1st Independent Battalion

The First Independent Battalion
The 1st Independent battalion of the Grand Army of the Republic was comprised mainly of patriotic volunteers from the worlds of the Republic that were neither suited to or desired Intelligence work. They were trained on Kamino by Drill Seargant Walon Vau and received standard clone trooper, as well as partial commando training. They were involved mainly in black ops work, but were often deployed as a reconissance/forward unit. Their two main advantages over clones was that they had total independent thought, and that they simply weren't clones, the seperatists were not looking for "civillians". This alllowed the 1st to do cloak and dagger style missions, were a clone would fail miserably.

They Were given the name "1st Independent battalion" as they were completly seperate from the main Army of the Republic, and could act independently.

The Commander of the first, Den Jombac, a human from Coruscant, received additional commander training from Commanders Neyo and Thire.

In battle, the 1st wore the armour that was originally designed for clones, but in the end was considered too costly for mass-production. It was dubbed "A-proto1" and was incredibly easy to modify, even in field conditions. It looked remarkably similar to the Phase 2 and much later stormtroopers armour