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"Save your sympathy for the troopers. Nobody uses us. And a clear sense of purpose is a strength"

- Ordo Skirata to Bardan Jusik

Null-11, informally known as Ordo (named by Kal Skirata after Canderous Ordo, a Mandalore in the Old Sith Wars period), served as an Advanced Recon Commando in the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars. Ordo's armor coloration, red, denoted his rank as an ARC captain.

Ordo was one of six surviving Null-class Advanced Recon Commandos who served as "black ops" commandos under their training sergeant, Kal Skirata.

Training and childhood
"Kal: How'd you like to be called Ordo? He was a Mandalorian warrior." Ordo: "Are we Mandalorian warriors?" Kal: "You bet. In every sense of the word." Ordo: "I like that name""

- Kal Skirata and Ordo

As a child, Ordo and the rest of the Nulls were deemed too unstable and insubordinate by the Kaminoans to be used in combat. They were paraded by Orun Wa in front of Jango Fett and Kal Skirata, who were informed of their impending termination. Skirata opposed the decision and began arguing to spare them.

Ordo's brother, Mereel, seized the opportunity to grab Skirata's small hold-out blaster and tossed it over to Ordo. He trained it on Orun Wa but Skirata eventually talked him down while Fett convinced the Kaminoans of the strategic value of the Nulls. Leading them back to his quarters, Skirata took it upon himself to train them.

The Nulls were somehow sequestered from the other clones under Skirata's care. The clones only saw them around Tipoca City when they were running wild, stealing equipment or sabotaging systems. Darman in particular, remembered them scaling the supports of the huge domed ceilings, swinging around hundreds of meters above the floor and placing blasterfire to within centimeters of the Kaminoan technicians.

At some point, a young Boba Fett angered the Nulls by saying that Jango could beat Skirata whenever he wanted. Ordo retaliated by sticking Boba's head down a refresher.

Special Forces SO Brigade HQ Barracks Siege


"Ord'ika! Ordo? You've been a naughty boy again, haven't you? Come here."

- Kal Skirata trying to get Ordo to stand down

Ordo and his Null brothers were deployed along with majority of the clone troopers at the Battle of Geonosis. After the battle however, they were scheduled for chill down due to the fact that nobody could command them. The six of them started a siege on the Special Forces SO Brigade HQ Barracks, managing to hold off special operation squads and the Coruscant Security Force.

General Iri Camas, Director of the Special Forces, refused to destroy the entire barracks just to neutralize six Null Arcs. He had Kal Skirata brought in to try and talk the Nulls down. Skirata consented only after he made a deal that got him enlisted in the Grand Army of the Republic and made Camas promise that no disciplinary action would be given to the Nulls.

Galactic City spaceport hostage siege
"Captain, if I get inside, you have command here."

- Master Kaim to Ordo

During a hostage crisis on a Coruscant spaceport, Ordo and Skirata went there to assist Omega Squad. The situation took a turn for the worse with the death of Master Kaim. The Jedi Master went in to negotiate the release of the hostages but was caught with a hidden strip-cam. His booby-trapped body was tossed out of the front door where it exploded. Fi Skirata threw himself over the charge and took the brunt of the explosion, saving the lives of all non-armored Coruscant Security Force personnel in the bombs blast radius. This brave act endeared Fi to Ordo and the two developed an unusual bond towards each other.

With the Jedi's death, Ordo assumed command of the operation and began planning a rapid assault. Skirata volunteered to go in to deliver buckets. Unbeknownst to the hostage takers, he was secretly assigning targets to the commandos outside via a hidden comlink. When the commandos stormed in, the shooting was over in twenty seconds with no civilian loses.

Mission to Coruscant
Following a string of Separatist terrorist attacks on Coruscant which killed many clone troopers, Skirata convinced General Arligan Zey of the necessity of a black op. In this operation, Skirata chose to work with fellow Mando training sergeant, Walon Vau; clone commandos Delta Squad and Omega Squad; Jedi Knights Bardan Jusik and Etain Tur-Mukan; and Ordo. Another Null, Mereel, joined the operation much later.

Ordo was assigned by Skirata as second in command of the operation should anything happen to him. He was responsible for much of the recon that was done in preparation for the mission; which included obtaining a large consignment of thermal explosives for bait. These were used to draw out the terrorists by putting them on the black market. As a fail-safe, Ordo added a chemical mixture to the 500 grade explosives, making them susceptible to detonation if any metal was inserted without a stabilizer compound.

Among his other duties, Ordo switched places with a clone trooper named Corr in order to infiltrate a government office where a suspected a Separatist mole was operating. There he met Treasury agent Besany Wennen, who at that time was also working undercover. Due to her striking looks and concern over the welfare of Corr, Ordo was instantly suspicious of her.

When a supposedly dead employee appeared in the office, Ordo and Etain tracked her down to an alley where a brief skirmish occurred. Unbeknownst to the two of them, Wennen was also tracking Jiss. Ordo shot Jiss with a tag pellet from his Verpine shatter gun but when that proved ineffective, he prepared to shoot a lethal round. He was stopped momentarily by Etain by using an oral command Skirata drilled his commandos with. She then shot Jiss and Wennen in quick succession with her PEP laser. Jiss turned out to be the shapeshifter Jinart, who was spying on GAR logistics for troop and armament movements to Qiilura.

They took the two captive and brought them into their base of operations at Qibbu's Hut. Ordo took it hard that he didn't figure out the fake employee was a shapeshifter, and was extremely apologetic to Skirata. After interrogating Jinart, Skirata struck a deal with her. She would provide information regarding Separatist spies and in return, all clone troopers and settlers on Qiilura would be relocated within a year. Wennen, on the other hand, revealed herself as a Republic Treasury agent working undercover and sympathetic to the plight of the clone troopers. Skirata assured her that what they were doing were for the benefit of all clones. She then surprised everyone by voluntarily giving her datapad, which contained Treasury data, codes and encryption algorithms, to Skirata. It made him consider her a potential ally and certainly the reason she was allowed to live. Ordo would later accompany her back to the Logistics office. Before parting, she requested that should they accomplish their mission; that she be given word whether or not they all made it through. Ordo, who was starting to feel attracted to her, readily consented.

With the information from Jinart, Ordo killed Hela Madiry, a female clerk who was passing information to the terror cells. While reading a holozine during her break, Ordo calmly approached and shot her twice in the head and another in the chest.

Meanwhile, the terrorists arranged a sudden meeting for the sale of the explosives. The contact explained that the original plan was no longer possible due to one of their people being arrested. New plans were hastily made to eliminate the terrorists and Ordo led the majority of the team, which now included Corr. The operation proved to be a success when they killed twenty five terrorists in a shootout without suffering any casualties. Following the operation which lasted only nine minutes, Ordo began a relationship with Wennen.

Return to Tipoca city
"So is the Republic going bust and not paying its bills? Or are we seeing something else?"

- Ordo

Approximately sixty seven days after the successful mission on Coruscant; Ordo went back to Tipoca City with Skirata to extract Mereel, who infiltrated the city to gather data. Mereel was able to copy Tipoca city's entire database after a close shave of being exposed.

Safely aboard in their getaway shuttle, they learned the startling news of the impending halt of clone production on Kamino, including the construction of secret cloning facilities on Coruscant.

Hunt for Ko Sai
Later that year, he accompanied Skirata to Agamar where they purchased a DeepWater-class light freighter in order to hunt Chief Scientist Ko Sai. Asked by Skirata what they ought to name the ship, Ordo suggested the name Aay'han. On their first flight aboard, they were contacted by Boss about Walon Vau's mishap on Mygeeto. Despite their deep dislike for Vau, they risked their lives by going to the blockaded planet and fast-talking their way in. Owing to his eidetic memory, they were able to rescue Vau deep beneath the ice tunnels by utilizing the things he remembered from the ships manual.

With Vau secured and safe from hypothermia, they then made their way to Bogg V. It was during this period when Skirata formally adopted Ordo in a brief Mandalorian ceremony; making him the first of the Nulls to be formally adopted. They rendezvoused with Mereel on the Mong'tar Cantina and Brasserie, and met TK-0 and Gaib; a droid and a human who were hired by an anonymous employer to procure untraceable laboratory equipment to beat the cloning ban. Suspecting that the employer was Ko Sai, Mereel bribed them into looking for the pilot of the freighter that delivered the items to Dorumaa.

When news of Etain's worsening pregnancy condition reached Skirata, Ordo was sent to Qiilura to take care of her, despite having no knowledge on gynecological matters. He requisitioned a 2-1B medical droid to help him, but when he arrived, it became clear that Etain was going to be fine. He wiped the droid's memory of the event and took Etain to Dorumaa to help with the search for Ko Sai.

Reunited with Skirata and Mereel, Ordo faced Ko Sai once again since his early days on Kamino. His frame of mind was not helped with the news of Fi's injury in the Battle of Gaftikar. Even with Etain's help on the interrogation, Ko Sai refused to divulge information on how to stop their accelerating age growth. Ordo finally snapped and shot the datachips containing Ko Sai's research with his hold-out blaster. He reasoned that Ko Sai once held the power of life over them and is doing so again by withholding information. He refused to live under her terms and by destroying the datachips; he took away her power for good.

With the loss of Ko Sai's research, the group went to Mandalore in order to hide Ko Sai and Etain's pregnancy. Ordo and Skirata soon left when Besany started an armed siege on the Republic Central Medcenter where Fi was being treated; while Etain and Mereel continued to interrogate the devastated Ko Sai.

Ko Sai's research, however, was actually still whole. Ordo destroyed a different set of datachips and hid the real ones to break Ko Sai's resolve. Knowing that Skirata's genuine reaction to the lost of data would convince Ko Sai of the reality of the situation; Ordo decided not to tell him of his plan. He finally confessed the truth to Skirata while on their way to Jaller Obrim's residence, moments after he received a message from Mereel saying Ko Sai was starting to cooperate.

Over the next few days he started spending more quality time with Besany, after being prodded by Skirata, while Fi was being healed by Jusik. They then went back to Mandalore after Etain gave birth to Venku Skirata. It was at this time Ko Sai committed suicide. Ordo, along with Mereel and Jaing Skirata, dissected her body for vital organs intended for Delta squad, who at that time was also searching for her.

Order 66
Worried about Besany's safety, Ordo kept a close eye on her. He rescued her from a Republic Intelligence agent who was tailing her. He forced the agent, Arbian J. Lemmeloth, to board the speeder Enacca procured, where he then interrogated Lemmeloth and learned that he was very highly placed. He made sure Besany would not be implicated by accessing Lemmeloth's secure comm system and sending a message stating Besany made no contacts and went straight home. He then killed Lemmeloth with a blaster shot to the temple and disposed his body on the lower levels for the borrats to consume.

Enacca later dropped them off at Besany's apartment. They had a talk where Ordo tried to placate Besany's uneasiness with the nature of his job. Over dinner, he presented her with the Shoroni sapphires Vau gave him. He then asked her point blank if she wanted to marry him. She said yes, and the two wed right there by reciting a short Mandalorian marriage contract.

Personality
"You can't have favorites. But he's probably the one I overprotect most, yes."

- Kal Skirata to Etain Tur-Mukan

With all the modifications the Kaminoans performed on the Fett genome, Ordo was emotionally unstable like the rest of his brother Nulls. Their capacity for loyalty was greatly enhanced; they were either your best friend or your worst imaginable enemy, as shown through his unshakable devotion to Skirata.

He had the habit of saying the most unexpected things on his mind, making Skirata realize that he doesn't always know what he's thinking. There would be times when Skirata was not certain know how he would react to certain situations, occasionally surprising him with unexpected compassion and diplomacy. When agitated, he frequently balled one fist at his side while the other was relaxed. Of all the Nulls, Ordo was the only one who slept with a blanket over his head. Skirata later explained to Wennen that it was due to being exposed to live fire exercises when he was young.

It was said that he accompanied Skirata wherever he went, never having been assigned to long missions like the other Nulls. This caused him uneasy feelings as he wanted to be on equal terms with all his brothers, preferring not to be seen as the favorite. While observing Darman's blossoming relationship with Etain, Ordo realized that the other Nulls could step beyond the community of clones as well without feeling adrift, while he personally found it distressing. He rationalized that it was due to his traumatic childhood experience with Ko Sai that he felt incapable of trusting a female.

Despite being extremely lethal and dangerous, Ordo's sole weakness was his vulnerability to the approval of Kal Skirata. He tended to be very hard on himself whenever he made a mistake, as if failing would mean a death sentence in spite of Skirata's repeated assurances and encouragements. There were times when he would be torn between following orders from Kal and the strong need to be close in order to watch over him.

His favorite food and color were roba sausage and red respectively, choosing it as the color for his Mandalorian armor.

Etain once described him through the Force as a disjointed turmoil of emotions held in place by a ferociously intelligent logic. Amidst all the violence and anger, she sensed the dark side in him and it scared her

Powers and abilities
"I was trained to kill and destroy by any means possible."

- Ordo Skirata

Being a Null-class clone of Jango Fett, Ordo was an even better soldier compared to a regular clone trooper. Owing to the experimental genotype the Kaminoans first developed, his built was slightly heavier than the troopers and commandos. His intelligence score was thirty-five percent higher than commando types and he had an eidetic memory which allowed him to remember facts with perfect recall. During Walon Vau's rescue on Mygeeto, he knew how to push their recently purchased ship to its limits just by reading the manual once.

Ordo hadn't yet met a problem he couldn't solve or a situation he couldn't survive.

Appearances

 * Omega Squad: Targets
 * Republic Commando: Triple Zero
 * Odds
 * Republic Commando: True Colors
 * Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel
 * Sacrifice
 * Revelation

Notes and references
Category:Advanced Recon Commandos Category:Clan Skirata Category:Galactic Republic intelligence personnel Category:Humans Category:Males Category:Mandalorians Category:Republic Army officers

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