Unknown P.O.V.
"There are stories of heroic clones that saved their Jedi, clones who fought in battles and achieved what was thought to be impossible, and even clones who made a big difference in many lives for their actions. They were always the good ones.
However, there are clones that no one talks about, those who lost their way, those who were forced to be abandoned and left to die by their own squad off the record, and those who did such terrible things others had to do whatever it took to stop them. They are the forgotten and for good reason.
The Republic holds no data publicly on these clones because they were erased. Their stories would have changed the Republic's standing on the clones as well as many others' opinions but what many don't consider is that there are always bad people in every species. Humans, Kel Dors, Duros, Gungans, Togrutas, Neimodians.
Did you really think out of one million clones, a handful of them would not be bad?"
Classified Republic Case #CC-1055: ARC Commander/General Diamond Dog
"There was a reason no clone generals were acquired during the war. The high standards made it virtually impossible and even if a clone did make it, it was forbidden to obtain it because of the power it held." – Jedi General Obi-Wan Kenobi
The 153rd Diamond Corps was an experimental army of soldiers who were trained under harsh environmental conditions and were primarily used for planetary control instead of dispatches to war as others were used. The Republic was testing a new strategy of how to go about military force over an allied planet.
The highest ranking member was ARC trooper CC-1055, nicknamed Diamond by the troops after the Corps itself, whose reputation of effectiveness and order earned himself the highest known rank in the ARC service and among the entire clone army, ARC Commander. Jedi Adin Vi, a Togruta male, was his superior.
"I think one of the most inspiring things about Commander Diamond at the time was he had the utmost ability to keep everything under wraps and hold his entire Corps at his fingertips with no questions asked. He made sure they were loyal and ready for anything." – Captain Rex (CT-7567)
(Commander Diamond originally wore ARC armor with faded yellow markings in the shape of hexagons on the center of his chest and his shoulder pads, along with a diamond-shaped marking on his helmet forehead. His kama had white Togruta stripes with a yellow border and outline. Upon reaching General rank, his outfit lost all of its yellow coloring, instead transitioning into black and white format with the diamond and hexagonal designs being outlined in black. His kama was traded for a unique long loincloth that only had white stripes with no outlines while the overlaying traditional Togruta belt sash he was given by Adin Vi was plain white. His armor received black striping on his arms, legs, and helmet and denser material for his collar area. This was to compensate for the fact that no color was assigned to the new ARC rank though it seemed to not be a problem.)
For the success of the field test of the 153rd's planetary control strategy and multiple defensive victories against Separatist takeovers in fewer than two months, Diamond was praised upon for his unifying command and battle tactics while keeping a planet's entire government under secure access. It had never been done before and his Jedi General was so pleased how Diamond handled it, he personally put in a request to promote the ARC Commander higher. The problem was, of course, no such rank existed.
Lobbying hard for his clone commander, Adin managed to convince the Republic's Chancellor and the Kaminoans to add the rank of ARC General though some were skeptical that it was a good idea (it wasn't). Commander Diamond became General Diamond and thus gave him power over not just the Diamond Corps, but almost the entire army as a whole if he had pulled rank.
"We had heard of a general that was a clone and we were impressed. The problem I had with it though was a clone general could veto our orders due to him being on the same level of leadership and if things got out of hand with that general, what would we be able to do to stop him?" – Jedi General Obi-Wan Kenobi
General Kenobi's suspicions were correct. General Diamond eventually gained the extended nickname of "Diamond Dog" by the same troops who gave him his first name. It was reported that upon his promotion, General Diamond began "barking" orders a lot more than usual, seemingly using his power to its full extent. But no one looked twice at the General to see that not everything was as it seemed.
"The troops and I noticed the General was becoming more distant because of his title. He was demanding things that even our Jedi wouldn't do. He started lining his armor with jewels he found in our raids of planets, adorning them on the outlines of his helmet, chest armor, and long loincloth like he thought himself as a king. He was basically becoming intolerable and it felt like we were in over our heads with this." – Silver (CT-1078)
To many clones, something seemed off. General Diamond would disappear every night at 18:00 exactly and he apparently was working on something he didn't want the rest of his Corps to know about. His secrets and motives remained undisclosed for weeks until one day, he emerged with something that would change the fate of the Corps forever.
Over the course of several months, General Diamond grew into his new position by more than just raising the steaks of his Corps. Unknown to his fellow clones, he began creating devices known as shock tamers, amplified shock collars, for troublemakers that were said to destroy a clone's defiance and rational thought into utter obedience to him. He also limited food rations, demanded undying loyalty, and even set up security feeds in every room to be monitored by a team of clones under his authority.
"We had no privacy, every communication between us and the outside Republic was monitored, and we were always hungry; I felt like I was going to die under all the pressure. I was one of the clones who were used to test these collars (shock tamers I think he called them?) and it was painful. It was uncomfortable and every press of the button on his wrist gauntlet made me scream. It was like he somehow harnessed the Force into the device to torture the mind into submission because after even the first round, I had no words. When he asked something of me, I feared for my life so I immediately obeyed willingly. I was one of the few who knew about the collars and I should have spoken up when it became apparent we put a tyrant in charge of our Corps." – Lieutenant Freighter (CT-3620)
His power over others and the threat of his rule made clones turn on one another to oust them for any misconduct large or small. This led Diamond to take a very drastic move after too many reports came flooding in about clones misbehaving. He assigned every clone a collar regardless of innocence and somehow kept this feat secret from the rest of the clone army and the Jedi. The collars were small enough to be undetected.
The Diamond Corps to the outside looked like the perfect set of soldiers but beneath the victories and the pristine order it held, a deadly shadow loomed above. But the terror was far from over and stretched on longer than ever imagined.
"I began noticing something incredibly strange throughout the Corps but it started with someone I knew first – I had a batch mate named Bolo and everyone in my squad knew no clankers could ever get the best of him. He was a weapons expert to put it mildly but also had a temper. My team and I sans Bolo were coming back from routine weekly patrol on Geonosis and Bolo was stationed back on the Mediator for weapons testing, and I went to go greet him but he wasn't there. I found it odd so I thought he was doing something else.
I grew concerned after a day or two and finally went up to Lieutenant Freighter and asked 'what happened to Bolo? Is he okay?' He looked at me and said 'Bolo got transferred out. I thought you knew.' I was like stunned like why didn't anyone tell me this? Everyone knew I was close to him. I asked General Diamond Dog and what was weird was when I asked what team or whatever he got moved to, he simply said 'Bolo's gone, get over it.' I couldn't take that as an answer so I did some digging with Freighter and there was no record of Bolo ever transferring out of our Corps. Instead on his file meant for superiors' eyes only, it said Bolo was dead." – Silver (CT-1078)
Bolo (CT-1874) was not the only mysterious disappearance of the 153rd. Members of different squads across the Corps were going missing and nobody knew why. Most of the clones assumed they had perished in their raids but some clones like Silver were skeptical of the coincidence. A pattern was noticed by Lieutenant Freighter that all clones reported missing had run into General Diamond at some point to shed their opinions of his rule. They even alerted Adin Vi of the General's behavior but to all clones' dismay, help from the Jedi Knight would not come.
"It always made me wonder why the Jedi General wasn't doing anything about this. Then it dawned on me that we hadn't seen Adin Vi in person for over two weeks since Bolo's disappearance. We always got our orders through holograms that always seemed uncanny to me. That's when I knew Diamond Dog was in complete control over us. There was no Jedi to protect us anymore." – Lieutenant Freighter (CT-3620)
So what was truly happening behind allied lines? The truth would haunt every clone officer, shaking the Republic officials and its Jedi peacekeepers to the core.
General Diamond wanted unlimited power and control over his Corps but in order to keep his rule, he needed to make sure no one questioned him. Weapons expert Bolo approached him one month before his disappearance sounding his disdain for the collars and how the General was handling everything. What started as simple concern turned into a huge argument with Bolo threatening to call the Republic heads of the war to replace the General and hold him accountable for the troop's conditions. Although Diamond didn't retaliate, this fueled the unshakable greed he had and he was going to do anything he could to keep his position.
When Silver and his squad were getting ready to go to Geonosis to rendezvous with a clone force stationed there, General Diamond made a request for Bolo and several other weapons experts in his Corps to undergo new weapons testing on the Mediator, the assigned command cruiser of Adin Vi. What many didn't know was this was a setup. With Bolo separated from his team under the dark eye of Diamond, there was no one to save him from the wrath of his superior.
"We didn't know then. We know now but we didn't know that before our departure to Geonosis, that was going to be the last time we saw him alive. I never got to tell him I loved him." – Silver (1078) (He broke into tears while speaking.)
Led under a call of a false apology, Bolo was summoned from the shooting range to the General's office to talk about the conditions of the clones. But what was waiting there for him caught him by surprise. Bolo was struck in the back of the head with an object and knocked unconscious long enough for his attacker to seal the door so he couldn't leave. When he came to, a hand was over his mouth and the attacker was straddling him holding a knife. It only took him a second to figure out it was General Diamond.
Bolo tried to plead with his superior but to no avail. Diamond was out for blood and he was settling for the clone who dared to usurp his leadership. It was a bloodbath. He stabbed Bolo in his chest and abdomen even after the clone was dead, painting the floor crimson.
"Bolo was stabbed over thirty times in the chest and abdomen to the point where you could skim your fingers through the skin and the strands holding the formation over the muscle would break with little to no effort. This wasn't just a murder, it was a vendetta because it only takes less than three punctures to kill a human, and in fact only one directly at the heart would be enough to do it. Thirty puncture wounds tell me that this was pent up rage and insecurity transferred into a weapon and there was no stopping him from tearing that body to shreds. He didn't want that clone dead, he wanted him destroyed." – Kix (CT-6116; Field Medic and uncredited Pathologist)
Knowing murder would send his Corps into uncontrollable panic, Diamond wrapped the body in his bed sheets and hid the remains in an unvisited part of the storage area he knew no one except droids go near. He went back to the crime scene and with cleaning supplies scrubbed the entire floor of Bolo's blood. After the carnage was erased from the room, the General strode out of his office to his personal wash racks to clean his armor as well from any lingering evidence of the murder.
"If Diamond Dog wasn't unhinged before that, he definitely was now and he was going to make everyone's life hell from that moment forward." – Lieutenant Freighter (CT-3620)
Hidden behind a wall of lies, General Diamond managed to pass Bolo's disappearance on record as a Geonosian casualty despite the clone never going to Geonosis, yet he told Lieutenant Freighter, Bolo's commanding officer, he had been transferred.
"I knew after I saw the file of Bolo's death certificate that Diamond Dog wasn't telling the truth. I was fooled. I think he thought I wasn't bold enough to question him, that I wouldn't get curious that my platoon was missing a soldier who wasn't supposed to be anywhere near Geonosis. To be fair, I didn't know what to think anymore." – Lieutenant Freighter (CT-3620)
The Diamond Corps' darkest secret was once again safe at the expense of a life, but Diamond was far from done. The following day he put out a report and called to Adin Vi for a meeting. When he greeted his fellow General, the Jedi's fate was sealed.
General Diamond played his ruse and discussed battle plans and the casualties to keep his Jedi General distracted. Having Adin's attention on the battle plans kept his mind off the villainous thoughts in the ARC clone's own mind allowed Diamond to do the unthinkable. Before Adin Vi could stop him, he had grabbed the Jedi's lightsaber and impaled the Togruta straight through the heart. Killing a clone usually considered a brother was one thing but the willing murder of a Jedi Knight solidified his lack of redemption that any of his colleagues or the Republic could ever bestow upon him.
"The Force is very instructive for us and when a Jedi dies, we know. But when Master Yoda tells you that a Jedi had died and is disturbed completely by it, that's when things get really serious and investigation is instigated instantly." – Jedi General Obi-Wan Kenobi
Adin Vi was dead before he hit the floor. Diamond, a far cry from the soldier who Adin once vouched for, gruesomely used the Jedi's blade to then hack the body into pieces. Using a cloth bag, he put the pieces of his former Jedi inside and carried the bag to the same location where Bolo's body was hidden. He stuffed the bag into a biodegradable barrel hoping the droids would use it as fuel for the ship and destroy the evidence.
The horror continued for weeks as clones who opposed him slowly disappeared between missions and resting periods on and off Coruscant underneath the noses of even the Jedi, and restrictions on all others grew tighter almost comparable to a slave operation. What General Diamond did cover was his motives and the physical bodies from the Corps and the Jedi Council. However, the seeds of his downfall would begin in a series of miscalculations, and pride would become his worst enemy.
"There was this weird smell coming from the vents on the lower quarters of the Mediator and none of us could figure out where it was coming from. A lot of us felt nauseous throughout the day to where a few of my squad mates ended up going stir crazy from it. It was like torture on the senses similar to the collars. We had a crew check inside the vents of the clone quarters to see if something was inside that shouldn't be and nothing was found. It smelled like a Rancor decaying." – Silver (CT-1078)
The smell of rotting flesh led Lieutenant Freighter to discover Diamond's terrible secret when he wandered into the restricted section of the fuel storage.
"The smell was coming from a barrel and several piles of wrapped cloths that were purposely used as holding bags which I thought were odd. A few droids there had thrown one of the makeshift bags into the melting chamber and I ask them what was in the bags and they said they didn't know, they were just following the General's orders. I open the barrel which happened to be placed below a vent on the ceiling that ran throughout the upper level and I practically threw up. In the barrel, there were pieces of greyish blue flesh falling off bone and fat melting onto the bottom into a pool. At first I thought that this was an animal but I noticed a hand and the remnants of a face and Togruta horns at the very bottom kind of hidden under all the chopped up body parts. That was our Jedi.
I knew I shouldn't have opened the other bags but I did. Several bodies were stuffed cramped into these small bags and they were my brothers. Their armor was gone but some had decayed to where they were unrecognizable while others were freshly killed because they had coagulated red blood over them from stab wounds to one of them having their entire ribcage open. I was scared. I took pictures of all the bodies and ran out of there back to my quarters scared. I didn't tell my platoon about the bodies but I told them I needed them to stay with me until I can speak to the Jedi Council. They asked why and I simply said if you don't, I think I'm going to die in the next few weeks. After that, I noticed Diamond Dog was keeping an awfully close eye on me." – Lieutenant Freighter (CT-3620)
Fearing for his life, Lieutenant Freighter kept his pictures secure as the Mediator landed on Coruscant. He was encountered by General Diamond over the course of their stay as the General tried to lure him away from his platoon. Freighter wasn't fooled. He immediately snuck out of his legion that was being monitored by Diamond and contacted the Republic Chancellor and the Jedi Council with his platoon guarding him.
"I was shocked several times by the collar until I broke it off my neck in frustration against a wall nearly knocking myself out in the process and I refused to get a new one. It was Diamond Dog trying to torture me and the next step was him threatening my entire platoon. I couldn't stand the idea of them dying either. I knew I had to put an end to all of this knowing Diamond Dog murdered his own brothers and his Jedi General." – Lieutenant Freighter (CT-3620)
Freighter went against Diamond Dog's authority and made it to the Jedi Temple to plead his case before the Council. There he presented the pictures to a very horrified room of Jedi Masters. The police, Coruscant Guard, and the Jedi led a full examination of the 153rd Corps soon after.
"Seeing Adin Vi's body like that…the clones…I have no words to describe what I felt. We had to keep this from the public eye. And the knowledge that a clone did all of this…it's rare that I find something so appalling that I can't brush it off simply because I'm a Jedi Master. This was one of those moments." – Jedi General Obi-Wan Kenobi
The cruel empire General Diamond Dog created began to collapse under the pressure of getting caught. He tried pinning the blame of the murders on Lieutenant Freighter himself for having possession of the pictures and knowing the locations of the bodies after being investigated. It was a miss with most of the 153rd Corps backing their lieutenant.
Evaluation of the Diamond Corps led the Jedi and the police to find the collars hidden on all the clones' necks as well as the restrictions on food and privileges. They did a sweep of the entire ship to find traces of blood with UV lights in both Diamond's office and the private war room where DNA confirmed the match of a clone and Adin Vi. The bodies were removed from the lower levels and analyzed. With so much evidence and the odd behavior of General Diamond, detectives homed in on Diamond Dog as the prime suspect.
"I'm glad I made the right choice to seek help as soon as I did because had I waited any longer to present my case against Diamond Dog, my platoon and I may have wound up dead and more clones would have likely suffered far before anybody realized what was going on. It just baffles me how a fellow clone cared more about his appearance and power than his own flesh and blood." – Lieutenant Freighter (CT-3620)
When Diamond Dog was confronted, however, he put up a fight. Using Adin Vi's lightsaber, he fought lead Jedi investigator Plo Koon but was disarmed after several minutes when the Jedi managed to take him off balance, forcing him to drop his weapon. He was arrested and confined in the maximum cellblock of the Republic Judiciary Central Detention Center and stripped of his title, honors, and his authority.
Captured and convicted, Diamond Dog was found guilty with numerous accounts of first degree murder, conspiracy to murder, criminal harassment, and embezzlement. He was sentenced to death by firing squad mid-22 BBY until his sentence was commuted to life in prison with no chance of parole a month later by Chancellor Palpatine.
"Death was too good for him after what he's done. I'm actually quite pleased his sentence got revised into life. He deserves to rot in hell for what he's done." – Silver (CT-1078)
"I truly didn't think that it was possible for a clone to be evil, I really didn't. Poor sense of judgement is something and sometimes with the instance of Slick, a clone formerly under my platoon, they can feel like the side they are fighting for doesn't represent the Republic we are sworn to serve. Diamond Dog was the prime definition of evil, in fact one of the most diabolical human beings, I ever heard of. The Separatists didn't have that many sadistic members on his level. In the end, getting caught was the result of thinking since he held the highest rank in the entire army, he was exempt from punishment. His sick mind, however, was something that would have resulted in many more deaths had he taken more time to cover his tracks instead of gloating about his power. I feel extremely guilty for once admiring him not knowing what he was really like." – Captain Rex (CT-7567)
A clone who took power in any way he could and killed anybody who stood in his way shocked the Republic in ways no one had ever done before. Why he turned his own Corps into a living nightmare is unknown. His start of darkness is also shrouded in mystery. Why would a clone terrorize and murder his own Corps and his Jedi? Resources say he had planned it from the beginning.
"I got a call from a clone named Jacques, commander of the 20th Legion, who claimed to be Diamond's batch mate when he heard of Diamond Dog on the Grand Army newsfeeds and the announcements made by the Chancellor. We talked about what Diamond Dog did and he said he used to talk to Diamond at the mess hall all the time during their stay on Kamino. I asked did he mention anything like this to you before he was dispatched and the thing that stunned me the most was when he suddenly said, 'Oh gods, I should have stopped him. I thought he was only joking.' He sounded utterly horrified." – Lieutenant Freighter (CT-3620)
With Diamond Dog behind bars, the 153rd Diamond Corps was refitted with a new leader, Commander Harpoon (CT-13-1569), and many clones had to be reevaluated back at Kamino due to the trauma some had faced under the ex-General's rule. Because of this, the Senate and the Kaminoans made an agreement to annihilate the title of General from the clone ranks, never allowing a clone that amount of power again.
The reign of Diamond Dog's terror scarred many in its wake. It left more questions than answers, answers that are still not revealed to this day. Why did a clone of such high regard turn on everyone under his command? Although saying someone is evil is usually not the case, it is agreed that this clone has truly set the term of "evil" to new heights.
"In the case of ARC General CC-1055, no ulterior influence has been recognized. This clone has elected to carry out malicious and horrific deeds against the Grand Army of the Republic on his own free will. He is to be charged with multiple counts of murder to the first degree, conspiracy to harm fellow clones, harassment and stalking of fellow clones, negligence of Army resources and troops, and embezzlement of a Jedi weapon. His crimes have made the prospect of parole and other options null and void." – Chancellor Palpatine
*Unfortunately, the 153rd Diamond Corps has disbanded as of this report. Commander Harpoon and the remainder of 153rd who are mentally and physically stable will be moved accordingly to new divisions.
*Diamond Dog is still imprisoned and sees no possible release.
END Report
AN: I love the show Deadly Women so I thought to myself "why not make a show based on bad clones?" Not my smartest idea but you get my drift probably.
I have a request to any viewer willing to participate. I want you in the comments to share clone OCs that are disturbed, evil, so and so forth and tell me their stories, how were they discovered and what did they do to usurp the perfect spirit of the Grand Army of the Republic? I want to know if you think all clones are perfect angels or are bad apples in the bunch? I want to here your opinions!