Alpha-17 (RP)

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Alpha-17, simply know as Alpha, is an Advanced Recon Commando Major who serves the Galactic Republic in the Clone Wars.

## Biography

Alpha, as was the case with the rest of the ARCs, first saw action with the Separatist invasion of Kamino. As the Confederacy's droid forces pushed towards the heart of Tipoca City, the Kaminoan Prime Minister, Lama Su, activated the ARCs and authorized their deployment to hot-spots across Kamino in a last-ditch effort to save the planet's precious cloning facilities.

> "They grow up loyal to the Republic, or they don't grow up at all" (Alpha-17 on the y oung clones on Kamino)
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During the fighting to push the droids from Tipoca's central armory, Alpha teamed up with Jedi Master Shaak Ti, Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Kenobi's Padawan, Anakin Skywalker. When the city's clone stocks became compromised, Alpha rigged the lab to self-destruct, much to the dismay of the Jedi. However, he managed to figure out a solution, using the Jedi's Force powers and the nearby ocean by collapsing a glass panel to flood the droid-occupied section, after wich he aborted the detonation sequence.

When Naboo lost contact with the Gungan colony of Ohma-D'un, General Kenobi and Skywalker were sent to investigate. Kenobi, having witnessed his lethal effectiveness on Kamino, had Alpha assigned to the mission too. When the trio arrived on the surface, they found the Gungan colony in ruins and no survivors. Before they could complete their investigation, they fell under attack and under Kenobi's orders, Alpha went with Anakin to find and destroy the bio-weapon responsible for Ohma-D'un's destruction. It was then that Anakin, uncomfortable with calling him simply "clone," named the ARC trooper "Alpha".

Alpha was chosen again by Kenobi and Anakin for the invasion of the CIS-aligned mineral world of Jabiim. The initial phase was victorious, and despite Alpha's warnings Kenobi kept pressing onward, ultimately leading to a disastrous loss for the Republic as their supply lines were too stretched in a hostile enviroment. Both Alpha and Kenobi were declared missing in action as they were captured by Ventress, but they managed to escape from her prison on Rattatak before revealing any information. After a multi-system pursue, they were saved by Ki-Adi-Mundi and Anakin, returning to the Republic.

Following the ordeal, and after several weeks in a bacta tank, Alpha was transferred to Kamino, where he was to train current and future generations of Clone Commanders. He introduced names for them, was promoted to the rank of captain, and became lead instructor of the Tipoca City training facility. Commanders Cody of the 212th Attack Battalion, Neyo of the 91st Reconnaissance, Bacara of the 21st Nova Corps, Hannibal of the 26th Praetorian Corps, Gree and Fil of the 41st Elite Corps, Appo and Rex of the 501st Legion, Bly of the 327th Star Corps, Faie, and many more were among the first hundred to be enrolled in and graduate from his experimental training regimen, known as the ARC training program.

After the training of the new-generation Clone Commanders, Alpha-17 joined the elite team of the Muunlist Ten, led by Alpha-77 Fordo. The members of the unit shared tightly knit cameratism and friendship, bonding during many missions and skirmishes. The squad's spirit was however put under extreme stress after Future's betrayal and the death of X2, who sacrificed himself to allow the rest of the team to survive when they were ambushed by Dark-Side Force Users. The clones' mental health suffered greatly from this streak of traumatic experience, and Alpha experienced a period of deep depression. The remaining members of the Ten remained far from the frontlines for an extensive period of time, with Alpha-17 regaining mental equilibrium, but still carrying scars from the experience.

Throughout the war, Alpha was often deployed at the forefront of the effort, both in special operations and in support of regular forces. He fought alongside the 501st during the battles for the Citadel, for Mandalore, for Umbara, with the Muunlist Ten or the ARC Troopers in the Kamino incident, on anti-pirate raids, during the Hoth incident, on Dromuund Kaas and in the securing of the 50-moons system, then with the 41st on Geonosis and on Kashyyyk.

## Equipment and Skills

Alpha is an exceptional marksmen with blaster rifles, and one of the best in the Galaxy when using his Westar M-5. He relies on it when fighting at medium-to-long distance. He is perfectly able to use it at short distances too, but usually switches to his personalized vambraces for close quarter combat and personal defence. He spends a good amount of time in planning if it is possible, and this is reflected also in his equipment, as it presents many utilities such as different grenades, various weapons, a composite armor and Mandalorian close-quarter tools such as his crushgaunts. He excels in tactics and out-of-the-box planning, able to create and put in practice complex and effective plans also during a fight.

## Personality

Alpha is cold to people he doesn't trust, with a sarcastic and often rude sense of humor that wouldn't be overlooked by some superiors, if it wasn't for his remarkable skill and Alpha-class status. He displays a disregard for collateral damage or non-combatant losses in combat, striving for peak effectivness for his side and seeing many of the rules of engagement as political restraints that hinder the troops. He isn't sadistic nor takes any pleasure in the death of innocents or in displays of cruelty, but has a cold "there is only us and the others" mentality when dealing with both enemies and civilians.