Gree (clone trooper)

Gree, named after the species of the same name and designated CC-1004, was a Clone Commander in the Grand Army of the Republic during the galactic conflict known as the Clone Wars. Gree was born and raised on the planet Kamino as a clone of the bounty hunter Jango Fett, and under the command of Jedi General Luminara Unduli, Gree led the 41st Elite Corps in a number of battles. After Padmé Amidala and Jar Jar Binks successfully apprehended Viceroy of the Trade Federation Nute Gunray on Rodia, Gree was tasked with escorting the Viceroy back to Coruscant. He failed, however, and Gunray escaped with the help of Asajj Ventress and Senate Commando Captain Faro Argyus.
Later in the war, Gree and Unduli commanded the 41st in the Second Battle of Geonosis. Alongside the 501st Legion, led by Anakin Skywalker and Clone Captain Rex, they led an attack on Poggle the Lesser's droid foundry in an attempt to provide a distraction for Padawans Ahsoka Tano and Barriss Offee. The distraction was successful, and Tano and Offee were able to destroy the foundry and the newly produced Separatist super tanks.
In 19 BBY, during the final days of the Clone Wars, Gree and Unduli were on Kashyyyk, where they were assisting the Wookiees in their defense against the Separatist Droid Army. Jedi Grand Master Yoda had also arrived on the planet, and he and Gree watched the battle unfold from an elevated command center. Gree received Order 66 from the Sith Lord Darth Sidious during the battle, which commanded him to eliminate his Jedi Generals. He was forced to comply, but before he could carry out the order, Yoda sensed a disturbance in the Force and quickly decapitated the clone commander.
==Biography==
===Early life===
Grown on the planet Kamino, Clone Commander CC-1004 was a clone of the infamous bounty hunter Jango Fett created to serve the Grand Army of the Republic. He underwent advanced training in the ARC program that was designed to turn the clones into leaders by developing their individual thinking.Star Wars Character Encyclopedia: Updated and Expanded As he had developed a keen in the myriad species of the galaxy, Gree took his name from a tentacled alien species;Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know he figured that if anyone recognized the source of the name, he would know they shared his interest in alien culture. Gree was given command of the 41st Elite Corps and appointed to serve under Jedi General Luminara Unduli during the Clone Wars.
===Clone Wars===
====Escorting Nute Gunray====
When Senator Padmé Amidala was taken hostage by Viceroy of the Trade Federation Nute Gunray on a diplomatic mission to the planet Rodia, Junior Representative Jar Jar Binks called the Republic upon help. Having received their call, Gree and the Green Company were assigned to rescue Amidala, Binks, and their protocol droid, C-3PO. Upon their arrival in Rodia's Senatorial Palace aboard LAAT/i gunships, Amidala, Binks, and Rodian Senator Onaconda Farr had already placed Gunray under arrest. Gree and other clones took the Viceroy upon order from Amidala into custody. Gree and the Green Company transported Gunray aboard a Consular-class cruiser to Jedi Master Luminara Unduli's flagship, the Venator-class Star Destroyer Tranquility. On the way, Gree was offered a bribe by Gunray, which the loyal clone declined. Instead, he handcuffed the Viceroy and escorted him to his holding cell. Along Luminara Unduli and Padawan Ahsoka Tano, the Green Company, and several Senate Commandos led by Faro Argyus, Gree was tasked with escorting Gunray to Coruscant to stand trial.
Gree oversaw the interrogation of Gunray in his cell by the two Jedi, when the Tranquility was attacked by Separatist boarding ships and vulture droids with the goal to either rescue or kill Gunray before the Republic could obtain information from him. Having received reports of the attack from the bridge, Gree ordered his men to prepare to repel the invaders. The boarding ships lodged themselves in the ship's hangar bay and deployed B2 super battle droids, a development that was reported to Gree by Green Leader. Another clone informed Gree that there were droids heading for the detention level. Unduli ordered Gree to join her and support their positions against the super battle droids, ordering Tano to stay with Gunray. Meanwhile, Sith assassin Asajj Ventress managed to place a number of thermal detonators in the engine room of the cruiser. Gree, Unduli, and the other clones were able to fight off the battle droids, but when they arrived back at Gunray's cell, they found Ahsoka imprisoned and Gunray freed by Ventress. The Jedi and clones had gained the upper hand in numbers, but Ventress set off the thermal detonators, causing enough distraction to allow her to escape.
Unduli followed Ventress and told Tano to stay with the clones and the Senate Commandos, leaving Tano and Gree to watch over Gunray again. Tano wanted to help Unduli because she believed the Mirialan was not strong enough to fight Ventress alone, and despite Gree's advice to stay, Argyus persuaded Tano to leave and support the Jedi Master. When Argyus received a signal over his comlink by Ventress, he turned on his fellow Senate Guards, shooting both of them and barely missing Gree, who managed to take cover just in time. Gree opened fire on Argyus but had to stop after Argyus freed Gunray and used him as a living shield. Gree disarmed Argyus with a precise shot, but the former Senate Guard charged him, landing a kick on the clone commander, knocking his helmet off and disarming him. After a short explanation of his actions, expressing his disinclination of the life of empty servitude, both of them reached for a blaster on the floor. Gree managed to knock Argyus unconscious, but was knocked down himself by Gunray, who fled with Arguys in an escape pod. Gree was later present on the bridge when Unduli and Tano reported to Anakin Skywalker and Yoda.
====Second Battle of Geonosis====
Later in the war, Gree fought in the Second Battle of Geonosis. After the initial landing on the planet and destruction of the shield generator protecting the droid foundry, the Republic forces were left with great casualties, with both Obi Wan Kenobi and Ki Adi Mundi wounded, keeping them from the battle. As such, the commander - together with general Luminara Unduli and her padawan Barriss Offee - were brought in as reinforcements to aid the main assault against the factory. 
He, Clone Captain Rex, Anakin Skywalker, Unduli, and their troops were tasked to distract Poggle the Lesser's forces while Offee and Tano planted bombs in the droid foundry. On behalf of Skywalker's plan, the forces, composed of clone infantry, ATTE walkers and AV-7 artillery cannons, made a march towards the large bridge leading up to the foundry's gate - a path with barely any cover - to confront the battle droid waves to come. As to be expected, this approach brought many casualties, countless of his men dropping around the commander. To make matters worse, the geonosians had set up positions in towers behind the republic forces, and poured out of them to attack the clones from above and behind in an ambush. 
Yet, they managed to hold their ground, even after a group of Droidekas momentarily halted their pursuit, and continued to push forward, until a group of Seperatist Super Tanks emerged out of the gate. Neither Gree nor any of his fellow officers had seen these new inventions before and were caught completely of guard. Not even their artillery cannons were able to penetrate their shields, and were destroyed soon after. The rain of explosives that had whiped them out continued on and forced the commander and his men into cover. Seeing as they had no way to combat this threat, Skywalker proposed a retreat, and while Rex was against this, Gree did not decline. As the Jedi general revealed shortly, that was not the entire plan however: The clones' retreat was to lure the tanks onto the bridge, so they could destroy it with Thermal detonators placed by the generals. Gree handed Luminara a backpack filled with explosive charges, and the Jedi made themselves on their way, as did the clones in the opposite direction. Both the commander and the captain were exposed to constant heavy bombardment during their retreat, but they both survived, and the bridge, along with the Super tanks on top of it, was destroyed. 
The clones returned to cheer at Unduli and Skywalker on the other end, with the bombs set at the foundry's generator soon to detonate, and the battle practically saved. Still, the padawan's were missing and, despite Rex' warnings, Skywalker refused to get onto one of the dropships the officers had sent to evacuate them before they were both found. Then suddenly, the clones would soon watch their generals be interrupted by the still emerging droid forces in the distance, now left unable to aid them because of the ravine in their way. Finally the Droid foundry exploded at its core, its large spire crashing down and causing a shockwave to rapidly approach the clones, Gree telling Rex and his men to get in cover just in time before they were engulfed in dust.
Shortly after, both clone officers came to their general's position via an LAAT/i, the gear to dig free the debris and secure the padawans already on its way, though Skywalker claimed there would not be enough time, and, despite Unduli's doubts, manage to trace a signal from Ahsoka Tando and free both of them using the force. Gree and multiple other troopers immediately came down to check on them, and aid them out of the crater.
====Battle of Kashyyyk and Order 66====
Nineteen years before the Battle of Yavin, in the closing days of the Clone Wars, the Mid Rim planet of Kashyyyk came under attack by Separatist forces. Grand Master Yoda intended to assist in the defense of the world, as he had good relations with the native Wookiee populace, and so traveled to the planet accompanied by Gree, Unduli, and the 41st Elite Corps.
Gree and Yoda oversaw the battle from a command post in the great tree city of Kachirho, Gree spotting the droid landing craft from afar using his electro binoculars, and giving the information to Yoda as he was holding a meeting with the Jedi Council. Yoda promptly gave orders for the battle to begin and positioned himself beside the commander to watch the attack from high above, joined by the city's ruler Tarfful, as well as the Wookiee Chewbacca. Still, despite their seemingly safe location, he was almost hit by a blaster bolt. 
Partway into the battle, Gree distanced himself from the other officers to receive a transmission from the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, who ordered him to execute Order 66, a command that forced clones to execute their Jedi commanders. With the behavioral modification biochip in his head forcing him to obey the order, Gree and Clone Captain Jek, who too was present on the platform, took position behind Yoda and prepared to execute him. However, the Jedi Master sensed this betrayal, and beheaded Gree and Jek in a short leap before they could open fire.
===Legacy===
Many years after his death, by the early years of the Galactic Civil War, Gree's helmet was present in Grand Admiral Thrawn's office aboard the Chimaera, his flagship, as part of his art collection.
==Personality and traits==
As a clone of the bounty hunter Jango Fett, Gree stood at 1.83 meters (6 feet) and had brown eyes with tanned skin. He dyed his originally black hair reddish-brown and cut it into two rectangular stripes. Commander Gree was a very loyal soldier, refusing Gunray's offer of a bribe. He also showed his loyalty to superiors when he advised Ahsoka Tano to not go against the command of the higher ranked Luminara Unduli and fought Captain Argyus because of his betrayal. Gree was always loyal to his Jedi commanders and never stepped out of line. Just like Unduli, Gree was a careful, by-the-book soldier who did not believe in cutting corners.
However, when Darth Sidious issued Order 66 in 19 BBY, it changed the clone's viewpoint. All clone troopers had been given a control chip, which would force them to obey the command to execute the Jedi, and Gree fell victim to the control. Ultimately loyal to the Republic and not the Jedi, Gree, believing it was a worst-case scenario, attempted to execute Grand Master Yoda, but was killed by the Jedi who sensed the betrayal before it happened.
==Skills and abilities==
As a clone commander, Gree was a skilled tactician who knew how to lead and oversee a battle. He was proficient in operating a blaster rifle as well as a blaster pistol. He was also able to defeat the Senate Guard Faro Argyus in hand-to-hand combat, before he was knocked down from behind by Viceroy Nute Gunray. Gree was not talented in diplomacy, but he did have above-average intelligence, speed and strength, and outstanding fighting ability. Gree was also skilled in aerial maneuvers, data-slicing, reconnaissance and infiltration. 
==Equipment==
Early in the Clone Wars, Gree wore standard Phase I clone armor. His armor was detailed with markings and sported the same green that belonged to Green Company. Gree wore a black bandolier, which held extra ammunition as well as the option to hold other pouches. At some point during the Clone Wars, his armor was replaced with the new Phase II clone trooper armor. Much like his Phase I counterpart, his new armor was decorated with the same green markings, but it lacked the bandolier. During the Battle of Kashyyyk, Gree's Phase II armor was upgraded, adding some shoulder straps connected to his belt, a pouch strapped to his left thigh, an extra N-20 Baradium-core thermal detonator on his lower back (above the standard issue one attached to his belt), and an antenna array on his upper back. The armor's deco was also updated to incorporate jungle camouflage to the thighs, wrists and pelvis, as well as a black coloration to the shins and chest. He also carried a personalized set of green macrobinoculars.
Like many commanding officers, Gree utilized a variety of weapons. He carried a DC-15A blaster carbine and was also equipped with one DC-17 hand blaster (complemented by a holster on the side of his right leg), different to the two pistols some other commanding officers like Captain Rex wielded.
==Behind the scenes==
CC-1004 made his first canonical appearance in the 2005 film Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith, where he was voiced by Temuera Morrison, who voiced all of the other clone troopers in the movie. Like all of the other clones, he was portrayed as a computer-generated character.* He was first identified as "Gree" in the Star Wars Legends tie-in reference book Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: The Visual Dictionary.Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: The Visual Dictionary The name was canonized by its inclusion in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode "Cloak of Darkness." Like all clones in the series, Gree was voiced by Dee Bradley Baker.
In Legends, his designation was first mentioned as just 1004 in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: The Visual Dictionary. Combined with the knowledge from the article "Guide to the Grand Army of the Republic" from the eighty-fourth issue of the Star Wars Insider magazine, that the designation CC is used for clone commanders, his designation could be determined as CC-1004. In canon, 1004 was first mentioned in Gree's entry in the Encyclopedia on StarWars.com and his full designation CC-1004 was first mentioned in Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know, a reference book from 2015. In the 2017 reference book, Star Wars: Geektionary: The Galaxy from A - Z, Gree was misidentified as Commander Rigs on page 73.Star Wars: Geektionary: The Galaxy from A - Z Gree had his first Legends appearance without his helmet in the Star Wars: 30th Anniversary Collection line of toys.Star Wars: 30th Anniversary Collection In canon, he had his first helmetless appearance in the TV episode "Cloak of Darkness." 
In the illustrated screenplay of Revenge of the Sith, though Gree's death scene remained largely the same as in the final cut, Gree and his fellow trooper were able to fire their blasters before being killed by Yoda, who had already swiftly jumped over them before they could reveal their weapons.Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith Illustrated Screenplay
==Appearances==
*Star Wars: The Prequel Trilogy – A Graphic Novel
*Star Wars Journeys: Beginnings
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===Non-canon appearances===
*LEGO Star Wars: Castaways 
*LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
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