Odds Odds is a short story which appeared in " Star Wars Insider 87 " , written by Karen Traviss and illustrated by Robert Hendrickson . It is set 65 to 67 standard days after the end of " " , 460 standard days after the First Battle of Geonosis , and features Mereel , Atin , Kal Skirata , and Prudii . It was reprinted as a bonus story in " " , under the extended title of Republic Commando : Odds . Plot summary . Omega Squad is separated , with Atin and Prudii on the planet Olanet , home to a Separatist droid factory . They silently break into the factory to adjust automated settings in construction of battle droids . Prudii substitutes a data wafer and does some additional wire cutting to trick the computer into adding too much carvanium to the durasteel used in creating the droids , making them brittle in combat but appear normal during inspection . Extracted data from the wafers gave them a figure of roughly a million droids running off the lines per year per factory , well below the claims of the droid army of " quadrillions " . They find the claims to now be propaganda and wonder why there are only 3 million clones to fight them . Back on Kamino , N - 7 ( Mereel ) seeks the missing Kaminoan scientist Ko Sai who has defected to the opposite side of the war , creating distrust among the Nulls to the Kaminoans . He would narrow down the search to cloning capitals Khomm and Arkania to find her . He recalls the failed experiment by the Kaminoans that nearly killed him and his brothers , before Kal Skirata saved them . N - 7 decides to find out what has really been occurring between Kamino and the rest of the galaxy and sneaks into a regular clone trooper suit . He blends in with troopers getting diagnostics at one of the computer terminal ports . A normal check would take 30 seconds , but after several minutes of downloading data into his HUD , several troopers and a Kaminoan become suspicious . N - 7 escapes by explaining a slow data response and pretends to proceed to get the problem fixed , blending back into the crowd of troopers . On the Special Ops Freighter TIV Z766 / 2 , Prudii and Atin fire six torpedoes at a droid transport now full of defective droids , destroying it before jumping to hyperspace . When Atin questions him , Prudii explains that it was necessary to not garner suspicion on the part of the droids that would have expected an attack . En route to a rendezvous at Drall RV point , Mereel , Skirata , and Ordo all uncover a message between Lama Su and Supreme Chancellor Palpatine , stating no further clone production unless more are commissioned and reveals plans for cloning facilities on Coruscant . At the rendezvous point , both parts of the team exchange information and report to Jedi General Arligan Zey on their findings . Skirata suggests a sector - by - sector sweeping of the galaxy to win the war , but Zey informs the Nulls that the Chancellor ' s plans are to remain scattered engagements . Skirata also questions Zey about Republic intel inflating the numbers of the droid armies to make voters support a bill for the war , to no clear answer . The team discusses their odds and 200 to 1 kill ratios before concentrating on the new mission : Ko Sai . Behind the scenes . Inconsistencies with established canon . Since the release of this short story , many fans of the clone troopers from the " Republic Commando " series were questioning the number of clone troopers quoted by the characters as 1 . 2 million instead of 3 million . If " Odds " was to retcon " Triple Zero " , it appears to have failed according to disgruntled fans in the forums at TheForce . net and StarWars . com . The notion that there was only around hundred million droids blatantly contradicts " " and the " " , both of which state that there were several quintillion battle droids . It ' s also claimed that the factory is one of the largest outside of Geonosis . However , the droid production rate is much lower than what can be observed in the Geonosis factory in " " which has been described essentially as obsolete . Also , other sources points to extremely vast factories ( such as " The New Essential Guide to Droids " , which states that there are millions of droid factories and that the Techno Union had dozens of mechworlds alone ) . However , it is possible that the information found by the clones was false or outdated .