Coric " Coric " was the nickname of a veteran clone trooper sergeant who served in the 501st Legion ' s Torrent Company in the early months of the Clone Wars . Bred on Kamino , Coric was trained as a clone trooper medic and became a first aid specialist in the Grand Army of the Republic . Serving under Jedi General Anakin Skywalker and Clone Captain CT - 7567 , nicknamed " Rex , " Sergeant Coric fought in the Battle of Christophsis and employed his medical expertise to assist those among his comrades who had been wounded during the course of the battle . Coric also led a squad in the following Battle of Teth against the Confederacy of Independent Systems and , along with Rex , was one of the six survivors of the original Torrent Company when it was nearly eradicated by the Separatist Droid Army . A few months into the war , Coric joined Rex ; Skywalker ' s Padawan , Ahsoka Tano ; and a batch of six new 501st troopers on a routine shakedown cruise aboard Republic Navy Captain Gilad Pellaeon ' s assault ship , " Leveler " . During that assignment , Coric helped to rescue Republic Intelligence Agent Hallena Devis , who had been captured during a Separatist - backed rebel uprising on the planet JanFathal . Although the operation was ultimately a success , two of the rookie troopers — Vere and Ince — died on the mission . Biography . Training and early career . The clone trooper nicknamed " Coric " was bred on Kamino to serve in the Grand Army of the Republic . In addition to his standard training from the Kaminoan cloners , Coric received training as a clone medic and first aid specialist , ensuring that he would be able to help his comrades when they were injured on the battlefield . By 22 BBY , the first year of the Clone Wars , Coric had received a promotion to the rank of clone sergeant and was assigned to the Grand Army ' s famed 501st Legion , in which he served in Torrent Company under the command of Jedi General Anakin Skywalker and Clone Captain CT - 7567 , nicknamed " Rex , " both of whom he became acquainted with . Service in the 501st Legion . Christophsis and Teth . In the first year of the war , Coric was sent with a 501st contingent under the command of Jedi Generals Skywalker and Obi - Wan Kenobi and Captain Rex to retake the planet Christophsis , which had been seized by the Confederacy of Independent Systems . The Republic army became based out of Christophsis ' s Crystal City during its fight against the Separatist Droid Army and , after a few days of fighting , eventually succeeded in repelling the Confederacy . During the lull in fighting , Coric took up his duty as a medic at the Republic ' s temporary first - aid station , a colonnaded doorway behind the Republic lines and close to the city ' s main boulevard . While there , Coric treated trooper Ged , who had been wounded by a spray of jagged shrapnel fragments that had penetrated the gap in his plastoid clone armor between the back plate and the shoulder . Rex himself joined Coric and Ged at the first - aid station to shave his head , and Coric joked with Rex about the latter ' s hairless and brightened head . Removing some of the bloodstained fragments of Ged ' s armor , Coric reported to Rex that they were running low on bacta supplies , but that there were analgesics for the time being . Rex replied that the Republic cruiser " Hunter " had already dispatched for replenishment and would return soon . At that moment , a series of explosions rocked the main street . Rex immediately departed to join Skywalker and Kenobi on the front lines , while Coric finished patching Ged up so that the trooper would be able to fight in the continuing battle . Once Coric had finished , he grabbed his medical field kit and moved with the front line . Joining Rex and Skywalker in infiltrating the Separatist battle droid lines , Coric and Ged ascended an energy sphere with their platoon and helped their two commanding officers ambush a trio of Separatist tri - droids advancing through the street below . The group eventually brought the three droids down , and the Separatists ' advance eventually halted . However , Confederate General Whorm Loathsom then deployed a deflector shield , advancing it just in front of his troops to counter and negate the Republic ' s heavy artillery . With Kenobi , Skywalker , and the latter ' s recently assigned Padawan , Ahsoka Tano , occupied elsewhere , Coric and Rex led the remaining forces to defend the AV - 7 Antivehicle Cannon s before the droids and their tanks could destroy them . The battle became increasingly grim as more and more 501st troopers began to fall to the droids ' fire . Coric stated to Rex that he was out of ideas other than drawing the Separatists in , which Rex decided to do . Minutes later , however , Skywalker and Tano succeeded in destroying the Confederacy ' s deflector shield generator , and Coric immediately noticed the receding shield . The Republic heavy cannons opened fire on the droids , annihilating the Separatist lines and halting their advance . Admiral Wullf Yularen arrived at Christophsis with a fleet of Republic cruisers and reinforcements aboard , and a series of LAAT / i gunships were deployed . Rex and Coric were warned by a clone pilot of one of the two approaching gunships to stay clear of the craft ' s path as the pair of ships rained down fire on the Separatist tanks . With two men still alive somewhere close by on the battlefield , however , Rex and Coric picked their way through the rubble — despite the pilot ' s warning to stand clear of the area — to search for the survivors , responding to the life signs transmitted by their armor - mounted monitors . One of the life signs stopped transmitting while the two clone officers attempted to move the rubble . Overall , the Republic was able to win a victory on Christophsis , capturing Loathsom and ending the Confederacy ' s occupation of the Outer Rim world . Following the successful campaign at Christophsis , Coric and Torrent Company were assigned to an assault force led by Skywalker , Tano , and Rex to rescue the captured Rotta , son of Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure , in order to win Jabba ' s favor to allow the Grand Army access to hyperlane s running through Hutt - controlled space . The Republic contingent traveled to the Wild Space planet of Teth , where Republic scouts had determined to be the location of an abandoned monastery where Rotta was being held by the Confederacy , and launched an assault up the mesa leading to the cliff - high monastery . Coric was among the men of Torrent Company who survived the assault , although half did not . After Torrent Company had beaten back the Separatist defenses and secured the monastery , Coric joined Skywalker , Tano , Rex , and troopers Ayar , Lunn , and Vaize to search the monastery for Rotta . The group entered the stronghold ' s darkened antechamber , where the five clone troopers used their helmets ' headlamps to see in the dim light . Rex eventually ordered his men to kill the lights unless they made enemy contact . Continuing through the monastery , the clones encountered the droid 4A - 7 . Five meters ahead of the others and the closest ones to their greeter , Coric and Lunn slammed the droid against the wall and put their blasters to the head of their potential enemy . 4A - 7 introduced himself as the caretaker of the monastery and thanked the Jedi and clones for liberating him from the battle droids . Skywalker inquired after the Huttlet ' s location , and 4A - 7 directed him to the detention level , where the Separatists had kept their prisoners . Only then did Coric and Lunn release the droid on Rex ' s orders , although the clones continued to keep their eyes on the supposed " caretaker . " As Skywalker and Tano departed to find Rotta and left Rex and the other clones to secure the exit , Coric flicked his helmet spot lamp back on and trained the light on 4A - 7 , watching as the droid went about its business . Over the clones ' private comlink frequency , Coric expressed to Rex his belief that they should be helping Skywalker , to which Rex replied that if the Jedi General returned with any broken bones , they would not be his . When Skywalker contacted Rex with the news that he and his Padawan had found the Huttlet , Rex sent Coric down to assist the pair in retrieving him to avoid any accidents . At Skywalker ' s added request , Coric brought down a backpack to help carry the heavy Rotta . Upon arriving in Rotta ' s prison cell and catching wind of the Huttlet ' s distinctive , less - than - pleasant aroma , Coric requested permission to speak freely and released a string of expletives and his desire to stow Rotta in the cargo bay . Coric handed the backpack over to Tano , who loaded Rotta on and strapped on the pack herself . Once Coric notified Skywalker that Rex had an LAAT / i gunship waiting on standby to transport them and the Huttlet away from Teth , the trio proceeded back outside with the Huttlet in tow . However , on the walk back , Tano realized that Rotta was gravely ill and required medical attention if he was to return to Jabba ' s Palace on Tatooine safe and sound . The B ' omarr Order Monastery soon came under attack by Separatist forces in the form of several C - 9979 landing craft , which deployed squadrons of Vulture droid starfighters and an army of battle droids to retake the monastery . At Rex ' s order , Coric and fellow Sergeant Hez took their respective squads to provide covering fire in the building ' s courtyard alongside the Republic ' s only All Terrain Tactical Enforcer as the rest of the Republic forces retreated into the monastery . The AT - TE walker was destroyed by the approaching battle droids , and Coric and the few survivors made it back into the monastery before Skywalker shut the doors on the droids , sealing his battle group inside the monastery . Only three - quarters of Torrent Company had survived the Separatists ' counterattack , with Coric among the three remaining medic - trained troopers . At a single gesture from Rex , all of the clones hastened to prepare defenses inside the monastery against the battle droids , which would inevitably find a way to enter the stronghold . Eventually , Skywalker , Tano , and the astromech droid R2 - D2 left with Rotta to find an alternate exit from the monastery and secure medical attention for the Huttlet . Not long after the Jedi departed , the battle droids succeeded in breaking through the entrance door ' s lock mechanism and launched their counterattack on the remainder of Torrent Company . Wave after wave of B1 and B2 battle droids and DSD1 dwarf spider droids stormed into the monastery ' s antechamber and blasted through the clones ' resistance . During the fighting , Coric was surprised by an approaching droid . Caught on a reload , he swung his blaster sideways like a club and received assistance from Rex , who put a stream of bolts into the droid . By the time that the droids had secured the monastery , only seven survivors of Torrent Company were left , with Rex and Coric among their number . When Rex contacted his remaining men over their private frequency and told them to report in if they still survived , Coric replied with the others and stated that he had made it through with only a few bruises . As Rex told the six troopers to follow his lead and join him on escaping the monastery when the time came , Dark Acolyte and Separatist Supreme Commander Asajj Ventress found and interrogated the Captain on Skywalker ' s whereabouts . After Ventress threw Rex aside and departed to confront Skywalker and Tano , leaving her droids to guard the clones , Coric checked on Rex over their frequency to confirm that his commanding officer was still with them . Rex replied positively and shared a few jokes with Coric and the others about the names that Ventress had called them . Continuing to maintain unmoving positions on the ground to avoid alerting the droids to their continued survival , both Rex and Coric attempted to find a clear comlink channel but were unable to receive any from their helmets ' frequency . Presently , Skywalker contacted Rex over the latter ' s wrist comlink , and the message blared loud enough for the clones ' battle droid guards to hear . Roused by the audio , the troopers prepared for the fight against the droids that would inevitably follow . Following Rex ' s lead of tearing down the nearest droid , Coric and the other four clones sprang to their feet . Coric snatched the rifle from a battle droid as it tottered backward and joined his comrades at the AT - TE walker , where they took cover from the battle droids . The clones kept their rappel line s primed in case they were given the chance to descend the cliff and escape to the dense jungle below . The clone troopers destroyed more and more droids and used the carcasses of their inert enemies to reinforce the burned - out AT - TE walker . As an hour passed , Coric edged up the barricade and poked a strip - cam over the top , allowing Rex to survey the view of the battle droids ' position . While trooper Zeer planted a series of explosives an eviscerated super battle droid to send back to its comrades , Coric and Del manned a repeating blaster that they had stolen from the Separatists . Zeer eventually finished his work and dispatched the trap droid , blasting through the battle droids . While the droids regrouped , Coric recalled a holovid that he had previously watched , in which enemy forces besieging a fort of troops were so impressed by their adversaries ' bravery that they sang songs of tribute to them . Coric ended the joke by stating that they had " all got shot . " The battle droids soon returned and converged on the remaining clones ' position . Returning the droids ' fire , the clones became laced in a square , facing out on four fronts , and came to rely on the " generous supply " of mortars and other weapon supplies that had been left in the deactivated AT - TE walker . Almost back - to - back with Rex , Coric emptied clip after clip from a repeating blaster through a gap in the barrier into the sea of battle droids . Eventually , General Kenobi arrived at the Teth monastery with reinforcements from the Grand Army ' s 212th Attack Battalion . As Republic gunships approached the cliff - high castle with Kenobi , Clone Commander CC - 2224 , nicknamed " Cody , " and the 212th aboard , the battle droid commander told the remainder of Torrent Company to surrender . Rex stalled for time until the arrival of the Republic reinforcements , which promptly blasted the droids in the courtyard to scrap . With the 212th Battalion taking over and sweeping back the droids , the six survivors of Torrent Company met in the courtyard . Attie stated that Coric ' s holovid now had a different ending , as they had all lived " happily ever after , " but Del , recalling all of their fallen brothers , replied that most of them had not . The Republic was eventually able to win through in the campaign at Teth , but although Torrent Company was soon replenished with new troops , the loss of the original unit was never forgotten . Mission to JanFathal . Coric later accompanied Captain Rex on a training mission for six new clone troopers aboard Captain Gilad Pellaeon ` s newly refitted " Acclamator - " class assault ship , " Leveler " . When the routine shakedown cruise turned into a mission to extract Republic Intelligence agent Hallena Devis from JanFathal , Coric was present for the mission ' s planning meeting and made a point of reassuring Jedi Knights Callista Masana and Geith Eri , Coric would go on to pilot the anonymous shuttle the extraction team would use to infiltrate the planet ` s capital amidst a Separatist invasion . Despite Rex ' s order to leave after they had recovered the agent , Coric returned at Devis ' own insistence to retrieve Rex and his men , After an unfortunate series of events that led the team back down to the planet and into yet another battle with the invading CIS presence , Coric would tend to the severe injuries sustained by one of the rookie troopers named Ince , Despite Coric ' s knowledge as a combat medic , Ince ' s wounds would prove mortal and he died despite all of Coric ' s best efforts . Personality and traits . A loyal sergeant in Torrent Company , Coric formed a certain friendship with the unit ' s clone officer , Captain Rex , and additionally became acquainted with the company ' s assigned Jedi General , Anakin Skywalker . Coric expressed humor even in the most dire situations , such as his unit ' s last stand during the Battle of Teth , and gained a reputation of using a " deadpan tone " to tell his variety of jokes . He was also sarcastic at times . When given permission to speak freely regarding Rotta the Huttlet , Coric expressed his intense repulsion at the Huttlet ' s aroma in a string of less - than - flattering expletives and stated his desire to stow Rotta in the cargo bay , where his distinctive smell would not be a nuisance to the clone sergeant himself or others . Talents and abilities . Coric was trained as a first aid specialist to help his comrades when they were injured on the front lines . He was skilled enough to be able to patch up trooper Ged when the clone received a grave shoulder wound inflicted by flying shrapnel . Ged was able to return to fighting after he was treated . Equipment . Coric ' s Phase I clone trooper armor was painted blue and had become charred by blaster fire by the time of the Battle of Teth . He carried both a DC - 15 blaster and a rappel line with him . Additionally , his duties as medic required him to keep a medical field kit during the Battle of Christophsis .