Clone commando/Legends



"If you've got a problem, you can send one ARC trooper, you can send one hundred clone troopers, or you can send a squad of four clone commandos."

- Justin Lambros

"If they're half as good as I hear, they can practically win the war themselves."

- Anonymous clone trooper

The clone commando, or the Republic commando, was an elite soldier of the Grand Army of the Republic. Often working in groups of four, clone commandos were assigned to carry out covert operations too delicate for regular clone troopers. Infiltration, sabotage, and subterfuge were all in a day's work for the clone commandos.

When Order 66 was issued by Emperor Palpatine at the end of the Clone Wars, some commando units refused to fire on their commanding Jedi, thus showing that the commandos were, in fact, also independent themselves.

Training
"Ah, a delux model. Come to save us with your "superior" training?"

- Anonymous clone trooper

Clone commandos were trained by a group of elite training sergeants chosen by Jango Fett. These men and women, known as the Cuy'val Dar trained the commandos in a variety of tactics, and often the trainers were a fatherly figure for the fatherless clones.

Clone commandos were trained in live-fire exercises, giving them a sense of the reality of combat long before normal clone troopers. Though some commandos did die during these exercises, the rest learned rapidly, allowing them to become better soldiers.



Equipment
"Being hard is good, being hard with superior tech is better."

- Sergeant Walon Vau

As their name implied, the commandos were not all about subtlety. They had at their disposal an impressive arsenal of blasters, sniper rifles and anti-armour launchers, all part of the configurable DC-17m Interchangeable Weapons System. They also carried DC-15s sidearm pistols. Wearing advanced Katarn commando armor, clone commandos were the ultimate soldiers. Because the armor was silvery-grey, the other clone troops called them "shinies". However, some squads would put special colors on their armor to symbolize rank and position in the heirarchy of the squad.

They also carried two V-1 thermal detonators, two EC detonators, two flash bang grenades, two sonic detonators, a medical kit, a bacta model, trenching trowel, a recce droids, six blaster packs, four sniper packs, four anti-armor charges, and four shaped charges.

Missions
"That's what they created us for. The complicated jobs."

- Niner

Republic commandos were deployed across the Galaxy following the Battle of Geonosis, battling through the murky Geonosian hives and the dangerous forests of Kashyyyk.
 * Battle of Geonosis
 * Mission to Qiilura
 * Mission to the Chykin Cluster
 * Battle of Deko Neimoidia
 * Battle of Praesitlyn
 * Battle of Murkhana
 * Battle of Kashyyyk
 * Mission to Ord Cestus
 * Battle of Boz Pity

Rank and color notation
The clone commandos rank and specializations were usually indicated by color designations on their armor. However, some squads, like Omega Squad, would opt not to have colors on their armor, and instead wore the standard silver/grey armor.

Clone commando units

 * Aiwha Squad
 * Delta Squad
 * Lambda Squad
 * Omega Squad
 * Prudii Squad
 * Teroch Squad
 * Theta Squad
 * Ion Squad

Noteable commandos

 * Climber
 * RC-1138 "Boss"
 * RC-1140 "Fixer"
 * RC-1207 "Sev"
 * RC-1262 "Scorch"
 * RC-1309 "Niner"
 * RC-8015 "Fi"
 * RC-1136 "Darman"
 * RC-3222 "Atin"

Appearances

 * Republic Commando
 * Republic Commando: Hard Contact
 * The Package
 * Omega Squad: Targets
 * Honor Bound
 * Republic Commando: Triple Zero
 * Republic Commando: Order 66
 * Orders
 * Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
 * Jedi Trial
 * ''The Cestus Deception