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"Ganch" was the nickname of a clone trooper commander who served in the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars. He was assigned to Jedi Master Bolla Ropal, and worked closely with the Jedi Master's Padawan learner, Tyzen Xebec. While overseeing construction of a Republic base on Devaron, Ganch and Xebec were caught up in an assault launched by agents of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Although the pair survived the engagement, Ropal was later slain by the Duros bounty hunter Cad Bane.

Xebec was subsequently re-apprenticed to Jedi General Keelyvine Reus, and Ganch likewise began working under Reus. Xebec spent more time with Ganch than he did his new Master. The Commander and the Jedi were assigned to a task force dispatched to the vital agriworld Ukio, during which Xebec was placed in charge of a planetary inspection team. Ganch, as a part of the team, accompanied the planet's Ukian Liege in inspecting the Ukian shield generator, but later succumbed to the neural scrambling initiated by the Confederate tactician known as the "Doctor." The Commander was driven into a violent stupor, fighting with both Xebec and one of his subordinates, Squawk, before finally realizing that he was mentally unfit for duty, and rendering himself unconscious. By the time he recovered, the Republic was withdrawing from the planet, following a corporate buy-out by Confederate agent Passel Argente.