RC-0947 “Sidearm"

> "*I neutralized the Separatist commander, who threatened to destroy an entire city, as well as our troops and our General.*"
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> “*You vaporized a dozen civilians, Sidearm.*”
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> “*It was them or the entire city, Commander. With all due respect, I feel that there wasn’t a choice here, sir. We were ordered to minimize civilian casualties and destruction to their home, and that’s what I did.*”
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> ― RC-0947 "Sidearm" and CC-0419 "Commander Bear" during the Battle of Zequardia
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## Physical description

### Height

1.83 meters

**RC-0947 "Sidearm"** was a Clone Commando who served in **the Grand Army of the Republic** during the Clone Wars, and served under the Empire before defecting and joining the Mandalorian **Clan Cadera**.

Trained from birth as a Commando by the Cuy’val Dar Sergeant Aldor Cadera, RC-0947 quickly rose in infamy among the Commandos and Mandalorians, becoming nicknamed Sidearm for the way he threw grenades, and the copious quantities of grenades that he went through during his service lent credence to the nickname.

His squad consisted of RC-0823 (Nugget), CC-0419 (Commander Bear), and RC-0157 (Manacles), and was designated Volo Squad. The squad was deployed during the First Battle of Geonosis, and served under Jedi General Mace Windu, and then served under him again during his Defense of Dantooine, where they witnessed Windu take on a battalion of battle droids and super battle droids on his own.

After that Battle, they were properly assigned to Jedi General Sat’tar Adda and the 345th Legion. Various battles were served with the General and her Padawan, Salto Derr, as listed above. Most notably, they encountered the T-Series Super Tactical Droid General Kalani on Agamar, shooting down his ships, but after a pause in the fighting, the 345th Legion was ordered to investigate Separatist activity on the planet of Eadu. While on Eadu, Clone Order 66 was issued, resulting in the death of the Padawan Salto Derr, but General Adda managed to overpower the clones for a moment and escape.

With the reorganization of the Galactic Republic into the Galactic Empire, Volo Squad continued serving, and were recalled to Kamino with the rest of the Clones. After this, they met with Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader personally, in which RC-0947 affirmed the squad’s willingness to rectify their error in letting General Adda escape, and Palpatine assigned Lord Vader to an oversight role on this mission to track down the General. Palpatine offered them a role as trainers for the next generation of Special Forces should they succeed, and death if they did not.

After tracking the Jedi to Formos, the Squad swiftly brought General Adda to her knees, and RC-0947 executed her. Vader reported resounding success to the Emperor, with the latter being informed that the Commandos were far and above most of the other clones in terms of effectiveness, and would be suitable to train the planned Purge Trooper and Death Trooper initiatives.

Volo Squad spent roughly 2 years training the last generation of Clones to be effective in defeating Jedi, and then also spent time training the first generation of elite Death Troopers. After about 2 years, Moff Yucia Pallium requested a Commando Squad to assist stormtroopers in “routing” Mandalorians from the planet of Phindar. Upon deployment, Volo Squad encountered their former trainer, the Mandalorian Aldor Cadera, and Volo Squad defected from the Empire.

After Volo Squad became Mandalorians, they fought in **the Night of a Thousand Tears** on Mandalore, where Aldor Cadera and all of Volo Squad were killed, besides Sidearm.