CT-7567/Legends

"In my book, experience outranks everything..."

- Rex to Ahsoka Tano

CC-7567, also known as Rex, was a clone trooper captain.

Biography
During the Clone Wars Rex was in command of Torrent Company of the famed 501st Legion. Rex and his men were assigned to patrol the sectors of the galaxy within the Outer Rim. Anakin Skywalker's second in command during the Clone Wars, Captain Rex was a freethinking, tough, and aggressive clone trooper. Rex voiced his professional opinions to even the highest-ranking Jedi.



Rex fought alongside Generals Kenobi and Skywalker at the Battle of Christophsis, and then led Torrent Company at the Battle of Teth. Rex and his men held off Asajj Ventress' droid armies long enough for Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano to escape Teth with Rotta the Hutt. He engaged against several droids in a courtyard at the monastery. Although Torrent Company was reduced to six men during the battle, Rex and his soldiers held off an entire droid army long enough for General Kenobi to arrive with the 212th Attack Battalion. Rex understood Anakin's decision to head to Tatooine, as the mission always came first to him.

Rex would later lead a group of rookies along with Commander Cody to take back a communications station on the Rishi moon. He created the plan to get the droids to open the door by pretending to be one of the droids in clone armor. After using a severed droid head to fool the guard he blasted the droid in the head and proceeded to fight and ultimately kill the droid commander by snapping his neck. Unfortunately, a droid invasion force led by General Grievous arrived to take the outpost. To give the Republic notice that the moon has been compromised, they resolved to blow the outpost up with liquid tibanna. Rex tried to prime one of the detonators but it didn't work. Hevy stayed behind to fix it but failed. With droid forces overwhelming the base, Hevy made the ultimate sacrifice by manually detonating the bomb, destroying the outpost and alerting the Republic. Rex then inducted clone troopers Echo and Fives into the 501st Legion.

Grievous had been lately ambushing fleets without warning. But Anakin had devised a plan to get Grievous. He had Rex and a brigade of AT-TEs hid on asteroids to ambush the Munificient frigates. However, Grievous escaped as Anakin pursued him, but a shrapnel embedded in his fighter caused him to careen off course and knock unconscious. When he comes to, he was salvaged, Artoo was not. Worse, he didn't delete Artoo's memory, which would be a severe liability, so he head a salvage operation.

Rex, a few of his men and Ahsoka took the Twilight to search for Anakin when he was searching for Grievous' listening post and his new astromech R3-S6 (Goldie and Stubby) activated his tracking beacon. They managed to pull Skywalker out of his situation and thanks to Artoo, they were able to learn the location of the listening post. Rex and his men accompanied Ahsoka to sabotage the reactor but Goldie kept making mistakes.

Armor and equipment
Rex's armor used the color design that the entire 501st Legion had in 19 BBY, though the armor itself was still Phase I armor. He also wore a kama and pauldron, and his helmet displayed Jaig eyes. He carried twin blaster pistols but also utilized the more standard blaster rifles. When required, Rex could also be seen using jetpacks.

Behind the scenes
Rex has a scar similar to that of Harrison Ford.

It is possible that Rex got his name from the pilot droid, RX-24 (commonly referred to as "Captain" Rex) from Disney's Star Tours.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars novel
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars film
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Slaves of the Republic - Chapter 1: The Mystery of Kiros
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Slaves of the Republic - Chapter 2: Slave Traders of Zygerria
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars Volume 1: Shipyards of Doom
 * The Clone Wars: Mouse Hunt

Non-canon appearances

 * Star Wars Miniatures: The Clone Wars ad
 * Giant spiders are awesome