They told us that we were made to serve the Republic and to give our lives if so... On Umbara Captain Rex made me realize that we are more than just mindless soldiers that our purpose was more than being just a soldier..
—CT-6893
CT-6893, nicknamed Brando, was a clone trooper during the Clone Wars and was part of Hellfire sqaud his sqaud members where Jan Templar, Falco, Kilso, Vak and Sev. Brando later during the war became a Company Sergeant in Torrent Company a unit of the famed 501st Legion in the Grand Army of the Republic, a First Lieutenant in his service in the Galactic Empire and a Captain in the Rebel Alliance corps and later Renegade Sqaudron. Brando served under the command of Captain Rex and General Skywalker and was a loyal tough, agressive trooper although the loyalty to his brothers and his commanders was a constant conflict in himself during the near end of the Clone Wars. After the Galactic Civil War he was diagnosed with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). He had a strong friendship with Captain Rex. Brando was highly respected among the members of Torrent Company due to having his sqaud survive the First Battle Of Geonosis and the Battle of Jabiim. Brando met Padawan Ashoka Tano aboard the Resolute and became friends. After the Clone Wars he then had a loyal but distrespectful relationship with his fellow non-clone Imperial Commanders but half of the Commanders failed to live to tell the tale. Brando was accused of being a Imperial Spy by General Kota soon after the General soon found out Brando and his sqaud where clones but with the help of Captain Juno Eclipse and Kota saw reason. Brando and his squad where picked to assist X2 to search the Galaxy to find X1.
Biography
Early life
Brando was a quiet cadet during his time on Kamino he was rough and enthusiastic when it came to the practical training sessions being hosted by Jedi Clone X2 who knew that Brando and his squad where ready to see the fighting. At the beginning of their training practice unknowingly Jango Fett the Bounty Hunter who gave his DNA to be cloned was watching their performance. The practice ended with Hellfire squad failing Jango spoke to them afterwards and he offered to train them till they needed to retake the test. When they took part in the test they succeed with Jango Fett personally giving them their graduation medals.
Career
Brando had been promoted to Corporal on the Battle of Geonosis after destroying a small Separatist droid foundry and crushing a whole hive of Geonosians and was promoted to Clone Sergeant on the Battle of Felucia for destroying a Separatist communications post during the mid of the Clone Wars and was a Lieutenant in the Galactic Empire and after leaving the Empire he joined the Rebel Alliance and was a 2nd Lieutenant but in Renegade Squadron was promoted to Captain.
Clone Wars
First Battle of Geonosis
Brando fighting through the dust storm during the First Battle of Geonosis
Brando was sent to Geonosis to rescue the Jedi in the Arena although the rescue was a success but they lost one trooper during the operation which who was one of Brando's closest brothers. As they flew down to the battle to drop off Mace Windu Brando was taken to the foward Command post along wih Master Yoda. Minutes later Brando and his sqaud where needed on a high vaule target capture mission, their target was Count Dooku. Padme Amidala saw to that she was the one to capture Count Dooku as well so she voluntereed to come along. Once they got there Count Dooku had already fled the building with Brando , Padme and his sqaud trying to shoot his starship down but to only have him still fleeing Geonosis. Later the 501st where mopping up droid forces on Geonosis lead by Mace Windu. While the battle commenced the 501st where reaching a small droid foundry as they where heading towards it Brando's friend Sharp was dragged down to the catacombs by a Geonosian worker. Brando and his sqaud where following the screams of his brother through the catacombs killing Geonosian troops in his path. Until the screams stopped he was just a room away, he blew the door and found Sharp dead. His chest plate filled with slashes and stab holes. Brando set detonaters and blew the foundry and it sunk to the ground. From then on Brando could never get Sharp's screams out of his head.
Battle of Jabiim
During the Battle of Jabiim Hellfire are securing the walkers alongside Alpha 12
During the battle of Jabiim the 501st where sent to Jabiim and suffered heavy losses. Brando and Alpha during the battle saved a crew of clone troopers from the wreckage of a LA-AT Gunship. As they where heavily out numbered Alpha formed a two team strike force to rescue the survivors. Team One would cover Team Two while they got the survivors out of the wreckage. While they where saving the crew the enemey force where surrounding Alphas strike treams. As Alpha called a plea for LA-AT air support Brando was shot in the shoulder and still carried on the fight barely. Once the LA-AT Gunships came to assit the two teams secured the survivors on the gunships. Near the end of the battle Brando constantly was in close quater combat with the Jabiim soldiers he mowed down 45 Jabiim soldiers while trying to the reach the extraction. Brando could hear the screams of fellow 501st troopers being torn apart by the Jabiim forces. He attempted to jump of the gunship to rescue them but he felt the grip and Padawan Anikan Skywalker pulling onto the evac ship.
RAS Prosecutor
Hellfire Sqaud on the defense at the RAS Prosecutor
Torrent Company where stationed on the RAS Prosecutor for 2 weeks to assist with preventing Separatist forces from reaching Corellian space. However Trandoshan forces attacked the ship. Brando and his squad barely survived the attack. When the squad witnessed executions of Clone troopers Brando planned to rescue Clone troopers throughout the ship. Under the floor in the ship Hellfire managed to build a small base and a medical camp from the medical bay. They managed to save 29 Clone soldiers during
First Battle of Kamino
Brando firing at the droids as the droids overrun their position during the First Battle of Kamino
Brando and his squad where holding off battle droids trying to land in one of Tropicas main hangers. When Brando saw that it would be a defeat a ARC Trooper squad called "Night Fury" helped Brando and his squad defeat the droids in the hangar. And Brando witnessed the deaths of young clone cadets which haunts him till his dying day.
Second Battle of Kamino
"Mandorlorian Protecters?? Ha! more like Madorlorian Rankweeds!!"-
―Brando to Sev during the attack on the Republic Garrison
Brando and his squad where one also part of the Clone Garrison that foiled the Separatist and Mandolorian invasion how ever Templar was injured during the battle. Brando witnessed Spar who Brando could not believe his eyes when he saw that it was a clone that was also killing his brothers. Before Brando could confirm it he was attacked by a Mandolorian Protector Commander who in the end Brando killed. Hellfire squad along the other clone troopers in that garrison that foiled the plans of destroying the cloning facility on Kamino they where congratulated among the high leaders of the Republic.
Third Battle of Kamino
"If the Seps are coming back again to Kamino they better bring their best droids to crush the 501st!!!"
Brando, Jan and Vak holding off the droids forces along side Shaak- Ti and an ARC Trooper during the Third Battle for Kamino
―Brando to Fives and Echo during their land on Kamino
The 501st where sent back to Kamino which meant Brando and his squad would be back to defend Kamino. Brando and his sqaud held off again in a hanger along with a ARC Trooper and later Skaak-Ti. When the battle was reaching its end Brando ran to the aid of General Skywalker and thankfully to Brandos efforts Brando stole the DNA Container which Separatist Assassin Assaj Ventress stole. Hellfire squad was congratulated by the High leaders of Republic for single highhandedly saving the Republic and its Cloning Facilities for a second time.
Battle of Christophsis
Torrent holding off the droid waves during the Battle of Christophsis
Brando was part of the 501st force on Christophsis and held off the Seperatist first attack at the crippled Republic force. While fighting off the driod forces Brandos sqaudmate Templar was injured from an explosion and broke his leg. After gaining a friend from the 212th Attack Battion a Clone Private named Boltz had ordered his squad mates Kup and Dareen to extract Templar while the rest gave cover fire. After the costly battle the Seperatist launched a second attack but with a deflector shield which could withstand the force of heavy cannons General Skywalker and his Padawan Ashoka Tano sneaked behind enemey lines to destroy the deflector shield. While the Clones defended the heavy cannons Brando was in close quater combat with a Super Battle Droid which was choking Brando and was ready to blast him in the chest but General Obi-Wan Kenobi sliced the droids arm and Brandos skin was saved. Brando, Boltz and their sqauds held off the opposing force and the Jedi destroyed the shield which gave the Heavy cannons a chance to destroy most of the enemey force so the rest of the clone trooper infrantry can mop up the rest of the droid forces.
Battle of Teth
"All this for a hutt?"
—Brando to Sev on Teth
Brando and Rex fighting battle droids
Brando and the 501st forces where sent to Teth to rescue Jabba's son in the monastary. Once they landed they climbed up the clif and to meet the droid resistence. Torrent Company was lost on the way up. Once they secured the monastary General Skywalker and Padawan Tano found Jabba's son. As they made contact with Obi-Wan Kenobi the CIS made their second attack Brando held off the temple but soon found himself and six other clones prisoner. Captain Rex broke free of his capture followed by Brando, Jan Templar they held off the droids at the downed AT-AT and survived until the 212th reinforcements came.
Battle of Orto Plutonia
"Whoa thats a lot of angry natives!"
—Brando
Brando firing at the Taltz charging at their postion on Orto Plutonia
A Republic outpost on Orto Plutonia was no longer operational. The 501st where sent in to investigate to find that the Republic troopers where killed. A droid outpost was also attacked by the same forces that attacked the Republic outpost which they found out was a race native to the planet named the Taltz. Generals Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi met the leader of the Taltz and issued a meeting between Chairman Chi Cho which ended up the with the Taltz declaring war. Brando and Templar along with a platoon of troopers where order to protect the chairman. Brando, Templar and Captain Rex where the last of the survivors.
Battle on Naboo
"No no no! some of the virus got in here! we didn't close the door fast enough!"
—Brando
Brando, Sev, Padme Captain Rex, Jar Jar and Ashoka at one of the base exists in the Separatist Laboratory in Naboo
When Senator Padmé Amidala and Representative Jar Jar Binks were captured while searching for a secret Separatist lab on Naboo, they find out that the Labs scientist Dr.Nuvo was creating the return of the Blue Shadow virus.The 501st where sent to stop Dr. Nuvo Vindi from releasing the deadly Blue Shadow Virus. Unfortunately, Vindi's assistant droid took one of the virus containers and put it into a bomb. The droid detonated the bomb, which quickly spread the virus throughout the bunker. Anakin and Obi-wan were outside with the scientist when the virus was released, so to save the republic forces trapped in the bunker, they went in search of an antidote on Iego. The virus almost killed everyone inside, including Rex, Ahsoka, Padmé, and Brandos squad but fortunately the antidote was found in time, and all infected were cured.
Battle of Ryloth
The 501st where sent to liberate a city on Ryloth. Brando and his sqaud where sent out on patrols to mop up outposts of Droid forces left on that sector of Ryloth.
Evacuating on Felucia
Hellfire and Axecrusher squad firing at the CIS on Felucia
212th and 501st forces being lead by Both General Obi-Wan Kenobi and General Skywalker where at some point during a battle on Felucia where surrounded by CIS forces. The 104th Battalion being lead by General Plo Koon and Commander Wolfee rescued the surrounded forces.
Deavron
Captain Rex, Brando Jan and Sev aboard the evacuation ship
A Bounty hunter by the name of Cad Bane stole a Jedi Holocron and was being guarded by a Seperatist fleet. Captain Rexc assembled half of Brandos sqaud to get back the Holocron and was to either capture Cad Bain or Kill him. Brando and the other members along with the mission fought there way to the evacuation point when the mission went downhill. Brandos close brother Denal was killed by the Bounty Hunter and Brando realized this when the Bounty Hunter was leaking blood on to the Republic cruiser which he infiltrated aboard when Brando was in purist of Cad Bane he was in a pit of rage after the death of Denal but with Captain Rexs help he was able to let it his anger go.
The Zilo Beast of Malastare
"Rex grab my hand!!!" "Arrgh!"
—Brando reaching his hand out to Rex
Torrent Company holding the line
The CIS planned a invasion of Malastare which prevented the Republic from gaining important fuel for its army. The Republic sent out its forces to fight the CIS forces. During this battle the men of the 501st where ordered to hold out until the Republic could test their new military experiment a EMP bomb which would win the battle over the large CIS force. When the Y-wing bombers dropped the EMP onto the CIS army it exploded and a EMP shock destroyed the droids along with setting every Separatist and Republic technology fried. Minutes later a large sinkhole erupted which dragged down a large number of clone and AT-AT infantry down. The battle was won but the Republic sent teams to rescue the fallen troopers. They soon discovered that a Zilo beast was to emerge from the sinkhole. The Malastare Military dropped fuel bombs to kill the creature but with very little success. The beast emerged causing destruction but with Anakin Skywalker they where able to tazer the Zilo beast causing it to be unconscious. They took the beast back to Coruscant where it escaped Republic custody and was killed. Brando and his squad watched the beast die from their quarters.
Second Battle of Geonosis
"I was part of the first battle... i lost a brother named Sharp i went down and killed everyone single one of the those bugs!"
—Brando
Brando and the reinforcements arriving to support the 212th Attack Battalion at Point Rain
The Republic where sent back to Geonosis because of Poggle overseeing a droid foundry being built. The 501st where back to oversee the fall of Geonosis a second time. the 212th, Nova and the 501st where meant to form up on the specific location but the Seperatists saw through the plan and only the 212th made it to landing point rain. General Skywalker leading the 501st and Master Ki- Mundi lead the Nova battalion.Both battalions where scattered. The 501st managed to take out a turrent wall and the Nova Corps took out a hive both forces taking heavy losses. They regrouped at point rain to see the 212th largely outnumbered and on the brink of being overrun but thanks to the air support the 212th survived. All three battalions pushed to take out a communications post. In the aftermath the 212th and Nova Corps where replaced by the 41st elite to finish the job. Both the 501st and 41st Elite pushed towards the factory. Brando was having painful memories of Sharp and other Clone troopers that where killed in the battle and the first battle. Brando and his squad met a 41st Elite squad named Wildfire there squad leader was named Derak. Derak met Brando and his sqaud after Templar was having trouble trying to fix and turret. However Derak was a weapons specialist and fixed the turret. Ashoka Tano and Barris Offee where on a mission to take out the factory without being detected. The stealth side of the mission failed so they resort to taking the factory down with them hoping to save millions of lives from being murdered at the hands of the droid foundry. Both squads saw the end of the droid factory. And was there to see Ashoka and Barris freed from the wreckage.
Mandalorian Affairs
"Redeye? report? Mixer come in!. "Captain Rex, Mixer and Redeye aren't reporting from their search, you need to come down here."
—Brando
The Mandalorian Death Watch, a terrorist splinter group allied with the Confederacy, later emerged in opposition to Duchess Satine Kryze of Mandalore. The pacifistic New Mandalorians. With Kryze's life in danger, Brando was assigned with Skywalker, Kenobi, Rex and Cody to escort Kryze to Coruscant, where she intended to reinstate her people's position of neutrality before the Galactic Senate. Rex, Cody, Skywalker, and Hellfire and Chain ring squad met with Kenobi who had started an investigation into false rumors that Kryze had joined the Confederacy. En route to the Republic capital, Skywalker and Kenobi gathered their troops in the cargo hold for a briefing. The Jedi told the clones to stay vigilant for the Death Watch, which would stop at nothing to assassinate Kryze before she reached Coruscant. Rex and Cody sent their men to begin their rounds of the cargo bay, patrolling for any signs of danger, while Skywalker and Kenobi left to meet with Kryze. Brando reported to Rex that Redeye and Mixer have not reported. Rex called in Skywalker to assist and as they searched they found assassin droids on board. They found one and destroyed while the other retreated. The dead droid spawned small droids to attack the clones anmd Skywalker. a clone private named Evo was killed by the small assassins. The group defeated the small droids and continued to search for the remaining droids. Until the CIS staged an attack and Super battle droids boarded the Croyonet. A traitor had kidnapped Satine Kryze and threated to blow up the Croyonet but Anakin Skywalker impaled him with his lightsabre and Satine was safe to go before the Galactic Senate.
Frontline on Felucia
Hellfire, Captain Rex and Ashoka leading the charge
Obi-Wan and Rex adressing Brando's squad and other troopers
Having become a foothold of Separatist strength since the beginning of the Clone Wars, Felucia was engulfed in conflict for a second time on account of being situated near the valuable hyperlane known as the Perlemian Trade Route. The 501st went with Skywalker and Tano to repel the Confederacy from Felucia, leading a clone trooper division of AT-TE walkers into the heart of enemy territory. They encountered squads of battle droids as they went but gained much ground, eventually joining forces with Plo Koon and Commander Wolffe to capture a Confederate outpost, to which General Grievous was sending reinforcements to fortify his hold on the system. Before the main assault Torrent Company where heading in by Gunship but to be shot down by CIS artillery. Hellfire squad was close to a Separatist communications post and proceeded to destroy it. Using the environment to their advantage they took the base with nature and their weaponry. The destruction of the base cased General Greivous to lose contact with most of his forces on Felucia. When Anakin Skywalker and Ashoka Tano rescued Hellfire Captain Rex promoted them to Company Sergeants and earned the right to bare Torrent Company markings.
As night fell, the Jedi and clones moved their forces to a ridge overlooking the outpost just as a C-9979 landing craft arrived with the droid reinforcements. Koon decided on a three-pronged assault plan to secure the outpost while Koon and Wolffe attacked the base's left flank, Tano would breach the rear entrance with troops from Wolffe's Wolfpack a squad within the Grand Army's 104th Battalion Skywalker and Rex, meanwhile, would spearhead the frontal assault on the station. Once Skywalker's Felucian scouts had found them a secure way to the path leading to the outpost, Rex positioned half of Hellfire a midst the dense foliage on one side of the path, while Skywalker did the same along the other side with the other half of Hellfire . With all of their forces in place, Koon had their AT-TE walkers deliver long-range fire at the outpost from the ridge. The cannonades baited tactical droid commander TZ-33's droid defenders out of the front entrance, and Skywalker and Rex began their attack once several DSD1 dwarf spider droids had been lured out into the jungle. Rex and Skywalker cut through the battle droids and joined Koon in capturing the base's command center, eliminating TZ-33. Although the enemy station had been secured, Tano was nowhere to be found—unbeknownst to her comrades, Trandoshan hunters had captured her for hunt on the moon Wasskah. Rex and his team received orders to return to Coruscant the next morning. As they prepared to leave Felucia, Skywalker had Rex and his men search the conquered outpost and the surrounding area for Tano several times, to no avail. With gunships waiting for them, Skywalker was forced to call off the search, hoping that Republic forces or spies in the Confederacy would locate his Padawan.Tano was later rescued from Wasskah and safely returned to the Jedi Temple.
The Shadow of Umbara
"Fives.. if what you say is true then i believe you but to say that Krell send us off to kill our own brothers! that's a bit out of hand!" "Brando he just ordered us to kill our brothers can you not see that?" "But our duty?" "Our duty as soldiers Brando is to do whats right... he is not a Jedi nor our General he has committed treason and forced you to kill your own brothers.. are with us" "Sir yes sir"
―Fives convincing Brando about the acts of treason Pong Krell had committed before the arrest on Umbara
As the Confederacy strengthened its control of vital but isolated supply routes throughout the galaxy, a major point of contention became the planet Umbara The Umbaran people had recently driven from the Republic and were arming the Confederacy with their extremely advanced military weaponry. The Republic responded to Umbara's defection by sending a full invasion force from the Grand Army to secure the strategic Umbara system, which was located in the Expansion Region's remote Ghost Nebula. As part of the numerous units dispatched to Umbara, Rex and the 501st Legion joined Skywalker and Kenobs 212th Battalion aboard one of the Republic fleet's lead Acclamator-class transports. After Ahsoka Tano and Barriss Offee breached the Separatist blockade of Umbara, Skywalker and Kenobi's assault ship moved in on the Shadow World so named because the Ghost Nebula eternally shrouded it in night. While their troops prepared to land on Umbara, Skywalker and Kenobi held a briefing in the hangar bay with Rex, Commander Cody, and other troopers to outline the plan for capturing the capital city. Jedi Generals Saesee Tiin and Pong Krell would be supporting Kenobi and Cody's battle group in their southward attack on the Umbaran capital, while Skywalker, Rex, and the 501st Legion were tasked with intercepting enemy reinforcements to the north of the city. Opposing the Republic forces would be the heavily armed Umbaran Soldiers of the Umbaran militia. Brandos squad where given orders to destroy Umbaran Artillery that where firing rounds into the sky bring down their LAAT Gunships and their mortar rounds on the ground troops. They completed their objective killing Umbaran Soldiers on the way.
Brando and his men leading the attack on the Umbaran Artillery.
Brando learned the his old friend ARC Trooper Fives would be assisting in the Battlefield.When the 501st secured a trench line forward the the capital the Umbarans where ready to attack but first sent a Millicreep droid to pick some other 501st troopers. While Hellfire stood their ground fending of the attackers Captain Rex noticed an opening on the south ridge they could fall back and Rex would call in and Airstrike on the Umbarans positions. When they fell back Brando met up with a Rookie trooper he had met a month beforce named Sling who was a AT RT Driver. When the 501st where recovering from the attack General Krell told General Skywalker that he was ordered to inform General Skywalker to go back to Curoscant on urgent matters and that General would take over for the time being.
Krell a hard leader who strictly observed protocol dismissed his words as mere flattery and made it clear that his command style was of a much different temperament than that of Skywalker. Despite recognizing that Krell would be difficult to work with, Rex readied his men to move out with their new general for the capital. Rather than sticking with Skywalker's original plan for a myriad of surgical strikes, Krell opted to pit the entirety of the 501st platoons against the city's defenses in a full frontal assault a plan that Rex saw as misguided, as it would surely engender high casualties. Despite Rex's concerns that they did not know the extent of the Umbaran defenses, Krell refused to let his orders be questioned and ordered the captain to lead the 501st toward the capital, explicitly instructing him to continue marching regardless of Umbaran resistance. Rex reluctantly obeyed Krell's directives and led the 501st platoons and AT-RT walkers on the route to the city, while Krell remained behind to command them from a distance. Sev,Kilso, Jan, Tup and Fives saw the plan as reckless, but though Rex acknowledged that he, too, disagreed with Krell's strategy, he focused his men on staying alert on the battlefield. They soon encountered mines that had been planted along the road, and Ringo and Oz died in the detonations. While everyone else laid low, Rex had Fives execute a sensor sweep of the road ahead to root out any more waiting mines.
There where more explosions followed by a Umbaran ambush. More troopers where killed Rex ordered his men to maintain their position on the road. As the Umbarans surrounded them Brando along with Fives where forced to use hand to hand combat with Brando killing six with his blaster and two with hand to hand combat.