TK-9438 Pyro

Vanguard Battalion

Aurek Company

178 KG (With Equipment & Prosthetics)

> "Have you lit anything on fire?" "Not Yet" - Pyro in response to his former Captain Behxx
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TK-9438, known by many as Pyro, is a flame trooper assigned to the Trebuchet Battalion in the 501st Legion, within the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars.

## Personality & Traits

Pyro was often an incompetent soldier very rarely proving beneficial to operations that included anything besides sheer destruction. He followed orders poorly at least by his fellow clones' standards usually finding ways to manipulate the orders into some sort of excuse to light something on fire.

TK-9438 (as you can tell) got his nickname from his rampant pyromania. Usually getting agitated when he isn't near some sort of fire, it proves... annoying at the least and destructive at most. Though when not on ship he has found submerging himself in water gives him the same sensation.

Pyro tends to keep his helmet on, and when he eats and drinks he just tends to lift his synth mesh

When he finds people that don't mind how he calms himself, he tends to makes friends (or at least acquaintances) easily.

## History

### Upbringing

Pyro was part of a special batch of clones specially bred to be made Flame Troopers being more prone to lighting or enjoying lighting fires.

### Early Life

TK-9438 was assigned to 501st's Carnivore Battalion under Captain Behxx's command he served in a nearby sector to Trebuchet Battalion. During the First Battle of Geonosis he burned down a significant portion of a CIS base that was designated for capture gaining a large amount of flak from his fellow soldiers.

This reckless behavior continued for many months until Captain Behxx decided to make it someone else's problem and shipped him off to Trebuchet battalion.

## Time in Trebuchet

Pyro arrived on the RV Phalanx in Mid 22 BBY and was assigned to the Aurek Battalion. One of his first mission was on Carlac, where the Battalion was stuck in a snow storm for multiple hours. During the snow storm he managed to start a forest fire, which even puzzled him at the time seeing as he started the fire 100s of meters away from the closet tree. But he wouldn't complain about it, unfortunately Captain Crackerjack tried to pull him into a captured bases hangar instead of outside. Which 9438 expressed quite a lot of anger against, Crackerjack even shooting him with a grapple hook burrowing itself into his armor and dragging him. ARF-1991 tried to do the same as Crackerjack Pyro warning multiple times he would light 1991 on fire if he did. 1991 shot Pyro in the side with a grapple hook and in response was lit ablaze before eventually succumbing to his wounds. Command would later rule this to be self defense of Pyro's part.

Another Mission was on a unnamed operation which Pyro has since forgotten many details about due to the major trauma endured during the mission. The parts he does remember include near the end of the mission a mis-detonation of explosives caused a fuel line to rupture and ignite destroying a tunnel Forces were still retreating from. Among these were CT-9438 Pyro, CT-8132 Nameless, and CT-8375. Pyro had an arm blown off by the explosion and had to be carried out of the tunnel by CT-8132, both were nearly killed. CT-8375 died in the blast. Pyro had a prosthetic replace his original arm and was out of Surgery soon enough to see Nameless in a Bacta tube. Pyro attempted to apologize for getting Nameless hurt, but was told to "Fuck off" by Captain Crackerjack.

A later mission on another planet Pyro didn't care to remember the name of. Trebuchet was sent to rescue General Idota from Separatist hands it was generally uneventful but it did help Pyro fix his relationship with Crackerjack after the Captain permitted him to burn down a CIS base. During the mission they had a secondary objective of capturing a lieutenant. Pyro found him first but for an unknown reason the lieutenant fired upon 9438 and was in return lit on fire. It was later deemed self defense by command.

In the 2nd Battle of Geonosis Pyro generally didn't do anything, his notable moments being when he bashed together a smoke grenade and an incendiary grenade which sprays fuel everywhere. He spent much of the battle burning bugs and

Deneba was another Planet Pyro played a significant role in. At first when they delivered relief to the citizens he just sat in a river the entire time, and happened to accidentally be accused of mass murder. During the attack of Deneba he was directly responsible for burning down the Capitol city.

The battle of Mimban was a long and grueling battle, 9438 lost his leg in the initial landing and was out of commission for a few weeks into the battle. When he returned he mostly passed the time by burning droid ~~clone~~ corpses. He wasn't present for Grievous' assault on our fortifications.

### The Republic Civil War

Orders from a Admiral was received during an assault on Daltiv, ordered the death of civilians and destruction of civilian facilities. Pyro along with Crash-Course were one of the few clones that followed this order Pyro specifically claimed the most lives and destroyed the entirety of the facility.

This angered CT-3359 who was arrested for insubordination for not following the order. When Pyro Returned to the Venator he decided to go to the Brig and mock CT-3359, during this conversation he was stunned and cuffed during Besh company helping CT-3359 out of jail. He broke out of the cuffs to alert the Admiral and others, he was generally ignored. During the course of the insurrection by CT-3359 he was informed the Admiral was a traitor and stunned him. When he went to get a medic for the injured CC-3182. When he exited the turbolift from bridge he was instantly gunned down by CT-3359. He managed to survived but came out with severe brain damage, thanks to ARF-1176 Songbird bringing him to medbay. Giving Pyro what seems like schizophrenia. He was declared mentally insane and sent to Kamino. He failed the mental evaluation but was saved from execution by General Ramt'ii asking Shaak Ti to prevent it from happening. He went to work in the service corps.

#### Time after being sent to Kamino

CT-9438 spent roughly 2 months on Kamino until be granted service in the Service Corps after being deemed mentally rehabilitated. He's spent roughly 2 and a half years in the Service Corps. He had started to be retrained for service under the New Empire.

## Time in Vanguard

### Mandalore Campaign

Pyro was sent back to Vanguard in late 19 BBY right before the campaign on Mandalore. Pyro assaulted the encampments with 3 other flame troopers on day 1. They together assaulted and killed a majority of the mando's in the entrenchments. Then on Day 3 we went to Concord Dawn, after a long guerilla battle it turns out the Vanguard found

both Kad and Stec alive on the planet, taken up the name Verut. And the fact Pyro wasn't permitted to kill them and instead we went with treasonously leaving them alive immediately sent Pyro into mental breakdown. With his first mission back with the army had him commiting the same crime that got him kicked out to the service corps for 2 years of his life. Pyro while happy to be back is constantly worried that he will get the same punishment he was given all that time ago.

Pyro's time between the 3rd day and the 4th week were uneventful except for the time he found a broken boat and fixed it up to drive around. However on the 27th things changed, Pyro and Vanguard Battalion was advancing over a landbridge on the continent which required movement through a thick jungle. During the movement a large amount of the forces were captured including Pyro, Skipper, a few scouts, Squad 22, Crackerjack, and Drum. Favor and Drum both died, and Crackerjack and Blast almost died. But somehow survived their injuries. This was during an intense interrogation, by the Jarro, during which Pyro was practically crippled due to his artificial lung failing. After Crackerjack,

Strill, and Skipper escaped with crackerjack being mortally wounded, and Pyro weakly following, until he found his flamethrower and burned two of the 4 mando captors alive. With Squad 22, Skipper, and Pyro stealing the mando armor and weapons, and dragging one of the squad 22 soldiers along with crackerjack's body across the streets of the city they were in. Until they found an escape vehicle and another group of captives. Pyro took a surprising amount of command over the captured and squad 22 to help escape the city, until they made it back to a base in the city of bone with the escape vehicle. Pyro got his lung fixed, and hid the stolen mando armor on the ship to prevent it's taking by higher ranking members.

### Hunt for Ramt'ii

Vanguard battalion had one mission, kill their former commander Keldrr Ramt'ii, Pyro felt one emotion, fear. As much a Pyro tried to hide it he cared for his life, he was scared of what would happen after he died, it's why he always kept his helmet on, why he rarely left his flamethrower behind. Throughout the entirety of the mission on Iridonia Pyro was scared, he flinched at every movement, he tried his damndest to stay far from enemies. He started to settle when the order to begin smoking out building came in and he could do what he believed was a job that would guarantee no Jedi would get close. This was until he encountered Ramt'ii, Pyro was on top of a burning apartment building using his DC-17 to fire at the Jedi, scoring some hits too. He got cocky Vanguard had him on the backfoot all he could do was block and back up.

But unknown to him the squad firing on Ramt'ii from Ground level chose to move back and regroup. This left Pyro the lone attacker of the Jedi, only did he find this out when he looked around between magazines and realized everyone had left, Pyro turned back to see Ramt'ii closed the distance in an instant. Leaping off a the building to the ground level where the fire still raged, he remembered "as superhuman as jedi were they couldn't conquer fire He'd be safe if he got inside." But the fall damaged his cybernetic legs, slowing his enterance into the Apartment, and in that split second extra time he had, Ramt'ii followed Pyro to the Ground as well, and using the force lifted Pyro from the flames and slamming him into the ground a dozen yards away.

This caused Pyro to lose grip of his weapons, and once more his cybernetic limbs were shattered, crippling Pyro. Scared he simply put his hands in front of him in some hopeless attempt to block the Jedi. All Pyro could do was say "**PLEASE NOO-**" and there and then he died, full of fear, scared, and alone. His death was hardly mourned, most who knew him from the Clone wars were already dead, that or hated him, he was just another designation to put on the casualty report, the Mission was a *Complete Success.*

## Injuries

During his time in the Clone Wars TK-9438 has been in and out of the Medbay many times. Notable occasions are when a explosive pressure wave caused one of his lungs to pop. When an explosion in a tunnel ripped off his arm, and when another explosion in another tunnel ripped his arm off. All have been replaced with cybernetic replacements, his arm and leg lack synth flesh so he covers it with his armor at all times. During the Republic Civil War CT-3359 shot Pyro in the head many times. Luckily the extra armor in flame trooper armor stopped it from immediately killing him, one of the shots did go through the helmet causing severe brain damage, Pyro seemed to hear and speak to non-existent individuals after this incident. The Skull was replaced with durasteel, he was not given synth flesh. During Order 66 Pyro was off loading cargo on the ship when the order came over comms. While Pyro was offloading some new E-11's a Jedi rushed into the MHB to escape. So he pulled one of them out to attempt to kill the Jedi. Pyro hit him in the arm then did a jump backwards as the Jedi slashed forward with his lightsaber. This fortunately prevented Pyro's skull from being cut in half. Unfortunately his lower jaw was completely severed, he was given a artificial lower jaw, but this time refused his synthflesh cause he liked the look, this meant he didn't have lower lips to help pronounce words so he went for a highly developed vocoder.

## Trivia

* Pyro is one of the most promiscuous War Criminals in the Republic and Empire
	+ Pyro burnt down a large portion of Carlac's forests.
	+ Pyro Killed a Zerek Trooper on Carlac.
	+ He Killed a high ranking captured Republic officer after they shot Pyro on accident.
	+ Pyro was often found during Mimban gathering corpses droid and clone alike a burning them in a massive bonfire he tended to stand next to.
	+ He burnt down Deneba's capital and a large portion of the land around it.
* Pyro never wrote on his armor, but he also never cleaned it
* Pyro smelled like "Blood, Death, and Screams" at all times
* Pyro often drank jet fuel, how he survived this is unknown