CT-7567/Legends

"The name's Rex. You'll call me captain or sir. Understood?"

- Rex to Echo, Fives and Hevy

CC-7567, also known as Rex, was a clone trooper captain. During the Clone Wars, Rex was in command of Torrent Company of the famed 501st Legion. Rex and his men were assigned to patrol the sectors of the galaxy within the Outer Rim. Anakin Skywalker's second in command during the Clone Wars, Captain Rex was a freethinking, tough, and aggressive clone trooper. Rex voiced his professional opinions even to highest ranking Jedi. Yet his noteworthy individuality aside, Rex follows his orders without question, just like the rest of the clones and as seen when Ahsoka orders him to complete a mission rather than aid her in combat against General Grievous. He is good friends with Commander Cody.

Battle of Christophsis


In the early parts of this battle, Rex fought alongside Generals Obi-Wan Kenobi and Skywalker to search for a possible traitor to the Republic who is a Clone. After that he fought in the Battle of Christophsis with Commander Cody and the Generals. He followed the latter in destroying the tri-droids, along with Torrent Company. After the enemy retreated, Anakin's new Padawan, Ahsoka Tano came in. Rex was perplexed, as Skywalker told him that he would never have a Padawan. He and Ahsoka exchanged a few remarks before noticing the enemy deploying a shield generator, which would make their long-ranged artillery impossible to fire. He and his troops held the line while Kenobi "negotiated" with General Whorm Loathsom and Anakin and Ahsoka went to disable the shield generator. Once the shield was down, Rex ordered their cannons to quickly finish off the enemy advances.Yoda arrived with troops just in time.

Battle of Teth
Later in the war Rex led Torrent Company at the Battle of Teth, entering the battle via a LAAT/I piloted by Hawk (clone) in a condensed jungle. Battling their way up a cliff to a monastery where Jabba the Hutt's son, Rotta, referred to as "Stinky" by Ahsoka Tano, was being held hostage. Losing three-quarters of Torrent Company on the way up the cliff, the clone troopers barricaded themselves inside of the monastery. Rex disabled the doors the monastery by shooting the control panel while the rest of the clones set booby traps for the droids. Once the droid army got the door open they quickly dispatched all but 6 clone troopers, including Rex, who decided to play dead. Making his move Rex killed an unsuspecting droid and attempted to kill Asajj Ventress, who led the droid attack force. Putting Rex in a choke hold using the Force, Asajj asked him were Anakin Skywalker was but the only thing that Rex responded with was "I dont talk to Separatist scum." Ventress ordered Rex to contact Anakin but refused until Ventress used the Force to make him do it unwillingly. Ventress made a crucial mistake however by forcing Rex to refer to Anakin by his name instead of "General." Anakin and Ahsoka then knew something was not right and fled the planet with Rotta. Rex and another clone held off an entire droid army during Anakin and Ahsoka's escape using a fallen AT-TE and droid scrap for cover. After Anakin and Ahsoka left the planet, Rex and the other clones continued fighting until Kenobi arrived with his squadron.

Battle of the Rishi moon


Rex would later lead a group of rookies along with Commander Cody to take back a communications station on the Rishi moon. He created the plan to get the droids to open the door by pretending to be one of the droids in clone armor. After using a severed droid head to fool the guard he blasted the droid in the head and proceeded to fight and ultimately kill the droid commander by snapping his neck. Unfortunately, a droid invasion force commanded by General Grievous arrived to take the outpost. To give the Republic notice that the moon has been compromised, they decided to blow the outpost up with liquid tibanna. Rex tried to prime one of the detonators but it didn't work. Hevy stayed behind to fix it but failed. With droid forces overwhelming the base, Hevy (one of the rookies) made the ultimate sacrifice by manually detonating the bomb, destroying the outpost and alerting the Republic. Rex then inducted clone troopers Echo and Fives into the 501st Legion.

Battle of Bothawui
Later in the war he along with Anakin Skywalker's fleet were to defend Bothawui from General Grievous's massive fleet. Anakin sent Rex and a brigade of AT-TEs on asteroids to ambush the Munificent frigates. Grievous had underestimated Anakin's tactics and fell into his trap. Grievous abandoned his fleet, escaping in his fighter. Anakin Skywalker went after him but his ship malfunctioned and he crashed into the asteroids. When he woke up, he realized that Rex had saved his life.

Mission to Skytop Station
Rex would also participate in the mission to Skytop Station. He along with a couple of Clone Troopers from the 501st Legion, Denal and Ahsoka were ordered to destroy the station by Anakin, while he would try find his astromech droid, R2. When they reached the Reactor Room, an alarm had already set off and a ray shielded door had been activated. Everyone relied on R3-S6 to open it, but before he could, droid forces ambushed them. Rex took them all out using droid grenades.(Also known as "Droid Poppers") Shortly after, though, they met General Grievous himself, who leaped and killed all of the clones except Denal and Rex, who eventually carried out the mission and escaped the station before it was too late.

Mission to Christophsis
At some point during the Clone Wars, Rex, along with Senator Amidala, R2-D2 and C-3PO were sent to Christophsis to investigate crystals being stolen from the planet by the Nightsisters. During the mission, Rex was injured in a fight, and the four were captured then put into a prison. A Jedi team of two, along with Clone troopers led by Commander Gree were sent to Christophsis to rescue them. The Jedi managed to find the prisoners, and the four escaped to Gree's LAAT/i, which had a medical console on standby for Rex. Rex also served at Gwori, Vanquor, Kiros and others.

Battle of Quell
Later, Rex participated in helping Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano rescue Aayla Secura. They crashed landed on the Republic ship and fought off the incoming droids who were boarding, when contact was made by Bly and General Secura, they were forced to retreat back to a docking Republic shuttle when the ship took to much hull damage and were rescued when Anakin forced them into a door, saving them from an explosion. With Anakin mortally wounded, their shuttle crash landed on Maridun. When they learned there were inhabitants on the planet, Secura, Ahsoka, Bly and the clones left, while Rex took care of Anakin. Rex was attacked by a Mastif Phalone, but shot it and it ran away. Later, Rex and Anakin were attacked by more Mastif Phalones. Ahsoka, Bly, and Wag Too arrived to rescue them. Rex killed one of them and they tied up the last one. Later, they took Anakin to the village for treatment.

Battle of Maridun
Later on, while still trapped on Maridun, Lok Durd invaded the world with a droid army and a Separatist secret weapon. Rex and Bly narrowly escaped the shockwave of the weapon's first test and, later, participated in the liberation of a Neimoidian shuttle to travel to the Lurmen village and defend the Lurmens. Providing long range cover fire for the Jedi, they eventually destroyed the droids and Anakin destroyed the secret weapon, along with capturing Lok Durd.

Battle of Orto Plutonia
Rex went with Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi to Orto Plutonia to investigate the erradication of a Clone security force. After war was declared between the local Talz and the Pantoran dignitaries, Rex was ordered to protect the Pantoran Chairman Chi Cho at all costs.The Chairman then orders Rex states that he and the other clones are only there to escort him but is forced to attack when the Talz do,taking out a large number of Talz in the process.The Chairman was severely injured when the clone speeder bike convoy was attacked by Talz warriors riding on Narglatch. Rex carried him to safety, holding off the attacking Talz until the arrival of the Jedi and senator Riyo Chuchi, who established a peace treaty with the locals. Chairman Chi Cho later died from the injury.

Armor and equipment
Rex's armor used the color design that the entire 501st Legion had in 19 BBY, though the armor itself was still Phase I armor. He also wore a kama and pauldron, and his helmet displayed Jaig eyes. He carried twin blaster pistols but also utilized the more standard blaster rifles. His helmet featured a rangefinder which was a common tool among Advanced Recon Commandos. When required, Rex could also be seen using jetpacks or other mission-specific gear, such as customized Clone cold assault trooper armor.

Behind the scenes
According to the film DVD's commentary, the creators at first had decided to put in Alpha, the ARC Trooper known from the Dark Horse Star Wars comics, as the series' prime clone character. However, Lucas objected because his inclusion would make too much of an alliteration - Anakin, Artoo, Ahsoka, and now Alpha -, so a different clone character was created.

Rex has a scar just below his lip modeled after the one on Harrison Ford.

It is possible that Rex got his name from the pilot droid, RX-24 (commonly referred to as "Captain" Rex) from Disney's Star Tours.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars novel
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars film
 * Star Wars The Clone Wars: Slaves of the Republic - Chapter 1: The Mystery of Kiros
 * Star Wars The Clone Wars: Slaves of the Republic - Chapter 2: Slave Traders of Zygerria
 * Star Wars The Clone Wars: Slaves of the Republic - Chapter 3: The Depths of Zygerria
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars Volume 1: Shipyards of Doom
 * The Clone Wars: Mouse Hunt
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Jedi Alliance
 * The Clone Wars: Transfer
 * The Clone Wars: Transfer
 * The Clone Wars: Transfer
 * The Clone Wars: Transfer
 * The Clone Wars: Transfer

Non-canon appearances

 * Star Wars Miniatures: The Clone Wars ad
 * Giant spiders are awesome
 * Sith make the best pancakes