CT-7567/Legends

"My name's Rex. You'll call me captain or sir. Understood?"

- Rex to Echo, Fives and Hevy

CC-7567, also known as Rex, was a clone trooper captain. During the Clone Wars, Rex was in command of Torrent Company of the famed 501st Legion. Rex and his men were assigned to patrol the sectors of the galaxy within the Outer Rim. Anakin Skywalker's second in command during the Clone Wars, Captain Rex was a freethinking, tough, and aggressive clone trooper. Rex voiced his professional opinions even to higher ranked Jedi. Yet his noteworthy individuality aside, Rex follows his orders without question, just like the rest of the clones and as seen when Ahsoka orders him to complete a mission rather than aid her in combat against General Grievous. He is good friends with Commander Cody.

Battle of Christophsis
Rex fought alongside Generals Kenobi and Skywalker at the Battle of Christophsis. He followed the latter in destroy the tri-droids, along with Torrent Company. After the enemy retreated, Anakin's new Padawan, Ahsoka Tano came in. Rex was perplexed, as Skywalker told him that he would never have a Padawan. He and Ahsoka exchanged a few remarks before noticing the enemy deploying a shield generator, which would make their long-ranged artillery impossible to fire. He and his troops held the line while Kenobi "negotiated" with General Whorm Loathsom and Anakin and Ahsoka went to disable the shield generator. Once the shield was down, Rex ordered their cannons to quickly finish off the enemy advances.

Battle of Teth
Later in the war Rex led Torrent Company (consisting of over 160 clones) at the Battle of Teth. Entering the battle via a LAAT/I piloted by Lieutenant Hawk in a condensed jungle. Battling their way up a cliff to a monastery where Jabba The hutt's son Rotta, referred to as stinky by Ahsoka Tano, was being held hostage. Losing 3/4's of Torrent company on the way up the cliff, the clone troopers barricaded themselves inside of the monastery. Waiting for the droid army to break through the massive doors ,that Rex has disabled by shooting the control panel, the rest of the clones set many a booby traps for the droids. Once the droid army got the door open they quickly dispatched all but 6 clone troopers, including Rex, who decided to play dead. Making his move Rex killed an unsuspecting droid and attempted to kill Asajj Ventress. Putting Rex in a choke hold using the force, that Rex's plastoid armor protected him from, Asajj ridiculed Rex for being just a disposable pawn but the only thing that Rex responded with was "Rex, Captain Five-oh-first Legion, number CC-seven-five-six seven". Ventress ordered Rex to contact Anakin so Rex did it in his best I'm-not-Rex-at-all voice. With only Rex, Coric, Del, Attie, Zeer, and Nax left out of all the clones they held off an entire droid army with just a fallen AT-TE and a few dead droids for cover while Anakin got off Teth safely after a few close calls with a vulture and ventress. Just when everything seemed all but lost the 212th battalian showed up and saved Rex and his men.

Battle of the Rishi moon


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



Battle of Bothawui
Later in the war he along with Anakin Skywalker's fleet were to defend Bothawui from General Grievous's massive fleet. Anakin sent Rex and a brigade of AT-TEs on asteroids to ambush the Munificent frigates. Grievous had underestimated Anakin's tactics and fell into his trap. Grievous abandoned his fleet, escaping in his fighter. Anakin Skywalker went after him but his ship malfunctioned and he crashed into the asteroids. When he woke up, he realized that Rex had saved his life.

Mission to Skytop Station
Rex would also participate in the mission to Skytop Station. He along with a couple of Clone Troopers, Denal and Ahsoka were ordered to destroy the station by Anakin, while he would try find his astromech droid, R2. When they reached the Reactor Room, an alarm had already set off and a ray shielded door had been activated. Everyone relied on R3-S6 to open it, but before he could, droid forces ambushed them. Rex took them all out using droid grenades.(Also known as "Droid Poppers") Shortly after, though, they met General Grievous himself, who leaped and killed all of the clones except Denal and Rex, who eventually carried out the mission and escaped the station before it was too late.

Mission to Christophsis
At some point during the Clone Wars, Rex, along with Senator Amidala, R2-D2 and C-3PO were sent to Christophsis to investigate crystals being stolen from the planet by the Nightsisters. During the mission, Rex was injured in a fight, and the four were captured then put into a prison. A Jedi team of two, along with Clone troopers led by Commander Gree were sent to Christophsis to rescue them. The Jedi managed to find the prisoners, and the four escaped to Gree's LAAT/i, which had a medical console on standby for Rex. Rex also served during the Battle's of Gwori, Vanquor, Kiros and others.

Armor and equipment
Rex's armor used the color design that the entire 501st Legion had in 19 BBY, though the armor itself was still Phase I armor. He also wore a kama and pauldron, and his helmet displayed Jaig eyes. He carried twin blaster pistols but also utilized the more standard blaster rifles. Interesting enough, Rex's armor resembles the uniform of the ARC Troopers. It is not yet stated if he received any ARC training. When required, Rex could also be seen using jetpacks.

Behind the scenes
According to the film DVD's commentary, the creators at first had decided to put in Alpha, the ARC Trooper known from the Dark Horse Star Wars comics, as the series' prime clone character. However, Lucas objected because his inclusion would make too much of an alliteration - Anakin, Artoo, Ahsoka, and now Alpha -, so a different clone character was created.

Rex has a scar just below his lip modeled after the one on Harrison Ford.

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

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars novel
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars film
 * Star Wars The Clone Wars: Slaves of the Republic - Chapter 1: The Mystery of Kiros
 * Star Wars The Clone Wars: Slaves of the Republic - Chapter 2: Slave Traders of Zygerria
 * Star Wars The Clone Wars: Slaves of the Republic - Chapter 3: The Depths of Zygerria
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars Volume 1: Shipyards of Doom
 * The Clone Wars: Mouse Hunt
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Jedi Alliance
 * The Clone Wars: Transfer
 * The Clone Wars: Transfer
 * The Clone Wars: Transfer
 * The Clone Wars: Transfer

Non-canon appearances

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