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CT-65/91-6210, also known as Deviss, was a clone trooper commander, who led K Company out of Commander Bly's 327th Star Corps in the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars.

Biography
Like all of the first generation clones, Deviss's life started on Kamino. He was apparently originally created as a standard clone trooper, hence not receiving the specialized training that was reserved for ARC troopers and clone commanders. Part of the first group of clones, Deviss saw action right from the very beginning of the war.

Meritorious service
During the Battle of Geonosis, Deviss's battalion, Major Twelve's Hawkbat Battalion, was decimated by fire from an advancing column of deadly OG-9 homing spider droids. Deviss risked certain death when he stayed behind to tend to the wounded as the rest of his division retreated. For three hours, Deviss single-handedly defended his wounded soldiers out of a shallow artillery crater. Only then did the casevac team arrive, and with them came a medal of valor and a new command for the clone army's newest hero.

During the Battle of Altyr V, Deviss's Jedi General was killed by enemy fire, leaving Deviss to pick up the pieces of the assault. Not only did Deviss manage, he passed with flying colors. He rallied the remaining troopers to victory by demolishing the enemy's ion cannon.

Promotion
Recognizing initiative and bravery when he saw it, Clone Commander Bly had Deviss promoted and put him in charge of one of his legions. Deviss was also permitted to don the command pauldrons and kamas previously available only to the Advanced Recon Commandos and their commander counterparts.

At the onset of the Outer Rim Sieges, Deviss fought at Cato Neimoidia, and was assigned to Jedi General Nem Bees and sent to dig the Separatists from Orto. Only weeks into the campaign, however, Deviss received Order 66 via an encrypted channel from the Supreme Chancellor himself. Order 66 branded Bees as a traitor to the Republic, and Deviss personally gunned him down as he readied his troops to cross the battlefield's no-man's land.

Behind the scenes
Deviss was first mentioned in the Guide to the Grand Army of the Republic, an article in Star Wars Insider 84. He was further mentioned in the databank entry of Nem Bees and recieved and entry in The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia. Deviss was named by Ryan Kaufman after author Karen Traviss.

Notes and references
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