CT - 0741 "Rushed" (RP)

Rushed as an ARC Trooper in the middle of a battle.[Drawn by Nillie]

## CC-0741

"Rushed"

CT-0741 "Rushed" was a clone trooper in the Systems Army Alpha. He participated in a number of battles across the Clone Wars and the conflict with the Eternal Empire, including the infamous Battle of Geonosis, The Battle of Quell, The Citadel, The Charra Campaign and more. He served in the 327th Star Corp, 9th Assault Corp, Horn Company and eventually was recruited to Special Forces where he became an ARC Trooper. After rescuing the survivors of the 327th´s Massacre, Rushed was appointed the new Marshall Commander of the 327th and was tasked with rebuilding the corp and making sure they could get into fighting shape again.

## Biography

### Early Life

Like all clone troopers CT-0741 “Rushed” was created by the Kaminoans from the genetic template of the bounty hunter Jango Fett for the purpose of creating an army. This army was commissioned by the late Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas, who ordered the army for the Galactic Republic.

On the planet Kamino, Rushed and his brothers were trained to be the finest soldiers in the galaxy. Rushed managed to complete his training and become an official soldier in the Grand Army of the Republic, he was assigned to the 327th Star Corp.

### The Clone Wars

#### Geonosis

Rushed was first deployed during the first battle of the Clone Wars, The Battle of Geonosis. After Jedi Master Mace Windu set out on foot to disable a CIS cannon, he penetrated the droid defenses and destroyed the last power nodes with his lightsaber. With the orbital defenses disabled, a landing zone had to be made. The Jedi strike team landed in a captured Confederate outpost and moved toward the arena in a convoy of RTTs.

In the Landing Zone, Rushed met other members of the 327th ,including Hound, Nillie and his commanding officer Commander Bly. The 327th were called to help with the rescue at the Petranaki Arena. However, when they arrived at the arena most of the Jedi had already escaped and the 327th stayed to finish the remaining droids and later returned to the initial Landing Zone.

   Later, Iri Camas ordered that someone move to the derelict structure and the 327th followed orders. There several Jedi including Mace Windu and other battalions like the 41st Elite Corp, the 91st Recon Corp were already facing the Separatist forces. A Separatist ship trying to escape the planet was shot down, it crashed creating a sandstorm on the planet surface affecting the derelict structure.

During the heat of battle Rushed called for air support, and in response, a Y-wing bombed the area near Rushed, and he was badly injured due to a faulty targeting system. Rushed's body was recovered and placed on intensive care he would fully heal in a bacta tank. After recuperating, Rushed returned to the 327th, painting his armor with the Corps' colors and added a jetpack; Rushed was also promoted to Sergeant.

#### Kamino Invasion

The planet Kamino, birthplace of the clone army became a target for a CIS invasion during the early months of the Clone War. The 327th Star Corp was deployed to help in the defense of the planet. The Star Corp was stationed at one of the corridors that led into the hangar.

For most of the fight the 327th was just standing in the corridor bonding with it each other. Rushed had nice talks with Nillie and other memebers. When the CIS forces finally reached the corridor a skirmish ensued, at the beginning the 327th was overwhelmed as the enemy forces where quite resistant to blaster fire and their numbers were great.

The skirmish took a turn when reinforcements arrived, an ARC Trooper made a hole in the floor where the CIS´ droids began to fall. Tragedy will soon strike though, when a CIS owned LAAT would land in the ARC hangar. This LAAT was filled with rhydonium primed to explode, which it did after landing in the hangar. The explosion was ginormous, the corridor in which the 327th was stationed collapsed crushing some of them. Rather miraculously most, if not all, of the members of the 327th survived and quickly made their way to the exploded hangar to help any possible survivors. There weren’t many of them. The Star Corp remained on the hangar until the battle was over, treating their wounds.

#### The Battle of Quell

The Republic got word that the Separatists where planning an invasion of the planet Quell and the 327th Star Corp were called to defend the system. The corp was divided, Commander Bly alongside Commander Gree, Bacara, Major Boss, Thrawn and others commanded the forces in space. Meanwhile on the surface, generals Aayla Secura, Satele Shan, Goldblum, Luminara alongside Commander Deviss were in charge of the defense.

The CIS forces proceeded to march on a canyon towards a Republic information bunker, however thanks to Commander Deviss´ planning, explosives were set in the canyon. As the CIS marched, the walls of the canyon were blown sky high. The battle had begun; Rushed participated in the battle using his jetpack to avoid enemy fire or getting crushed by debris. At one point during the battle Nillie took off with her jetpack to support the group, however it malfunction and she fell to the ground suffering extreme injuries (Rushed would drag her body around managing to get her into the medical bay aboard their crucer).

The battle started to turn in the CIS favor and the 327th were forced to retreat to the information bunker. Despite being shot by Chad Fett and Cad Bane (repeatedly) Rushed survived and managed to fall back with the rest of the forces. Eventually an evacuation was called and Rushed managed to escape aboard a LAAT. The battle as a whole was a victory as Mace Windu managed to save the information bunker and the republic took the CIS base. Although the battle was a victory, Rushed felt a deep sorrow thanks to Nillie´s major injuries. This would only be a taste of the what the war had in store for the Star Corp. Additionally the tensions between Commander Deviss and Bly really started to heat up in the aftermath of the battle.

#### The Citadel

Two republic operatives where captured and sent to The Citadel. The Republic wanted to break them out, so they mounted a full-scale invasion of the Citadel. Rushed was assigned to the 1st Triskelion platoon their mission was to create a distraction on the courtyard of the Citadel, so the plan was to have a frontal attack in the courtyard.

Rushed was inside an AT-TE preparing his gear, when the walker was dropped into the republic´s landing zone, he was there alongside other troopers and Jedi. Command took a long time to give the go-ahead to the attack, so tensions were running high at the landing zone, Commanders Bly and Deviss were arguing as always. Eventually orders were given, and they marched into the courtyard (Rushed was still inside the AT-TE).

During the battle Rushed coordinated the gunners of the AT-TE, but he felt like he could be doing more so he abandoned the AT-TE and proceeded to fight, boots on the ground. A group of droidekas started to overwhelm the group, but they were eventually destroyed by Bly thanks to his air support. Suddenly Count Dooku´s ship flew across the battlefield and stayed there, the Count himself came out of the ship and started to use the force to take a jedi named Galen as a distraction, he also called for 2000 additional battle droids into the battle.

Major Boss came in with a number of AT-TEs as backup which helped to destroy Dooku´s forces. General Secura got injured, however she got a stim thrown to her which she catched and usedm, stabilizing her condition. Master Yoda managed to retrieve Galen from Dooku and Dooku called for even more reinforcements, a force of 10,000 B1 battle droids to come to his aid; Major Boss ordered an evacuation and everyone got on an AT-TE back to the landing zone.

After arriving to the landing zone, Rushed helped to get injured troops into LAATs. When this was done Rushed entered an LAAT and republic forces evacuated the Citadel. Aayla and Bly started to talk, when they arrived back at the ship Deviss took Bly aside and yet another argument over Jedi leadership begun. In order to escape another discussion, Rushed offered drinks for every member of the Triskelion Platoon. Rushed was promoted to Captain after the Battle of the Citadel.

#### Mandalore

When the Republic launched an assault on Mandalore, Rushed and the 327th Star Corp were assigned to the moon of Concordia to secure the beskar mines situated on the moon. On this campaign Rushed met one of his (future) best friends CT Burns.

Once on Concordia republic forces marched into the beskar mines. After turning on the operating machinery inside the mines a shot was heard, and the mines were quickly evacuated. Outside the CIS was surrounding the mine and a battle begun, Rushed was shot by Agent Dave Ordo; the shots were non-lethal but Rushed fell to the ground. Thanks to Captains Caiman and Evo Rushed managed to get up and continue the fight.

Due to the significant CIS pressure the Republic was falling back into the mines. Chad Fett sent 10 twilek children into the mine and 5 of them erupted into a huge explosion that hit Rushed. The explosion was the least of his worries, kids were used as living bombs; Rushed never felt so sickened by anything. Despite the excruciating mental and physical pain, Rushed managed to crawl to cover while the fight continued. Celd Skirata fired three round bursts towards Rushed, however gathering his remaining willpower he managed to get up and evaded the shots. Celd Skirata in an effort to finish Rushed off, equipped a vibro dagger and a jetpack then he tackled Rushed aiming for his chest with the blade. At the same time the mine began to collapse, Chad Fett fired dioxis towards Caiman and Rushed; CT Burns was badly injured as well. Just when all seemed lost for Rushed, Lt Hound urged her narglatch towards Rushed and it slide the saddle armor to the side, sweeping Rushed up off his feet and trampling Celd Skirata. Then Lt. Hound slapped her jetpack on Rushed and launched him off the mine.

Back at the Republic´s landing site, Rushed passed out thanks to his injuries, however he was woken up by Evo when he gave Rushed a stim. Then Apollo offered a drink to Caiman and Rushed. Aayla and Deviss went to check on the men’s condition, afterwards Deviss went on a rant, proclaiming that it was the Jedi´s fault that Republic forces fell into the CIS trap. Other subjects such as the darksaber emerged during this heated discussion and Rushed took a seemingly pro-Jedi stance.

Later out of knowhere Kifo began attacking the Republic´s forces, Rushed and others from the 327th were ordered to board LAATs but as they were making their escape, Kifo jumped and destroyed the LAAT´s engines, as result the LAAT fell out of the sky crushing Reeves. Aayla was able to safely get everyone off the LAAT, when realizing what have happened all the Republic forces there screamed because of what have happened to Reeves (his body was recovered and dragged back to the fleet). Mace Windu charged towards Kifo at extremely fast speeds, using his rage and Kifo's to amp myself, beheading him.

A second evacuation happened and this time it was successful. The trip however was really awkard for Rushed. Bly, Deviss, Aayla, Stass Allie, Goopy, Camo, Blitz, Evo, Hawkeye, Egg and others (including the body of Reeves) boarded a single LAAT; additionally, Deviss and Bly had another argument. He tried to cool Deviss off and it didn’t work, however he managed to give a stim to Twelve “Buck”. They returned to the fleet and Rushed went to medical bay, finally he hit the bar to drink unhealthy levels of beverage in an effort to forget what had happened with the kids.

Mandalore was one of the worst experiences in Rushed´s career, he had seen friends die or get badly injured at an alarming rate and he was victim of a horrible war crime, but he also survived. This was the beginning of Rushed´s alcoholism, he had drunk before to celebrate victories and such, but now he was trying to drink his sorrow again and from this point on after every battle he would he drink beyond believe. However, thanks to his survival Rushed began to develop a religious affinity for the force as he started to believe that most events were a result of its will and that thanks to it Rushed had managed to survive

#### The Fall of the 327th

As the Clone Wars raged on Rushed began participating in a lot of small missions with the 327th Star Corp and with the Triskelion Platoon. Rushed went on a particularly long mission with the Triskelion Platoon but when he returned, he was informed that Aayla, Deviss, Bly and the vast majority of the 327th Star Corp were Missing In Action. That during an assignment they lost contact with them and they disappeared without a trace. This event pushed Rushed to a new low, he nearly deserted the GAR to either go drink himself to death, or simply let himself die.

However High Command approached Rushed and invited him to the 9th Assault Corp, the other members of the Star Corp that were still alive joined the 9th so Rushed decided to join as well. This invitation prevented him from letting himself die. Since the 9th was a new Corp being built from the ground up Rushed didn’t see much action at first, so he continued to drink rather dangerously.

One day general Eeth Koth and Captain Lock approached Rushed to recruit him to another group in the Systems Army Alpha, Horn Company. Rushed decided to accept because he was looking for duties that could distract him; but Captain Lock soon went MIA as well and General Koth became the leader of the SAA. So Horn Company never took off, despite this Rushed changed his armor to reflect Horn Company.

During a mission for the 9th Assault Corp, Rushed found himself in battle alongside the ARC troopers. One of them, Hawkeye, had a misfire, instead of hitting the enemy the blaster bolt hit Rushed in the back of the head. Somehow Rushed survived, however he would need to be placed on a bacta tank in order to fully heal. He would be in one for several months in a comatose state.

### The War of the Eternal Alliance

#### Return to the Front Lines: The Third Battle of Dromund Kaas

Rushed recovery was done by the time the Republic attacked the planet Dromund Kass. He was immediately deployed there; the battle had already begun by the time he arrived on the planet. Rushed joined Commander Gree´s and Stass Allie´s forces on the surface at the same time a large 30 km ship of unknown make and model emerged from the mountains and swiftly made its way to orbit.

Everyone, including Rushed, was in pure shock at the sight of such a ship. However, they were cut short as the orders to attack the fortress were given. To fight the new enemy, the Republic and CIS made an alliance; on their way to the fortress Rushed´ team met up with Assaj Ventress, immediately the tension in the air skyrocketed. Quinlan Vos and General Grievous also joined the group.

The group arrived at the ruins of Kass City, making their way into the fortress, Rushed tried to help a shiny named Bravo. An ion storm was affecting the area, every piece of equipment they had stopped working. The group encountered ARC Fordo fighting, Stass Allies jumped to help him since her lightsaber still worked; Skytroopers started to surround the group, Rushed and the others immediately took cover and started to look for a way to fight the skytroopers without their blasters.

Rushed was ordered by Stass to take the clones and guide them into a flanking position. Rushed then helped Gree to move Grievous unconscious body into the flanking zone, Yoshi was also with them. Stass managed to destroy some skytroopers and give their weapons to the clones. Yoshi attacked the skytroopers, but their armor made them formidable, and they managed to shoot him and then crush him, Rushed saw this and he started to have a mental breakdown.

Rushed was almost attack by a vine cat but randomly it returned to the forest; The skytroopers began overwhelming Rushed´ group and they began to fall back. However, the skytroopers launched a rocket barrage into the retreating troops, one of the missiles hit near Rushed, knocking him out. Stass managed to stabilize him, but he was taken off the battle. The Republic and CIS were eventually overwhelmed on all fronts so they had to retreat from Dromund Kass.

For some reason, Major Kom´rk from Special Forces was impressed with Rushed and invited him to join the ranks of the infamous ARC Troopers, Rushed felt honored and accepted. Rushed would get a new phase 1.5 armor and ARC gear.

#### First ARC Mission: Charra

##### Phase 2 of the Campaign

When Rushed was finally able to get to the ARC troopers ship “The Havoc” the Charra campaign had already complete its first phase. Rushed´s first mission as an ARC trooper was the second phase of the campaign; when he arrived at the GAR landing point, he heard someone mention the name Burns, but he was quickly given orders to go to Polus Westside.

Once there Rushed and the other ARCs (which included Burns, Kom´rk, Fives, Gin, Echo, Barlex, Phoenix, Blitz, Slayer and others) were under fire by 15 infantry, 4 E-WEB Gunners & 4 Viper recon droids. Rushed threw a thermal detonator and the human milita infantry were knocked back but they managed to get back up and return fire. Rushed began to fire upon the militia, but during the firefight the ARCs were ordered to move to Polus Plaza.

When the ARCs arrived at the plaza, they were met by the firepower of anti-infantry towers. Thanks to the efforts of the Null ARCs and others, the towers were disabled however the rest of the ARC forces were engaged by more infantry another firefight ensued; The ARCs were victorious, and they were instructed to move to the operations base.

They tried infiltrating the base quietly, however thanks to a shot fired by Barlex the enemy noticed the ARCs. The base was protected by 2 IG-86 Sentinel Droids - Relby-v10 Rifles (no grenade launcher), 2 BX-Series Commando Droids - Modified E-5 (Stronger, slower), 5 Officers - DH-23 (Pistols, no armor) and 6 Infantry - Blaster carbines, moderate armored clothing; the ARCs killed the non-droid personnel first, then they proceed to destroy the remaining droid forces. During the firefight, Burns recognized Rushed thanks to a scream he gave. Rushed was delighted to see him after so long, they agreed to catch up on their lives after the mission was over. After they took the operations base, they continued to the control room.

The security forces protecting the room consisted of 4 Officers - DH-23 Pistols, no armor 8 Gunners - DH-23 Pistols, no armor 4 Infantry - Blaster carbines, moderate armored clothing. Rushed threw a droid popper into the room and proceeded to take cover and start firing from there; the ARCs took control of the room. They proceed to take control of the air guns and started to fire upon the enemy fleet which consisted of 6 Frigates - Slow, medium armored, anti-starfighter guns 5 Corvettes - Medium armored, heavy canons 8 Rogue-class Starfighters - Maneuverable, medium-heavy canons. They were trying to depart, and ARC was ordered to take them out. After doing so, enemy forces were amassing on Polus Plaza, ARC decided to go deal with them.

The plaza filled up with 20 Infantry - Blaster carbines, moderate armored clothing 10 Heavy Infantry - Heavy Repeating blasters, Heavily armored clothing 6 BX-Series Commando Droids - Modified E-5 (Stronger, slower) 6 Red B2 Grapple Droids - medium armor, fireball throwers 4 Jumptroopers - Blaster carbines, light armored clothing, jetpacks. Their mission was to retake the operations base; during the initial confrontation Burns was heavily injured via headshot. Rushed was devastated as he says his old friend get shot, he managed to get himself together and he recovered Burns´ body. The last of the grapple droids went down, not before one last fire ball hit at Rushed feet, knocking him back, Rushed hit the ground and a Heavy infantry shot Rushed´s jetpack, and it started fizzing, Rushed however quickly detached the jetpack from his back. The battler ended when Kom´rk arrived with one of his tanks and killed the remaining enemy forces. Rushed (with Burns body) and the rest of the ARCs decided to return to their landing point.

As they were arriving Rushed loaded Burns´ body to an LAAT to get him into a bacta tank as soon as possible and just when things were starting to settle down a mysterious assassin shot a precision blast clean through the neck of Scepter. ARC immediately took cover to avoid another loss, just as this was happening however another infantry force approached the ARC forces. A small force consisting of 0 infantry and 5 heavy infantries fired upon ARC, the sun was setting as the infantry was defeated. ARC was now stranded on the landing point with reinforcements from The Havoc on their way.

##### Phase 3 of the Campaign

For the final phase of the campaign Rushed was assigned to Alpha squad, the other members were Burns (now recovered), Blitz, Wildcard, Rook and Phoenix; the squad was ordered to move into an enemy safe house to extract the minister Corlos Sympson. Then they would meet Beta Squat at the rally point and escort AT-TEs to the palace. It was hoped that Alpha Squad would acquire useful intel on palace defenses from the minister. Regardless, they would go through the palace supply doc while Beta Squad reaches the great hall.  The objective was to capture Jaask the dictator of Charra.

 On the Havoc, Rushed met with the team where they discussed the possibility of using a Turbotank for the extraction, however it was decided that they wouldn’t do that as it was probably overkill. Burns was the last one to arrive at the meeting and as such Rushed told him that the post-mission drinks would be on him. Then they boarded their transports and headed towards the safe house.

Once they arrived, they found a figure on the shadows, Denal found a light switch and activated it. Once the lights came on, the squad found Corlos dead, on a desk a commlink was beeping and a hologram appeared of Aydhin Jaask and he had this to say:

> "Hello Republic troopers, it appears Corlos is dead, such a shame",  "You really think it would be that easy? I'm not some incompetent Separatist politician”, “Assasin Kill them!".
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Then the hologram cut off, the doors of the safe house sealed, and a green visor flashed on as a figure appeared in the darkness, two shots were fired, one at Burns and one at Rushed. Both of them managed to evade the shots and the assassin activated his cloak, and a sharp clink was heard suddenly the assassin appeared behind Rook and slashed his vibroblade towards his neck at full force and he quickly dove out of the way but tripped over himself. Rushed started to panic asking the team for a way out the team quickly set up some C4 explosives to blow the doors however they failed.

The assassin was attacking Rook and took his blaster and fired three shots towards Rook's head however he was distracted by Rushed´s blaster shots and missed Rook. The assassin ducked the incoming shots and activated his cloak, he then drew his vibro daggers while cloaked, then the after tried to locate him by using thermal vision on their gear. But then the assassin de-cloaked and threw a dagger at Rook's exposed neck, the knife was buried into Rooks skull instead; leaving him in a comatose state. In anger Rushed tackled the assassin, knocking off his helmet revealing that the assassin was a Jango Fett clone. The shock left the team unguarded for a second which the assassin used, kicking the others off him, grabbed his helmet, and dropped a smoke grenade. Two thermal detonators appeared where the assassin was and they went off, Blitz was thrown into a wall because he didn’t get to cover in time, he was hit by the blast in the thighs, cracking the armor and causing singing burns on his thighs reach to the knees. Blitz was hurt and couldn’t sprint good. The team decided to find a way out of the safehouse while waiting for new orders. They did find a way out and Hammer instructed them to go to palace supply doc.

Alpha Squad was flying in a LAAT and from the ship they could see a force composed of 100 assault class militia, 25 heavies and a few futuristic looking tanks awaited them. The LAAT was blasted, they survived but the situation was dire with the militia approaching their position and they were trapped by the remains of the LAAT. The militia was surrounding the group, they threw a lot of the detonators they had on the militia and huge portion went down, but out of the smoke a tank rolls out and it pointed his barrel directly at Rushed. He tried to get out of the way, at the same time Wild threw a thermal detonator at the gun barrel blowing it off however the remains of the turret landed on Rushed legs, crushing them. Because of the pain Rushed passed out.

Wild was the only ARC to help Rushed as the other were surrounded by 20 militia men. As he wasn’t able to lift the turret from Rushed´s legs, Wild had to amputate them; after the amputation Wild strapped Rushed to his backpack and regrouped with the others. Rushed started to regain consciousness during this, Wild gave him a gun and he started to fire upon the enemy while on Wild´s back. Rook also woke up and managed to make his way back to the team, with his help the team captured a tank. The team grouped up at the tank and later headed to the Throne Room.

Alpha Squad blew the doors open via the tank but disembarked since it wouldn’t fit in the Throne room. Rushed stayed behind on the tank since he could no longer move. Jaask contacted the team and send his guards after team, the clone assassin would also arrive at the scene. A battle ensued but Rushed couldn’t participate all he could do was watch from the tank. The assassin was fighting Blitz at one point and during the fight Blitz dropped a 327th Star Corp pin, Rushed and Burns immediately recognized the pin but the assassin also recognized it freezing for a moment. The rest of ARC took the opportunity to fire upon the assassin but he managed to escap, the team followed him to the palace roof (Wild also strapped Rushed to his back yet again).

The assassin grappled up to the roof cloaked, clutching his head in agony and Jaask had acquired Blaze Trooper armor which had been heavily modified. It included stronger armor and increased strength, a flamethrower that was far reaching and blaster canons that did heavy damage. However, it was slow turning, but it was compensated for by electrified plating to prevent touching. The assassin and Jaask regrouped at the throne awaiting the ARC forces. Burns was the first one to arrive and he was burned alive, Rushed again was devasted that his friend was heavily injured and that yet again they wouldn’t be able to catch up. The rest of team soon arrived, and a battle began.

The assassin was yet again attacking Rook and Jaask was overwhelming the team. Rushed asked Wild to put him down as he was slowing him down, he didn’t paid attention as he was focused on keeping Burns alive. Rook was stabbed by the assassin and thrown off the building. Eventually after Wild did his best with Burns, he left Rushed beside him, so he could join the battle in full. With the battle turning in the ARCs favor the clone assassin and Jaask boarded an LAAT an escaped the planet by avoiding the Havoc´s tractor beam and jumping into hyperspace. The ARCs regrouped and waited for extraction.

Once on the Havoc, Rushed got sent into the medical bay to get cybernetic legs. After the procedure Rushed got a pretty important report; that after the battle they had an analysis of HUD recordings from the ARC troopers, and they managed to locate the tattooed code on the Clone Assassin's wrist and they received his file: he was CC-5052, Clone Commander Bly Rushed previous CO on the 327th. Because of this news and the state Burns was in, he started to have a breakdown and he decided to go drink. This would be his heaviest drinking session yet, since he realized that the hope of ever finding the missing 327th was probably gone and that something terrible had happened to his former corp.

#### The Boarding of the Liberation

The pirate names Dway Ne managed to steal a Bellator-class Super Star Destroyer named “The Liberation” from the Republic as a result the Thirds Systems Army and a large part of Systems Army Alpha was tasked with taking it back. Rushed was called to help he accepted because other surviving members of the missing 327th Star Corp would help with mission as well. Despite the fact that Rushed now worked with the ARC Legion, his rank was still dependent on the SAA shortly before this mission the SAA was going through heavy reorganization. As a result, Rushed was demoted to Sergeant.

The day of the mission came and the surviving 327th, the 322nd Company and the 212th Battalion boarded the port hangar of the Liberation. As the LAATs landed in, they were met with heavy fire from the turrets, 2 of the LAATs got destroyed by rocket launchers. A 100 pirates were awaiting the Republic´s forces on the hangar, after landing Rushed entered into immediate combat. During the firefight he met with a 327th survivor named Glue, Rushed order him to throw an emp towards one of the turrets. The emp hit the turret directly and it was disabled; the lights on the hangar went out and Rushed activate night vision almost immediately he managed to see loose cables, Rushed started to make his way to a master switch to activate the lights evading the cables. The battle quickly turned to the Republic´s favor the remaining pirated fled and the 327th and the 332nd were ordered to go to the land vehicles hangar.

A 150 Pirates were guarding the land vehicle hangar, Rushed and Glue were the first troops to enter the hangar, as they entered, they saw a blockade of vehicles ahead of them, manned by pirates and a large assortment of turrets and weapons. Rushed and Glue tried to be stealthy, but the pirates noticed the troopers entering and opened fire. At their end of the hangar, they noticed a couple of turbo tanks in the middle of repairs, Rushed immediately tried to get to one of the tanks at the same time a TX-130 Tank could also be seen in one of the corners. It was on fire, and it would explode in about 4 minutes. Even though Rushed made it to one of the turbo tanks he didn’t fire the weapons as it could trigger the TX-130 explosion.

The artificial gravity of the hangar turns of and Sunny, a CT from the 322nd managed to prevent the explosion of the tank from killing the rest of the GAR forces, however he was caught in the explosion. Rushed saluted for that sacrifice and then proceeded to leave the turbo tank and start to attack the remaining pirate forces. The artificial gravity come back online and Rushed falls flat in his face, the fall hurts him a little and his helmet received a crack. Rushed quickly got on his feet and returned to the turbo tank that he was previously in, he manned one of the turrets and began to open fire on the remaining pirated forces and the cowering pirates were obliterated. The rest of the troops were ordered to go to the barracks, Rushed decided to stay back and look out for any other pirates trying to flank the GAR forces or trying to escape. The mission was eventually a victory since Dway Ne was taken prisoner by a Commando Squad after almost running from a fight with MCDR Jesse CC-5597.

#### Orbit Above Arami

Rushed later rejoined the ARCs on their ship The Havoc when they were engaging a group of pirates that attacked the Havoc, Rushed arrived on the Havoc bridge alongside other ARCs. When they entered the bridge, the group saw Thorn standing in the middle of the bridge gripping onto the Hammer and tightly launching blaster bolts at the pirates in a sweeping motion there were also a few officers trying their best to fight off a sizeable group of pirates. Rushed and the other ARCs started to take down the remaining pirates. During the battle Perry the Platypus revealed that he could actually speak very fluent basic.

During the battle a stampede of anoobas were heard in the distance, they arrived on the Bridge and ARC had to engage the beasts. During the firefight Coldfire accidently shot Rushed in the leg, Checkers patch up Rushed cybernetic legs. The anoobas were slain by ARC, after the bridge was cleaned up Hammer ordered Havoc to take some troopers into the enemy’s ship and take in its leader, alive. Havoc chose Checkers and Rushed to accompany him.

The boarded the pirates ship and the hallway appeared to be deserted, no sign of the fleeing pirates from earlier. There was little to no cover to be found, but lights and ventilation shafts in the ceiling could perhaps be used to navigate the ship, if needed. As ARC scoured the hallway, a voice from a tannoy speaked:

> "Well, hello there friends! I saw what you did with my fellow scallywags down in the bridge, and I just want to say you were very, VERY naughty."
> "Now, because you children have been naughty, a punishment must be ensured!"
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The man laughed as a metal barrier fell down from the ceiling, separating the ARC troopers from Havoc, the Alphas and the Nulls. Rushed and Checkers remained on the other side of the barrier, Rushed suggested to cut the metal barrier to get to the others. The voice reappeared from over the tannoy:

> "Now that’s quite naughty of you, my friend! I think you deserve a harsher punishment!"
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Rushed trying to get the voice´s attention even more suggest that the pirate might have a weird fetish since it said the word naughty a lot. Far-off growling was heard as 3 Massif's were released into the corridors, heading towards the normal ARCs. Rushed joined Checkers in the vents as the growling appeared to be getting closer by the second, while the man started laughing over the tannoy.

Rushed and Checkers were forced to leave the vents as the pirates released a nerve agent into the vents. As they were dropping down from the vents, a four-legged creature with astonishingly large teeth rounded the corner, staring at the ARCs (Vulpes joined the group at this point) and growled before starting to run directly towards at them. The creature first leaped at Checkers. Checkers kicked the mastiif while Vulpes fired auto-explosive rounds however they missed, and they hit the vents which now released the nerve agent directly into the hallway.

Rushed managed to hit a mastiff in the leg, it whined as one of its legs was punctured by a blaster bolt, yet it continued to run towards Rushed, charging into his legs and knocking him to the ground. Vulpes manage to land a shot on the one attacking Rushed, but the nerve agent was directly above them, and they started to feel its effects, coughing and wheezing. As Rushed was suggesting a retreat the Massiff growled and it turned back around to Rushed, starting another charge. Rushed jumped out of the way and the massiff leaped into the cloud of gas, taking in a large amount and falling to the ground, as its heart ceased to pump. After killing the massiffs the voice returned and was angry that the ARCs had killed his “dogs”.

The voice stated that it increased the speed at which the gas was being released and 4 Pirates rounded the corner from in front of you, starting to fire as the gas filled the corridors behind the ARCs. These pirates were equipped with gas masks; Vulpes, Checkers and Rushed killed the pirates (some of them rather brutally) and took their gas masks. The voice returned and proclaimed that they were worthy to meet him, at first, they declined but the voice threatens to self-destruct the ship. Rushed took point when going into the office of the leader of the pirates. As they walked in, they saw the man himself sitting behind the desk, in a plump chair. He had a set of monitors on the wall opposite him, and a large red button on the desk in front of him. Suddenly an unidentified Alpha ARC walked into the office with the rest of the group, in an attempt at an ambush two guards drop down from behind the team. The Alpha ARC killed them both rather quickly, the man showed the team the red button for the self-destruct; the ARCs tried to make a deal with the man to stop him from blowing up the ship (they didn’t believe he would actually blow up the ship, so the deals were aggressive and not that great).

Because the negotiations were going nowhere the man pulled out a pistol with his left hand, shooting the Alpha in the chest. However, he had Beskar plates in his armor, instinctively Rushed shot the man (the gun was on stun). The stun bolt hit him square in the chest, knocking him out and causing the detonator to fall down onto the floor, pressing against it. The self-destruct sequence was initiated, at this moment Burns showed up asking what the situation was; Rushed told him he would fill him in later and that right now they needed to run. Luckily the self-destruct sequence had a timer, Checkers got the man and the team started to run towards the Havoc. They made it to the ship and were received by Perry; the Havoc managed to escape in time and the mission was a success. Rushed and Burns finally went to the ship´s bar to get a drink together after a long time.

#### The Blazing Sun

While stationed on The Havoc, the ship received a distress signal from the Hoth system. When the Havoc arrived on the system it discovered the Republic fleet just floating there, a lot of ARCs went out on different missions to explore the fleet; Rushed stayed on the Havoc to monitor the others missions. Eventually he retreated to his quarters to drink, pray and hope for the best.

However, a few days later after they arrived a mission was organized to board The Blazing Sun one of the venators in the system. When they arrived at the hangar bay of the ship, ARC was split into three teams: Team Perry, Team Tarre, and Team Coldfire. Rushed decided to join team Perry, which included (besides Perry): Muzzle, Square, Checkers, Hearts, Maze, Hawk, Threw, Chess and Astrum.

Team Perry headed into the medical ward; there they made their way to a room named reception which was boarded, after blowing the door a creature made up of many heads appeared and attacked the team. Despite its regeneration abilities the team managed to defeat the monster thanks to the use of flamethrowers; At the far end of the reception there was a door labelled 'Medical Ward', but it was barricaded with wooden boards. When Maze began opening the doors the team was attack by spider-like creatures, after a skirmish Rushed threw a thermal detonator at the spiders which caused them to go away.

They continued their journey and started going up some stairs, where ARC started a shoot out above them since they heard a sound. Part of the vents fell and what they saw was rows upon rows of teeth, staring at them from the darkness. The creature went away, and the team made their way up, where they found a door and it appears to be vacuum sealed, with a sign that said:  "WARNING: UPPER MEDICAL WARD HAS BEEN SUBJECTED TO HULL FAILURE, ZONE IS A VACUUM.". Team Perry proceeded to pressurize its suits and magnetized their boots (in Rushed´s case it was his prosthetics) and entered the room, it was full of bodies that started to twitch and tried to attack the ARCs. There were too many of them to take on and the squad had to retreat.

Spiders started to come out of a whole, these creatures had planned an ambush for the team. Their only hope was to reach the staff room, Team Perry ran like hell and managed to reach the room and enter an elevator. The elevator had a red button which was pressed by Astrum, the team started to head down to intensive care. However, something was on top of the elevator, it was the teeth creature, they started to fire upon the creature. Eventually it fell into the elevator with everyone else, but it escaped thanks to the constant attacks it was suffering.

Laughter was heard from above and suddenly the elevator started to fall, in order to survive ARC magnetized its boots. After the elevator crashed Team Perry got out, the room smelled like burnt flesh and they could see a small door at the end of the room. They met up with one of the other teams which included Echo, a sound was heard, and a few zombie-like creatures started to attack the ARC, but they were able to defeat them.

The ARCs encountered three doors; one needed a keycard to open. From one of the other doors spiders began to come out, and they were roasted, they entered the door and found a terminal which they used to open the engine control room, inside this room a hulking brute of a man, with charred flesh peeling off him waited for the ARCs. Rushed threw thermal detonator which opened a hole in his torso, Rushed then threw a fire grenade into the hole killing the monster.

Inside that room they also found the keycard for the third door and a black briefcase, when they opened it, they saw that vaccine-like devices were stored there. For some reason, the ARCs decided to inject themselves with the substance (thankfully it turned out to be a vaccine for the disease that created the monster they were fighting).

With the keycard ARC entered the engine room of the ship, and they saw that the entire room had been repurposed into destroying the bodies of the infected, the bottom floor was littered with hundreds of tons of ash, they saw a door at the end, but while hearing movement from underneath their position. The spider came back for another attack this time they came in larger numbers and very aggressive.

The spiders seemed to be overwhelming the ARC´s, at this point Rushed was tired of fighting monsters. When Perry punched a spider, he realized that the face of a clone was in the spider, realizing that the spiders where mutated clones. Rushed started to have an emotional breakdown at the realization that was killing his brothers, however he kept his emotions quiet as he wanted to finish the fight. The ARCs managed to survive, and they ran towards another elevator.

During the ride they were attacked by the claw of one of the monsters, it managed to punctured Echo´s foot directly, blood pouring out the wound. It went away afterwards and finally ARC had made it into the bridge.

While on the bridge, a group of infected kids came out of the shadows to interact with ARCs. Since they were infected, Hearts burned some of them and Commander Cody disintegrated one of them with an ion disrupter. Rushed had flashbacks to the twilek kids on Mandalore causing another breakdown, this time it was so severe that he fell to the ground. Perry tried to talk to one of the kids however they jumped him trying to destroy his mech.

Rushed managed to get his mind together and joined the next firefight while crying. Rushed runed to help Perry as he exclaimed that he was gullible, Rushed replied by saying that he was glad that someone in ARC wasn’t heartless. Then Perry jumped to Rushed´s shoulders and they began to fire. While all of this was happening, ARC was downloading information from the bridge.

After the download was complete a hatch opened to a hidden tunnel connecting the bridge and the hangar bay. ARC began to run to escape the ship as the self-destruct sequence was initiated, meanwhile the horde of infected began to chase the ARCs. They managed to get into the hangar board LAATs and escape the Blazing Sun. When they boarded the Havoc, the Blazing Sun exploded causing debris to hit the Havoc badly damaging the ship. Because of this the Havoc fell intro the surface of Hoth leaving all of ARC unconscious.

#### Stranded on Hoth

Sometime after the crash, Rushed woke up in the hangar of the Havoc. At the same time Burns was looking for someone else, they reunited and were thankful that both of them had survived the crash. They wanted to get at the drink at the debris of the bar, however after considering the possible dangers the opted not to go.

At the hangar there was a visible pack of beer, Rushed and Burns were about to drink it but were stopped by Commander Cody who was also at the Havoc at the time of the crash. They offered Cody to drink with them, but he denied as a result no one drank the alcohol that day. Burns noticed a speeder at the hangar there was a small fire that was blocking a storage closet where he could find the tools to repair the speeder.

This was the first time Commander Cody and Rushed met, Cody told Rushed about his marriage to Silverblum and that he was expecting kids. Maze also woke up and made his way to see the three of them, Rushed introduced himself to Maze that day as well. Unable to do much else that they the four of them hung out and waited for more people to wake up and get organized.

On other day Rushed found Burns trying to fix the hangar door, however due to messing with the electronics he shut it down. To fix his mistake Burns added C4 to the door, at that moment Rushed walked in and raised some concern, however it was too late and they both ran while Burns initiated his explosion. The explosion made a hole in the door, but it also made the ship shake, making them swear they would never use explosives on the ship again.

    The pair wanted to get snow to stop the fire blocking the storage area, the Havoc was mostly caved in. However, there were some holes that the pair could take a look from. Rushed volunteered to look and he did, he saw mountains of snow and some cargo crates; he took a holo-picture of the surroundings and came down to show it to Burns. Night struck and after eating some rations Rushed went to sleep.

A few days later Rushed encountered Burns again which now possessed a repaired speeder and had put out the fire blocking storage. Some hours passed and Hammer, Echo and Perry had made it into the Havoc crash site (they crashed elsewhere), Rushed only saw Perry on the hangar and proceeded to greet him, he also guided him to the storage are to repair Perry´s mech. Rushed also met Kix, Hardcase, Honey and Badger. Together all of them discussed what should the survival strategy be, the day went by during the conversation.

##### Repairing an ARC-170

Two days later Burns managed to retrieve the crates outside the Havoc, Rushed and Burns tried to open them with a pair of crowbars however the crates were nearly impossible to open. Perry and Blackout entered the room, they started to discuss a plan to acquire a long-range transmitter so that they could alert the rest of the GAR that they were stranded. Hammer contacted Perry and put him in charge of restoring communications, then Perry approached Cody for his help. It was here that Rushed met another 327th survivor, Cinder, they reminisced about the good old days but quickly returned to the task at hand.

Blackout found a damaged LAAT siand began to repair it when he had it in a working condition Perry organized a mission. Perry, Echo, Rushed, Blackout and Cody would go to the crash site of Perry´s Headhunter and the Havoc Bridge to recover a working hyperdrive and a long-range transmitter, respectively. During the trip Rushed had a conversation with Perry about his time with the 327th Star Corp, Perry´s family and the 501st. However, it would be cut short thanks to a snowstorm that hit the LAAT; the ship started to sputter so the crew landed the craft to inspect the engine. The engine had frozen so they needed to scrape the ice, they managed to get the ship running and they barely managed to get to their destination.

After arriving to the bridge, the team followed Echo into the food reserve, however, to save time Perry divided the team: Perry, Rushed and Blackout started to walk towards the Headhunter while Echo and Cody went to get the transmitter. During the walk Rushed learned about Blackout´s past and Perry´s planet of origin, they also sent a message to Cody and Echo. Cody answered and reported that they found infected and he transmitter; Rushed and the others arrived at the headhunter and saw that the hyperdrive was intact, they began to dismantle it from the ship and retrieve any remaining fuel. On their way back to the LAAT the team heard a loud roar, it was a hundred Wampas charging at them. Thanks to Rushed´s and Blackout´s robotic legs and Perry´s mech they were able to run faster than normal while carrying their loot. Eventually they made it back to the LAAT and went to get Echo (which had adopted a tauntaun) and Cody, after rescuing them they returned to the Havoc with the parts they were looking for and a new plan.

For the next few days, Blackout and Perry started to repair an ARC-170 starfighter. On the last day of repairs Blackout wielded some metal to complete the nose of the ship, Rushed commented to Blackout about he was sure the ship was going to work, but suggest the addition of ejectable seats just in case. Perry later proceeded to install the hyperdrive into the vessel, Perry contacted Echo in the hangar to ask about the transmitter, to make it truly powerful they would need an antenna. Rushed and Blackout were tasked with recovering an antenna from the top of the Havoc crash site, they took the LAAT to the top.

When Blackout and Rushed reached the top of the Havoc, they immediately worked to retrieve the antenna. During the process, a massive blizzard has headed their way, instinctively Rushed used his grappling gun to get a zip line to the surface. But Blackout was paralyzed by fear and didn’t move, Rushed tried to snap him out of it but it didn’t work. Then he called for Echo and Perry for support, Echo quickly managed to get to Blackout’s position. When he arrived Rushed, was already halfway to safety; Echo managed to snap Blackout out of his fear. With the storm almost reaching them Blackout ran to his LAAT and left Echo there, Echo recovered the antenna and started to make his way down.

The next day repairs on the ARC-170 were completed. Perry volunteered to fly the ship to orbit, using the ships communication to send a signal to the GAR. Rushed wished the force was with him and Perry started the ARC-170, during the test it was determined that the ship was in great condition. But a heavy snowstorm prevented Perry from leaving the atmosphere. Perry returned to the hangar and tried to put together a team of pilots, their mission would be to fly the ship to Coruscant.

This process was interrumpted by Echo which just recently resurfaced, he was looking for Hammer as he wanted to report Blackout for “leaving him behind”. Hammer came to the hangar with his jetpack and listened to Echo and interrogated Blackout. Hammer determined that the situation was a misunderstanding and because of their current situation it wasn’t worth it to “punish” Blackout. Some time after the ARC-170 was stolen by Kix and Hardcase which used it to escape Hoth.

The remaining ARCs found themselves stranded yet again. Rushed started to make a map combining his own experience with the outside, Perry´s journeys and any intel he could gather; he realized that there were some structures that hadn’t been explore by the ARCs. That day Bossk Silverblum arrived on Hoth, reuniting with her husband Cody. Both of them decided to stay on Hoth for a while to aid the ARCs in surviving, Silverblum gave some food to ARC which they were all thankful for.

##### Exploring Bunkers

After a good night´s sleep, Rushed was hungry and went to Silverblum´s ship to ask for food. Her and Cody gave him a box of kuati cookies, Rushed saluted them and returned to the others; he then have one cookie to everyone else. He later returned to the spot where he usually sleeps and wondered if he would ever find love. After their morning routines Rushed, Perry, Blackout and Perry prepared to go to the first structure.

They planned to go on the LAAT however the engine burst into flames. Echo then prepared his tauntaun to ride, Perry apparently was able to communicate with it and instructed it to call for more tauntauns for the rest of the team. The rode the tauntauns to the location of the structure (one of the tauntuans however seemed to be an agent similar to Perry). When they arrived at the structure, they found a wampa at the door, the team was ready to attack it, however Perry noticed it was wearing a hat. The team didn´t engage the wampa and it helped them by destroying the structure´s door, by the looks of it, it was a bunker.

The team entered the bunker, they immediately started to look for heat signatures and they found two of them. The team approached them, they seemed to be talking and be humanoid; at first, they thought they were infected, Echo and Rushed fire at the figures managed to hit one of them. This figure spoke after getting hit, Perry ordered them both to stop firing which they did. The figure hit was an old man, who started to speak; he said that he hadn’t had any interaction in some time and that he didn’t know who the other figure in the room was. Perry tried to engage the other figure which was using a mask with a dragon-like symbol on it, meanwhile the old man was saying that the bunker was used to store food. However, it ran out, the food was storage for a village nearby that was destroyed by a fire 15 years ago. Neither of the strangers knew what the Republic, CIS or Eternal Empire were.

Rushed asked the mysterious figure its name and he asked if it was “The Masked One” the figure nodded. At this point Echo got a little jumpy Perry went to him to try and calm him down. While trying to communicate with the Masked One Rushed figures out it was mute. Echo was trying to detain the old man and thing were heating up; Masked One made some signs to Rushed warning him to leave the old man alone and that he had a thing in his chest. Rushed managed to understand the signs (he managed to do this thanks to some lessons in sign language that Aayla had given the 327th and later Stass Allie gave him some to. Rushed also believes it was the will of the force). Masked also warned that the old man was different when he got mad, he got greener and a lot stronger.

Rushed started to tell them that they needed to leave, Masked One asked if they could take it with them. Rushed agreed and Masked One also asked why Rushed wears a helmet, if he was missing an eye like Masked One, Rushed said no that he wore it for protection. Echo didn’t want to retreat and instead wanted to burn the old man; Masked One asked Rushed to follow it, Rushed putting his faith in the force decided to follow it. Rushed commed Perry to get the team out of there and run to the Havoc without him, that he was exploring a different route.

Masked One extended her hand to Rushed, and he took it. It showed him a secret trapdoor. Masked One takes off its mask, revealing it was a female; although he didn’t get a good look at her face, Rushed could tell she was as female. Rushed and Masked One entered the trapdoor, it was a tunnel leading to a stone tower close to the Havoc crash site. Masked One made Rushed promise to not tell anyone about the tower and the tunnel, Rushed agreed. Masked begins to run along the tunnel, dragging Rushed along with her, they reached the end of the tunnel and there was a ladder. She offered Rushed to go first, but he told her that she should take charge.

When they arrived at the tower Rushed asked Masked One if she was infected, she replied that she doesn’t let anyone touch her. Rushed decided to believe her, then he decided to ask about her past, she said she comes from Tatooine and that she arrived on Hoth a week before Rushed and the team entered the bunker. She arrived on a ship that crashed, but she jumped losing her eye on the process. They decide to walk to the Havoc, however they stop because Rushed contacted the team to know if they were alright; he told Masked One to give him a second, she began to count down, Rushed concluded that she had some trouble identifying metaphors or expressions.

Once they where on the Havoc they sit down, the others arrive to and decide to go to sleep. Rushed took his helmet off and officially introduced himself to Masked One, they shook hands and Rushed got a feeling that she smiled (at this point she had her mask on again). Rushed have her some of the cookies from before, to eat them she asked Rushed to cover her so that the no one would see her face (including Rushed). Rushed left to get some water for her, meanwhile Echo suggested a medic check her infection within her; she got offended by this. Echo also suggested that Rushed wanted to “pull a Cody”, Rushed heard this when he came back with the water and denied it; Echo didn’t believe him. Rushed asked Masked One if she would be okay with Blackout doing some tests for infection, she agreed. Rushed wanted to sleep so, Echo and Rushed looked for a spot where Masked One could rest since she didn’t want to be close to anyone (except Rushed as she considered him to be “okay”).

The next day Rushed told Burns everything that happened during the first bunker exploration. He also found Blackout and asked him if he could run tests on Masked One, which he did; he found that Masked One was completely fine, he couldn´t get a good look at her face though since she insisted on keeping her mask on. Rushed also promised to help Masked One to regain her eye. Perry walked into the room without his mech scaring Masked One, after some introductions Rushed asked her if there was any info, she could share with them about the second bunker. She replied by saying that the bunker was used to store materials and that it was protected by a door so strong a Wampa or the Old Man couldn’t break. She asked to be part of the mission to which Rushed reluctantly agreed.

Rushed, Perry, Echo, Blackout, Masked One and ARC Trooper Yellow loaded up the tauntauns with explosives and headed to the second bunker. Once they were there, they started to set up the explosives to open the door. The explosives detonate but they only made a small hole, the team crawls into the bunker, nonetheless. This time when they looked for heat signatures the bunker was full of them, the team reached a room that was filled with corpses. They decided to burn the corpses just to be on the safe side, however the corpses began to move and started to approach the group.

The corpses began to grab each member of the team and dispose them of their weapons. Consequentially the corpses started to drag them deeper into the bunker, they eventually reached a room and Rushed, Perry, Blackout and Masked were thrown into a room, while Yellow and Echo remained outside. Inside the room Perry found a vent that he could, while waiting for Perry Rushed asked Masked One is she was okay. She responded with a “no”, Rushed and Blackout realized that they have both lost a leg during the Charra campaign. Perry managed to get outside and contacted Rushed to let them know that he would come back inside to get them, to kill time Rushed comms Echo and Yellow, they responded by saying that they survived, and they have found beds. Masked appeared to be scared, Rushed tried to bring some comfort by placing his hand on her shoulder and telling her that everything would be fine.

Eventually Perry, Echo and Yellow managed to open the door to the room, with the team reassembled they decided to explore the rest of the bunker and they found: small durasteel supplies, some normal metal, tons of both flammable and un-flammable wood, tents, and beds. Rushed helped to get materials loaded into the tauntauns, the team eventually went back to base. Once back on the Havoc, Masked One disappeared and Rushed desperately looked for her but he failed. He decided to go to sleep and when he returned to his spot, he found Masked One beside his bed. She explains that she panicked because her mask broke during the mission and that she needed a new one, Rushed responded that it wasn’t really necessary to do that, he added

> “No, whatever is underneath doesn’t matter how ugly or beautiful it is. It doesn’t need hiding”, she started to remove what remained of her mask and asked “"Y-You sure?", “Yes” – Rushed responded.
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Before he could really react, Silverblum tested her new weapon; a weapon that was able to discharged a huge lightning bolt that struck a mountain far away. The sound scared everyone on the ship, Rushed went to investigate as he thought the Havoc was under attack. However it turned out to just be Silverblum, when he returned they continued and Masked removed her mask and he finally saw her face; both of them splet on the same spot that night.

The next morning Rushed woke up and told Burns what had happened at the second bunker. He also went so Silver´s ship to check if they were okay, when he arrived, he saw an open door, a strange device and Silver in her mandalorian armor, working on the device. Rushed asked if everything was alright and she answered yes, Rushed left the ship and started looking for Masked One since she was missing in the morning. Rushed returned to the Havoc after an unsuccessful search, he then asked Burns if he wanted to go the second bunker to pick up the remaining materials.

Burns and Rushed headed towards the second bunker in Burns´ speeder, when they arrived, they quickly grab some metal and began to weld a “cart” that they could load up with more resources and attached it to the speeder. After it was completed Rushed and Burns loaded up more normal metal, tons of both flammable and un-flammable wood, tents, and beds. After loading the cart Burns and Rushed returned to the Havoc, then they proceeded to transform the crash site into more of a camp site

A few days later, Echo was going through the wreckage and he found 7 snowtrooper armor sets. Echo saved a set for Hammer and himself, Rushed, Burns and Yellow were given a set too. The group also found 3 usable paint cans, blue, yellow and red. Because of the lack of paint, Rushed gave his armor a crude but classic 327th Star Corp paint due.

Echo and Yellow went to explore a third bunker, Rushed would join them way later. Rushed grabbed a tauntaun and cached up with them, however he decided to stay outside to protect the entrance. Yellow called Perry to get the LAAT to get the resources out of the bunker, he arrived and saw Rushed outside, they decided to enter the bunker and help Echo and Yellow load the LAAT up. When they returned, they struck a deal with Silver, they would give her the beskar they found in exchange of 6 new weapons for Yellow, Echo, Perry, Blackout, Rushed and Muzzle.

##### Confrontation at the Stone Tower

After some days passed without a sight of Masked One, Rushed went to Silver´s ship to ask if there was a way to scan lifeforms on the planet. Silver say that she could, Rushed asked if she could scan any “weird” locations for a lifeform to be, Silver agreed and began a scan. The results shocked Silver and she said that nothing had shown up in the scan, Rushed told her he was grateful for her help and left her ship; he had noticed Silver´s reaction and during the scan Rushed remembered the stone tower Masked One had showed him when they met. He went to get a tauntaun and head to the stone tower.

As Rushed was approaching the stone tower, he noticed someone was heading in. When he got inside, Silver pointing her gun at a Rushed; he got his hands on the air. Silver told her that this was no business of his that her village had been broken into. Rushed then realized that the village that the old man talked about in the first bunker was the same as the one from Silver´s past and that the stone tower was part of it. After telling her he might know who broke in, Silver and Rushed went up the stairs to confront the trespasser. Eventually they found it and the trespasser was indeed Masked One, she revealed that she had left the Havoc because Silver´s weapon tests scared her and that Silver´s voice was familiar.

To try and calm the situation down, Rushed re-introduced Silver to Masked One by revealing her full name “Bossk Silverblum”. Silver´s anger turned to Rushed as her first name was supposed to be a secret, Rushed revealed that during the first days of them being stranded on Hoth, Cody had mumbled her name in his sleep and Rushed had heard it. Rushed removed his helmet and he sworn to Silver that her secret was safe with Rushed, with things cooled down. Rushed asked Masked One what the connection between her and Silver was.

She answered that she and her mom would visit the village from time to time and that Silver was one of the kids there. Then he asked both of them what had happened to the village and neither of them answered; Silver was the first to answer and she confused that the village fire was her fault, she was playing with fire and things went out of control. She made Rushed promise to net tell anyone and he accepted, she also told Rushed that Masked One´s real name was Elizabeth (Liz). Silver also talked about her jedi past, and force abilities. Rushed had trouble taking all that info in.

Rushed turned to Liz and asked her if she wanted to come back with them to the Havoc camp, she said yes. Silver also told Rushed her love story with Cody, Rushed saluted Silver and said it was an honor to stand beside her; he also hoped that her life would lean more into happy territory. She said love was key to have a life like that and she claimed that she could recognize love when she said it, referring to Liz and Rushed. They confirmed their feeling for each other and Rushed leaned for a kiss Liz sided off her mask for a bit for the kiss, then putted it back on. After the moment Rushed suggested to return to the Havoc as to no raise suspicion of their whereabouts. When leaving the tower Silver helped Liz come down the tower as she was “lovestruck”.

Silver went back to her ship to have a “talk” with Liz about her new relationship meanwhile Rushed made his way back to the Havoc in the tauntaun he borrowed. Rushed later went to Silver´s ship to say goodbye to them as he was going to sleep and to reiterate that all that had transpired today in regards to Silver´s past would be kept secret by him. Just as he was leaving Silver pushed Liz out of her ship, they both went to Rushed usual sleeping resting spot and fell asleep.

##### Aimless Survival

The following days were pretty uneventful, most of the ARC had to develop routines to survive on the planet, sometimes they would go out to hunt to have the food stock high. Silver was busy developing the weapons he promised the ARCs, Yellow would take inventory, Perry give maintenance to his mech and other ARCs would also find tasks to keep them busy. Rushed would wake up early do some exercising, eat, give maintenance to the camp and help out in any way possible.

One night Rushed was feeling down and decided to take a look at the stars, since it had been a while since he really stopped to look at them. Before he could go Silver entered the Havoc asking is the ARC had any batteries, Rushed checked storage and he gave 6 batteries to her. After Silver left, Rushed returned to Liz with two water canteens and told her to go stargazing with him, she accepted and both of them headed to a spot were they could watch the sky. Once there Rushed was amazed at the stars and he also started to think about what has going on his life.

> "Sometimes I forget how beautiful this galaxy can be" he said while looking at Liz
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Rushed and Liz talked about who their duty was for and how Rushed felt hopelessness with everything the wars had taken from him.

> "Live for those you love, not for those you're supposed to love" – Liz
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After that night, Rushed sticked to his regular routine, however he started to feel uplifted thanks to Liz. He wished more action would come soon or better yet rescue. But he tried not focus on it and instead make sure his brothers, Liz and himself didn’t have a miserable time on the planet.

##### Communications Outpost

General Hammer and Perry detected a communications outpost several klicks east of the position of the Havoc camp, Perry and Hammer would lead a small team for into the outpost. This was their chance to get out of Hoth. The team consisted of Hammer, Perry, Burns, Yellow, Rushed, Echo and 2 more survivors.

After half an hour the team arrived at the outpost location, one of the survivors encountered a hatch; indicating to the other ARCs that the outpost was underground. They opened it and they entered, firstly the team entered a generator room where Perry and Echo repaired auxiliary generators; then the team headed to a room identified as the main comms room by Hammer, when they entered the room, the team found infected inside green chambers suddenly Hammer closed the door of the room and killed the 2 survivors then he tried to shoot Burns. The entire team was in shock but quickly it became clear that Hammer was infected.

Echo was particularly mad as he and Hammer had to eat dead clones to survive, he was pissed as it now was clear that it was all a trick. Everyone started to attack Hammer, then one of the dead ARC troopers had sludge grow out of him and it formed another version of itself, a near, toxic copy of a Fett clone. The infected began to come out of the chamber, meanwhile Echo fired his rocket launcher at Hammer, he turns into pieces but the rest of the infected try to attack the ARCs. Perry quickly tells the other to activate their filters as he was about to drop a dioxisis grenade; the infected begin to die thanks to the grenade.

Rushed told Burns to get some C4 to blow up the door so they could escape the room. While he was setting that up, Perry was in shock because of the death of Hammer while Rushed tried to comfort him; Burns was done installing the C4 to blow the door, he told the rest of the team to get away from the door, the door blows up and ARC leaves the room. Then data they found showed the real comms room was across the junction and to the left.

They arrived at the room, Echo and Perry would activate the comms and Burns, Rushed and Yellow would guard the door. Perry and Rushed would notice that along the wall there was a massive map indicating the comms outpost and a large facilitiy several more klicks east, Rushed holo-scanned the map while Perry marked it down in his own map. Then Perry noticed that to the side of the main console a rather improvised device with a data pad next to it was there, he investigated the data and a hologram appeared on the data pad.

> "Our research has led us to conclude that the Subjects, while rather primitive and brutal"
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> "Are indeed telepathic"
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> "This device has been calibrated to intercept and interperet telepathic communication between the subjects, although it remains crude"
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> "We have yet to uncover more of the mysteries of these creatures"
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> "We have a hypothesis that there is a more potent organism that leads these creatures"
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> "This device should theoretical intercept all telepathic communication in an unlimited range"
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The hologram ended, as if it was corrupted. The team began to process what this all meant, but before they could have the chance to do that Perry turned the device next to the datapad. Screeches and grunts were heard but then the device began to translate.

> "Calibrating for Basic translation"
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> "Prepare. They leave. We follow. Assimilate"
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> "Assimilate"
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> "false Hammer"
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> "A-88 alive”
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As this message began to repeat itself, ARC realized that the Hammer they’ve been with was a fake created by the infected and the real Hammer was alive. Suddenly banging was heard down the hall, fake Hammer appeared around the corner, except he was more disfigured. Similarly, to the infected that had stolen his identity, he had recomposed himself with the burnt remains of the other infected. Rushed was ready to shoot him but Perry stopped Rushed as he wanted to know if the translator could be used on the fake Hammer. Echo activated the translator as fake Hammer was arriving, the translator worked, and fake Hammer said:

> "Your brother belongs to us; the Great Mind will have assimilated you ALL"
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Fake Hammer spoke in demonic tones.

> "I AM NOT HIS FLESH, NOR HIS MIND"
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> "I AM PERFECTED"
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Fake Hammer then proceeded to attack the team and they all engaged. Echo tried to launch another rocket at him, but he was able to evade it. The rocket hit the ceiling and it created a hole from where sludge dripped, Rushed told the team to not let the sludge touch them and everyone avoided the sludge. Finally Burns and Rushed started to shoot the fake Hammer very aggressively and fake Hammer screeched and began to fall apart. Then Echo managed to reactivate the comms and finally the ARCs managed to contact the Republic.

> "This is GAR Navy Special Operations, who re-opened this frequency?"
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> "this is SGT Echo CT-1409 I was the one who re-opened the comms"
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> "Hoth failed to check in a month ago, what is their status?"
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> "dead sir"
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> "Understood, we have a new ship commissioned to your group."
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> "Once preparations are complete, we can send the ship with a crew"
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> "Stand by for two more rotations"
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> "It is a Nebula-class Star Destroyer"
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> "understood I will send you our location on the planet"
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Echo then sent the location of the havoc camp to the GAR, the team determined that this “Great Mind” and possibly the real Hammer would be located at the location circled on the map. They decided that they would assault the location but first they would need to prepare their forces for such an attack. Finally the team returned to the Havoc Camp to rest and prepare; Rushed then went to rest, but first he told Liz everything that had happened that day.

##### Getting off Hoth

After his conversation with Liz, Rushed noticed that his cybernetic legs stopped working properly. This happened thanks to a combination of direct prolonged contact with the snow plus sludge from communications center. Rushed began to tinker with them but he figured that the repairs would take too long, and he would not be ready for the Assault.

The next day Perry noticed that Rushed didn’t wonder around the camp, so he went to him and discovered his predicament. Perry send R4 to repair Rushed´s legs, however as Rushed theorized the repairs wouldn’t be ready for the assault and he would stay in the Havoc camp waiting for the Republic. A team consisting of Perry, Cody, Echo, Burns, Yellow and Blackout headed to fight the Great Mind; their assault ended in victory, they managed to destroy the Great Mind and rescue the real Hammer.

Rushed was on the Havoc Camp and as R4 was finishing repairs a transmission from the GAR navy was heard:

"ARC Troopers, stand by for orbital bombardment"

Rushed was confused as to why was an orbital bombardment needed, nevertheless he gathered anyone who he could from the camp including Liz and Hevy the tauntaun. Everyone boarded an LAAT and were evacuated from Hoth into the ARCs new ship, a Nebula-Class Star Destroyer named “The Kandosii”. Once on the ship Rushed rested for a bit then he sought out information as to the current whereabouts of the SAA, he found that they were on Eriadu. Rushed prepared a nu-class attack shuttle for travel, Perry and Rushed said their respective goodbyes. Rushed told Perry that whenever ARC needed him, he would be there; with the ship ready Rushed and Liz boarded it, once in position Rushed jumped to hyperspace.

#### SAA Reunion: Eriadu

Before Rushed arrived at the base on Eriadu, his new astromech R2-7D, arrived at the base, alongside a crate that included Rushed new gear and a V-wing. R2-7D tried to get the attention of anyone at the base, in the end it was Commander Sights of the 415th that paid attention to the astromech, R2-7D told him that he was looking for ARC-0741; Sights told him that he didn’t know him but that if he saw him, he would tell him about the droid and walked off.

At sunset Rushed and Liz emerged from hyperspace and after being cleared for landing, they touched down at Eriadu Base. Once there they were escorted by a trooper to their new personal quarters, when they were alone Rushed and Liz talked about getting her, her cybernetic eye and maybe some weapons and armor. To which she responded that it might be a bad idea since she didn’t have any training. After suggesting she should get some training, Rushed and Liz went to sleep.

The next day Rushed met Sights and the two of them started to talk, eventually Sights would bring up the astromech and both of them would go the the landing area to pick up Rushed supplies. Rushed called for a squad to help move the supplies into his quarters; Sights would stick around and help out, Rushed and Sights would continue to talk and learn that both of them had romantic partners. Sights mentioned that his partner, Lipaa, was the therapist at Eriadu base and that he could see her if he wanted to. Rushed thanked Sights for everything and they would part ways for the time being.

On another day, Rushed went to the medical bay to tell the medical droids that they needed to prepare surgery for Liz, after giving them the specifics of what they needed to do Rushed left and began walking around the base. Eventually he would catch up with Sights at the messing hall, they talked for a bit and a group of officers said there was a priority call for ARC-0741. Rushed quickly headed towards the comm room and he picked up the call, it was General Koth, after some small talk Eeth revealed that the 327th Star Corp had survived (at least some of them) and that Rushed would now be Marshall Commander of the 327th Star Corp. Rushed was honored and accept his new responsibility. He later went to see Lipaa to start getting therapy sessions because Rushed wanted to deal with his traumas to be the best leader he could possibly be.

Rushed also began to find a new hope on Eriadu, he had learned of the survival of the 327th, he learned of Stass Allie´s survival, he had a romance going on and he had the promotion of a lifetime. With this Rushed started to work to improve himself and leave behind his harmful habits and brooding. On Eriadu Rushed also met a lot of new people, he met: Tarkin, Mara Jade, Hex, Klutz, A´den, Bariss Offee, Fisher and many others. He started to feel that Eriadu could possibly be a new home for him.

##### Rebuilding the Star Corp and Meeting Bo-Katan

Alongside the Jedi Tarre, Bo-Katan arrived at Eriadu Base with the objective of training the clone troopers stationed there. Eventually Rushed ran into Bo in the training room and introduced himself, however Bo didn’t acknowledge Rushed. On the next day Rushed was talking with A´den at the base´s bar, since A´den was basically a mandalorian he managed to talk to Bo. At the bar Bo and her cousin Leslie (which also arrived at base) approached A´den to invite him to hit one of the towns with them, Bo noticed Rushed and decided to invite him as well. The group then jetpacked to the town.

At the bar, A´den and Leslie started a drinking contest that would eventually knock them both out. Meanwhile Rushed was trying no to drink since he wanted to quit alcohol, but Bo didn’t want to leave Rushed without a drink. Eventually he made a deal if he started to drink Bo would tell him his name, he did and he learned of her name; the drinking game continued eventually Bo took her helmet off and allowed Rushed to see her face, they continued to talk for a bit. After a while Rushed called for a transport to pick up A´den and Leslie, Rushed was expecting to get in this transport too but Bo wanted to jetpack back to base. Since both of them were drunk they eventually crashlanded in the woods where Bo would call Tarre. They talked and for a moment Tarre had the thought that Bo and Rushed slept together but Rushed cleared up the situation. He eventually called a transport and they returned to base.

The next day a similar situation developed but this time only Bo and Rushed went to drink and they didn’t get as drunk as the night before. Rushed asked for Bo´s help in training the 327th since he considered them to be in bad shape, Bo agreed, and they would train the troops the next day. In the morning Rushed gave a speech to his troops about the future and began to train them as he stated that they would be training extensively until they were back to their pre-Rugosa selves. Bo eventually arrived and helped to surprise they concluded that the 327th were now awful sharpshooters and that they were not fit for combat. Rushed recently observed that the 415th was not in good shape either, so he started to think that maybe if Bo is willing to help the republic, they might be able to form a military force composed of clones and mandalorians to reinforce the weaken corps from the SAA. Later that day Rushed, and Bo would also hit the bar and Rushed proposed his idea to Bo, she said it was an interesting one but she would need something more official. The night ended sourly however since Rushed made a comment that rubbed Bo the wrong way, they agreed to fight hand to hand in training. They returned to base in their separate ways.

During the first hours of the day, after Rushed ordered his troops to follow their training routines, Rushed headed to the training room to meet Bo and spar a bit. Rushed tried but he was easily bested by Bo and Rushed ended the session before he could get seriously hurt. Rushed then contacted Tarkin to ask him if he could contact Stass Allie as he wanted to catch up with her, Tarkin said yes and while they waited for Stass to answer Rushed proposed his idea of a mandalorian-clone military group within the SAA, Tarkin was intrigued but he wasn’t sure the mandalorians could be trusted. After the call Stass and Rushed talked and after catching up he mentioned his idea to her, she was also not convinced, and she reprimanded Rushed for keeping mandalorians in the base. He was confused however as he thought that they were cleared. When he ended the calls, he talked with Bo, and they decided to talk to Sights about the idea; Sights thought it was worth supporting. The trio then went their separate ways; eventually Tarkin had the base on lockdown because of the mandalorians and when a group of clones asked Bo to stay on the brig to while the situation resolved she decided to leave the base. Rushed eventually learned that Bo left and he felt down since she didn’t even say goodbye, later he went to Sights to tell him that he was dropping the whole mandalorian-clone military idea and that Bo left.

##### Jedi Taskforce and Mysterious Arrival

Soon after a Jedi taskforce consisting of Arye Prays, Satale Shan and Bastila Shan arrived at Eriadu Base. Since the higher ups like Tarkin were displeased with the base´ staff because of the Mandalorian presence, higher security measures were put in place. Rushed approached the Jedi´s ship and asked for a manifesto, on top of the ship was Bastila Shan; at first, she was mad at Rushed for being a nuance in regards of security, however Arye quickly came and gave the proper papers. Rushed apologized to Bastila for being too intense and he hoped they could start over.

Rushed would also reunite with Satele, he approached her one day and despite being glad to see him again Satele was confused as to how Rushed managed to recognize her as she looked much older than the last time, they saw each other. Over the course of the next few weeks Rushed would get to know Arye and Bastila, respecting them and considering them allies and with Bastila he would also consider her a friend. Their relationship consisted mostly of sarcastic banter, a few deep talks and Rushed picking on her because of her relationship with Gin.

While this was going on, the 327th would receive a new recruit. Aliza Vale. She was a time and/or dimension displaced dark side force user, that somehow ended up in Rushed´s time. She joined the GAR and was assigned to the 327th, when she arrived at Eriadu Base she met Rushed and he explained the current situation of the Corp to her. At first Rushed was excited to get a new recruit and since she expressed interest in becoming a medic Rushed was very glad, she joined. However, her past started to come to light and her attitude was considered a façade Rushed became very suspicious of her, going so far as to threating her, stating that there would be no force in the universe that could stop him if she ever betrayed him or his brothers.

##### 327th Party

During a call with Tarkin, Rushed noted that moral of the 327th was really low and that it seemed to be impacting their training. To correct this Tarkin suggested that a party might be a good morale boost, so he instructed Rushed to throw one. Having no idea how to throw a party Rushed went to ask Mara for help; Rushed had also been developing a friendship with Mara during his time on Eriadu. Mara said that she had no idea how to do it and that it was a weird idea, so Rushed decided to go ask Bastila for help and she agreed despite stating that the idea was a ridiculous one.

As Rushed was preparing the party he felt sentimental and decide to give Arye, Satele, Bastila and Mara some 327th pins since he considered them friends and he wanted them to know that would always have a home with the 327th and in his eyes they were honorary members of the Corp.

The day of the party arrived, it was full of drinks, games and chatter. At first Rushed, Aliza and Arye were talking among themselves but with Bastila´s arrival Aliza and Arye went to the Fury´s Delight leaving Bastila and Rushed to talk. After Bastila left, Rushed spent the rest of the night talking to his brother and wondering is he was the right choice for commander.

##### Keeping Promises to Liz

Soon after the party, Rushed had a talk with Liz regarding her condition and if she didn’t want to get the procedure he would respect it, however she answered she did want to it. So Rushed took her to the medical bay where she would be operated on for a few hours in order to get her cybernetic eye and get her voice back. The procedure was a success however Liz fell asleep, and she would remain that way for a couple of days.

In the meantime, Arye´s taskforce departed from base to embark on their new mission. Mara then informed Rushed that Aliza Vale snuck aboard The Fury´s Delight, making his distrust for her even more precent.

After waking up Rushed and Liz went to the base´s roof to stargaze so that Liz could see the stars with both eyes again. Rushed also got a protocol droid for Liz to help her speak again as she had forgotten somethings since she became mute. The pair would also be spending more time together as things on Eriadu base seemed to be calming down again.

## Personality and Traits

Before being deployed at the battle of Geonosis, Rushed was very naïve and despite his training he never fully grasped what war actually was like and what it meant. The Battle of Geonosis was a wake up call for him, he started to become less naïve and started to develop a hard edge. He started to develop a more sarcastic attitude especially when confronting an enemy or when he was on an argument.

Despite his experiences with friendly fire, Rushed had a tendencies of forming a bond with his companions. To him the groups that he belonged to were family. The 327th Star Corp was the first of these groups and he developed a strong bond to them. He saw Deviss and Bly as his older brothers, the rest of the corp as his brothers and he say Aayla Secura as mentor; this didn´t stop Rushed from having a small crush on the jedi general, but he never acted on it as he saw that Bly and Aayla where close.

After the incident on Concordia Rushed turned to alcoholism to keep his feelings “at bay”, the problem only got worse when the 327th disappeared and Rushed was transferred to the 9th Assault, the only reason Rushed didn’t fall to a point of no recovery was thanks to his time in a healing coma. However, when he woke up he returned to his drinking habit with no hesitation. Also Rushed began having breakdowns during battle when something horrific would happen (like the zombie children or the mutated clones on the Blazing Sun).

Rushed also had severe tunnel vison for a while, after his coma. He lost complete interest in what he was doing and was only fighting to keep himself busy or die in the battlefield. He didn’t even know they were on a new conflict by the time of Boarding of the Liberation.  Also a result of healing from his coma Rushed developed a religious attitude towards the force, as he believed that was the reason he had survived so much.

Eventually, Rushed started to feel that family sensation when the ARCs, he managed to get filled in about what happened during his time in a coma. His drinking habit also started to slow down, but just a tiny bit. Hoth served as the experience that would make him feel truly connected with ARC. Rushed began to train harder during this period since he wanted to give his best as an ARC trooper and also began writing a journal.

One of the traits from Kamino that Rushed never lost was his desire to become a hero. Yes, he was a soldier first and after a few battles he understood that wars sometimes involved dirty work. Rushed tried his best to avoid it and he tried to accomplish his mission as cleanly as possible. Because of this Rushed felt uncomfortable at first when he joined the ARC troopers since they had a reputation of committing war crimes and getting the job done no matter what atrocities they needed to commit. Rushed deeply admired the Jedi for this very reason, he saw them as real heroes and he wanted that. He wanted to be a symbol, a role model worthy of kids to look up to.

With his relationship with Liz (Masked One) Rushed gained a renewed interest in becoming the best version of himself. He also felt that he had gained a new purpose, now more than ever he wanted to survive the war so he could settle down with Liz and live his finals days in a life of peace and he also wanted to find a cure for his accelerated aging so he could spend more time with Liz. Rushed also had an original dream of his life after the war, he wanted to buy an island or a big piece of land on the planet of Naboo and create “Clone Town” a place where clones could come to settle down without being judged or casted aside.

After arriving on Eriadu, the sudden combination of good news and his new found resposinbilities made Rushed look for ways to treat his alcoholism and trauma. He started to train more to increase his physical capabilities, he started to go to therapy with Lippa and wanted to take some "spiritual" healing from the Jedi but at the the time there where none present on the base.

## Equipment and Abilities

### Armors

#### CT Equipment

1)    The first armor Rushed wore, was a standard phase 1 clone trooper armor. It has no custom paintjob or attachments. The armor got heavily damaged at the end of the Battle of Geonosis and had to be thrown away.

2)    The second armor Rushed wore, was a standard phase 1 clone trooper armor. This time Rushed painted the armor in the 327th Star Corp colors and he added a jetpack and holsters. This is the armor Rushed would wear until the 327th Star Corp disappeared and disbanded.

3)    Rushed kept the same armor but he changed the paint job to reflect his new Corp, the 9th assault corp. However, he kept yellow accents on his helmet and (newly added) pauldron. Rushed wanted to have more heavy-styled tactics so he added a pauldron, a visor, ammo on his shoulder and a bag to carry whatever he wanted (which would be more munitions and stims).

4)    When Rushed was promoted to captain and joined Horn Company Rushed once again changed the paintjob to reflect Horn Company. He also got rid of most of the heavy-trooper accessories (he still carried stims with him), instead he got a Captain-style kama and pauldron; most of the pauldron was painted grey to reflect the 9th Assault Corp but he left a yellow square to reflect the 327th Star Corp.

#### ARC Equipment

1)    After joining the ranks of the ARC troopers Rushed got a new Phase 1.5 ARC armor which now included a range finder and wrist equipment (part of the wirst equipment included a holo proyector that he could use to show others things like holomaps). Rushed painted the base armor with the colors of Horn Company his pauldron was mostly grey but one of the spaces was painted yellow (alongside a space on the helmet) to honor the 327th. In addition, he wrote (in aurabesh) “The Star Corp Lives”; after losing his jetpack during the second phase of the Charra Campaign Rushed equipped a standard ARC back and he added a pin-up Aayla Secura to it.

2)    While being trapped on Hoth, ARC Trooper Echo found some snowtrooper armor on the Havoc´s wreckage, Rushed was one of the few who were given a set of armor by Echo. Due to lack of paint Rushed was only able to do a throwback 327th paint job also thanks to the lack of materials he didnt costumise the armor that much ith the exception of some added holsters.

3)    After leaving Hoth, Rushed ordered some new Phase 2 armor and after arriving on Eriadu and being promoted to Marshal Commander, Rushed costumised this armor with a standard 327th Star Corp paint job, with some grey and green on the pauldron to honor his time on the 9th Assault Corp and Horn Company respectively. He also added some ARC gear on top of it, including the holo scanner/proyector; he added macrobinoculars and an atenna to boost comm capabilities, a wrist flamthrower and a "Commander Cody styled" jetpack.

### Weapons

1)    DC-15A Blaster Rifle: This was Rushed´s weapon of choice, he began using it since he began training on Kamino.

2)    DC-17 hand blaster: Rushed felt that he needed insurance in case something happened to his primary weapons, so he got two DC-17s for emergencies. He hardly used them but id the situation required it he would be more than ready.

3)    Thermal detonators: Rushed favorite explosives, he usually had a lot of them with him in battle since more than once proved to be the perfect solution for a difficult situation. Rushed considered them to be more reliable than droid poppers or any other type of grenade.

4)    Wrist flamethrower: After his experience on Hoth, Rushed decided he needed a little extra firepower so he added a wrist flamethrower to his armor.

### Abilities

As a clone trooper, Rushed has been trained since birth in the art of war, he was competently skilled in hand to hand combat and blaster combat. Over time Rushed has improved those skills thanks to his experiences in war and the continuation of his training. Rushed is also skilled in deactivating or activating explosives, riding speeders and can fly a ship without crashing. Thanks to his time in ARC all those skills continued to improve thanks to a more advanced training regimen. During ARC his infiltration and stealth kills began to develop more drastically as well as his reactions times and creative thinking regarding possibly lethal situations.

Rushed wasn’t comfortable at first with positions of leadership as he wanted to follow orders, but as the conflicts progress more and more responsibility was thrown his way and eventually started to get comfortable giving orders and trying to guide his forces to victory.

During his time with 327th Star Corp, Jedi General Aayla Secura gave some of her troops sign language classes; Rushed participated in some of those classes and started to gain an understanding. Later after he was transferred to the 9th Assault Corp Rushed asked Jedi General Stass Allie if she could continue to teach him, she accepted and Rushed continued to develop this skill.

## Under the Helmet

Being a Jango Fett clone, Rushed phsycal appearance is the same as the famous bounty hunter. However, Rushed let his hair grow out a little and styles it in a “superman-type” hairstyle (or the clone cadet Jax in TCW), he also has a scar in the back of the head thanks to the headshot he received, from the knee down Rushed´s legs are mechanical thanks to his amputation during the Charra Campaign and finally thanks to his stricter training Rushed physique is slightly bigger than the regular clone trooper.