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"One, orders. You follow orders. They keep you alive. Two, you're part of a team. We look out for our buddies&mdash;I cover your back, you cover mine. And three, an officer rank doesn't give you automatic respect. You earn it. It's not just Skywalker's rank that makes us give him one hundred percent. It's because he treats us with respect, and he puts himself on the line with us."

- CC-7567, to Ahsoka Tano

CC-7567 was a veteran clone trooper captain who led the Grand Army of the Republic's famed 501st Legion during the Clone Wars. After undergoing additional clone trooper training on Kamino to enhance his abilities, 7567 took the nickname "Rex" as a sign of his individuality. Rex entered into Republic service in the opening battle of the Clone Wars, and his loyalty and fearlessness earned him a reputation as one of the toughest clones in the galaxy. As a 501st captain, Rex was assigned to Jedi General Anakin Skywalker, and he came to adopt Skywalker's bravery and unorthodoxy in battle. He also befriended Clone Commander CC-2224, nicknamed "Cody," and the two clones and their respective Jedi Generals, Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi, often fought alongside each other in the war. After becoming acquainted with Skywalker's newly assigned Padawan, Ahsoka Tano, during the lengthy Battle of Christophsis, Rex led the 501st's Torrent Company in the following Battle of Teth. The unit's near-eradication there made it a battle he would never forget.

Rex was soon redeployed with Skywalker and Tano, and he joined them in conducting a string of campaigns at Bothawui, Skytop Station, and JanFathal. His tour of duty took him to battlefields such as Rishi Station, Quell, Maridun, Kothlis, and Orto Plutonia, and he even survived an encounter with the deadly Blue Shadow Virus on Naboo. Besides assisting in the liberation of Ryloth from the Confederacy of Independent Systems and the sabotage of a Separatist superweapon on Behpour, Rex played a role in crippling a series of Geonosian battle droid foundries during the Second Battle of Geonosis. A hunt for the Confederate General Grievous on Saleucami led Rex to meet Cut Lawquane, a deserter of the Clone Army, whom he came to respect despite their differences. Rex's service also saw him participate in the fierce Battle of Malastare, as well as in the later containment of a rampant Malastarian Zillo Beast that had been brought to Coruscant for study after the battle.

Training and early career
"I've been in countless battles and lost many brothers. They were my family, my home."

- Rex reflects on his service in the war

The clone trooper with designation CC-7567 was born around 32 BBY on the planet Kamino for service in the Grand Army of the Republic. A clone of the acclaimed bounty hunter Jango Fett, 7567's early life was largely made up of Kaminoan flash training. Like many other clone officers, 7567's confidence and leadership abilities were spotted early by the Kaminoan cloners, and he went through additional training and intensive programmed learning to enhance his skills. After the completion of his training, 7567 took the nickname "Rex," although he kept its origins to himself. In 22 BBY, Rex participated in the opening battle of the Clone Wars on the planet Geonosis, fighting the rising Confederacy of Independent Systems and the forces of its massive Droid Army alongside fellow trooper Denal and the rest of the Republic Grand Army. Surviving the battle, Rex continued to participate in the escalating war against the Separatists. As part of his Republic service, he swore to defend all Republic citizens from harm. He eventually earned the right to display Mandalorian Jaig eyes on his clone armor as battle honors, and had them emblazoned on his helmet.

Rex's aggression earned him the reputation of being one of the toughest clones in the galaxy. He was promoted to the rank of clone captain and was given command of the Grand Army's famed 501st Legion unit, with which he was assigned to patrol the galaxy's feared Outer Rim Territories. Rex's ability to quickly absorb information from his Kaminoan flash training remained with him, and he learned much about Republic citizens' everyday lives from HoloNet News bulletins as he fought in the war. After serving with Jedi Generals multiple times and bearing witness to their abilities, Captain Rex was assigned to Jedi General Anakin Skywalker. As Skywalker's second-in-command, Rex developed a certain friendship with his Jedi General. Rex additionally befriended Clone Commander CC-2224, nicknamed "Cody," and Advanced Recon Force Sergeant CS-2207, nicknamed "Boomer," both of whom he fought alongside numerous times during the war. Rex also became acquainted with Commander Cody's own Jedi General, Obi-Wan Kenobi. At one point, Rex participated in a battle on the planet Tibrin alongside Cody and several Jedi, a dire campaign that the two clones managed to survive.

Battle of Christophsis
"Not good. We've got an energy shield. It's gonna make things damn near impossible. If you want experience, little one, it looks like you're about to get plenty."

- Rex, to Ahsoka Tano

In the first year of the war, Rex and Cody were dispatched with a contingent of troops led by Skywalker and Kenobi to liberate the planet Christophsis, which had been seized by the Confederacy. Before landing on the planet's surface, Rex witnessed the broadcast of a holotransmission alongside Kenobi, Skywalker, and Cody in which the Confederate General Whorm Loathsom, the instigator behind the Confederacy's seizure of Christophsis, ordered the planet's inhabitants to submit to Separatist rule. After the Republic battle group had established a base on the planet, the forces moved to two parallel towers facing the north and south, from where they intended to attack the Separatist battle droids advancing through the plaza below. Skywalker and Rex stationed their men in the North tower, while the South tower housed the assault force commanded by Kenobi, Cody, and Clone Sergeant Slick. As the droids approached the plaza below the two towers, the column of enemy troops suddenly split in half, and a squad of droids ambushed Kenobi's men in the South tower. Once Skywalker had signaled clone pilot Hawk for an evacuation from the South tower, the Jedi, Rex, and their men used the grappling hooks of the clones' DC-15A blaster rifles to traverse the gap between the two towers. The group avoided laser fire from the droids below them and reached the adjacent building, where they arrived to reinforce Kenobi. Once the droids' advance had been temporarily stalled, the entire detachment took a turbolift to the roof of the tower.

Pursued by T-series tactical droid TJ-55 and more droid troops, Skywalker and Kenobi began to cut through their adversaries while Rex, Cody, and the clones provided covering fire. Hawk's LAAT/i gunship soon arrived and hovered near the edge of the roof, and the Jedi and clones escaped with TJ-55's cranial unit, which trooper Gus had pilfered. Back at the Republic base's command center, Cody and Rex analyzed the droid, but it only revealed that the Confederacy had been aware of the Republic's plan of attack before it stopped processing. When the clone officers reported their findings to their Jedi Generals, Skywalker suggested that a breach in security had revealed the Republic's plan to the Separatists, but Kenobi went so far as to suspect that there was a spy among their men. The two Jedi decided to investigate behind enemy lines and left Rex and Cody to apprehend the traitor under orders to keep the Jedi's mission confidential. Just moments after the Jedi had left, however, an alarmed Cody found an activated comlink on a nearby table, evidence that someone had been remotely eavesdropping on the entire conversation.

Immediately following his comrade's discovery, Rex noticed a figure in the hallway. Though he was too far away to be recognized, the spy was Sergeant Slick, who had secretly betrayed the Republic to Dark Acolyte Asajj Ventress and the Confederacy out of a grudge against the Jedi. When Rex ordered the spy to halt, Slick simply disregarded his commands and fled. Although Cody and Rex lost their target during their pursuit of him through the base, the clone officers were able to follow the spy's trail to the mess hall because of the arrangement of the base's hallways. Entering the mess hall, Rex and Cody discovered that the only people there were their clone brothers, a fact that caused them to realize that one of their men was the traitor. Returning to the command center with Cody to continue their investigations, Rex used the astromech droid R2-D2 to check the base's records of external communications. Musing through the droid's findings with a datapad, Rex was able to trace an irregular wavelength to Sergeant Slick's barracks, and the evidence led Rex and Cody to infer that a member of Slick's platoon was the spy. To this end, the clone officers decided to individually interrogate Slick's men, and did so in the platoon's barracks despite protest from Slick. With Rex and Cody presiding over the inspection, troopers Jester, Punch, Sketch, and Gus all passed interrogation. However, the questioning forced trooper Chopper to reveal that he had broken war protocols by stealing battle droid fingers from the battlefield and stringing them together in a necklace.

Although Slick attempted to put Chopper's credibility into question, the Sergeant accidentally revealed his knowledge of the Jedi's mission&mdash;information that he would have only known if he had been listening on Rex's and Cody's earlier conversation with the Jedi through the active comlink. When put on the spot by Cody, Slick attacked his comrades and fled from the barracks, leaving Rex and Cody shocked by the revelation of Slick's true allegiances. The two clone officers' pursuit of the clone traitor to the gunship landing platform yielded some unpleasant results in the form of several pre-planted thermal detonators. The pair took cover just before the explosives were detonated, and the landing platform and the weapons supply depot were compromised in the resulting explosion. Learning from Gus that Slick had been spotted running into the command center, Rex and Cody headed there to apprehend the spy. Once there, the duo engaged in a ploy to bait Slick out of the room's air ducts where they discovered he was hiding. While Cody secretly took the ammunition out of his DC-15S blaster and left the weapon on a communication hub, Rex appeared to leave for the south exit to get the generators restarted. Once the door had closed behind him, Rex re-entered the room and assisted Cody in confronting Slick, who had risen to the bait and forsook his cover to steal Cody's empty blaster. Although held at gunpoint by his commanding officers, Slick refused to surrender and grabbed Rex's blaster, bowling him over and aiming the weapon at him.

A brawl began between the clones when Cody and Slick disarmed and engaged each other in close combat. Rex joined Cody in fighting Slick, but when he pulled the traitorous Sergeant away from Cody, he received a blow to the head and was knocked to the ground by the spy. While Slick used the "groin popper" maneuver to painfully dislocate Rex's leg, Cody swiftly knocked Slick out, and the Separatist spy was locked in handcuffs. When Skywalker and Kenobi returned to the base, Rex and Cody presented them with the apprehended Slick. Having regained consciousness, Slick attempted to justify his actions, but he only received sharp retorts from his clone officers on his conflicting loyalty to his brothers and his role as a Separatist agent, the latter of which had put his brethren at risk. Once Slick had been taken away to lock-up, Rex and Cody reported the spy's sabotage of the weapons depot to Skywalker and Kenobi, who replied that they had discovered the full strength of the Separatists' main droid force, numbering close to a thousand strong. It was not long before General Loathsom launched his first assault on the Republic forces, which became based out of Crystal City.

After several days, the Jedi and clones were able to beat back the Separatists, and the droids retreated. Rex took advantage of the lapse in fighting to shave his hair and review casualty reports on his datapad near the Republic's temporarily established medical center. There, he conferred and joked with the medic on duty, Clone Sergeant Coric, and the wounded trooper Ged, who had received a shoulder injury. The moment the Confederate forces launched another assault, Rex immediately grabbed his rifle, sprinted for the street without a backward glance, and joined Skywalker and Kenobi in defending the Republic's position. While Cody assisted Kenobi in leading the troops to defend the Republic's base, Skywalker, Rex, and a clone platoon proceeded through a route parallel to the main street and made their way behind the droid lines. Along the way, Rex recalled how just days before, Crystal City had been a landscape of glittering beauty before being crippled by the ongoing battle. Rex, Sergeant Coric, Ged&mdash;whom Rex noticed had been patched up for battle&mdash;and the rest of the men accompanied Skywalker to an energy sphere tower, where they divided their troops. While the majority of the troops was left at ground level to ambush the street-level droids, Rex took a small group of clones to accompany Skywalker to the roof to surprise a trio of advancing Separatist tri-droids from above.

The clones used JT-12 jetpacks to safely descend to the ground below, while Skywalker landed on one of the droids himself. The group's combined efforts brought the three droids down, and the clones proceeded to attack the droid lines marching through the street from behind. Once Loathsom and his army had been forced to retreat once more, a Republic Nu-class attack shuttle landed in City Plaza. Although Kenobi believed his new Padawan learner to be on board the ship, he and Skywalker soon found that the shuttle had not brought reinforcements&mdash;in place of the expected troops was young Padawan Ahsoka Tano, who had been apprenticed to Skywalker. Rex went to check in with the observation post, where he was introduced to Tano. Rex was surprised to meet Skywalker's Padawan, as his Jedi General had previously stated that he would never take an apprentice. Rex could not help but chuckle when Tano nicknamed her new Master "Skyguy," but Skywalker, annoyed with Tano's arrogance and lack of respect for him, told his clone officer to give her an "acquaint of the position" and take her on his rounds to inspect all of the Republic's lookouts in the city. Rex complied and ushered Tano away to confer with her privately at the Republic's defensive positions. Using various elements of his training, Rex helped Tano to better understand her role in the army. He and Tano were eventually able to reach an understanding of each other&mdash;although Tano was still eager to prove that she was ready to be an apprentice, she was no longer arrogant or disrespectful to her superiors.

While walking with Rex near the Republic's AV-7 Antivehicle Cannons, Tano noticed that the Confederacy was deploying a deflector shield. Rex did not take the development lightly, and grimly remarked that it would render the Republic's artillery useless. Returning to the Republic's comm station, Rex and Tano joined Skywalker and Kenobi in planning a defense of the base. It was decided that Skywalker would take his Padawan to infiltrate the droid lines and eliminate the shield generator, while Kenobi and Rex would draw the droids into the buildings to stall for time. After Skywalker and Tano had departed, Rex and Kenobi attempted to use the heavy cannons in defense but only confirmed that the artillery was indeed useless against the droids' shield. Using an unencrypted comlink channel to make the command appear more convincing to the Separatists, Rex ordered the clone forces to fall back before switching back to a secure channel. He then eavesdropped on the Confederacy's voice traffic and learned that Loathsom had ordered his forces to target the Republic's heavy cannons, which had prevented his troops from advancing earlier in the battle.

As soon as the deflector shield had passed over them, Kenobi led a charge on the battle droids' front lines, and Rex and his men lured the Separatists into the buildings. When the droids fired a missile at the comm post that Rex was using as cover, he was winded and knocked to the ground by the explosion. Rex was forced to order his men to retreat, and he met with Kenobi at the command center. Although Rex volunteered to fire the cannon at the droids inside of the shield, a risky action that would cause fatal overpressure, Kenobi instead ordered him to marshal his troops in a defense of the heavy cannons while the Jedi Master himself delayed the droids. Despite his reluctance to leave Kenobi to fend for himself, Rex complied and retreated while Kenobi engaged the approaching droids. As the shield approached the heavy cannons, Rex, Coric, and their men countered the advancing droids' fire from some rubble near Crystal City's main street. Upon learning that Kenobi had surrendered to Loathsom, Rex deduced that the General was simply stalling for time and rallied his men to continue fighting. Skywalker and Tano soon destroyed the shield generator, and catching sight of the receding shield, Rex killed the Kerkoiden tank commander he was aiming at out of sheer relief. He ordered the heavy cannons to commence firing, and the Republic employed its renewed artillery usage to eradicate the battle droids.

With the battle over and reinforcements led by Admiral Wullf Yularen landing on Christophsis, Rex allowed himself to feel the deaths of his comrades personally. Although LAAT/i gunships arrived and began to bombard the nearby lines of battle droids, Rex helped Coric search through the debris for surviving troopers regardless of the danger posed by the continuing fire. Rex eventually departed to pick up Skywalker and Tano from the shield generator station aboard a gunship, retrieving the two Jedi and returning with them to the command base. During the flight back, Rex congratulated Skywalker and Tano on their successful mission.

Battle of Teth
"If we can't stop them, then we delay them as long as we can, and after that we make sure they have to crawl over our bodies. It's been an honor, gentlemen."

- Rex, to Torrent Company

Following the liberation of Christophsis, Skywalker and Commander Tano were assigned to rescue Rotta, the kidnapped son of the Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure, in order to win Jabba's favor to allow the Grand Army access to Hutt-controlled hyperspace lanes. Captain Rex and Torrent Company, his 501st Legion detachment, accompanied the two Jedi to the planet Teth&mdash;where Republic scouts had tracked the Huttlet&mdash;in an Acclamator-class transport. Because the monastery where Rotta was being held was located atop a cliff and was being guarded by a number of battle droids, Skywalker elected to launch a vertical assault up the cliff face to reach the monastery. The Republic forces were ferried to the surface in LAAT/i gunships, and LAAT carriers brought a pair of AT-TE walkers along as extra support. When the monastery's droid defenders opened fire on the approaching craft, Clone Lieutenant Hawk&mdash;the pilot of the gunship carrying Skywalker, Tano, Rex, and some of their troopers&mdash;closed the gunship's blast shields to deflect the incoming fire. The gunships landed in the forest below the cliff, and the AT-TEs returned fire at the droids, providing cover for the Jedi and clones to take refuge in an overhang. Rex soon sighted an object falling from the cliff, and though he initially believed it to be an explosive device, it was discovered to be a fallen battle droid, which he confirmed to not be booby-trapped.

Employing both vines and their blasters' ascension cables, Skywalker, Tano, Rex, and Torrent Company climbed up the cliff, and Rex himself fired his rappel line to ascend the face. As a vertical crossfire began, the battle droids' laser fire caused one of the AT-TE walkers to lose its grip on the cliff, and Rex watched in horror as the AT-TE plummeted to the ground, eradicating all of the troops beneath it. When B1 battle droids on Single Trooper Aerial Platforms flew in to attack the clones, Rex targeted his blaster fire at the flying droids before Skywalker eliminated the droid-piloted craft. Torrent Company was eventually able to defeat the droids and reach the monastery, albeit at the loss of half of its men. Upon arrival at the summit of the cliff, Rex called in a gunship to casevac the fifteen troopers that had been wounded in the fight. Noting the monastery's heavy droid presence, Skywalker and Rex deduced that the Huttlet was being held by the Separatists. Leaving several men to look after their injured troops, Skywalker, Tano, and Rex took troopers Coric, Lunn, Vaize, and Ayar to retrieve the Huttlet from the monastery.

Entering the dimly lit castle, the clone troopers activated their helmets' headlights for better vision. The group was greeted by a protocol droid, who claimed to be the monastery's caretaker and thanked them for liberating him from the battle droids. Learning from the droid that the Separatists had kept their prisoners on the detention level, Skywalker and Tano proceeded to the lower levels to rescue the Huttlet while Rex and his men stayed to guard the entrance. Rex later returned to the monastery courtyard and effectively secured the castle with his troops. As it neared midday, Rex learned from Skywalker that he and Tano had found the Huttlet, and Rex sent Sergeant Coric to help transport Rotta with a backpack. After Skywalker and Tano had returned with Rotta, they prepared to leave the planet with the Huttlet on a gunship that Rex was keeping on standby. However, Tano's discovery that the Huttlet was sick halted their preparations for an evacuation. While Skywalker and Tano were delivering a status report to Kenobi via a holotransmission through R2-D2, two Confederate C-9979 landing crafts approached the monastery and deployed Vulture droid starfighters and ground troops. With the droids attacking the Republic detachment in the courtyard, Tano returned to the stronghold with the Huttlet while Rex and Skywalker organized their forces to counter the incoming droids. After briefly conferring with Skywalker on the weak chances of getting Tano and Rotta safely off-planet, Rex dispatched Sergeants Coric and Hez and their squads to provide covering fire for the rest of the force.

The Republic's only remaining AT-TE walker was shot down, and Torrent Company began to take heavy losses. Rex eventually entered the monastery, and with the clones inside the stronghold, Skywalker ordered his Captain to shut the monastery door. Rex initially refused, as Skywalker would be left outside and forced to fend on his own against the droids, but at the Jedi General's continued orders, Rex complied and fired a blaster round at the controls. Skywalker used the Force to propel himself through the closing gap and into the entrance chamber, sealing himself inside the monastery with the rest of his men and preventing the battle droids from advancing any further. With three-quarters of their men dead, several wounded, and only three medic-trained troopers remaining, Tano convinced her Master that it was best to find medical attention for the sick Rotta. The two Jedi left with R2-D2 to escape the castle while Rex remained with Torrent Company to defend their position. The Separatist forces&mdash;under the command of Dark Acolyte Asajj Ventress&mdash;were soon able to break through the door's lock, allowing B1, B2, and DSD1 dwarf spider droids to enter the building. Due to the battle droids' sheer numbers, Torrent Company began to be overwhelmed and gradually took heavy losses to enemy fire. Rex watched as his men were eliminated one by one before being knocked to the ground.

Feigning death, Rex secretly contacted the other survivors through his troops' private frequency and discovered that only five of his men, including Sergeant Coric, remained. As Ventress entered the monastery antechamber and gave orders to an OOM command battle droid, Rex destroyed the droid with one of his blaster pistols and then targeted the Dark Acolyte herself. However, Ventress immediately drew her double-bladed lightsabers and deflected the Captain's laser shots. She telekinetically pulled Rex's blaster out of his hand and Force-choked him, interrogating him on Skywalker's whereabouts. Trained in mental resistance, Rex kept repeating his name, rank, clone designation, and battle group to avoid succumbing to the Dark Acolyte's influence. Ventress finally gave up her interrogation, and after dropping the defiant Rex to the floor, she performed a mind trick on him, ordering him to contact Skywalker and ask for the Jedi's location. Resisting Ventress's mind influence, Rex commed Skywalker of his own accord, using a false voice and addressing him as "Anakin" instead of his usual "General Skywalker" to allude to the Dark Acolyte's presence.

Unaware of Rex's exploit, Ventress threw him aside and departed to personally confront Skywalker, leaving her battle droids to guard the remaining survivors of Torrent Company. Maintaining an unconscious, unmoving position to avoid attracting the droids' attention, Rex suspected that his ribs had been broken but nevertheless checked in with his men over the clones' private frequency, keeping them prepared to mount a last stand on the Separatists. Skywalker soon contacted Rex via comlink, and because Rex had forgotten to divert the device to his helmet, the battle droids overheard the device's beeping. As the droids converged on him, Rex destroyed several of the droids closest to him in combat and stole a blaster. Moving as one, the other Torrent Company survivors&mdash;Coric, Nax, Zeer, CT-9932, Del, and Attie&mdash;sprang to their feet and attacked the Separatist droids as well, pilfering blasters for themselves. The clones and droids engaged each other in a crossfire, with the former group using the fallen AT-TE walker as cover. Rex took a painkiller from his belt medpac before briefly reporting the situation to Skywalker. Zeer eventually chose to plant explosives in an eviscerated super battle droid and detonated it once it had been sent back into the Confederate lines. The trap droid destroyed many of its comrades, but after a brief lull in the fighting that lasted only for a few minutes, the battle droids soon returned and continued to fight Rex and his men. The six troopers were able to bring down an advancing Vulture droid, using it as cover to engage the droids at a closer proximity.

As the battle droids demanded the clones' surrender, General Kenobi&mdash;who had arrived at Teth with reinforcements in the form of Commander Cody, the 212th Attack Battalion, and an armada led by Admiral Yularen&mdash;commenced an air assault on the droids. Kenobi jumped out of his Delta-7B starfighter to assist Rex and the few survivors of Torrent Company while several LAAT/i gunships deployed Cody and his men. Learning from Rex that Skywalker was most likely still inside the castle, Kenobi went into the monastery to find the Jedi General. Eventually, Skywalker&mdash;having found and commandeered the Twilight, an old spice freighter, with Tano and Rotta&mdash;contacted Rex, reluctantly telling him that they would be unable to give support, as returning Rotta to his father was still their priority. Rex understood the Jedi's position and replied that he and his men would be able to hold out on their own thanks to Kenobi's arrival before the connection was severed. With his comrades providing covering fire, Rex ran toward an approaching dwarf spider droid and planted a primed thermal detonator on it, jumping away in time to avoid the explosion that engulfed it. As they continued to force the battle droids back, Rex and the clones were joined once again by Kenobi, who had returned after dueling Ventress inside the monastery and forcing her to flee. Rex voiced his doubt to Kenobi that Skywalker and Tano would be able to make it to Tatooine in their dilapidated freighter, but Kenobi was confident that Skywalker's abilities would enable him to travel through hyperspace and meet with Jabba on Tatooine.

The Republic was eventually able to defeat the Confederate forces and secured a victory on Teth. Amidst the settling dust, Rex expressed his frustration with the poorly handled operation to Cody. Although Rex was still devastated with the loss of Torrent Company, Cody stated that the battle had not been in vain, as Skywalker and Tano had reached Tatooine with the Huttlet still alive. Rex and Cody later accompanied Jedi Masters Yoda and Kenobi to Tatooine to retrieve Skywalker and Tano, who had successfully returned Rotta to his father and established a treaty with the Hutts to allow the Republic Grand Army safe passage through Hutt Space. Upon meeting with Rex, Skywalker and Tano wanted to hear all the details of the rest of the battle in terms of the clones that had won and paid the price for it. Despite his continued distress from the loss of so many of his men, Rex agreed to recount it to them. Though Torrent Company was replenished with new troops, the defeat of the original unit stayed with Rex for a long time.

Redeployment
"Your troops are settled, Captain? And ready for the fray?''" "''Yes, sir. They've adjusted well, and will do you proud."

- Anakin Skywalker and Rex

As the war continued, Skywalker, Tano, and Rex returned to the galactic capital of Coruscant. Eventually, when word reached the Jedi High Council that the Confederate General Grievous was targeting the planet Bothawui, the home to the key Republic-affiliated Bothan Spynet, General Skywalker was given command of his own battle group to defend the strategic world. Kenobi, who had been injured in a terrorist bombing, was unable to participate in the mission, but knowing that Skywalker would want Rex and the 501st Legion for his strike force, Kenobi had Rex and his men put on standby. Once the three Venator-class Star Destroyers making up Skywalker's fleet&mdash;the Resolute, Pioneer, and Dauntless&mdash;had arrived from the Allanteen Six shipyards, Skywalker took the Resolute as his flagship, with Admiral Yularen serving as the cruiser's ranking Republic officer. After getting his men settled on the Star Destroyer, Rex enjoyed a brief reunion with Skywalker and Tano, who were both pleased that the Clone Captain had been assigned to their task force. Following preparations for their departure, Skywalker's fleet left Coruscant for the Both system. En route to Bothawui, the Republic Star Destroyers were pursued by Grievous and his force of Munificent-class star frigates. Skywalker fought Grievous several times in open space before taking a direct hyperspace route to Bothawui, arriving there ahead of Grievous. However, Skywalker, Tano, and Rex soon learned from Kenobi that Grievous had delayed his pursuit of them to overwhelm Republic forces on the planet Falleen.

Despite being outnumbered two-to-one in vessels, Skywalker was intent on protecting Bothawui from the Separatists' grip. Skywalker deployed Rex and a detachment of AT-TE walkers to the asteroid belt surrounding the gas giant Bothawui Prime. The walkers would be able to outflank Grievous once he and his fleet had passed through the asteroids. After the six Confederate frigates arrived in the system, passed through the asteroid belt&mdash;as well as the AT-TEs hidden there&mdash;and opened fire on the Republic Star Destroyers, Rex and his men changed the tide of the battle by attacking the frigates and targeting their rears. The ambush was all the more successful because the unsuspecting Grievous had previously diverted all of his frigates' power to their forward shields instead of their rear ones. The Resolute, Pioneer, and Dauntless annihilated the Separatist armada, but not before Grievous was able to flee his crumbling assault force in his personal starfighter, Soulless One. Skywalker was hampered in his pursuit of Grievous by damage to his Delta-7B starfighter, and the Jedi and his fighter veered toward the asteroid belt.

Rex was able to rescue Skywalker from his crippled ship, but could not save R2-D2, who had accompanied the Jedi General on his starfighter. Rex and Tano met with Skywalker in the Resolute medbay once he had regained consciousness and brought him up to date with the battle's success, albeit with the loss of R2-D2. After conducting an unsuccessful search for his astromech droid, Skywalker was forced to declare R2-D2 officially missing in action. Believing that the Resolute, Pioneer, and Dauntless could use modifications, Skywalker took his fleet back to the shipyards where they had been manufactured. Eventually, Kenobi contacted Skywalker and Tano at the shipyards and tasked them with finding a Confederate listening post, whose existence and interceptions of Republic transmissions had been recently confirmed by Republic Intelligence, before it could continue to pose a threat to the Republic Grand Army's war operations. With this new assignment, Skywalker's fleet left the shipyards, and Skywalker elected to undertake the sweeps of space suspected of Confederate activity while the rest of his forces concentrated on a more central path. When informed by Skywalker of this decision, Rex questioned whether he was sure he wanted to scout ahead alone, but the General was certain that more than one fighter would attract too much attention from the Separatists. Taking replacement astromech droid R3-S6 with him, Skywalker departed the Resolute in his retrieved Delta-7B fighter, unaware that R3-S6 was a spy working for Grievous.

Not long after Skywalker had left, Tano received a signal from the homing beacon of her Master's fighter. Alarmed that her Master's position had been compromised, Tano ordered Rex to gather as many men as he could to mount a rescue mission. Tano, Rex, and a squad of troopers departed the Resolute and soon arrived aboard the Twilight to reinforce Skywalker against a pair of opposing Confederate Munificent-class frigates&mdash;under the command of Grievous himself&mdash;and a squadron of Vulture droids. With his hyperspace docking ring disabled, Skywalker piloted his fighter into the Twilight cargo bay to retreat with the Republic squad. Tano maneuvered the Twilight right between the wings of the two enemy frigates, and as soon as the ship was clear, Rex engaged the Twilight hyperdrive, executing a successful escape from Grievous. A short while later, R2-D2, who had been captured by the scavenger Gha Nachkt, was able to get a message on his plight through to the Twilight. Rex tracked the astromech droid to Ruusan 2, a moon of the planet Ruusan. The Twilight arrived over the moon, where the Republic squad discovered Skytop Station, the listening post that the Republic had been looking for. Despite Kenobi's orders to sabotage the station without retrieving R2-D2, Skywalker resolved to mount a dual operation to save his captured astromech droid and destroy Skytop Station. Once the Twilight had entered the gassy atmosphere of the moon, Skywalker, Tano, Rex, and four other troopers used the Force and JT-12 jetpacks, respectively, to safely land on the station many meters below. On Tano's orders, Rex carried R3-S6 to the station, a job he was not particularly enthusiastic about undertaking because of the droid's substantial weight.

Upon landing with the heavy R3-S6 in his arms, Rex insisted that he would never lug an astromech droid around again. After entering the station with the others, Rex and another trooper quickly shot down two B1 battle droid guards in their path. They proceeded with the rest of their unit to a nearby computer terminal, from which R3-S6 accessed the station's building schematics and relayed them holographically to the squad. Rex briefed the squad on the location of the station's reactors, which, if destroyed, would cause Skytop Station to drop through Ruusan 2's atmosphere and be destroyed. Skywalker left the task of planting the explosives at the reactor room to Tano, Rex, and the clones while he himself went to find and rescue the captive R2-D2. Upon arrival at the reactor room thirty levels below, Rex and Tano noted that an alarm had triggered the ray shield of the entrance to the room and reported this to Skywalker. R3-S6 plugged into a nearby terminal and tried to bypass the shield, but as time passed and the squad heard battle droids approaching in the distance, Rex became doubtful of R3-S6's abilities and questioned them.

Although Tano admonished Rex, telling him to be patient, R3-S6 was actually stalling to give the approaching battle droids time to ambush the Republic squad. He was successful in this delay when a squad of B1 battle droids arrived and attacked the Jedi and clones. While Tano deflected laser shots with her lightsaber, Rex and his men used the hallway's supports as cover and opened fire on the battle droids. As the battle continued, R3-S6 activated the reactor room's secondary door, sealing the Jedi and clones off from the reactors. When the Padawan and the clones were caught in a crossfire with the arrival of B2 super battle droids, Tano had Rex utilize electro magnetic pulse grenades&mdash;nicknamed "droid poppers"&mdash;against their adversaries, and a grenade tossed in both directions effected the deactivation of the battle droids. However, the Republic squad's troubles were not over. Grievous himself arrived and confronted the squad, batting Tano aside and attacking Rex and the clone troopers. The five clones targeted their blaster fire at Grievous in defense, but the troopers were knocked aside, and all except Rex and trooper Denal were killed. As Grievous prepared to murder the unconscious Rex, Tano intervened in time to stop the cyborg's death blow with her own lightsaber. Tano continued to distract Grievous by drawing him into a storage room, and after regaining consciousness, Rex and Denal learned of Tano's exploits. Although Rex protested to her course of action over a comlink transmission, he complied with her orders to complete the mission. Rex and Denal were able to enter the reactor room and plant the explosives there, and the two then rendezvoused with Skywalker and the Twilight at the station's landing bay.

Skywalker became alarmed when he learned from Rex that Tano had engaged Grievous alone. As Rex and Denal headed toward the hangar's exit to take Skywalker and the Twilight clone pilot back to assist Tano, R3-S6 closed the blast doors and sealed all of the hangar's exits, both to the rest of the station and out of the listening post. The astromech droid also activated several Vulture droids hanging from the roof, revealing his loyalties to Grievous and the Separatists. Attacked by the Vulture droids on one side and super battle droids from the other direction, Skywalker and the clones ran for cover behind several nearby crates while returning the droids' fire. As the firefight progressed, Skywalker ordered Rex to activate the explosives planted at the station's reactors, despite the fact that the entire squad was still in the station. The Clone Captain detonated the charges, crippling Skytop Station's reactors and beginning its gravity-pulled descent into Ruusan 2's atmosphere. After Skywalker sent R2-D2 to open the main hangar door from a terminal on the station's exterior, Tano arrived and made her entrance by eliminating two of the Vulture droids. When Rex noticed several fuel cells next to the crates, Skywalker used the Force to hurtle one of them at the droids, and Rex placed a well-aimed shot on the cell. In the resulting explosion, all of the remaining droids were eliminated. R2-D2 was able to open the hangar door, and after the Jedi and clones had escaped the station aboard the Twilight, Skywalker retrieved his astromech droid, completing the successful operation.

Mission to JanFathal
"You don't mean to go on the mission, do you, Captain? It's not really your job. It's mine, in the absence of any embarked troops. And I've done extractions before. Except we'll do this one my way, and with any luck it won't turn out like Teth."

- Rex, to Gilad Pellaeon

A few months into the war, Rex agreed to relieve Skywalker of his Padawan for a few days by taking her along on a three-day shakedown cruise aboard Republic Navy Captain Gilad Pellaeon's newly refitted assault ship, Leveler, in the Dantus sector. After Pellaeon, whom he was acquainted with, permitted him to join Leveler testing session, Rex departed with Tano, Sergeant Coric, and six clone troopers new to the 501st Legion's Torrent Company&mdash;Ross, Boro, Joc, Hil, Vere, and Ince, who had completed their clone trooper training just days earlier. En route to Leveler aboard a shuttle, Tano questioned if her Master had decided to take a respite from training just to take a break from her, but Rex abstained from directly answering the question to avoid speculating about Skywalker's actions. The Clone Captain was more concerned with his new 501st troopers, worrying that he would have to make use of the inconsiderate tally sensor to tell the six rookies apart for their lack of displaying unique personalities. After arriving aboard Leveler, Rex exchanged a few warming, casual words with Pellaeon in a brief reunion with him. Once Tano had put on a uniform that Pellaeon had deemed more appropriate than her rather revealing choice of clothing, Rex and his men got settled on the ship. At Tano's request, Rex took her to examine Leveler experimental concussion missiles. Pellaeon found the two at one of the missile bays and discovered that Rex was sporting a new blue-striped hairstyle for the Bolo-ball final to support the Sullustan Bylluran Athletic team.

Rex and Pellaeon were cut off from a discussion on Leveler new weapons by an alert that a flotilla of Confederate ships had exited hyperspace in the nearby Fath sector. While Rex and Pellaeon watched the scans and logs of the suspicious Separatist activity, Tano sensed a disturbance in the Force, which, at Rex's advice, Pellaeon took to heart. Despite the fact that the enemy activity could result in nothing, Rex took precautions and departed to round up his men in case they would be needed. On his way back to his detachment's quarters, Rex learned from Lieutenant Meriones that there were more Separatist ships active than the original six that Leveler had tracked. Returning to Torrent Company's barracks, Rex came to regret his own novelty, undignified haircut at the sight of his men's normal black haircuts, and resolved to shave his hair as soon as the opportunity presented itself. After Rex relayed the situation to Tano and the troopers, Job's inquiries into Pellaeon's private life sparked a debate between Tano and the rookie clones about the Jedi Code's forbidding of attachment, which Rex ended by putting his men on standby for enemy contact. Once Tano had departed to check out the ops room at his suggestion, Rex reproved his men for putting Tano on the spot but was nevertheless pleased that the six clones were settling in even better than he had expected.

In an effort to keep him and his men occupied, Rex took them down to the hangar deck to undertake some deck circuits and familiarize themselves with the planets of the Fath system, where Leveler was headed to keep a closer watch on the active Separatist armada. In addition, Rex contacted Skywalker and informed him of Leveler diversion to the Fath system. Despite Rex's belief that the Jedi General's involvement in the matter was unnecessary, Skywalker set off to rendezvous with Leveler. After shaving his hair back to its normal baldness, Rex joined Tano and Pellaeon on the assault ship's bridge just as the warship became host to the Altisian Jedi sect. Jedi Master Djinn Altis, who spoke for the group of Jedi, requested permission to dock his freighter, Wookiee Gunner, to Leveler on the grounds of receiving a distress signal from a Republic agent on the nearby planet JanFathal. Republic Intelligence confirmed Altis's story and detailed the agent's capture during a Separatist-allied rebel uprising against the world's Regent leader. Pellaeon approved the rendezvous with Altis, and Rex promised his men for the imminent hostage extraction mission alongside the Altisian Jedi in the absence of embarked troops. The mission was complicated, however, with Intelligence's identification of Hallena Devis to be the captive operative, a close acquaintance of Pellaeon.

While Rex and his men were familiarizing themselves with JanFathal's capital city, Athar&mdash;where Devis was being held&mdash;via a holochart in Leveler meeting room, Master Altis, Callista Masana, and Geith Eris of the Jedi sect boarded Leveler and convened with Pellaeon, Tano, and the clones to formulate a plan for the operation. As Pellaeon briefed everyone on the mission at hand, Rex objected when Pellaeon implied that he intended to personally participate in the mission; the Clone Captain cited that it was his own responsibility and that of his men in the absence of embarked troops. While a plan to rescue Devis was formed, Rex noted that all they could hope for was a successful rescue and not a full-scale fight against the Separatists. Meanwhile, Eris and Masana expressed their desire to undertake the reconnaissance of Athar themselves, as the very production of clones for the Grand Army went against their beliefs. Despite the two Jedi's intentions to prevent the clones from participating in the mission, Masana and Eris complied with the clones' wishes when Rex and his comrades insisted that it was their job. With the plan in place, Pellaeon, Rex, the clones, and the four Jedi made their way down to the assault ship's hangar bay, where the replenishment shuttle that the team would be taking to JanFathal was being prepared. Conferring with Pellaeon, Rex refused to use civilian clothing for the mission, stating that he preferred armor advantages over stealth. He also comforted Pellaeon and was confident that his squad would be able to rescue Devis from her quandary.

Once the Sullustan sensor technician Benb had finished with outfitting the shuttle, the clones and four Jedi boarded the craft. Before embarking with the others, Rex told Pellaeon to keep a lookout for General Skywalker, who was tracking the Clone Captain's secure link. When Leveler was in position to deploy the shuttle, Sergeant Coric piloted the craft out of the assault ship's hangar and headed for Athar. During the flight, Rex conferred with Tano in an attempt to divert her attention from the Altisian Jedi, whose controversial beliefs directly conflicted with the orthodox Jedi principles upon which Tano had been raised. However, this distraction did not prevent Tano from calling Rex out on his apparent casualty with the ongoing "Jedi politics" while Masana was explaining the Altisian Jedi's beliefs to him. Rex also checked in with his rookie troopers over their private circuit and took pity on the new 501st inductees, as nothing in their training on Kamino could have prepared them to face Jedi of this incongruity. After bypassing a Separatist landing craft, Coric took the shuttle to enter JanFathal's atmosphere and immediately headed for Athar. At Altis's direction, Coric dropped the shuttle to such a low range that Rex became concerned that the craft was going to have a head-on collision with a ground transport. Despite Rex's beliefs, Coric was able to safely land the shuttle, and while Boro and Joc took up defensive positions around the ship, Rex and the others headed for a nearby building. There, Altis and Ross worked with a recording remote to observe the surrounding Separatist deployments.

Rex, Tano, and Masana then reconnoitered the vicinity of the building where Devis was being held by the Separatist-backed rebels. Rex formed a plan for a standard hostage extraction, electing to first secure the building's exit and then deploy teams to the roof and entrance to simultaneously infiltrate the Republic Intelligence agent's prison. After the rest of the squad had joined them there, Rex sent Altis with Joc, Ince, and Ross to cover the exit while he himself led the others to scale the building's wall and enter the structure via the roof. Once Altis had distracted Devis's captors, the JanFathal rebels Merish Hath, Shil Kaval, and Varti, Rex and his men used explosives to open a hole in the roof and joined the Jedi in confronting the rebels. With Hath incapacitated, Rex aimed his blaster at Varti, who in turn held his own gun to the still-captive Devis's temple. Though Varti attempted to stall and bargain with him, Rex surprised everyone by unhesitatingly firing his own blaster, killing the man and freeing Devis. Ignoring his near-mindless kill, Rex used a vibroblade from his gauntlet to sever Devis's handcuffs and ushered her toward the exit, despite her attempt to retrieve her comlink from the badly wounded Kaval. After Devis had been moved to safety, the building began to crumble, and Altis, Rex, Vere, and Boro charged out of the structure. While Ince took Devis to Coric's shuttle, Rex joined the fight against the approaching army of battle droids.

In the ensuing battle, however, Vere was wounded beyond help, leaving Rex pained with the loss of a trooper whose active service had only lasted eight days. Although Boro attempted to revive the fallen Vere, Rex told him to continue fighting, as the rookie trooper's life was put in danger the more he spent trying to help Vere. Boro briefly attempted to argue, but he eventually complied and began to return the droids' fire. Launching grenades at the droid ranks with his rifle, Rex prepared to lay charges and sacrifice himself so that the others could escape, despite protests from both Tano and Boro. Before Rex could execute his plan, Altis, Masana, and Tano focused through the Force, toppling a nearby building onto the droids and blocking their adversaries' path with rubble. With the battle droids' advance temporarily halted, Rex contacted Coric and unexpectedly found that the Sergeant and his shuttle were landing nearby to extract his companions. Leading his troops back to the craft, Rex learned that at Devis's insistence, Coric had gone back on his orders of waiting only for the agent and the Jedi and had instead decided to come back for the rest of the squad. Despite Coric's disobedience of a direct order, Rex was nevertheless grateful for his actions. Once all of the Jedi and clones were on board, Coric piloted the shuttle out of the area, just in time to escape the pursuing battle droids. En route to Leveler, Devis thanked Rex for his men's efforts, and although Rex accepted her gratitude, he avoided starting a conversation with her in order to reflect on the loss of Vere.

When Rex noticed that Ross, Boro, Joc, Hil, and Ince had opened up a private comlink frequency, he respected their privacy and avoided intruding on it, knowing that they had to have some time to discuss matters&mdash;including the painful loss of Vere&mdash;without his interference. Rex instead conveyed his congratulations to his men on the successful rescue, though he noted that JanFathal was lost to the Republic. Leveler, meanwhile, was attacked by the Separatist destroyer Reaper and was forced to flee to hyperspace before Coric's shuttle could dock to it, leaving the Jedi and clones to fend for themselves. With their main source of life support gone, Rex ordered Coric to deactivate all of the craft's nonessential systems, but the limited supply of oxygen could not be improved. Boro's calculation that they would only be able to make it halfway to the Kemla Yard shipyard, the closest Republic-allied location, before they ran out of oxygen did nothing to better the situation. Instead, the squad elected to return to Athar and mount a last stand against the Separatist army there. Shortly thereafter, Skywalker arrived in the system aboard the V-19 Torrent starfighter Echo-97, and Rex updated his Jedi General on the situation. The mixed squad of Altisian Jedi and Torrent Company rendezvoused with Skywalker in JanFathal's occupied capital, where Skywalker was introduced to the rookie clones and the Altisian Jedi. Skywalker's report that he had seen several of the Separatists' hyperdrive-equipped CR-20 troop carriers, which could be used to escape JanFathal, did much to lift the clones' spirits.

While Ince kept watch on the Separatist lines, Altis received word from his comrade Ash Jarvee that Leveler was returning to the system from a miscalculated hyperspace jump, and relayed this information to the others. Skywalker then sent Masana, Rex, and the clone troopers to a road bridge above a nearby sports field while he and the other Jedi seized a CR-20. At that point, the clones would provide covering fire until the ship lifted off, and they would then embark the troop carrier. Once Masana, Rex, and the clones were in position, Skywalker, Tano, Altis, Eris, and Devis commandeered the CR-20 and proceeded to rescue the troopers. However, Ince was injured in battle with the droids and was treated by Hil. A Vulture droid soon approached and fired at some paving behind the group, but Masana diverted the falling debris with the Force and edged over to attend to Ince. Rex and Ross stayed to keep the droid starfighter occupied, buying time for Masana and the others to carry the injured Ince onto the hovering troop carrier. The Vulture droid landed and advanced upon the two clones in walking mode, and Ross got the droid's attention while Rex himself tangled the droid's legs with his rappel line, pulling himself toward his mechanical adversary. He hung on despite the droids' attempts to throw him off, and the droid became more and more entangled in the line.

Rex's and Ross's combined blaster fire took down the droid, and the two troopers escaped to the CR-20, which promptly made for Leveler. While Ince was stabilized, the battle-weary Rex manned the troop carrier's blaster cannons with Tano, and both defended the shuttle from the attacking Separatist armada. The CR-20 landed in one of Leveler hangars, and Ince was immediately taken to the warship's medbay. With all evacuees aboard, Leveler escaped to hyperspace, heading to rendezvous with Wookiee Gunner at Kemla Yard and drop the Altisian Jedi off. During the flight, Rex, his men, and Devis joined Ince in the medbay, where Rex attempted to busy himself through the aggravating wait for developments in Ince's case. Ince's kidneys began to fail, and when the trooper finally died from blood loss, the furious, ashen-faced Rex stormed out of the medbay and took refuge in the mess hall. Tano found the upset Rex there and discussed the Altisian Jedi's views of the clone army with him, which came to challenge Rex's own beliefs as well as Tano's. Accepting that he and the rest of his clone brethren were making the best of a situation they had not chosen, Rex was able to finally find stability with his beliefs, though Tano herself found it difficult to solidify her own principles.

Infiltration of Gwori
"Still no word. We have to assume they're in trouble. I think it's time to alter Master Skywalker's orders.''" "Are you sure, sir?" "Rex, just like Master Skywalker, you will'' have to learn to trust me."

- Ahsoka Tano and Rex

With several recent defeats at the hands of the massive Confederate Navy, the Jedi High Council decided to target the InterGalactic Banking Clan's Gwori shipyards, which manufactured ships for the Confederacy. The mission fell to Skywalker, Kenobi, and Rex, who were presented with the problem of determining the exact location of the shipyards and infiltrating Gwori itself&mdash;the planet was protected by a Separatist blockade and a radiation beam that eradicated all life forms entering the world. To counter the beam, Skywalker devised a plan for a small strike force to be frozen in carbonite and infiltrate the planet. R2-D2 would pilot the ship to Gwori before releasing the team from the carbonite, and after locating the shipyards, the squad would report back to Masters Plo Koon and Saesee Tiin, allowing them to eliminate the facility with a Republic squadron. Skywalker and Kenobi assembled their team at carbonite freezing plant CT-642. Though Rex expressed his concern that the squad might be susceptible to hibernation sickness, Skywalker stated that they would not be frozen long enough for it to take effect. The squad was encased in carbonite with the addition of Tano, who had been ordered by Skywalker not to participate in the mission but nevertheless manipulated Admiral Yularen to receive clearance to go to Gwori as well.

R2-D2 took the freighter VX-391 to Gwori with the strike team aboard. After the blockade's battle droids discovered that the freighter was unregistered, R2-D2 was forced to release the task force and escape the ship before it was shot down. The astromech droid freed Tano from her carbonite slab, and she in turn released the rest of the squad. Finding the starship construction facility, Skywalker and Kenobi dispatched Tano, Rex, R2-D2, and two other clone troopers to contact Masters Koon and Tiin from a nearby communication tower. Tano and the troopers eliminated the station's battle droid guards, and Tano contacted Koon, Tiin, and Admiral Yularen, who were waiting in the Moskk system, with the shipyards' coordinates. Before the infiltration team's escape from the planet could be arranged, however, the transmission was cut off when the shipyards' Overseer, Juhm, contacted the station and discovered that the Jedi and clones were still alive despite the elimination of their freighter. Tano, Rex, and their squad fled shortly before Juhm remotely destroyed the station. Tano informed Skywalker and Kenobi of the situation, and Skywalker told his Padawan to find cover while he and Kenobi infiltrated the shipyards. Out on Gwori's plains, Tano, Rex, and the clones were attacked by several B2-RP battle droids. After engaging the battle droids, Tano, Rex, R2-D2, and the two clones took refuge inside a nearby cave.

The group was attacked by a large lizard-like creature, and one of the clones was killed before Tano could eliminate the beast. As time went by, the extended lack of communication from Skywalker and Kenobi prompted Tano to deduce that the pair was in trouble. Tano decided that it was time to "alter" Skywalker's orders to stay concealed, and although Rex voiced his doubt with disobeying their orders, he left the cave with Tano and the other trooper. However, Overseer Juhm and a squad of B2 super battle droids suddenly ambushed the squad, killing the other trooper. Presented with the choice of either surrendering or being shot down, Tano and Rex decided to comply with Juhm's demands. The two were taken captive and ushered away, leaving R2-D2 in the cave. As night fell, Juhm attached Tano and Rex to electrically-charged frames alongside Skywalker and Kenobi, who had been captured at the shipyards. Juhm left IG-100 MagnaGuards to guard Rex and the Jedi from spiders and ensure that they stayed alive as a "reminder" to the shipyards' slaves of his own superiority. The four were tortured and electrocuted in turn, and Rex grudgingly expressed his gratitude for the MagnaGuards' protection from the spiders.

In an attempt to free themselves, the three Jedi used the Force to destroy the droids, and R2-D2 shortly arrived, cutting Skywalker, Tano, Kenobi, and Rex from their frames. Proceeding to the shipyards, the four convinced Juhm's slaves to liberate themselves from their servitude to the Separatist Overseer. At dawn, Skywalker, Tano, Kenobi, and Rex stole one of the shipyards' near-completed Munificent-class frigate to escape the destruction that was about to befall the facility at the hands of Koon and Tiin, who arrived to eliminate the shipyards with Hunter Squadron. The Republic bombers dropped their munitions on the construction facility just as the frigate carrying the Jedi, Rex, and the ex-slaves lifted off. Using the ship's tractor beam, Skywalker retrieved trooper Toomer, who was still encased in carbonite after his slab's controls had malfunctioned. The Jedi attempted to pilot the frigate through the Separatist blockade, but after the battle droids picked up the mass of life forms on the ship, they activated the radiation beam. The frigate's passengers were saved when Koon and Tiin intervened, destroying the scan gate. The two Jedi Masters hitched a ride on the vessel, as their hyperdrive rings had been destroyed, and the frigate escaped the Gwori system for Coruscant. Back on the galactic capital, the ex-slaves of the shipyards found employment with the Republic. Once Toomer had been freed from his carbonite, Rex told the disappointed trooper that there would be "plenty more fighting to come."

Outpost inspections
"All right, listen up. There's only one target of interest in this sector: Kamino. It's the closest thing we clones have to a home. Today we fight for more than the Republic. Today we fight for all our brothers back home. Understood?''" "''Sir, yes, sir!"

- Rex, to Echo, Fives, and Hevy

Later in the war, Rex was once again stationed with Skywalker, Tano, and Admiral Yularen on board the Resolute while the Star Destroyer was keeping the Bith system secure. In the midst of a Separatist attack on Jedi General Plo Koon's forces in the nearby Abregado system, the Resolute was reassigned to protect the Republic's supply convoys alongside Kenobi and his flagship, the Negotiator, as well as the rest of the fleet stationed with them. After Skywalker himself ordered the ships of his fleet to be divided in order to increase their defensive perimeter and departed with Tano to scout ahead for enemy activity, Rex was present on the Resolute bridge with Yularen when Kenobi contacted them and checked on their progress as well as Skywalker's whereabouts. Yularen informed the Jedi General that convoys were proceeding on schedule and also of Skywalker's orders. Skywalker and Tano eventually discovered the Malevolence, a new Confederate warship that had been ravaging Republic fleets. The Resolute was again reassigned, this time to join the Republic's assault on the Malevolence, which proved successful in eradicating the battleship and ending its threat to the Republic.

After being assigned to inspect Republic tracking stations with Commander Cody, Rex and Cody took the former's Nu-class attack shuttle, the Obex, to a Republic tracking station in the Pastil system. Arriving on Pastil, the two began inspections of the outpost, and Rex commented on the station's strange cleanliness. Trooper Stripe told the two clone officers that the station was maintained by an MSE-series droid nicknamed "Rodent," commenting that the droid had a glitch and spent hours cleaning the outpost. Recognizing the droid's characteristics as those of a spy droid, Rex called out a Code Aurek alert and ordered the base's troopers to find "Rodent." The rookie clones were unaware of Rex's suspicions and initially believed him to be crazy. When Rex found the droid and blasted its body, however, the droid's wheels activated of their own accord and fled, a feature uncommon in MSE droids. The troopers eliminated three of the wheels, but the fourth made for a grate. Stripe destroyed the last wheel with a thermal detonator, and the explosion caused damage to the hallway. Amused, Rex told the troops to "clean the mess up" before leaving with Cody. Leaving Pastil, Cody reported their successful inspection to Generals Skywalker and Kenobi aboard the Resolute and proceeded with Rex to Rishi Station, a Republic outpost in the Outer Rim's Rishi system.

The two clone officers were unaware that earlier, the base had been overrun by Confederate BX-series droid commandos. When Cody contacted the station to inform the clones there of the incoming inspection team, a droid commando posing as a clone trooper answered the transmission. Hearing the "clone's" droid-like responses, Rex sensed that something was amiss. Nevertheless, the two officers continued to the moon where the outpost was located, with Cody placing Rex in charge of the inspection. Upon landing at the station, Rex took note of the base's absence of an on-duty deck officer, believing such an error to be sloppy. The two troopers were greeted by a droid commando sporting clone trooper armor. When Rex caught sight of a droid attack flare launched by the survivors of the initial droid assault, he promptly shot the "trooper" that had greeted them in the head. At first, Cody was shocked with Rex's behavior, but after Rex removed the helmet of the clone, the disabled droid commando was revealed. Separatists droid commandos appeared from the surrounding crates and ambushed Rex and Cody, who exchanged fire with their mechanical adversaries while using the crates as cover.

The droids tossed a series of thermal detonators at the Obex, and the two troopers jumped off the platform to avoid the explosion, firing their blaster cables at the underside of the platform in order to control their descent. Believed dead by the droid commandos, Rex and Cody descended to the ground below, musing over the compromising of their only means of escape from the Rishi moon and recalling their similar situation on Tibrin. Rex and Cody then came across the three survivors of the droid assault &mdash;rookie troopers CT-26-6958, CT-27-5555, and CT-26-1409, nicknamed "Hevy," "Fives," and "Echo" respectively &mdash;and Rex ordered the clones to take their sunbonnets off to verify that they were clones. After the three troopers had done so, a Rishi eel appeared from one of the nearby crevices. Rex impressed the three rookies with his marksmanship by killing the eel with a single blaster shot to its eye. Once the clones had introduced themselves, Rex and Cody learned from Echo that their sergeant had been fallen in the first assault. Rex dubbed Echo, Hevy, and Fives "shinies," a derogatory term for the troopers' spotless armor that had not yet seen action in battle, and put a handprint of blood from the eel's carcass on Echo's armor. When Hevy expressed the rookies' desire to take back their post, "shinie or not," Rex replied by stating that "there was hope for them yet." Climbing up the canyon wall to Rishi Station, Rex and Cody offered the carbines of their own DC-15S blasters to the rookie troopers. Rex devised a plan to gain access to the station in order to retake it.

With Cody, Hevy, Fives, and Echo waiting on the sides of the main entrance as backup, Rex posed as Commando Unit 26 in clone armor and mechanically walked toward the blast doors' surveillance systems, through which he conferred with Droid Units 07, 08, and 09, who were guarding the entrance. Rex maintained his cover by pretending to adjust his "vocabulator" and using an inert droid head as "visual verification" for the guards. Although Cody doubted that the tactic would work, the droids admitted Rex entry to the station. As soon as the doors opened, Rex and the others immediately gunned down the guards. Taking point despite Hevy's request for permission to do so himself, Rex led the squad to attack the droids in the command center. Rex shot at several droid commandos manning the central computer before he was targeted by the commando droid captain himself from atop his perch on a higher level. After Rex returned the droid's fire and shot his blaster out of his grip, the droid drew a vibroblade and jumped down, slashing at Rex. Rex jumped out of the way and moved behind the droid, breaking its neck and slamming his adversary to the ground with his hands before it could do any damage. Although the clones were able to defeat all of the droid commandos, their victory was short-loved. The five clones discovered that a Separatist fleet&mdash;under the command of General Grievous&mdash;was passing over the moon and deduced that the droids had hot-wired the station's "all-clear" signal to prevent the Republic from learning of the Confederacy's impending invasion.

A C-9979 troopship was dispatched from the fleet and landed, deploying battle droid reinforcements to investigate the lack of communication from the droid commandos. With Cody's note that the clones would be unable to protect Rishi Station very long from the droid army, Rex formulated a plan to destroy the station, as the ceasing of the all-clear signal would alert the Republic to the imminent invasion. Echo contributed to the plans, stating that the base's supply of highly-explosive liquid tibanna gas could be used to help eliminate the outpost. Before setting the plan into motion, Rex and Cody spoke with Echo, Fives, and Hevy to prepare them for the imminent battle that they would be taking part in. Stating that the Confederacy's target of interest could only be Kamino and citing that Kamino was the closest thing the clones had to a home, Rex rallied the rookie troopers with the knowledge that they were fighting for more than the Republic&mdash;they were fighting to defend their home and all of their clone brethren still back there.

While Cody, Hevy, and Fives went to gain time by confronting the advance battle droid forces at the entrance, Rex and Echo ushered several PLNK-series power droids containing the liquid tibanna into the command center. As the three plunk droids were wired together, Rex encountered problems with the detonator's remote handset. Hevy stayed to repair the detonator, allowing Rex, Cody, Echo, and Fives to escape the station through a grate that opened to a maintenance pipe outside the base. Once outside with the others, Rex assumed that Hevy had fixed the remote and was right behind them, but when Rex told Hevy to detonate the explosives, he discovered that the trooper was not with them and was still inside the base. Rex contacted Hevy and ordered him to vacate the base, but Hevy stated that because of the remote's defectiveness, he would have to detonate the charges manually, ignoring Rex's protests. Although the four clones backtracked to help Hevy, the trooper sacrificed himself to destroy the base and warn the Republic of the Separatist invasion. Picking up the absence of the all-clear signal, the Republic fleet arrived and forced Grievous's ships out of the system. LAAT/i gunships were additionally deployed to the moon, where Rex, Cody, Fives, and Echo flagged them down. The four troopers were taken to the Resolute to meet with Generals Skywalker and Kenobi. In the Star Destroyer's hangar, the two Jedi Generals commended Echo and Fives for their service in the battle by awarding them medals, and also honored Hevy's sacrifice. Stating that they were no longer shinies, Rex, impressed by the troopers' efforts, inducted Hevy and Echo into the 501st Legion.

Different battlefields
"Try and keep them out of trouble, Captain.''" "''Sorry, sir. I can't make any promises where those two are concerned."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi and Rex, on Skywalker and Tano

While liberating the planet Queel from the Confederacy alongside Skywalker, Kenobi, and Tano, Rex accompanied Tano to eliminate the enemy's artillery encampment. Rex used a jetpack to cross the swamp to the artillery base, while Tano used a large dragon-like creature to traverse the river. Attacking the battle droids guarding the blaster cannons, the Padawan threw a blaster battery at the cannons with the Force, and Rex shot the flying target, detonating it and destroying the cannons. Shortly thereafter, Commander Cody informed Skywalker and Kenobi that there was an incoming message from the Jedi Temple, and Rex returned to the Republic's forward command post with the three Jedi. Holographically conferring with Jedi Masters Yoda and Ki-Adi-Mundi, Skywalker and Tano were assigned to intercept the Separatist agent Messo&mdash;who had stolen a Republic data file&mdash;in the Mon Gazza system, while Kenobi was to stay on Queel and finish the battle. Rex went with Skywalker and Tano in the Twilight to Mon Gazza, and Skywalker left to find Messo while Tano and Rex stayed to secure the freighter. Changing out of his usual clone trooper armor, Rex donned a heavily covered-up disguise and accompanied Tano to find her Master, who had located the Confederate agent. When Skywalker confronted his target in a podracing arena, Messo had already transferred the data file. With his blaster shots rebounded at him by Skywalker, Messo fell into the arena and was hit and killed by a podracer before he could reveal any more information.

Tano and Rex joined Skywalker in the stands to watch the race, and Skywalker informed his Padawan that he had entered her into the race to get closer to the other racers, as he believed that Messo's contact belonged to one of the racing teams. Skywalker, Rex, and R2-D2 acted as Tano's pit crew, and the group proceeded to the podracing stalls. While Skywalker outfitted Tano's pod in their stall, the Padawan reported that Jedi intelligence had confirmed that several enemy espionage events had coincided with the racing circuit being in the same system. Present for each of the events was skilled podracer Kidd Kareen and his racing team. Rex watched as Skywalker taught Tano the pod's basic controls, and Kareen himself came over to talk with Skywalker and Tano, who maintained their covers as podracers. After Kareen's crew had left, Tano kept Kareen occupied while Skywalker went to take a look around his stall, putting Rex and R2-D2 on lookout. However, Maxus&mdash;a close friend of Kareen and one of his crew&mdash;caught Skywalker snooping around. As a fistfight between Kareen's crew and Skywalker began, Rex joined the fray. Tano and Kareen eventually returned, halting the fight, and Tano was forced to apologize to Kareen.

With the second qualifying race at hand, Tano, Skywalker, Rex, and R2-D2 hurriedly left to prepare, as the Padawan was scheduled to make her debut in the race. At the podracing rink, Rex and Skywalker watched Tano safely maneuver through the course via R2-D2's hololink. As Tano approached the finish line, however, another podracer rammed her from behind. Skywalker and Rex immediately rushed to Tano's aid and helped her out of the debris of her destroyed podracer. Kareen arrived, offering to loan one of his spare podracers to Tano, who accepted the offer. Following the race, Skywalker and Rex trailed Maxus into a pub, and the two used R2-D2 to eavesdrop on the racer. Skywalker and Rex listened as Maxus contacted the Confederate Head of State Count Dooku, whom Maxus was working for as a spy, and overheard Dooku's arrangements to send an agent to collect the stolen Republic datachip from Maxus the following day. During Tano's second race alongside Kareen and Maxus that day, Skywalker and Rex noticed Maxus picking up the datachip from the podracing pits, and the two immediately gave pursuit. Maxus escaped in his podracer, and the rest of Kareen's crew engaged Skywalker and Rex in a blaster fight. Skywalker stole a speeder bike and departed to help his Padawan, leaving Rex and R2-D2 to finish off the rest of the attacking podracers. Tano was saved by Kareen from being killed by Maxus, and she and Skywalker were able to Force-crush the datachip, preventing Asajj Ventress from intercepting it. With their mission a success, the Jedi and Rex said goodbye to Kareen and boarded the Twilight. As they departed Mon Gazza, Skywalker, Tano, and Rex reported the operation's completion to Kenobi, who was still fighting on Queel.

During an attack on Trade Federation forces over the Bothan colony of Kothlis, Rex served as the gunner of Tano's BTL-B Y-wing starfighter. Skywalker, Kenobi, and Tano engaged the Vulture droids that were deployed from a Federation Lucrehulk-class Droid Control Ship, and Tano assaulted the control ship with torpedoes. As the vessel was eliminated, Rex commented that its destruction was a beautiful sight. The Trade Federation Dreadnaught-class heavy cruisers were forced to flee, and Tano and Rex were able to secure a victory for the Republic. Shortly thereafter, Rex accompanied Kenobi, Skywalker, and Tano to the planet Taloraan, where the Jedi were to undertake negotiations for tibanna gas with the world's Defrandi tribe. En route to Taloraan aboard the Resolute, Rex conferred with Tano on the diplomacy that she would be engaging in within the next few days. Although Tano found diplomatic negotiations boring, Rex stated that he respected them as a kind of fighting that he "was not trained for." While the three Jedi left for the world's capital, Taloraan City, in a Nu-class shuttle, Rex remained on board the Resolute with Admiral Yularen to regularly check in with the Jedi. Unbeknownst to the Republic, however, Defrandi Magister Orlin Denache had secretly allied himself with Count Dooku and the Confederacy and was housing Separatist battle droids on Taloraan.

Eventually, Admiral Yularen was warned by the Jedi&mdash;who had discovered the Separatist presence in Taloraan City&mdash;that the Resolute was heading into a trap. The Resolute activated its deflector shields in time to deflect fire from Confederate Captain Canteval's Munificent-class frigate. While the Resolute engaged the enemy vessel, Yularen sent Rex and a clone detachment to rescue the Jedi, whose shuttle had been destroyed. After landing with several LAAT/i gunships in Taloraan City, Rex and his men fell under fire from the Separatist-allied Defrandi taking cover behind several cargo boxes. Although Rex ordered his men to find cover, the firefight was stopped when Denache's Republic-loyal emissary, Sech Govlinder, led the rest of the Defrandi people to defeat the Separatists. The Jedi were able to establish a treaty with the Defrandi and their rival tribe, the Wind Raiders, thanks in part to Tano's personal involvement in the matter. Rex inquired after Tano's views on diplomacy, to which the Padawan replied that they were not as boring as she had originally thought.

Enslavement
"Always figured I'd catch a blaster bolt in some combat zone, not live out my years on the end of a whip.''" "We'll get out of here eventually, Captain. My concern is what will be left of these people when we finally do. Anakin was right, you cannot truly know slavery until you've experienced it." "I guess it does change one forever. These poor souls have'' lost everything."

- Rex and Obi-Wan Kenobi, on the Togrutan population of Kiros

When the Confederacy invaded the Togrutan colony of Kiros, Rex and a clone detachment were dispatched with Skywalker, Kenobi, and Tano to liberate the planet. In the world's capital, Rex accompanied Kenobi on a BARC speeder and attacked the battle droids with a machine gun, while Skywalker and Tano rode another speeder. When several Armored Assault Tanks approached the group, Rex used a rocket launcher at the tanks and destroyed them. As the Republic secured the majority of the city, the Confederate Commander, Xerius Ugg, requested an audience with Kenobi. Kenobi left to negotiate with their adversary, leaving his comlink open so that Skywalker, Tano, and Rex could listen in on the deliberations. The three learned that Ugg had planted multiple thermal bombs around the city as leverage against the Republic forces, and the Separatist Commander demanded the Jedi's surrender. While Kenobi fought Ugg to stall for time, Skywalker and Tano went to disable the explosives and sever Ugg's bargaining chips. As Skywalker and Tano deactivated one of the bombs, a sniper droideka rained down laser fire at the pair. Rex intervened, using a sniper rifle to eliminate the droid. With Ugg's leverage against the Republic compromised, the Jedi were able to defeat the Separatist Commander. However, the Jedi found that all of Kiros's Togrutan population had disappeared. Rex and the three Jedi returned to the Republic fleet surrounding Kiros, and Skywalker ordered Rex to recall the troops from the surface, to which the Captain complied.

Rex and a squad of troopers accompanied Skywalker, Tano, and Kenobi to investigate a lead on the population's disappearance that concerned the Zygerrian system&mdash;home of the Zygerrians, who had once been slavers before the Jedi intervened and supposedly halted their slave trade. The Republic squad took the Twilight to the remains of the Shi'kar homeworld to gather more information about the disappeared Togrutas and encountered the Zygerrian slaver vessel Fate's Hand amidst the asteroids. Pretending to be slavers themselves, Skywalker, Tano, and Kenobi boarded the Fate's Hand and conferred with the ship's Captain, Onyx, while Rex and several troopers hid behind several nearby crates as backup. Talking with Onyx and his Zygerrian crew, the Jedi eventually gave up the ruse and drew their lightsabers, signaling Rex and the clones to forsake their cover. In the ensuing firefight, Skywalker led Tano, Rex, and several other troopers to commandeer the Fate's Hand. However, more Zygerrians appeared from the ship's compartments, catching the Jedi and clones in a crossfire. A Zygerrian fired a rocket at the Republic squad, damaging the seal between the Twilight and the Fate's Hand. Rex reached out to Tano, telling her that the seal was failing, but Tano intentionally sealed herself on board the Zygerrian freighter, with Skywalker, Kenobi, Rex, and several Zygerrians on the Twilight. A dismayed Rex reported the Padawan's actions to Skywalker and Kenobi, who deduced that she was simply attempting to infiltrate the ship by acting as a hostage.

Rex secured the docking clamps of the Twilight to ensure that they would not be separated from the Zygerrian craft, despite being cut off from the ship. Attempting to force the Twilight away, Captain Onyx took the Fate's Hand through the asteroid belt, and the Twilight bottom stabilizer was compromised from an asteroid collision. After Skywalker fired at and successfully disabled the engines of the Fate's Hand, the Twilight was contacted by Tano. At Kenobi's direction, Tano was able to unlock the rear maintenance airlock of the Fate's Hand before being discovered by Onyx. Intending to rescue Tano, Rex and another trooper accompanied Skywalker and Kenobi into space to board the Fate's Hand. In space, the four were faced with a Blixus creature that Onyx had released. Releasing a barrage of fire at the creature, Rex discovered that it was impervious to blaster fire. The Blixus quickly killed the other clone and captured the two Jedi in its tentacles, but Skywalker impaled the Blixus with his lightsaber, halting its rampage. Rex boarded the Fate's Hand with Skywalker and Kenobi and confronted Onyx, who was forced to reveal his intelligence regarding the people of Kiros. Onyx stated that he had been invited to a "grand slave auction" on Zygerria, where the entire Togruta people were to be sold into slavery. On Kenobi's orders, Rex took Onyx to imprison him on the Twilight with his crew.

The Fate's Hand was repaired, and the Jedi and Rex took the freighter to the Zygerrian system in order to locate and rescue the missing Togrutas. Upon arrival at Zygerria, the Fate's Hand transmitted its permit codes to the battle droid blockade surrounding the planet and received clearance to land. Touching down on Zygerria, Kenobi and Rex donned in disguises to avoid standing out. Meanwhile, Tano convinced Skywalker&mdash;who was masquerading as a slaver&mdash;to let her accompany him as his "slave merchandise" instead of Rex, whom Tano believed would not sell. After Skywalker and Tano encountered other slavers, Tano almost compromised their cover stories, and Skywalker sent his Padawan back to the ship. Tano then joined Kenobi and Rex in serving as backup for Skywalker during his confrontation with several Zygerrian guards. Upon Zygerrian Queen Miraj Scintel's request for an audience with Skywalker, Rex, Kenobi, and Tano followed Skywalker to the Zygerrian Royal Palace.

Watching Skywalker enter the palace, the three went to investigate the catacombs below the building. Rex took up a suit of Zygerrian guard armor and stunned a passing guard with his blaster. Rex and the Jedi then found Governor Roshti of Kiros, who had been imprisoned in one of the cells below the palace. After Tano freed Roshti, the Jedi and Rex learned from the governor that the rest of the Kiros population had been taken elsewhere to be "processed" as slaves. When the palace guards discovered the intruders, Kenobi, Tano, and Rex escaped with Roshti on two reptile-like creatures. Fleeing with Tano aboard her mount, Rex returned laser fire at the pursing guards airborne on flying creatures. Skywalker soon contacted Tano and ordered her to go to the palace, as he required his "merchandise" to make Queel Scintel believe his cover story. The four split up, planning to meet back at the Fate's Hand. While Tano and Rex managed to return to the ship, however, Kenobi and Governor Roshti were captured by the Zygerrians. Tano dressed up and posed as Togrutan Princess Zaa Vashee, and with Rex acting as her "slavemaster," Skywalker was able to win Scintel's trust as well as an invitation to the auction at her side.

Rex put his Zygerrian armor back on to serve as backup for Skywalker and Tano at the auction. The three were met with a grim surprise when Roshti and Kenobi were brought into the arena. As Scintel ordered Skywalker to whip Kenobi in order to prove that "he had what it [took] to be a slaver," Skywalker signaled to Rex to ambush the Zygerrian slavers. Swinging from a cable, Rex rained laser fire down on the Zygerrian guards in the arena, allowing Tano to retrieve her own and the other Jedi's lightsabers and return Skywalker's and Kenobi's weapons to them. Rex joined Skywalker and Kenobi in the arena below and fought off the approaching guards, but a Zygerrian fired a rocket from above that knocked Rex unconscious. The three Jedi were subdued as well, and while Tano was imprisoned outside the Royal Palace, Kenobi and Rex were sent with Roshti to the Zygerrian Labor Processing Hub, suspended over a volcano on the planet Kadavo. Scintel, meanwhile, forced Skywalker to be her personal bodyguard, and the other captured Jedi and Rex served as the Queen's leverage over Skywalker. On Kadavo, Kenobi and Rex were "educated" in the ways of slavery alongside the enslaved Togruta population of Kiros. Both Kenobi and Rex remained intransigent to submitting to slavery, albeit at the cost of growing isolation from the Togrutas, whom the Zygerrians put to torture if Kenobi refused to submit.

While working at a wheel alongside the Togrutas, Kenobi and Rex conversed on the fact that the "poor souls" had lost most everything valuable to them, including their freedom. However, Rex helped Kenobi rally the Kiros population with the news that their homeworld had been liberated from the Confederacy&mdash;if they were freed, they had somewhere to live. Recognizing the slaves' new submission to their "training" as hope, the Keeper of the processing hub had Kenobi and Rex brought to the facility's command center. The Keeper attempted to contact Queen Scintel for permission to eradicate Kenobi for his growing threat to the Zygerrians' slave production but did not receive a response, as Count Dooku had assassinated Scintel on Zygerria for her continued refusal to kill the Jedi. Having freed themselves from their slavery to Scintel, Skywalker and Tano arrived on Kadavo with a clone strike force to rescue Kenobi, Rex, and the Togrutas. As Skywalker and Tano began to cut through the facility's blast doors, the Keeper used the still-captive Togrutas as his leverage against the Jedi, exposing the population to the volcano. With the arrival of Separatist aerial forces led by General Grievous and Dark Acolyte Asajj Ventress, Skywalker and Tano were forced to stop cutting through the door, and the Keeper ordered them to surrender.

Instead of aiding the Zygerrians, however, the Vulture droid starfighters began to attack the facility's supports to eliminate the Togrutan population and hide the Confederacy's involvement in the slavery affair. Taking advantage of the Keeper's distraction, Kenobi and Rex attacked the Zygerrians and joined Skywalker and Tano in rescuing the Togrutas from falling into the volcano. The Confederate fleet retreated, and from atop Skywalker's stolen freighter, the Jedi used the Force to pull the Togrutas aboard the ship. Although Ventress's ship, the Trident, assaulted the freighter, Rex fired a rocket at the Dark Acolyte's ship. The arrival of Master Plo Koon and a squadron of V-19 Torrent starfighters forced Ventress to retreat. After winning the battle, evacuating the facility, and taking the Keeper captive, the Jedi and clones prepared to return the Togrutas to their home. As Rex was about to detonate charges planted in the processing hub, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine contacted the Jedi, ordering the facility to be "left intact for Republic use at a later date." The Jedi could see no use of maintaining the facility, and at their advisement, Rex proceeded with eradicating the facility. On Kiros, Rex helped to train the Togrutas in blaster combat at their own request.

Further campaigns
"Let's try not to blow up the ship before they get off this time."

- Ahsoka Tano, to Rex, during the battle at Vanqor

As the war continued, Rex participated in a battle on a planet against anti-Republic forces with Skywalker and Tano. Skywalker soon received a transmission and departed to answer it in the Republic's base, ordering Rex to keep the bombardment up with the Republic's AV-7 Antivehicle Cannons. When Skywalker and Kenobi infiltrated Count Dooku's Munificent-class star frigate over Vanqor in an attempt to capture the Sith Lord, Rex took Admiral Yularen's place of commanding the Resolute&mdash;as the Admiral was recovering from the previous run-in with the Malevolence &mdash;and served aboard the Star Destroyer with Tano. Once Skywalker and Kenobi were aboard the frigate, the Resolute moved into position and opened fire on the Separatist vessel, causing damage to the ship. Dooku managed to escape in his solar sailer, and Skywalker and Kenobi gave pursuit in a stolen Sheathipede-class shuttle, telling Rex and Tano to follow them in what ships they could round up. Both Dooku and the two Jedi Generals crash-landed on Vanqor, and Tano took a Nu-class attack shuttle to retrieve the stranded Skywalker and Kenobi from the planet's surface. While Skywalker and Kenobi were unable to capture Dooku, a band of pirates took Dooku to Florrum and imprisoned him there. Rex was present with Skywalker, Kenobi, and Tano on the Resolute when the two Jedi Generals received the assignment by the Jedi Council to verify that Dooku was in the pirates' captivity so that the Republic could pay the Sith Lord's ransom of one million credits. However, Skywalker and Kenobi were unable to secure Dooku's apprehension by the Republic.

During the course of the war, Rex became involved with sending trooper Denal on various missions regarding a new Separatist threat. While Denal was participating in an investigation on the planet Rodia concerning a Confederate project somewhere in the Outer Rim, Rex contacted him and ordered the trooper to make way for Republic reinforcements to land on Rodia by destroying the battle droids in a nearby jungle clearing. Once Denal had completed his objective and allowed the Republic to land additional forces, Rex again made contact with him and told him to destroy an enemy transport factory on Rodia by activating the facility's self-destruct mechanism. Following Denal's success, Rex next dispatched him to Tatooine to scout out a seemingly deserted Separatist base there. After Denal had cleared the base of hostiles, Rex informed him that the Republic had discovered another Separatist base, this time a research station, in the desert. As the enemy facility was reportedly related to the new Separatist project and was already in the process of evacuation, Rex ordered Denal to act quickly before the Confederacy could destroy the evidence of the project. Infiltrating the station, Denal uncovered plans for a Confederate superweapon that was capable of concealing entire armies from the Republic; he later destroyed the superweapon at its construction base on the ice world Orto Plutonia. Shortly after Denal returned to the fleet and was commended by General Kenobi for his success, Rex sent Denal on yet another mission.

Rex himself was dispatched with Skywalker and Tano to the planet Taronda to secure raw materials desperately needed by the Republic, but the Separatists were also there and were on the verge of destroying a mining settlement on the world to divert the Republic's focus. With Vulture droid starfighters attacking them from above, Skywalker ordered Rex to gather the miners and activate the settlement's deflector shield, to which Rex complied. Although Tano accidentally fell down a crevice leading to a mineshaft, Rex pointed out a bigger problem to Skywalker: the arrival of a major Separatist assault force composed of a C-9979 troopship, Multi Troop Transports, and multiple Armored Assault Tanks. Once Rex had gotten the wounded miners to safety and the civilians were in place, he triggered the shield, protecting the settlement from the advancing droids, and also signaled for reinforcements. When Asajj Ventress appeared just beyond the shield and baited Skywalker to confront her by stating that she had sent spider droids after Tano, Rex told Skywalker to focus and have faith in his Padawan and the lessons he had taught her. Rex continued to restrain Skywalker, despite Ventress's continued taunts and criticisms of the Jedi's "cowardice". Upon learning that a Republic Star Destroyer was heading for Taronda, Ventress relented her pursuits, retreating from the planet with her droid forces. With the Separatists gone, Rex deemed it safe to disable the deflector shield. Rex and Skywalker were soon joined by Tano, who had indeed been able to fend off the droids on her own.

When the malfunctioning merchant starship Deyvus sent out a distress call to the Republic that it was on an unpreventable course toward an unstable nebula, Skywalker, Tano, and Rex were sent aboard the Twilight to rescue the craft, as the Republic freighter was the nearest and fastest ship available. While Skywalker and a frustrated Tano discussed the merits of rescuing the merchants as opposed to fighting on the war's front lines, Rex reported to his Jedi General that the Deyvus was just off their port bow and noted that the damage to the ship appeared to be bad, with her ion drive apparently gone critical and her stabilizers offline. As the Twilight neared the merchant vessel and prepared to dispatch R2-D2 to access the craft's maintenance systems, the Deyvus suddenly revealed several battle droid–manned laser cannons&mdash;it was a trap. Before it could maneuver away in time, the Twilight was hit by the droids' fire, and Rex immediately used a fire extinguisher to put out the flames in the cockpit. He informed Skywalker that another impact would cripple the Twilight, as its hull could not take another hit. While the freighter began to be pulled toward the collapsing nebula, General Grievous holographically contacted the Jedi and baited them aboard the Deyvus, where he claimed to be preparing to watch them die. Rising to the bait, Skywalker told R2-D2 to get to work on the engine repairs and took Rex with him to the Deyvus to personally "introduce themselves" to Grievous. Tano fired a pair of grappling hook lines at the Deyvus, and Skywalker and Rex used the cables to reach the enemy craft. Along the way, Rex questioned the boldness of their plan, to which Skywalker replied that it was boldness that separated them from the Separatists in the war.

Skywalker and Rex boarded the Deyvus and made their way from its gun deck to the bridge, cutting through the B1 battle droids and droidekas in their path. As the droids began to overwhelm them, Skywalker sliced a hole in the hallway's wall with his lightsaber, and he and Rex proceeded to the bridge. There, they discovered that Grievous was not aboard the Deyvus; instead, there was a large number of thermal detonators primed to go off. Skywalker quickly cut an "X" in the cockpit's roof with his lightsaber, and Rex blasted a hole through the weakened metal, allowing the pair to return to the Twilight moments before the Deyvus blew up. Eventually, Rex returned to Christophsis with Republic Senator Padmé Amidala; her protocol droid, C-3PO; and R2-D2 to investigate intelligence provided to the Jedi Order by Ros Lai&mdash;a Nightsister that had betrayed the fellow members of her Force-based sect&mdash;regarding the Nightsisters' alliance with Count Dooku and the Confederacy. Once Amidala had confirmed that the Separatists were mining on the planet, her ship was shot down over Christophsis. Rex was injured in the crash and was imprisoned with the others in the Separatist base. While there, the four overheard the guards saying that the Confederacy was harvesting crystals from the planet core, which were to be used to power the newly constructed Separatist warship Devastation. The captives were freed by a Jedi team of two that had been sent to Christophsis with Clone Commander CC-1004, nicknamed "Gree," to rescue the Senator. While R2-D2 and C-3PO stayed to assist the Jedi in their continuing investigation, Amidala helped Rex to Gree's LAAT/i gunship, which had a medical console on standby for him.

Detour from the battlefield
"You know, I can't figure those villagers not wanting to fight. No pride, I guess."

- Rex, on the Lurmen pacifists of Maridun

While stationed aboard the Resolute, Rex accompanied Skywalker, Tano, and Yularen to aid Jedi General Aayla Secura, whose fleet was being ambushed in the Quell system by Confederate forces. By the time the Resolute arrived over Quell, two of Secura's Star Destroyers had been decimated by several Munificent-class frigates, with only Secura's command ship, the Liberty, maintaining altitude. As jetpack-equipped B2-RP battle droids were launched from the Separatist frigates to board Secura's cruiser, the Resolute moved into position, and Skywalker, Tano, and Rex took several LAAT/i gunships with clones from the 501st Legion to evacuate the troops aboard the Liberty. The gunships opened fire on the droids, and Skywalker went ahead of the others to the cruiser. A rocket droid attacked the gunship carrying Rex and Tano, and the craft's clone pilot was forced out of the cockpit. Rex and Tano caught the pilot and pulled him to safety in the gunship's troop bay. With its controls sabotaged by the rocket droid, the LAAT/i gunship plummeted toward Secura's Star Destroyer. As soon as their vessel crashed into the Liberty hull, Tano, Rex, and their squad jumped out of the burning transport without pause and ran through the ship's corridors, destroying all of the droids in their path.

Rex and Tano caught up with Skywalker, Secura, and Clone Commander CC-5052, nicknamed "Bly," in the cruiser's hallways and joined them in continuing to cut through the opposing droids. The group headed to escape the crippled Liberty from a Consular-class cruiser that Skywalker had called in and was docking in the lower hangar. As the gangway to the frigate was extended, however, the Confederate fleet's increasing fire caused an inferno to rage through the Liberty. Sacrificing himself, Skywalker Force-pushed the others into the airlock, sealing the blast doors shut. Skywalker used the Force to hold back the flames, but the explosions finally blasted through the doors, and he was thrown against the airlock from the explosion. Tano and Secura managed to save Skywalker, bringing him onto the Consular-class frigate. With all evacuees on board, the Republic cruiser detached from the Liberty and headed for the Resolute. As the frigate began to dock to the Resolute, a Vulture droid attack inadvertently activated the frigate's hyperdrive. Although the Resolute was able to maneuver away in time, the Republic frigate jumped to hyperspace with the Jedi, clone officers, and other troop evacuees aboard. While Skywalker was treated in the frigate's medbay, Bly discovered that the vessel's navigation computer had incorrectly inputted the coordinates, heading the craft straight for a star. Rex joined the others on the bridge, and Secura and Tano decided to shut down all primary power units to disengage the ship's hyperdrive so that the craft could be maneuvered away from its unintended destination.

With Tano at the controls, the ship's power was deactivated, and it was brought out of hyperspace. Because of the vessel's uncontrollable speed and the lack of artificial gravity, Rex lost his grip on the back of Tano's seat. Rex was smashed against Secura, causing her to lose her hold on the power switch. Secura telekinetically reactivated the switch, and with artificial gravity back in operation, she and Rex landed on the floor. Tano maneuvered the craft in time to avoid the star but was unable to stop the ship from heading straight for the nearby planet Maridun. Entering the planet's atmosphere, the frigate began to break apart before crash-landing on the planet. Rex, Bly, and the clones escaped the frigate first, and Rex helped another trooper out of the craft while Tano and Secura jumped out with Skywalker just as the ship exploded. After a makeshift shelter had been erected for Skywalker from the wreckage of the frigate, Secura, Tano, and Bly took their only troopers&mdash;Cameron, Lucky, and Flash&mdash;to find help for the injured Skywalker while Rex stayed to keep watch over him. Before Tano left with the others, Rex assured her that he would take good care of her wounded Master and also wished her luck on her mission.

As night fell, Rex diligently guarded Skywalker. When Skywalker finally awoke and attempted to get up, Rex quickly ran over to his Jedi General. However, a carnivorous mastiff phalone predator that had been watching the two for hours attacked Rex, pinning him down and trapping his blaster hand under one of its claws. Rex managed to fire a shot, startling the creature and scaring it away as he rolled to crouch upright and aimed several laser shots at its retreating form. Once day had broken, Skywalker again regained consciousness. Although Rex insisted that Skywalker maintain his rest, Skywalker told Rex that he could hear the sound of returning mastiff phalones. Both Rex and Skywalker drew their weapons in time to greet the arrival of two more of the creatures. Rex gunned one of them down, but the other charged at the makeshift shelter and ripped it apart, knocking both Skywalker and Rex aside. At that moment, Tano and Bly returned with Wag Too, a Lurmen healer from the planet's Lurmen colony. Too wrapped a rope around the feet of the remaining mastiff phalone, and Tano assisted Too in tugging at the rope to pull the creature to the ground. Despite an injured arm, Rex used his other hand to help the two. The mastiff phalone fell to the ground, and Too secured the rope around the beast's legs.

With the mastiff phalone defeated, Rex followed Tano, Bly, and Too back to the Lurmen village with Skywalker in tow on a stretcher that had been made from the remains of his shelter. Later, while keeping watch on the outskirts of the village, Rex noticed an incoming Confederate C-9979 landing craft and reported this development to Bly, who was back at the colony with the Jedi. Bly told Rex to return to the village, and Rex joined the others in the seedpod hut where Skywalker was being treated. To ensure that the Lurmen were not slaughtered as a consequence of their presence, the Jedi and clones decided to hide from the Confederacy and leave the village on its own. With Tano and Secura following them, Rex and Bly assisted Skywalker to a nearby field of tall grasses behind the village. While there, Rex expressed his lack of understanding for the Lurmen's pacifistic views. Though Tano believed that they simply had no courage, Secura intervened and stated that it took courage to follow one's beliefs. Skywalker suggested that they steal a shuttle from the Confederacy to escape the planet, and Rex agreed with his Jedi General, eager to steal from the Separatists. However, Tano suddenly noticed that a Separatist recon droid was spying on them. She and the two clones gave pursuit of the droid, and Secura worked her way in front of the droid, cutting it in half with her lightsaber when it flew straight at her.

From a nearby tree, the Jedi and clones discovered the well-guarded Separatist base and watched as General Lok Durd deployed multiple lines of battle droids outside of the base with two Armored Assault Tanks and a tank-mounted defoliator cannon. As Bly and Rex went to get a closer look at the new weapon, Durd sent two B1 battle droids&mdash;inadvertently, in the direction of the approaching clones&mdash;to serve as test subjects for the experimental weapon. A defoliator capsule was fired and exploded upon contact with the ground, beginning to decimate all life forms in the area in an expanding wave of fire. Rex and Bly immediately fled and fired their blasters' grappling hooks at the tree. Although Rex made it to safety, Bly was not as successful, tripping on a log and misfiring his cable. Bly was saved by Secura, who swung down on a vine and pulled him to refuge in the tree. The energy wave began to slow its expansion, and the two droid testees appeared, unscathed. The Jedi and clones watched as Durd departed with an armament of troops, and Skywalker deduced that Durd intended to test the defoliator on the Lurmen village. Resolving to return and save the Lurmen, the Jedi and clones waited until night had fallen to ambush the battle droids guarding the Separatist base. Once Skywalker and the clones had cut down the droid guards stationed outside the facility, Tano and Secura opened the door, enabling the others to infiltrate the base. Using various crates as cover, Skywalker, Rex, and Bly eventually made it to the droids' communication center and eliminated the droids manning the base.

Noticing a pair of shield generators, Rex and Bly brought them onto the Jedi's stolen Sheathipede-class shuttle and accompanied the Jedi back to the Lurmen colony. Day broke again, and the Jedi and clones arrived at the Lurmen village to be greeted by the village's chieftain, Tee Watt Kaa, who did not take kindly to the beings that had brought the war to Maridun. Keeping watch from the perimeter of the village, Rex caught sight of the inbound droids, which were only minutes away from the colony. Despite Kaa's protests, Skywalker, Secura, Tano, Bly, and Rex worked in teams to move several seedpods to form a barrier in front of the village and protect it from the imminent battle. Once Bly and Tano had put the shield generators in place, Rex noted that Durd's battle droids were holding position, and Skywalker stated his belief that the droids would attempt to hit the village with their long-range artillery first before mounting a charge. Sure enough, the Separatists fired a defoliator shell, and Rex jumped off the seedpod barrier to stand with the others. The shield was activated and proved successful in blocking the defoliator's fiery wave of destruction.

Unable to attack the village from afar with the shield intact, Durd dispatched his first squad toward the village. The Jedi and clones walked through the shield, emerging and taking up positions to engage their adversaries in combat. While Skywalker, Tano, and Secura charged at the droids, Rex and Bly provided covering fire with their DC-15A blaster rifles. Although the group was able to defeat the first wave of battle droids, the second droid wave&mdash;comprised of Durd's second and third squads&mdash;soon launched an assault of their own. With an advantage in numbers, some of the droids slipped past the Jedi, forcing Bly and Rex back behind the pod barrier. The battle droids breached both the deflector shield and the pod wall and marched into the village, destroying the shield generators. Secura and Tano joined the clones in defending the colony, while Skywalker disabled the defoliator and captured Durd. With aid from Too and several other Lurmen who sacrificed their pacifist upbringings to help defend their colony, the Jedi and clones were able to save the village from being destroyed at Durd's hands. The battle over, Rex and Bly ushered the captured Durd and his Aqualish aide, Pune Zignat, into the Sheathipede-class shuttle. As the Jedi and clones prepared to leave Maridun with the thanks of the Lurmen, Admiral Yularen arrived with a fleet of Star Destroyers over the planet, having finally found the Jedi.

Bloodshed at Kothlis
"It's no use. Whatever bright idea they cooked up to fix the comm problem doesn't seem to be working. At least not yet. We're on our own, Ahsoka.''" "I'm going to find Master Kenobi. And another gunship. I'm getting you out of here Rex. Do you hear me?" "''Yes, ma'am."

- Rex and Ahsoka Tano, shortly before the former looses his balance as a result of his injuries

At some point following the Maridun engagement, Rex and Torrent Company were transferred with Skywalker, Kenobi, Tano, and Admiral Yularen to the recently christened Star Destroyer Indomitable so that the Resolute could undergo a refit. Presently, the Jedi received intelligence from the Grand Army's Special Operations Brigade that General Grievous was planning on attacking the planet Kothlis to gain control of its Bothan spynet facility. While in the cruiser's mess hall, Rex, Sergeant Coric, and trooper Checkers were joined by Tano, who notified them that the Special Operations Brigade's findings had been confirmed and that the fleet was heading to mount a defense of Kothlis. As Rex began to talk logistics with Coric, the Captain inadvertently overheard Checkers&mdash;who was meanwhile speaking with Tano about his transfer from Laser to Torrent Company&mdash;say to Tano that he had joined Torrent Company because he wanted to survive the war by "serving under the best officer" he could find. Startled by the complimentary comment directed at him, Rex broke off his discussion with Coric and snapped at his comrades to "stow the chatter." Rex changed the subject back to official business and asked Tano for their estimated time of arrival at Kothlis. Tano stated that it was twenty-three minutes, and Rex continued the informal briefing by questioning if a ground assault would be utilized on the planet. Tano replied that it was "highly possible;" if the Separatists had already started an invasion of Kothlis, the counterattack on the surface would be led by Kenobi and herself while Skywalker commanded the space battle.

On Rex's order, Torrent Company began preparations for the imminent battle, and the "familiar countdown to combat" commenced. The Indomitable and her sister ships, Pioneer and Coruscant Sky, arrived at Kothlis to find that Grievous had already arrived and had begun to beleaguer the undefended planet. The Jedi also discovered that Grievous was employing new technology that allowed him to jam all of the Republic's comm channels. Skywalker met with Rex, Tano, and their waiting men in their barracks and relayed this information to his Padawan and Captain. Rex was concerned to learn of this development and of the Jedi's hope that the clones' helmet tightbeams were not affected by the jammer as well. Despite this, Skywalker stated that it was possible that the regular comms would be restored in time and that it was feasible that reinforcements could be requested if necessary. Although his external demeanor did not indicate any sort of unease, Rex, like Tano, was deeply troubled by the situation. Skywalker ordered Rex and his men to proceed to the gunship hangar, where they would be joined by Kenobi for the journey to Kothlis's surface, and Rex wished his General good hunting before the Captain departed with Tano and Torrent Company. Once Skywalker and his Gold Squadron pilots had kicked the space battle against Grievous into high gear, Rex and Tano were joined by Kenobi in their gunship crowded with Torrent Company troops and led the assault force's launch from the fleet. Along the way to the planet's surface, Rex spared his men a few last-minute words to prepare them for the battle.

After they had landed, Kenobi ordered Rex and Tano into the fray while he himself led his own detachment's attack on the spynet facility. Rex, Tano, and Torrent Company engaged the entrenched Separatist forces in the central plaza of Kothlis's capital, Tal'cara, fighting furiously against super battle droids, droidekas, and STAP-mounted droids. With only one gunship for air support, however, the clones began to take heavy losses; not since the Battle of Teth had Torrent Company been so crippled. Rex was among those to be grievously injured, and took wounds on his right arm and chest. It was in this state that Tano and her commandeered STAP found him; Checkers, also wounded albeit less severely, stood with Rex, ready to support him at the instant he needed it. With the fight against the droids in the plaza at a temporary standstill, Tano ordered Rex and his men to fall back and tried to contact Yularen for assistance, but her attempt failed thanks to the Separatists' comm jammer that the Republic had not yet been able to bypass. Tano stated that she would find and get help from Kenobi, and Rex&mdash;the effects of his wounds evident even through his strained and distorted voice, despite his attempts to keep his voice steady&mdash;replied that he understood. A moment later, Rex lost his balance as a result of his injuries' hard-hitting effects and was caught by Checkers. After rallying Torrent Company with the "order" that they were "not allowed to die," Tano left on her STAP and rendezvoused with Kenobi, helping to sever the droids' hold on the spynet facility and notifying him of the wounded clones.

With the arrival of the Star Destroyer Coryx Moth, the Republic was able to drive Grievous and his remaining forces away from Kothlis and eventually win the battle, albeit at a severe cost to their forces. Thanks to the efforts&mdash;and sacrifices&mdash;of Torrent Company and the other clone troopers who served in the conflict, the Republic was able to retain control of the strategically crucial spynet facility on the planet. Rex, Coric, and the other clone troopers that had been wounded in the engagement were transported to the Republic's Kaliida Shoals Medical Center for treatment. Tano chose to be treated at the Outer Rim medcenter alongside the clones so that she could provide moral support for them. Rex, Tano, and their comrades were tended to under the supervision of the medical station's talented staff of Kaminoan doctors. Rex&mdash;whose injuries, in Tano's opinion, were much worse than she had originally believed&mdash;and Coric were put into bacta treatment and were given their own bacta tanks, although they were not allowed to be visited by Tano, who herself was swiftly treated for her own abrasions and made a quick recovery. Despite the extent of his wounds, Rex was not injured enough to be unable to talk, as he briefly did with Tano, and the Kaminoans were able to keep him and Coric alive. The medical staff did not have as much success with some of the other wounded from Torrent Company, despite their best efforts to save them. Tano was eventually able to see Rex, Coric, and some of the other recovering troops, and while they were not awake when she visited them, they appeared fine to her.


 * Update for Clone Wars Gambit: Siege

War on Orto Plutonia
"Sir, the gunships can't take off in this storm. We don't have enough bikes for the entire platoon.''" "''Have the rest of the men standby here. No matter what the Chairman thinks, we're not going to war."

- Rex and Anakin Skywalker

Rex was dispatched with Skywalker, Kenobi, and a group of cold assault troops to investigate a loss of communication with Glid Station, a Republic base on the icy and cold Orto Plutonia. Rex and his men were forced to use cold assault armor that, while necessary for protection from the planet's icy environment, dangerously restricted the troopers' movements in battle. Upon arriving at the station in several LAAT/i gunships with Skywalker and Kenobi, as well as Chairman Chi Cho and Senator Riyo Chuchi from the orbiting moon of Pantora, Rex and his men placed sensor beacons to survey the area. Rex then accompanied Kenobi into the base and discovered that the station's troopers had been slaughtered without any evidence of a battle with Separatist droids. Following their scouts' discovery of a nearby Confederate base, Skywalker, Kenobi, Rex, and a group of clones proceeded to the facility aboard Freeco bikes. Arriving at the base, which was composed of two combined Trade Federation XT Beetle Transports, Rex assisted Skywalker in placing sensors around the building before entering the facility with his Jedi General. Meeting Kenobi inside the base's control center, Rex uncovered a holorecording from a communications hub of a large creature attacking a B1 battle droid. Rex contributed to the Jedi's speculations as to what had attacked the droid by reporting that their log indicated that they had been last been investigating the southern canyon. While Skywalker and Kenobi departed to follow the lead, Rex and the other troopers returned to Glid Station.

As a storm began to brew outside, Skywalker and Kenobi returned to the Republic base and reported their findings&mdash;contrary to the findings of previous scouting parties, Orto Plutonia was inhabited by a species called the Talz. When Chairman Cho learned of the Talz, he immediately ordered Rex to prepare his troops for battle, but both Jedi intervened and stated that a meeting had been arranged with the Talz to negotiate peace. As the Republic forces prepared to depart for the meeting with the Talz, Rex reported to Skywalker that the gunships would not be able to take off in the storm, and Skywalker ordered the rest of the clone platoon to remain at Glid Station&mdash;despite Chairman Cho's beliefs, the Jedi did not intend to go to war. Rex set off with the Pantorans, Jedi, and a squad of troopers in Freeco bikes for the Confederate base, which had been arranged as the neutral meeting ground. Upon arrival at the Separatist base, Cho told Rex to position his troopers on a nearby ice ridge from which to ambush the Talz, but Kenobi countermanded the order&mdash;the Talz had already arrived, halting Cho's attempts to prepare the troops to attack them.

Leaving Rex and the clones outside with orders to avoid provoking the Talz, the Jedi and Pantorans entered into negotiations with the natives' Chieftain, Thi-Sen. Despite the Jedi's efforts to prevent such an outcome, however, Cho declared war on the Talz in an effort to expunge them from Orto Plutonia. While Skywalker, Kenobi, and Chuchi returned to Glid Station to find a solution for the conflict, Rex and his men took Freeco bikes and BARC speeders to accompany and protect Cho. Approaching several Narglatch-mounted Talz, Cho immediately ordered the clones to open fire. Although Rex reminded Cho that the clones were only there for his protection, not as weapons to be wielded in his campaign against the Talz, the Captain and his troops were forced into battle when more Talz appeared and ambushed them. A Talz warrior and a Narglatch attacked Rex's Freeco swoop, forcing him out of his vehicle. Rex shot the warrior and its mount and then kicked his bike over for cover, telling his men to do the same to form a defensive perimeter. As spears continued to fly at the Republic platoon, Rex ordered his men to retreat. Though Cho refused to pull back, he was soon hit and incapacitated through the back with a spear. Rex slammed a BARC speeder into a Talz approaching Cho and defended the wounded Chairman from more of the warriors, blasting his way through the Talz attempting to attack Cho.

Carrying Cho onto a spare speeder, Rex joined the rest of his men's retreat. However, their escape from the pursing Talz was blocked by a collapsing ice bridge that took several troopers with it. Backed against a gorge, Rex signaled his remaining men to use their vehicles as cover. As the clones countered the Talz's spears with blaster fire, they were saved with the appearance of five LAAT/i gunships with Skywalker, Kenobi, Senator Chuchi, and clone troop reinforcements aboard. With heavy casualties, the battle had been bloody for both sides of the conflict. After Cho, still adamant on eliminating the Talz, succumbed to his injuries and passed on, Chuchi&mdash;having received the backing of the Pantoran Assembly&mdash;was able to establish peace with the Talz. Rex departed with the Jedi and the Senator in one of the gunships, leaving Orto Plutonia under the Talz colony's control.

Plague on Naboo
"We may be dead men, but we could still stop those droids."

- Rex, after discovering that he and his men are infected with the Blue Shadow Virus

In the second year of the war, after the Separatist-allied Doctor Nuvo Vindi was discovered to be using a laboratory on the planet Naboo to resurrect the deadly Blue Shadow Virus plague, Rex was dispatched with Skywalker, Kenobi, Tano, and several clone trooper units &mdash;Snow Wolves, Calm Tree, and Wildfire &mdash;to cripple Vindi's facility. Once Tano had detonated several thermal detonators and breached the underground research lab, Rex and his men joined her in drawing the attention of the lab's battle droid defenses so that Skywalker and Kenobi could safely infiltrate the lab from other entrances without opposition. In one of the lab's tunnels, Rex and his men followed Tano in cutting through a group of opposing B1 and B2 battle droids. The Republic squad's charge was cut short with the appearance of two droidekas, and Rex, Tano, and the clones began to back away from their droid adversaries while continuing to return their fire. As one by one, their men fell to droid fire, Tano, Rex, and the remaining clones were saved by Kenobi and the clone bomb squad, who entered the passage by collapsing part of the roof on the droidekas.

Rex and Tano followed Kenobi to a junction, where the group encountered more battle droids and decided to split up: Kenobi and his troopers headed to find and deactivate Vindi's virus bombs&mdash;which had been manufactured to spread the Blue Shadow Virus throughout the galaxy&mdash;while Tano, Rex, and their squad fought the droids and kept them occupied. However, the situation worsened when Dr. Vindi remotely activated the virus bombs. Once Rex and Tano had defeated their droid adversaries, they met Skywalker, Senator Padmé Amidala, and Representative Jar Jar Binks&mdash;as the latter duo had been captured by Vindi and rescued by Skywalker&mdash;at one of the lab's junctions. Skywalker informed the group that one of the active virus bombs was missing and ordered Tano and Rex to split up and find Vindi's LEP servant droid, LEP-86C8, whom Amidala recalled had taken the bomb. While Tano and Rex continued the search for the bomb, Skywalker and Kenobi went to apprehend Vindi, who was attempting to flee Naboo. Amidala and Binks eventually found LEP-86C8 in the lab's arboretum and recovered the bomb from the droid, and upon being informed by Amidala of her success with finding the missing explosive, Rex and Tano quickly took the clone bomb squad to the arboretum to deactivate the bomb. One of the clones of the bomb squad disabled the last bomb with only seconds to spare, and everyone in the room breathed a sigh of relief&mdash;Binks even fainted from the shock of the close call. With all of the virus bombs neutralized, the threat of the Blue Shadow Virus had ended.

Additionally, Skywalker and Kenobi were able to capture Vindi before he could escape Naboo. While the two Jedi Generals prepared to escort Vindi to Naboo's capital, Theed, for trial, LEP-86C8&mdash;who, unbeknownst to the Republic forces, had removed the vial containing the virus from the last bomb before he had escaped&mdash;used a spare explosive in the bomb room to release the Blue Shadow Virus into the underground laboratory. Elsewhere in the compound, Rex, Tano, and several troopers rushed to take refuge in the facility's safe room. The group was pursued there by the airborne virus, which quickly spread through the lab. With the safe room's blast doors beginning to automatically close, Tano held the entrance open with the Force, allowing Rex and his men to jump through the crack between the doors. The clone troopers then held the doors open for Tano, who managed to clear the jump just in time. The squad soon discovered that the doors had not been closed fast enough, allowing some of the Blue Shadow Virus to enter the room and infect Tano, Rex, and their men. Despite being infected with the strain, Rex believed that he and his men could still continue fighting to stop the lab's remaining battle droids. Soon, the enviro-suit–protected Amidala and Binks opened the door to the safe room, dismayed that they could not do anything to help the contaminated Tano and Rex. To prevent the droids from cutting their way out of the compound and releasing the virus to the rest of Naboo, Tano, Rex, and the clones agreed to split up and eliminate the droids. After offering a DC-15S blaster to Amidala, Rex joined Tano and another trooper in cutting off the droids from the bunker's north corridor, while Amidala, Binks, and the others took the south passage.

Regrouping with Amidala, Binks, and the other clones, Rex helped Amidala to bring down the last battle droid that was attempting to cut through the exit hatch. Continuing through the compound, the squad was confronted with two droidekas. Rex and the rest of the squad provided covering fire for Tano as she charged and destroyed the droids. However, Amidala's suit was compromised in the attack, infecting her with the virus as well. As the last of the droids were defeated, Rex assisted Amidala in treating four of the other infected clones, despite his own suffering from the virus. When Amidala lamented on the dying clones' wasted lives, Rex replied that it was what the troopers were "born to do." Tano fainted from the effects of the virus, and Rex caught her as she collapsed. Meanwhile, Skywalker and Kenobi collected a sample of Reeksa root&mdash;a cure for the Blue Shadow Virus &mdash;from the planet Iego and returned to Naboo, successfully neutralizing the virus with the antidote. Slated to make a full recovery, Rex and the other plague victims were ushered away in mobile stretchers by several 2-1B medical droids onto waiting LAAT/i gunships. Before departing, the ailing Rex made it clear that he did not intend to help train Binks, who had been recommended by Amidala and Kenobi for marksmanship training.

Liberation of Ryloth
"I wish General Skywalker had discussed this plan with us. The odds are very much against us."

- Rex, on the impending task of breaking the Separatist blockade

After the planet Ryloth was seized by the Confederacy, Rex was deployed with Skywalker, Tano, Admiral Yularen, and a Republic fleet of three Star Destroyers to eliminate the Separatist blockade surrounding the planet and allow the main body of Republic troops to land on Ryloth. However, the arrival of Separatist reinforcements caused the Republic's offensive to backfire. The Star Destroyers Resolute and Defender came under heavy fire and were forced to retreat, while the cruiser Redeemer was ripped apart by enemy fire. As the two remaining Star Destroyers reached their staging area, Jedi Master Mace Windu contacted the Resolute and requested an update on the strike force's progress. Rex found Skywalker in the hangar attempting to bolster the spirits of Tano, who, in her first command position, had lost a squadron of fighters in the initial battle. Rex informed Skywalker of the incoming transmission and was told to put together a damage report. Rex later joined Skywalker on the Resolute bridge when Skywalker delivered the report to Windu and Kenobi, informing them of his battle group's losses. Despite the fact that only half his original forces remained, Skywalker was given one planetary rotation to eliminate the blockade. Skywalker sent Rex to locate Tano, and Rex found her in the Resolute medbay with an unconscious Yularen, who had been wounded in the earlier battle with the blockade.

Rex informed Tano that her Master was looking for her, and she left with Rex to seek Skywalker out. When Skywalker later ordered the Defender to be evacuated, Rex assisted the Jedi General in supervising the transfer of the Defender supplies to the Resolute in her hangar bay. After Tano arrived in the Resolute hangar, Rex, at Skywalker's direction, moved in to oversee the operations while Skywalker explained the plan to his Padawan. Skywalker intended to pilot the damaged Defender alone and take out the blockade's lead ship, leaving the blockade in disarray and allowing Tano, in charge of the Resolute, to eliminate the remaining Separatist ships. Despite Tano's protests to her major role in the plan, Skywalker continued on and gathered Rex and the other clones together, informing them of the plan and entrusting Tano with overall command of the Resolute. Rex asked his General to leave some droids for him and the clones to take care of, though Skywalker made no promises. After Skywalker left for the Defender, Rex and the Resolute naval officer were joined by Tano on the bridge of the Resolute to coordinate their next move.

Rex, Tano, and the clone naval officer were contacted by Skywalker, who gave Tano a few words of support before heading back to the Ryloth system in the Defender. Upon learning the details of Skywalker's plan, Rex and the navigation officer expressed their hesitancy with the strategy&mdash;Rex believed that the odds were "very much against them," and the naval officer also voiced his doubts. To protect the Resolute from the firepower of the six remaining Separatist frigates, Tano presented a plan to angle the hull of the Resolute toward the blockade, drawing the Confederate ships in with a classic Marg Sabl maneuver, at which point the Republic starfighters would be launched, trapping the Separatists. Both Rex and the naval officer were concerned about the plan's chances of success, but a revived Yularen arrived on the bridge and supported Tano. Upon the Resolute return to the Ryloth system, Tano departed for the Star Destroyer's hangar bay to lead the fighters in the assault on the enemy ships. Once the Defender had rammed the lead Separatist ship and the Resolute had moved into place, the Separatist frigates did not converge on the Resolute, as original supposition had held it. Yularen relayed his belief that the droids were not going to attack, and Rex stated that they would have to retreat. However, Tano told the two officers to be patient, as the droids were "just a little slow."

Sure enough, the Munificent-class frigates of the blockade converged on and began to attack the Resolute just a few moments later. With their enemies in place, Tano led the Republic starfighters in the flanking assault on the Separatists. The battle continued with success, and Kenobi and Windu soon arrived with the invasion troops aboard several transports. Rex referred the Jedi Masters through to Tano, and after conferring with Kenobi, Tano told Rex to dispatch a shuttle to retrieve Skywalker's escape pod. With the Separatist blockade eliminated, the Republic ground forces were able to land and eventually recapture Ryloth's capital, Lessu. Following the Battle of Lessu, Skywalker, Tano, Rex, and the 501st Legion were tasked with clearing out the remaining Confederate holdouts, which &mdash;despite their defeat in the battle &mdash;were continuing to resist surrendering to the Republic. Rex led an assault on the droid forces in the wastes close to the city of Resdin, which the Separatist holdouts were based out of. Rex charged the battle droid lines there, defeating several droids single-handedly. Skywalker and Tano then arrived, taking out more droids themselves. The two Jedi left Rex with the rest of the detachment and infiltrated the Separatist lines. Rex rejoined the pair after they had defeated a tri-droid, reporting that Republic scouts had confirmed the large droid to have been the last of their enemies in the sector. Skywalker ordered Rex to prepare his men to move into Resdin, where large pockets of resistance were still located.

Rex joined Skywalker, Tano, Clone Sergeant CS-1004, nicknamed "Kano," and trooper Rookie on an LAAT/i gunship that took them into the ruined Resdin. Once the troops had disembarked, Rex reported that the Republic scouts had not yet been able to reconnoiter the city and that the power was out to the holo-bridges in the outer sectors. Skywalker and Tano decided to reactivate the bridges and left with a warning from Rex, who reported that their patrols had been encountering "stubborn resistance." Skywalker and Tano were able to restore power to the bridges' three generators, and with the bridges back online, the main forces were able to move into Resdin. Eventually, Sergeant Kano and his platoon of troopers discovered a string of droid outposts in the area and received assistance from the Jedi to defeat the stations. Though the outposts were nearly cleared out, Ryloth was still under occupation by Separatist forces. As night fell on Ryloth, Captain Rex and Sergeant Boomer, an acquaintance and trusted ally of his, went on a night patrol of Resdin using All Terrain Recon Transports. Fighting battle droids, the two made their way through the city's streets. After exiting a narrow alley and arriving at the large area below, Rex and Boomer were ambushed by groups of B1, B2, and DSD1 battle droids. Employing their AT-RT walkers' guns to defeat the droids, the two troopers continued along a cliff-side path and eventually reached another street.

Separatist superweapon threat
"I failed you, General. He's gone.''" "''But we're still here, thanks to you."

- Rex and Anakin Skywalker, on the escaped Kul Teska

Completing their patrol and noticing a figure run out from behind a building, Rex and Boomer dismounted from their walkers. While reporting back to Skywalker and Tano and transmitting their coordinates, the two clones came under attack, and the connection was severed. Waking up inside an underground hangar in binders, Rex and Boomer discovered that they had been taken hostage by the bounty hunter Cad Bane, who recruited their services for protecting a crate that he had stolen. Rex attempted to get up but was knocked back down by Bane, who pointed a blaster pistol at the trooper. As Separatist battle droids broke into the room, Bane showed a detonator to Rex and Boomer, and the former deduced that it was for explosive charges in their binders. Ordering the two clone troopers on their feet, Bane ordered them to protect him and his crate or else risk being "blown to pieces" if they refused to cooperate.

Bane unlinked Rex's and Boomer's binders, allowing them to move freely and make use of their weapons. Complying with Bane's demands, Rex and Boomer used several crates for cover and fought the B1 and B2 battle droids advancing through the main hangar door. As Rex began to access the controls to the main entrance mechanism from a computer beneath the platform that Bane was standing on, he was able to close the main door, but the droids continued to enter the hangar through several auxiliary tunnels. Rex closed the two alternate hatches from nearby terminals, halting the droids' advance. A Vulture droid broke through the main entrance and attacked the clones, but Rex used artillery provided by Bane to make short work of the droid fighter. Rex and Boomer joined Bane on the upper platform, and although Boomer believed that they could defeat Bane, Rex kept him focused on the situation at hand&mdash;Separatist reinforcements had just arrived in the form of B1, B2, and sabotage droids.

Skywalker and Tano eventually found Rex, Boomer, and Bane in the hangar continuing to battle waves of Separatists droids. Grudgingly deciding to assist Bane, the two Jedi joined the fight. After Skywalker destroyed a large tri-droid and ended the Confederacy's advance, Bane opened fire on the Jedi and clones. Skywalker rebounded Bane's blaster fire at him, causing him to lose his balance and fall from his perch atop a platform. Learning of Bane's "arrangement" with the cuffed Rex and Boomer, Skywalker severed the clones' binders, neutralizing Bane's bargaining chips. On Skywalker's order, Rex and Boomer then disarmed Bane. As explosions began to shake the hangar, Bane offered his Telgorn dropship, The Sleight of Hand, as an escape craft, and the Jedi took him up on his offer. Skywalker dispatched Rex and Boomer to find an elevated position from which to provide covering fire, planning to follow with Tano, Bane, and the latter's crate, which Skywalker intended to take to the Republic for investigation. Rex and Boomer left the hangar and took a path overlooking Ryloth's wastes. Battling Separatist droids and fighting their way through starship wreckage, the pair managed to destroy a tri-droid roaming the wastes.

Continuing on, Rex and Boomer were assaulted by waves of battle droids coming down from an adjacent hill. After defeating the droids there, Rex and Boomer then encountered a pair of tri-droids emerging from within a tunnel. Using rocket launchers, the clones managed to defeat the massive droids one after another and signaled to Skywalker that they were in position. Once Skywalker, Tano, and Bane had left the hangar, Rex reported to Skywalker that droids were converging on the three from all directions. With the three in sight, Rex commented on the less-than-pleasing visual appearance of Bane, who had been forced to carry his own crate back to his ship. While Rex and Boomer engaged the droids above a canyon, Skywalker, Tano, and Bane fought waves of droids below. The two clone troopers followed the Jedi and the bounty hunter through the canyon, destroying more droids as they went. When the Jedi's path was blocked by starship wreckage, Rex fired a rocket at the rubble, allowing them to climb over the debris.

As Skywalker, Tano, and Bane continued along a cliff-side path, Rex reported that they were moving out of range and that he and Boomer would be unable to provide any more covering fire. Skywalker thanked Rex for the assistance, and the two troopers took their own route to rendezvous with the others at The Sleight of Hand. Rex and Boomer arrived at the ship to find Skywalker and Tano battling the Separatist scientist Kul Teska, whom Bane had stolen the crate from. Teska encased Skywalker and Tano inside an energy bubble, and Skywalker told the troopers to focus on Teska instead of rescuing himself and Tano. Rex and Boomer complied and fought Teska, who was forced to issue an ultimatum to them: save their Jedi commanders or kill him. At that, the energy bubble began to close in on Skywalker and Tano. Rex and Boomer decided to rescue the Jedi, and while the clones deactivated the sphere, Teska boarded The Sleight of Hand with his retrieved crate. Once Skywalker and Tano had been freed, they joined the clones in converging on the ship but were unable to prevent Teska from escaping Ryloth. Despite Rex's belief that he had failed Skywalker, as Teska had gotten away, Skywalker instead thanked the clones for their efforts, as they would not be here had they not been saved from the bubble. Tano discovered that Bane had fled, leaving the Jedi and clones with nothing but information to report back on.

Immediately following the discovery of Teska's underground base on the planet Behpour&mdash;from which Teska intended to collapse the Naboo sun&mdash;Rex and Commander Cody accompanied Skywalker, Tano, Kenobi, and Windu to destroy the facility. Rex and Cody led a diversionary assault on the Separatists elsewhere on the planet with the intent of distracting the droids so that Skywalker and Kenobi could infiltrate the base and disable its deflector shields. Marching through a canyon on AT-RT walkers, Rex and Cody battled their way through B1 and B2 battle droids. Crossing a river of acid generated by the planet's core, the two troopers continued on through the canyon, eliminating all of the droids they encountered along the way. Rex and Cody blasted several circular platforms to make their way up a ridge before destroying all of the fuel cells and droid tanks in the area. With the droids distracted, Skywalker and Kenobi were able to sneak into the base and deactivate its shields, allowing Windu and Tano to enter the underground facility with the main clone detachment and secure the entrance. Inside the Separatist facility, Rex and Cody met with Clone Commander CC-6454, nicknamed "Ponds," who had been sent by Windu to help set up an evacuation zone for the Republic. The group of clones fought their way through the facility's droid defenders and advanced along the expanse of walkways.

Arriving at a landing pad, Rex, Cody, and Ponds were confronted by a Vulture droid, which Rex blasted and defeated with his rockets. From a computer terminal, Cody used the base's emergency beacon to signal R2-D2, who then piloted the Twilight to the platform to serve as an escape vessel. However, Count Dooku himself soon arrived to confront the clone troopers. Rex, Cody, and Ponds immediately took aim with their blasters and fired at Dooku, but he merely Force-pushed the three clones into the Twilight cargo bay and closed its hatch shut before they could do anything else. Dooku used the Force to topple a large beam onto the Twilight, plunging the clones and their ship into the depths of the base. The clones survived the fall, however, returning to rescue Kenobi and Windu&mdash;who had arrived at the landing platform and were dueling Dooku&mdash;with the unscathed Twilight when the platform began to collapse. Rex greeted Windu and Kenobi outside of the cargo bay, where he learned that Skywalker still had not shown up. The Twilight was soon rocked by falling debris, and unable to wait for Skywalker and Tano, the freighter fled the base. Skywalker and Tano were able to defeat Teska, rescue Senator Padmé Amidala&mdash;who had been held captive by Teska&mdash;and disable the gravity weapon. Using STAPs, Skywalker, Tano, and Amidala escaped the facility and jumped onto the Twilight, where Rex greeted them and congratulated them on their victory. The Twilight left Behpour shortly before the Separatist base was destroyed from the malfunctioning superweapon.

Felucia and Devaron
"Check your fire! Hit one of those shells and this fight is over for all of us!"

- Rex, to his clone squad, during the firefight aboard Cad Bane's frigate

Eventually, Rex was dispatched to defend the planet Felucia alongside Skywalker, Tano, Kenobi, and Cody from the Confederacy. After the Republic forces engaged the Separatists in battle, however, they began to be overwhelmed. Once LAAT/i gunship reinforcements had broken through the Separatists' space defenses and had landed in a clearing on Felucia's surface where the main force was based, Rex and Cody immediately led their troops onto the escape craft, backing into one of the vessels while returning blaster fire at the approaching waves of battle droids. With Skywalker and Kenobi aboard the clone officers' ship and all other personnel embarked, the gunships went to retrieve Tano, who had led a squad on a patrol of the dense jungle. Although Tano initially refused to retreat, the gunships landed between her forces and the droid army, forcing her to abandon the fight and join her commanders on their gunship. Lifting off in the gunships, the Republic detachment escaped shortly before the ground vehicles that Tano had left behind were blown to pieces. Following the unsuccessful campaign at Felucia, Rex joined Skywalker, Tano, and Admiral Yularen aboard the Resolute on their assignment to intercept Cad Bane&mdash;who had stolen a holocron from the Jedi Temple's Archives&mdash;in the Devaron system, where Bane's supposed next target, Jedi Master Bolla Ropal, had last been heard from.

The Resolute arrived at Devaron just as Bane was rendezvousing with a Trade Federation fleet of Munificent-class frigates over the planet, where he had captured Master Ropal, the keeper of the Kyber memory crystal device that the bounty hunter was after. Skywalker's flagship opened fire on the Federation ships, gradually decimating Bane's escort. As Bane's command ship fled the battlefield, the Resolute targeted the frigate's hyperdrive, preventing Bane from escaping to hyperspace. Assembling their forces in the Resolute hangar, Rex rounded up three brigades of troops for the impending mission. When Rex learned from Skywalker that they were to be boarding the enemy frigate to rescue Ropal and recover the stolen holocron, he expressed hesitancy, as there were only a few starfighters and the Twilight available as assault craft. However, Rex snapped to attention, awaiting orders, when Skywalker did a slight frown at the Captain's response. After Admiral Yularen arrived in the hangar and met with Rex and the Jedi, Skywalker revealed his intent to transport his forces to the frigate via several available AT-TE walkers.

Although Yularen was appalled at the plan, Tano noted that the walkers were pressurized, and Rex added that they were equipped with magnetic feet for extra grip, complementing Skywalker on his resourcefulness. Despite Yularen's protests that the walkers were designed for terrain and not space, Skywalker ordered his forces to prepare to depart the Resolute. Rex ordered Execute Battalion to take walker ATAT300, while Carnivore Battalion was to make use of Walker 773. Once the troops were ready, the Resolute moved into position and dropped ATAT300, 773, and another walker with the clones and Jedi aboard onto Bane's crippled frigate. The AT-TEs exchanged blaster fire with several STAPs and Vulture droid starfighters that were deployed from the vessel. Rex and the clones provided covering fire and enabled Skywalker and Tano to cut down the Vulture droids. Once Bane's initial defenses had been repelled, R2-D2 opened a hatch on the ship's roof, allowing the Jedi and clones to enter the vessel. Arriving on the frigate's bridge, Skywalker, Tano, and Rex stormed into the room and led a charge on the battle droids manning the ship's controls&mdash;however, Bane was not there. After the frigate's droid crew had been dispatched, R2-D2 uncovered a record of a holographic conversation between Bane and Trade Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray from the frigate's computer records.

Replaying some of the transmission, Skywalker, Tano, and Rex learned that Bane now had both the holocron and the memory crystal in his possession, having stolen the latter from Ropal. As Skywalker sent Rex with a squad of troopers to secure the hangar bay and disable all of the frigate's escape pods to prevent anyone from escaping, the ship was rocked by explosions caused by the self-destruct sequence that Bane had activated. Rex then joined Skywalker and Tano in searching for the captive Ropal. When Tano found the dead Ropal in one of the ship's holding cells, Skywalker ordered Rex to have some men take Master Ropal back to the Resolute. The frigate's deck lights suddenly deactivated, and R2-D2 used his headlamps to lead the Jedi and their battle group through the ship's dark hallways in search of Bane. Upon blindly hitting his helmet against a pipe, Rex told the rest of his men to switch their helmets' visors to night vision, pulling down his own scope to see through the darkness. Catching sight of a fleeing Bane, the Jedi and the clones immediately gave pursuit of the bounty hunter. The group followed Bane to the frigate's darkened gunnery deck, where Bane revealed his amassed battle droid forces by switching on the lights.

Bane and his B1 and B2 battle droids opened fire on Skywalker, Tano, Rex, and their men, who immediately returned the enemy fire. Bane soon decided to make the fight "a bit more interesting" by switching off the ship's artificial gravity. Rising off the ground, Rex and the other troopers used their magnetic gripsoles to latch onto various footholds and continue firing at the similarly-magnetized droids. Rex secured himself onto one of the artillery guns with his magnetic boots before returning his attention to the battle droids and blasting several of them to pieces. When a blaster cannon–wielding clone hit a disabled droid and accidentally released an ammunition canister from a gun, Rex warned his men to check their aim, as the fight would reach a very quick end if one of the shells was detonated. After R2-D2 reactivated the gravity generators, Rex, the clones, and the Jedi dropped back down to the floor. As the firefight continued to rage on, Bane lured Tano into a trap, drawing her into a dead-end hallway and sealing the blast doors behind her. Skywalker rushed over to the blast doors and began to cut through them to rescue his trapped Padawan.

A battle droid eventually tripped over the head of one of its fallen comrades and misfired at an ammunition canister. The blast from the exploding shell caused falling debris to separate Rex and the rest of his men from Skywalker. Unable to cut through the mounds of rubble, Rex called out to his Jedi General and finally got a reply from him, confirming that he was alive. Skywalker told Rex to secure a transport as a means of escape from the doomed frigate and wait for himself and Tano as long as possible. Rex complied and headed for the hangar bay with the remaining clones. Arriving in the hangar with R2-D2 to find the rest of the clone troopers battling B1 and DSD1 dwarf spider droids that were guarding a Sheathipede-class shuttle, Rex ordered his men to commandeer the craft. Rex and the new arrivals joined the firefight, using crates as cover to return the advancing droids' fire. Soon, Rex received word from Admiral Yularen that the frigate's main reactor was exposed and would implode at any moment. Splitting his forces, Rex sent troopers Denal and Koho to find and assist Skywalker in whatever way necessary, stating that the frigate would not last much longer and that they needed to escape as soon as possible.

Rex and his men eventually cut a path through the battle droids and secured the shuttle. Beginning to herd his troops onto the escape craft, Rex finally received word from Skywalker, who had rescued Tano and was heading to the hangar with her. Rex informed the Jedi that with the reactor about to explode at any moment, the clones would not be able to wait much longer for them. While the clone troopers continued to defend the shuttle from more battle droids, the last of Rex's men finally embarked the craft. As the shuttle's engines were engaged and the ship began to lift off the ground, Skywalker and Tano finally arrived, and Rex waved the two Jedi onto the shuttle with the rest of the troopers. Before leaving the doomed frigate, the shuttle maneuvered around to pick up trooper Denal, whom the rest of the squad had witnessed shoot Bane on an overhang above the hangar. However, the clone armor–clad figure was in fact Bane himself, who had killed Denal and stolen his armor. Learning of "Denal's" inability to retrieve the holocron, Skywalker ordered Rex to get the squad out of the frigate. The Jedi and the remaining forces of their battle group escaped moments before the frigate's supply of ammunition exploded, ripping the ship apart.

The Jedi and clones returned to the Resolute in the shuttle. About to disembark the shuttle and join the others in the cruiser's hangar, Rex and another trooper discovered that someone had left behind green blood on the shuttle's deck. Rex called Skywalker back into the craft and showed him their discovery, stating that the blood definitely was not from any of the clones. Skywalker and Tano simultaneously realized Bane's exploits and confronted the bounty hunter, who kneed Tano in the midsection and promptly fled for the nearby starfighters on standby in the hangar. As Bane commandeered and powered up a V-19 Torrent starfighter, Skywalker jumped onto the fighter and knocked Bane's helmet off, revealing the bounty hunter in his clone armor. Rex, a recovered Tano, and the rest of the clones could only watch as Bane forced Skywalker off his ship and piloted his ship out of the hangar. Despite being alerted by Skywalker, Admiral Yularen was unable to lock down the hyperspace booster rings and prevent Bane from escaping.

Return to Geonosis
"Rex, tell the men to fall back!''" "But&mdash;sir, you can't be asking us to turn tail and run!" "''I'm not asking you to run, Rex. I want to draw those tanks out onto the bridge."

- Anakin Skywalker and Rex

Following the discovery of a series of Separatist droid foundries newly built by Warlord Poggle the Lesser on Geonosis, Rex was sent with a 501st Legion contingent to reconnoiter the planet in preparation for a Republic assault. Upon arrival in orbit of Geonosis, Rex's task force was unable to make contact with the clone troopers on the planet's surface but confirmed from preliminary scans that droid foundries in various stages of construction were at work in the world's northern and southern hemispheres. In his report back to the Jedi High Council, Rex stated that the Geonosians were mounting far from a simple revolt and stated that a full-scale planetary invasion would be necessary to retake Geonosis. Rex promised to provide a further breakdown of the planet's defenses before ending his transmission. Based on Rex's findings, the Jedi Council sent a massive invasion force under the command of Generals Ki-Adi-Mundi, Luminara Unduli, Kenobi, and Skywalker, Commander Tano, and Admiral Yularen to recapture the planet and shut down its droid factories. After arriving in orbit of Geonosis, Rex, Cody, and Clone Commander Jet joined Mundi, Kenobi, Skywalker, Tano, and Unduli&mdash;participating via a holotransmission&mdash;in the war room of one of the fleet's Star Destroyers to establish the plan of attack.

Cody led the briefing, dictating the Republic's plan to execute a three-pronged assault on the Geonosian defenses and rendezvous at a point a short distance away from the ray shield protecting the droid foundries, in order to fortify a staging area from where to launch an attack on the factories' shield generator. While Mundi and Jet would lead the northern advance, Kenobi and Cody would execute the central push, and Skywalker, Tano, and Rex would undertake the southward assault with their troops. With the briefing finished and the plan set, the Jedi and their clone officers split up to begin preparations for the invasion. Once the Republic fleet was in position above Geonosis to deploy the assault force, Skywalker's forces of LAAT/i gunships and LAAT carriers, hauling AT-TE walkers, launched from the fleet, following Kenobi's deployment and preceding Mundi's troops. All of the landing craft encountered heavy resistance from Geonosian Nantex-class starfighters and the Separatist artillery below. The gunship carrying Skywalker, Tano, and Rex was among the first to be shot down over the planet. The transport's passengers hung on as the craft crash-landing and skidding across the surface. Skywalker heaved the wreckage of the gunship away, freeing himself and his men from the fallen craft. The detachment was immediately greeted by nearby Geonosians manning blaster cannons. While Rex and the clones used the wreckage of the gunship and various outcrops as cover to return the Geonosians' blaster fire, Skywalker charged at the warrior insurgents.

Tano, Rex, and the troopers joined Skywalker in attacking the Geonosians in close combat, but during the fighting, Skywalker's AT-TE walkers were destroyed. Rex reported the situation to Commander Jet and attempted to hail General Kenobi for reinforcements. Rex learned from Cody that Kenobi had not reached the landing site and of Cody's belief that Kenobi's gunship had been shot down. Ducking behind some cover with Skywalker, Rex informed him and Tano of Kenobi's inability to provide support. With his forces left to fend for themselves, Skywalker ordered Rex to mobilize their men in preparation to charge the enemy gunners while he and his Padawan provided cover for them. Rex assembled the troops and led them to rush the blaster cannons alongside Skywalker and Tano, running at and cutting through the Geonosians' artillery. Continuing toward the rendezvous point, the assault force's trek led to a canyon blocked by a massive Separatist barricade riddled with numerous gun emplacements and battle droids. Skywalker, Tano, Rex, and their men were forced to take cover from the incoming waves of fire, and several men were shot down before they could reach safety. Faced with the task of taking down the wall to clear the path to the rendezvous, Skywalker and Tano each took a backpack filled with thermal detonators and left Rex in charge of the troops to provide cover for them. While Skywalker and Tano ascended the barrier and began to fight their way through its droid defenses, Rex released a barrage of fire at a gun emplacement on the wall, eliminating it single-handedly.

Rex ordered his men to focus on the battle droids at the top of the wall before heading to ascend the barrier himself. Rex arrived to assist the two Jedi in their fight against a pair of droidekas, sneaking up on the droid attacking Tano and walking right through its laser deflector shield. Rex blasted the droid's "head", causing the reeling droid to release unfocused fire at its comrade. With the other droideka taking the sporadic fire, Skywalker jumped right underneath the droid and cut through it, clearing the path. Skywalker and Tano tossed their primed detonator–laden backpacks into a nearby hatch and then used the Force to levitate Rex off the wall and into the air. The Jedi jumped off the barricade with Rex falling close behind just as the explosives detonated. Skywalker and Tano used the Force to slow their descent and landed on the ground, employing the Force to halt Rex's fall centimeters from the ground and bring him to safety. With the wall destroyed, Skywalker helped Rex to his feet, and the troops continued on to the rendezvous site. Running out of the canyon and across the plains of Geonosis, the Jedi and clone troopers noticed several smoldering Geonosians falling out of a nearby cliff-top cave. Skywalker recognized Mundi and contacted him, learning that Mundi and his troops had taken a detour through the cave. The two Jedi Generals joined forces and proceeded with their troops to assist Cody and Kenobi at the landing site.

A Y-wing starfighter squadron bombing forced the Geonosians to halt their assault on the Republic forces at the staging area. Mundi, Skywalker, Tano, Rex, and Jet arrived shortly thereafter and met with Cody and the injured Kenobi to form a plan for the final stage of the operation: destroying the shield generator protecting the droid facilities. Once Skywalker, Tano, and a small squad of clones had disabled the Geonosians' blaster cannons with EMP grenades, Cody moved in with the AT-TE walkers and eliminated both the artillery stations and the shield generator. With the shield disabled, Mundi, Jet, and Rex were able to land with the rest of the troops in the gunships and forced the outnumbered Geonosians to surrender. The wounded Generals Kenobi and Mundi were ferried back to the fleet for treatment, leaving Skywalker, Tano, and Rex with the task of eliminating Poggle the Lesser's near-completed primary droid foundry. The three moved their troops to the cliff adjacent to the droid factory, which was isolated on the other side of an immense canyon that could only be crossed via a bridge. Jedi Master Luminara Unduli and her Padawan, Barriss Offee, soon arrived with reinforcements, and once the pair had landed, Rex greeted them and directed them to Skywalker and Tano. The four Jedi devised a plan to cripple the droid foundry: Skywalker and Unduli would launch an assault on the factory and its defenses, acting as decoys for Tano and Offee to infiltrate the facility from the catacombs beneath it and destroy it with explosives from the inside.

After the two Padawans had departed, Rex accompanied Skywalker, Unduli, and the clone troops across the bridge leading to the main droid foundry. Although the assault was risky because of the Republic forces' lack of cover, the Jedi intended to tempt the Geonosians into fighting them in open warfare. Factions of B1 and B2 battle droids deployed to protect the droid factory opened fire on the Jedi and clones, and Rex joined Skywalker and Unduli in leading the Republic troops' charge on the Separatists. The Republic's advance was cut short when Geonosian fighters emerged from several spires behind the clone force, surrounding them. Nevertheless, the Jedi and their men continued to cut through the opposing droids and continued for the factory. With the appearance of several droidekas, Rex ordered a rocket launcher–armed trooper forward to assist the Jedi. The clone blasted the droids to pieces in one shot, and the heavy firepower of the Republic's AT-TE walkers disabled the rest of the advance droid forces. The Jedi and their troops were then confronted with the deployment of several droid-manned super tanks, newly manufactured by Poggle the Lesser's foundry. At Skywalker's order, Rex mobilized four AV-7 Antivehicle Cannons and gave them their elevation levels in preparation to attack the tanks. Rex monitored the super tanks' progress with a pair of electrobinoculars, waiting for the right moment to fire on them.

Once the massive Separatist tanks had almost reached the other side of the bridge, Rex ordered the heavy cannons open fire on the vehicles. The ray-shielded tanks, however, were able to withstand the barrages of fire and continued their advance. Skywalker, Unduli, Rex, and their men were forced to take cover when the super tanks released a multitude of rockets at the Republic troops. In the ensuing bombardment, the heavy cannons and advancing AT-TE walkers were destroyed, and the clone troopers sustained heavy casualties. Taking cover from the ongoing fire, Skywalker ordered Rex and the rest of their men to fall back. Although Rex was adamant against retreating, he complied when Skywalker revealed that he intended to draw the tanks onto the bridge, which the two Jedi Generals would destroy and eliminate the blaster-impervious tanks in the only way they saw possible. Once Rex and his men had begun to retreat and lured the still-firing tanks almost all the way across the bridge, Skywalker and Unduli swung under the pass hand by hand and planted explosives, heading for the main factory on the other side of the canyon.

When the detonators were in place, Skywalker activated the charges, collapsing the span and plunging the super tanks into the abyss below. As Skywalker and Unduli waited for their Padawans, whom they had learned&mdash;through their synchronized chronometers&mdash;had successfully planted their explosives at the factory's reactor core, Skywalker contacted Rex via comlink and questioned whether he had spotted Tano or Offee from his side of the canyon. Rex replied that he had not seen either of them but also reported that the evacuation ships had arrived. With the droid foundry about to explode at any moment, Rex "suggested" that Skywalker get on one, though the Jedi General refused to leave without his Padawan. Meanwhile, Tano and Offee were intercepted by Geonosian insurgents and a super tank at the reactor and, with their explosives stolen, were forced to fire the tank at the facility's power generator. Rex and the clone troops on the other side of the gorge turned their attention to the factory as it was hit by a chain of explosions. Once the dust cloud caused by the factory's destruction had settled, Rex went with an LAAT/i gunship to find Skywalker and Unduli amidst the field of rubble and debris. Finding the two Jedi Generals, Rex reported to them that the Republic's LAAT carriers were beginning to move the debris to search for the Padawans, who had been buried and trapped under the remains of the factory. Eventually, Tano was able to boost her comlink's reception with a power cell inside her super tank and signaled Skywalker to her and Offee's location. Receiving the comlink channel pulse, Skywalker pointed out the Padawans' location and proceeded to the area with Unduli and Rex. Although Rex offered to move the heavy machinery with the LAAT carriers, Skywalker refused, stating that there was no time. Skywalker and Unduli instead elected to lift the debris with the Force, moving piece after piece until the Padawans' super tank was free.

Tano and Offee emerged from the remains of the tank, coughing and grimy but otherwise safe, and Rex waved several troopers over to help them out of the debris field. Once the two Padawans had been reunited with their Masters, Rex convened with Tano and Offee at one of the Republic's staging areas, where he sent the two Padawans back to the fleet for a much-deserved rest. Promising to return after recuperating, Tano and Offee departed with a convoy of LAAT/i gunships ferrying the wounded Republic troops away for treatment, leaving Rex and the Jedi Generals&mdash;among them, Masters Mundi and Kenobi, who had recently recovered from their earlier injuries&mdash;to complete the cleanup on Geonosis. Following the capture of Warlord Poggle the Lesser at the hands of the Jedi, Tano and Offee were assigned to take the Republic Pelta-class frigate TB-73 on a supply run to a medical station near Ord Cestus while the four Jedi Generals escorted Poggle the Lesser to Coruscant for trial. Rex accompanied Kenobi, Skywalker, Unduli and Mundi on a Venator-class Star Destroyer to deliver the Geonosian Warlord to the Republic capital under heavy guard. Once all of its passengers were aboard, the cruiser jumped to hyperspace and began the voyage ahead. En route to Coruscant, Skywalker, Kenobi, and Rex joined Mundi and Unduli on the vessel's bridge, where Unduli reported that the Padawans' cargo ship had failed to check in on schedule and was not responding to her attempts to contact it. While Skywalker believed that Tano would have checked in on time and suspected that something was wrong, Kenobi replied by reminding Skywalker of his own lack of promptness, extracting a slight smile from Rex.

The Jedi focused their attention back to Poggle the Lesser, who was proving "most uncooperative" in response to their questioning. Before leaving with the other Jedi Generals to continue interrogating the Warlord, Skywalker privately told Rex to "keep his ears open" for Tano in case she called, and Rex agreed to do so. Rex eventually contacted freighter TB-73 himself, and the transmission was answered by Tano, who expressed her relief to hear from him. Once Rex put Skywalker through to Tano, she reported that her convoy had been overrun by Geonosian brain worms that were capable of controlling the minds of their hosts and had already infected most of the clone troopers aboard the ship. Skywalker replied by stating his own intent to interrogate Poggle the Lesser, whom, he suspected, possessed the answers to halting the threat. Skywalker and Rex severed the connection, and the former headed to the Star Destroyer's detention level to confront the Geonosian Warlord. Skywalker soon joined Rex, Unduli, Mundi, and Kenobi back on the bridge, reporting Tano's predicament and continuing with the news that he had discovered how to stop the worms from Poggle the Lesser. However, Skywalker evaded the other Jedi Generals' inquiries as to how he had extracted the information from the so-far unresponsive Warlord. Skywalker reported to Tano that the brain worms were affected by the cold, and Tano used this knowledge to neutralize the worms.

Escapades at Saleucami
"You're welcome to stay, Rex.''" "''This is your home, Cut. My family is elsewhere."

- Cut Lawquane and Rex, shortly before the latter leaves to rendezvous with Kenobi and the rest of the Republic forces

After the Jedi Order learned that General Grievous had captured Jedi Master Eeth Koth, Skywalker, Kenobi, and Master Adi Gallia mounted a rescue mission to save Koth from Grievous's clutches. Rex joined Skywalker and Gallia aboard a Jedi ambassadorial shuttle in orbit of Coruscant, where the Republic fleet was assembled in preparation for the assault. From his own Republic light cruiser, Kenobi contacted Skywalker, Gallia, Rex, and the other clones aboard their shuttle and clarified the plan: Kenobi himself would head to the Saleucami system with the Republic fleet, distract Grievous's Separatist forces there, and transmit the coordinates of Grievous's command ship, which the Jedi presumed was where Koth was being held captive. The ambassadorial shuttle and its embarked force would then be able to jump into the system undetected, infiltrate the command ship, and rescue Koth. Kenobi and his Star Destroyers departed for Saleucami while the shuttle continued to wait in Coruscant's orbit. Once Kenobi and Commander Cody had conveyed the coordinates to them, Skywalker took the shuttle to join the battle over Saleucami.

With Kenobi, Admiral Yularen, the Resolute, and the rest of the Republic fleet keeping Grievous's destroyer occupied, the ambassadorial shuttle emerged from hyperspace and sped unopposed through the ongoing battle, quickly rotating upside down to dock to Grievous's craft. Skywalker deactivated the shuttle's primary power, effectively avoiding it from being detected by the enemy cruiser. Skywalker then cut a hole in one of the command ship's hatches and boarded the destroyer with Gallia. Once Rex had received word from the two Jedi that the coast was clear, he and the rest of the clone troopers climbed aboard the cruiser. On Skywalker's orders, Rex and his men remained there to guard the hatch, as it was their only escape off the ship. After Skywalker and Gallia rescued Master Koth from captivity on the ship's bridge, Grievous broke off from his ongoing duel with Kenobi aboard the latter's light cruiser and headed back to his own ship. Gallia went to prevent Grievous from escaping while Skywalker helped the weakened Koth back to the escape hatch. As Skywalker jumped through the hatch and boarded the escape shuttle, Rex and another clone provided support for Koth until the Jedi Master embarked the shuttle as well. After Rex and the clones had joined the Jedi on the shuttle, Skywalker powered the craft back up and detached it from Grievous's cruiser. The shuttle was then contacted by Kenobi, who had pursued Grievous back to his command ship with Gallia, Cody, and several other clones; Kenobi requested transport off the ship before they became trapped there.

Flying past Kenobi's light cruiser, which was still attached to Grievous's ship and was being fired upon by the enemy cruiser itself, Skywalker and Rex rescued Kenobi, Gallia, Cody, and another surviving clone from a large hangar in the Separatist cruiser. Once the four had jumped aboard, Skywalker blasted the shuttle out of the hangar bay, avoiding the flying debris from Kenobi's light cruiser, which had exploded from high amounts of damage. Grievous himself attempted to escape the battle in a C-9979 troopship with a complement of battle droids, but the craft was hit by shrapnel from the destroyed Republic light cruiser and was forced to land on Saleucami. Kenobi resolved to head to the planet's surface with Rex and Cody to search for and capture Grievous while Skywalker and Admiral Yularen continued the space battle. Skywalker piloted the shuttle into one of the Republic cruiser's hangars, where Rex disembarked, supporting Koth until he was relieved of the wounded Jedi Master by a 2-1B medical droid. After briefly conferring with another clone, Rex joined Kenobi and Cody on an Acclamator-class assault ship for the voyage to Saleucami's surface. Once the transport had landed and unloaded its troops and assault vehicles, Rex was briefed by Kenobi on their plan: instead of scattering the men to locate all of the Separatist craft's escape pods, the Republic forces would first investigate the wreckage of the enemy ship. Deploying biker scouts and AT-TE walkers, Rex and Kenobi began the search for the downed transport, with Rex himself traveling on a BARC speeder.

En route to the site of the crashed Separatist craft, Rex reported the Republic cruiser's return to orbit to Kenobi. The unit of clone troopers arrived at the crash site and examined Grievous's transport to gather more information. Inspecting the troop compartments and finding them almost entirely destroyed, Rex joined Kenobi and Cody on the top of the craft with trooper Jesse and relayed his findings. Following the clones' reports, Kenobi assigned teams to search for the escape pods and locate Grievous, with Rex leading troopers Jesse, Kix, and Hardcase to patrol Saleucami's wetlands. Before Rex departed with his men, Kenobi told him that if he and his team happened to sight Grievous, they should send back word before engaging the Confederate General. Leading his men through the lush wetlands aboard BARC speeders, Rex became the target of a two-member droid commando sniper team. One of the droids fired at Rex with a sniper rifle, knocking him backward off his speeder with a shot through the chest. Rendered unconscious, Rex could only stay sprawled on the ground where he had fallen as his speeder crashed into some nearby brush.

While Kix, the squad's medic, circled back around to protect Rex, Jesse and Hardcase dispatched the droid commandos. Lifting off Rex's helmet, Kix did a cursory examination of Rex but was unable to discern the full extend of the damage until the injured clone's armor was removed. Realizing that they were on farmland, the clones decided to head for the grounds' homestead to find a safe place to tend to their fallen officer. Assembling a makeshift litter to carry Rex and fixing it to his own BARC speeder, Jesse led the team to the homestead, transporting Rex along the way. After receiving permission from Suu, the Twi'lek farmer of the grounds, to use an eopie barn to temporarily house Rex, the three clones set up camp in the building and moved Rex onto a bench. Rex's armor and the top half of his black body glove were removed and piled on the ground so that Kix could tend to his injuries. Kix attached a pair of bacta patches to Rex's chest, covering the sniper-inflicted wound. Rex finally recovered consciousness, waking up to discover from Hardcase that, had the potshot been two inches to the left, it would have otherwise gone straight through his heart and caused instantaneous death. Rex also found that he was unable to move his left arm due to nerve damage. Pulling himself up into a sitting position, Rex told Kix to patch him up so that they could continue the search. However, Kix opposed Rex's desire to continue the mission with a wound that would take time and rest to heal; Kix cited his own authority as the team medic to countermand the Captain's orders.

Rex's and Jesse's continued argument was cut short when Suu arrived at the barn with some food for the clones. Suu's daughter, Shaeeah, then entered the room chasing a ball and, upon catching sight of Rex, blurted out that he resembled her own father, a comment that the clones were visibly surprised by. While Suu conferred with Jesse and gave him the plate of food, Kix dressed Rex in an arm sling. Hardcase retrieved one of Rex's blaster pistols for him from the pile of his armor on the ground, placing the blaster next to Rex on the wooden bench for easy accessibility. After Suu had left with Shaeeah, Rex &mdash;recognizing that he needed to stay put if he wanted to be able to recover &mdash;reluctantly ordered his men to continue the search for Grievous without him, placing Jesse in command of the trio. Once his men had departed, night began to fall, and Rex eventually fell asleep on his bench. His slumber was interrupted by a nosy eopie that sniffed him and then began to lick his face. Rex forced the animal away from him, sighing and wiping his face with the back of his hand before returning to sleep. Later, Rex was awoken a second time, this time by the furtive sounds of an approaching figure&mdash;the farmer, Suu's husband. Rex's eyes snapped open, but he quickly closed them again, feigning continued slumber, and slowly reached for the blaster pistol next to him on the bench with his non-crippled arm. Once the farmer was close enough, Rex struck out at his assailant with his blaster but was disarmed by the farmer, who used a staff to knock Rex's weapon out of his hand.

The unarmed Rex looked up at his greeter and was surprised to find that he was staring into his own face&mdash;the farmer was also a clone trooper. Pulling himself up into a sitting position, Rex demanded to know the trooper's number and rank. The clone instead introduced himself as Cut Lawquane and stated that he was only a simple farmer. Realizing that he was dealing with a deserter, Rex called Lawquane out on his sworn oath to the Grand Army and expressed his contempt for those who would abandon their duty. Turning on the barn's lights, Lawquane replied that he did have a duty, only that it was to his family, not to killing for a living. The pair's argument was interrupted when Suu arrived with her and Lawquane's children, Shaeeah and Jekk, at the barn so that the children could welcome their adoptive father home. After greeting his children, Lawquane invited Rex to dinner with his family. Although Rex initially refused, saying that he would stay at the barn, he accepted the invitation when Shaeeah and Jekk begged for his participation. Putting the top half of his body glove back on, Rex joined Lawquane and the latter's family at their home for dinner.

The two clones continued to debate their very different ideologies over a meal of roast nuna. Lawquane argued that despite their identical genetic heritage, the clones deserved individuality. Rex countered that he himself was making an "individual choice" to serve the Republic, as he believed that the war was crucial to the preservation of civilization. Despite his disagreement with the Captain, Lawquane respected Rex's opinion, believing that everyone possessed a right to his or her own beliefs. After dinner, Rex and Lawquane continued their discussion over a game of dejarik holochess, which Rex had some experience with. Following Rex's inquiries into the cause of his desertion from the Republic corps, Lawquane recounted his service shortly after the Battle of Geonosis. Lawquane's troop transport had been shot down by Separatist forces, and the enemy battle droids had then started to exterminate the survivors of his unit. At that point, Lawquane had fled, and the experience had caused him to question his apparent expendability in the war. A survivor of the Battle of Geonosis himself, Rex sympathized with Lawquane and stated that he, too, had lost many brothers&mdash;whom he had come to recognize as his family and home&mdash;during the course of his service in the countless battles since the outbreak of the war. Receiving permission from Lawquane, Shaeeah and Jekk went outside to play, prompting Rex to express his admiration of Lawquane's children to their father. In response, Lawquane promised to "fight to his last breath" to keep his children safe, contrary to Rex's belief that he was a coward. Rex, Lawquane, and Suu were roused from their activities when Jekk and Shaeeah returned to the homestead in screams. Following Shaeeah's statement that they were being followed by monsters that had "hatched from the big egg in the field," Lawquane grabbed a pair of macrobinoculars to verify her claim.

Training his binoculars through the dark fields, Lawquane spotted twenty droid commandos, deployed from a crashed escape pod, were beginning to surround the homestead. Preparing for a confrontation with the battle droids, Lawquane locked the building's front door and sent Suu upstairs with their children. Rex inquired after Lawquane's supply of weapons, and Lawquane opened up his stock, handing Rex a blaster pistol not unlike the one that the Captain normally carried. Although Rex volunteered a plan to catch the droids in a crossfire, Lawquane cited his injuries as a weakness against the droids and refused. Rex understood the intentions behind Lawquane's refusal when the clone farmer clarified them: Lawquane was asking Rex to serve as a last line of defense for his family while he himself took point against the droids. Stating that he would take care of them and receiving Lawquane's thanks in response, Rex joined Suu, Shaeeah, and Jekk in the upper level's bedroom. Presently, the droids launched their attack on the homestead, and Rex and the three Twi'leks were startled by blaster fire that hit the front wall. The droid commandos eventually made it past Lawquane, who warned his clone brother about the approaching group of battle droids. While Suu hid with Jekk and Shaeeah by the bunks, Rex took up position, waiting at the end of the hallway through which the stairwell doorway opened up to. Once the droid commandos had entered the hallway, Rex forsook his hiding spot and opened fire on them, cutting down a pair of the droids. While rolling away from and exchanging fire with another of the droids, Rex managed to hit his adversary in the head, but not before the droid released a barrage of fire at the platform that Rex was crouching on.

Rex fell through the floor and landed on the ground beside Lawquane, losing his grip on his blaster pistol in the process. One of the droid commandos seized Rex by the throat, but Lawquane immediately grabbed Rex's fallen blaster and shot the droid's head cleanly off, saving the Captain and releasing him from the droid's choke hold. Rex stumbled against a wall, massaging his throat and gasping for air. Despite the injuries that the two clones had received, the droid commandos had been repelled. As morning broke, Rex prepared to depart to rejoin the rest of the Republic forces. Abandoning his arm cast, Rex retrieved his armor from the barn and re-donned his gear, including his punctured pauldron. He also borrowed one of Lawquane's eopies, which he loaded the remainder of his gear onto. When questioned by Suu if he was going to turn Lawquane in for his desertion from the Grand Army, Rex stated that doing so was his duty, but speculated that in his condition, he might not "remember" anything of his meeting with them. Suu thanked Rex for his discretion, relieved that she could continue her life with her husband without the fear that Lawquane would be detained. Having finally gained an understanding of Lawquane's loyalties, Rex still branded Lawquane a deserter but stated that he was certainly no coward.

Rex was contacted by General Kenobi, who was glad to hear that the Captain was on the mend and stated that he had been missed at the "party" with Grievous. Looking at Lawquane and his family, Rex simply replied that he had had to attend one of his own. Although Lawquane offered Rex a place at his home, Rex politely refused, not intending to impose on the clone farmer's family, and stated that his own family was elsewhere. With that, Rex said goodbye to Lawquane, Suu, Jekk, and Shaeeah and mounted the eopie. Rex rode off through the fields to rendezvous with Kenobi and the Republic army, taking with him his different view of a clone's loyalties and duties as a souvenir of his experience.

Protecting Duchess Kryze
"Assassin droid. How did that monster end up in the hold?''" "''Question is, who smuggled him on board?"

- Rex and Anakin Skywalker

Following the emergence of the Mandalorian Death Watch splinter group in opposition to the Republic-allied Duchess Satine Kryze of Mandalore, Skywalker, Rex, and Cody were assigned to escort Kryze on her journey to Coruscant, where she intended to plead her case to the Galactic Senate. Skywalker, Rex, Cody, and a contingent of troops from the Grand Army met with Kenobi&mdash;who had been sent earlier to investigate rumors of Kryze's treason against the Republic &mdash;at a spaceport in Mandalore's capital city, Sundari, where Kryze's starship, the Coronet, was ready to depart. After checking in with Kenobi, the Republic squad joined Kryze and several of her senatorial passengers on the Coronet, which promptly embarked on its voyage for Coruscant. En route to Coruscant, the Republic escort group met in the Coronet darkened cargo hold. Skywalker and Kenobi briefed their troops and told them to stay vigilant for the Death Watch, which would stop at nothing to assassinate Kryze. Once the briefing was finished, Rex and Cody dispatched their men to begin their rounds of the cargo bay while Skywalker and Kenobi went to meet with Kryze.

During their patrol, Rex and Cody bumped into the astromech droid R2-D2, who appeared to have been frightened by something. The two clone officers also found that they were unable to make contact with two of their men, Mixer and Redeye. Rex contacted Kenobi and reported the situation, and Skywalker returned to the cargo hold to assist in the investigations. Once Skywalker arrived, the clones followed him and R2-D2 with headlamps ablaze through the labyrinth of containers in search of the missing Mixer and Redeye. After the group discovered an open and overturned container, Skywalker ordered Rex, Cody, and their men to fan out and find the box's missing contents while he reported this development to Kenobi, who was with Kryze and the senators in the dining hall. However, a large assassin probe droid emerged from the shadows and attacked Skywalker. Rex, Cody, and their men found Skywalker during his fight with the droid and stepped in to help their Jedi General, targeting blaster fire at the droid and deactivating it before it could crush him with its large legs. However, a second assassin probe took advantage of the clones' distraction to head for the turbolift shaft. Skywalker, Rex, Cody, and their men ran for the lift but were unable to reach it in time to prevent the droid from prying open and climbing up the shaft that led to the dining hall, where the Duchess and the senators were eating.

As Skywalker speculated the possibility of a third assassin droid aboard the ship and ordered his men to find the intruder, the fallen assassin probe dispatched an army of tiny but deadly probe killer droids that surrounded and attacked the Jedi and clones in overwhelming numbers. Rex, Cody, and their men opened fire on the small droids and, despite some casualties, were eventually able to repel the majority of the nuisances, although several of the droids evaded the clones' fire. Rex mused how the monstrous assassin probe had managed to get on board the Coronet, but Skywalker instead focused on a more specific question: the individual who had smuggled it aboard. After finding the protocol droid in charge of the cargo manifest, Skywalker checked the droid's records and discovered that someone had used a Senate stamp to approve the shipment of the crates containing the assassin droids. While Skywalker and the clones searched the cargo hold for the third and final assassin probe, Kenobi took over interrogating the four senators aboard the Coronet to determine which one of them had smuggled the assassin droids aboard. Presently, Cody found a clone helmet on the ground and picked it up to examine it. A probe killer launched itself out of the helmet and attacked Cody, who fell to the floor as he tried to repel the droid. When Rex attempted to grab the droid off his comrade, two more probe killers jumped onto and attacked the Captain. Both clone officers were saved by Skywalker and R2-D2, who deactivated the tiny probe droids with lightsaber and electric shocker, respectively.

Sighing in relief from the alleviated shock, Rex thanked R2-D2 for destroying the last probe killer. Immediately after Rex reported to Skywalker that he had not seen the "mother" of the small droids, the assassin probe appeared and bowled the Captain over. The droid climbed on top of him and prepared to impale him with its front pincers. Unfazed, Rex caught the droids' legs and kicked the probe off him before it could do any damage. Rex and Cody fired at the probe, which clambered up the wall to evade its attackers. Both clones landed shots on the droid, but it was not until Skywalker threw his lightsaber at the droid and severed most of its legs that their adversary toppled back to the floor. Running over, Rex slammed his foot down on the incapacitated droid and rained down blaster fire on the droid's cranial unit, preventing the monstrosity from hatching its probe killer spawn. A triad of Separatist Droch-class boarding ships then attacked the Coronet and penetrated its hull to deploy a boarding party of super battle droids. Rex and Cody joined Skywalker in one of the ship's hallways, where the clones exchanged fire with the droids while Skywalker charged at the intruders. The Jedi's and clones' combined efforts brought about the droids' defeat and littered the hallway with enemy carcasses. After the Coronet reached Coruscant and docked at a landing pad, Rex, Cody, and their men disembarked with the Jedi, their assignment to protect Kryze a success.

Trouble with a beast
"Stay with General Kenobi. I'm on my way.''" "''Better hurry, sir. You're missing all the fun."

- Anakin Skywalker and Rex

Rex was among the Republic troops dispatched under Generals Skywalker and Mace Windu to defend the planet Malastare and secure its vital fuel resources for the Republic Grand Army by defeating the large Separatist battle droid army attempting to seize them. However, as the droids gradually overwhelmed the Republic force, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine authorized the use of the Republic's recently developed electro-proton bomb to defeat the Separatists. Rex was tasked with leading the clones to hold back the droids until the bomb was detonated. Proceeding to the front of the defense lines of the Dug Doge Nakha Urus's Imperial palace, Rex used a set of electrobinoculars to observe the advancing Separatists across the battlefield's no-man's land and noted that there was "a lot of clankers"&mdash;the force was several thousand strong. The battle droids opened fire, which Rex and his men returned themselves. During the fighting, Rex recounted their objective to his men&mdash;they did not have to defeat the droids, just hold them back long enough for the bomb to be dropped. As the clones continued to fall to enemy fire, Rex ordered his men to hold the line against the approaching DSD1 dwarf spider droids. The clones received assistance from Insectomorph-mounted Dug cavaliers, who rode forward to attack the droids.

With the battle raging on, Skywalker deployed the starfighter squadron carrying the bomb from the Imperial palace. The fighters dropped the bomb right in the middle of the droid army, creating an explosion that transformed into an electromagnetic pulse. The expanding wave deactivated the droids and additionally momentarily disrupted the clone troopers' helmet systems as it passed through them. Recovering from the blast, Rex and his men turned to look upon the hordes of deactivated droid carcasses in front of them left in the bomb's wake. Suddenly, the ground began to sink from the effects of the bomb, and Rex and his men made a run for it as a sinkhole opened up where the bomb had been detonated. Rex nearly did not make it to safety, as he was caught on a plateau that began to crack and fall into the sinkhole before he could get off it, but he jumped to higher ground and was pulled to safety by his troops. Still breathing heavily, Rex and his men looked down into the hole brought about as a disastrous side-effect to the electro-proton bomb. As search parties were dispatched to rescue the clone troops that had been engulfed in the sinkhole, Rex joined Skywalker, Kenobi, Doge Urus, R2-D2, and Doctor Sionver Boll at the Imperial palace, where communications were reestablished with Supreme Chancellor Palpatine. Windu and Urus conferred with Palpatine on the status of the search and the fuel treaty between the Republic and the Dugs' council, which was still in the process of reviewing the settlement before they granted the Republic access to Malastare's fuel reserves.

After the transmission had ended, Rex received a report from the front lines through his helmet's comm frequency, and relayed the news to the Jedi that contact with the rescue team had been lost. Skywalker and Windu departed to, respectively, attend to the Dug leaders and aid the rescue team in the crater. In the sinkhole, the Jedi encountered an extremely large Zillo Beast, which had been awakened by the bomb. As night fell, Rex met with Skywalker, Windu, Dr. Boll, and R2-D2 at the Imperial palace to contact Chancellor Palpatine and discuss the problem of the Zillo Beast&mdash;while the Dugs wanted to kill it off, the Jedi wanted to preserve it, as it was the last of its kind, and such a killing of an innocent life-form went against the principles of the Jedi Code. To both save the beast and appease the Dugs in order to get the fuel treaty ratified, Skywalker devised a plan to knock out the beast with the Republic's stun tanks and then transport the creature off-world, thereby keeping the beast's survival a secret from the Dugs. The Jedi set their plan into motion and were able to render the Zillo Beast unconscious. Rex was present when Doge Urus and the other Dug leaders signed the fuel treaty in the Imperial palace, granting the Republic access to Malastare's fuel. Although the Republic forces had prepared the Zillo Beast for transport to an uninhabited Outer Rim world, Chancellor Palpatine made "a slight change in plans" &mdash;per his scientific advisors' recommendation, the creature was to be initially studied in a more controlled environment on Coruscant before being released into the wild.

Rex, Skywalker, Windu, and Boll returned to Coruscant, where the Zillo Beast was transferred to the Republic Science and Technical Center to be studied by Boll. However, following Boll's attempt to kill the beast&mdash;as ordered by Palpatine himself&mdash;in order to more easily examine its armor-like scales, the creature broke free from its heavily guarded containment facility in the science center and began to rampage across Coruscant, heading for the Republic Executive Building. After joining the LAAT/i gunship force led by Generals Windu and Kenobi dispatched to contain the beast, Rex contacted Skywalker through R2-D2, both of whom were with Palpatine and Senator Padmé Amidala in the Chancellor's Suite. Skywalker told Rex to stay with Kenobi and that he would join the pair, and Rex told his General to hurry in order to avoid "missing all the fun" before closing the connection. Rex, Windu, and Kenobi arrived with their clone troops and stun tanks at the Executive Building in time to witness the Zillo Beast take hold of the craft that Palpatine, Skywalker, Amidala, R2-D2, and C-3PO were using to escape the creature. As Masters Yoda and Aayla Secura arrived on the scene, Rex, monitoring the situation through a pair of macrobinoculars, noticed that Skywalker was cutting the escape shuttle in half with his lightsaber and notified Windu of this development, handing the binoculars for him to see for himself.

Realizing Skywalker's intention to free the Zillo Beast's captives by letting them fall out of the ship, Kenobi told Windu to simply "catch them" when they fell. Although Windu was concerned about this "improvised plan," Rex noted that a lot of Skywalker's plans involved falling. While Yoda and Secura distracted the beast, Skywalker managed to cut the ship carrying himself, Amidala, Palpatine, and the droids in half and freed it from the Zillo Beast's grip. As the part of the ship containing the Chancellor and a Senate Commando slid down the slanted side of the Executive Building, Rex watched as Windu and Kenobi caught the severed ship with the Force and prevented it from plummeting off the edge of the wall, securing Palpatine's safety. While the stun tanks began to train their fire on the Zillo Beast, Rex, Windu, Kenobi, and their men launched in the LAAT/i gunships and concentrated their own fire on the beast. With Skywalker, Amidala, Palpatine, and the two droids continuing to run away from the Zillo Beast, Windu ordered Boll's recently developed bombs&mdash;made from the Malastarian fuel that had proved toxic to the beast in the past&mdash;to be used to kill the creature. The gunships launched attack runs on the beast and dropped their munitions on it, eventually killing the beast and ending its rampage. As morning broke on Coruscant, the slain Zillo Beast was transported away, and Rex, the five Jedi, Amidala, and R2-D2 and C-3PO met with Chancellor Palpatine. Although Skywalker remarked that it was a tragedy that the Zillo Beast had had to pay its life for their own mistakes, Palpatine promised that the sacrifice would not be in vain. While Rex and the others departed the scene, Palpatine secretly gave Dr. Boll the new orders of cloning the Zillo Beast.

Day One

 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Day One

Personality and traits
"What if I am choosing the life I want? What if I'm staying in the army because it's meaningful to me?''" "And how is it meaningful?" "Because I'm part of the most pivotal moment in the history of the Republic. If we fail, then our children and their children could be forced to live under an evil I can't well imagine." "If you were to have children, of course, but&hellip;that would be against the rules, wouldn't it? Isn't that what somebody programmed you to believe, Captain?" "''No, Cut, it's simply what I believe. It doesn't matter if it's my children or other people's children."

- CC-7567 expresses his ideologies during a discussion with Cut Lawquane

Gruff, no-nonsense, and tough as nails, CC-7567 was an aggressive clone trooper and a veteran of many battles during the Clone Wars. Hardened and battle-scarred by many engagements with the Confederacy, Rex maintained a reputation as one of the toughest clones in the galaxy. He was a freethinking and fearless soldier, and though he did not hesitate to give higher-ranking Jedi officers his "blunt opinion," he preferred to nurture more diplomatic methods than the Advanced Recon Commandos' bold orders. Rex led from the front, and, in some cases, would have fought ahead of General Anakin Skywalker. Rex was far from reckless, but his courage and willingness to jump into the fray helped the Republic win numerous victories. His outspokenness and aggression notwithstanding, Rex faithfully executed orders &mdash;even when he disagreed with them &mdash;with little concern for his own well-being. During the war, he swore to protect all Republic citizens, and his promise extended even to the ambitious Chairman Chi Cho. The basis for Rex's support of the Republic was that the war was crucial to the preservation of civilization. He viewed the Grand Army as his home and his clone brethren as his family and sometimes mused over the many brothers that he had lost in the countless battles that he had served in. The Battle of Teth ultimately eclipsed and hardened Rex in a way, causing him, as described by Tano, to take on a certain glint in his eyes as a result of being beaten to a standstill, staring death in the face, and living to tell the tale alongside the few other survivors of the dire engagement.

Rex was loyal to the Republic and the Jedi. He often became concerned for the safety of his Jedi officers, particularly those of Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano, and Obi-Wan Kenobi, whom he often served with during the war. As such, Rex was hesitant to follow orders that put the Jedi in danger, especially those that came from the Jedi themselves,  and was willing to sacrifice his life for the Jedi's well-being and survival. Rex was unafraid to do his duty as a soldier of the Republic, even if it meant placing his own life and the lives of his troops in jeopardy. During the Second Battle of Geonosis, Rex was initially adamant against turning tail and running with his men before he saw the strategic side of the retreat. However, he never wanted to leave anyone behind if possible and greatly cared for his troops. While he was good at keeping up a "stoical front," he was extremely passionate about certain matters. He despised using the tally sensor because it was inconsiderate and was also an admission that he did not personally "know" his men. Rex was both angered and saddened by the near-eradication of Torrent Company at Teth and the loss of troopers Vere and Ince during a rescue mission. After Vere's death, Rex pushed his anger to one side so that it would serve as fuel for the job at hand with the intention of releasing it later when no one would be around to see him break down. Sometimes, he even saw death as a method to assuage his belief that he had failed his men and to stop wondering how many more of them he would lose the next day. Rex was surprised on JanFathal when he realized that his instinct was not to look after Tano, whom he usually guided, but to take care of his men.

Born to fight the "clankers" and "tinnies" of the Separatist Droid Army, Rex held the battle droids in contempt for the damage that they had wrought on both him and his clone brethren. Rex did not allow himself to be intimidated by his enemies and even expressed humor in the direst situations, such as during the Battle of Teth. Although cutting through battle droids frequently became his way to avenge his fallen brothers, Rex's challenges were not only posed by his enemies. His faith and sworn oath to fight for the Republic was put to the test multiple times during the war. Rex understood his position as a clone trooper that had essentially been manufactured to fight for the Republic. While he was aware that he and his clone brothers had been forced into the war without a choice, he made the best of the situation. Rex knew that the politics and ideology of fighting were beyond his influence and instead focused on the day-to-day activities of looking out for his brothers in arms and ensuring that he "dropped the enemy" before they killed him. Whenever the morality behind his decanting to fight for the Jedi was tested, he dealt with his doubts about his "programmed" loyalty to them and the Republic by recalling and emphasizing the fact that the men under his command depended on him to lead them&mdash;and that he would never be able to fight for the Republic if he questioned and scrutinized the reasons behind those who had cloned him to live to be a unquestioningly loyal soldier. In this way, Rex put aside his insecurity with his loyalty and service for the greater good of the Republic so that he would be able to assist the Jedi in winning the war. He stayed focused by keeping himself busy and took advantage of the fact that clones "never fell short of tasks to complete." His compassion and selflessness as a commander was evidenced at Kothlis when, despite being severely injured, his first concern was for his comrades, not himself.

Rex's strong loyalty to the Republic and the Jedi came into stark contrast with Sergeant Slick's betrayal of his comrades and his hatred of the Jedi. After Slick was revealed to be a Separatist spy, Rex displayed contempt toward him but was visibly unsettled with his comrade's perspective that the clone troopers of the Republic were slaves to the Jedi. Despite Slick's claims that he had been "striking a blow for all clones," Rex drew the conclusion that the Sergeant's actions&mdash;particularly the fact that he had put his brothers' lives at risk by helping the Separatists&mdash;showed that he did not love and care for them as he so believed. Rex's allegiance to fighting for the Republic remained undeterred during his discussions with the clone deserter Cut Lawquane. When Rex first met Lawquane, the Captain's lack of patience for those who would abandon their duty came into play, and he made his contempt for the deserter known. After assuming a more respectful attitude toward Lawquane, Rex maintained that his beliefs had not been programmed into him, as Lawquane suggested, but were simply his own. Although Rex believed that his continued service made him a part of the "most pivotal moment" in the Republic's history and that the Grand Army's failure to defeat the Confederacy would mean the insurrection of an evil that he could not well imagine, the Captain came to respect Lawquane as possessing a different type of loyalty&mdash;not to the Republic, but to his adopted family. When the time came to end his stay with Lawquane's family, Rex forwent his initial adamancy on turning Lawquane in for abandoning his oath of duty and instead returned Lawquane's hospitality by choosing not to report him. Despite the fact that Lawquane was still a deserter, Rex stated that he was "certainly not a coward." Before departing, Rex politely refused Lawquane's offer of giving him a place at the farm in order to avoid encroaching on Lawquane and his family.

Rex's abilities in strategy were exemplified during his involvement in planning an assault on the Separatist blockade over Ryloth. Although he did not criticize Tano's idea to employ a Marg Sabl maneuver, he carefully identified the obstacles that hindered the plan's chances of success. Rex did not always look to a soldier's rank for information and instead judged by experience, which, he believed, outranked everything. When addressing the rookie troopers of Rishi Station, Rex used the derogatory "shinie" slang to underline their inexperience. However, this did not prevent him from caring for trooper Hevy's life and attempting to discourage him from sacrificing himself to win the battle. Rex was additionally pleased when the clones grew to the challenge; he honored Hevy's sacrifice and inducted both Echo and Fives into the 501st Legion for their valiant service following the Republic victory. During the war, Rex became acquainted with a number of his brethren. He was good friends with Commander Cody, whom he worked with in several missions. Their relationship mirrored that of Skywalker and Kenobi&mdash;Rex's superb instincts in battle won Cody's admiration, although Cody often worried that he put too much faith in them. After Rex fought alongside Sergeant Boomer countless times, Boomer became one of the Captain's most trusted allies and also a good friend. Rex additionally shared an acquaintance with Clone Commander Ponds. Aboard Captain Pellaeon's Leveler, Rex found that he was comfortable with others that were involved in the war and understood him, as opposed to Coruscant civilians who never would. Despite his respect for the Republic civilian contractors' willingness to live or die by their workmanship's quality, Rex was not partial to a spacegoing navy and preferred to have ground under his boots whenever possible.

Rex had certain manners of etiquette that he strictly observed and respected, one of them being his troops' privacy. After the five rookie clones under his command had opened up their own comlink channel, Rex avoided intruding on them, even if they were cursing him for the recent loss of trooper Vere, and would have only overrode the frequency in case of an emergency. Rex sometimes made judgments based on what he was and was not trained on and respected diplomatic negotiations as a kind of fighting that he was not trained for. He learned what he could from the Republic's HoloNet News bulletins and was used to absorbing information this way, as Kaminoan flash training had made up a large part of his early life. After meeting the pacifist Lurmen on Maridun, Rex could not understand their choice to avoid fighting and believed that they had no pride. Although Rex was not "easy to rattle," he was visibly startled when he overheard trooper Checkers imply that he considered him to be the best officer he could have found, and snapped at Tano and Checkers to "stow the chatter" after this incident. Even when he was "deeply unsettled" about the comm jammer situation at Kothlis, Rex was disciplined enough to maintain a normal and focused outward attitude, and his unease could only be sensed by Skywalker through the Force. Rex's stance as a free-thinking soldier was noticed by a number of his comrades during the war. Pellaeon described him as a "solid, sensible chap" who allegedly told "very good jokes" when not being the "obedient solider" around Skywalker. Cody admired Rex as a smart man and also respected his superb instincts, and Kenobi believed that the Captain always thought "on his feet." Checkers saw Rex as the best commanding officer that he could have found as a means to survive the war, and Callista Ming interpreted Rex as a hands-on commander who, on account of his duty to the Republic and his brethren, did not want to look like he was letting others do the dirty work by sitting back while his comrades reconnoitered JanFathal's capital city of Athar.

Serving closely with Skywalker throughout the Clone Wars, Rex adopted the Jedi General's inclination for unconventional and unorthodox combat tactics, which often yielded spectacular results against the enemy. Rex was as headstrong and as brave as Skywalker, and it was the duo's similar lack of "by the book" methods that allowed them to get along so well. From his service with Jedi Generals during the war, Rex witnessed them in action and learned to both respect and never doubt their abilities. However, he sometimes disapproved of the preference to debating over fighting that some of the Jedi possessed. Unlike those Jedi whose principles Rex did not always agree with, Skywalker matched Rex in bravery, aggression, and decisiveness, and the General's "soldiery" traits helped Rex to form "something of a friendship" with him. The time that Rex spent with Skywalker was such that the Captain even became aware that his General had feelings for Senator Amidala, although he was unaware of the full extent of their attachment. Rex was proud of the trust Skywalker placed in him, and as a soldier, Rex was loyal to Skywalker both on the battlefield and at a personal level. When Skywalker was away from his troops, Rex kept him regularly updated with the current situation to prevent his General from facing the consequences for being caught "out of the loop." Rex was not upset when Skywalker was unable to return to reinforce the Captain's diminished squad during the Battle of Teth and understood the Jedi's urgent mandate to return Rotta the Huttlet to Tatooine, stating that the mission always came first. In addition to his friendship with Skywalker, Rex was acquainted with General Kenobi, Skywalker's own former Master. Rex's numerous attempts at sarcastic jokes on the battlefield aimed at procuring a laugh from the Jedi General made him look forward to the day that he succeeded in doing so.

After meeting Tano on Christophsis, Rex was concerned with her initial naivety and arrogance toward her commanders, particularly Skywalker. Once the Padawan and Captain reached an understanding of each other, they began to form a strong bond and supported each other as the galaxy-shaking war progressed. Among the lessons that Rex taught Tano was that smart remarks were unhelpful and disruptive in times of protocol, especially when they were directed at her Master. Rex often addressed Tano as "kid" instead of a more formal title. Rex's attitude was such that Skywalker came to trust him with Tano, and Skywalker additionally recognized that some of the Padawan's lessons were better learned from the Captain instead of himself. Rex helped Tano through several tough situations, including on Maridun, where their group was forced to find medical attention for a grievously wounded Skywalker, and at JanFathal when her beliefs in the Jedi Code were challenged. Rex additionally guided her in her first command position at Ryloth and assisted her by covering for her with the troops when she expressed her insecurity with her role. Tano came to respect Rex, while the Captain's belief in her abilities prompted him to defend her against Pellaeon's hesitancy with her proficiency and also caused Rex to encourage Skywalker to maintain his faith in his Padawan during a confrontation with Ventress on Taronda.

Rex found hair under a helmet to be annoying and bothersome, and as such, he regularly shaved and used hair polish to keep his hair from interfering with his concentration. Even so, he dyed his hair blond and let it grow out to a certain fuzzy extent. At one point, Rex chose to support the Bylluran Athletic bolo-ball team when it reached the finals&mdash;despite, as Captain Pellaeon put it, the Clone Captain's training on Kamino away from the "usual sense of geographic or species tribalism" that most sports fans harbored&mdash;and briefly dyed his hair blue as an expression of his support. However, Rex eventually deemed his new hair style to be undignified and inappropriate for a commanding officer and shaved it to better fit in with his black-haired troops. Rex had a small scar beneath his lower lip. His teeth were considered to be "perfect," and he sometimes bared them in a "feral smile" when filled with adrenaline for a coming engagement with the Separatists.

Talents and abilities
"That wasn't so tough.''" "Still sharp as ever, Rex." "''It's all in the wrist."

- Rex and Ponds, after the former defeats a Vulture droid

Rex was able to speak Galactic Basic Standard. His natural abilities reached the attention of the Kaminoan cloners and led him to be recommended for supplementary training on Kamino. With extra training and intensive programmed learning in addition to Kaminoan flash training, Rex was versed in a variety of tactics and fighting styles. He was capable of leading specialty clone units when the need arose. Like any good soldier, Rex knew his weapons, but also realized that gear alone did not enable or secure a victory in battle&mdash;it was a soldier's mind that was his greatest tool. Rex relied on intelligence rather than weaponry, combining a commando's gift of improvisation with an infantryman's toughness. Having received related training on Kamino, Rex was adept in mental resistance and was able to shield himself from a Force mind trick performed by the Dark Acolyte Asajj Ventress. He was also able to shut out anything and prevent it from distracting him if he put his mind to it. Rex was proficient in blaster combat, and his skills in marksmanship were evidenced numerous times throughout the war. He was able to hit fast-moving targets, such as a flying fuel cell on Skytop Station, and also successfully eliminated a blaster emplacement on Geonosis that was several hundred meters away.

Rex had a fast reaction time and responded quickly to the appearance of a Rishi eel on the Rishi moon, firing at the large creature and killing it with a single shot to the eye. His abilities in close combat were displayed during a brawl with Sergeant Slick on Christophsis. Rex recognized that if he did not kill the battle droids of the Confederacy first, they would kill him, and therefore resolved to eliminate all of the enemies that stood in his path. His casualness in combat against the battle droids was noted by Skywalker during the Battle of Christophsis. Rex additionally displayed a certain smoothness in battle and cut through his enemies without pause or hesitation, whether his opponents were Separatist droids on Ryloth or Talz warriors on Orto Plutonia. He was able to hold his own against both the massive tri-droids and the Vulture droid starfighters of the Separatist Droid Army, the latter of which he learned to dread even more than B2 super battle droids. Additionally, he was able to escape defeat at the hands of a menacing assassin probe on the Coronet by employing his strength to grab and prevent the droid's pincers from impaling him; he then managed to kick the large droid off himself. Despite a temporarily paralyzed arm on Saleucami, Rex was able to roll and fight in blaster combat against a droid commando as if he did not have the physical impediment.

Equipment
"You sure you don't need civilian clothing? You're rather visible.''" "''I'd rather trade armor advantages against stealth. And we're not going to be hanging around long."

- Gilad Pellaeon and Rex, on the mission at hand to JanFathal

Rex used a suit of Phase I clone trooper armor that was customized with the white and blue of the 501st Legion. His helmet displayed Mandalorian Jaig eyes as battle honors and was equipped with a fold-down, night vision–enabling rangefinder scope and a pair of removable headlamps with a viewing distance of about twelve meters. Rex utilized a variety of tools: a vibroblade in one of his gauntlets, a comlink-equipped left gauntlet, a medpac in his utility belt, and a rappel line. Rex also made use of the traditional leather kama half kilt, constructed out of thick anti-blast armor, and wore a semi-blue pauldron over his left shoulder. The latter piece of gear was punctured by a droid sniper through the chest plate during an operation on Saleucami.

Rex sometimes wore generic white clone trooper armor instead of his usual white-and-blue armor. While on Orto Plutonia, he was forced to employ cold-weather armor decorated with Jaig eyes and sported a rebreather hood and a thermal suit so that he could maintain protection from the cold. Although it was necessary for survival on the cold planet, the extra gear dangerously limited his movements in battle. Skilled in marksmanship, Rex made use of a variety of weapons in combat. He mainly wielded a pair of DC-17 hand blasters that caused him to resemble the dual pistol–wielding Jango Fett, the bounty hunter whom he was cloned from. Rex sometimes used a DC-15S blaster and a DC-15A blaster rifle. During a campaign on JanFathal, he used a DC-15 with a grenade launcher mod that the weapon "was not supposed to have." When the situation called for it, Rex made use of a JT-12 jetpack.

Development and portrayal
"Rex was originally based on an ARC trooper from the comic books named Alpha. But we had Anakin, Artoo, Alpha, and now Ahsoka all hanging out, and someone pointed out that they were the A-Team. So, George changed 'Alpha' to 'Rex.'"

- Supervising Director Dave Filoni discusses Rex's development

The character of CC-7567 was created for the 2008 Star Wars: The Clone Wars film and television series, and first appeared in the film's novelization and junior novelization. As the series' primary clone character, Rex continued his role as a recurring clone character throughout the series' first and second seasons. He appeared extensively throughout media related to the series, including the Slaves of the Republic story arc of The Clone Wars comic series; the first three installments, Shipyards of Doom, Crash Course, and The Wind Raiders of Taloraan, of the graphic novella series; the novels The Clone Wars: Wild Space, The Clone Wars: No Prisoners, and Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth of the novel series by authors Karen Traviss and Karen Miller; and several young readers books. He was also featured in the video games Jedi Alliance and Republic Heroes and was offered as a character in Cartoon Network's online The Clone Wars Game Creator, which allowed players to create their own online mini-games and play those developed by others. Although his appearance in the first season episode "Rising Malevolence" was cut from the final version of the episode, it was released in the "Director's Cut" edition in The Complete Season One DVD collection. As far as non-canonical material went, Rex was featured in the LEGO Star Wars: The Clone Wars online comic series and LEGO's The Quest for R2-D2 game and film, and will be given a role in the upcoming LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars video game.

Voice actor Dee Bradley Baker provided Rex's voice throughout the television series, as well as the voices of all other clone troopers. To make the distinction between the multiple identical clone characters, Baker has portrayed Rex with a somewhat deeper voice than the series' other clone troopers based on his confidence and aggression. This has been more prominent during clone-centric episodes such as "Rookies," "The Hidden Enemy," and "The Deserter," all of which featured Rex as a leading character and expanded his personality. The latter two episodes in particular contrasted him with Sergeant Slick and Cut Lawquane&mdash;both clone characters established to have abandoned their sworn loyalty to the Republic for different reasons. These comparisons only furthered Rex's strong loyalty to the Republic and his comrades.

At first, the creators of The Clone Wars series decided to put in Alpha-17, the Advanced Recon Commando featured throughout Dark Horse's Star Wars: Republic comic book series, as the television series' primary clone character. However, Series Producer George Lucas objected to this because including the character would make too much of an alliteration between the major characters&mdash;"Anakin," "Ahsoka," "Artoo/R2-D2," and now "Alpha"&mdash;so a different clone character was created. It was Lucas himself who provided the name "Rex," securing this new character's role in Star Wars canon. Rex's chin scar was based on the blemish that actor Harrison Ford&mdash;who portrayed the smuggler Han Solo in the original trilogy of Star Wars films&mdash;made famous in the Indiana Jones saga.

Merchandising
"Rex is a strong, courageous character who is clearly one of the heroes of The Clone Wars. However, we were reluctant to use Rex because a very powerful attribute to our initial concept was the ability to look into the character's eyes, and Rex's helmet took away the emotional connection of eye contact. Recognizing this void and understanding the need to bring emotion and intensity back into the artwork, PILOT co-founder Chris Ford digitally painted an incredibly strong visual element with the ominous 'blue sky', giving the effect that you are on the frontlines in the Clone Wars."

- Bill Concannon

Rex was featured in the 2008 Clone Wars and Clone Wars Tactics expansions of the Star Wars PocketModel Trading Card Game, as well as the Galaxy at War expansion set of the Star Wars Miniatures series. In 2010, he became the face of Star Wars merchandise packaging as part of the new "Clone and Sky" design. Initially, the design firm that developed the artwork was reluctant to use Rex, as the original intention had been to look into the eyes of the character featured on the design, and Rex's helmet took away from this emotional connection. To address this "void," the element of the "ominous blue sky" was added to portray the effect of being on the front lines of the Clone Wars. That same year, Rex was additionally featured in several toy lines manufactured by Hasbro.

Inconsistencies
"A clone commander assigned to a detachment of clones under General Anakin Skywalker, Commander Rex is a steadfast and resilient officer who is unafraid to do his duty, even if it means placing himself and his men in mortal danger."

- The Clone Wars Campaign Guide erroneous opening line for Rex's entry

There have been numerous inconsistencies with Rex's rank. In particular, Star Wars Insider 103 The Clone Wars: A Who's Who Guide and the 2009 Wizards of the Coast sourcebook The Clone Wars Campaign Guide, along with the Jedi Alliance Prima Official Game Guide and other media, claimed that Rex was a clone commander. However, in the majority of sources directly affiliated with the television series&mdash;including the episodes and their corresponding online guides, the multiple novelizations of The Clone Wars film, The Visual Guide, The Art of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, The Official Episode Guide: Season 1, The Clone Wars novel series, and many other sources&mdash;Rex is referred to as a clone trooper captain. This article makes use of his confirmed rank as a captain.

There has also been a discrepancy regarding the extent of Rex's mental resistance abilities. The Clone Wars: The Visual Guide suggested that Rex was not able to resist the mind trick performed by Asajj Ventress during the Battle of Teth, but the novelization of The Clone Wars film maintained that he was indeed able to avoid succumbing to the Dark Acolyte's mind influence. This article assumes that the latter's interpretation is correct. In addition to these inconsistencies, there have been a few minor errors regarding Rex in several sources. In Escape from Kadavo, Obi-Wan Kenobi addresses a clone trooper who is clearly wearing Rex's customized blue-and-white armor as "Cody." Also, the Decoded re-airing of the episode "Jedi Crash" mistakenly refers to Commander Bly as Rex.

Republic Heroes Nintendo DS edition
The Nintendo DS version of Republic Heroes presented very different portrayals of Rex's roles in several episodes of the television series' first season. In the game's interpretation of the Mission to Skytop Station, General Grievous is not present, and the Republic squad is divided into two groups: the first is led by Skywalker and Tano, while the second is comprised of Rex and Denal. The two groups approach the station's reactor from different directions. Skywalker eventually contacts the two troopers for assistance, and the pair find a control panel and use it to reactivate all systems in Sector AA-23. Rex and Denal successfully destroy the station's reactor and are then ordered to rendezvous with the Jedi at the hangar so that they can escape aboard the Twilight. The destruction of the reactor, however, triggers a failsafe lockdown, which seals the hangar's doors. R2-D2 discovers that there are two terminals controlling the lockdown; both of them need to be deactivated in order for the hangar doors to be opened.

Rex and Denal arrive at the hangar bay, defeat a number of battle droids there, and prepare the Twilight for takeoff. Tano and R2 then join them in the hangar, and the astromech droid deactivates the first terminal. Traversing through the outer hull of Skytop Station, Skywalker reaches the second terminal and deactivates it as well, thus shutting down the lockdown. As several IG-86 sentinel droids pin down Tano, Rex, and Denal inside the Twilight, Skywalker returns to defeat them and opens the hangar doors. After Skywalker boards the Twilight, it takes off from the station. This portrayal of events opposes the one featured in "Duel of the Droids," in which the mission was first depicted.

Rex is also featured in a different mission that conflicts with the first season episode "Lair of Grievous." Captain Rex and two other clone troopers assist Jedi Master Kit Fisto in infiltrating General Grievous's castle on the third moon of Vassek. Leaving the two clones outside, Fisto and Rex navigate through the lair's mazes and fight numerous B1 and B2 battle droids, eventually confronting Grievous himself. After a brief duel with Fisto, Grievous retreats further into the castle, and Rex tells the troopers outside to contact the Republic fleet at the planet Bestine and ask for reinforcements&mdash;an action that Clone Commander Fil does during the episode. The troopers, however, fail to complete their orders, as the only means to contact Bestine&mdash;their Nu-class attack shuttle&mdash;is destroyed by a Vulture droid. Fisto and Rex continue their pursuit of Grievous but are forced to split up. The Jedi Master eventually faces Grievous for a second time and is forced to retreat on his Delta-7B fighter.

Rex later participates in a mission to the space station Juma 9. Using Separatist clearance codes previously stolen from Grievous's lair on the Vassek moon, Rex and another trooper accompany Luminara Unduli and Plo Koon to infiltrate the station. While Unduli and Koon set off to capture the station's bridge, Rex and the other clone get into position and prepare to breach the station's hull if needed. The two Jedi Masters eventually get trapped by droids between two force fields, and Rex is called in to assist them. He and the trooper move through the station and rescue the two Jedi. After doing so, the clones are ordered by Koon to secure the nearby vicinity, while the Jedi Masters continue to make their way to Juma 9's bridge. Unduli and Koon are ultimately successful in completing their mission and taking over the bridge. Besides the Juma 9 mission, Rex is also featured in a bonus level that sees him racing through a battle zone to a checkpoint on Christophsis. Because of these storylines' contradictions of the television series that would require too much fan-based speculation to be implemented in the existing canonical biography, this article assumes that the Nintendo DS missions are non-canonical.

Non-canon history
The following lists scenarios that have not been recognized as having canonical status for their contradictions to and disregard for established continuity.

Star Wars Miniatures: The Clone Wars ad
"What are we up to now, 64? 65?''" "Who knows'' what'll happen next?"

- Rex and Ahsoka Tano, after defeating Grievous

In the Star Wars Miniatures: The Clone Wars ad, Rex and Ahsoka Tano defeat the bounty hunter Durge with a squad of several clone troopers and a Wookiee. General Grievous soon appears, but the clone troopers quickly incapacitate the cyborg, severing several of his limbs with blaster shots. Walking away from their victory, Rex questions how many orders they had been given.

LEGO Star Wars online comics
"This is Captain Rex reporting in. We've encountered heavy resistance, but the mission is proceeding as planned. &hellip;Or not."

- Rex, as an OG-9 spider droid appears

In the LEGO Star Wars: The Clone Wars online comic series, Rex and a squad of clone troopers are assigned to undertake a mission, but their LAAT/i gunship is shot down on a desert planet by battle droids. Just as Rex reports that the mission is proceeding as planned, several B1 battle droids and an OG-9 homing spider droid appear. The spider droid knocks Rex over, and he and his troops open fire on the droids. While the other troopers attack the droid menace, Rex finds a clone from Batch 82-4 that is avoiding the battle out of his arachnophobia, a trait shared amongst the rest of the batch. The spider droid returns and charges at Rex and the trooper, and the two take refuge in the remains of the gunship. Rex explains to the scared trooper that it is a droid, not an actual spider, and then watches as the clone takes up arms and defeats the spider droid single-handed. As Rex congratulates his men on their victory, however, three more spider droids appear.

Rex joins Skywalker, Kenobi, Tano, and Rotta the Huttlet in a search for Asajj Ventress. The group's AT-TE walker comes across a squad of IG-100 MagnaGuards and their Porax-38 starfighter, but a B2 super battle droid and several IG-227 Hailfire-class droid tank appear and blast the walker off its feet. Emerging from their damaged vehicle, Kenobi, Tano, and Rex fight the new arrivals while Skywalker battles the MagnaGuards at the landing platform. However, Ventress appears with the Death Brick weapon and throws it at the three Jedi before escaping with the battle droids. Rex jumps into the line of fire and blocks the brick, which simply bounces off of his head harmlessly. Commander Cody arrives with an LAAT/i gunship and transports Rex, Skywalker, Tano, and Kenobi away from the planet.

Rex is later sent with Kenobi, Cody, and a detachment of clones to rescue Skywalker and Tano in a space battle, but the group is pulled to the surface of a nearby planet by a Separatist tractor beam. R2-D2 is able to open the door of Rex's gunship&mdash;which had been jammed from the crash&mdash;in time, and Rex arrives with Jedi General Plo Koon to save Skywalker, Tano, Kenobi, Cody, and a squad of troops from Ventress and an army of battle droids. The Separatists are repelled, and Rex reports R2-D2's actions to Kenobi. Rex is also present when Koon is given an award for his valiant efforts in the battle. Later, aboard Supreme Chancellor Palpatine's Venator-class Star Destroyer, Rex and Cody are present when Palpatine fires a clone scout squad in person for their incompetence and failure to find a missing R2-D2.

In The Quest for R2-D2 short film, Rex and Cody are personally dispatched by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine himself to find R2-D2, who has gone missing in action. On an ice planet, the two clone officers lead a patrol and encounter a squad of B1 and B2 battle droids along with an OG-9 spider droid and an All Terrain Armored Transport. Skidding across the ice, Cody drops a projectile, and Rex swings at the piece with his blaster. The projectile cuts through the droids and hits the AT-AT walker, collapsing it onto the spider droid and overturning a nearby NR-N99 Persuader-class droid enforcer. With their enemies neutralized, the two clones build a Nu-class attack shuttle from the rubble. Rex and Cody then join Skywalker and Tano in raiding a Separatist Lucrehulk-class Droid Control Ship and rescue R2-D2 from Grievous, Count Dooku, and Asajj Ventress. As the Jedi and clones prepare to face off against the Separatists, Masters Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi arrive. Yoda uses the Force to collapse the floor beneath the Republic's three adversaries, forcing Dooku, Ventress, and Grievous into space, and additionally forms a CR90 corvette. The group uses the craft to escape the Droid Control Ship shortly before it explodes. Following the victory, Rex and Cody accompany the Jedi to the "Skywalker World" theme park.

Appearances

 * The Clone Wars: Shadowed
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars novelization
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars junior novelization
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars film
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Galactic Photobook
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The New Padawan
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Operation: Huttlet
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Battle at Teth
 * The Clone Wars: Decide Your Destiny: Tethan Battle Adventure
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Watch Out for Jabba the Hutt!
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Prepare for Battle
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars Official Movie Storybook
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels
 * The Clone Wars: Wild Space
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Grievous Attacks!
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: R2-D2's Adventure
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Rescue in the Sky
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Downfall of a Droid
 * The Clone Wars: No Prisoners
 * Star Wars The Clone Wars Volume 1: Shipyards of Doom
 * The Clone Wars: Mouse Hunt
 * Star Wars The Clone Wars Volume 2: Crash Course
 * Star Wars The Clone Wars Volume 3: The Wind Raiders of Taloraan
 * Star Wars The Clone Wars: Slaves of the Republic
 * The Clone Wars: Transfer
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars mobile game
 * "Keep the Faith" - Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.2
 * "Terror on the Twilight" - Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.5
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Jedi Alliance
 * Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth
 * Clone Wars Gambit: Siege
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Battle for Ryloth
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Day One
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Jedi Alliance
 * Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth
 * Clone Wars Gambit: Siege
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Battle for Ryloth
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Day One
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Battle for Ryloth
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Day One
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Battle for Ryloth
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Day One
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Day One
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Day One
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Day One
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Day One
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Day One
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Day One
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Day One
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Day One
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Day One
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Day One
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Day One
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Day One
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Day One

Non-canon appearances

 * Star Wars Miniatures: The Clone Wars ad
 * Giant spiders are awesome
 * Sith make the best pancakes
 * That's no Space Station
 * Every brick has a beginning
 * A clone by any other name
 * All good clones must come to an end
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Quest for R2-D2 game
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Quest for R2-D2 film
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars Game Creator
 * LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars