Clone Troopers

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A summary from my latest venture onto Wookieepedia, because I’ve been watching some of the clone-centric CW episodes with @themikeymonster and had Questions about the clones. 

Italicized information is from Legends, regular font is from canon. 

More musing and headcanons under the cut. Please feel free to chime in. This is making my head hurt.

Null-class Advanced Recon Commandos

• Prototypes
  
• Designation: N- or Null-
  
• Total produced: 12 (but 6 died early on)
  
• Deemed a failure by Kaminoans; adopted by Mandalorian mercenary Kal Skirata
  
• Named after Mandalorian warriors

Alpha-class Advanced Recon Commando (ARC) troopers

• Designation: A- or Alpha-
  
• Unaltered independent minds – only some of them decided to obey Order 66, the rest sided with the Jedi

• Total number produced: 100
  
• Personally trained by Jango Fett, who ordered them to kill all the younger clones if Kamino ever fell to the Separatists
• Known trooper:
• Alpha-17

Clone trooper commanders

• Designation: CC-
• Bred for leadership roles, with extra capacity for autonomy, tactical thinking, and coordination
• Trained with ARC skills
• Led regiments of 2,304 troopers
• Some known troopers:
• CC-2224 – Cody
• CC-3636 – Wolffe
• CC-5052 – Bly

Clone Commandos or Republic Commandos

• Designation: RC-
• Bred with more independence than standard clone troopers
• Trained to be more lethal and efficient than average clone soldier by Mandalorian drill sergeants
• Worked in squads of 4, carried out covert infiltration, sabotage, demolition, and assassination
• A few refused to comply with Order 66
• Known troopers:
• CC-5576-39 – Gregor
• Foxtrot Group – attached to the 212th; led by Gregor
• Clone Force 99 – genetically altered to be super soldiers; worked with Cody; named in honor of 99
• RC-1138 – Boss; leader of Delta Squad

Clone trooper captain

• Commanded companies of 144 troopers
• Bred as battlefield officers and special mission operatives
• Known troopers:
• CT-7567 – Rex

Clone Lieutenant

• Designation: CL-
• Commanded platoons of 36 troopers
• Known troopers:
• CL-9632 – Trap

Clone Sergeant

• Designation: CT-
• Commanded squads of 9 troopers
• Known troopers:
• Appo – later promoted to clone commander

Rank-and-file clone troopers

• Designation: CT-

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