Spar

Alpha-Ø2, also known as Spar and later as Mandalore the Resurrector (Te Gayiyli Mand'alor in Mando'a), was a rogue Alpha-class Advanced Recon Commando who rebuilt the Mandalorian Supercommandos and fought for the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars.

Spar was the only ARC trooper to successfully desert before the onset of the Clone Wars, thus making him among the first clone troopers to desert in general. After being smuggled off Kamino in the hold of Slave I he traveled to the planet Mandalore, becoming a bounty hunter and Mandalore. After a rout at Norval II, of which there were only three survivors, a shellshocked Spar deserted from his calling, and became a wanderer for many decades, before finally being killed by Ailyn Vel, who mistook the clone for her father, Boba Fett.

Life on Kamino
Alpha-Ø2 was cloned from Jango Fett by the Kaminoan cloners on Kamino in 32 BBY, one of the first test class of Advanced Recon Commando soldiers made as part of the order for the Grand Army of the Republic. While the Kaminoans instilled uniformity in their clones, limiting the choices and individuality available to them, Alpha-Ø2 was a case of a 1% failure rate in the Kaminoans' product; of the hundred ARC troopers in his class, he alone was independent and free-thinking, rejecting the anonymity enforced on him. Like all aberrant clones&mdash;which appeared in 3.5 percent of the general clone population&mdash;Alpha-Ø2 was put through reconditioning. The process did not take, but Alpha-Ø2 seemed to blend in with the other clones, and his peculiarity was not noticed. The Kaminoan handlers came to call him "Spar". Eight and a half years after his cloning, when he was biologically seventeen years of age, Alpha-Ø2 heard a mention of Jango Fett's exploits, which triggered a memory in him&mdash;not of his own life, but of Fett's. Fett's memories returned to Alpha-Ø2 in a rush, and knowing that they would be reconditioned out of him, he made his escape from Kamino. With Fett off-world at the time, the Kaminoans were unable to contain him.

Upon leaving Kamino, Alpha-Ø2 decided to take the name "Spar" as his own. Spar took to working odd jobs around the galaxy, particularly in the Outer Rim Territories, as he attempted to sort through his mental state. When Jango Fett was killed in the opening battle of the Clone Wars, Spar realized his purpose was to rebuild the Mandalorian Supercommandos. Spar came to the planet Mandalore, where he called for aid from the local police to form his new Mandalorian Protectors. 200 police came to him, among them two constables of Mandalore named Fenn Shysa and Tobbi Dala, as well as twelve former members of the splinter Mandalorian faction, the Death Watch. The rumor spread across Mandalore that Spar was the son of Jango Fett who had come to rebuild the Mandalorians. Spar became Mandalore, leader of the Mandalorians, and took the title Mandalore the Resurrector. Rumors existed that Shysa was the true power behind Spar, but most knew Shysa as Spar's most loyal follower.

Mandalore
Spar, bearing a hatred of the Jedi Order for their part in killing the Mandalorians at the Battle of Galidraan, as well as a desire for order, joined the Protectors to the cause of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Among the tools of war at the Mandalorians' disposal were a thousand BL-series Battle Legionnaire droids and the Pursuer-class enforcement ship. Spar and his Protectors fought the Jedi and Republic around the galaxy, including at New Holstice, Null, and Zaadja. Supercommando squads engaged in covert missions on behalf of the Separatists. Near the climax of the war, the Protectors helped the government of Mandalore capture the facilities of MandalMotors in the city Keldabe for Separatist use. When a prominent Separatist commander was killed, the Mandalorians and their Battle Legionnaire droids retaliated at New Bornalex and Kamino.

Near the end of the war, Darth Sidious instructed the Mandalorian government to dispatch Spar and his supercommandos to Norval II to capture Senator Padmé Amidala. Sidious betrayed them, however, and the mission sent them into a Republic ambush. All but three of the Protectors were killed&mdash;Spar, Shysa, and Dala were the only survivors. The shell-shocked Spar left his post of Mandalore and disappeared.

In the end, he learned that another Mandalorian, Kal Skirata, was close to finding a cure to the shortened lifespan that the Kamino clones all had, and abandoned his role as the Resurrector to travel to Coruscant with former Jedi Bardan Jusik and former ARC Trooper A-30, or "Sull," leaving Shysa with no Mandalore, and a new falsified story to concoct.

About two months after joining up with Skirata's band, Spar, along with Sull, Jusik, and the former Republic Commando known as Fi rescued Skirata's daughter from a POW camp on Anaxes, just as the Separatists were beginning the Invasion of Coruscant.

After the war
He wandered the galaxy for many years, unsure about his place, until he was apprehended in the Extrictarium Nebula by Ailyn Vel around the year 20 ABY. Vel believed that Alpha-Ø2 was actually her father, Boba Fett (due to the identical physical appearance and similar armor), and murdered him in an act of revenge for her mother's death. He had lived for 52 years.

Aftermath
Ailyn Vel took Alpha-Ø2's Mandalorian armor, and after learning that Fett was still alive, used it to masquerade as Fett.

Personality and traits
As a clone on Kamino, Alpha-Ø2 showed independence far beyond the norm for his fellow soldiers, and the uniform anonymity enforced in the Kaminoan facilities rankled his free-thinking personality. Spar's training and the skills he inherited from Fett gave him an edge in survival in the wider galaxy.

Appearances

 * Republic Commando: True Colors
 * Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel
 * Imperial Commando: 501st
 * Star Wars 68: The Search Begins
 * Bloodlines
 * Revelation

Notes and references
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