Atin Skirata

"Atin's very different. What happened to him to make him so burdened?"

- Etain Tur-Mukan

RC-3222, nicknamed Atin, the Mando'a word for "persistent", was a clone commando in the Galactic Republic's Omega Squad during the Clone Wars. He was trained by Sergeant Walon Vau.

Training
During his training, Atin gained several scars. These were partly due to the regular training, but also for another reason: Walon Vau. Vau was a ruthless training sergeant, making his soldiers fight each other, or fight him. Atin did not want to fight his brothers, and instead opted to fight Vau. Vau nearly beat Atin to death, and because of this, Atin swore to one day kill Vau.

Loss of his squad
He was a former member of Prudii Squad, whose other members died at the Battle of Geonosis, leaving him to be reassigned. To get Atin out of his survivor's guilt after his squadmates died, Vau took his knife to the clone, leaving a scar that stretched from his right eye to the left side of his chin, distinguishing him from his fellow clones.

Mission on Coruscant
While working with Omega Squad and Kal Skirata on Coruscant to destroy a terrorist network, he met up again with Walon Vau. Sev, a member of Delta Squad who had also trained under Vau, tried to protect Vau and had uneasy feelings towards Atin at first, but Kal Skirata made them cooperate. After the mission was over, Atin got his chance. He engaged Vau in nothing but a black bodysuit and with no weapons except a standard-issue commando vibro blade. They fought until Atin was in a position to kill Vau, but before Atin could deal the killing blow, Bardan Jusik burst in, separated them both with the Force, and ordered Atin to stand down.

During the course of the Coruscant mission, Atin became romantically involved with a Twi'lek waitress named Laseema.

Mission on Olanet
About 65 days after the Coruscant mission, Atin accomapnied the Null-class ARC trooper Prudii on mission to the droid factory on Olanet. Atin had volunteered to do this, while the rest of Omega Squad were resting on Coruscant for a few days, so that he could learn Prudii's technique of infiltrating droid factories and making them produce substandard droids that could be defeated more easily.

The mission was successful, but while they were their, Atin began to question the offical Republic Intelligence figures for the strength of the Seperatist Droid Army. They claimed that there were quadrillions of droids, but on Olanet, Atin could only see evidence for just a few hundred million.

They were extracted from Olanet by a Republic Special Ops Freighter, which under Prudii's orders detoured and attacked a Seperatist ship near Cato Neimoidia. Afterwards it headed to an RV point near Drall in the Corellian system, to meet up with Kal Skirata, who had recently returned from Kamino.

Skills
He was well-versed in communication and technology, as well as a small amount of demolitions, though most of such operations were left to Darman, Omega Squad's expert on that subject.

Appearances

 * Republic Commando: Hard Contact
 * Omega Squad: Targets
 * Republic Commando: Triple Zero
 * Odds
 * Republic Commando: True Colors

Notes and references
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