CPT Apex-3212 (RP)

### Summary

Clone Captain 3212 "Apex" is a surviving member of the 327th Star Corps, who spent the time on Rugosa mostly by himself and teaching himself how to hunt with more traditional weapons. After Bly's initial dissapearance, Apex served as the Commander of K Company after Deviss was promoted to the Marshal Commander of the 327th, and now travels with the Clone Assassins.

### Description

Apex is a standard issue kaminoan Jango Fett clone who served with the 327th star corps since the beginning of his service. He was a member of the prestigious K company, and served under Commander Deviss for the initial phases of the clone wars. After Bly's disappearance at the battle of Commenor, and Deviss's summary promotion to Marshal Commander, Apex took command of K company in Deviss's stead.

### The Siren's Call

At some point in 20 BBY, the 327th received a distress call from Rugosa. Believing it to be their lost Marshal Commander, they headed there immediately with high hopes. As they arrived at the planet and begun to descend into its atmosphere, a mysterious force suddenly cut the 327th's flagship in half, causing it to fall towards the surface of Rugosa. As few as 3000 members of the corps managed to escape in shuttles, with the rest either dying in the initial blast, the fall or the subsequent crash. Apex, accompanying Marshal Commander Deviss and General Aayla Secura, along with the rest of the survivors, went to investigate the crash site, and begin to assess the damage they had taken. over 33000 327th clones died in the crash, and the bodies were simply too numerous to bury. While Aayla Secura, Deviss and most of the corps grieved, Apex and a sect of about 1000 clones shut out their grief entirely and switched to a state of pure animalistic survival instinct.

### The Massacre

As Apex returned to the 327th's makeshift camp after his first successful hunt, he came back to a sight which would shake Apex to his very core: over 2000 clones, along with Deviss and Aayla Secura, murdered. Apex almost collapsed then, but managed to shut those feelings of absolute and sheer anguish out, for good. He calmly broke the news to the others, along with the fact that they'd probably be stuck on Rugosa for more than a few days. The mission to Rugosa was unsanctioned by the Republic, and thus they would not know to look for the missing corps. The news affected the other survivors in varied ways. Some gave into their grief, losing their minds in the inevitability of their own demise. Some tried to take leadership and focus the rest, but they all failed. Chaos broke out amongst the survivors, and Apex remained stone-faced among them.

### The Hunt

Over the course of the next few months, Apex and the others formed a sort of tribal community, with every individual having to care for themselves. Apex, along with many others, fashioned rudimentary spears and bows out of the materials available, some even using parts of their blasters as materials for their own personal reminders of the pain they'd endured. They managed to keep their yellow coloration, a sort of symbol of unity amongst them, a reminder of their brotherhood. Over time, the initial chaos had calmed, and the bodies had been buried. Apex had completely abandoned his old training, focusing day and night on the hunt. He shut out most of the other members of the community in favor of honing his hunting skills and truly becoming, the Apex predator.

### The Rescue

A few months after the incident, after the Null-class ARC troopers had an encounter with the former Marshal Commander of the 327th, CC-5052 Bly, the Republic finally realized that a corps of theirs had gone missing. They sent the 555th Legion, led by Jedi masters Arye Prays and Satele Shan, to investigate the disappearance of the 327th and potentially rescue any survivors. Upon their arrival, they quickly set up camps and a wide perimeter around the 327th's existing camp, tending to the mostly malnourished, hollowed-out survivors. Apex arrived at the camp around 2 days after this, being covered in blood and dragging the corpse of an animal behind him. Prays was suspicious of Apex, but Apex simply stated he had returned from a hunt. With the late arrival, the blood and the fact that Apex was seemingly the only fully sane of the survivors, Arye continued to be suspicious of him. Apex led Arya to the site of the mass grave dug by the survivors and containing the corpses of all those who had perished in their time on Rugosa. After this. Apex travelled with Arye on Rugosa as they, along with Satele Shan and Barriss Offee, fought off a local group of pirates who tried to raid the republic camp. After the 327th survivors were in a decent enough state to leave Rugosa, Prays and Apex parted ways with a mutual respect for one another.

### The Clone Assassins

Several weeks later, as Apex was in a "Republic-Mandated Recovery Period", a call went out to some notable soldiers in the Republic about a joint operation with the Clone Assassins. Apex, being mostly bored out of his mind at the Yavin IV resort, took the job and joined the Assassins and several other normal clones on the Assassin's ship, the "Wyvern". Upon his arrival, he was gifted a brand new Compound Bow, a new Spear, and new Daggers, as he was still not used to using a blaster. They were sent down to Salteract, where Apex is currently and I'll continue this later. :)