Unidentified Advanced Recon Commando (intelligence officer)

"Last night, Trandoshan bounty hunters intercepted a package of extreme diplomatic importance, intended for Supreme Chancellor Palpatine. They intend to sell it to the Separatists. You are going to make sure that situation does not occur."

- The ARC trooper officer

An Advanced Recon Commando officer was a clone of the Mandalorian bounty hunter Jango Fett that served as an intelligence officer for the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars. Born on the planet of Kamino, the soldier was trained as an Advanced Recon Commando. When the war was initiated in 22 BBY between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, the ARC trooper joined the Grand Army's Special Operations Brigade, and within six months, he was authorized to deliver briefs from within the headquarters of Republic Intelligence. The officer gave one such briefing to two squads of clone commandos, tasking them with a mission to Ord Mantell in order to retrieve a package for Supreme Chancellor Palpatine from a group of Trandoshan bounty hunters. Although the package was recovered successfully, all of the men were killed during the course of the mission excluding Sergeant RC-1013.

Biography
"Sir, any idea what's in the package?" "No. But you will die for this parcel, if it comes to that. Understood?"

- RC-1013 and the ARC officer

This Advanced Recon Commando was a male Human, and a clone of the Mandalorian bounty hunter, Jango Fett. Grown in secret on the planet Kamino, he served as part of the Grand Army of the Republic's elite special forces. Following the Battle of Geonosis and the start of the galaxy-spanning Clone Wars between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, the ARC trooper became a part of the Republic's Special Operations Brigade with the rest of his ARC comrades.

Six months into the war's first year, the ARC trooper had become authorized to issue briefings at the headquarters of Republic Intelligence. It was in that capacity that he met with the clone commandos of Blue and White Squads at Republic Intelligence HQ, where he tasked the two squads of Republic commandos with a mission to the Mid Rim world of Ord Mantell. The officer explained that a diplomatic package bound for Supreme Chancellor Palpatine from Malastare diplomats had been intercepted and stolen by a gang of Trandoshan bounty hunters. Because of its importance, the ARC trooper tasked the two squads to travel to Ord Mantell and reacquire the package from the Trandoshans, in order to deliver it to Coruscant. The mission would be success for the Republic—the package recovered and the Trandoshan mercenaries killed—but all of the commandos in Blue Squad and White Squad, with the exception of Sergeant RC-1013, would perish during the events of the mission.

Personality and traits
As an ARC trooper, the intelligence officer was personally trained by Jango Fett and possessed the Mandalorian's ruthlessness and efficiency. He was trained to be self-sufficient, although he was not entirely independent. He wore a set of Phase I class armor, equipped with a blast dampening kama and a rank-signifying pauldron; the armor itself was adorned in yellow.

Behind the scenes
The ARC intelligence officer was introduced in the short story The Package, which was one of four comics compiled in the third volume of the Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures trade paperbacks. The character was created by Ryan Kaufman and drawn by Matthew and Shawn Fillbach.