Prologue
Republic Commando Extraction from Kashyyyk, Mytaranor Sector,
Outer rim, 3 days after order 66
Private journal of RC-1138, "Boss"
The thing I know I'll never forget about the end of the battle of Kashyyyk, is how quiet it was. Only 3 days ago we were standing knee deep a pile of dead wookies and droids. We killed both parties ourselves. The Jedi apprentice trying to lead us in our infantry role here was behind me, we know for sure he's dead.
This was Order 66, but that wasn't why it was so quiet, and wasn't because we were the only people in the room still alive. It's because of our loss. Earlier in the mission that made this invasion possible we lost contact with RC-1207, "Sev". We don't know anything about what happened other than that he said he was overrun, and that we could hear Geonosian's in the background. The chances are he's dead, but we don't want to admit it. So we carry on assuming he's a POW.
Do we have any doubts about this, or what we've just done? Of course we do, but no one says a word, not when our gunship landed, not when order 66 came down, not when we walked into the jedi command post. Even scorch kept his mouth shut.
When we reported for extraction from Kashyyyk, one of the ARC troopers had a holo playing for us all to watch. Palpatine was standing at his desk addressing the GAR in general. According to him, we come in 4 kinds:
1) The ones who will train the next generation of non-clone "Storm troopers" I can tell they won't do half as well.
2) The ones who take advantage of the imperial retirement system available only to Clones.
3) The ones who can leave the army and become Mercs.
4) The dead ones.
Then the old fool tried to convince everyone to train the stormies. He said
"What's more important your duty to your units or your personal beliefs?
Your empire or yourselves?"
We don't care, the empire won't invest anything for a single commando, so we'll find Sev ourselves, there's just one man we need some help from: Wallon Vau.
So we're going to find him, just how we intend to do it, we don't know. Last I heard he was somewhere in Arkanis Sector hunting a high profile bounty.
So we're going to Coruscant, to find someone who'll help us find him.
