93rd Legion

“Come on you apes! You want to live forever!?”

-93rd Legion Motto

The 93rd Legion was a unit that served in the Grand Army of the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars. It was dissolved and reformed early on in the conflict, after which it became a diverse group of troublemakers, rabble-rousers and shenanigans which included the Fuschina Knights Battalion, the Robucks Raiders company and the infamous Outback troopers, along with the Camo Boys.

## History

### **Clone Wars**

#### **Dissolution**

The newly-knighted Jedi Dionant Janan rose into command of the newly-made 93rd Legion. The Jedi High Council sent the legion to safeguard a diplomatic mission in the Tharin Sector. General Grievous arrived in the sector and used the *Malevolence* against Janan's fleet, resulting in the deaths of all of the 93rd's personnel, save one company which deserted alongside Janan when he became a Dark Jedi and sought to overthrow the Republic.

#### **Reinstatement**

The ninety-third legion was considered destroyed, with Republic High Command believing that the entire unit's roster had died in the Tharin Sector for a significant amount of the war. Senior Commander Dundee Robuck, fresh from officer training on Kamino, was ordered to draw up personnel and organise units to replace what was lost in the Tharin Sector.

Robuck also assembled a personal unit within the legion, Robuck's Raiders. These soldiers were the very best the ninety-third had to offer.

#### **Battle of Tython**

##### **Onset**

A unit of clones from the 327th Star Corps, led by Jedi General Shak-Tinn, successfully protected the planet from General Grievous's first offensive. They believed they had successfully captured the cyborg general, but an invasion fleet was deploying it's assault forces and Grievous broke free.

Three LAATs containing troopers from Robuck's Raiders made up the 93rd's advance party. They consulted the surviving 327th troopers and the Jedi, before dividing themselves between mining the roads and setting up defensive positions inside an ancient temple.

##### **Heavy Combat**

Three platoons of reinforcing 93rd troopers arrived in gunships, setting up in their designated positions throughout the temple grounds. The 327th troopers were the vanguard for the operation, despite the casualties they suffered in the first wave.

Shak-Tinn's forces were led by Marshal Commander Bly himself, and bolstered by the efforts of Jedi Knight Xoran Jell and Jedi Master Nanti-San. The 93rd's effort to plant mines along the roads proved instrumental in the destruction of dozens of CIS tanks and transports.

A full battalion of battle droids marched against the grounds, and Robuck's Raiders established an E-Web position that effectively countered them. Under it's covering fire, the Raiders advanced with a pair of standard 93rd squads to reinforce the 327th, removing their wounded and filling gaps in their lines.

CIS tanks broke through the minefield and opened fire, damaging the face of the temple and killing multiple clone and volunteer troopers. The 93rd retaliated with rocket fire that downed several of the seven AATs, limiting their effectiveness.

Grievous arrived in person with several platoons of reinforcing battle droids, including B2 super battle droids. Robuck advised his Raiders to avoid any wrist rockets, and the battle continued. The cyborg general, assisted by a Dark Jedi, pushed the Jedi back, killing dozens of troopers with his lightsabers before the ranks fell back inside the temple entrance.

An intense firefight broke out, but Grievous wished to kill the Jedi in person for the purposes of collecting their lightsabers and experiencing satisfaction in slaying them. This required the general and his droids to enter close combat with Republic forces, allowing the 93rd to escape bombardment from wrist rockets and AATs.

Under Robuck and several 327th, the 93rd rallied and stormed the entryway and pushed the Confederate assault back several meters. An additional Jedi arrived to reinforce them and gunships commenced attack runs, forcing Grievous to withdraw.

##### **Tython Secured**

The 93rd gathered equipment from their two dozen fallen brethren, burying the dead, tending the wounded and exchanging fond farewells with the 327th Star Corps.

While the 327th Star Corps secured the temple on Tython for Aayla Secura, Commander Robuck had LAATs bring the 93rd element back up into space, reasonably satisfied with a job well done.

#### **Skirmish on Korriban**

##### **Task Force Assemblage**

Jedi General Erth'lck acquired the 93rd Legion's support for an operation that tasked them with sniffing out rumours of a Sith presence on Korriban. A few troopers from the 111th Heavy Brigade were set to arrive not long after.

When the Republic fleet arrived, they were surprised to find zero Confederate naval presence in-system. Reconnaissance revealed a few CIS anti-air positions on-world, which squadrons of Headhunter starfighters promptly destroyed.

Robuck led the Raiders inside a temple, a recurring theme for the unit. But this time, they were looking in, instead of looking out like they did on Tython.

##### **Into the Catacombs**

Erth'lck gave the order to advance into the catacombs, where they found an array of Sith tombstones. The 111th Heavy Brigade mission element arrived, led by Battalion Commander Alexis Deltern. A red, transparent and cloaked figure appeared at the head of the tombstones, and asked why they had entered the temple and catacombs.

A clone trooper at the lead of the formation simply answered, "For the Republic!" before the figure attacked them with their red lightsaber. Other figures joined in, and several Raiders and 111th were killed in the attack. Blaster bolts and thermal detonators had little to no effect and the group retreated.

When the strike team left the temple, the entry closed in on itself. They and the troops outside were then attacked by two Force-sensitives, later suspected to be Darth Manor and Darth Cortex. The resultant engagement left dozens of clones and volunteers dead, by saber cuts, electrocution and burning. Crimson lightning and Force Fire wrought havoc on the 93rd portion of the attacking force.

##### **Full Retreat**

Alexis, Sergeant Goblin, and Lieutenant Faith managed to stall the alleged Sith while most of the clones retreated in Low Altitude Assault Transports, but Lance Corporal Reigns, George and a squad of troopers were cut off. As the Sith moved in to finish them off and began cutting troopers down, a clone pilot brought his Headhunter starfighter to bare on the Sith, allowing the Republic troops to cross the courtyard to the final gunship and make their escape.

Robuck returned the survivors to a Republic Navy starship in orbit. Reigns received burns everywhere except for his face and reproductive organs, and had to spend time in a bacta tank. Swivel was killed in action.

Up to two platoons of 93rd personnel were killed during the engagement, and multiple 111th troopers also died. The 93rd Legion steered into Republic territory to report in on the status of their mission.

#### **Mission to Ord Mantell**

Jedi Generals Erth'lck and Fera brought *Robuck's Raiders* to Ord Mantell with the task of recovering the blackbox from a ship that had crashed on the planet. When they left the landing zone, the team encountered the Force-sensitive Separatist general VIX and a Sith apprentice, Lyukji. The Jedi stayed to fight them off, while the clones and volunteers advanced into the city to reach the crash site. Jet, Reigns, Robuck, CT-6913-27 "Loy" and a squad of troopers went in, while the Jedi engaged in a three-way duel with VIX and Lyukji.

##### **A Brief Engagement and The Duel**

They skirmished with a small force of B1 and B2 battle droids backed by a fireteam of BX commandos, and lost two clones before grasping victory and acquiring the blackbox. Returning to the sight of the duel, the *Raiders* learned that VIX was dead and Lyukji had fled, but a new robed figure had arrived. Erth'lck was repelled, stating that battling the figure was akin to fighting a ghost.

Fera held her own against the figure while the *Raiders* and Erth'lck returned to the Venator-class Star Destroyer.

##### **Encouragement and a Crash Landing**

Robuck, Reigns, Eerie, George, CT-6913-27 and Erth'lck discussed strategies regarding their upcoming mission, when 6913-27 received what were possibly telepathic and later holocommunicative transmissions from Fera. The Jedi steadily broke down until she was sobbing, and believed she could not prevail. CT-6913-27 informed her that she had remarkable determination for a non-clone, and she ceased communications.

The strategy discussion was interrupted by the arrival of Darth Cortex. Cortex had used the Force to infiltrate the Venator bridge, and proceeded to sabotage it and kill multiple crew members before disappearing.

Hundreds of personnel escaped aboard LAATs and escape pods before the Venator crash landed on Geonosis, scattering the 93rd personnel who were present. The ship was carrying around 9,400 individuals prior to the sabotage and crash.

#### **Crash Landing on Geonosis**

##### **Getting Their Bearings**

A number of the *Raiders* and 93rd troopers landed inside an abandoned arena, and Robuck regrouped with them. Darth Cortex and Darth Manor revealed themselves and advanced on the clones, who ascended to the arena second floor using their tow cables to avoid them.

Erth'lck arrived, but later left to go on a scouting mission. Meanwhile, Fera arrived through a Force rift and held the two Darths back so that the Raiders could regroup with other survivors. Fera bought them several minutes before admitting over communicator that she was incapable of holding out any longer, and 6913-27 gave her his appreciation.

##### **Combat Intensified**

Combat between Geonosian-backed CIS forces and the 93rd element on the planet intensified. Outnumbered and outgunned, the Raiders and the clones they had regrouped with prepared for a desperate assault. Suddenly the roar of Republic gunships was heard, as the 781st Legion's LAATs arrived to provide CAS support.

The full might of the 781st Legion was brought down on the Confederate defenders. Retired Jedi General Justin Bri'den also arrived with the 82nd Expeditionary Force. Hopelessly outgunned, the CIS organic officers surrendered as an Acclamator-class Assault Ship deployed thirty proton torpedoes against their core-ship, destroying it thoroughly.

##### **Revelation**

As the prisoners were processed, the personnel from each unit went about their business. A commander from the 781st nicknamed Crusher informed Bri'den that General Fera had been arrested and was being brought back to Coruscant to be tried and stripped for her rank under allegations that she had fallen to the dark side and consorted with the enemy.

6913-27 requested permission to speak freely, which Justin granted. The Raider clone explained Fera's messages to him, their conversation, and how she had fought three Force users on Ord Mantell. He went on to explain that the Sith fighting them were the same ones on Korriban, and that while Fera had a difficult time, she had travelled to Geonosis just to hold the Darths off so that the operation could succeed.

In light of this information, Bri'den sought to ensure Fera's command was re-instated. 6913-27 escaped reprimand, despite violating multiple regulations. He divulged classified information and details regarding multiple operations to a retired being who was no longer officially an officer.

Many personnel from the 93rd, 82nd and 781st heard the trooper speak, and the words resonated with them. The seeds were planted, which later sprouted and caused the clones and volunteers to ask more questions about the war they were fighting.

#### **Second Battle of Geonosis**

Some elements of the 93rd were heavily involved in the Second Battle of Geonosis, though units like *Robuck's Raiders* were often deployed across various fronts throughout the war.

#### **First Battle of Ord Mantell**

Under General Erth'lck and two other Jedi Generals, the 93rd Legion advanced on Ord Mantell alongside the 69th Attack Battalion and Jedi Commander Kung Lyn, with the intention of seizing the planet and preventing Grievous from conquering it.

The ninety-third's strategy revolved around holding the city, similar to how they had held an ancient temple on Tython against Grievous sometime prior. Grievous utilised a large scale combined arms force that included homing spider droids, snail tanks, HAG tanks, AAT tanks, and hailfire and vulture droids.

Many of the 2,400 the 93rd deployed onto the planet were killed during the fighting, and Dundee Roebuck lost an arm and leg. Thanks to Fera Fris using a Force Barrier to save them from a massive and precisely planned HAG artillery barrage, and to the efforts of the Jedi present, the *Raiders* and the ninety-third were able to retreat to a designated evacuation zone and flee the planet.

CT-6913-27 and a squad of troopers, led by an unidentified captain, remained behind and held the evacuation site until the final transport arrived. They boarded that last LAAT and looked for a Jedi who was rumoured to have stayed behind, and attempted to rescue a Republic battle droid.

Grievous climbed aboard the LAAT and drew all four lightsabers, killing most of those aboard and causing the LAAT to crash. He leapt out and later captured the captain, but 6913-27 escaped.

##### **Battle Aftermath**

The 93rd Legion retreated to their Venator-class Super Star Destroyers and fled to Hoth, where the 82nd Expeditionary Force met them and began tending to their wounded. They later went to Coruscant for re-arming and refuelling.

General Grievous contacted the *Harlequin*'s bridge via hologram and showed them various scenes of dead ninety-third personnel, boasting of his most recent victory and blaming the Jedi for the fate of his homeworld. 6913-27 managed to secure a week's leave, and left with Fera Fris.

#### **Battle of Sarrish**

##### **Osh's Assault**

General Eedigh led the Fuschina Knights and some assisting personnel from other units in an all-out assault on General Grievous's stronghold on Sarrish. The attack failed and Osh was captured.

##### **Sarrish Gambit**

Both Osh and those among the Fuschina Knights who were taken prisoner escaped due to the actions of a Jedi strike team. General Grievous was infuriated and sought to hunt the Jedi Master down.

#### **Ryloth Operation**

Commander Robuck was tasked with liberating a captured Twi'lek village occupied by Confederate forces. The 82nd Expeditionary Force was a ways behind, and going to reinforce. This put the Raiders on the tip of the spear, and several of their squads launched an attack on a walled installation occupied by battle droids. Blaster fire ripped through the trees, revealing the droids knew the attack was about to happen. In response, Ripper shot several heavy rounds in the direction of the wall to cover the initial advance.

Loy and other troopers took to the trees, providing covering fire for the attackers. Several volunteers fell to blaster fire, and return fire ensued. A lucky shot from the droids removed Ripper's helmet, but he survived. When the Raiders learned most of the wall defense consisted of some emplacements, Loy shot down one of the gunners with a quick delivery of four bolts, noting that the clanker fell to the ground with a crunch.

Corporal Tank threw a grenade towards the droids, but it rolled down a slope and blew apart one of the Raiders while injuring two more. A medic tended to them while Loy took a squad of riflemen and moved up on the left, acquiring a position along a mountainous slope. They reached an overwatch position with a good view of the wall and it's surrounding C.I.S. outpost, before one of the troops accidentally gave away their position.

Loy's squad opened fire, securing the way for the rest of the Raiders. A clone and a volunteer established an E-Web position, and two more were rapidly created. When Loy reported an unidentified contact on another tall ridge, Dundee ordered the Camo Boys to go take a look. They discovered a Mandalorian mercenary, callsign "Knight", who was working for the Republic. He threw in with the Raiders and helped them liberate the region.

The Camo Boys also reported that a battalion of battle droids were inbound with an Armoured Assault Tank. Loy's people went prone and the Raiders at the outpost knew they were in for it. When Loy's position was discovered by the tinnies a few moments after, they shot down two of his squadmates before the entirety of the established Raider positions lit up the battalion's front line. The concentrated fire destroyed an entire droid company.

An AAT shell downed two more soldiers, and then the tank targeted Sergeant Kieran's position. The bunker his E-Web position was located in was heavily damaged by the shot, sending the sergeant flying and killing several Raiders. But the Raiders fought back, firing from covered positions and downing a hefty number of droids. A third trooper from Loy's squad went down. Suddenly blessed with a creative solution to this problem, Loy and the remaining troopers in his squad used their ascension cables to descend onto the AAT, surprisingly unnoticed by the now-distracted droid forces, in part due to a large number of them getting fried or temporarily deactivated by someone else's droid popper. Using a fusion cutter, they entered the tank and destroyed the crew, then commandeered the vehicle. Announcing their success over comms, Loy then turned the AAT against the droid battalion.

Half of the battalion's remainder went down in a hail of blue and red gunfire, the rifles from Loyl's squad combined with the AAT's blaster cannons making short work of those clankers. The surviving droids retreated further up the rocky passage. A lull in the fighting ensued, allowing medical personnel to tend wounded troops while an armoury was established. Loyl shyly asked the armourer if four SMART rockets were available, and was provided four launchers and two crates of ammunition, each crate containing eight pieces of ammo.

A minefield lay ahead, and at least seven EOD specialists died trying to clear it while fighting the battle droids simultaneously. Loy's tank lit up the forward droid positions, crushing them. he then placed the tank in front of the Raiders, allowing medics to recover the wounded.

Through another passageway arrived the 82nd Expeditionary Force's Strill Company and Jedi General Justin Bri'den. Loy communicated that the commandeered AAT was friendly so no allied forces would fire on it.

Equipped with blasters and bayonets, Strill Company charged the Separatist positions and dealt heavy damage to the ranks of the enemy. They caused oil to spill aplenty, though several of them went down in the fighting. Loy brought his tank into position in front of them to absorb blaster fire, before unleashing it's weaponry on the droids and racking up a higher kill count.

Strill Company's All Terrain Tactical Enforcers moved in, with Strill, the Raiders, and the captured AAT likewise advancing. Droids fired on them from a distance as hostile artillery batteries and howitzers became visible. The AAT fired an arced shot, and the shell destroyed an artillery battery's ammo dump, effectively putting it out of commission.

Four troopers armed with SMART rockets were strapped onto the sides of the AAT, and they fired off three rockets at a howitzer. One missed, a second rocket careened into and downed an entire squad of B2 super battle droids, and the third hit a second howitzer's ammunition cache. The chain reaction from that explosion destroyed another howitzer and the surrounding battle droids.

A droid rocketeer tried to take out the tank, but missed, their rocket striking the mountainside and causing an avalanche which the AAT had to circumvent, before it's main cannon obliterated the group responsible.

An artillery battery prepped to fire on the AAT, but all four SMART rocketeers opened fire, with one rocket bouncing off and hitting a fleeing droid while the other three struck the artillery battery and it's ammunition, destroying all droids in the vicinity and dooming the tactical droid leading the operation.

Though a significant portion of the Raiders' ammunition was used up or destroyed in the fighting, they recovered more from the Separatist base. The surviving B1s surrendered and were removed from the area. Loy's AAT had burned through roughly a third of it's ammunition. The tank was painted white with red markings, and because one of the tank's kills was a BX-series commando droid, an emblem representing a BX was painted onto the AAT.

Gunships arrived to take the wounded away, the Fuschina Knights and 82nd garrisoned the area. The village was liberated and the Raiders, having suffered dozens of casualties, exited Ryloth and entered a Venator-class Star Destroyer to recover and await their next mission.

#### **Mission on Mimban**

Robuck's Raiders hooked up with the 5th Fleet and other Republic Navy assets. An operative named Monke'Te gained the Raiders' help in an operation on the planet Mimban. GAR advances had been stalled with heavy casualties, and they needed the Raiders to charge in, break into the Confederate base and steal several AATs.

Suffering minor casualties in the process, the Raiders did just that. Seven AATs were stolen, to Loy's delight, and Monke'Te broke off a tactical droid's head before crushing it thoroughly. When the area was secured, they saw troopers from the 501st Legion and 212th Attack Battalion arrive. It turned out that Crewman Ander Naka of the 5th Fleet was a spy and a turncoat. He drew his sidearm blaster and shrugged off his guards, then fired a stun blast at one of the 501st troopers before Dundee and the other Raiders gunned him down.

## **Personnel Roster**

### **Original Ninety-third**

Lieutenant CL-#### "Mako" [Deserted]

Captain CT-#### "Dag" [Deserted]

Jedi General Dionant Janan [Deserted]

### **New Ninety-Third**

G-11011 [Droid]

"Kabal"

"Meyer"

#### **Camo Boys**

Sergeant VARF-4971-23 "Skelly"

1st Lieutenant VARF-7743-21 "Drake"

Captain ARF-6913-28 "Snakewrangler"

#### **Fuschina Knights Battalion**

Trooper CT-#### "Tye"

CT-#### "Ahisago"

Captain CT-#### "Pri" [Pride of the Republic]

Captain CT-#### "Taz" [Reigning Hellfire Company]

Captain CT-#### "Herr" [Ravagers Company]

Captain CT-#### "Rose" [Republic's Rose Company]

Major CC-9825 "Shroud"

Jedi General Osh Eedigh

#### **Robuck's Raiders**

##### **First Platoon**

Trooper CT-6913-27 "Loy"

"RedHawk" [K.I.A, First Battle of Ord Mantell]

"Lazarus"

"Rell"

"Wyvern"

"Falcon"

[[George]] [Gunner]

CT-5569 “Swivel” [Sharpshooter] [K.I.A, Korriban Skirmish]

CT-5570 "Swivel-Two"

"Locket"

CT-#### "Tanker" [Gunner]

"Wrecker"

"Wesley" [Medic]

ARC trooper "Eerie"

Lance Corporal "Reigns"

Sergeant CT-#### "Sight"

Sergeant CT-2422-23 "Kieran"

Lieutenant CT-45/23-2106 “Shifter”

Volunteer Senior Commander Dundee Robuck

##### **Second Platoon**

Trooper VT-#### "Ripper"

Corporal VT-4562 Kyra "Tank" Ak'oita

1st Lieutenant Trace Lexi'von

##### **4th Platoon**

Master Sergeant RC-1975 "Flak" [Wrangle Squad]

## Organisation

Units like the *Camo Boys*, *FUschina Knights* and *Robuck's Raiders* usually operated separately from the rest of the 93rd Legion, who tended to serve in garrison and support roles. The 93rd Legion was often supported by the 409th Legion in their endeavours.

### **Equipment**

Eight commandeered Armoured Assault Tanks

#### **Raiders Armoury**

armory supplies:

5 Z6s

30 DC-15As

20 spare armor sets

15 explosive crates (4 per)

10 EWEB emplacements

18 smart launchers

armor repairs: 10
weapon repairs 18

Ammo:

20 crates for smart launchers (4 per crate)

70 crates for DC-15As (100 per crate)

60 crates for EWEBs (200 per crate)

30 crates for Z6s (200 per crate)

25 crates for DC-17Bs (50 per crate)

## **Unit Composition**

### **Fuschina Knights Battalion**

Pride of the Republic Company

Reigning Hellfire Company [Artillery]

Ravagers Company

Republic's Rose Company

## Uniforms

Standard members of the ninety-third wore white armour with maroon markings, and gunners wore armour plated shoulder pauldrons that had a gray colouration.

### **Fuschina Knights**

Personnel from the Fuschina Knights wore pink markings. Members of their Republic's Rose Company had a large embroidered rose on their right shoulder pauldrons.

### **Robuck's Raiders**

Many members of *Robuck's Raiders* had the image of a droid skull on one of their shoulder pads. Freshly recruited *Raiders* wore utility belts without maroon markings. *Robuck's Raiders* were the first unit in the 93rd Legion, and one of the first units in the Grand Army, to receive Phase II armour. Specialists within the unit were referred to as Outback Troopers and had their own set of armour.

During formal occasions, the *Raiders* wore slouch hats.

Pictured (right): *Robuck's Raiders*.

Pictured (Bottom right): A basic 93rd Trooper.
Pictured (Farthest bottom right): A 93rd Outback Trooper.