathered themselves and got into a better position, taking out the droids as they tried to push through the rubble to attack.

Once the droids were cleared from this building, their next objective was to reach the rooftop for extraction. They pushed rubble out of the way and made their way to the staircase, going up and up the building until they reached the roof, the training droid form before laying with a blaster shot through the head. They awaited extraction, but soon were given new orders. They had to rescue a republic asset trapped in a room with a bomb. They went there, and RC-6941 assumed this would be RC-6950’s weakness as he was their demolition expert. RC-6950 was always one to view himself as more important than his peers, something the others didn’t like and their instructors deemed as a negative impact to their coordination. Upon arriving at a building, which from what they could tell only held the asset, who was a training droid, and, as the report said a bomb, however the bomb was attached via a vest. It was locked to its body as well, meaning it would need to be disarmed. After failure to do so, RC-6933 decided they needed to leave, however RC-6950 decided to stay, saying he would rather die trying to save the asset than be alive running away. RC-6933, whose weakness was easily his need to keep his brothers alive, had to reluctantly let the Commando stay. The three exited the building, and as they did a noise blared signaling the simulation was over. The four were congratulated for passing their test, all showing the ability to overcome their personal setbacks in the heat of battle. This was a confidence boost to the squad, who soon learned they would be deployed to Geonosis along with thousands of other Commandos.

FIRST DEPLOYMENT

The Grand Army of the Republic touched down on the harsh world of Geonosis, with many first wave Commandos being used as advanced frontal assault troops, while second wave Commandos were given special tasks along the planet. The task of RC-6941’s Squad, codenamed Epsilon, was to push through a Geonosian tunnel system and infiltrate a factory. The mission itself didn’t go very well in their favor, and this was something they all expected from the start.

At the beginning of the mission, before they even arrived planet side their LAAT was shot down on its way towards the landing zone, forcing them to move on foot. The clones now went by nicknames based on their last two numbers, calling each other 41, 33, 50, and 72. 33 was leading the group, the walk to the landing zone difficult as they were slowed down by 50 who had injured his leg in the crash. Once inside the tunnels, the clones advanced through, lucky enough that Geonosians wouldn’t be in the tunnels, rather out fighting the clones above. However, this ended up being a false sense of security as a Geonosian ambushed and finished off RC-6950, killing him near instantly by snapping his neck. The three gunned down the bug, looking at their fallen brother. They kept moving per orders from 33, taking the explosives from 50 for later use. They soon arrived inside the factory through the tunnel and began to sneak around, planting explosives around. They were interrupted by droids who began to fire on their position, forcing them all to go into cover. 33, who had the detonator scavenged from 50, broke said detonator during the firefight, meaning they would need to be manually set off. Along with this news, 72 was shot in the head from behind as more droids entered the room. 41 was forced to get to a new position with 33, stranded around the planted charges. 33 ordered 41 to escape the factory, informing his brother that the charges needed to be manually set off. 41 reluctantly agreed and was given covering fire to make it to the tunnel.

Inside the tunnel, he began to sprint, wanting to avoid being caved in by the explosion. He was deep into the tunnel when he heard an explosion, knowing he had lost his last pod brother. He kept moving, wanting to make sure it was known their deaths were not in vain. He arrived outside, the sun blinding him for a brief moment and he had to shield his visor with his arm. He radioed in for pickup, informing his handler of his squad’s fate. A LAAT soon arrived and he boarded, being taken away for a debrief and a break from the action.

FIGHTING WITH VALOR RC-6941, like many survivors of squads, was reallocated to a squad who was a combination of sole survivors of Geonosis. He was now paired with RC-3591, RC-7368, and RC-5179, nicknamed 91, 68, and 79 respectively. These Commandos were given downtime to learn each other’s strengths and weaknesses and find ways to work together before their first deployment together. After a while of training and bonding, the squad was sent to their first deployment, which was during the battle of Arantara. Under the command of the Jedi General, the Commandos were instructed to infiltrate a separatist compound and clear out the droids so him and the clones could advance through another section of the planet unrivaled. The Commandos happily obliged, wanting to serve their commander well. They geared up and advanced on speeders, heading towards the compound.

The Commandos stopped while out of sight of the droids, using the rocky environment as cover to begin advancing on the compound walls. There was a guard tower on each corner of the compound wall, however they mushroomed out at the top, providing an overhand they could use to their advantage. 41 approached a guard tower, his silenced DC-15s sidearm ready to scrap the droids above. He grappled up the side of the guard tower, making sure to avoid the sightlines of other towers, he finally reached the top and pulled himself over, instantly firing a shot into the droid’s head. He then took careful aim, firing off three shots, managing to hit all three of the other snipers. With no enemies in the guard towers, it was safe for the Commandos to advance over the walls. They made their way to the roof of the building, doing a scan of the compound. As it was currently, all droids were either outside or in battle as any VIP that would have resided here moved due to Republic attacks. They used the roof as high ground position and fired down on the droids. The squad together cleared them in a matter of moments, signaling for the Jedi General to move in.

For roughly the rest of the first year of the war, this squad managed to stay intact and continue serving in missions successfully, earning the codename Phoenix. These Commandos however found despair during an operation on Geonosis during the second battle, in which 41 was the only survivor due to their LAAT crashing from being shot down. The mission was scrapped and left to another squad while 41 was given the role of helping frontal troops. During the skirmish an EMP bomb, known as the ‘killswitch’ which was much smaller than the one used on Malastare, was used to wipe a section of droids out clear an important cliff side crucial for a frontal push from another section. The killswitch’s detonator had been buried under rubble with its clones from an explosion, causing 41 to help other clones unbury them, finding the detonator. Being ordered to set off the killswitch, 41 grabbed the detonator and set it off, wiping out the section of droids. Due to the moment of personal vengeance and his enjoyment with the name, 41 adopted the name Killswitch.

The newly named Killswitch was assigned a new squad, with its newly assigned members, RC-9103 aka Ravager, RC-6522 aka Wayside, and RC 9717 aka Slasher, along with himself, and it became a formidable squad throughout the rest of the Clone Wars. None of them particularly liked the Jedi besides Anakin Skywalker due to his bravery in battle, as most had proven incompetent generals who often got their men killed needlessly. This was shown not to be reflected by Slasher, who viewed the Jedi and the Force as very respectable things. The others bagged on Slasher jokingly for the view, but never thought much of it. Their squad was soon tasked with a special mission from the leader of the Special Operations Brigade. They were assigned to go to assassinate a Banking Clan higher up who was in the process of delivering vital information to the CIS. He would be found on the planet Muunilinst. The squad boarded a stealth corvette and were sent to the planet, the objective and plan bored into their heads. They couldn’t be discovered as the culprits, so they were to wear clothes to disguise themselves as terrorists and use weaponry from the black market.

They disembarked the corvette in their disguises and special weaponry, Killswitch taking point. They were to scale a nearby building, then take aim and fire through a window to take out the target. This would end up being a textbook operation and cementing their squad’s skill. Killswitch was the one who fired the blaster, while the entire group took down multiple security members who were blocking their way to the space port. They eventually were able to “hijack” a ship at the spaceport, which was really a plant with a hired pilot inside, and used the ship to lightspeed skip, an effort to avoid tracking as they finally reached a planet they could destroy the ship and board a stealth corvette. These continuous textbook operations and critical success on special assignments granted Valor Squad a level of notoriety in the Special Operations Brigade.

RAYTHE IN COMBAT

After the success of Valor squad things began to take a downward spiral for the group. After Wayside died during an operation on an enemy cruiser the trio of Commandos were reassigned to separate areas. Rather than gain a new member, each were spread amongst various fleets that needed a single Commando to fill their local squads. Killswitch was assigned to the 3rd Fleet and placed within Raythe squad. It’s members were Lax, the squad leader, Nomad, the heavy gunner, and Boomer, the demolitions expert. Their medic Helix had recently been decapitated during an altercation on board the Venator, leaving them down a man. However, right upon his arrival, Boomer suffered a causality during combat on Keldor.

On this planet, Killswitch was taken prisoner with a group of clones and targeted due to his special role as a commando. He was interrogated at first by the militia running the POW camp, but released. During an altercation between guards and clones, Killswitch got involved and attacked a guard to take the fall for the clone and save them from torture. This resulted in him being kept away from the other clones and once again interrogated, however this time by a female force user. It appeared she was the leader of this militia, and she used the force to try and tear the information from his mind but Killswitch prevailed and gave nothing away. After this, ARC-77 Fordo and his group of ARCs attacked the POW camp and freed the captive clones including Killswitch. This experience resulted in him having a hunger for revenge, so he, ARC-3600 Phantom, and ARC-8579 Hindsight attacked the POW camp on a stealth mission to gain intel on their new enemy. They were successful but Killswitch ended up in a fight against the force user. Since he was alone he tried to take on the foe with his blaster but was forced to the ground as his enemy used the force to cause him immense pain in his mind. He tried to fire once more but hit her shoulder, stunning her for a moment and giving him a chance to gather himself. He began to fire on the unknown foe but she blocked his shots and fled the area, boarding a ship and escaping the facility.

In the following deployment to Felucia found Lax dead to a jungle rancor. Nomad took over the squad and got two new members for Raythe. Killswitch himself progressed his rank to Lieutenant over time, achieving the same rank as Nomad. Because of this, he decided to revive Valor squad, creating it once again and finding new members for the squad. This change also came with a subtle promotion for the commando. Admiral Kahn Ardel approached the clone about a rumored super weapon design the Separatists had a hold of, and tasked Killswitch as a Republic Intelligence operative to use his and the other squads with the 3rd Fleet to capture these plans, but without informing the rest.

This took him along a series of missions in which he used false objectives to gain intel on the location of these plans, but it brought him up against a familiar foe. Killswitch found himself fighting against the female force user from the POW camp, learning she was an agent of Dooku and protecting the plans for the super weapon. She was aware of Killswitch and his squad tracking the plans, and so she followed the same trails they did, making sure she got every chance she could at killing the commando. After some fights where neither could win the melee engagement, it cumulated in her beating him finally and capturing him. A rescue operation was staged after it was confirmed he was MIA and not KIA with his squad being assisted by Phantom and Hindsight, two clones he had grown close to during his time with the fleet. During his rescue, Killswitch fought the force used a final time and managed to beat her. Explosions in the ship had trapped her under rubble, so after he sheathed his vibroblades he put a single blaster bolt into her stomach, letting her lay there as the ship began to break apart from explosions. He took her sabers as trophies and was helped to a shuttle, where the clones escaped as the cruiser exploded.

He was soon sent back to work on finding the plans, and it wasn’t long until he finally discovered them and reported to the Admiral who he had grown a friendship with. The super weapon was a space station of some kind, labeled under ‘Stardust.’ The Admiral immediately ordered Killswitch to forget he ever found it or knew of its existence, to which he complied without question. It was this interaction however that resulted in his fate being sealed, and he wouldn’t find this out until Bestine IV.

COVERT OPERATIONS On Bestine IV, the C-70 that the squads of commandos used for their missions was infiltrated by two clones, CC-8776 Lynch and CT-2160 Predator. These clones were from the Covert Operations squad Vornskr and were ordered by Admiral Ardel to either kill him, or fake his death and pull him into their ranks. Due to Republic Intelligence not wanting a commando with that much information to be a loose thread, these were the only two options left for him. If not for Ardel, he would have died then and there, but instead the C-70 was blown up with his armor left inside. Since it was currently landed on the surface and empty beyond him, it was reported as an accidental death due to the fuel leak created by Predator. Killswitch only had some of his belongings left, such as the trophies taken from the female force user. His number was scrambled and his nickname lost as he now began his life as a new trooper within Vornskr.

He was assigned a special task by CC-8776, which was to lead new Covert Ops clones CT-6194 and CT-7093 on an undercover assignment. They infiltrated Crimson Dawn by disguising themselves in Mandalorian armor and using nanobots to alter their appearance and voice modulators to alter their voices. Their goal was to gain intel on a black market deal between Manx Manufacturing and a Separatist militia in which Crimson Dawn was the middle man. To earn trust and intel, they were tasked with freeing a known associate of the organization, Rako Hardeen. Going by the name Tros Baas, he accepted the contract and led his team to Coruscant to break into the supermax prison and free the bounty hunter.