Star Wars: The Clone War Chronicles/ Chapter 6: Special Forces Brigade

21 BBY

Character: Captain Ranger

The Special Forces Brigade had seen a whole lot of mess during their missions in the the front lines. But one battle they would never forget was the sky battle of Arzan Prime. Arzan Prime was a planet in the Mid Rim and governed by a representative democracy. However, there was some argumentative disputes on what and who should have been governing the planet. Some of the natives on the planet highly suggested that they should stay with the representative democracy whilst others trying to force a pure dictatorship upon the natives. Power hungry fiends soon declared war on the civilians, who sent a distress signal to the Republic, pleading for immediate assistance.

Grand Jedi master Yoda dispatched General Ki- Adi Mundi along with clone troopers Commander Jet and Captain Ranger to assist the people against the hostile tyranny of the radicals. Patrick Rahr and Captain Rex were also sent to help out Master Mundi. In his quarters, Captain Ranger opened an unsealed version of the Christian bible and went straight to Matthew 5:9 and read, ''Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. ''Ranger highly believed that his brethren were peacemakers and peacekeepers. Nodding his head to the bible, comprehending on what he just read, he thought that no matter what happened on any battlefield, his colleagues would all go to heaven. He carefully placed the bible on his sofa and went up to the bridge where everyone greeted him.

Three Republic Attack Cruiser ships exited hyperspace and spotted an ongoing battle in the sky. "Sir..." Ranger began.

"Oh, I guess you're not talking to me since I am not yet the rank of sir," Patrick stated.

"[Sigh] Rahr, sir is a gender, not a rank," Ranger replied. "Anyway, anyone who has a desire of listening needs to know that our communications are being jammed."

Rahr came in closer to analyze the jamming frequency. "Hmm, if my eyes have not failed me, I'd say this is a bad guy jamming thing."

"Separatists?" Ki- Adi Mundi asked, chiming in. Rahr nodded. "They must be working for the radicals who want the system to be a dictatorship." Suddenly, one of the radicals' ships opened fire on the cruiser Commander Jet was stationed on. Mundi sensed through the force that something bad was going to happen; and he predicted that it could possibly happen to his commander of the Special Forces Brigade. The two, including Ranger had gone back a long ways.

"Incoming!" Rex shouted as boarding ships purposefully crashed their way into the bridge. Out stepped both native radicals and super battle droids. Mundi stepped forward with Ranger at the ready.

"What are you doing? We've come here to end all physical conflicts! Not bring on more," Mundi explained.

The leader of the radicals named Tai Sen stepped forward. "This planet's government is old and over now. And now, we, along with the Separatists will rule it. Attack!" Ranger was the first one to open fire upon the radicals and the super battle droids. Rex got behind cover and got out his DC-17 pistols. Ranger was then confronted by a series of three radicals with knives. They had his gun and Ranger was furious. Very furious that those radicals could possibly see Ranger's reddened face behind his unique helmet. Ranger commenced to confuse them by saying the Our Father out loud. Then, he swooped underneath one of the radical's arms, trying to swing a knife at Ranger but Ranger went behind him and cracked that radical's Humerus. He eventually knocked out the other two.

Outside, Captain Ranger could see Commander Jet's frigate getting fired at. It drastically forced Mundi's attention span to switch on over to Commander Jet's ship. With his jaw dropped down to the floor, Mundi sprinted over to where Ranger was with intentions to brake the glass and potentially save Jet. Ranger knew through his instincts what Mundi was trying to do so he grabbed a hold of Mundi to stop him. Mundi reached his arm out to the window in the direction of Jet's frigate. Through the force Mundi could hear his clone trooper commander mutter, goodbye, general. Later on, the radicals fell back with a minimum amount of droids, yet, so much of the Special Forces Brigade were lost... including Jet.