Breakout Squad Breakout Squad was a clone trooper unit and part of the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars . Initially , most of its members were shinies brought together under the command of the veteran Clone Captain Lock . Missions . Mission to the Kaliida Nebula . Before they took up the moniker of Breakout Squad , the group ' s first mission was to a moon near the Kaliida Nebula in 22 BBY . Its members were dispatched from the Republic ship " Demolisher " to sort through the wreckage of the dreaded Separatist heavy cruiser " Malevolence " . Mission to Kynachi . Shortly thereafter , they were sent on a secret mission to Kynachi to discover the true nature of the exotic circuitry that was discovered among the debris from the " Malevolence " . 11 Clone Troopers , two pilots , Captain Lock , Jedi Master Ring - Sol Ambase was assigned to the mission with Nuru Kungurama joining in secret . The ship was destroyed upon arrival and Master Ambase was captured . Eventually , the Kungurama led the surviving members to destroy a CIS factory and rescued three clones . It was on Kynachi where Breakout Squad received orders from Palpatine to make the trip to the Chiss Ascendancy . It was also at this time that the chancellor christened the group to Breakout Squad . Meeting with the Chiss . After Kynachi , the survivors left with Captain Lalo Gunn on her starship , the " Hasty Harpy " to go to the Chiss ' Defense Force Station Ifpe ' a to meet with Aristocra Sev ' eere ' nuruodo . The station was attacked by a Separatist fleet led by Overseer Umbrag and destroyed . When the " Hasty Harpy " made its escape into hyperspace , it came out in a Black Hole sector . Breakout Squad joined with Hethra Mcgrrrr ' s Black Hole Pirates and were able to escape the " cursed " region using an Infinity Gate . Mission to Vaced . When Breakout Squad was returning to Coruscant , Chancellor Palpatine contacted them and asked them to divert to Vaced to meet Langu Sommilor , Kynachi ' s Commissioner and escort him to Coruscant . On Vaced , the Commissioner was sniped by a Mandalorian Death Watch member and killed . Kungurama chased after the sniper , and after a skirmish in which the " Hasty Harpy " was destroyed , the sniper was believed dead . The swoop biker Gizz helped Kungurama and Breakout Squad saved him from the authorities on Vaced . Kungurama then followed an imagecaster to Bilbringi Depot . There Breakout Squad liberated the facility from Overseer Umbrag . The Aristocra then arrived and told the Jedi about a suspected conspiracy against the Republic . Master Ambase then appeared and destroyed Sev ' eere ' nuruodo ' s ship . Jedi General Kit Fisto arrived to assist in the cleanup , and they discovered the real Langu Sommilor was still alive . Showdown on Coruscant . Breakout Squad then returned to Coruscant . Along with Master Harro Kelpura , Breakout Squad investigated a break - in in Kelpura ' s lab in Dacho District . Ambase thought Kungurama had fallen to the dark side and dueled with him before Ambase collapsed . Afterward , Kungurama was promoted to the full - time commander of Breakout Squad , and the group was assigned to investigate the disappearance of the freighter " Spice Siren . " Strange alliances . Breakout Squad ' s next mission was assigned by Grand Master Yoda . The squad was sent to Affa to escort Noggox the Hutt ' s freighters . When they arrived , they found a massacre . General Fisto then arrived , and Breakout Squad escorted the freighters to Fondor , and defeated the Neimoidian pirate ' s Dool Pundar battleship . On Fondor , Giz met a blind Twi ' lek , Kuvuta Pindi . Kungurama agreed to escort her and her orphaned younglings to the placement center on Foless . Once on Foless , Kungurama realized that Pindi was in league with Pundar and Breakout Squad pursued her . Pundar was captured and Pindi was killed . Breakout Squad then returned to Coruscant . Behind the scenes . Breakout Squad is the main focus of Ryder Windham ' s " " novel series .