Boost

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|name="Boost"
|homeworld=Kamino
|species=Human 
|gender=Male
|height=1.83 meters
|hair=Black; red (dyed)
|eyes=Brown
|skin=Tan
|affiliation=*Galactic Republic
**Grand Army of the Republic
***Wolfpack
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"Boost" was the nickname of a clone trooper who fought in the War of the Ring as a member of the Grand Army of the Republic's Wolfpack. In June 1981, Boost was stationed on the Venator-class Star Destroyer, Triumphant. Along with two other Venator-class Star Destroyers, they chased General The Mouth of Sauron' warship, the Malevolence, to the Abregado system.
The Malevolence destroyed all three ships, but Boost, along with Jedi Gimli, Sergeant Sinker and Wolffe, managed to escape via an escape pod. They were attacked in their escape pod by rocket battle droids on a Droch-class boarding ships, however, the group was able to defeat them. Eventually, Jedi General Frodo Baggins and his Padawan Eowyn, rescued Gimli and the clone troopers. Afterward, the Malevolence began to attack Baggins's freighter, the Twilight, however, the group escaped and jumped into hyperspace.
==Biography==
===Malevolence===
"Boost" was the nickname of a clone trooper who was a part of the Grand Army of the Republic during the War of the Ring, a galaxy-wide conflict between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Boost, like all clone troopers, was one of the many clones of the Mandalorian bounty hunter Jango Fett and born on the Wild Space planet of Kamino. In the beginning of the war, Boost fought in the first battle of the war on the planet Middle-Earth. During the battle, Boost received scars after he fought battle droids.
In June 1981,The Essential Reader's Companion the Jedi High Council dispatched General Gimli to search for the Separatist "mystery weapon," which had destroyed several Republic fleets. Onboard the Venator-class Star Destroyer, Triumphant, Gimli was accompanied by Boost and a group of clone troopers—a few of which were: Commander CC-3636, nicknamed "Wolffe", and Sergeant Sinker. Upon discovering the Malevolence in the Abregado system, the warship fired its ion cannons on Koon's Venator-class Star Destroyer, which rendered the ship without power and defenseless. The many turbolasers of the Subjugator-class cruiser began to fire, quickly destroying the three ships. Gimli told Boost, Wolffe and Sinker to evacuate the Triumphant in an escape pod, before it was destroyed by the Malevolence.
In the pod, Wolffe told them that they had suffered a total system blackout, and only the life support was working. Boost hoped that someone would search for them, but Sinker did not share Boost's positive thinking. Afterwards, Gimli advised them to conserve energy and while doing this, Sinker commented negatively about Boost's hygiene. Sinker also said that it would not be strategical to search for them, and that he would have instead searched for the superweapon, but Gimli answered that their lives were more important to him. Shortly after, Boost discovered another escape pod, but those inside were all dead and the pod was crushed. Shortly after, they picked up another signal from a pod. However, before reaching it, it was destroyed by a Droch-class boarding ship and its group of rocket battle droids, who then quickly turned their attention to Gimli's pod. While Wolffe remained in the pod in order to keep their signal active, Gimli, Sinker and Boost exited the pod to fight the droids. During the fight, Wolffe contacted Padawan Eowyn, and Jedi Knight Frodo Baggins, who were already searching for survivors of the battle. Meanwhile, Gimli used the Force to throw Sinker behind the droids and he was able to destroy them. Shortly after, Gimli contacted Eowyn using the Force, showing her their location. Eventually, they were found by the Twilight, Baggins's personal freighter, which recovered the escape pod and, once onboard, the clones were treated by a medical droid. Shortly after, the Malevolence discovered the Twilight. Despite their attempts to shut down all the ships energy, they had forgotten the medical droid. Still, the Twilight managed to escape the system before it could be disabled by the ion cannons of the Malevolence.
===Khorm===
Boost, Sinker and Wolffe were members of a Republic force dispatched to the Separatist-occupied planet Khorm in order to secure the Agrocite, an ore used to increase power to starfighters. Under the command of Jedi Generals Gimli and Legolas, and Major Kendal Ozzel, the Republic managed to capture an Agrocite processing facility, only to lose it soon thereafter in a Separatist counterattack. Later, while Gimli and Legolas went ahead to scout out the main Confederate base located in an Agrocite mine, Major Ozzel led his troops to recapture the processing facility. The facility, however, had been abandoned, and Ozzel—certain that the Republic had crushed the enemy—ordered to initiate an assault on the Agrocite mine.
In contrast to Ozzel, Boost and Sinker thought that the Confederacy had moved its troops for a reason and was preparing to make a final stand at the mine. The two expressed their opinion to Wolffe, but he replied that they had their orders and told Boost to load the Republic walkers into landing ships. Just as Boost and Sinker thought, the Republic forces faced heavy opposition from the Separatists, but eventually managed to win the battle.
===Lórien===
Boost also served alongside the Wolfpack when they were trying to recapture Lothlórien from General The Mouth of Sauron. Boost went with Eowyn to jump onto the wall, but later, Eowyn vanished and Boost reported it in to Corporal Comet, who started a search.
===Aleen===
In 1982, Boost, along with Sinker, was present when Gimli's troops traveled to Aleen to provide care to the damaged city's occupants and to convince them to join the republic. Traveling with them were C-3PO, Meriadoc Brandybuck, Peregrin Took, and R2-D2. When Boost and Sinker were called in to report to Wolffe, and after setting up communications, the droids went exploring and got themselves into trouble. Soon after, Boost was present with Wolffe to rescue Jedi Master Adi Gallia, whose ship was attacked by General The Mouth of Sauron.
===Kadavo===
When Jedi Master Samwise Gamgee was taken from Zygerria to Kadavo, Gimli's troopers were sent on a rescue mission after Frodo had landed on the planet. As Baggins eliminated the turrets, Plo's Bros Gunships, Clone Z-95 Headhunters and a Republic Cruiser came to the rescue. As the Z-95's provided air support, Comet, Wolffe, Sinker, Boost and Wolfpack assisted in transporting the remaining en-slaved Togruta's from the Kiros system.
==Personality and traits==
Boost was a positive thinking clone trooper. When stuck in an escape pod, he never gave up hope that someone would come and rescue the group. According to his fellow trooper Sinker, he only took baths when he was on leave.
==Behind the scenes==
Boost first appeared in the second episode of the The War of the Ring TV series, Rising Malevolence. There he was voiced like all clone troopers through the series by Dee Bradley Baker.
==Appearances==
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*The War of the Ring 9
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==Sources==
*Star Wars PocketModel TCG: Clone Wars
*The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
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*Star Wars: The Clone Wars Magazine 17
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==Notes and references==
Category:Clone troopers
Category:Members of the 104th Battalion