Friday, August 10, 2012

Domino Squad

Domino squad was a squad of clone troopers during the Clone Wars.  Sadly, that squad had the worst luck.

Echo
EchoHS.jpg
Status:
number: CT-21-0484
nickname: Echo
died: Lola Saya (died in a explosion trying to get to a ship that was under fire)

Echo was technically the leader of the squad, but since the members kept dying, it was just him and fives.  Sadly, his life came to a end when he tried to get to a ship under fire and the ship exploded.

Heavy
Status:
number: CT-782
nickname: Heavy
died: Risha moon (Sacrificed himself by setting off a bomb that was not yet detonated, but died in the explosion)

Heavy was a stubern clone, but always got the job done.  Sadly, he made a sacrifice to save Kamino (the clone army's home planet) from being invaded my the CIS.  He made the ultimate sacrifice by detonating a bomb to destroy the Rishi moon and died in the explosion.  His sacrifice is one of the saddest sacrifices in the clone army.

Fives
Status:
number: CT-27-5555
nickname: Fives

Fives is the last survive in the squad, hopefully he won't die in the next season.







Droidbait
Droidbait-TCWPromo.jpg
Status:
number: CT-00-2010
nickname: Droidbait
died: Rishi moon (Killed by 4 droids)

Droidbait got his name because of the reason he died, 4 Commando droids surrounding him while he was on the ground and shot him all over.

Cutup
CT-4040.jpg
Status:
number: CT-4040
nickname: Cutup
died: Rishi moon (Eaten by suprise by a Rishi eel)

Cutup was a good soldier, but he was killed when him and the other members escaped the base and went outside of it when all of a sudden he was killed by suprise by a Rishi eel.

Here is a video about Domino Squad:

Friday, August 3, 2012

Clone Troopers During the years of war

During the Years of war, clone troopers changed.  They started from (Phase I) armor to (Phase II) armor, but it didn't just start like that.  During the years of the Clone Wars, people came up with more ideas of how they looked.

Clone Trooper (Phase I) era

During the beginning of the Clone Wars, Clone troopers first wore (Phase I) armor.

(Phase I) Clone Trooper


Armor features: (Phase I) armor had a fin at the top of the helmet, a T shape on the helmet, and the armor was not as suitable for men, and was difficult to move in.  The had comlinks on the wrists, a belt with important things above the hip, there was holster to hold there pistols, some pockets to keep there detonators/ Grenades, in.  During the very beginning of the Clone Wars, Clone troopers painted there armor to show there ranks.

Chain of Command (Early days of the war)

White: Trooper
Green: Sergent
Red: Captain
Yellow: Lieutenant/ Pilot
Blue: Commander

(Phase I) Clone Trooper Sergent
       
(Phase I) Clone Trooper Captain
        
(Phase I) Clone Trooper lieutenant
        
(Phase I) Clone Trooper Pilot
       
(Phase I) Clone Trooper Commander
      
Skilled men

During the early years of the Clone Wars, people needed some skilled clone troopers to do special missions a normal clone trooper can't do, so they thought of ARC troopers.  ARC troopers stand for ''Advanced Recon Commandos'', they are the best of the best.  They were secretly trained with more experience then the normal clones.  They also had different clothing then normal men.

(Phase I) ARC trooper
  
Armor Features: (Phase I) ARC armor had a fin at the top of the helmet and a T shape (like normal troopers), they also had a antenna at the side of there helmet to see in the dark, they also had a ammo packet on their chest, they had a belt like other clones, and had a thing over the top of there chest, and a clothe on the bottom of there waist.  ARC's usually had two blaster pistols and sometimes had special weapons like rocket launchers, light machine guns, etc.  They sometimes adopted colors for there armor, like Commander Fox adopted the color red for his armor.  Normal ARC's mostly wore blue colored armor.

(Phase I) Blue ARC trooper

(Phase I) Yellow ARC trooper

(Phase I) Red ARC trooper


Clone Commandos

Clone Commandos were as skilled as ARC's, but were chosen for more important missions, such as rescue, hunt and kill, capture, and protect.  The first Commandos to have a mission was a squad known as Delta Squad, they were to find and kill the Geonosion luitenit Sun-fact, Poggle the Lesser's right-hand-man.  They succeeded and were next to find a underground droid factory since another Commando Squad failed.

Clone Commando
 
Armor Features: A clone commando had no fin on top of the helmet, but had a T shape like other clones, Their machine gun could switch into multiple sorts of weapons, such as a machine gun, a sniper rifle and a rocket launcher.  They had no belt but carried detonators/ grenades.  Their helmet had a sensor for when it is dark they can turn on night vision, also if their visor got dirty, there sensor would clean it off, like a windshield wiper.  They also adopted colors for their armor, such as red, blue, orange, purple, white, black, etc.

Yellow Clone Commando

Green Clone Commando

Orange Clone Commando

Camo Clone Commando

Red Clone Commando

Clone Trooper Experimental era

During the second year of the Clone Wars, people started coming up with new armor for clone troopers.  They also started painting there armor the way they wanted.  And high ranks would just wear there ranked armor.

ARF Trooper

ARF trooper stands for ''Advanced Recon fielder''.  They were the third best soldier behind Clone Commandos and ARC troopers.  They were highly intelligent and were mostly scouts.

(Phase I) ARF Trooper

Armor Features: ARF troopers had a visor on the helmet and small eye holes, they mostly used a blaster rifle and no pistols, they wore belts and had normal clone armor.  Some had camo armor for stealth missions.

Experimental (Phase II) ARC Trooper

During the clone wars, people started working on new armor for the clone troopers, they tested it on ARC troopers.
 
Armor Features: Experimental (Phase II) ARC troopers usually wore the same armor as the (Phase I) armor, but some added (Phase II) parts, they added two breathing holes under the T shape, and the T shape is not as big as the (Phase I) armor.  As other men, Experimental (Phase II) ARC troopers could adopt their armor color, there were red, yellow and blue.

Red Experimental (Phase II) ARC trooper
 
Yellow Experimental (Phase II) ARC trooper

Blue Experimental (Phase II) ARC trooper


Later Years 

During the last year of the Clone Wars, people finally came out with the new (Phase II) armor.

(Phase II) Clone Trooper


Armor Features: (Phase II) clone troopers replaced the fins on there helmets and made the T shape smaller, it was more suitable for the men and they could move around better.  They mostly used blaster rifles and they could paint there armor.

(Phase II) Clone Troopers


Ending days

After the Clone Wars, the Clone Army became the Imperial Army.  They changed their suits two more one more time until they made a perminite suit.

Storm Trooper

The final suit for the clone trooper's/ storm troopers was very different from the previous armor's.  They made smaller eye holes, there armor was clear white, and they got rid of the T shape.

Storm Trooper
 
Other suits

The Empire also made some more suits based on the inviorment, such as a Snow Trooper would have a backpack,a skirt, and a cooling system built into the suit to keep worm on cold planets.

Snow Trooper


They also had a Scout trooper armor, it had a small pistol holster at the bottom of their shoes.  Their armor is like the ARF trooper armor.

Scout Trooper


There was also a Imperial guard armor, they were to protect important people such as senators, and the Emperor.  They had bright red robes and had a force pike instead of a pistol.

Imperial Red Guard



                             



Star Wars facts and news

Its almost time for the new season of Star Wars the Clone Wars season 5 on Cartoon Network.  By the lookings, there will be Darth Maul, Savage Opress, and the rest of the star wars characters.  Will Darth Maul seek his revenge on Obi-wan Kenobi and finally kill him (Which we know he won't), will Death Watch finally see there revenge on the Jedi and Separatist's?  All will be answered in the new season.  Maybe the game Star Wars Battlefront III will come out this year, maybe not.  But we all know it will be epic!
This Clone of the month is Commander Rocket.  Commander Rocket was present during the battle of Christophsis, during the Clone Wars movie, You might not know who he was because secretly, he took off his commander armor and put on a dead clone troopers armor because Battle Droids always aim for the high ranks first.  He was the trooper charging next to Cody, but no one knows if he died or not.  There is no pictures of him for some reason, so I am putting what he looked like in the Clone Wars movie:

What Commander Rocket looked like in the Clone Wars movie/ Battle of Christophsis