CC-01/425

"I've been assigned as your advisor, and will be your eye in the sky until further notice&hellip;or we all get killed."

- CC-01/425, to Boss of Delta Squad

CC-01/425 was a clone advisor who served in the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars. He often found himself tasked with overseeing the operations of Delta Squad, a unit of elite clone commandos that included Boss, Fixer, Sev, and Scorch, with whom he would communicate via hologram and the squad's in-helmet comlinks. The advisor helped them through the Battle of Geonosis in the year 22 BBY, during which Delta Squad killed the Geonosian lieutenant Sun Fac, disabled an underground droid factory, and raided a Lucrehulk-class Core Ship. In the second year of the war, CC-01/425 guided Delta Squad throughout their investigation of an Acclamator I-class assault ship in the Chaykin cluster. In 19 BBY, he also oversaw Delta Squad's opening reconnaissance of the Battle of Kashyyyk, during which they freed the Wookiee Chieftain Tarfful from Separatist-backed Trandoshan slavers.

Biography
"I will be issuing further orders as you go. Good luck, commando."

- CC-01/425, to Boss

A clone of the Mandalorian bounty hunter Jango Fett, CC-01/425 was born on the planet Kamino for service in the Grand Army of the Republic. When the Clone Wars broke out between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems on the Outer Rim world of Geonosis in the year 22 BBY, CC-01/425 was charged with overseeing the clone commandos of the elite unit Delta Squad&mdash;comprising RC-1138, RC-1140, RC-1207, and RC-1262, nicknamed "Boss," "Fixer," "Sev," and "Scorch," respectively&mdash;from somewhere off the battlefield during the ensuing conflict. Keeping in communication with the commandos via a hologram projector the squad carried with them and the built-in comlinks of their helmets, CC-01/425 guided Boss to meet up with the other members of the squad at the separate rendezvous points located at different points across Geonosis. While Boss was on his way to the rendezvous points, CC-01/425 helped Boss get accustomed to his equipment and the combat zone around him, as it was Boss's first time out on a real battlefield. After Boss had met up with his comrades, CC-01/425 tasked Delta Squad with the assassination of Geonosian Archduke Poggle the Lesser's chief lieutenant, Sun Fac. While Delta Squad continued their mission, CC-01/425 kept them up to date on the surrounding environment&mdash;any traps or enemies in the area&mdash;and any updates in their mission tasks. Once Delta Squad caught up with Fac, Sev shot Fac's fleeing starfighter, thus resulting in Fac's death in the ensuing crash. Upon their completion of the task, CC-01/425 informed the squad of the next part of their mission: disabling an underground droid factory. While Delta was in the droid factory, CC-01/425 searched the schematics of the factory for a weak point and kept Delta Squad up to date on how to disable the factory. After Delta Squad had executed that part of their mission, CC-01/425 sent the commandos to raid a Lucrehulk-class Core Ship and gain the launch codes for an entire fleet of Separatist Core Ships that were in orbit of Geonosis. Through the continued help and guidance of CC-01/425, Delta Squad succeeded in that mission, also.

Three hundred and sixty-seven days into the Clone Wars, in 21 BBY, CC-01/425 handled Delta Squad's investigation of the Republic Acclamator I-class assault ship, Prosecutor, which had reappeared in the Chaykin cluster following a two-week-long disappearance after being tasked with defending trade routes in the Corellian sector. CC-01/425 informed Delta Squad of their tasks to secure the starship and recover the flight records from the Prosecutor data cores. However, once the commandos were aboard the Prosecutor, communication between CC-01/425 and the commandos were cut off due to heavy static. Contact between CC-01/425 and Delta Squad was reestablished after Delta Squad reached the warship's bridge and destroyed a Separatist jamming device.

CC-01/425 scanned the derelict capital ship and found several Trandoshan dropships in the Prosecutor hangars. Delta Squad informed him that they had indeed encountered numerous Trandoshan mercenaries already, so CC-01/425 gave the order for the squad to repel the Trandoshans. Delta Squad discovered, however, that the Trandoshans were being backed by elements of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, who arrived to reinforce their Trandoshan allies with an armed Lucrehulk-class battleship. While Delta Squad fought the large amount of battle droids the battleship deployed, CC-01/425 performed scans of the ship and found that it contained great amounts of information that would be vital to the Republic. Delta Squad called for Republic assistance, and they eventually got through to Republic Navy Captain Talbot, in command of the Acclamator I-class assault ship Arrestor, who came to their aide. In conjunction with Delta Squad's efforts to reactivate the Prosecutor turbolaser battery, Arrestor destroyed the droid control ship and ensured Delta Squad's mission was a success.

In the final year of war, CC-01/425 informed Delta Squad that they would be inserted onto the planet Kashyyyk to locate the Wookiee Chieftain Tarfful, who had been captured by Trandoshan slavers. Once on the ground of Kashyyyk, CC-01/425 guided the squad through the forests to the Trandoshan slave camp, where Delta Squad freed several other imprisoned Wookiees. When the Separatist General Grievous's personal starfighter, Soulless One, was seen nearby, CC-01/425 ordered Delta Squad to visually confirm the cyborg General's presence. Grievous was there to take Tarfful into custody, but when Delta Squad struck, he fled the planet in the Soulless One, leaving his IG-100 MagnaGuards to battle Delta Squad. As Delta Squad moved onward, CC-01/425 oversaw their strike on another Trandoshan compound in the Wroshyr tree forests of Kashyyyk, but his authority and operational tasking duties were later superseded by Jedi General Etain Tur-Mukan's arrival on Kashyyyk. However, Delta Squad was forced to leave behind their main sniper, Sev, as General Tur-Mukan was drawn away by the Wookiee Enacca. The job of settling the angered and upset Delta Squad, who were upset about leaving Sev behind, fell to CC-01/425. He tried to help Delta Squad by relaying a message from Jedi Grand Master Yoda through the squad's hologram, before reassigning Delta Squad with a new objective as the Battle of Kashyyyk truly began.

Personality and traits
"Three-Eight, get your squad under control! One commando is not worth jeopardizing an entire operation!''" "''One commando?! He's talking about my pod brother!"

- CC-01/425 and Scorch, after Delta Squad is forced to leave Sev behind

CC-01/435 was a clone advisor who stood 1.83 meters tall. He was a levelheaded soldier and expert tactician, proving a valuable asset to Delta Squad on every mission he was tasked to assist them with. Remaining calm and collected, CC-01/425 was often able to find efficient, if often improvised, solutions to problems facing Delta Squad in the field. CC-01/425 possessed a dry and cynical sense of humor, but at the same time was a very proper soldier. Though he never hassled Delta Squad members Sev or Scorch for their incessant chatter and back-and-forth quips, he demanded that the squad be professional when it was called for. He was also strongly pragmatic, believing that the loss of a single clone commando was acceptable in the scope of successfully completing a major operation. After Delta Squad was forced to leave Sev behind, CC-01/425 tried to help the angered commandos by telling them to get a hold on their emotions.

Equipment
"I'm contacting the Republic for assistance."

- CC-01/435

CC-01/435 wore Phase I clone trooper armor throughout the war, rather than changing to Phase II clone trooper armor. Even during the battle of Kashyyyk, when most clone troopers had made the switch to Phase II armor, he still wore the Phase I armor. Like most clone troopers, he had an in-helmet comlink that he used to communicate with Delta Squad. He also had equipment that was capable to call in Republic support, which is what he did during Delta's mission in the Chaykin cluster.

Behind the scenes
CC-01/425 first appeared in the LucasArts video game Star Wars: Republic Commando, which was released on March 1, 2005. Despite appearing in a rather prominent role in the game, he was left out of the Republic Commando series of novels by author Karen Traviss. The actions of Delta Squad are only one aspect of the series, but when the novel Order 66 comes to Delta Squad's mission on Kashyyyk, CC-01/425 is still curiously absent from the narrative. His lines during Sev's abandoning are attributed to a different clone character altogether, General Quinlan Vos' Forward Air Controller. This article documents CC-01/425's involvement throughout the Kashyyyk mission as portrayed in the game, but favors Order 66 attribution of those few lines as it is the more recent source.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Republic Commando