Rebel Clone Group

The Clone Rebel Group, also referred to as the Campaign for the Rights of Clones, but often referring to their own group as simply The Gang was a rebellious group of Clone Troopers who were at large during the Clone Wars. Originally, they campaigned to allow clones to have more of an identity, but in the end the group, lead by the clone Krane, became a mob of twisted Vandals and Saboteurs. The group occupied a complex of hidden rooms within the Venator Class Star Destroyer Paragon, which was destroyed as a result of a clash between the Rebel Clones and the Jedi. The group used various reprogrammed droids to wreak havok throughout the ship and elsewhere, including buzz droids, droid spy balls, a heavily armed P2 unit and modified separatist destroyer droids. The groups computer expert Colke used his hacking skills to buy weapons on the black market using the army’s money. The dissapearance of over 100‘000 republic credits spent on lightsabers eventually lead to the discovery of the group.

History
The Group was founded by the Rebellious Krane (Born CT-66619), a clone who had suffered a tragic accident in war and had lost both arms and one leg. Krane blamed the Jedi for his loss, and resented the republic ever since. Krane secretly replaced his lost arms with those of battle droids, as a display of his individuality. When this was discovered, Krane was sentenced to a year of working as a slag cleaner in the fuel refineries of Malastare. An enraged Krane accused the Republic of Practicing Slavery, and escaped. Krane formed his from Various deficient clones onboard the Jedi Cruiser Paragon the flagship of Jedi Master Jmmar, and based himself in the bowels of the cruiser. Via the Holonet, the Group persuaded clones to join the gang. Jedi Masters Obi-Wan Kenobi, Mace Windu and Jmmar were alerted by this activity and campaigned to Locate the Group, searching star systems onboard the Paragon. They were unaware the group was located beneath their feet. The Jedi got their first hints at the group due to the presence on unregistred ships in the Hangar of the Paragon, and due to the dissapearance of over 100‘000 republic credits spent on weaponry including lightsabers. Eventually, a hit and run attack by separatist droids forced the Clone Mechanics to take an alternate route to the main reactor complex, which was occupied by Krane’s Gang. The Group Managed to Elude the Jedi for quite some time, but eventually they were forced into combat. Explosions during the fighting caused damage to the cruiser, and it eventually was destroyed. When clone cadets were trapped inside the Gang’s territory, Krane ordered his armourer, Hound, to execute them in an effort to gain the upper hand over the Jedi. Hound and the others could not bring themselves to do so, and turned on Krane. Eventually, Mace Windu tried to calm Krane and bring sanity back into him. Krane confessed his pain and his feeling of being a runaway slave. Krane and the others were taken to lockdown, but before being locked up, Krane broke free and escaped in an escape pod. He was never heard from since.

Members
The Jedi encouraged the clones to take on identities, and by the middle of the clone wars few two mature clones were identical. The members of the Clone Rebel Group, however, were unrecognizeable. No longer forced to fight and no longer restricted to controlled diets, the clones developed along various lines, including corpulence in the case of Colk the Hacker, and extreme musculature in the case of Hound the Armourer, who was fond of Spice. The clones wore customized armour, and sported exotic hairstyles. As a deliberate insult to republic regulations, they wore battlefield items such as battle droid fingers as trophies. Most of the men in the gang had joined it due to a travesty that had happened to them in war, such as the loss a body part. Thus, they often were equipped with exotic and colourful cybernetics.

Krane himself had long, spiked hair, and wore a necklace made of Droid fingers. He replaced his lost limbs several times, settling with two arms once belonging to General Grievous, and severed by the Jedi, which could split into four if the circumstances required. He also had a custom made clawed droid leg. He used blasters of many sorts in combat, and was also in posession of a sonic beam weapon. In his final days as leader of the Gang, Krane came into posession of a jedi lightsaber, which he used in combat against Mace Windu and Obi-Wan Kenobi. Before his escape, Krane kindly returned the lightsabre to Kenobi.

Colke the Technology expert was overweight due to his fondness of fast food which was loaded onto the Paragon by a cargo ship. The repeated appearance of this unregistred ship was one factor which lead to the discovery of the Gang. Colke was bald, but had twi’lek dancers tattood all over his head. Colke had lost a hand in battle, which was replaced by an 8 fingered Magnaguard droid hand. Colk had 10 R2 units in his office which he kept as pets, their total worth being almost 50‘000 republic credits. Colke was also in posession of a modified P2 unit which stood nearly 3 metres tall, and was heavily armed. This huge droid terrified R2-D2, but Artoo eventually defeated it, ejecting it out into space.

Hound the Armourer joined the Gang due to the loss of an arm and the humiliation of having it replaced with a cheap, low quality cyborg limb. Hound had developed large musculature during the war, but when he joined the gang, he took spice which lead to him developing even larger muscles. Hound had a green mowhawk, moustache and goatee, and his nose was pierced. Hound had his lost arm replaced with that of a B2 super battle droid. He also incorporated droideka shield generators into his armour, making him invulnerable to most blasters and even lightsabres. Other members of the Gang sported enhanced cybernetics, outrageous hairstyles, custom painted armour and weapons, as well as jewelry, tattoos and piercings.

Gang Members:
Krane (Leader)

Hound (Armourer)

Colke (IT expert, Hacker)

Fellon (Advertizer and Vandal, Strategist)

Burg (Thief)

Three-Foot (Spy, Saboteur)

Other Warriors

Droid members:
P2-Z5, a modified P2 Unit

R-series astromech droids (modified)

BX commando droids (modified)

Destroyer Droids (modified)

Weaponry:
DC-15 blaster

DC-17 rifle

Blaster Pistol

Droid Blaster

Sonic Beam Weapon

Rotary Blaster

Rocket Launcher

Shock Prongs

Flamethrower Gauntlet

Vibroblades and Axes

Electrostaff

Lightsabre

Behind the Scenes
The character of Krane represents how twisted one can become if one takes ones own ideals too seriousely. Krane wants to be a free clone, so he makes himself appear obsurd, and tries to prove his own power by sabotaging republic operations. Cut Lequane, from the Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode the Deserter, approaches it all very differently by simply slipping out and becoming a farmer. I thought it would be interesting to have really strange clones, like a really fat one, and a really muscular one. It would be interesting to see the outrageous hairdoos and tattoos as well. What I would really like to see in Star Wars is R2 get pitched against a P2 unit, I mean weve seen him fight R3-S6, who is his own size, but I’d like to see him run from a huge P2 unit. Jedi Master Jmmar, by the way, is actually a real character. He is mentioned in Star Wars: Complete Cross Sections in a label for one of General Grievous’s Lightsabres. It says he is a crab like creature with ten legs.