Null-class Advanced Recon Commando

"Highly intelligent, deviant, disturbed&mdash;and uncommandable."

- Orun Wa, commenting on the Null ARCs

Numbering only twelve, the Null-class Advanced Recon Commandos were the first clones of Jango Fett created by the Kaminoan cloners, and the prototypes for the Grand Army of the Republic.

The Kaminoans attempted to enhance the Fett genes, but only six of the twelve prototype troopers survived the gestation period. They refused to follow orders, and were thus deemed unacceptable. The Kaminoans originally intended to "recondition" or terminate the "defective units", but they were saved from destruction by Kal Skirata. Kal volunteered to train them as "black ops" commandos, named them, and taught them their Mandalorian heritage. Though peerlessly efficient, the Null ARCs were quite unpredictable by clone standards, and loyal only to Skirata. Due to their genetic enhancement, they had near-photographic memory, and slightly more muscular physiques.

Two Clone Intelligence units, Null-6 and Null-10, were the troopers who located General Grievous's hiding place on Utapau near the end of the Clone Wars.

Though they worked for the Grand Army of the Republic, Kal Skirata had them keep alert for evidence leading to the location of Kaminoan Chief Scientist Ko Sai, so Skirata could find out how to decelerate the Nulls' aging.

The experience of developing Null ARC troopers contributed much in the production of the Alpha-class Advanced Recon Commandos.

During the Clone Wars, the Null-class and Alpha-class ARCs harbored a grudge against each other. Whereas the Alpha-class ARCs saw the Nulls as an embarassment and shame to Jango Fett's legacy of a fully Republic-loyal clone army, the Nulls viewed the Alpha-class ARCs as even more stubborn than Jango and often referred to Alpa-class ARCs as "ordinary" ARC troopers.

Known operations

 * Coruscant spaceport siege
 * Mission to Kamino
 * Mission to Coruscant
 * Sabotage of Olanet Droid Factory
 * Mission to Utapau

Known Null ARC troopers

 * "A'den"
 * Null-5 "Prudii"
 * Null-6 "Kom'rk"
 * Null-7 "Mereel"
 * Null-10 "Jaing"
 * Null-11 "Ordo"

Most Nulls were named after Mandalorian warriors.

Appearances

 * Omega Squad: Targets
 * Republic Commando: Triple Zero
 * Odds