Clone ordnance specialist/Legends

Clone ordnance specialists, also known as bomb squad troopers, were specialized clone troopers in the Grand Army of the Republic, trained in ordnance disarmament and disposal. In 22 BBY, four bomb squad troopers were deployed on Naboo when the Republic discovered a secret Separatist laboratory, where the scientist Nuvo Vindi had built dozens of bombs that would release an airborne version of the Blue Shadow Virus. The bomb squad troopers, alongside several standard clone troopers led by Jedi Generals Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi, attacked the Separatist labratory to disable the virus bombs and free a pair of prisoners. During the resulting battle, Vindi activated the virus bombs, but the bomb squad troopers managed to deactivate the bombs before they could detonate, while Skywalker and Kenobi captured Vindi. However, as the bomb troopers were guarding the captured bomb store, Vindi's assistant droid snuck past the guards, and reactivated a bomb, causing the explosive to detonate and leak the Blue Shadow Virus throughout the laboratory. Seeing what the droid was doing, the bomb squad troopers tried to stop the droid, but were unable to stop the droid in time, and were killed by the released virus.

Characteristics
Clone ordnance specialists were specialized clone troopers in the Grand Army of the Republic, trained to disarm and dispose of bombs and explosive devices. During the Clone Wars between the Galactic Republic and Confederacy of Independent Systems. Besides deactivating bombs, bomb squad members would also safe guard stores of disabled bombs in hostile conditions, such as during the middle of a battle. Bomb Squad Troopers wore phase I clone trooper armor, customized with orange marking to signify their bomb disposal role.

History
Around 22 BBY, Republic Senator Padmé Amidala and Gungan Representative Jar Jar Binks discovered a secret laboratory in the eastern swamps on the planet of Naboo, where Confederate scientist Nuvo Vindi had created an airborne version of the deadly Blue Shadow Virus. Shortly after sending a message to Naboo Security Captain Gregar Typho, Amidala and Binks were captured by the Separatist battle droids. However, when Amidala and Binks disappeared, Captain Typho alerted the Republic about the situation on Naboo, and Jedi Generals Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker were dispatched by the Jedi Council to rescue Amidala and destroy the Blue Shadow Virus. The Jedi took several clone troopers of the 501st Legion with them, as well as four bomb squad troopers.

Aboard several Low Altitude Assault Transports, the Jedi's strike team arrived at the eastern swamps, searching for the missing Amidala and Binks. Upon discovering Vindi's laboratory, the Republic forces attacked. While Skywalker’s Padawan Ahsoka Tano&mdash;along with the clone troopers and Captain CC-7567&mdash;distracted the battle droids, Skywalker left to rescue Amidala and Binks. The Republic strategy was successful: The bomb trooper squad and Kenobi reached the room and found the virus bombs deactivated. However, at the moment when the troopers arrived in the bomb inventory, all the bombs were activated by the fleeing Vindi.

While Kenobi left the inventory to help Skywalker in the capturing of Vindi, the clones began disarming the bombs. After the scientist's capture, one virus bomb was taken by Vindi’s private droid, however, Senator Amidala managed to find the droid and recover the bomb. After taking the virus bomb, Tano left Amidala to alert the bomb squad troopers. The bomb squad successfully disarmed the bombs before Vindi remotely detonated it.

However, one bomb squad trooper found out that a Blue Shadow Virus vile inside a bomb has been removed. Vindi's assistant droid inserted the vile in a bomb and detonated it, spreading the Blue Shadow Virus in the laboratory. Skywalker and Kenobi, who were outside of the laboratory when the explosion occurred, obtained a cure for the virus on the planet of Iego.

Equipment
Bomb Squad troopers carried DC-15A blaster rifles with them as protection. As a side arm, they also were equipped with DC-15s blaster pistols and wire cutters to slice the detonators of bombs. This tool was used to great effect on Naboo, as bomb squad troopers disabled dozens of virus bombs with their cutters.

Behind the scenes
Bomb squad troopers first appeared in in "Blue Shadow Virus," the seventeenth episode in the first season of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series. The bomb squad troopers later appeared in the eighteenth episode, "Mystery of a Thousand Moons".

In the "Blue Shadow Virus" commentary, series Director Dave Filoni stated because of production reasons and limited resources while creating the episode, a unique suit of armor for the Bomb Squad was unable to be used. This was due to the fact that there were many new characters in the episode and for production reasons they decided to use the standard armor.

Notes and references
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