18

Ace, also known as 18, was a Clone trooper sergeant.

History
Ace was assigned as a sergeant on Kamino, and chosen to be one of the six rookies chosen to aid Excelsior company and Commander Vargus on Ando Prime. Their mission was to discover the whereabouts of the 313th legion, which had begun a routine attack operation on a CIS base there three days ago. Twenty-four hours before Ace's assignment the 313th had disappeared without a trace and sent no emergency transmissions, though all comm equipment was verified to be operational. Before entering hyperspace, Ace's squad were de-moralized by a seasoned clone trooper named Dom, or Bruiser after he sayid that they were "expendable". Ace, however, tried to keep up up his squads morale by saying that Dom was probably only trying to "ride" the rookies. During the Hyperspace trip Ace used the squad medic's scalpel to give himself a crew-cut. Ace also wondered where to get dye, as he would like to dye his hair red. When Ace and his squad land on Ando Prime, they are introduced to an ARF trooper named Falco. Ace and two other clones, 57 and 44, are chosen to accompany Falco on a first sweep of the area of the 313th legion's last known transmission. At this time 44 is given a nickname, "Slug", due to the fact he is twenty meters behind the rest of the group. Ace is jealous of this, as 44 now has a nickname. After more trekking, Falco orders Ace, 57 and 44 (Slug) to wait at the base of a mountain while he investigates alone. The three troopers wait an hour, and Ace wonders if Falco is playing a joke on them. Commander Vargus contacts them and asks their status. Ace says Falco has gone on alone, but does not mention that Falco has been gone over an hour. After persuasion by the other two troopers, Ace contacts Vargus and informs him of Falco's long absence. Commander Vargus brings the rest of the squad, but before they can reach Ace, 44 (Slug), and 57, the trio are attacked by snow beasts much like the Wampas on Hoth. Ace and 57 get out of the way of a beast jumping at them, but 44(Slug) is grabbed by the beast. Commander Vargus fires on the beast, but all it does is enrage the creature, and make it head for Vargus. Ace fires at it, but his blaster does no damage to the beast. Commander Vargus is swiped at with one of the beast's claws, then stepped on by it. Ace approaches the beast and shoots at it close-range, which makes it drop 44 (Slug) and leave. The squad medic checks on Vargus and discovers he has some broken bones. Ace organizes a trek to get a transport vehicle from the ship. He orders 44 (Slug) and 16 to stay with 57 (the medic) to protect Vargus. He will go back to the ship with 23, 15 and Dom. They are approaching the ship when three more snow beasts come towards them and block them from reaching the ship. Ace orders Dom to set off a sonic charge, hoping that like Wampas, these creatures are sensitive to some sound frequencies. They are, and they leave due to the sonic charge. Once inside the ship they find Falco's BARC speeder. Ace rigs a platform on the back to bring Vargus back on. Dom is sent out to get Vargus. Ace, 23 and 35 stay behind. The speeder returns with 57 and Vargus. 57 tells Ace the rest are returning on foot. In the ship's medical bay 57 sets Vargus's broken bones with assistance from a portable FX-3 medical droid. Ace and the squad check on Vargus, who has nicknamed 57 "Patch". Ace now feels left out of not getting a nickname. Vargus informs Ace that he got a transmission from Falco, who has found the CIS outpost. Vargus tells Ace to organize a squad at first light to go to the outpost. The next morning Ace takes Dom, 23 and 35 with him to go to the CIS outpost. Ace decides to avoid the mountains because of the snow beasts. Instead the group walks across a plain and reaches a very large canyon. Across it is a racetrack, and two abandoned podracers. Although all the other members of the squad want to us the podracers to get across, Ace insists they are too dangerous and makes them walk around the canyon. A few hours later they reach the other side, and the CIS outpost. Inside the outpost, made of several different huts, Falco tells them to come into building 46-beta. Inside they meet two men. Clone commander Cody, who Ace is a fan of, and jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi. Kenobi tells Ace what happened to the 313th legion. He explains that he and Cody detected a massive hyperspace rift in the CIS outpost and traced to to a machine. The machine was able to instantly transport large amounts of troops across the galaxy. Kenobi guesses that the machine was accidentally activated in battle and transported the 313th legion, as well as the droid army, to a planet beyond the Outer Rim. If a homing device is taken to the legion, it can bring them back as long as they are all in a 1 km radius. Dom, Falco and Ace are selected to accompany Cody and Kenobi to go to the 313th legion. The squad is lead to the machine, and moved to the other planet. There they find the 313th legion engaged in battle with the droid army. They cannot get them back without transporting the droids as well, so they must concentrate the clones away from the droids. Cody discovers a droid comm station and suggests they destroy it. Kenobi thinks it is a priority to find General Bandis, leader of the 313th legion. Kenobi asks Ace if he feels able to lead an attack on the comm station or let Kenobi destroy the station and instead go into battle with Cody.

Last Stand
(Due to the choose your own adventure type style of The Clone Wars: Decide Your Destiny: The Lost Legion, which Ace is in, the above part shows Ace's history of when the "correct" choices are made in the book. However, the last choices of the book are both "correct". Therefore, both of Ace's last stands are shown below.)

Last Stand 1
Ace decided to assist Cody in battle and let Kenobi destroy the comm station. Cody discovered General Bandis's unit. Ace and Cody charged into the droids, fighting their way to General Bandis. Cody told Bandis the rescue plan. After Kenobi destroyed the comm station, making the droids confused, the droids were defeated, and the legion was transported back to Ando Prime by using the homing device. Back at the ship, Cody suggested Ace is ranked up to lieutenant for his work. (Note: In this last stand, Ace never actually gets the nickname "Ace". He is known as 18.)

Last Stand 2
Ace accepted the mission of destroying the comm station with Dom and Falco. When they reached the comm station they discovered that it is heavily guarded by droid forces. It was also guarded by a modified Hailfire droid. Unlike a Hailfire, however, the tank was operated by two B1 battle droids, instead of being self-aware, like usual. Dom wanted to blow the place up, but Ace says that they will have to get closer. He then asks Falco to do reconnaissance on the perimeter of the station, to see if there is a weak spot. A few minutes later Falco came back and told Ace that the battle droids are all around. Faclo suggested that they could storm the place, but Ace figured that they would be destroyed by the tank. Dom still wants to risk it, but Ace suggests that they could reprogram some guard droids to commandeer the tank for them. Falco believed that reprogramming droids would be too tricky. Instead, he suggested that they storm the tank and steal it. Ace agreed and decided to storm while the tank was rolling away from them. They did, and managed to remove the battle droids from the tank. They approached the comm station in the tank, and Dom threw two pulse grenades into the comm station. They escaped in the tank, and the comm station was destroyed. Afterward, they destroyed many droids with the stolen tank. The rest of the operation went well, and a few hours later the 313th legion is back on Ando Prime, as well as Ace and the rest of the squad. In the ship, Falco gives Ace the nickname "Ace", for his work. (Before this, Ace was known as 18)

Appearances

 * The Clone Wars: Decide Your Destiny: The Lost Legion