- "Torrent, Cascade, and Waterfall companies are depending on us to sweep the streets for 'em. And we are not going to let them down. Agreed?"
"Agreed!" - ―Anakin Skywalker and the clone pilots of Gold Squadron
Waterfall Company was a company of[1] 144 clone troopers, along with support personnel, that served within one of the Grand Army of the Republic's battalions,[3] during the Clone Wars between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems.[1] Subdivided into four platoons,[3] the company was led by[1] High Jedi General[2] Obi-Wan Kenobi and Clone Captain Rex during a battle against Separatist forces on the Mid Rim planet Kothlis in[1] 21 BBY.[4]
The company was assigned to fight on the planet's surface alongside the clone troopers of Torrent Company and Cascade Company. Prior to the battle, Jedi General Anakin Skywalker made a speech to the clone trooper pilots of Gold Squadron, in which he mentioned Waterfall Company alongside the other companies. To raise the morale of the pilots, Skywalker reminded them that all three companies were depending on them to clear a path to the planet's surface, and that they were not going to disappoint them.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
Waterfall Company was mentioned in Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth, a 2010 novel written by Karen Miller[1] as a tie-in to the 2008 Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated television series.[5]
Appearances[]
- Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth (and audiobook) (First mentioned)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Star Wars: The Force Unleashed novelization
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 The Essential Guide to Warfare establishes that a company within the Grand Army of the Republic served in a battalion and was made up of four platoons, totalling 144 clone troopers plus support personnel. Since Waterfall Company is a company within the Grand Army of the Republic, it must have had the same composition.
- ↑ The events of Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth, including the battle on Kothlis, are established to have taken place eleven years after the events of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, which The New Essential Chronology dates to 32 BBY. As such, the battle on Kothlis must have taken place in 21 BBY.
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