Republic Commando : True Colors Republic Commando : True Colors is the third novel in the " Republic Commando " series written by Karen Traviss and set nearly two years after the First Battle of Geonosis . It was released on October 30 , 2007 . It includes the short story " Odds " and an excerpt of Michael Reaves and Steve Perry ' s novel " Death Star " . Cover art by Greg Knight is based on one of his concept drawings for the video game " " . Publisher ' s summary . " As the savage Clone Wars rage unchecked , the Republic ' s deadliest warriors face the grim truth that the Separatists aren ' t their only enemy — or even their worst . " " In the Grand Army ' s desperate fight to crush the Separatists , the secret special ops missions of its elite clone warriors have never been more critical … or more dangerous . A growing menace threatens Republic victory , and the members of Omega Squad make a shocking discovery that shakes their loyalty . " " As the lines continue to blur between friend and enemy , citizens — from civilians and sergeants to Jedi and generals — find themselves up against a new foe : the doubt in their own hearts and minds . The truth is a fragile , shifting illusion — and only the approaching inferno will reveal both sides in their true colors . " Plot summary . Delta Squad and Sergeant Walon Vau , now a civilian , begin this story on the harshly cold and barren planet of Mygeeto . Vau has come to " liberate " some funds from the bank vaults under the glaciers of Mygeeto , taking over 55 million in credits and other valuables from his family vault . However , their exit does not go as smoothly as planned , leaving Vau trapped and alone under several tons of ice , slowly freezing to death , while Delta Squad is forced to leave without him . Meanwhile , Omega Squad , including Darman , is shipped out to Gaftikar , a Separatist held planet , to assist the Null ARC A ' den in training the local rebels , a lizard - humanoid species in overthrowing the human - Separatist government . Skirata haggles with a Rodian over a submersible - flight capable craft , one with which he hopes to find Ko Sai , the lead rogue Kaminoan geneticist . Ko Sai , it is revealed , had defected from the Republic to the Separatists , eventually double crossing them as well , " Taking the money and running " as put by Skirata . Delta brings news to him of Vau ' s fate , MIA and most likely dead , under several tons of ice and snow . Together , along with the Null ARCs Mereel and Ordo , they travel to Mygeeto and begin their long search for Vau . In a deep snow drift , they find Mird , Vau ' s loyal strill , hopelessly clawing its way down to where it had last seen its master . Skirata takes the submersible craft ( named Aay ' han , which means a time where Mandos remember the dead while being with living loved ones ) and plows it deep into the glacier . After hours of scraping and blasting away at the ice with lasers , they finally find Vau ' s body , frozen , but still alive , and manage to thaw him without incident . Skirata , angered but at the same time rejoicing that Vau still lives , is shocked when Vau produces the priceless treasures he had stolen from his family ' s vaults , and gives it all to Skirata for the " Clone Retirement Fund . " While this is happening , Darman and Atin infiltrate a city on Gaftikar disguised as civilians . While there , they are shocked to find Sull , an ARC trooper that had been Missing In Action on the planet for weeks , assumed to be dead . He is alive and well , and had become a citizen , leaving the army behind him . The duo catch him off guard , and haul him back to base unwillingly , as he struggles to escape . Back at base , they learn from Sull ' s interrogation that the ARC had discovered the truth behind Supreme Chancellor Palpatine ' s plan - or at least the vague gist of it . Sull , unwilling to be a pawn any longer in a war with no conceivable end , had decided to go AWOL and live out the rest of his short life peacefully . Sull agrees to leave Gaftikar after providing A ' den and Omega with information about the Gaftikar capital city and the location of Sull ' s discarded armor , which Darman retrieves . After Sull departs the planet , Darman returns to Sull ' s home to look for any evidence that the ARC had been there , when two Clone Covert Ops Troopers rush in , believing him to be Sull . Darman manages to kill them both , but is shocked and wonders why clones would be sent to kill clones . During the assault on the capital city of Gaftikar , Fi suffers a traumatic head injury and is virtually brain - dead . He is shipped to a medical facility on Coruscant but they are unable to revive him from his coma . Besany Wennen discovers that any clone trooper who requires too much effort or supplies to be saved is simply allowed to die . Only troops who can be made fit to fight again receive medical care . Since Fi is too far gone to be saved , he is scheduled to be terminated , but Besany Wennen and Captain Jaller Obrim of Coruscant Security Force kidnap him from the medcenter just in time . They take him to Obrim ' s home , where Bardan Jusik uses the Force to heal the tissue in Fi ' s brain and he lives . Even so , the healing is not complete , and Fi is nowhere near his old self . On Qiilura , Etain Tur - Mukan is tasked with " evacuating , " by force if necessary , the human farmers who acted as a resistance movement against the Separatists . The Republic promised the planet to the native Gurlanin s , who want all humans gone forever . However , the farmers do not go quietly . Etain begins to hemorrhage after the fight and fears she is miscarrying her baby . Skirata sends Ordo with a medical droid to take care of her . After her recovery , Ordo takes her with him to Dorumaa , where Skirata , Mereel , and Vau have been successful in capturing Ko Sai . Skirata takes the whole group to Mandalore and imprisons Ko Sai in his home . He wants to find out how to stop the accelerated aging in the clone troopers so that his " boys " can have a normal lifespan . However , Mereel and Vau are unable to get any information out of her until Etain offers Ko Sai a sample of her tissue and some tissue from the umbilical cord when her son is born . Eager to play around with a Jedi genome , Ko Sai accepts and gives Etain some of the data needed to reverse the rapid aging . However , Ko Sai grows more and more dejected as time passes since she is no longer known as the best geneticist in the galaxy . This loss of her reputation leads her to eventually hang herself from a beam in Skirata ' s house , using Etain ' s umbilical cord after her son , Venku , is born . Etain ' s son , Venku , is born on Mandalore ( Venku is derived from the Mando ' a word for future ) . Skirata subtly asks Darman what he would name a boy if he had one , and Darman says he likes " Kad . " Skirata and Jusik decide to nickname the boy Kad ' ika and agree to let him stay at Besany Wennen ' s apartment while Etain is in the field . Etain is torn apart that Darman is still unaware that he is the baby ' s father . Delta Squad present General Zey with Ko Sai ' s head , pretending they found it on Dorumaa to fool General Zey and the Chancellor as to her real fate and the information discovered through her . The book ends with a friendly limmie game between Niner , Atin , Corr , Ordo , Mereel , Skirata , and Vau .