CC-5052/Legends

"Get the order and execute it. Let the generals sort out the rest."

- Bly, reflecting on his experiences on Honoghr

Clone Marshal Commander 5052, designation Bly, was a clone marshal commander in the Grand Army of the Republic who fought alongside Jedi General Aayla Secura.

Bly commanded the 327th Star Corps during the Clone Wars. He found Secura a competent general and appreciated her efficiency.

Biography
5052 was created on Kamino. Like all clone troopers, Bly looked like Jango Fett, but bore a scar across his left eye. A member of the second generation of clone commanders, Bly was trained by Alpha-17, who also gave him his designation.

In 21 BBY, six months after the Battle of Geonosis, Bly fought in the Battle of New Holstice while his Jedi general coordinated the battle from orbit. There, Bly successfully led his clone troopers on the ground against a group of Mandalorians. His unit sustained forty percent losses, but forced the Mandalorians into full retreat.



After the skirmish on New Holstice, Bly was placed under the command of Aayla Secura, whom he grew to share a close friendship with.

Then in 20 BBY, after the space conflict of the Battle of Honoghr and the reconnaissance of Master Rii'ke En, Secura, Bly, and a squad of his clone troopers descended upon Honoghr to retrieve the Trihexalophine1138 toxin scientific instrument package. The pair encountered Quinlan Vos, whom Bly immediately distrusted. He pondered the difference between himself and his progenitor, Jango Fett, who Bly assumed would have shot Vos on sight. As they fought through the temple, however, Bly found himself surprised to agree with Vos' decision to kill an injured Noghri warrior. Bly assumed he would have made the same choice rather than run the risk of injured warrior finding his way back to report their presence. During the lightsaber duel that erupted between Secura and Vos, Bly ostensibly saved Secura's life by shooting Vos in the shoulder.

After the mission's completion, Bly viewed his battle-damaged helmet and pondered the inherent flaw that all armor possesses. In a sign of his growing intellectual independence, he then converted his observations into a metaphor: that Secura's emotional connection to Vos was her armor's flaw and his lack of such connections and requirement to follow orders was his own flaw.

Following the skirmish on Honoghr, Bly and the Star Corps were transferred to Saleucami, where a Morgukai clone factory had been set up. Bly found himself part of a multi-unit task force, working alongside fellow commanders Neyo and Faie.

Also on Saleucami, Bly encountered Quinlan Vos for the first time since their fight on Honoghr. Vos was not happy to see the man who had shot him in the shoulder. Vos didn't like clones, and indeed tensions were escalating between himself and his own commander, Faie.



When Aayla went behind enemy lines to take out the clone factory, Bly and the Star Corps made a charge on the facility, hoping to distract the Separatists. The Battle of Saleucami was a Republic victory.

In 19 BBY, following Saleucami, Bly and Secura were ordered to infiltrate the Confederacy base on Felucia and capture Shu Mai, the Gossam leader of the Commerce Guild. The full armored Star Corps was transported to Felucia aboard the Venator-class Star Destroyer Intrepid. By this point, Secura and Bly had built a friendly rapport, and openly discussed the virtues of independence and conformity. Bly questioned the need for such a large force to capture an individual. He further displayed his growing independence when he refused Secura's quick-minded order to return to Coruscant after receiving news that the capital was under attack.



The clone commander insisted that while he thought Shu Mai a pawn and an intentional distraction, the mission was their primary objective. Upon their arrival on Felucia, with the assistance of Padawan Ekria, they liberated Barriss Offee and Zonder, two captured Jedi, from the Nigkoe Detention Facility. The team reached Shu Mai's reported location, but discovered the Separatist had fled days before their arrival. Their primary mission a failure, Bly ordered his full legion to engage the Confederacy army on Felucia.

In the midst of a patrol through a Felucian fungal jungle, Bly received Order 66 from Supreme Chancellor Palpatine. Despite his burgeoning independence and friendship with his commander, Bly was unable to reject his ingrained need to follow Palpatine's direct order, and Bly shot Secura in the back. The rest of his squad then proceeded to fire dozens more blaster bolts into her dead body.

Bly's fate after the execution of Order 66 is unknown.

Armor
Following his adventure on Honoghr, Bly had customized his Phase II armor with an ARC trooper's kama and pauldron, a flip-down macrobinocular on his helmet, and his most cherished posessions, a pair of krayt dragon pearl-handled DC-17 hand blasters.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Republic: Show of Force
 * Star Wars Republic 68: Armor
 * Star Wars Republic: The Siege of Saleucami
 * What Goes Up...
 * Evasive Action: Reversal of Fortune
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith