Drake (clone)

Drake was a clone who served under the Galactic Republic, and temporarily the Galactic Empire. He was cloned as part of an elitiest group of clones, Delta Rango Army Killer, or D.R.A.K.. The D.R.A.K. had more free will then most clones, even more then the ARC troopers, which gave them an advantage in various circumstances, they were also cloned with more endurance then others. The D.R.A.K. were a faction of clones that were trained under extreme circumstances that most clones would not survive, infact it took months of development of clones in the D.R.A.K. project for the first clone to finally pass the training, Alpha 254.

After Alpha's successful passing of the training, more clones were made in his likeness, some stronger then him. Due to a clone needing to have some sort of limit on his strength, as too much strength could alter intelligence and could become defective without a proper balance, clones of this type were made only slightly stronger then Alpha. After the battle of Geonosis, Drake was cloned under the name Eclipse 187254, and after killing a Seperatist general in single combat was stationed in the 501st Leigon, shortly after this his strong dislike of his clone name caused him to take the D.R.A.K.'s name and his clone name Eclipse and merge them to give him the name Drake.

During his training as a Jedi, he befriended Anakin Skywalker, the two accompanied each other on many battlefields as great friends.

Early life
During a Seperatist attack on a Acclamator I-class assault ship, which Drake was stationed on, Drake and his unit were seperated. Drake's starship, a modified CIS Bomber he acquired during a supply raid on a damaged CIS transport, had been damaged and crashed into an asteroid near the enemy cruiser. His ship and himself were recovered and taken to the General's command ship. About a week after the ensuing battle Drake awoke in a CIS medical prison, where he was healed and was held for questioning after he awoke. After a month of heavy interogation, Drake remained strong and didn't reveal one secret of the Republic dispite the torture he went through. Seeing this wasnt working, Garnash Rel'tok, a Twi'lek who betrayed the Republic and became a CIS general, personally visited Drake's holding cell. Garnash was once a Jedi Master who fell to the dark side after his lover, a fellow Jedi, was killed during a diplomatic mission to Tatooine by Tusken Raiders. Garnash decided he would make Drake tell information by using his lightsaber and the force to torture him. After an hour of torture Drake feigned fainting which caused Garnash to order several battle droids to take him to the medical ward. As they prepared to take him to the ward he lunged at one of the droids blaster rifles, which he took and destroyed the droids who were too surprised to react in time.

Garnash quickly drew his lightsaber but had it blasted out of his hand. Drake's blaster ran out of ammo which caused the two to race towards the lightsaber. Drake was able to grab it first, reacting quickly he activated it and slamed it into Garnash's heart, killing him instantly. Garnash's blood flew into his cuts and his eyes, after wiping his eyes clear he felt rather strange. While Drake wasn't adept in using a lightsaber he had been fond of swords during his training, which allowed him to at least use the lightsaber in combat. After fighting his way to the hangar he found his ship repaired, and suspended over the ships. After having witnessed a Jedi throw a lightsaber and watching it come back to him during a battle, Drake hurled his lightsaber at the cables, it cut them and flew back to him. Drake left the hangar in his ship, completely unaware that making the lightsaber return required some power in the force.

After his return and healing Drake was promoted to the rank of Commander and was moved to the 501st leigon, making him the quickest clone to go from the rank of private to Commander in the Republic. After a routine physical Drake was told that after Garnash's blood seeped into his wounds and eyes, their blood mixed, causing his Midi-chlorian count to skyrocket. Confused as to why such a small ammount of blood would cause this, Tesnor'ak, a Jedi master who was actually Garnash's master, visited the clone who killed his once padawan. Tesnor'ak thanked Drake for killing Garnash, his soul could finally rest. Confused as to why his soul would be restless Tesnor'ak explained after Garnash's lover died Garnash did fall to the dark side, however it was actually temporary. Tesnor'ak had helped him recover but Darth Sidious had sensed Garnash's potential and after kidnapping Garnash, he used the force and a mental rehabilitation machine that was changed to bend his mind and will to the Sith Lord's will. Dispite Garnash's will to fight it, he was only able to tell Tesnor'ak that the Sith Lord had taken over his mind and soon Garnash would be nothing but a slave to the dark side.

After the story Tesnor'ak told him, the Jedi Master explained that Garnash had an extremely high Midi-chlorian count, and the ammount of blood that Garnash seeped into Drake's wounds caused him to have enough Midi-chlorians to become a jedi. Tesnor'ak then offered to train Drake, much to his surprise, the reason why was because the old master could see a bit of Garnash was in him, not just in the literal sense. Drake became the first and only Clone to become a Jedi. Afterwards he gave Drake Garnash's original green Jedi lightsaber crystal, Drake replaced the red crystal inside with the green crystal and used the lightsaber from then on.

D.R.A.K. Rebellion
After seeing that the D.R.A.K. was incredibily strong the Senate worried they would rebel against the Republic and begged Palpatine to end the project and stop the cloning of D.R.A.K. clones. Palpatine was already setting the final plans of his plan to betray the Jedi and turn the Republic into an Empire, he was worried that the D.R.A.K. clones were too close to the Jedis because of Drake and ordered the halt of their cloning. Outraged with Palpatines decision the D.R.A.K. rebeled against the Republic not because they thought they could but because they were no longer cloned due to mistrust. The D.R.A.K. had thought of each other as family and most rebeled. They took over a cloning facility on Kamino and had hacked into the central computers, halting all cloning processes as revenge. The Republic's army was now getting crippled from the inside, causing the Republic to launch multiple attacks on the D.R.A.K.'s headquarters in the captured facility. The power of the D.R.A.K. was too great, seeing no other choice the Senate agreed on an orbital strike attack to destroy the facility, killing the D.R.A.K.. The Unexpectant clones soon found them selves beening fired at by a laser from a Star Destroyer. After the destruction the few D.R.A.K. who survived the attack later died in medical facilitys.

Only a handful of D.R.A.K.'s were alive, those who didnt join the rebellion, they were not reticuled however as they came over betrayal. Drake and his "Brother" Omega254788 were some of them, Omega like Drake had shortened his clone name taking the name Omega later on he changed it to DR254 but Drake still called him Little Omega even after wards. Drake and DR254 were always close, Drake was cloned before DR254 so thats why they treated each other to an older brother and younger brother relationship.

After the war
After his training which took about a year, Drake had already abandoned his clone name and taken on the name Drake. He became a Major, he would use his lightsaber and a jet pack during battle, but wasnt shy to use any other weapon. During Order 66 he accompanied Anakin Skywalker, now Darth Vader, during the purge on the Jedi Order, along with Omega. There Drake was horrified at the slaughtering of his jedi friends, he fled into the temple corridors as the rest of the clone army protected the Library's holobooks from jedi destruction. There he was attacked by his former master Tesnor'ak, who didnt relise it was Drake at first due to his armor looking like the other clones. After relising that it was Drake, Drake attacked his master for loyalty to the new Empire. After a short duel where Drake came out victorious he relised he couldn't bear killing the Jedi and stoped before killing his master. Drake then decided he would leave the Empire and helped his master up from the floor. Omega found his brother, and mistook him for battling the jedi master instead of helping him and fired at the master, in a quick sense Drake blocked the fire causing it to bounce back and cause a mortal wound to his brother.

Too shoken up to do anything Tesnor'ak healed Omega, after explaining the situation Drake was unaware Darth Vader was watching and was horrified when he saw Vader in the door way, lightsaber ablaze. Knowing his friend was severely corrupted he was prepared for the worst but was surprised when Vader became Anakin for a split second and told Drake and Tesnor'ak to leave the temple immedeatily with a Jedi Starfighter that was about to be destroyed and used for scraps. Vader left that moment after, Tesnor'ak told Drake that Anakin was still in there and that he felt one day he would return as a Jedi and not a Sith Lord.

Omega accepted his brother's decision and had decided to help the two in any way possible from that day on from within the Empire it's self. The two vanished and were not seen again until the Rebellion was formed.