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"One, orders. You follow orders. They keep you alive. Two, you're part of a team. We look out for our buddies&mdash;I cover your back, you cover mine. And three, an officer rank doesn't give you automatic respect. You earn it. It's not just Skywalker's rank that makes us give him one hundred percent. It's because he treats us with respect, and he puts himself on the line with us."

- CC-7567, to Ahsoka Tano

CC-7567 was a veteran clone trooper captain in charge of the famed 501st Legion during the Clone Wars. Born on Kamino in 32 BBY, 7567 went through additional clone trooper training to expand his gifts of of confidence and leadership skills, and at the completion of his training, he took the nickname of "Rex." In 22 BBY, he entered into service in the Grand Army of the Republic at the outbreak of the Clone Wars on Geonosis. Loyal, aggressive, and no-nonsense, Rex earned a reputation as one of the toughest clones in the galaxy, and was promoted to the rank of captain. Holding the battle droids of the Confederacy of Independent Systems in contempt, Rex fought the Separatist Droid Army many times and survived each encounter.

Serving as Jedi General Anakin Skywalker's second-in-command, Rex became acquainted with the Jedi, and during the Battle of Christophsis, the trooper also befriended Skywalker's newly assigned Padawan, Ahsoka Tano. At the preceding Battle of Teth, however, the clone captain's 501st detachment, Torrent Company, was nearly eradicated, a defeat that would stay with Rex for a long time&mdash;especially after several new Torrent Company troopers died during a later mission to JanFathal. As the war progressed, Rex fought alongside both Skywalker and Tano in numerous battles. The clone captain was instrumental in Republic victories at Bothawui, Skytop Station, the moon of Rishi, Maridun, and Naboo, further proving his loyalty to his clone brethren, his Jedi commanders, and the Republic.

Born to fight, trained for war
CC-7567 was a clone trooper who was born circa 32 BBY on the planet of Kamino to serve in the Grand Army of the Republic. Like many other clone officers, his confidence and leadership abilities were spotted early by the Kaminoan cloners, and he went through additional training and intensive programmed learning to enhance his skills. After the completion of his training, 7567 took the nickname of "Rex," keeping the origins of his nickname to himself. In 22 BBY, Rex participated in the opening battle of the Clone Wars alongside trooper Denal and the rest of his clone brethren. Surviving the battle, Rex continued to serve in the Republic army in the ongoing war against the Confederacy of Independent Systems and the Separatist Droid Army.

Rex's aggression earned him the reputation of one of the toughest clones in the galaxy. He was eventually promoted to the rank of clone captain and was given command of the Grand Army's famed 501st Legion unit. Serving with Jedi General Anakin Skywalker as the Jedi's second-in-command, the clone captain developed a certain friendship with the general. Rex was also acquainted with fellow clone CC-2224, a commander nicknamed "Cody," despite the officer's higher rank. At some point in the war, Rex participated in a battle on the planet of Tibrin alongside Cody and several Jedi.

Battle of Christophsis
"Not good. We've got an energy shield. It's gonna make things damn near impossible. If you want experience, little one, it looks like you're about to get plenty."

- Rex, to Ahsoka Tano

In 22 BBY, Captain Rex was dispatched with a contingent of troops under the command of General Skywalker and High General Obi-Wan Kenobi to liberate the planet of Christophsis, which had been seized by the Confederacy. After the Republic battle group had set up a base, Clone Sergeant Slick and his squad reconnoitered the planet and located two parallel towers facing the north and south as a suitable ambush point. Seeking to attack the advancing Separatist battle droids from above, Skywalker and Rex stationed their men in the North tower, while Kenobi, Cody, and Slick were based in the South tower. As the droids approached the plaza where the towers were located, the column of Separatist troops unexpectedly split into two, and a squad of droids ambushed Kenobi's men in the South tower. Skywalker signaled clone pilot Hawk for an evacuation from the South tower, and the Jedi and clones used the grappling hooks of the clones' DC-15A blaster rifles to traverse the gap between the two towers.

The droid forces in the plaza below opened fire, but Skywalker, Rex, and their men were able to reach the adjacent tower. After the group arrived to reinforce Kenobi, the entire squad took a turbolift to the roof of the tower. Pursued by droid troops under the command of a tactical droid, the Jedi engaged the droids at a closer proximity while Rex, Cody, and the clones provided covering fire. Hawk's LAAT/i gunship approached the tower, and trooper Gus stole the tactical droid's cranial unit before escaping with the Republic forces. Back at the base, Cody and Rex analyzed the droid, but it only revealed that the Confederacy had been aware of the Republic's plan before it stopped processing.

The clones reported their findings to the Jedi, and while Skywalker suggested that there had been a breach in security, Kenobi suspected that there was a spy amongst their troops. The Jedi departed to investigate behind enemy lines, leaving the clones behind to find and apprehend the traitor. Before leaving, Kenobi ordered Cody and Rex to keep the Jedi's mission confidential. Shortly thereafter, Cody was alarmed to find an activated comlink on a nearby table; someone had been eavesdropping on the entire conversation. Rex noticed a figure in the hallway that was too far away to be recognized&mdash;Sergeant Slick, who had secretly betrayed the Republic to Dark Acolyte Asajj Ventress and the Confederacy. Once Rex noticed Slick, the Separatist spy fled, and while giving pursuit, Cody and Rex lost his trail. However, because of the arrangement of the base's hallways, the two clones deduced that the spy had fled into the mess hall. Entering the room, the pair discovered that the only people there were their clone brothers.

Rex and Cody returned to the command center and continued their investigations. The clone captain used the astromech droid R2-D2 to check the records of external communications. Tracing an irregular wavelength to Sergeant Slick's barracks, Rex and Cody decided to individually interrogate the sergeant's men, believing that one of them was the spy. Despite protest from Slick, Rex and Cody began to question his squad in the barracks. When trooper Chopper revealed that he had broken war protocols by stealing battle droid fingers from the battlefield, Slick put Chopper's credibility in question. However, while stating to Chopper his right to silence, Slick accidentally revealed that he was aware of the Jedi's mission, information he would only know if he had been listening on their conversation earlier through the activated comlink. Cody confronted the spy, but Slick attacked Chopper and the commander before escaping. As Cody and Rex tracked the clone traitor to the gunship landing platform, they discovered several pre-planted thermal detonators. The two clones took cover just before the explosives went off. The landing platform, the AT-TE walkers, and the weapons supply depot were all destroyed by the clone's sabotage.

Slick was spotted running into the command center, and Rex and Cody entered the room, engaging in a ploy to bait Slick out of the air ducts where he was hiding. While Cody secretly took the ammunition out of his blaster and left the weapon on the table, Rex appeared to leave for the south exit to get the generators restarted; in truth, the captain was only waiting outside of the door. After Slick stole Cody's blaster and targeted the commander, Rex re-entered the room, and the spy was surrounded. Slick grabbed Rex's blaster and knocked the captain over, and Cody lost his own weapon while disarming Slick. The Republic traitor headed for the exit, but Cody tripped him and engaged the spy in close combat before Rex pulled Slick away. The sergeant head-butted Rex and used the "groin popper" maneuver to dislocate the captain's leg. However, Cody was able to knock out the traitor, and the spy was locked in handcuffs. Once the Jedi returned to the base from a duel with Ventress, Slick was taken to lock-up, leaving both Cody and Rex disappointed with the sergeant's betrayal of the Republic.

With a greater strike force than the Republic had originally believed, the Confederacy&mdash;under the command of General Whorm Loathsom&mdash;launched an attack on the Republic forces in Crystal City. After several days, the Jedi and clones were able to beat back their enemies, and the Separatist droids retreated. The Venator-class Star Destroyer Hunter was dispatched for supplies, and Rex took advantage of the lapse in fighting to shave his hair and reviewed casualty reports on his datapad near the Republic's temporarily-established medical center. However, the Confederate forces launched another assault. While Kenobi and Cody led a charge against the battle droids, Skywalker, Rex, and their men proceeded to a tower behind the droid lines to ambush the advancing tri-droids. Rex and his squad used JT-12 jetpacks to safely descend to the ground below, and Skywalker landed on one of the droids himself.

The combined efforts of the Jedi and clones brought the three droids down, and the Republic's heavy cannons eventually forced Loathsom and his forces to pull back once more. A Republic Nu-class attack shuttle landed in City Plaza, but in place of the expected reinforcements was young Padawan learner Ahsoka Tano, who had been apprenticed to Skywalker. Rex went to check on the observation post, and Skywalker and his new Padawan accompanied him. The clone captain was surprised when he was introduced to Tano, as Skywalker had previously stated that he would never take a Padawan. Rex was amused when Tano nicknamed her new Master "Skyguy," but Skywalker, annoyed with Tano's arrogance and lack of respect for him, told the captain to give her an "acquaint of the position." Rex complied, and he and Tano were eventually able to reach an understanding of each other. Although Tano still wanted to prove that she was ready to be a Jedi apprentice, she was no longer arrogant or disrespectful to her superiors, earning Rex Skywalker's thanks for the lesson that he had taught the Padawan.

While walking with Rex near the heavy cannons, Tano noticed that the Confederacy was deploying a deflector shield that was impenetrable to long-range fire and would render the Republic's artillery useless. Returning to the Republic's temporary base, Rex and Tano joined Skywalker and Kenobi in planning a strike on the enemy forces. Skywalker decided to take his new Padawan to infiltrate the droid lines and eliminate the shield generator, while Kenobi and Rex would draw the advancing droids into the buildings. After the two Jedi had departed, Rex and Kenobi attempted to use the heavy cannons in defense, but they confirmed that the artillery was indeed useless against the droids' shield. Using an unencrypted comlink channel to make the Republic's retreat appear more convincing, Rex ordered the clone forces to fall back before switching back to a secure channel. The clone captain eavesdropped on the Confederacy's voice traffic and learned that General Loathsom had ordered his forces to target the heavy cannons.

As soon as the deflector shield had passed over them, Kenobi led a charge on the battle droids, and Rex and his men lured the Separatists into the buildings. However, the droids forced the clone captain and his unit to retreat. At the command center, Kenobi ordered Rex to marshal his troops in a defense of the heavy cannons while the Jedi Master himself delayed the droids. Although Rex was reluctant to leave Kenobi on his own, he complied and retreated while the Jedi engaged the droids. As the shield approached the cannons, the clone captain and his men took cover in some fallen rubble and opened fire at the approaching droids. When Rex learned that Kenobi had "surrendered" to Loathsom, the captain deduced that the Jedi Master was simply stalling for time, and Rex rallied his men to continue fighting.

Skywalker and Tano were able to destroy the shield generator, and as soon as the shield began to recede, Rex ordered the heavy cannons to commence firing. With the Republic's renewed artillery usage, the battle droids were eradicated. Kenobi himself was able to capture Loathsom. Admiral Yularen returned to the system with several Star Destroyers and broke through the Confederate blockade, sending down an Acclamator-class assault ship with several clone trooper units for reinforcements. Rex helped Clone Sergeant Coric search through the debris for injured troopers before departing to pick up Skywalker and Tano from the shield generator station. Rex's LAAT/i gunship retrieved the Jedi and returned to the command base, and the clone captain congratulated the two Jedi on their successful mission.

Battle of Teth
"If we can't stop them, then we delay them as long as we can, and after that we make sure they have to crawl over our bodies. It's been an honor, gentlemen."

- Rex, to Torrent Company

Skywalker and Commander Tano were assigned to rescue Rotta, the son of Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure, in order to win the crime lord's favor for safe passage through Hutt-controlled space. Rotta had been kidnapped by renegades, and Republic scouts had tracked the Huttlet to a monastery on the planet of Teth. Captain Rex and Torrent Company, his 501st Legion detachment, accompanied the Jedi to Teth in an Acclamator-class transport, and because the monastery was located on a cliff, Skywalker elected to commence with a vertical assault up the cliff face. The Republic forces were ferried to the surface in LAAT/i gunships, and LAAT carriers brought two AT-TE walkers. The battle droids that were defending the monastery opened fire on the approaching craft, and Clone Lieutenant Hawk&mdash;the pilot of the gunship carrying Skywalker, Tano, Rex, and a squad of troopers&mdash;closed the gunship's blast shields.

The gunship landed in the forest below the cliff, and the Republic forces targeted the droids above. The AT-TEs returned fire at the droids, providing cover for the Jedi and clones to take refuge in an overhang. Using vines and their blasters' ascension cables, the Republic forces climbed up the cliff. As a vertical crossfire began, Rex watched in horror as the droids' laser fire caused one of the AT-TEs to lose its grip on the cliff. The walker plummeted to the ground, eradicating all of the troops below it. B1 battle droids on Single Trooper Aerial Platforms arrived to attack the clones, and hanging from his rappel line, Rex targeted blaster fire at the flying droids before Skywalker eliminated the craft. The Republic forces were able to defeat the droids and reach the monastery, but the battle group had been cut in half from the vertical assault.

Rex called in a gunship to casevac the fifteen troopers that had been wounded, and leaving several men to look after their injured troops, Skywalker, Tano, and Rex took four other clones to retrieve the Huttlet form the monastery. Following the Jedi, the troopers entered the dimly-lit castle and activated their helmets' headlights for better vision. A droid appeared and claimed to be the monastery's caretaker, thanking the Jedi and clones for liberating him from the battle droids. The droid told the Republic squad that the Separatists had kept their prisoners on the detention level. Leaving Rex and his men to guard the entrance, Skywalker and Tano proceeded to the lower levels to rescue the Huttlet. Rex and his men returned to the monastery courtyard, and they were able to secure the castle. As it neared midday, Skywalker contacted the clone captain and reported that they had found the Huttlet. Rex sent Sergeant Coric to help transport Rotta with a backpack, and Coric returned with the Jedi and the Huttlet.

As Rex had an LAAT/i gunship on standby, the Jedi prepared to leave the planet. However, Tano realized that Rotta was sick, and Skywalker and his Padawan contacted Kenobi to deliver a status report via holotransmission. Two Confederate C-9979 landing crafts approached the monastery, and Vulture droids were deployed from the vessels and attacked the Republic forces in the courtyard. While Tano returned to the stronghold with the Huttlet, Skywalker and Rex organized their forces in a defense of the castle. The AT-TE walker was shot down, and Skywalker ordered Rex to shut the monastery door. At first, the clone captain refused, as the Jedi would be left outside; however, Rex finally complied and fired a blaster round at the controls from inside the castle. Skywalker used the Force to propel himself through the closing gap and into the entrance chamber. With three-quarters of their men dead, Tano convinced her Master to search for an exit from the monastery and find medical attention for the sick Rotta. The Jedi left with astromech droid R2-D2 to escape the castle while Rex remained with Torrent Company to defend their position.

The Confederate forces&mdash;under the command of Dark Acolyte Asajj Ventress&mdash;were able to break through the door's lock, and B1, B2, and DSD1 dwarf spider droids entered the stronghold. Due to the battle droids' sheer numbers, Torrent Company was overwhelmed, and Rex was knocked to the ground. Feigning death, the clone captain secretly contacted any other survivors and discovered that only five other troopers remained, including Sergeant Coric. Rex destroyed the battle droid next to Ventress with one of his blaster pistols and then targeted the Dark Acolyte herself. However, she immediately drew her lightsabers and deflected the laser shots. Ventress telekinetically pulled the captain's blaster out of his hand and Force-choked him, interrogating Rex on Skywalker's whereabouts. Trained in mental resistance, Rex kept repeating his name, rank, battle group, and clone designation to avoid succumbing to the Dark Acolyte's influence. Ventress finally gave up her interrogation and performed a mind trick on the defiant clone captain, ordering him to contact Skywalker and ask for the Jedi's location.

Rex was able to resist the Dark Acolyte's mind influence and commed Skywalker of his own accord, using a false voice and addressing the Jedi as "Anakin" instead of his usual "General Skywalker" to warn the Jedi of the Dark Acolyte's presence. Unaware of Rex's exploit, Ventress threw him aside and left battle droids to guard the clone survivors while she departed to confront Skywalker herself. Rex suspected that he had broken his ribs, but checked in with his men as he maintained an unconscious, unmoving position to avoid alerting the droids. Skywalker soon contacted Rex via comlink, and the battle droids overheard the transmission; as the droids converged on him, the clone captain destroyed the droid nearest to him with his bare hands and stole its blaster. The Torrent Company survivors sprang to their feet and attacked the droids, pilfering blasters for themselves and using the fallen AT-TE as cover.

The clones and battle droids engaged in a crossfire, and Rex took a painkiller from his belt medpac before reporting the situation to Skywalker. Trooper Zeer planted explosives in an eviscerated super battle droid, and once the droid was sent back into the Confederate lines, it was detonated. The trap droid destroyed many of its comrades, but the battle droids soon returned and engaged the clones once more. The six clones brought down a Vulture droid that was advancing in walking mode, and Rex and his men used it as cover to engage the droids at a closer proximity. As the battle droids demanded the clones' surrender, General Kenobi&mdash;who had arrived with Clone Commander Cody and additional troops of the 212th Attack Battalion&mdash;commenced an air assault on the droids. The Jedi Master jumped out of his Delta-7B starfighter to assist the survivors of Torrent Company, and several LAAT/i gunships approached the monastery, deploying Commander Cody and clone reinforcements.

Learning from Rex that Skywalker was most likely still in the castle, Kenobi went into the monastery to find the Jedi. In actuality, Skywalker and his Padawan had found an old spice freighter, and the pair headed back to help Rex in the ship. However, Tano again convinced her Master of the importance of returning Rotta to his father, and Skywalker contacted Rex, reluctantly telling him that they would be unable to give support. The clone captain replied that they would be all right, and stated that the mission always came first before the connection was severed. As his comrades provided covering fire, Rex ran toward an approaching dwarf spider droid and planted a primed thermal detonator on it, jumping away in time to avoid the explosion. After a duel with Ventress, Kenobi returned to help the clones, and Rex stated that he was doubtful that Skywalker and Tano would make it to Tatooine in their "junker."

The Republic was able to defeat the Confederate forces, and Rex later expressed his frustration with the poorly-handled operation to Cody. The clone captain was still devastated with the loss of Torrent Company, but Cody stated that the battle had not been in vain, as Skywalker and Tano had reached Tatooine with the Huttlet still alive. Rex accompanied Jedi Masters Yoda and Kenobi to Tatooine to retrieve Skywalker and his Padawan, who had successfully returned Rotta to his father and established a treaty with the Hutts. Skywalker and Tano wanted to hear the entire story of the battle, and although the clone captain was still distressed from the loss of so many of his men, he agreed. While Torrent Company was replenished with new troops, the defeat of the original unit stayed with Rex for a long time.

Bothawui and Skytop Station
"I've got a bad feeling about this, sir.''" "''That double-crossing droid is a spy!"

- Rex and Anakin Skywalker discover R3-S6's treachery

As the war continued, Skywalker, Tano, and Rex returned to the galactic capital of Coruscant. For the first time, General Skywalker was given command of his own battle group to prevent the Confederate General Grievous from seizing the planet of Bothawui. Kenobi, who had been injured in a terrorist bomb, was unable to participate in the mission. However, the Jedi Master knew that Skywalker would want Rex and the 501st Legion for his strike force, and the clone captain and his men were put on standby. Once Skywalker's three Star Destroyers&mdash;the Resolute, Pioneer, and Dauntless&mdash;had arrived from the Allanteen Six shipyards, Skywalker took the Resolute as his flagship, and Admiral Yularen was assigned to be the ranking Republic officer aboard the cruiser. Both Skywalker and his Padawan were pleased that Rex had been assigned to their task force, and the clone captain and his men got settled on the Resolute. After preparations for their departure had been completed, Skywalker's fleet left Coruscant for the Both system.

En route to Bothawui, the Star Destroyers were pursued by four Munificent-class frigates under Grievous's command, and Skywalker engaged Grievous multiple times before taking a direct hyperspace route to Bothawui. However, Grievous delayed his pursuit of the battle group, and picking up two more frigates, the Confederate general overwhelmed Republic forces on the planet of Falleen. The Republic Star Destroyers arrived at Bothawui ahead of Grievous, and Skywalker, Tano, and Rex learned of the defeat at Falleen from Kenobi. Although outnumbered two-to-one in vessels, Skywalker was intent on protecting Bothawui, and the Jedi general deployed Rex and a squad of AT-TE walkers to the asteroid belt surrounding the planet. The walkers would be able to outflank Grievous once the cyborg general and his fleet had passed through the asteroids.

The six Confederate frigates arrived in the system, and Grievous proceeded through the asteroid belt. As soon as it emerged from the asteroids, the Confederate fleet attacked the three Star Destroyers. However, after Grievous had gone past the AT-TEs, Rex and his men opened fire on the frigates, targeting their unprotected rears. The Resolute, Pioneer, and Dauntless fired at the Confederate frigates, and as his ships were eliminated one by one, Grievous fled in his personal starfighter. With R2-D2 serving as his astromech droid, Skywalker gave pursuit in his Delta-7B starfighter, but his craft was hit by flying debris. While Grievous escaped, Skywalker's ship exploded and veered toward the asteroid belt. Rex managed to rescue the Jedi general, but was unable to save R2-D2, and after conducting an unsuccessful search, Skywalker was forced to declare R2-D2 officially missing in action. Believing that the three Star Destroyers could use modifications, the Jedi general took his cruisers back to the shipyards where they had been manufactured.

Eventually, Kenobi contacted Skywalker and Tano at the shipyards and reported that Republic Intelligence had confirmed the existence of a Confederate listening post that had been intercepting Republic transmissions. The Jedi Master gave Skywalker the new mission of finding the station, and Skywalker elected to undertake the sweeps of space suspected of Confederate activity, while the rest of his forces concentrated on a more central path. Rex questioned whether the Jedi was she that he wanted to scout ahead alone, but Skywalker was certain that more than one fighter would attract too much attention. Taking replacement astromech droid R3-S6 with him, Skywalker departed in his retrieved Delta-7B fighter with a hyperspace docking ring, unaware that R3-S6 was a spy working for Grievous. Receiving a signal from the homing beacon of Skywalker's fighter, an alarmed Tano ordered Rex to gather as many men as he could to mount a rescue mission.

Tano, Rex, and a squad of troopers arrived in the Twilight to reinforce Skywalker against two Confederate Munificent-class frigates&mdash;under the command of General Grievous&mdash;and a squadron of Vulture droids. As his hyperdrive docking ring had been destroyed, Skywalker piloted his fighter into the Twilight ' s cargo bay, and Tano maneuvered the Twilight right between the wings of the two enemy frigates. Once the ship was clear, Rex engaged the Twilight ' s hyperdrive, and the Jedi and clones escaped from Grievous. R2-D2, who had been captured by the Trandoshan scavenger Gha Nachkt, managed to get a message through to the Twilight. Rex tracked the droid to one of the moons of Ruusan, and the Twilight arrived over the moon and discovered Skytop Station, the listening post that the Republic had been looking for. Despite being ordered by Kenobi to sabotage the station without retrieving R2-D2, Skywalker resolved to mount a dual rescue and destroy operation.

The Twilight entered the atmosphere of the moon, and Skywalker, Tano, Rex, and four other troopers used the Force and JT-12 jetpacks, respectively, to safely land on the station. Rex carried R3-S6 down to the station, but upon landing, the clone captain insisted that he would never lug an astromech droid around again. Skywalker cut a hole in the roof of the station, and the Jedi and clones entered the listening post. The squad destroyed two B1 battle droids, and R3-S6 accessed the station's building schematics from an astromech droid terminal. Rex briefed the squad on the location of the reactors, which, if destroyed, would cause Skytop Station to drop from the moon's atmosphere and be destroyed. Skywalker left to rescue R2-D2, while Tano and the clones proceeded to the reactor room.

Tano and the clones arrived at the reactor room, and Rex and Tano reported to Skywalker that the entrance was being ray shielded. R3-S6 plugged into a nearby terminal and tried to bypass the shield, but the squad heard battle droids approaching in the distance. As the astromech droid tried to access the controls, Rex became doubtful of R3-S6's abilities, and Tano admonished the clone captain, telling him to be patient. In actuality, the droid was simply stalling to give the approaching battle droids time to ambush the Republic group. A squad of B1 battle droids arrived and attacked the Republic squad, and while Tano deflected laser shots with her lightsaber, Rex and the clones took cover and opened fire on the battle droids. However, R3-S6 activated the reactor room's secondary door, sealing the Jedi and clones off from the reactors. B2 super battle droids soon arrived and attacked the Republic troops, and caught in a crossfire, Tano ordered Rex to utilize EMP grenades&mdash;nicknamed "droid poppers"&mdash;against their adversaries. The clone captain complied and tossed a grenade in both directions, eliminating the battle droids.

However, the Republic squad's troubles were not over. Grievous himself arrived and confronted the Jedi and clones, and after batting Tano aside, the cyborg attacked the troopers. The five clones defended themselves with their blasters but were knocked aside, and all except Rex and trooper Denal were killed. As Grievous prepared to kill the unconscious Rex with a lightsaber blow, Tano intervened in time to stop Grievous's slash with her own lightsaber. Tano distracted Grievous, dueled the cyborg and drawing him into a storage room. A revived Rex contacted Tano via comlink, and the Padawan ordered him to complete the mission while she fought Grievous by herself. Although the clone captain protested to Tano's plan, he complied, and the two troopers were able to enter the reactor room and plant the explosives before rendezvousing with Skywalker in the landing bay.

When Skywalker learned that his Padawan had engaged Grievous alone, he was alarmed, but as the two troopers headed toward the exit to lead the Jedi to Tano, R3-S6 closed the doors and sealed all exits from the hangar. The astromech droid also activated several Vulture droids hanging from the roof, and super battle droids arrived in the landing bay. The Republic squad was attacked on both sides, and the clones took cover behind several crates and returned laser shots at the battle droids. Skywalker deflected the droids' lasers with his lightsaber and ordered Rex to activate the explosives, despite the fact that the entire squad was still in the station. Rex detonated the charges, and Skytop Station's reactors were crippled.

As the Confederate listening post plummeted through the moon's atmosphere by gravity, the hangar firefight continued, and Skywalker told R2-D2 to find a terminal on the station's exterior to open the hangar door. After R2-D2 had left, Tano returned from her duel with Grievous and eliminated two of the Vulture droids. Rex noticed several fuel cells next to the crates, and Skywalker used the Force to hurtle one of them at the droids. The clone captain placed a well-aimed shot on the cell, and in the resulting explosion, the battle droids were eliminated. R2-D2 was able to open the hangar door, and after the Jedi and clones escaped the station aboard the Twilight, Skywalker departed in his Delta-7B fighter to retrieve his astromech droid.

Mission to JanFathal
"I'm a soldier. It's all I am. I don't know a lot about the outside world, but I'm pretty sure that other soldiers have families and lives outside fighting. We don't. Is that why I feel so bad about guys like Vere and Ince getting killed so soon out of training?''" "And nobody should die that young." "But whole regiments of us are going to die, sooner or later. Maybe all of us. Young men. We knew that. Why does it make me feel cheated''?"

- Rex and Ahsoka Tano

Rex agreed to relieve Skywalker of his Padawan for a few days, and took Tano along with Sergeant Coric and six clone troopers new to Torrent Company&mdash;Ross, Boro, Joc, Hil, Vere, and Ince&mdash;to a routine three-day shakedown in the Dantus sector aboard Leveler, the assault ship of Captain Gilad Pellaeon, whom the clone captain was acquainted with. En route to Leveler aboard a shuttle, Tano questioned if her Master had taken a respite from training his Padawan just to take a break from her. Rex chose that he himself did not want to know the reasons behind Skywalker's actions, and when Tano tried to use the Force to sense the clone captain's beliefs, he did not appear as lying. Rex sported a new blue-stripped hairstyle to support the Sullustan Bylluran Athletic Bolo-ball team, but later shaved and reacquired his normal haircut to fit in with his troopers.

At first, Rex was concerned that he would have to make use of the inconsiderate tally sensor to tell the six rookie clones apart, as they lacked unique identities. As time went on, the troopers began to exhibit different personal traits, allowing the clone captain to identify them by their personality. However, the short respite from the war soon ended when a flotilla of Confederate ships exited hyperspace in the nearby Fath sector, and as Leveler entered the Fath system to observe the enemy activity, Rex contacted Skywalker and informed the Jedi of the situation. Skywalker departed to rendezvous with Leveler, despite Rex's statement that it was unnecessary. Having received a distress call from a Republic agent on the nearby planet of JanFathal, the Altisian Jedi sect requested permission to dock their freighter, Wookiee Gunner, to Leveler. Republic Intelligence confirmed that an agent had been taken captive during an uprising against the planet's Regent, but the agent was revealed to be Hallena Devis, Pellaeon's secret lover.

Rex promised his troops for the mission, and Master Djinn Altis, Callista Masana, and Geith Eris of the Jedi sect boarded Leveler to formulate a plan for the hostage extraction. Eris and Masana wanted to undertake the mission to JanFathal themselves, as the production of clones for the Grand Army of the Republic was against their beliefs, and at first, they did not want the clones to participate. However, Rex refused and stated that it was his job, and the Altisian Jedi finally complied with the wishes of the captain and the rest of the clones, who also wanted to participate. Rex's squad, Tano, and the three Altisian Jedi took a replenishment shuttle to the capital city of Athar. While Sergeant Coric stayed with the shuttle, Tano and Masana held off the Separatist battle droids, and Rex took his troopers with Altis and Eris to rescue Devis.

Infiltrating the building where the Republic Intel agent was being held, the group attacked Devis's captors, and Rex killed the freedom fighter Varti&mdash;who was holding a blaster to the agent's head&mdash;without a second thought. Ince took Devis to the shuttle, and Rex and the others engaged the approaching battle droids. However, Vere was killed by a droid grenade, and Rex was pained with the loss of a trooper whose service had only lasted eight days. The captain resolved to keep his anger with the loss contained so that it would serve as fuel for the job at hand, intending to let it go later when no one could see him break down. Launching grenades at the droid ranks, the clone captain prepared to lay charges and sacrifice himself so that the others could escape. However, the Jedi released a Force push and toppled a nearby building onto the droids, and the group was rescued by Coric, who returned with the shuttle. En route to Leveler, Devis thanked Rex for his squad's efforts. As the five rookie troopers opened a comlink frequency, the clone captain avoided intruding on their privacy. Before the shuttle could dock with Pellaeon's vessel, the assault ship was forced to flee to hyperspace from the Confederate destroyer Reaper, and Rex and his squad were left on their own.

Skywalker arrived in the system aboard a V-19 Torrent fighter, and with the shuttle's depleting oxygen supply, the Republic squad decided to return to JanFathal. Meeting with Skywalker in Athar, the group planned to steal a CR-20 troop carrier from the Confederacy and then rendezvous with Leveler, which was returning to the system from a miscalculated hyperspace jump. While Rex, the troopers, and Masana went to a road bridge, the other four Jedi left to take control of the troop carrier. Ince was wounded in the fight, and as the CR-20 arrived to pick up the group, a Vulture droid appeared and attacked the carrier before confronting the clones. Rex and Ross stayed to fight the droid, and the others took the injured Ince to the carrier. Ross fired his rappel line, and the droid became tangled in it while Rex clung onto one of the droid's wings and fired shots under its "chin".

Ross blasted one of the droid's wing joints, defeating the droid starfighter, and the two troopers boarded the CR-20 carrier. Once Leveler returned to the system, the Jedi and clones' troop transport headed for the Republic warship. The CR-20 skidded into one of Leveler ' s hangars, and Ince was immediately taken to the vessel's medbay. With the Altisian Jedi's aide, the Leveler fired at the approaching Confederate ships with its experimental concussion missiles and jumped to hyperspace. Rex and his troopers clustered around Ince in the medbay, but the clone died from blood loss. The furious Rex took refuge in the mess hall, where he discussed the Altisian Jedi's beliefs on the clone army with Tano. The clone captain maintained the fact that he fought because he and the rest of the troopers in the Grand Army were "in a spot they did not choose, but were making the best of it."

Attack on the Gwori shipyards
"Can't believe I'm grateful for these clankers."

- Rex, on the MagnaGuards defending him and the Jedi from spiders

With several recent defeats at the hands of the Confederate Navy, the Jedi High Council decided to target the InterGalactic Banking Clan's Gwori shipyards, which manufactured ships for the Confederacy. To counter a radiation beam that eradicated all lifeforms entering Gwori, Skywalker devised a plan for a small strike force to be frozen in carbonite and infiltrate the planet. R2-D2 would pilot the ship to the planet before releasing the team from the carbonite; after the squad had located the shipyards, it would report back to Masters Plo Koon and Saesee Tiin with the facility's coordinates, allowing a Republic squadron under the command of Koon and Tiin to eliminate the facility. Led by Skywalker, Kenobi, and Rex, the team was encased in carbonite in a freezing plant. However, Tano manipulated Admiral Yularen so that she would be allowed to go to Gwori as well. After the battle droids of the planet's blockade discovered the Republic strike team's freighter to be unregistered, R2-D2 was forced to release the carbonite-encased team and escape the ship before it was shot down. The astromech droid freed Tano from her carbonite slab, and she in turn released the rest of the team.

Finding the starship construction facility, Skywalker and Kenobi dispatched Tano, Rex, R2-D2, and two other clone troopers to contact Masters Koon and Tiin from a communication tower. The squad eliminated the station's battle droid guards, and Tano was able to contact Admiral Yularen and the Jedi Masters with the shipyards' coordinates. Before the infiltration team's escape from the planet could be arranged, however, the transmission was cut off when the shipyards' overseer, Juhm, contacted the station and discovered that the Jedi and clones were still alive. Tano, Rex, and their squad fled shortly before the overseer remotely destroyed the station. Tano informed Skywalker and Kenobi of the situation, and Skywalker told his Padawan to find cover while he and Kenobi infiltrated the shipyards. The squad was attacked by several rocket droids, and after engaging the droids, the Jedi and clones took refuge inside a cave. Tano and the three troopers were attacked by a large lizard-like creature, and one of the clones was killed before the creature was eliminated.

At the shipyards, meanwhile, Skywalker and Kenobi were betrayed by Foreman Mirax and imprisoned, and Mirax also informed Juhm of the Jedi and clones on the plateau. From the extended lack of communication, Tano deduced that Skywalker and Kenobi was in trouble, and she, Rex, and the remaining trooper left the cave. However, Overseer Juhm and a squad of B2 super battle droids arrived and killed the other trooper. Leaving R2-D2 in the cave, the Padawan and the clone captain complied with the overseer's demands and were taken hostage. As night fell, Juhm attached Tano and Rex to electrically-charged frames alongside Skywalker and Kenobi. IG-100 MagnaGuards guarded Rex and the Jedi from spiders to ensure that they stayed alive as a "reminder" to the shipyards' slaves of Juhm's superiority. The four were tortured and electrocuted in turn, and Rex was unbelievably grateful for the MagnaGuards' protection from the spiders.

With added help from R2-D2, the Jedi and clone were able to destroy their droid guards and free themselves. Proceeding to the shipyards, Skywalker, Kenobi, Tano, and Rex convinced the slaves to liberate themselves from their servitude to Juhm. The group stole a near-completed Munificent-class frigate from the shipyards just as Masters Koon and Tiin arrived with Hunter Squadron to sabotage the shipyards. The Republic bombers dropped their munitions on the construction facility, and Rex and the Jedi retrieved trooper Toomer, who was still encased in carbonite after his slab's controls malfunctioned, with the frigate's tractor beam. However, after the Confederate blockade's droids picked up the mass lifeforms on the frigate, they activated the radiation beam. Everyone onboard the frigate was saved when Masters Koon and Tiin intervened and destroyed the scan gate, and the two Jedi hitched a ride on the frigate, as their hyperdrive rings had been destroyed. The starship escaped the system and proceeded to Coruscant. Once Toomer had been freed from his carbonite, Rex told the trooper that there would be more fighting for him to participate in.

Podracing and aggressive negotiations
"Try and keep them out of trouble, Captain.''" "''Sorry, sir. I can't make any promises where those two are concerned."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi and Rex, on Skywalker and Tano

While liberating the planet of Queel from the Confederacy alongside Skywalker, Kenobi, and Tano, Rex accompanied the Jedi commander to eliminate the enemy's artillery. As Tano and the clone captain engaged the battle droids guarding the blaster cannons, the Padawan threw a blaster battery at the cannons with the Force, and Rex shot the flying target, detonating it and destroying the cannons. Commander Cody informed Skywalker and Kenobi that there was an incoming message from the Jedi Temple, and Rex returned to the Republic's forward command post with the three Jedi. Skywalker and Tano were assigned to intercept Messo&mdash;a Confederate agent who had stolen a Republic data file&mdash;in the Mon Gazza system, while Kenobi was to stay on Queel and finish the battle.

Rex went with Skywalker and Tano in the Twilight to Mon Gazza, and the Jedi general left to find Messo while Tano and Rex stayed to secure the freighter. Rex donned a disguise and accompanied Tano to find her Master, who had located the Confederate agent. However, when Skywalker confronted his target in a podracing arena, Messo had already transferred the data file, and fell into the arena to be hit and killed by a podracer before he could reveal any more information. Tano and Rex joined Skywalker in watching the race; under the belief that Messo's contact belonged to one of the racing teams, Skywalker had entered his Padawan into the race to get closer to the other racers. Skywalker, Rex, and R2-D2 acted as Tano's pit crew, and the group proceeded to the podracing stalls.

While Tano kept the skilled podracer Kidd Kareen distracted, Skywalker went to take a look around Kareen's equipment, leaving Rex and R2-D2 to keep an eye on Kareen's crew. However, Maxus&mdash;a close friend of Kareen and a member of his crew&mdash;caught Skywalker snooping around, and as a fistfight began between Kareen's crew and the Jedi, Rex joined the fray. Tano and Kareen returned, and after the Padawan apologized to Kareen, the Republic group quickly left, as Tano was scheduled to participate in her first race. Rex and Skywalker watched Tano safely maneuver through the course via R2-D2's hololink, but as she approached the finish line, another podracer rammed Tano from behind. Skywalker and Rex helped Tano from the debris of her destroyed podracer, and Tano accepted Kareen's offer to borrow a spare craft.

Skywalker and Rex trailed Maxus into a pub, and the two used R2-D2 to eavesdrop on the racer. The clone captain and the Jedi learned that Maxus was working for Count Dooku and the Confederacy, and the Confederate Head of State arranged to send an agent to collect the datachip from Maxus the following day. During Tano's second race alongside Kareen and Maxus, Skywalker and Rex noticed Maxus picking up the datachip from the podracing pits, and the two immediately gave pursuit. Maxus escaped in his podracer, and the rest of Kareen's crew engaged the Jedi and clone captain in a blaster fight. Skywalker stole a speeder bike and departed to help his Padawan, leaving Rex and R2-D2 to finish off the rest of the podracers. Kareen saved Tano from being killed by Maxus, and the Jedi were able to Force-crush the datachip, preventing Asajj Ventress from intercepting it. After saying goodbye to Kareen, the Republic group left Mon Gazza in the Twilight.

During an attack on Trade Federation forces over the planet of Kothlis, Rex served as the gunner of Tano's BTL-B Y-wing starfighter. Skywalker, Kenobi, and Tano engaged the Vulture droids that were deployed from a Federation Lucrehulk-class Droid Control Ship, and the Padawan assaulted the control ship with torpedoes. As the ship was eliminated, Rex commented that its destruction was a beautiful sight. The Trade Federation Dreadnaught-class heavy cruisers were forced to flee, and Tano and Rex were able to secure a victory for the Republic. The clone captain later accompanied the three Jedi to the planet of Taloraan, where they were to undertake negotiations for tibanna gas with the Defrandi tribe. While the Jedi left for the capital of Taloraan City in a Nu-class shuttle, Rex remained onboard the Resolute with Admiral Yularen to regularly check in with the Jedi. However, the Defrandi magister had secretly allied himself with Count Dooku and the Confederacy, and used his emissary, Sech Govlinder, for negotiations in order to hide his intentions from the Republic representatives.

The Jedi's shuttle was destroyed by Confederate battle droids that had been dispatched to Taloraan, and in order to determine the location of the Resolute and destroy it, the Confederate Captain Canteval waited with a Munificent-class frigate for the Jedi to contact their Star Destroyer. Kenobi was able to get through to the Resolute, and quickly warned Yularen that the cruiser was heading into a trap. The Star Destroyer activated its shields in time to deflect fire from Canteval's frigate, and while the Resolute engaged the enemy vessel, Rex took several LAAT/i gunships to Taloraan City to rescue the Jedi. Defrandi supporters of the Confederacy led by Rynert, their leader, attacked the clone squad from behind several cargo boxes. Govlinder intervened with the rest of the Defrandi people, having rallied the population to support the Jedi and the Republic, and the Jedi were able to establish a treaty with the Defrandi and their rival tribe, the Wind Raiders.

Zygerrian slavers
When the Confederacy invaded Kiros, Rex and a clone unit were dispatched under the command of Skywalker, Kenobi, and Tano to liberate the planet. Rex accompanied Kenobi on a BARC speeder and attacked the battle droids with a machine gun, while Skywalker and his Padawan rode another speeder. When several Armored Assault Tanks approached the group, the clone captain used a rocket launcher at the tanks, destroying them. The Confederate commander, Xerius Ugg, requested an audience with Kenobi, and the Jedi Master left to negotiate with their adversary. Skywalker, Tano, and Rex listened through Kenobi's open comlink as Ugg revealed that he had planted thermal bombs around the city, and the commander demanded the Jedi's surrender. While Kenobi fought Ugg to stall for time, Skywalker and Tano went to disable the explosives.

As the Jedi deactivated one of the bombs, a sniper droid rained down laser fire at the Jedi, but Rex used a sniper rifle to eliminate the droid. With Ugg's leverage against the Republic compromised, the Jedi were able to defeat the commander; however, the entire Togruta population of Kiros had disappeared for unknown reasons. Rex and the three Jedi returned to the Republic fleet surrounding Kiros, and the clone captain recalled the troops from the surface. Rex and several troopers then accompanied the Jedi to follow a lead on the population's disappearance that concerned the Zygerrian system&mdash;home to the Zygerrians, who had once been slavers before the Jedi intervened and halted their slave trade. The Republic squad took the Twilight to the remains of the Shi'kar homeworld to gather more information about the disappeared Togrutas, and encountered the Zygerrian slaver vessel Fate's Hand.

Pretending to be slavers themselves, the Jedi boarded the Fate's Hand and conferred with the ship's captain, Onyx, while Rex and several troopers hid behind nearby crates as backup. The Jedi eventually gave up the ruse and drew their lightsabers, and Rex and the troopers appeared. A battle ensued, and Skywalker led Tano, Rex, and several other troopers to commandeer the Fate's Hand. However, more Zygerrians appeared, and as the Jedi and clones were caught in a crossfire, a Zygerrian fired a rocket at the Republic squad. The seal between the Twilight and Fate's Hand was damaged, and everyone except Tano managed to escape; the Padawan intentionally sealed herself onboard the Zygerrian freighter to infiltrate the ship while acting as a hostage. Cut off from the Fate's Hand, Rex secured the docking clamps of the Twilight to ensure that they would not be separated from the Zygerrian craft. Captain Onyx immediately piloted his freighter through the asteroid belt to force the Twilight away from his ship, and the Republic freighter's bottom stabilizer was compromised.

Using the freighter's laser cannon, Skywalker disabled the engines of the Fate's Hand. Tano contacted the Twilight, and the Padawan was able to unlock the rear maintenance airlock before being discovered by Onyx. Skywalker and Kenobi donned spacesuits, and Rex and another trooper accompanied the Jedi into space to board the Fate's Hand. However, Onyx released a Blixus that had been stored aboard his freighter, and the blaster-impervious creature quickly killed the other clone and captured the Jedi. Skywalker impaled the Blixus with his lightsaber, and Rex boarded the Fate's Hand alongside the two Jedi. The Republic squad confronted Onyx, and he was forced to reveal that he had an invitation to a "grand slave auction" on Zygerria, where the entire Togruta population of Kiros was to be sold. Rex then took the Zygerrian to the Twilight, where the rest of his crew was being held.

The Fate's Hand was repaired and departed for the Zygerrian system, and the Jedi used Onyx's permit to obtain clearance from the battle droid blockade surrounding Zygerria. As Kenobi and Rex dressed in disguises to avoid standing out, Tano convinced Skywalker&mdash;who was masquerading as a slaver&mdash;to let her accompany him as his "slave merchandise." After encountering other slavers, Skywalker sent Tano back to the ship when she almost accidentally compromised their cover stories. However, Skywalker confronted several Zygerrian guards, and Tano joined Kenobi and Rex to serve as backup for her Master. The Zygerrian Queen Miraj Scintel personally requested an audience with Skywalker in the Zygerrian Royal Palace, and after following Skywalker to the palace, Kenobi, Tano, and Rex went to investigate the catacombs below the building. Rex donned a suit of Zygerrian guard armor, and the clone captain stunned a passing guard with his blaster.

Rex and the Jedi came across an imprisoned Governor Roshti of Kiros, and after Tano had freed the governor, the Republic agents learned that the Togrutan population had been taken elsewhere to be "processed" as slaves. The palace guards noticed the intruders and attempted to apprehend them, but Kenobi, Tano, and Rex managed to escape with Roshti on two reptile-like creatures. As the clone captain returned laser fire at the attacking guards, Skywalker contacted his Padawan and ordered her to go to the palace, as he required his "merchandise" for Queen Scintel to believe his guise. The group split up, planning to meet back at the Fate's Hand. While Tano and Rex managed to return to the ship, however, Kenobi and Governor Roshti were captured.

Tano posed as Togrutan Princess Zaa Vashee, and with Rex acting as her "slavemaster," Skywalker was able to win the queen's trust as well as an invitation to the auction at Scintel's side. Skywalker and Tano attended the auction, while Rex&mdash;having put his Zygerrian armor back on&mdash;served as their backup. The captured Roshti and Kenobi were brought into the arena, and as Scintel ordered Skywalker to whip the Jedi Master, Skywalker signaled to Rex to ambush the Zygerrian slavers. Swinging from a cable, the clone captain rained laser fire down on the Zygerrian guards in the arena before joining the Jedi below. Skywalker, Kenobi, and Rex fought off the approaching guards; however, a guard fired a rocket from above, knocking Rex unconscious.

The three Jedi were subdued, and while Tano was imprisoned outside the Royal Palace, Kenobi and Rex were sent with Roshti to the Zygerrian Labor Processing Hub, located over a volcano on the planet of Kadavo. Scintel forced Skywalker to be her personal bodyguard, and the captured Jedi and clone captain served as the queen's leverage over Skywalker. On Kadavo, Kenobi and Rex were "educated" in the ways of slavery alongside the enslaved Togruta population of Kiros. Skywalker and Tano, meanwhile, were able to escape from Zygerria, and took a Republic battle group to invade Kadavo and free Rex, Kenobi, and the Togrutas. While working at a wheel alongside the Togrutas, Kenobi and Rex were able to rally the Kiros population with the news that their homeworld had been liberated from the Confederacy&mdash;if they were freed, they had somewhere to live.

Recognizing the slaves' new submission to their "training" as hope, the Keeper of the processing hub had Kenobi and Rex brought to the facility's command center. The Keeper attempted to contact Queen Scintel for permission to eradicate the Jedi, but did not receive a response, unaware that Count Dooku had assassinated the queen on Zygerria. Skywalker and Tano arrived on Kadavo with a clone strike force, but as the two Jedi began to cut through the facility's blast doors, the Keeper used the still-captive Togrutas as his leverage, exposing the population to the volcano. With the arrival of Confederate aerial forces&mdash;in the form of a fleet led by General Grievous alongside Dark Acolyte Asajj Ventress in her starfighter, the Trident, and a squadron of Vulture droids and Hyena-class bombers&mdash;Skywalker and Tano were forced to stop cutting through the door, and the Keeper ordered them to surrender. However, instead of aiding the Zygerrians, the droid starfighters began to attack the facility's supports to eliminate the Togrutan population and hide the Confederacy's involvement in the slavery affair.

Kenobi and Rex attacked the Keeper and his guards and joined Skywalker and Tano as they proceeded to rescue the Togrutas from falling into the volcano. The Confederate fleet retreated, and from atop Skywalker's stolen freighter, the Jedi used the Force to pull the Togrutas aboard the ship. The Trident assaulted the freighter, but Rex fired a rocket at the Dark Acolyte's ship, and the arrival of Master Plo Koon and a squadron of V-19 Torrent starfighters forced Ventress to retreat. After evacuating the facility and taking the Keeper captive, the Jedi and clones prepared to return the Togrutas to their homeworld. As Rex was about to detonate charges planted in the processing hub, however, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine ordered the facility to be "left intact for Republic use at a later date." The Jedi could see no use of maintaining the facility, and at the Jedi's advisement, Rex proceeded with eradicating the facility. On Kiros, Rex helped to train the Togrutas in combat, although the pacifist Governor Roshti noted that they were being forced into being warriors "whether they wished to or not."

Republic outpost inspections
"All right, listen up. There's only one target of interest in this sector: Kamino. It's the closest thing we clones have to a home. Today we fight for more than the Republic. Today we fight for all our brothers back home, understood?''" "''Sir, yes, sir!"

- Rex to Echo, Fives, and Hevy

Rex was later assigned to inspect Republic tracking stations with Commander Cody, and the two took Rex's Nu-class attack shuttle, the Obex, to a tracking station in the Pastil system. Arriving on the planet, the two began inspections of the outpost, and Rex commented on the station's strange cleanliness. Trooper Stripe told the two clone officers that the station was maintained by an MSE-series droid nicknamed "Rodent," and commented that the droid had a glitch and spent hours cleaning the outpost. Recognizing the droid's characteristics as those of a spy droid, Rex called out a Code Aurek alert and ordered the troopers to find "Rodent." The clones were unaware of Rex's suspicions and at first believed the clone captain to be crazy. However, when Rex found the droid and blasted its body, the droid's wheels activated of their own accord and fled, a feature not present in regular MSE droids.

The troopers eliminated three of the wheels, and the fourth wheel spun toward a grate. Stripe destroyed the last wheel with a thermal detonator, and the explosion caused damage to the hallway. Amused, Rex told the troops to "clean the mess up" before leaving with Cody. Continuing the inspections, Rex and Cody reported their successful inspection to Generals Skywalker and Kenobi aboard the Resolute before proceeding to a base in the Rishi system. However, the clone officers were unaware that the base had been overrun by Confederate BX-series droid commandos. Cody contacted the base, and a droid commando posing as a clone trooper answered the transmission. Rex believed that something was amiss, but Cody put the clone captain in charge of the inspection. Upon arrival, Rex noted that the base was sloppy without a deck officer on duty, and the two troopers were greeted by a droid commando sporting clone trooper armor.

When the clone survivors of the Confederate assault launched a droid attack flare, Rex promptly shot the "trooper" in the head. At first, Cody was shocked with the captain's behavior; however, Rex removed the helmet of the clone, revealing the disabled droid commando. Confederate droids appeared and ambushed the two clones, and Rex and Cody exchanged fire with their adversaries while using several crates as cover. The droid commandos tossed a set of thermal detonators at the Obex, and the two troopers jumped off the platform, using the cables in their blasters to descend to the ground below. Presuming the two clones were dead, the droids returned to their defensive posts. Rex and Cody came across the three survivors of the droid assault &mdash;rookie troopers CT-26-6958, CT-27-5555, and CT-26-1409, nicknamed "Hevy," "Fives," and "Echo" respectively &mdash;and Rex ordered the clones to take their sunbonnets off to verify that they were clones. After the three troopers had done so, a Rishi eel appeared, and Rex impressed the three rookies with his marksmanship by killing the eel with a single blaster shot to its eye.

The clone captain deemed Echo, Hevy, and Fives "shinies," a derogatory term for the troopers' spotless armor that had not yet seen action in battle. Rex put a handprint of Rishi eel blood on Echo's armor, and responded to Hevy's fighting spirit by stating that "there was hope for them yet." The two clone offciers offered their own DC-15S blasters to the rookie troopers, and Rex devised a plan to get into the droid-held base. Posing as commando droid 26 in clone armor, Rex fooled the droid Units 07, 08, and 09, using a decapitated droid head as "visual verification". Although Cody doubted that the tactic would work, the droid commandos admitted Rex entry to the station, and as soon as the blast doors opened, the squad of troopers eliminated the guards. Taking point, Rex led the clones to attack the droids in the command center, and the clone captain shot several droids with one of his blaster pistols before he engaged and disabled the vibroblade-wielding droid commando commander with his bare hands.

However, the clones' victory was short-lived. The five clones discovered that a Confederate fleet&mdash;under the command of General Grievous&mdash;was passing over the moon, and the troopers learned that the droids had hotwired the station's "all-clear" signal to prevent the Republic from learning of the Confederacy's impending attack. Because of the lack of response from the droid commandos, a C-9979 troopship was dispatched with battle droid reinforcements to ensure that the base did not cease transmitting the beacon. Knowing that the clones would not be able to hold off the droids for long, Rex formed a plan to destroy the station and alert the Republic of the imminent invasion. Deducing that the Confederacy's only target of interest in the sector was Kamino, the closest thing the clones had to a home, Rex rallied and inspired the rookie troopers' efforts to defeat the droids.

While Cody, Hevy, and Fives went to gain time by confronting the advance battle droid forces at the entrance, Rex and Echo ushered several plunk droids containing highly-explosive liquid tibanna gas into the command center. The three droids were wired together, but Rex encountered problems with the detonator's remote handset. Hevy stayed to repair the detonator, and the other four troopers escaped the station through a grate. However, Hevy was unable to link the handset to the detonator, and Rex learned that the trooper intended to detonate the explosives manually. Rex, Cody, Echo, and Fives rushed back to aid Hevy, but the trooper sacrificed himself to destroy the base and warn the Republic of the invasion. The Republic fleet arrived and forced Grievous's ships out of the system, and the four surviving troopers were taken to the fleet in LAAT/i gunships. Aboard the Resolute, the no-longer-"shinie" Echo and Fives were commended by Generals Skywalker and Kenobi for their service, and Hevy's sacrifice was honored. Impressed by their efforts, Rex inducted the two troopers into the 501st Legion.

Further service
"Let's try not to blow up the ship before they get off this time."

- Ahsoka Tano to Rex, during the Battle of Vanqor

Rex sent trooper Denal on several missions to the planets of Rodia, Tatooine, and Orto Plutonia regarding a Confederate superweapon that was capable of concealing armies from the Republic. Denal was able to destroy the superweapon at its construction base, and was promoted for his services. Later in the war, Rex was dispatched with Senator Padmé Amidala, her protocol droid, C-3PO, and astromech droid R2-D2 to Christophsis to investigate information given to the Republic by Ros Lai&mdash;a Nightsister that had betrayed the fellow members of her sect&mdash;regarding the Nightsisters' alliance with Count Dooku and the Confederacy. However, once Amidala had confirmed that the Confederacy was mining on the planet, her ship was shot down over Christophsis. Rex was injured in the crash, and he was imprisoned with the others in the Confederacy base. While there, the four overheard the guards saying that the Confederacy was harvesting crystals from the planet core, which were to be used to power the Devastation, a new Confederate superweapon.

A Jedi team of two was sent to Christophsis in an LAAT/i gunship with Clone Commander CC-1004, nicknamed "Gree," to rescue the senator. The Jedi freed the captives, and while R2-D2 and C-3PO went to assist the Jedi in their continuing investigation, Senator Amidala helped Rex to the gunship. The two rendezvoused with Gree's transport, and the clone captain was treated with a medical console. Rex participated in a battle on a planet against anti-Republic forces with Skywalker and Tano, during which both sides made use of heavy artillery. When Skywalker and Kenobi infiltrated Count Dooku's Munificent-class frigate over Vanqor in an attempt to capture the Sith Lord, Rex took Admiral Yularen's place of commanding the Resolute&mdash;as the admiral was recovering from a run-in with the Confederate warship Malevolence &mdash;and served aboard the Star Destroyer with Tano.

Once the two Jedi were aboard the frigate, the Resolute opened fire on the Confederate vessel, causing damage to the ship. Dooku managed to escape in his solar sailer, and Skywalker and Kenobi gave pursuit in a stolen Sheathipede-class shuttle, telling Rex and Tano to follow in what ships they could round up. Both Dooku and the Jedi crash-landed on Vanqor, and Tano took a Nu-class shuttle to retrieve Skywalker and Kenobi. While the Jedi were unable to capture Dooku, a band of pirates took the Sith Lord to Florrum and imprisoned him. Skywalker and Kenobi were sent by the Jedi Council to verify that Dooku was in the pirates' captivity so that the Republic could pay the Sith Lord's ransom of one million credits. However, the two Jedi were also taken hostage by the pirates, and while they broke free, Dooku escaped separately.

Quell and Maridun
"Hey, kid!''" "''I know, I know! I'm hanging on."

- Rex and Ahsoka Tano, during a typical crash landing

Stationed aboard the Resolute, Rex accompanied Skywalker, Tano, and Yularen to aid Jedi General Aayla Secura, whose fleet was being ambushed in the Quell system by Confederate forces. By the time the Resolute arrived over Quell, two of Secura's Venator-class Star Destroyers had been decimated by several Munificent-class frigates, with only Secura's own ship, the Liberty, maintaining altitude. As rocket droids were launched from the frigates to infiltrate and eliminate Secura's cruiser, the Resolute moved into position, and Skywalker, Tano, and Rex took several LAAT/i gunships with clones from the 501st Legion to evacuate the troops aboard the Liberty. The gunships opened fire at the droids, and Skywalker went ahead of the others to the cruiser.

A rocket droid attacked the gunship carrying Rex and Tano, and the craft's clone pilot was forced out of the cockpit. The clone captain and Padawan caught the pilot and pulled him into the gunship's troop bay. With its controls sabotaged by the droid, the gunship plummeted toward Secura's Star Destroyer. As soon as their vessel crashed and lodged itself in the cruiser, Tano, Rex, and their squad ran through the ship's corridors, destroying all droids in their path. The Padawan and clone captain caught up with Skywalker, Secura, and Clone Commander CC-5052, nicknamed "Bly," and the group headed to escape the doomed Liberty from a Consular-class cruiser that was docking in the lower hangar. As the gangway to the frigate was extended, however, the Confederate fleet's increasing fire caused an inferno to rage through the Republic Star Destroyer.

Sacrificing himself, Skywalker Force-pushed the others into the gangway airlock, sealing the blast doors shut, and used the Force to hold back the flames. The explosions finally blasted through the doors, and Skywalker was thrown against the airlock from the explosion. Tano and Secura managed to save Skywalker, and the Republic frigate detached from the Liberty before heading to the Resolute. As the frigate began to dock to Skywalker's flagship, a Vulture droid attack caused the Republic frigate's hyperdrive to activate. The Resolute was able to maneuver away in time, and the Republic frigate jumped to hyperspace. Skywalker was treated in the frigate's medbay, but Bly discovered that the vessel's navicomputer had incorrectly inputted the coordinates, heading the craft straight for a star. Rex joined the others on the bridge, and the group decided to shut down all primary power units to disengage the ship's hyperdrive.

Because of the ship's uncontrollable speed and the lack of artificial gravity, Rex lost his grip and was smashed against Secura, causing the Jedi to lose her hold on the power switch. Secura telekinetically reactivated the switch, and with artificial gravity back in operation, she and Rex landed on the floor. Tano maneuvered the craft to avoid the star, but was unable to stop the ship from heading straight toward the nearby planet of Maridun. Entering the planet's atmosphere, the frigate lost several of its parts before crash-landing on the planet. All aboard the ship escaped the burning wreckage, and Rex helped another trooper out of the craft. After a makeshift shelter had been erected for Skywalker, Secura, Tano, and Bly took the squad of clones to find help for the injured Jedi while the clone captain stayed to keep watch over Skywalker. Before the Padawan left with the others, Rex assured her that he would take good care of her wounded Master and wished her luck.

Under the cover of night, the clone captain diligently guarded Skywalker. However, as the Jedi awoke, a mastiff phalone &mdash;a carnivorous species native to Maridun &mdash;that had been watching the clone captain and Jedi for hours pinned Rex down and trapped the clone's blaster hand under one of its claws. Rex managed to fire a shot, startling the creature and scaring it away as he aimed several laser shots at its retreating form. The clone remained on the alert, and as daybreak broke, Skywalker regained consciousness once more. Although Rex insisted that the Jedi maintain his rest, Skywalker told the clone captain that he could hear the sound of returning mastiff phalones. Both Rex and Skywalker drew their weapons, and two more of the creatures appeared. Rex gunned one of them down, but the other charged at the shelter and ripped it apart, knocking Skywalker and Rex aside.

At that moment, Tano and Bly returned with Wag Too, a healer from the planet's pacifist Lurmen colony. Too wrapped a rope around the feet of the remaining mastiff phalone, and Tano assisted the Lurmen in attempting to pull the creature off its balance. Despite an injured arm, Rex used his other hand to help the two, and the mastiff phalone was pulled to the ground. Too tied the rope around the creature's legs, securing it, and Rex followed Tano, Bly, and Too back to the Lurmen village with Skywalker in tow on a stretcher that had been made from the remains of his shelter. Later, while keeping watch on the outskirts of the village, Rex noticed an incoming Confederate C-9979 landing craft, and reported this development to Bly back at the colony. The clone commander told Rex to return to the village, and the captain joined the others in the seedpod hut where Skywalker was being treated. To ensure that the Lurmen were not slaughtered for their presence, the Jedi and clones decided to hide from the Confederacy.

Rex and Bly assisted Skywalker, and the Republic group took refuge in a nearby field of tall grasses behind the village. While there, Rex expressed his lack of understanding for the Lurmen's pacifistic views, and while Tano believed that they had no courage, Secura intervened and said that it took courage to follow one's beliefs. Skywalker suggested that they steal a shuttle from the Confederacy to escape the planet, and Rex agreed with his general. Tano suddenly noticed that a Confederate recon droid was spying on them, and the Padawan and the two clones gave pursuit of the fleeing droid. Secura ambushed the droid, and once it flew at her, she cut it in half with her lightsaber. From a nearby tree, the group caught sight of the well-guarded Confederate base. The group watched as General Lok Durd deployed a squad of battle droids outside of the base with two Armored Assault Tanks and a tank-mounted defoliator cannon.

As Bly and Rex went to get a closer look, Durd sent two B1 battle droids&mdash;inadvertently, in the direction of the two clones&mdash;to serve as test subjects for the experimental weapon. A defoliator capsule was fired, and as it exploded and began to decimate all lifeforms in the area, Rex and Bly fled and fired their blasters' grappling hooks at the tree to avoid being killed. Commander Bly tripped on a log and misfired, but Secura was able to swing down on a vine and rescue him. The energy wave began to slow its expansion, and the two droid testees appeared, unscathed. The Jedi and clones watched as Durd departed with an armament of troops, and Skywalker deduced that the Confederate general intended to test the defoliator on the Lurmen village. Resolving to rescue the Lurmen, Skywalker and the clones eliminated the droids guarding the Confederate base under the cover of night.

The three Jedi and clones infiltrated the base and eliminated the rest of the droids. Noticing two deflector shield generators, Rex and Bly brought them onto their stolen Sheathipede-class transport shuttle, and accompanied the Jedi back to the Lurmen colony. Day broke again, and the Jedi and clones arrived at the Lurmen village in the shuttle. Rex noticed the inbound droids only minutes away from the colony, and despite the protests of the Lurmen chieftain, Tee Watt Kaa, the Jedi and clones moved several seedpods to form a barrier in front of the village. Rex noted that the droids were holding position to attack the village with their-long range artillery. As a defoliator shell was fired, the deflector shield generators were activated, and the shield was able to block the defoliator's energy wave. Durd dispatched his first squad to attack the village, and the Jedi and clones emerged from the shield.

While Skywalker, Tano, and Secura charged at the droids, Rex and Bly provided covering fire with their DC-15A blaster rifles. Although they were able to defeat the first wave of battle droids, the second droid wave&mdash;comprised of Durd's second and third squads&mdash;soon launched an assault. With an advantage in numbers, some of the droids slipped past the Jedi, forcing Rex and Bly back behind the pod barrier. The battle droids breached both the deflector shield and the pod wall, and were also able to destroy the two sheild generators. Secura and Tano joined the clones in defending the village, and Skywalker managed to disable the defoliator and capture Durd. With the aide of Too and several other Lurmen who sacrificed their pacifist upbringings to help defend their colony, the Republic group was able to save the village. Rex and Bly ushered the captured Durd and his Aqualish aide, Pune Zignat, into the Sheathipede-class shuttle, and Admiral Yularen arrived with a fleet of Star Destroyers over the planet, having finally found the Jedi.

War on Orto Plutonia
"Sir, the gunships can't take off in this storm. We don't have enough bikes for the entire platoon.''" "''Have the rest of the men standby here. No matter what the chairman thinks, we're not going to war."

- Rex and Anakin Skywalker

Rex later was dispatched with Skywalker, Kenobi, and a group of cold assault troops to investigate a lack of communication with Glid Station, a Republic base on the ice world of Orto Plutonia. The clone captain and his troops were forced to use cold assault armor as protection from the planet's icy environment, which also dangerously limited the troopers' movements in battle. Upon arriving at the station in several LAAT/i gunships with the Jedi&mdash;along with Chairman Chi Cho and Senator Riyo Chuchi, representatives of the orbiting moon of Pantora&mdash;Rex and his men placed sensor beacons to survey the area. The clone captain then accompanied Kenobi into the base and discovered that the station's troopers had been slaughtered without any evidence of a battle with Confederate droids. Following their scouts' discovery of a nearby Confederate base, Skywalker, Kenobi, Rex, and a group of troops proceeded to the base in Freeco bikes. Arriving at the Confederate base, Rex assisted Skywalker in placing sensors around the facility before entering the base with his general. Meeting Kenobi inside the base, Rex and the two Jedi uncovered a holorecording from a communications hub of a large creature attacking a B1 battle droid.

While the Jedi departed to investigate the southern canyon, the droids' last known location, Rex and the other troopers returned to Glid Station. As a storm began to brew outside, Skywalker and Kenobi returned to the Republic base and reported their findings&mdash;contrary to the findings of previous scouting parties, Orto Plutonia was inhabited by a species called the Talz. When Chairman Cho learned of the Talz, he immediately ordered Rex to prepare his troops for battle, but the Jedi intervened and stated that a meeting had been arranged with the Talz to negotiate peace. As the Republic forces prepared to depart, Rex reported to Skywalker that the gunships would not be able to take off in the storm, and the Jedi ordered the rest of the clone platoon to remain at Glid Station; despite Chairman Cho's beliefs, they were not going to war. The Pantorans, Jedi, and a squad of troopers left in Freeco bikes for the Confederate base, which had been arranged as the neutral meeting ground.

Upon arrival, Cho told Rex to position his troopers to ambush the Talz, but Kenobi countermanded the order&mdash;the Talz had already arrived. Leaving Rex and the clones outside with orders to avoid provoking the Talz, the Jedi and Pantorans entered into negotiations with the Talz. Despite the Jedi's efforts for the contrary, however, Cho declared war on the Talz to expunge them from Orto Plutonia. While the Jedi and Chuchi returned to Glid Station to find a solution for the conflict, Rex and his men took Freeco bikes and BARC speeders to accompany and protect the chairman. Approaching several Narglatch-mounted Talz, Cho immediately ordered the clones to open fire. Although Rex reminded the chairman that the clones were only there for protection, the captain and his troops were forced into battle when more Talz appeared and ambushed them.

A Talz warrior and his Narglatch attacked Rex's Freeco swoop, and forced out of his vehicle, the clone captain shot the warrior and its mount. Kicking his bike over as cover, Rex told his men to do the same to form a defense from the Talz. As spears continued to fly at the Republic group, the captain ordered his men to retreat, but Cho was incapacitated in the back with a spear. Defending the wounded Cho from attacking Talz and carrying the chairman onto a spare BARC speeder, Rex retreated with the rest of his troops, but their escape was blocked by a collapsing ice bridge. Backed against a gorge, the clone captain signaled his remaining men to use their vehicles as cover. As the clones countered the Talz's spears with blaster fire, they were soon saved by five LAAT/i gunships with the Jedi, Senator Chuchi, and troop reinforcements aboard. With heavy casualties, the battle had been bloody for both sides of the conflict. After Cho succumbed to his injuries and passed on, Chuchi was able to establish peace with the Talz, leaving Orto Plutonia in the hands of the Talz colony. The battle over, Rex departed with the Jedi and senator in one of the gunships.

Plague on Naboo
"We may be dead men, but we could still stop those droids."

- Rex, after discovering that he, his squad, and Tano are infected with the Blue Shadow Virus

After the Confederate-allied Doctor Nuvo Vindi was discovered to be using a laboratory on the planet of Naboo to recreate and modify the long-eradicated Blue Shadow Virus, Rex was dispatched with Skywalker, Kenobi, Tano, and several clone units to cripple Vindi's facility. Tano detonated several thermal detonators to breach the lab, and Rex and a squad of troops joined the Padawan in drawing the attention of the laboratory's droid defenses so that Skywalker and Kenobi could infiltrate the lab separately without retaliation. In one of the lab's tunnels, Rex and his men followed Tano in a charge against a squad of B1 battle droids. After two droidekas appeared and attacked the Republic battle group, the Padawan and the clones were forced to retreat.

The Jedi and clones were saved with the appearance of Master Kenobi and the clone bomb squad, who entered the tunnel and collapsed part of the roof on the droids. Kenobi and his squad headed to find Vindi's virus bombs&mdash;which the doctor had manufactured to spread the Blue Shadow Virus&mdash;while Tano, Rex, and their squad occupied the droids. However, the situation became much more dire when Dr. Vindi remotely activated the bombs. While Skywalker and Kenobi pursued the fleeing Vindi, Tano and Rex went to search for a missing bomb in possession of Vindi's servant droid, LEP-86C8. Senator Padmé Amidala and Representative Jar Jar Binks, who had been captured by Vindi before being freed by Skywalker, found the droid and recovered the bomb, and Tano and Rex quickly took the bomb squad to the arboretum where Amidala and Binks were located.

Having found the last virus bomb, the troopers were able to disable all of the explosives and prevent the release of the virus. The Jedi were also able to capture Vindi, and prepared to escort the Confederate doctor to Naboo's capital of Theed for trial. Unbeknownst to the Republic forces, however, Vindi's assistant droid had removed the virus vial from the last bomb before escaping. Using a spare bomb in the bomb room, the droid managed to release the Blue Shadow Virus. Elsewhere in the lab, Tano, Rex, and several troopers rushed to the facility's safe room with the plague following them through the air. Tano held the safe room's blast doors open with the Force, allowing Rex and the clones to jump in. With the clone captain and his men now holding the crack open, the Padawan managed to clear the jump, but the squad soon discovered that some of the virus made it past the sealing doors. Despite being infected with the strain, Rex believed that he and his men could still continue fighting.

Wearing enviro-suits for protection from the virus, Senator Amidala and Representative Binks opened the door to the safe room, dismayed that they could not do anything to help the contaminated Padawan and clones. In order to stop the remaining battle droids from breaching the compound and releasing the virus to the rest of the planet, the Republic group agreed to split up and eliminate the droids. Offering a DC-15S blaster to Amidala, Rex joined Tano and another trooper in cutting off the droids from the bunker's north corridor. After regrouping, the clone captain and the senator brought down the last battle droid that was attempting to cut through an exit hatch. Confronting two droidekas, Rex and the rest of the squad provided covering fire for Tano as she charged and destroyed the droids. However, Senator Amidala's suit was compromised in the attack, infecting her with the virus as well.

As the last of the droids were defeated, Rex helped Senator Amidala treat the other infected clones, even though the clone captain was suffering from the virus as well. When the senator lamented on the dying clones' wasted lives, Rex replied that it was what the troopers were born to do. However, Tano fainted, overcome by the virus, and Rex caught the Padawan as she collapsed. Meanwhile, Skywalker and Kenobi were able to collect Reeksa root, a cure for the Blue Shadow Virus, on the planet of Iego. The Jedi returned to Naboo to administer the antidote, and the virus was neutralized. Rex and the others infected by the plague were slated to make a full recovery, and were ushered away in stretchers by several 2-1B medical droids to awaiting LAAT/i gunships. Before departing, the ailing Rex made clear that he would not be training Binks, who had been recommended by Amidala and Kenobi for marksmanship training.

Battle of Ryloth
"I wish General Skywalker had discussed this plan with us. The odds are very much against us."

- Rex, to Ahsoka Tano and the Resolute naval officer

After the planet of Ryloth was seized by the Confederacy, Rex was deployed with Skywalker, Tano, Admiral Yularen, and a Republic fleet of three Star Destroyers to eliminate the Confederate blockade surrounding the planet. Tano, in her first command position, led a squadron of starfighters to attack the blockade. However, the arrival of Confederate reinforcements caused the Republic's offensive to backfire. Confederate Vulture droids began suicide attacks on the Republic Star Destroyers, and Yularen was severely injured. Returning to the fleet, Tano's fighter group was almost completely eradicated, leaving the Padawan devastated with her losses. The cruisers Resolute and Defender were damaged and forced to retreat, while the Redeemer fell apart under heavy fire. As the two remaining Star Destroyers reached their staging area, Jedi Master Mace Windu contacted the Resolute and requested an update on the strike force's progress. Rex found Skywalker in the hangar attempting to bolster Tano's spirits. The clone captain informed Skywalker of the incoming transmission, and the Jedi told Rex to put together a damage report.

The captain was present when Skywalker informed Windu and Kenobi of his battle group's losses, but despite only half his original forces remaining, Skywalker was given one planetary rotation to eliminate the blockade. The Jedi general sent Rex to locate Tano, and the captain found the Padawan in the Star Destroyer's medbay with an unconscious Yularen and informed her that her Master was looking for her. When Skywalker later ordered the Defender evacuated, Rex assisted the Jedi in supervising the transfer of the Defender ' s supplies to the Resolute. Tano arrived in the Resolute ' s hangar bay, and Rex oversaw operations while Skywalker explained the plan to his Padawan&mdash;Skywalker would pilot the Defender alone and take out the blockade's lead ship, leaving Tano in charge of the Resolute. After Skywalker departed, Rex and the Star Destroyer's naval officer were present when Tano arrived on the bridge of the Resolute. The clone captain and officer were hesitant with Skywalker's strategy; the clone captain believed that the odds "were very much against them."

To protect the Resolute from the firepower of the six remaining Confederate frigates, Tano presented a plan to angle the hull of the Star Destroyer toward the blockade, allowing starfighters to be launched and drawing the Confederate frigates in with a classic Marg Sabl maneuver. Both Rex and the naval officer were concerned about the plan's chances of success, but a revived Yularen supported Tano. Upon the Resolute ' s return to the Ryloth system, the Confederate frigates converged on the Republic Star Destroyer. Tano led the starfighters in the assault on the enemy ships, and Kenobi and Windu soon arrived with the invasion troops aboard several transports. Rex referred the Jedi Masters through to Tano, and after conferring with Kenobi, the Padawan told Rex to dispatch a shuttle to retrieve Skywalker's escape pod. With the blockade destroyed, the Republic ground forces were able to land and eventually liberate Ryloth.


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Personality and traits
"In my book, experience outranks everything."

- CC-7567

Gruff, no-nonsense, and tough as nails, CC-7567 was an aggressive clone trooper and a veteran of the Clone Wars. Hardened and battle-scared by many engagements with the Confederacy, the captain held a reputation as one of the toughest clones in the galaxy. Rex was a freethinking and fearless soldier, and did not hesitate to give higher-ranking Jedi officers his "blunt opinion." He led from the front, and in some cases would have fought ahead of General Anakin Skywalker. Rex was far from reckless, but his courage and willingness to jump into the fray helped the Republic win numerous victories. His outspokenness and aggression notwithstanding, Rex faithfully executed orders &mdash;even when he disagreed with them &mdash;with little concern for his own well-being. During the war, he swore to protect all Republic citizens, and his promise extended even to the ambitious Chairman Chi Cho.

Rex was loyal to the Republic and was visibly unsettled with Clone Sergeant Slick's betrayal and hatred of the Jedi. The clone captain was concerned for the safety of his Jedi officers, particularly those of Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano, and Obi-Wan Kenobi, whom he often served with throughout the war. Rex was hesitant to follow orders that put the Jedi in danger, especially those coming from the Jedi themselves. He was unafraid to do his duty as a soldier of the Republic, even if it meant placing his own life and the lives of his troops in jeopardy. However, the captain never wanted to leave anyone behind if possible and greatly cared for his men. While he was good at keeping up a "stoical front," he was extremely passionate about certain matters and was both angered and saddened with the near-eradication of Torrent Company at Teth and the loss of troopers Vere and Ince during a rescue mission to JanFathal. After Vere's death, Rex pushed his anger to one side so that it would serve as fuel for the job at hand, intending to let it go later when no one could see him break down. The captain was surprised to find on JanFathal that his instinct was not to look after Tano but to take care of his men.

Born to fight the "clankers" and "tinnies" of the Separatist Droid Army, Rex held the battle droids in contempt for the damage they had wrought on both him and his clone brethren. The clone captain understood his position as a clone trooper manufactured to fight for the Republic, and while he was aware that he and his clone brothers had been forced into the war without a choice, he made the best of the situation. Rex did not allow himself to be intimidated by his enemies and even expressed humor in the direst situations. He was a practical strategist, taking the necessary measures and carefully identifying obstacles in a situation to ensure its success. A soldier's experience in battle mattered much to the veteran clone, and he often judged by one's experience instead of rank. Rex made use of the derogatory "shinie" slang in addressing the rookie troopers of the Rishi outpost but was pleased when the clones grew to the challenge and recaptured the Republic base from the Confederacy.

Rex was good friends with Clone Commander Cody, whom he worked with in several missions. Their relationship mirrored that of Skywalker and Kenobi&mdash;Cody admired Rex's superb instincts in battle, but like Kenobi's concerns for Skywalker, the clone commander worried that Rex put too much faith in them. Aboard Captain Pellaeon's Leveler, Rex found himself comfortable with others that were involved in the war and understood him. However, the captain also found that he did not like a spacegoing navy as he was privvy to having ground under his boots. The captain often made judgments based on what he was and was not trained on, respecting diplomatic negotiations as "a kind of fighting he was not trained for." After meeting the pacifist Lurmen on Maridun, Rex could not understand why they did not want to fight or even defend themselves, believing that they had no pride.

Serving closely with Skywalker throughout the Clone Wars, Rex adopted the Jedi's unconventional and unorthodox combat tactics, and it was their similar lack of "by the book" methods that allowed the two to get along so well. Having served alongside Jedi generals throughout the war, Rex had seen the Jedi in action and learned to both respect and never doubt their abilities. However, he sometimes disapproved how some of them preferred debating to fighting. The clone captain's own general, Skywalker, matched him in bravery, aggression, and decisiveness, and the Jedi's "soldiery" traits helped Rex to form "something of a friendship" with him. Rex's time spent with Skywalker was such that the clone even became aware that the Jedi had feelings for Senator Amidala, although he was unaware of the full extent of their attachment. As a soldier, the clone captain was loyal to Skywalker both on the battlefield and at a personal level. When the Jedi was away, Rex kept him regularly updated with the current situation, aware of the consequences that his general would face for being caught "out of the loop."

Rex was the first clone that Tano met on Christophsis, and the clone captain was concerned with Tano's initial naivety. After the two reached an understanding of each other, they began to form a strong bond in the continuing war. The clone captain often addressed Tano as "kid." Skywalker trusted the clone captain with Tano, and as her Master, the Jedi also recognized that some of the Padawan's lessons were better learned from Rex. Rex helped Tano through several tough situations, including when Skywalker was injured on Maridun, and also guided her in her first command position at Ryloth. Both supported the other, and their friendship as Jedi and clone trooper remained strong through the galactic Clone Wars.

The clone captain found hair under a helmet annoying and bothersome, and as such, he regularly shaved and used hair polish. Even so, Rex dyed his hair blond and let it grow out to a certain extent. At one point, the clone captain briefly dyed his hair blue to support the Bylluran Athletic bolo-ball team before deciding his new style was "undignified" for a commanding officer and shaving it to better fit in with his troops. Rex was able to speak Galactic Standard Basic.

Talents and abilities
Rex's natural abilities led him to be recommended for supplementary training on Kamino. With extra training and intensive programmed learning, he was versed in a variety of tactics and fighting styles. The clone captain was capable of leading specialty clone units when the need arose. Like any good soldier, Rex knew his weapons, but also realized that gear alone would not win a battle. Aware that a soldier's mind was his greatest tool, Rex relied on intelligence rather than weaponry, combining a commando's gift of improvisation with an infantryman's toughness. Having received related training on Kamino, the clone captain was adept in mental resistance, and was able to shield himself from a Force mind trick performed by the Dark Acolyte Asajj Ventress.

Rex was trained in blaster combat, and his skills in marksmanship were evidenced numerous times throughout the war. Rex was also trained in close combat, displayed during a brawl with the turncoat clone Slick on Christohpsis. Rex recognized that if he did not kill the droids of the Confederacy first, they would kill him. During the Battle of Christophsis, Skywalker noted that Rex seemed "casual" in combat against the battle droids.

Equipment
Rex used a suit of Phase I clone trooper armor that was customized with the white and blue of the 501st Legion. His helmet displayed the Mandalorian Jaig eyes as battle honors, and it was also equipped with a fold-down rangefinder scope and a pair of removable headlamps that gave the captain a viewing distance of 40 feet. Rex used the traditional leather kama half kilt, made out of thick anti-blast armor, and also wore a pauldron over his left shoulder that was partially painted blue. His left gauntlet was equipped with a comlink, and his utility belt carried a medpac. He sometimes wore generic white clone trooper armor, and while on Orto Plutonia, he was forced to don cold-weather armor decorated with Jaig eyes that dangerously limited his movements in battle.

Trained in marksmanship, Rex made use of a variety of weapons throughout the war. He mainly wielded a pair of DC-17 hand blasters, similar to Jango Fett, the bounty hunter whom he was cloned from, who also wielded twin blaster pistols. Rex sometimes used a DC-15S blaster and a DC-15A blaster rifle, and while on JanFathal, he used a DC-15 with a grenade launcher mod that the weapon "was not supposed to have." When the situation called for it, Rex made use of a JT-12 jetpack.

Development and portrayal
"Rex was originally based on an ARC trooper from the comic books named Alpha. But we had Anakin, Artoo, Alpha, and now Ahsoka all hanging out, and someone pointed out that they were the A-Team. So, George changed 'Alpha' to 'Rex.'"

- Supervising director Dave Filoni discusses Rex's development

CC-7567 was created for the 2008 Star Wars: The Clone Wars film and television series, and first appeared in the film's novelization and junior novelization. As the series' primary clone character, Rex appears extensively throughout media related to the series, including the comic series, graphic novellas, novel series, and young readers books. Rex is also slated for roles in the upcoming 2009 video game Republic Heroes, which is set between the series' first and second seasons, and in Season Two itself.

Voice actor Dee Bradley Baker provides Rex's voice throughout the series, as well as the voices of all other clone troopers. Baker has portrayed Rex with a somewhat deeper voice than the series' other clone troopers based on his confidence and aggression, and this has been more prominent during clone-centric episodes such as "Rookies" or "The Hidden Enemy."

At first, the creators of The Clone Wars series decided to put in Alpha-17, the Advanced Recon Commando known from the Dark Horse comics, as the series' prime clone character. However, producer George Lucas objected to this because including the character would make too much of an alliteration between the major characters&mdash;"Anakin," "Ahsoka," "Artoo/R2-D2," and now "Alpha"&mdash;so a different clone character was created.

Rex's scar is based on that of Harrison Ford, who portrayed the smuggler Han Solo throughout the original Star Wars films.

Inconsistencies
There have been numerous inconsistencies with Rex's rank. The 2009 Wizards of the Coast sourcebook The Clone Wars Campaign Guide, among other media, claims that Rex is a clone commander, and according to the Guide to the Grand Army of the Republic reference article published in the September 2005 Star Wars Insider 84, would therefore be in charge of the 501st Legion. However, in the majority of sources that are directly affiliated with the television series&mdash;including the episodes and their corresponding online guides, the multiple novelizations of The Clone Wars film, The Visual Guide, The Art of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and The Clone Wars novel series&mdash;Rex is referred to as a clone trooper captain.

There have also been concerns with Rex's rank because the previously-published Guide to the Grand Army of the Republic states that if he was a captain, he would be in command of a company&mdash;Torrent Company. However, the majority of all media directly related to the series claims that he is in charge of the 501st Legion. Therefore, this article assumes that Rex is a captain in command of the 501st Legion, although it is contradictory to the previously-published Guide to the Grand Army.

During Escape from Kadavo, Obi-Wan Kenobi addresses a clone trooper that is clearly wearing Rex's customized blue-and-white armor as "Cody." The Decoded re-airing of the episode "Jedi Crash" mistakenly refers to Commander Bly as Rex.

Non-canon history
The following lists scenarios that have not been recognized as having canonical status for their contradictions to and disregard for established continuity.

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"What are we up to now, 64? 65?''" "Who knows'' what'll happen next?"

- Rex and Ahsoka Tano, after defeating Grievous

With a squad of several clone troopers and a Wookiee, Rex and Ahsoka Tano defeated the bounty hunter Durge. General Grievous soon appeared, but the clone troopers quickly incapacitated the cyborg, severing several of his limbs with blaster shots. Walking away from their victory, Rex questioned how many orders they had been given.

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"This is Captain Rex reporting in. We've encountered heavy resistance, but the mission is proceeding as planned. &hellip;Or not."

- Rex, as an OG-9 spider droid appears

Rex and a squad of clone troopers were assigned to undertake a mission, but their LAAT/i gunship was shot down on a desert planet by battle droids. The clone captain reported that the mission was proceeding as planned, but several B1 battle droids and an OG-9 homing spider droid appeared. The spider droid bowled Rex over, and the captain and his troops opened fire on the droids. While the other troopers attacked the droid menace, Rex found a clone from Batch 82-4 that was avoiding the battle out of his arachnophobia, a trait that was shared amongst the rest of the batch. The spider droid returned and charged at Rex and the trooper, and the two took refuge in the remains of the gunship. The clone captain explained to the scared trooper that it was a droid, not an actual spider, and Rex watched as the clone took up arms and defeated the spider droid single-handed. As Rex congratulated his men on their victory, however, three more spider droids appeared.

Rex was present with Skywalker, Kenobi, Tano, and Rotta the Huttlet in a search for Asajj Ventress. The group's AT-TE came across a squad of IG-100 MagnaGuards and their Porax-38 starfighter, but a B2 super battle droid and several IG-227 Hailfire-class droid tank appeared and blasted the walker off its feet. Emerging from their damaged vehicle, Kenobi, Tano, and Rex fought the new arrivals while Skywalker battled the MagnaGuards at the landing platform. However, Ventress soon appeared with the Death Brick weapon and threw it at the three Jedi before escaping with the battle droids. Rex jumped in the line of fire and blocked the brick, which simply bounced off of his head. Commander Cody arrived with an LAAT/i gunship and transported Rex and the Jedi away from the planet.

Rex was sent with Kenobi, Cody, and a detachment of clones to rescue Skywalker and Tano in a space battle, but the group was pulled to the surface of a nearby planet by a Separatist tractor beam. R2-D2 was able to open the door of Rex's gunship&mdash;which had been jammed from the crash&mdash;in time, and the clone captain arrived with Jedi General Plo Koon to save Skywalker, Tano, Kenobi, Cody, and a squad of troops from Ventress and an army of battle droids. The Separatists were repelled, and Rex reported R2-D2's actions to Kenobi. The captain was also present when Koon was given an award for his valiant efforts in the battle.

Appearances

 * The Clone Wars: Shadowed
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars novelization
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars junior novelization
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The New Padawan
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Battle at Teth
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Watch Out for Jabba the Hutt!
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars Official Movie Storybook
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars film
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Grievous Attacks!
 * The Clone Wars: Wild Space
 * The Clone Wars: No Prisoners
 * Star Wars The Clone Wars Volume 1: Shipyards of Doom
 * Star Wars The Clone Wars Volume 2: Crash Course
 * Star Wars The Clone Wars Volume 3: The Wind Raiders of Taloraan
 * Star Wars The Clone Wars: Slaves of the Republic
 * The Clone Wars: Mouse Hunt
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars mobile game
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Jedi Alliance
 * The Clone Wars: Transfer
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Battle for Ryloth
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Jedi Alliance
 * The Clone Wars: Transfer
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Battle for Ryloth
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Battle for Ryloth
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Battle for Ryloth
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Battle for Ryloth
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes

Non-canon appearances

 * Star Wars Miniatures: The Clone Wars ad
 * Giant spiders are awesome
 * Sith make the best pancakes
 * That's no Space Station
 * Every brick has a beginning
 * A clone by any other name
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Quest for R2-D2 game
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Quest for R2-D2 film