CC-4236

CC-4236 was a Clone Commander who served in the Galactic Republic before he became part of the Galactic Empire. He was better known as Torch.

Early battles
"Sarapin, hmmm. Down on that planet I saw horrors that would drive a man insane. I saw Crash step on a volcanic geyser, exploded right out from under him. I saw an LAAT crash down into the lava and heard the dying screams of those poor troops. I saw a vaapad take out both Grey and Moss. I think if not for the General, we all would have gone insane down on that hellhole."

- Torch, describing Sarapin

Torch was first deployed at the Battle of Geonosis, where he fought alongside Empatojayos Brand with his legion. Although they suffered heavy losses, it was thanks to Brand that theey managed to return alive. Shortly after this, he and his men were assigned to fight alongside Echuu Shen-Jon and his apprentice, Naat Reath. He was sent down to he planet along with the 179th Legion and the Jedi in order to re-take the planet from the Separatists. He saw many terrible sights while down on the planet but pressed on with his mission. When the 179th Legion attacked the bulk of the Separatist forces, he took the gunners position of an AT-TE and caused a large amount of damage. However, once the battle was over he wanted to execute the Geonosians that they had captured, although he was refused the permission to do so by Shen-Jon. After interrogating Zian Finnis about the location of Sev'rance Tann they headed to Tatooine. Torch sent out a small number of Clone Troopers to scout the area surrounding Mos Osnoe. When the recon group discovered the Tusken Raider camp described by the locals, Torch sent them in to exterminate them, believing that his highly trained men could easily kill a group of primitive aliens. He was wrong, however, and the recon group was attacked and almost wiped out by the Tuskens. Luckily, one ARC trooper, Hound, managed to hold off the Tuskens until the Jedi arrived. Shen-Jon scolded Torch for the reckless move and said that he would have Hound promoted. The battle against the Separatist and Boorka's forces was still a success and managed to discover a Separatist outpost on Aereen. After fighting their way to the CIS citadel and killing Plure Barron, their next destination was Krant. Torch protested the move and wanted to wait until they had sufficient reinforcements, but his concerns were ignored by Shen-Jon. At Krant, most of the remaining soldiers were slaughtered by the droids. They managed to find an old base filled with Wookie soldiers who had been left behind and worked with them in order to build up their forces for an assault against the Separatists. While Torch and his soldiers attacked the enemy base, Shen-Jon dueled Tann. After the battle he asked Naat Reath what had happened to Shen-Jon, who had disappeared, and Reath told him that Shen-Jon had died.

Dark Reaper crisis
Torch and the 179th Legion were then put under the command of Obi-Wan Kenobi and his Padawan and sent to Raxus Prime to investigate unusual activity. After seeing the Jedi fight, he questioned the need for Clones, until Obi-Wan told him of the small numbers of the Jedi. He and his forces were then sent to Alaris Prime in order to rescue Anakin Skywalker, who had been captured at Raxus Prime. During the battle he at first rode in a TX-130 Sabre-class tank until it was destroyed, at which point he mounted a Maru and used it to ram a squad of battle droids. He was later sent to Rhen Var and helped defend a downed Acclamator ship that housed several AT-XTs. Torch then lead a group of Clone troopers in moving towards the Jedi Temple and successfully captured it. He then helped his fellow soldiers to swarm the Separatist barracks and killed a large number of enemy troops. He was in an Acclamator ship during most of the Battle of Sivvi and it was thanks to Anakin Skywalker that the ship was able to land. Torch was also present at the Battle of Thule, where he led a large assault force against the Separatist ground forces.

Later battles
"This s new...disturbingly new"

- Torch upon seeing the B3 Ultra Battle droid

Torch was later present for the Battle of Brentaal IV and he and the 179th Legion aided the Jedi greatly. During the battle of Iktotch he witnessed the power of the new B3 battle droid. He was amazed at the strength of the Jedi as they managed to destroy it. He fought alongside B'dard Tone and his padawan during the Battle of Nadiem but they were separated before Grievous fought Tone and his padawan. For the rest of the war the 179th Legion worked alongside Jedi masters Tadra Kren and Yulo Gart.

Order 66
During order 66, Torch, his men and their Jedi Generals were stationed on Dimock where the Republic forces were trying unsuccessfully to persuade the natives to stay with the Republic. While Torch and his soldiers were battling one Separatist fortress, commander Gexic and his commander Di Groota were attacking another. When Order 66 was initiated Torch unquestioningly turned on his generals. However the two escaped in an RTT, along with a youngling clan. Torch and his men pursued them and managed to corner the RTT. Tadra and Yulo exited the vehicle and made a final stand against the Clones. Tadra and Yulo managed to kill a large number of Clone Troopers before finally being killed, at which point the RTT was destroyed by AT-TE fire. However, it was merely a diversion while the younglings were taken off planet by smugglers.

Imperial service
Torch spent the remainder of his life serving the Empire. He and the 179th Legion were sent to Mygeeto and became Clone cold assault troopers, then snowtroopers. He became bored with police work and was secretly glad when the Rebels attacked the planet unsuccesfully. However, one year later the planet caame under attack again. Much to his suprise, Torch saw that the attackers were Separatist droids. Because of his shock he was slow to react to the danger, and by the time he finally did, the droids had killed much of the first line of soldiers. Although he managed to gain walker support and drive the attackers back to a bridge, he was horrified to see the walkers being ripped to shreds by OG-10s. His shock rooted him in place and he was soon tackled by a Grappling droid, which launched both itself and Torch off of the bridge, killing both.