History Literature / RepublicCommandoSeries

* ''Order 66'' (2008)

A sixth book was planned, but was cancelled due to Traviss's contractual issues and continuity changes introduced by ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''. That series and the succeeding ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Rebels]]'' and ''Series/TheMandalorian'' borrowed much of her worldbuilding for the Mandalorians in modified forms; however the exact plot of the novel series was almost entirely ignored.

* ArcWords: ''Vode an'' -- Mandalorian for ''Brothers All.''

* BetaCouple: Quite a few if [[spoiler: Darman and Etain]] are the official couple:

* BondVillainStupidity: Really, Hokan? ''Really?'' [[spoiler: Did you ''need'' to go finish off your enemy with a [[strike: knife]] vibroblade?]]

* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler: Arligan Zey and Maze show up at the retreat on Mandalore as fugitives, despite the latter supposedly having executed the former in ''Order 66''.]]
* CallForward: The non-Kamino-sourced clones introduced in ''Order 66'' were created using Spaarti technology, which Creator/TimothyZahn had invented for ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy''. This book explains that [[QuantityVsQuality they grow clones much faster at the cost of reduced quality control]].
* CallToAgriculture: After the war, Clone Commander Levet and the commandos of Yayax squad build a farm on Mandalore.

* CatchPhrase: Referring to absolutely everyone as 'son' for Skirata.

** Played to the hilt and then subverted on the same page when [[spoiler: Kal Skirata first meets the Null Arcs. At the time they appeared four year old innocent and helpless children in desperate need of Kal's protection from the diabolical Kaminoans...until they stole Kal's holdout blaster to defend themselves.]]

%%* TheClan: the Skiratas.
* CloningBlues: Surprisingly averted. The clones don't care. They're even ''proud'' of their heritage, because they were bred to be whupass on every other "randomly conceived being" in the galaxy.
* ColdSniper: played straight with Sev, subverted with [[TheHeart Fi]] .

A sixth book was planned, but was cancelled due to Traviss's contractual issues and continuity changes introduced by ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars The Clone Wars]]''.

* ARealManIsAKiller:
** The Mandalorians look down on politicians especially for not killing face-to-face, mano-a-mano. Hokan goes on about how he doesn't respect Dr. Uthan because she kills with germs, not with guns.
** The notion is somewhat toyed with. None of the killers in question look down on people who don't do killing, so much as look down on people who don't do their ''own killing personally'', but rather via indirect methods.

* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Mandalorians in general. Subverted in Bardan's case, where he left the Jedi because he couldn't stand the fact that clones aren't treated with any respect, even when the Jedi are supposed to value all life.
** Subverted in Imperial Commando when Fenn Shysa tries to convince Skirata to side with the Mandalorians in general, rather than his clan. Naturally, Skirata refuses.

* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Every Mandalorian in the group.

* RefugeInAudacity: "True Colors" details the legal nature of Order 66, explaining it was one of 150 Contingency Orders... And that Order 65 was an order to ''arrest the Supreme Chancellor and kill him if necessary''.

* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: {{Lampshaded}} with the 1.2 million clone trooper number, which Traviss upped to 3 million: she was only following the lead of the higher-canon ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' novelization from two years earlier and even mocks it in the short story "Odds." ''Order 66'' introduces non-Kaminoan clones to compensate.

* VowOfCelibacy: As is frequently the case, the Jedi Order's produces plenty of drama. Etain and Darman have a SecretRelationship that produces a son. There's also a cameo by Callista Ming from the earlier-written ''[[Literature/TheCallistaTrilogy Callista Trilogy]]'', who as in that series' backstory has a boyfriend. The series fixes the conflict by establishing that Callista is a member of a Jedi splinter sect that encourages romantic love, which the mainstream order considers semi-heretical. Of course, this [[{{Retcon}}all becomes moot]] when [[WordOfGod George Lucas]] revealed that celibacy was ''not'' a requirement of the Jedi Order.

--> '''Bardan:''' So how do we justify what we are doing now? Breeding men without choice, and without freedom, to fight and die for us? When do the means cease to justify the end? Where is our society heading? Where are our ideals, and what are we without them? If we give in to expedience in this way, where do we draw the line between ourselves and those we find unacceptably evil? I have no answer, Masters. Do you?%

** Skirata, on being formally disowned by his sons.

** Skirata, always, but he really proves this when [[spoiler: he aids his sons (who have [[OldShame formally disowned him]] in finding his missing daughter/their missing sister, Ruusaan, who he hasn't talked to in over thirty years.]]
** Also subverted: [[spoiler: When Skirate also adopts Bardan Jusik. Family is family and you just never turn your back on them, blood is the least of it, since Mando frequently adopt orphans... or stray Jedi with daddy issues.]]

** Laseema, Besany, Etain, Uthan ... Notice, all ''women'' It should be noted that with the exception of Laseema—who was either a Hutt slave or terribly mistreated Hutt employee—the others are all competent, capable, professional women in their own right. In a normal setting, they would be plenty "badass" on their own. However, when placed within a general military science-fiction action series, alongside life-long warriors and borderline super soldiers, there's something of a need for them to step it up. Which they do. Magnificently.
** Corr, oh so much. Was just a standard trooper before being picked up by Skirata's gang, and ended up being trained as an actual Commando. And Corr is a HandicappedBadass having had both arms blown off near the elbow. His weapon of choice? A [[GatlingGood Rotary Blaster Cannon]], a freaking minigun in blaster form, that enjoys plying about a little ''too'' much.

%%* ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption: Oh, ''HELL YES IT IS!''
* VowOfCelibacy: As is frequently the case, the Jedi Order's produces plenty of drama. Etain and Darman have a SecretRelationship that produces a son. There's also a cameo by Callista Ming from the earlier-written ''[[Literature/TheCallistaTrilogy Callista Trilogy]]'', who as in that series' backstory has a boyfriend. The series fixes the conflict by establishing that Callista is a member of a Jedi splinter sect that encourages romantic love, which the mainstream order considers semi-heretical.

** Vau himself, ironically. To say the man has daddy issues is an understatement. It needs to be noted that Vau is ''not'' jealous of Skirata. He finds the notion absurd. He is, however, jealous of ''Skirata's'' boys.

* WhatTheHellHero: Bardan Jusik calls out his fellow Jedi for using an army of slave soldiers when he [[spoiler:quits the Jedi Order;]]
--> '''Bardan:''' So how do we justify what we are doing now? Breeding men without choice, and without freedom, to fight and die for us? When do the means cease to justify the end? Where is our society heading? Where are our ideals, and what are we without them? If we give in to expedience in this way, where do we draw the line between ourselves and those we find unacceptably evil? I have no answer, Masters. Do you?
%%* WhyDontYaJustShootHim?: Hokan, you moron.

* WouldHurtAChild: For all his talk that children are sacred, Skirata still murders padawans after [[spoiler:Etain jumps in front of one's lightsaber]]

** A saying Skirata taught his boys is 'Soldiers don't always wear uniforms'.

%%* TheForce: Must I explain? ''Star Wars EU,'' hellooo ..

%%* {{Foil}} : Sev (the ColdSniper) to Fi (TheHeart)

* JurisdictionFriction: Between the GAR and Coruscant law enforcement during ''Triple Zero''
** subverted with Skirata and Obrim's friendliness to each other.
* JustAKid: subverted with Kal Skirata's beginnings.
* KnifeNut: Skirata's three-sided blade is mentioned quite often, as it is his close-ranged weapon of choice and he keeps it on him at all times. We discover in ''Order 66'' that it used to belong to his biological father.

* LargeHam: Skirata has his moments

** Jango Fett himself is to have mentioned Skirata as ""the dirtiest fighter I've ever known".

* {{Mangst}}: Kal Skirata again. Ordo to a lesser extent. Darman ''all the way'' [[spoiler: especially during ''501st'']]
* ManOnFire: Darman [[spoiler: he survives with little damage but plenty of nightmares.]]

* MayDecemberRomance: rare gender-flipped example in which Ruu is much older than her clone companion Cov.

** Lord Mirdalan literally means Lord Smarts/Intelligence in ''Mando'a''

** No word on whether it's deliberate, but Etain[[labelnote:*]] Properly spelled Étaín with ''fada''s, and "Éadaoin" in Modern Irish.[[/labelnote]] is an Old Irish name usually considered to mean "fiery" or "passionate".

** Not being there for the Battle of Galidraan is hinted to be this for Vau in ""Order 66"".

** Also in Order 66 between Kal and Darman

%%* PregnantBadass: [[spoiler: Etain]]

* PuttingOnTheReich: most obvious in ''Imperial'' Commando, and lampshaded by the clones when they get their Stormtroper plates.
* TheQuietOne: Fixer, in Delta Squad; Atin in ''Hard Contact''

* RatedMForManly: There is so much badassery, violence, and bromance if you're a female you will go through a sex change.
%%* RedemptionDemotion: Arguably Vau.

** This series does a number on the then-recent "History of the Mandalorians" article by Abel G. Pena. Instead of Spar being an insane, fanatical, and charasmatic Mandalore who becomes a ShellShockedVeteran, he's a cynical puppet warlord who's in it for the MoneyDearBoy, the Mandalorian Civil War was a minor affair that most Mandalorians ignored, and instead of only around 212 highly dangerous Mandalorians, we have an entire planet of them. Also, that totally awesome City of Bone from the Marvel Comics? Now a failed tourist trap. Of course, with the 3rd-person character POV the reader's provided with, we never do get the entire picture of just what was going on with Spar. For all we really know—or at the ease of another writer to elaborate upon in the future—it's not so much an out-and-out retcon as an expansion, with Spar muddying the water with his snarky jerkass personality.
** ''Order 66'' does a little of it to patch holes between the prequel trilogy canon and the preceding EU material. The Spaarti cloning cylinders from ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'' make an appearance, explained as a different technology than used by the Kaminoans that [[QuantityVsQuality can grow clones faster at the cost of reduced quality control]].
%%* SergeantRock: Skirata ''is'' this trope to a T.
* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: {{Lampshaded}} with the 1.2 million clone trooper number, which Traviss upped to 3 million: she was only following the lead of the higher-canon ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' novelization from two years earlier and even mocks it in the short story "Odds". ''Order 66'' introduces non-Kaminoan clones to compensate.

* ShipTease: Between Darman and Etain in ''Hard Contact'' [[spoiler: before their relationship became canon in ''Triple Zero.'']] There is also plenty of subtext between Ny and Skirata.

%%* SuperSoldier: The commandos.
%%* SoleSurvivor: Atin twice.

%%* SpaceMarine:
%%The commandos
%%** Interestingly enough, the Mandalorians can be seen as this as well.

* HeartbrokenBadass: [[spoiler: Skirata and the gang after Etain's death]]

** Maybe to prove how badass Skirata's private army is and how rotten the Republic is simultaneously?

%%* HandsomeLech: Mereel

%%* HeadTurningBeauty: Besany

%%* CombatPragmatist: Skirata, full stop.

* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: [[spoiler:A pregnant Etain wants to give her child a normal life, which she never had since she was a Jedi. Kal insists that because Darman an adopted Mandalorian, so should the child, to which Etain accepts without question, despite there being nothing wrong with giving the child a normal life and Kal has no business telling Etain how to raise her kid, [[{{Hypocrite}} making him not much better than how the Jedi dealt with Force-sensitive kids]].]]

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There have been several spinoff novels and short stories from the computer game ''VideoGame/StarWarsRepublicCommando'', known as the ''Republic Commando Series''. Although there is a degree of intertextuality between these stories, they can be split into several defined story arcs that can be read individually from each other. While clone commandos appear in many stories, such as ''Literature/DarkLordTheRiseOfDarthVader'' and ''Literature/JediTrial'', this list only deals with direct spinoffs from the ''Republic Commando'' franchise.

* HideYourPregnancy: Etain does this on Qiilura, but savvy Commander Levett isn't fooled for an instant.

* BadassGrandpa: Skirata [[spoiler: quite literally, from ''True Colors'' onwards]]

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Apparently something that happens often with Skirata. Who knew the [[{{BadassGrandpa}} old guy]] with [[HandicappedBadass a limp]] could be such a badass PapaWolf?

* ArmorIsUseless: Averted heavily. In one short story, Fi fires a Verpine shattergun -- the EU version of armor-piercing rounds -- at Atin purposely and the armor deflects it. The commandos are appreciative of their armor's durability and it helps them survive many a firefight. In the same short story, Fi is able to jump on a grenade and come out badly rattled, but alive.

* ARealManIsAKiller: The Mandalorians look down on politicians especially for not killing face-to-face, mano-a-mano. Hokan goes on about how he doesn't respect Dr. Uthan because she kills with germs, not with guns.

* ActionGirl: Etain, a Jedi apprentice who survives the death of her master at the outbreak of the Clone Wars and becomes a badass in her own right. Rav Bralor is implied to be one. Also, Ny.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Etain and the Jedi Knights.

* AntiHero: Lots. Skirata himself bounces from a Type III to a Type V throughout the course of the books.

* AscendedExtra: Ny and Corr.
* {{Asexual}}: Vau, possibly.
** It's been theorized that Niner is one too.

* BadassLongcoat: Skirata's bantha hide jacket
** Ordo borrows a grey one from Vau in Triple Zero.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Both Etain and Bardan get this treatment. All of the commandos are surprised at how they're able to handle themselves, and Skirata is caught off guard after Vau and Atin start fighting, causing Bardan to burst into the room, push them apart with the Force, then hold them against the walls while yelling at them that the hating will stop ''now.''

* {{BFG}}: Etain has one.

* BloodlessCarnage: sharply subverted.
* [[spoiler: BolivianArmyEnding: ''Order 66'', with Etain dead, Darman catatonic, and Niner a broken spine, not to mention the unbeatable Delta Squad finally separated.]]

* ChildrenAreInnocent: Played to the hilt and then subverted on the same page when [[spoiler: Kal Skirata first meets the Null Arcs. At the time they appeared four year old innocent and helpless children in desperate need of Kal's protection from the diabolical Kaminoans...until they stole Kal's holdout blaster to defend themselves.]]

* TheClan: the Skiratas.

* CombatPragmatist: Skirata, full stop.

* ContractOnTheHitman: the Nulls, Skirata, Vau, and other defectors after Order 66.

* CoolOldLady: Ny. Uthan has her moments as well.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Etain in ''Hard Contact''

* CurbStompBattle: Implied between Atin and Vau.

* [[strike:Dare To]] [[DareToBeBadass You WILL Be Badass]]: Walon Vau, patron saint of tough love:

* [[spoiler: DeadlyDoctor: Gilamar. Just read about his total takedown of Dred Priest!]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Fi, mostly, but all clones do it as well. Corr especially in ''Order 66.''

* [[spoiler: DecemberDecemberRomance: Ny and Skirata]]
* DefectorFromDecadence: Barden Jusik. It's just he defected from the ''Jedi Order.''

* DenOfIniquity: [[{{IncrediblyLamePun}} Qibbu's Hut]]

* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: When the secret fleet of Star Destroyers and new Spaarti-grown clones show up at the Battle of Coruscant (The ships seen in the opening of ''Revenge of the Sith''), Kal Skirata logically assumes that they are part of Palpatine's grand plan to trap Grievous and Dooku and win the war. He's wrong, they are actually the core of his new, soon-to-be revealed Imperial Army and Navy.

* EducationThroughPyrotechnics: Something else used on Kamino to make the clones more badass.
** As if they need it.

* FatBastard: Quibbu the Hutt.

* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: the Skiratas. All of them are mercenaries, and more than half of them are elite troops, bred and trained to be the best.

* TheForce: Must I explain? ''Star Wars EU,'' hellooo ..

* {{Foil}} : Sev (the ColdSniper) to Fi (TheHeart)
* GallowsHumor: Corr.

* GreatEscape: subverted in [[spoiler: freeing Ruu Skirata and Dr. Uthan. The breakouts are done quick, fast, and (from the characters' POV) easily.]]

* HandsomeLech: Mereel

* [[spoiler: HeroicBSOD: Darman after Etain's death.]]

* HelloNurse: Besany

* [[spoiler: PregnantBadass: Etain]]

* [[OhCrap Oh Shab]]: ''Plenty'' of times, especially during the scene on Haurgab and the fight on Coruscant.

*** {{Lampshaded}} by Scorch: "if any barve so much as looked the wrong way at his precious little boys, Skirata would have his guts for garters."

* PowerTrio:
** {{The Kirk}}/Ego: Ordo
** {{The McCoy}}/Id: Skirata
** {{The Spock}}/Superego: Vau
* PsychoForHire: Hokan
** Argubly Isabet Reau and Dred Priest

* RedemptionDemotion: Arguably Vau.

* SergeantRock: Skirata ''is'' this trope to a T.

* ShootTheFuelTank

* SuperSoldier: The commandos.
* SoleSurvivor: Atin twice.

* SpaceMarine: The commandos
** Interestingly enough, the Mandalorians can be seen as this as well.

* TheSquad: The commandos again. They are even referred to as this: Omega Squad, Delta Squad, Yayax Squad, etc.
** Justified, with how the GAR is structured.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: All over the place. The Mandalorians do ''not'' like working for the corrupt Republic or the Jedi Order that tried to destroy them, but they do it out of respect and love for their clone troopers.

* ThickerThanWater: Skirata, always, but he really proves this when [[spoiler: he aids his sons (who have [[OldShame formally disowned him]] in finding his missing daughter/their missing sister, Ruusaan, who he hasn't talked to in over thirty years.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: Laseema, Besany, Etain, Uthan ...
** Notice, all ''women''
*** It should be noted that with the exception of Laseema—who was either a Hutt slave or terribly mistreated Hutt employee—the others are all competent, capable, professional women in their own right. In a normal setting, they would be plenty "badass" on their own. However, when placed within a general military science-fiction action series, alongside life-long warriors and borderline super soldiers, there's something of a need for them to step it up. Which they do. Magnificently.
** Corr, oh so much. Was just a standard trooper before being picked up by Skirata's gang, and ended up being trained as an actual Commando.
*** And Corr is a HandicappedBadass having had both arms blown off near the elbow. His weapon of choice? A [[GatlingGood Rotary Blaster Cannon]], a freaking minigun in blaster form, that enjoys plying about a little ''too'' much.

* ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption: Oh, ''HELL YES IT IS!''

* WellDoneSonGuy: All Vau's men want this out of him. [[{{JerkAss}} Vau, of course, never says a thing.]]
** Vau himself, ironically. To say the man has daddy issues is an understatement.
*** It needs to be noted that Vau is ''not'' jealous of Skirata. He finds the notion absurd. He is, however, jealous of ''Skirata's'' boys.
*** All of the Null [=ARCs=] to a degree, but Ordo most of all. Having Kal be disappointed in him is the worst thing in the galaxy as far as he's concerned.

* WhyDontYaJustShootHim?: Hokan, you moron.
* WorldOfBadass: '''''Mandalore.''''' That is all.

* WouldntHitAGirl: Subverted, seeing as the commandos have no trouble shooting anyone at all.

* WrenchWench: Parja

* FiveBadBand: (in ''Hard Contact''):
** TheBigBad: Ghez Hokan
** TheDragon: Lieutenant Hurati
** TheEvilGenius: Dr. Uthan
** TheBrute / TheStarscream: Guta Nay
** TheDarkChick: Lik Ankkit

* [[spoiler: HideYourPregnancy: Etain does this on Qiilura, but savvy Commander Levett isn't fooled for an instant.]]

* SwordAndGun: Etain with her lightsaber and LJ-50.

There have been several spinoff novels and short stories from the computer game ''VideoGame/StarWarsRepublicCommando'', known as the ''Republic Commando Series''. Although there is a degree of intertextuality between these stories, they can be split into several defined story arcs that can be read individually from each other. While clone commandos appear in many stories, such as ''Literature/DarkLordTheRiseOfDarthVader'' and ''Jedi Trial'', this list only deals with direct spinoffs from the ''Republic Commando'' franchise.

* ''Hard Contact''
* ''Triple Zero''
* ''True Colors''
* ''Order 66''
* ''501st'' (marketed under the subtitle of ''Imperial Commando'')

* ActionGirl: Etain. Rav Bralor is implied to be one. Also, Ny.

* CatchPhrase: Referring to absolutely everyone as 'son' for Skirata.

* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Both averted and played straight. The short story "Odds" is all about how the Clone Wars have allegedly vastly inflated numbers. Many fans argue that the 1,000,000 clones from ''Attack of the Clones'' could never fight a war across the entire galaxy (a problem noted both by Traviss and better-respected SWEU authors such as Creator/MattStover). They, for some reason, picked a bone with her over this, even though the whole unit=clone concept was first established in the ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' movie novelization, a G-canon (read: higher tier than her works) source that predated her by over two years. Karen Traviss eventually introduces non-Kaminoan clones to compensate.

** ''True Colors'' and ''501st'' contain appearances by "data bounty hunters" [[PennyArcade Gaib and TK-0]].

* Corr enjoys performing knife tricks with his prosthetic hands.

* HistoricalInJoke: Gilamar pulls one on Nenilin when he compares the scientist to Demagol. Nenilin thinks he's being flattered .... but Gilamar and Skirata both know that Demagol was a psychopathic monster of a Mandalorian scientist who did horrific experiments on children.

** KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter: The ratio of praise that verpine rifles get to blasters is ''suspiciously'' lopsided.

* SecretPolice: Palpatine's secret hit squad that hunts down AWOL clones.

* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: When a secret fleet of Star Destroyers and new Spaarti-grown clones show up at the Battle of Coruscant (The ships seen in the opening of ''Revenge of the Sith''), Kal Skirata logically assumes that they are part of Palpatine's grand plan to trap Grievous and Dooku and win the war. He's wrong, they are actually the core of his new, soon-to-be revealed Imperial Army and Navy.
** When Order 66 goes down, Vau believes the Order was actually Jango Fett's idea, a way to take revenge on the Jedi for the massacre at Galidraan with a literal army of Jangos. Again, completely discounting Palpatine/Sidious's role in everything.

--> '''Bardan:''' So how do we justify what we are doing now? Breeding men without choice, and without freedom, to fight and die for us? When do the means cease to justify the end? Where is our society heading? Where are our ideals, and what are we without them? If we give in to expedience in this way, where do we draw the line between ourselves and those we find unacceptably evil? I have no answer, Masters. Do you?"

* MyDadCanBeatUpYourDad: Boba Fett says this to Ordo (Ordo's father being Kal Skirata). It does not end well ....

* NicknamingTheEnemy: Seppies, bug-boys, wets, tinnies ... and that's not even going into mando'a swears.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Karen Traviss [[http://www.karentraviss.com/page22/files/How_would_you_have_wrapped_u101.html released]] a basic outline of how the unpublished ''Imperial Commando 2'' would have wrapped up the series;
** [[spoiler:[[PairTheSpares Ny and Kal, Arla Fett and Bardan, and Gilamar and Dr. Uthan would have married]].]]
** [[spoiler: Dr. Uthan would have cured the clone's RapidAging.]]
** [[spoiler:Squad 40 would travel to Mandalore to desert, but Rede reveals himself to be a loyal Imperial trooper and betrays them to the Empire. Kal would be forced to kill him to save his family, in a major MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment.]]
** [[spoiler: Clan Skirata would be forced to split up and go on the run to evade the Empire and Death Watch, and the Jedi would leave to join Master Altis's group.]]

* BadassAdorable: Kad Skirata. He's a baby, but he's [[spoiler: the son of an elite solider and a Jedi and is Force-sensitive.]] In the ''Literature/LegacyOfTheForce'' series, he's grown up to be an awesome Mandalorian wearing a hodgepodge of armor from all of the others.

* BadassNormal: Rede is a clone trooper who was flash trained, meaning he was trained in only one year and is technically still a year old when he becomes a commando. Yet during the second mission he goes on with Darmand and Niner, he single handedly takes out a Jedi Master in close combat. He rushes in, punches the Jedi, then when the Jedi is down, he executes him, all in one move.