CT-4857/x

"Nobody is born to die, and no life-form, irrespective of inteligence, should be treated like dirt. I learnt that the long way. I am Ecks, and I, like you, am no-one's cannon fodder"

- --Ecks to his men during the

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 * birth={{SW|32 BBY}}
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CT-4857/x, called Ecks by his friend and teacher Letasra Vonu, was a  who lived before, during and after the. Originally considered nothing more than a mistake by his creators the, Ecks in fact proved a vital contributor to galactic affairs, becoming a figure of legend for years to come as the first recorded clone to possess s where his had not.

Training and the War
CT-4857 was born in the cloning facilities of Kamino, destined to be a trooper rank like millions of other clones. However, a catastrophic power-fluctuation saw his entire batch wiped out, leaving Ecks the only miraculous survivor, though he was said to have suffered severe full-body burns. To mark the clone out for whatever unique trait had saved him, the Kaminoans added the letter "X" to his serial number, forever removing him from the 'successful' clones. As if that wasn't enough, the trooper was possessed of an independent mind that drove him dangerously close to termination. His saving graces were his intelligance and an ability to predict things before they happened, which ultimately saved his Kaminoan overseers' lives when he predicted and countered the actions of a rogue training droid armed with live ammunition, thouigh nothing came of it, not even a bit of recognition, save that he was allowed to live for his "prowess".

When the newly christened was called upon to participate in the, CT-4857 was called from his post at oen fo the assembly areas to accompany   Letasra Vonu into battle as part of her squad. This the clone did, and not only did he perform admirably even whe ncornered by overwhelmig nforces, but he also saved his superior's life from a stray droid missile, piping the aquatic Jedi's curiosity as even her well-honed force-sense hadn't picked up the threat. The trooper continued to impress, striking a droid squad in the area of it's formatino that would cause the msot damage with an absent-minded throw,and shooting a leader square between the eyes whilst running among other things. Sadly, he and Vonu were the only survivors of the squad, to which the Jedi apologised. The clone thanked her for caring, but said that he was used to being alone.

Over the coming months Letasra kept the clone as close to her side as possible for reasosn she didn't quite know why. The Jedi watched as CT-4857/x continued to impress, and finaly the Jedi was convinced that this particular soldier was unlike his brethern. The Jedi decided to visit to see if they could shed light on his uniqueness, brigning the clone in questino along with her. Whislt there the two were caught up in the, and CT-4857/x's uniqueness was finnaly explained: in a moment of extreme stress, the trooper suddenly used to save the lives of several s, as well as subconciously firing force-embued blaster shots at the incoming droid forces. Shocked that a clone could manifest force-powers, Vonu spent some time at the facility, learning neverything she could about the force-sensetive clone. After talks with several Kaminoan supervisors, the Knight discovered CT-4857/x's unfourtunate beggining and subsequent training, and at last understood his words back on. Letasra found the trooper outside the complex, "enjoying the rain" as he put it. Letasra gently asked for his veiw on things, and after a bit of elaboration, 4857 revealed that he'd always known he was different, and that his differences had distanced hi mfrom his fellow clones. He didn't know why he could see things before they happened or why he'd been give this power. All in all it deeply distressed him.

Touched by his story, Vonu aquired a week's R-and-R for the trooper and left for the Jedi Temple. When she returned she informed him that the council had agreed to 'minimal training' for his own sake. CT-4857/x spent much time honing his abilities in the under the watchful gaze of the Jedi Knight, learning how to focus his mind and prevent his powers from becoming erratic. The two became rather close, and Letasra, deciding that she couldn't keep reffering to her pupil as if he was some sort of product, named him "Ecks", which coincidently was both the pronounciation of his last letter and the word for "Talented" (or as near as could be translated out of water). Eck's steadily solidifying connection with Letasra resulted in further trainign that was deemed 'necesarry'--such as training Ecks how to actually use his telekenisis rather than bypass it. The first battle the duo participated in since the begenning of Eck's training was the, during which Letasra was disabled and captured by the seperatists, resulting in Ecks embarking on a solo mission to recover the Jedi--with or without authorisation.

After over a month of travelling across the vast majority of the galaxy, embroiling himself in several battles and taking out over two dozen top seperatists leaders for informatino over Vonu's location, Ecks tracked the Jedi to an ultra-high security prison designed specifically for Jedi. In a daring one-man charge that tested the amatuer force-user to his limits and unveiled a deeper power-well than even he had expected, Vonu and several other Jedi knights were freed from captivity and returned to on a stolen ship. After this event, Letasru chose to risk everything by training Ecks in the ways of the force without the Council's permission, convinced that the clone was to play a greater rolei n the galaxy, and Ecks became Vonu's secret apprentice. The troper-turned-force adept, whilst noted by Letasra to have 'limitless potential', was primarily a user of mind-related powers such as and, which coincidently was also his techer's area of expertise. Even so, the rate at which Ecks learned amazed Letasra, despite the fact the two were often in the middle of the battlefeild, which in itself helped strengthen Ecks' powers as he continued to apply them in battle, dusguised by a false story tha the was am old freind of Vonu's that used experimental two-way  technology in his, becoming a mysterious legend on and off the feild.

Dimmed Light
When came down, Ecks and Letasra were recuperating in the Jedi Temple after a particulary long battle somewhere. Now extremly close to the Force, Ecks was wracked with pain as the Jedi were cut down across the galaxy. He had little time to recover, as at that moment, began, and the Jedi Temple came udner attack from his own brothers. Dropping all pretense of being a normal soldier, Ecks leaped into battle, andwith the force as his weapon, utterly anihalated any cloen who got within range of his powers. Sadly there were too many troops, and though Ecks tried valiently to defend his adoptive home, the Temple was overun, and Letasra herself was slain right before Ecks eyes by the newly christened. Blinded by rage, Ecks luanched himself at the, engaging in a ferocious duel. The two were evenly matched until one of Vader's troops shot the clone in the back, allowing Vader to throw Ecks through a wall and into the underworld of.

Ecks barely survived the resultant fall, and awoke some time later to a gnawing emptiness in his soul. Realising that the Jedi Order had essentially ceased to exist, Ecks resolved to escape the planet, and one day, to bring down and his new regime. The clone 'liberated' a, barely escaping persuing Imperial forces, and jumped into Hyperspace, lettign himself go into the force as he programmed the navi-computor.