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The Galactic Republic

In General

The Federation: The Galactic Republic is made up of hundreds of thousands of planets united in the name of democracy and freedom, though with the Clone Wars and now the war with the Imperium has caused them to essentially become a dictatorship.
Foil: It probably goes without saying, but the Republic is a foil to the Imperium of Man. Both are Galactic Superpowers that span over a million planets, are founded and dominated by humans, and have existed for over ten thousand years in their respective home galaxies. However, the Imperium is a theocratic autocracy while the Republic is a secular, democratic republic. Whereas the Imperium are Absolute Xenophobes, the Republic is casually xenophilic and treats humans and nonhumans equally (at least on paper). While the Imperium fears and shuns all AI, the Republic openly uses droids as a Servant Race throughout their society. The Imperium persecutes those with Psychic Powers as witches while the Republic has an entire order of psychic monks acting as their peacekeepers and celebrated heroes. The Imperium worships technology, its scientist-priests jealously guard their monopoly over all technical knowledge to maintain their power, and technological progress comes at a grindingly slow pace due to invention and innovation being heretical — the Republic, meanwhile, has widely available scientific knowlege, utilizes technology without fear, and is ever-progressing in their scientific achievements.
He Who Fights Monsters: The Republic is slowly shedding their more noble traits in their desperate drive to defeat the Imperium.
Higher-Tech Species: Played with. The Republic's technology isn't more advanced than the Imperium's, generally speaking — in fact, in many places (particularly in the military fields), it's worse due to the Ruusan Reformation and the 4,000 years of peace that stemmed from it. However, the Republic has a consistently high level of available technology and technical know-how, in contrast to the Imperium's Schizo Tech society. They also have a much more efficient logistics network and lack the religious opposition to technological innovation, making them capable of advancing their base technology far more rapidly than their Imperial counterparts.
Human Subspecies: Many of the visually more human-like alien races in the Republic are actually the results of Abusive Precursors taking human slaves, subjecting them to various bio-engineering and genetic modification experiments for fun, and then abandoning them on distant worlds tens of thousands of years ago. This becomes a plot point when an Imperial servo-skull, seeking aide for its current users, approaches Ahsoka Tano and classifies her as an "unregistered abhuman" rather than an alien. Ahsoka is later able to use this fact to convince an Imperial soldier named Farnus to trust her enough to take her diplomatic overtures to Major Lazarus.
A Lighter Shade of Grey: The Galactic Republic has its share of problems, including rampant corruption, cultural stagnation and bureaucracy. It is still vastly superior on a moral level to the Imperium, a Martyrdom Culture of religious fanatics who believe they have a Manifest Destiny to conquer the universe and exterminate all non-human life in the process.
Older Is Better: Weapons technology from the time of the last Sith War, over four thousand years before the present, has been shown on the few occasions where somebody has decided to Break Out the Museum Piece to be powerful enough to take down even the Powered Armor and Super Soldiers of the Imperium.
Pyrrhic Victory: The Second Battle of Axum. While they have forced the Imperium to retreat, the Jedi, Clones, Navy, and civilian rebels have taken really heavy casualties. Some of the Jedi's best dualists are dead, out of commission, or have fallen to the Dark Side. One legion of clones has fallen to Chaos, the Imperium's determination to fight to their dying breath has caused an atrocious rate of attrition that the GAR wasn't prepared for, and Axum's civilian population has dropped significantly due to how unprepared they were for the war.
The Republic: The Galactic Republic, obviously, is one fighting against the Imperium of Man.
Rubber-Forehead Alien: A sizable percentage of the alien races native to the Galactic Republic have a distinctly human-like appearance. Whilst for some races this is due to their ancient origins as genetically-manipulated Human Subspecies, a lot of them are legitimately alien races that simply developed a humanoid form courtesy of convergent evolution. The Republic doesn't try very hard to distinguish between the two origins, instead lumping them all together as "near-humans", a reference to their physical appearance.
Willfully Weak: After the last Sith War, the Republic enacted the Ruusan Reformation, deliberately downgrading their military forces and weapons technology in hopes of ensuring peace. They still maintain pre-Reformation technology in functioning condition and data archives, and could retrofit their armies with it if they felt it necessary. The Clone Wars weren't considered enough of a threat to warrant such a reaction. The war against the Imperium, on the other hand...

The Republic Senate

Palpatine

Sheev Palpatine (Darth Sidious), Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic, Dark Lord of the Sith

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The Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic. Secretly, he is also the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, who is responsible for the Clone Wars and controls both sides as part of his plot to rule the Galaxy and destroy the Jedi.

Action Politician: Deliberately invoked by Palpatine when he decides to tag along with the Republic's counter-invasion armada being sent to liberate the Axum System and even places himself on the bridge of the armada's flagship. This is intended as a PR move to further increase his own popularity by making it seem to the public that he is personally taking charge of the battle and leading the Republic's forces to victory.
Adaptational Badass: And how!
- Canon Palpatine was "merely" a powerful human Sith Lord with incredible mastery over the Dark Side unmatched by any other living Force-user of his time. This Palpatine is a reality-warping Transhuman Abomination created from the fused souls of every Sith Master that lived and died since the time of Darth Bane, the process of which has transformed him into a borderline Physical God capable of besting Alpha-Plus psykers in single combat. For comparison, a single Alpha-Plus psyker was shown effortlessly soloing nearly half a thousand experienced Jedi Masters and Knights at the same time.
- In canon, Palpatine was rivaled by Yoda enough that he was wary of the little green Jedi Master, and their duel in Revenge of the Sith saw them evenly matched and mostly ended in a draw. Here, the fic's author has confirmed that the power gap between Palpatine and Yoda is so immense that a Curb Stomp Cushion is the best possible outcome Yoda could ever hope for if he found himself in a 1v1 duel with Sidious. The author's interpretation of canon is that the only reason Yoda seemingly held his own during his duel with Sidious in ROTS was because Sidious was toying with him, and Yoda fled specifically because he realized this and had to escape before Sidious could unleash his full power upon him, while Sidious in turn allowed Yoda to escape alive as a form of Cruel Mercy.
- Whereas Legends Palpatine only became as powerful as he did in Dark Empire after he Came Back Strong from his original death aboard the Second Death Star — and even then, he went through quite the Sanity Slippage and had to constantly transfer his soul between rapidly-decaying clone bodies due to the Possession Burnout caused by his overwhelming Dark Side essence — this Palpatine has always been an overpowered Humanoid Abomination since the day he slew Darth Plagueis, and is explicitly stated by the author to be stronger than any Sith in history (including Valkorion). And unlike his DE counterpart, Palpatine in this fic doesn't suffer from the drawback of having his physical body constantly deteriorate due to being unable to handle the sheer Dark Side energy coursing through him.
- Of course, it helps that this fic's version of Palpatine is strongly hinted by the author to be the Star Wars equivalent of the Emperor of Mankind, much like how Anakin is believed by Khayon to be the Everchosen.
All Your Powers Combined: He has the combined Force powers and knowledge of nearly every Sith in galactic history. This was an Informed Ability of his Legends counterpart, but here it's justified by the fact that Sidious is literally the amalgamation of all the previous Sith who followed the Rule of Two, including Bane, Zannah, and Plagueis.
Ancient Evil: While Palpatine himself is less than a century old, the amalgamated Sith souls which have been subtly overwriting his personality are as old as the Ruusan Reformations which took place a little over a thousand years prior to the Clone Wars.
Arch-Enemy: Views the entire Jedi Order to collectively be this for him, even above threats like the Imperium. Makes sense considering he literally has the fused souls of all the Rule of Two Sith, and consequently all the Sith's combined hatred for the Jedi built up over the last thousand years.
The Archmage: Palpatine has discovered and mastered almost all previously-created Force techniques and knowledge known to the Sith. Any Dark Side powers that a previous Sith knew, he also knows. Episode 44 Part 2 confirms that his mastery over the Dark Side is such that it makes him more powerful than any living Jedi or even Alpha-plus psykers.
The Assimilator: Palpatine acts as The Face for a malevolent Sith Mind Hive which is currently inhabiting his body. This entity consists of the fused souls of all the past Rule of Two Sith and has all their combined knowledge and abilities. Whenever its current Sith host is killed by their apprentice, the entity then switches over to possessing the Sith apprentice and gradually assimilates the apprentice's personality alongside all of their accumulated powers and skills to further strengthen itself.
Berserk Button: Being mistaken for a Jedi. When Tahr Whyler does it during their duel in Episode 44 Part 2, it pisses off Sidious enough for him to drop his Faux Affably Evil demeanor and immediately Force-Choke Tahr while correcting him and warning him to never make that mistake again.
Big Bad Ensemble: For the majority of the series, he shares the role of the main antagonist with Orion Phatris and Davik Thune. While Orion is the overall commander of the Imperium's forces transported to the Star Wars galaxy and Thune is the one spearheading the actual invasion, Palpatine is the mastermind responsible for starting the Republic's war with the Imperium in the first place. He does skirt perilously close to becoming a Big Bad Wannabe in Season 2 as the story undermines Palpatine as a threat by repeatedly having him Hoist by His Own Petard and introducing new villains who seemingly pose a greater threat than the Sith like Iskandar Khayon and the Genestealers. However, he manages to avoid this and comes roaring back to prominence late in Season 3 by personally intervening in the Battle of Axum and pulling an Eviler than Thou on Tahr Whyler.
Body Surf: As stated in the Episode 21 After Talk and one of the author's Extra Talk videos, Palpatine is the amalgamation of the souls of every Sith Lord in history since Darth Bane. Whenever a Sith apprentice kills their master, the master's soul transfers to the apprentice's body and merges their souls together. This also passes on the master's personality, knowledge, and powers to the apprentice as well, and this process has been repeating itself over and over since the end of the New Sith Wars over a thousand years prior to the Clone Wars.
Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Palpatine would like nothing more than to activate Order 66 and wipe out the Jedi once and for all. However, he's forced to put this plan on hold indefinitely after the Imperium declares war on the Republic since he needs the Jedi (who make up most of the Republic's generals, special forces, and metaphysical fighters) in order for the Republic to have any hope of defeating the Imperium. Until he can find a way to guarantee permanent victory over the Imperium, Palpatine has to keep the Jedi around.
The Chessmaster: One of the greatest in fiction. The Imperials however are proving to be a Spanner in the Works and have severely derailed many of his plans. However he is quickly adapting to the situation and is starting to begin his counterattack.
Composite Character: He has all the powers of his Legends counterpart, his canon counterpart's first name, and his nature as a Mind Hive from The Rise of Skywalker.
Contemplative Boss: Strikes up this post in Episode 27 as he stares out the window of his flagship towards the massive armada the Republic Navy has gathered for their counter-invasion of the Axum System with his back turned to Sly Moore as she reports on how his plan is currently progressing.
Cool, but Inefficient: According to the author, Force Lightning is not a single Dark Side ability, but encompasses a whole spectrum of Force techniques from the Jedi's emerald lightning to the traditional blue Sith lightning. The variant of Force Lightning which Palpatine favors most is actually weaker than normal Sith lightning in terms of destructive potential, and gives the user severe Power Incontinence as they cannot turn it off once they unleash it unless either their target dies or the user has their hunger for death satiated (which for a Sadist like Palpatine is basically never). The only real advantage this specific type of Force Lightning has over the rest is that it causes the most pain to the victim, which makes it an extremely effective Agony Beam, but is otherwise inferior when compared to standard Force Lightning. In canon, this is why Palpatine couldn't stop blasting lightning at Mace Windu during their duel in Revenge of the Sith even when Mace used his lightsaber to reflect all the lightning into Palpatine's face.
The Corrupter: He tries to be this to Tahr Whyler in Episode 44 Part 2 by offering to teach him the secrets of the Sith and make him into the Imperium's Shadow Dictator (probably so Palpatine can then possess Tahr and claim the Inquisitor's Alpha-Plus powers and rulership over the Imperials in one fell swoop). While Tahr's immediate response is to reject him, Palpatine can tell his words affected Tahr more than he lets on. Time will tell whether or not Palpatine succeeds in corrupting Tahr into becoming his apprentice.
- He also spares Aayla Secura's life despite her discovering his true identity as a Sith Lord because he can tell Aayla's faith in the Light Side has been broken and believes he can mold her into potentially defecting to the Sith.
A Day in the Limelight: Downplayed. He gets a POV segment in Episode 27 where we see Palpatine's perspective as he prepares to depart for the Axum System with the Republic's counter-invasion armada and is setting up several plans in motion for future events.
The Dreaded: His Darth Sidious persona is feared by the Jedi who are aware of his existence like Aayla Secura. Word of God hints that even Abeloth, a Dark Side goddess, feared Palpatine to some extent and was using the Maw to hide from him.
Dual Wielding: He dual wields a pair of red lightsabers while preparing to fight Tahr Whyler in Episode 43.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He views Padme's near-pristine sense of morality, which she has maintained even when navigating the Vast Bureaucracy and corrupting currents of the Senate, as a weakness because it makes her decisions predictable.
Evil Is Deathly Cold: When he deigns to confront Tahr Whyler in Episode 43, his very presence makes the temperature drop until Jedi Master Aayla's breath fogs.
Evil Learns of Outside Context: At the start of the series, Palpatine is able to use the Force to sense the unexpected arrival of the Imperium of Man to the Star Wars galaxy and perceives them as rival darksiders, leading him to arrange for the False Flag Operation that starts war between the Republic and Imperium.
Evil Versus Evil: Palpatine wants to create a brutal, galaxy-spanning tyranny that he can rule over with an iron fist, but his main opponent in this story (so far at least) are the Imperials, who have obliterated entire worlds and wish to wipe out all non-human life in the galaxy in addition to any human that opposes them.
Eviler than Thou: To Tahr Whyler, the Arc Villain of the Battle of Axum. Their duel in Episode 44 Part 2 turns into a Hopeless Boss Fight as Sidious demonstrates just how far out of his league the Inquisitor is against a true Sith Lord, leaving Tahr with no choice but to flee.
Fatal Flaw: Per canon, he has the fatal flaw of Pride. However, as elaborated in his Extra Talk video, this is a highly conditional pride that goes beyond simple arrogance and overconfidence. You see, Palpatine doesn't merely "think" that the Dark Side gives him more power than the Light Side; no, he is utterly convinced that the Dark Side is superior to the Light Side in every conceivable way and treats this belief as an absolute truth with zero exceptions. So when fighting lightsiders like the Jedi, it's practically a guarantee that Palpatine will constantly be holding the Villain Ball as he severely underestimates his opponents, deliberately holds back his true power, and wastes time toying with his enemies due to being almost mentally incapable of accepting the idea that the Light Side could ever truly threaten him. This is the fic's Adaptational Explanation for why Palpatine was never seen unleashing his full might against the Jedi in the canon films, despite Legends establishing that he is far more powerful than his film depiction would otherwise indicate. Of course, the same cannot be said for darksiders, as Palpatine's belief in the Dark Side's absolute superiority means he views other powerful darksiders as potential threats that must be quickly eliminated before they become legitimate rivals to the Sith, meaning that he will go into full No-Nonsense Nemesis mode when facing a Dark Side opponent.
Finger-Tenting: Can be seen doing this in the commissioned artwork of the scene from Episode 1 where he meets with Renphi. Palpatine himself is a Manipulative Bastard and chessmaster.
A God Am I: He may or may not view himself as a god. It's worth noting that Dooku, Sidious's current apprentice, mentally equates being part of the Sith to being a god-like figure as shown in Dooku's Intro-Only Point of View segment in Episode 31. Palpatine also claims to Tahr near the end of Episode 44 Part 2 that he can make Tahr into a god if Tahr follows the way of the Sith.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Palpatine, much to his fury, is repeatedly finding his efforts to defeat the Imperials hampered by his own effectiveness.
- While his blinding the Jedi to the dark side kept them from detecting him, it also kept them from discovering the Imperials and the task force that is dispatched is subsequently completely unprepared and annihilated.
- Him keeping the Senate polarized and divided allowed him to gain more power, but it also made it difficult to rally the Republic against the Imperium.
- He fanned the fires of war with the Confederacy, which gave him more power, but it also made it impossible for the Republic to form a temporary alliance with them, even with a new terrible threat on the rise.
- Him making sure the real Grievous was kept in stasis and was replaced by a more malleable Kaleesh kept Grievous from becoming a threat to him but when the fake blundered into a trap it would decimate the Confederacy and force Dooku into awakening the real Grievous who went rogue.
- Most damning of all, his provoking of the Imperium into conflict has introduced enemies that completely eclipse his threat level by several orders of magnitude to the Star Wars galaxy such as Iskandar Khayon, Chaos, and the Genestealers.
Horrifying the Horror: The author has explicitly stated in their Extra Talk video on Palpatine that he eclipses Vitiate (a Humanoid Abomination who threatened to consume all life in the galaxy) in power and strongly implies that the reason Abeloth never made herself known in Legends until long after Palpatine's death was because she was secretly afraid of him. In Episode 44 Part 2, Palpatine is able to intimidate Tahr Whyler, an Inquisitor Lord who is rated as an Alpha-plus psyker and has decades of experience combatting 40K's cosmic horrors, into backing down and fleeing after overpowering him in a Hopeless Boss Fight.
Informed Ability: In an Extra Talk video, the author mentioned that since Legends Palpatine should theoretically — given how he's said to have rediscovered and mastered nearly all Sith techniques — know how to "tear the hearts out of stars, to consume the very souls of his enemies, and to even control the forces between life and death", this fic's Palpatine is capable of doing the same, though he has yet to demonstrate any of these abilities in the series proper.
The Man Behind the Man: Palpatine is still the individual behind the scenes that is orchestrating many major events in the galaxy. However, with the arrival of the Imperium, much of his dream of ruling an Empire may no longer be possible as he is now no longer in complete control of the events that are now transpiring with the Imperials quickly taking the center stage as the greater threat to that of the CIS, much to his anger and dismay.
Master of Illusion: What makes Darth Sidious so deadly in a fight is his skill at wielding the Dark Side subtly, including the use of illusions, invisibility, and dopplegänger attacks. In Episode 44 Part 2, he goes from standing in front of Tahr Whyler to standing behind him without Tahr ever seeing him move or realizing that the "Sidious" he's wasting his telekinetic onslaught on is an illusion until it's too late.
Master Swordsman: Sidious is a master in every form of lightsaber combat taught by the Jedi and Sith alike with the possible exception of Vaapad as observed during his duel with Tahr Whyler in Episode 44 Part 2. The sight of his graceful and intricate movements shames Aayla Secura, a Master Swordswoman and Lady of War in her own right. The author's Extra Talk video about Palpatine also establishes that he is a lightsaber duelist on the same level as the likes of Yoda and Windu, though Aayla personally believes his speed and skill with the lightsaber outshines even them.
Merger of Souls: According to the author's Extra Talk video covering Palpatine's capabilities, when Palpatine said he was "all of the Sith" in The Rise of Skywalker, he wasn't being hyperbolic. His soul is the amalgamation of every Sith Lord since Darth Bane. Whenever a Sith apprentice kills their master, the master's soul secretly transfers into their apprentice's body and merges their souls together. The process also gradually and subliminally shifts the apprentice's personality so that it reflects that of the amalgamated souls now sharing their body. Notably, this is strikingly similar to one well-known backstory for the Imperium's own Emperor: that he was created when Earth's prehistoric psyker-shamans performed a mass ritual suicide to combine their souls into a single god-like entity.
Mind over Matter: Sith and Jedi alike are capable of using the Force to physically move things with their minds. Due to embracing the Dark Side, Palpatine uses his telekinetic powers much more brutally, with techniques like the infamous Force Choke, as opposed to simply shoving and pulling victims around. Just ask Omni-Kraiden, who is on the receiving end of this in Episode 43; Oh that's right, you can't
New Body, Old Abilities: Palpatine is actually an incorporeal gestalt entity consisting of the merged souls of every Sith Master that ever followed the Rule of Two. Whenever this entity is forced to switch host bodies (which happens when the Sith Master is killed by their apprentice), it possesses the Sith apprentice and transfers all its collective power, abilities, and knowledge into the apprentice's body. The apprentice then rediscovers all their master's lost knowledge and techniques via dreams, visions, and instincts spoonfed into their mind by the entity.
No-Sell: In Episode 44, Tahr Whyler hits Palpatine with his ultimate attack; a soul-devouring black Hellfire that he boasts no force can protect the victim from. Palpatine almost casually extinguishes it after using some Black Speech.
Not-So-Harmless Villain: After the Imperium's arrival sent Palpatine's canonical plans careening Off the Rails, it seemed that the Sith were on track to becoming Big Bad Wannabes as they were no longer the most dangerous threat to the galaxy compared to the likes of the Imperium, Chaos, and the Genestealers. It didn't help that Season 2 saw Palpatine repeatedly Hoist by His Own Petard and culminated in his plan to covertly assassinate Padmé being foiled by Yoda. Then comes Episodes 43 to 44, where Sidious makes his big return by besting Arc Villain Tahr Whyler (an Alpha-Plus psyker who had already singlehandedly curb-stomped hundreds of Jedi) in a duel while simultaneously demonstrating a greater mastery over the Force/Warp than even the Imperium's greatest Inquisitors.
Orcus on His Throne: As in canon, Palpatine spends most of his time in the Galactic Core, working through proxies, pawns, and lackies.
Person of Mass Destruction: The Extra Talk video on Palpatine establishes that he's a reality-warping Walking Wasteland who can slowly drain the life from billions of people simultaneously, devastate a planet's surface with Force storms, and use the Force to cause a supernova by ripping out a star's core.
Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: As he prepares to duel Inquisitor Tahr Whyler at the climax of Episode 43:
Palpatine: Oh, no, my ambitious rival. You will find that it is you who are mistaken... about a great many things.
Psycho Electro: Palpatine is a known master of the Sith technique of Force Lightning, which calls upon the Dark Side of the Force to generate coruscating bolts of electricity. He makes considerable use of this in Episode 44 Part 2.
Reality Warper: The Extra Talk video on Palpatine establishes that his Dark Side aura is so powerful that it acts as its own Warp rift, changing and distorting reality around him without the need for any direct effort on Palpatine's part. Palpatine has mastered his powers to such an extent that he can freely amplify or suppress this aura according to his whims. We get some glimpses of this in Episode 44 Part 2 where Palpatine is shown violently distorting reality itself during his duel with Tahr Whyler.
Slave to PR: Because his guise as the harmless and beloved Supreme Chancellor of the Republic is integral to his long-term plans, Palpatine is forced to operate subtly, rather than openly revealing himself as the Dark Lord of the Sith he truly is.
Soul Power: Per canon and Legends, Palpatine can consume the souls of others, transfer souls (both his and others) between clone bodies while needing little to no effort or preparation, and use his soul to possess another person and slowly merge their two souls together.
Strong and Skilled: Is this in contrast to the Weak, but Skilled Jedi and the Unskilled, but Strong Imperial psykers. Palpatine possesses a ton of raw power in the Force/Warp comparable to that of fully-realized Alpha-Plus psykers, and is only truly rivaled in the Star Wars galaxy by Anakin Skywalker, a literal Chosen One immaculately conceived by the Force itself. However, Palpatine is no dumb brute as he possesses the combined knowledge of every single Sith Lord over the last thousand years due to having all their souls merged with his, granting him a level of Dark Side mastery which surpasses that of the current Imperium's greatest psykers and even most Chaos sorcerers in the 40K galaxy.
Superior Successor: Palpatine is more powerful than any other Sith that came before him, including his master Plagueis. This is justified since the way the Rule of Two's succession works is that the Sith Master secretly transfers their essence into their apprentice's body upon death and merges their souls together, stacking their power on top of one another. This is also outlined by the author's Extra Talk video on Palpatine while comparing him with his predecessors.
- Darth Revan knew how to create Force Storms, but the ones he created were relatively small, required Revan's physical line of sight, and could only affect a localized area at most. Like his Legends counterpart, this Palpatine can also create Force Storms, but his are massive hyperspace funnels capable of both laying waste to a planet's surface and teleporting targets across a galactic distance, all without needing Palpatine to be there in-person to oversee it like Revan did.
- Darth Nihilus could drain the life from entire planets, but he needed to do so in order to sustain himself and would've starved to death if he didn't. Palpatine can also drain the life force from billions of people simultaneously and cause planet-scale destruction with his Force Storms, but doesn't suffer from the drawback of Nihilus's Horror Hunger.
- Naga Sadow could destroy stars, but he needed extensive preparations and a Sith meditation sphere to even attempt the act. Word of God says Palpatine can do the exact same thing on his own power instantly without requiring any specific conditions like Sadow.
Talented, but Trained: The thing that sets Palpatine apart from the Imperium's Unskilled, but Strong psykers is that, while certainly a prodigy, he wasn't born abnormally powerful like they were. Palpatine's power is a result of his knowledge and training accumulated over the span of decades spent under Darth Plagueis's tutelage, and even then Palpatine only ever unlocked his full potential after successfully killing Plagueis in his sleep and usurping the mantle of Sith Master. This gives him a level of fine control over his powers that the majority of 40K psykers can only dream of achieving, which ultimately proves to be the deciding factor in Palpatine besting Tahr Whyler in a duel despite his opponent actually possessing greater raw power.
Transhuman Abomination: Originally, Palpatine was a human Sith apprentice who, while formidable, was nowhere near as strong as the likes of Yoda. However, after slaying Darth Plagueis in his sleep and claiming the mantle of Dark Lord, Palpatine became unknowingly possessed by his master's dark essence (which he in his arrogance mistook for the Dark Side recognizing him as its new master) and was gradually absorbed into a 1000-year-old bodysurfing gestalt entity containing the merged souls of all the Rule of Two Sith that preceded him.
Unknown Rival: Downplayed. When Palpatine confronts Tahr Whyler at the end of Episode 43 in his guise as Darth Sidious, he declares the Inquisitor to be his rival. From someone as megalomaniacal and arrogant as Palpatine, that is extremely high praise and means he recognizes Tahr as a powerful darksider who poses enough of a danger that it warrants his personal intervention on Axum. Tahr Whyler has absolutely no idea who Sidious is and doesn't particularly care, seeing him as just another meddling Force user like the Jedi, albeit one that is abnormally powerful enough to be treated as a Worthy Opponent.
Vampiric Draining: He knows the Sith technique of Life Drain, which allows him to use the Dark Side to siphon away the bio-energies of others. Due to his skill and knowlege, he is capable of draining victims from across vast distances. He secretly used this technique over weeks, if not months, as part of a ploy to assassinate Padmé Amidala.
Villain No Longer Idle: At the end of Episode 43, he shows up in person on Axum to duel Inquisitor Tahr Whyler due to perceiving the latter as a true rival in terms of psychic power.
Visionary Villain: Palpatine has grand designs to transform the Galactic Republic into an Empire. His POV segment at the end of Episode 44 Part 2 has him describe himself as an architect above all else, specifically an architect of fate whose works will stand the test of time as he continues to shape and control the future of the galaxy.
Voice of the Legion: Speaks with an unnatural echoing voice after revealing he can No-Sell Tahr Whyler's hellfire in Episode 44 Part 2.
Walking Wasteland: An Extra Talk video reveals that Palpatine's corruptive Dark Side aura was so powerful that unless he intentionally suppressed it, it would cause the world around him (people, plants, animals, and even the weather) to warp and twist without the need for any direct effort on Palpatine's part. In 40K terms, he is a walking Warp rift whose mere presence unintentionally changes and distorts reality around him. He has the potential to irreversibly corrupt an entire planet with the Dark Side if this ability is left unchecked for a prolonged period of time.
Willfully Weak: Palpatine is constantly suppressing his true power at all times and almost never unleashes his full might even in seemingly life-threatening situations. According to an Extra Talk video, there is a very good reason for this. Palpatine at his full power is basically a planet-scale Walking Wasteland whose mere presence causes reality to warp around him while any living beings who come into prolonged contact are mutated by his sheer Dark Side aura.
World's Strongest Man: Palpatine is the most powerful Force user in the Galaxy Far, Far Away with only Anakin having the potential to surpass him. The author has stated in his Extra Talk video about Palpatine that even in the 40K universe, only the most powerful of psykers can compete with him, and that the only other beings in Star Wars history who could truly rival Palpatine are Vitiate (who has been Deader than Dead for over 3600 years) and Abeloth (who is dormant inside the Maw and not due to emerge for another six decades if we're going by Legends timeline). In addition, he is an extremely skilled lightsaber duelist on the same level as Yoda and Mace Windu. Episode 44 Part 2 really lets him show off what he can do when he duels Tahr Whyler.
Xanatos Gambit: The Sith's Rule of Two in this fic operates this way for the Sith Master as regardless of whether or not the apprentice kills the master, the master ultimately wins. If the apprentice fails to usurp their master, then this means they were never worthy to be a Sith to begin with and the master kills them before starting over with a new apprentice. If the apprentice succeeds in usurping their master, then the master's soul secretly possesses their apprentice's body and slowly merges their two souls together, allowing the master to live on in a younger body with the apprentice's power now added to their own.
You Kill It, You Bought It: When Sidious killed his master Plagueis, he wound up being possessed by Plagueis's soul and inheriting his master's Force powers, knowledge, and personality. The same would also occur to any of Sidious's apprentices in the highly unlikely event they ever succeeded in killing him.

Padmé Amidala

Padmé Amidala, Senator and former Queen of Naboo

The leader of the Senate Loyalist Committee (a political party founded to reverse corruption and prevent warmongering in the Republic), the Senator representing Naboo, and the secret wife of Anakin Skywalker, as well as the mother of his soon-to-be-born children, Luke and Leia.

Big Good: As a woman of ironclad moral character and the true leader of the Senate Loyalist Committee, she effectively serves as this within the Republic Senate, due to its Chancellor (the supposed Big Good), Palpatine, secretly being a Sith Lord looking to convert the democratic Galactic Republic into a tyrannical Empire.
The Fettered: Palpatine notes that, in spite of her skill and experience navigating the corrupting eddies and bureaucratic tides of the Galactic, Padme's sense of morality and ethics have remained remarkably pristine, committed to the defense of the Republic's ideals and the rights of its citizens. Though in the Sith Lord's mind, this is a terminal weakness because it makes her predictable.
Living MacGuffin: Upon discovering that Sidious is using Life Drain to try and kill Padme and her unborn children because she is Anakin Skywalker's secret wife, Yoda realizes that she serves as this. The preservation of the Republic's democratic ideals, Anakin's ability to remain within the Light, the destiny of the Jedi Order and of the entire galaxy, all hinges on her and her children, Luke and Leia. This helps to convince him that she must be saved from Sidious' psychic assassination attempt.
Maternity Crisis: The stress of Anakin being named Supreme Commander while in an incredibly dangerous battle and the general state of the galaxy causes Padme to go into labor early, and it gets worse when Palpatine tries to kill her and her unborn children via remote Life Drain.
Open Secret: Padmé has been trying to hide the fact that she is pregnant with Anakin's unborn twins for some time, but by Episode 12 pretty much everyone in the Senate knows she is pregnant due to the fact that it has become increasingly difficult for her to hide her pregnant belly even while wearing a harness.
Pregnant Badass: Maybe not in a physical way, but Palpatine notes that the fact that she's expecting has done nothing to diminish her spirit as she addresses the Senate, and even seems to be drawing strength from her unborn children.
Spared By Adaptation: Thanks to Yoda, Padme manages to avoid her canon death giving birth to Luke and Leia.
Take a Third Option: The Senate is facing a serious dilemma with the Imperium's violent arrival into the galaxy. On the one hand, they need a commander who can direct the Grand Army of the Republic against the new enemy without obstruction. On the other hand, granting Chancellor Palpatine further term limits and power expansions could seriously jeopardize the democratic power structure of the Republic, a structure that has already been strained to a near-breaking point as it is with Palpatine's existing machinations. So what does Padmé do? She proposes that the position of Supreme Commander of the Republic—one independent from the offices of the Chancellor—be reinstated; allowing for the selection of a general who can direct the war without having to deal with Senatorial red tape, and for checks and balance of the Chancellor's office to be attained. While this does create a hamper for Palpatine's ambitions, it's not a perfect solution for Padme either, as Anakin Skywalker—her husband—is nominated for the position by the Chancellor, and voted into it by the Senate.

Grand Army of the Republic / Clone Troopers

In General

Badass Army: Clone troopers are excellent soldiers capable of holding their own against most of what the Imperium can throw at them (with the exception of Space Marines and Sisters of Battle).
Fantastic Racism: The Clone Troopers in general tend to loathe the Imperium. Considering that, from their perspective, the Imperium simply showed in their galaxy and launched a crusade of conquest and genocidal racial cleansing, it's not hard to understand why.
Slave Mooks: The fact that the clone troopers were Born into Slavery to fight the Republic's wars so their citizens wouldn't have to is something that the Imperials often point out and call out the Republic and Jedi for.
Suspiciously Small Army: Explicitly defied by the author. While the canon Clone Army numbered in the single-digit millions, the author has made it abundantly clear that wouldn't be the case here during his Episode 8 after talk, in which he lampshades how ridiculous it would be for several million clone troopers to be expected to fight a galaxy-spanning war against the Imperium, which regularly fields armies numbering in the hundreds of billions if not trillions. Instead, the Clone Army in this story numbers around 500 million. While that's realistically still too small for an army fighting on multiple fronts in a galaxy-scale conflict, it at least makes it plausible for the clone troopers to hold their own against the Imperium and stays faithful to the canon depiction of the clone troopers as an Elite Army expected to fight battles against numerically-superior foes.
- One of the author's YouTube community posts also averts this by having the 501^st Legion and the 327^th Star Corps both number in the hundreds of thousands, making them roughly ten times the size of their canon and Legends counterparts.
Trick Bomb: The arsenal of your standard clone trooper includes a flashbang and an EMP grenade.
Well-Trained, but Inexperienced: The Clone Troopers were bred for war and raised since birth to be elite soldiers for the Republic, possessing better training, coordination, and discipline compared to the majority of Imperial Guardsmen. However, most Clones are basically children who had their aging artificially accelerated by the Kaminoans so they could have a skilled army ready by their contract's deadline. They've spent most of their lives practicing in simulations and mock battles. Even their oldest veterans only have at most three years of actual battlefield experience from fighting in the Clone Wars. By contrast, most Imperial Guardsmen are adults who've spent decades fighting the Imperium's Forever War as they are deployed from planet to planet battling all manner of threats. Against the Sisters of Battle, the Clones are completely outclassed as the Sisters have better training, equipment, and decades of combat experience over them.

501st Legion

Captain Rex (CT-7567)

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The clone captain of the 501^st Legion and Anakin's right-hand man.

The Corruptible: As it turns out, Rex has always been particularly vulnerable to Chaos corruption as demonstrated just before the start of Ahsoka's peace talks with the Imperials in Season 4 when he starts uncontrollably leaking Tears of Blood and Hearing Voices in his head.
A Day in the Limelight: He gets a POV segment in Episode 11 during the 501^st's battle with the AdMech forces aboard Trench's flagship.
The Lancer: To Ahsoka during the Battle of Axum arc. Ahsoka is a Jedi who relies on the Force and her lightsabers in battle, Rex is a non-Force-sensitive human clone who relies on his blasters. Ahsoka believes it is possible for the Republic and Imperium to make peace due to having met the more anti-villainous Imperials like C-82 and Farnus, while Rex is more cynical and sees the Imperials through a more Black-and-White Insanity lens.
Number Two: Usually to Anakin. During the Second Battle of Axum, Rex instead plays this role to Ahsoka, who is handed command of the 501^st while Anakin is away on his mission to infiltrate Tahr Whyler's warship.
Serendipitous Survival: In Episode 17, Rex volunteered to join Ahsoka in escorting the captured Electro-Priest to a boarding pod to ship him back to Coruscant for interrogation. It's only because Ahsoka declined his offer after considering it for a moment that Rex doesn't join her. This means that he avoids getting killed when Ahsoka and her clone troopers get ambushed by Lethrin and his Scyllax Guardian, who succeed in slaughtering all the clone troopers that were guarding the captive Electro-Priest.

Echo (CT-1409)

An ARC trooper from the 501^st Legion. During the Clone Wars, he was captured by the Separatists and sold to the Techno Union, who turned the clone into a cyborg. He has only recently been rescued by Anakin and still struggles with his new cybernetic body.

A Day in the Limelight: Downplayed.
- He gets an Intro-Only Point of View in Episode 17 where the audience is given insight into how he's coping with his cyborg body and his feelings of uselessness due to being relegated to a support role within the 501^st.
- He gets a POV segment at the end of Episode 21 where he is on the bridge of the captured Separatist dreadnought previously commanded by Trench when the ship comes under fire by Imperial warships.
Demoted to Extra: He's a significant supporting character in Season 1 where he's the one who makes first contact with Brother Tasleon. He also remains a supporting character in the first half of Season 2 during Ahsoka's storyline where he uses his cybernetic augmentations to hack into and unlock the AdMech's guns for the clone troopers to use to defeat the Skitarii, and later pilot the Invulnerable so that it crash-lands on Axum's surface. However, after this, he pretty much stops being a prominent character as the focus shifts to other characters.
Intro-Only Point of View:
- The beginning of Episode 8 is told from Echo's perspective as he makes contact with Brother Tasleon while hacking Admiral Trench's computer database before the POV shifts to Araknus and then Anakin for the rest of the episode.
- The beginning segment of Episode 17 is also shown from Echo's POV and serves to set up how the 501^st are able to get the AdMech guns working for them. The rest of the episode is spent focusing on the conflict between Ahsoka and the Electro-Priest.
Karmic Transformation: From his perspective, he spent his entire life being trained to fight and hating droids. Then he was captured by the enemy and turned into a cyborg whose brain was used as a living computer to process algorithms to help Separatist strategists. Even now, he can't help but view himself as part-droid, the very thing he hates.
What Would X Do?: At the end of Episode 21, as he pilots the Invulnerable into Axum's atmosphere with the intention of using the Separatist dreadnought to Colony Drop the Basilica of Salvation, Echo explains to Ahsoka that he came up with the idea by asking himself "What would General Skywalker do?"

Jesse (CT-5597)

An ARC Trooper in the 501^st Legion.

Mauve Shirt: In the fic, he's one of the few clone troopers in the 501^st who has a name tag and is given speaking lines, which means that he survives the battle aboard the Invulnerable against the AdMech.

Boomer (CS-2207)

A clone sergeant in the 501^st Legion.

Boom, Headshot!: Dies to a shot in the head by a Mechanicus weapon during the 501^st's boarding operation to recapture the Invulnerable from the Imperium.
C-List Fodder: He's from a character from an obscure video game and his appearance in this series has him get killed to provide a named casualty for the 501^st's battle with the AdMech aboard Trench's Separatist dreadnought.
Death by Adaptation: In Legends, his fate after the events of Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Republic Heroes is unknown. Here, he gets killed by a Mechanicus weapon during the Second Battle of Axum.
Sacrificial Lamb: He’s basically a named Red Shirt whose death is meant to raise the stakes for the battle aboard the Invulnerable by showing how even named clone troopers are at risk of being killed by the AdMech.

104th Battalion

Commander Wolffe (CC-3636)

The clone commander of the 104^th Battalion and the right-hand man of Jedi General Plo Koon.

Number Two: To Plo Koon, being his second-in-command within the 104^th.

Captain Jag (CT-55/11-9009) and Warthog

Two clone pilots who fly as part of Plo's Wolfpack squadron.

Adaptational Heroism: Like Bly, Jag didn't receive Order 66 and never betrays Plo Koon. Instead he along with the rest of the 104^th fight alongside their Jedi General in the space battle above Axum against the Imperium.
Death by Adaptation: In canon, both of them survive the end of the Clone Wars. Here, Jag and Warthog die in the space battle above Axum, sacrificing themselves in order to destroy the Death of Defiance's fusion cannon by ramming their Y-Wing into the huge weapon's barrel.
Heroic Sacrifice: Jag and Warthog ram their Y-Wing into the Death of Defiance's fusion cannon in an attempt to destroy it before it fires at a Republic battlegroup. While they failed prevent the weapon from firing, the damage caused by their suicide mission actually limited the damage to their fleet to 80%, and cause several internal explosions inside the Death of Defiance after it fired its main gun, disabling the behemoth.
I Owe You My Life: Having been saved by Plo Koon over Felucia and Kadavo earlier in the war, Warthog made it a goal to do the same for his Jedi General, finally getting the chance to in the exchange of his own life.
Killed Mid-Sentence: Jag dies as he is in the middle of broadcasting his last words to Plo Koon and his fellow clone fighter pilots over the comms. He and Warthog had been flying their Y-Wing into the barrel of the Ironclad's massive fusion cannon in a double Heroic Sacrifice.
Jag: I've got no last words, Commander. Except this, live to fight another day, brothers. Win and live to fight anoth-
Wingman: Both of them act as Plo's wingman during the Space Battle in Episode 39.

327^th Star Corps

Bly

Commander Bly (CC-5052)

The clone commander of the 327^th Star Corps and Aayla Secura's second-in-command.

Adaptational Heroism: Because he dies during the Battle of Axum, he never gets around to betraying and killing Aayla during Order 66, nor does he ever serve the Galactic Empire like his Legends counterpart.
Death by Adaptation: In canon, he survives the end of the Clone Wars and went on to serve the Galactic Empire in the Legends continuity. Here, he is crushed underneath the foot of an Imperial Knight being piloted by Nerva and Farnus during the Second Battle of Axum.
A Death in the Limelight: His death scene where he gets crushed underneath the foot of an Imperial Knight is told from his POV.
Hoist by His Own Petard: In desperation as Kallie was close to slicing him to ribbons, Bly fired an EMP Launcher. This manages to take down the Domina, but it also short-circuits his jetpack, leaving him helpless as he's crushed by an Imperial Knight.
Jet Pack: He and the clone force he leads during the Second Battle of Axum all use jet packs.
Number Two: He serves as Aayla's second-in-command within the 327^th.
Sacrificial Lion: He's a pretty significant named clone character from Legends and is introduced at the start of Season 2 as the commander of clone forces which will be fighting on Axum's surface and is shown to have a close bond with his Jedi General Aayla Secura to the point where he's willing to risk a court martial just to help her. During the early stages of the Second Battle of Axum, he's one of the Republic's POV characters and his death halfway through the season is meant to reinforce the fact that Anyone Can Die.
Undying Loyalty: To Aayla Secura. He and his men all willing to risk a court martial because they are unwilling to allow their Jedi general to go fight in an active warzone without her army.

Lieutenant / Commander 65 (CT-6221)

CT-6221, nicknamed "65", is a clone trooper lieutenant within the 327^th Star Corps. During the Second Battle of Axum, he is promoted to Commander and is given command over the 327^th's artillery tanks and the clone forces fighting in the Battle of the Bloody Bridges.

Absurdly Sharp Blade: The stolen Imperial power axe he claims during the Battle of Axum is able to bury itself into a metal wall when he swings the axe at it one-handed.
Ax-Crazy: When he finally goes off the deep end and falls to Chaos, he tries to hack apart Tahr Whyler with a power axe.
Boom, Headshot!: He was shot in the head by a Heavy Bolter before he could kill Tahr Whyler.
Commanding Coolness: Holds the rank of commander during the Second Battle of Axum and is a skilled clone officer who eventually falls to Chaos. His feats include taking out a whole bunch of Imperial Guardsmen using planted explosives, shooting a commissar in the head, leading his clones to victory over a Penitent Engine, fighting while wearing a jetpack, and getting the drop on an Inquisitor.
A Day in the Limelight:
- He is the viewpoint character for the "Soldiers of the Storm" special.
- He is also a secondary POV character in Episode 22 where he serves as a Hero Antagonist and gets corrupted by Chaos after witnessing the activation of Lazarus's vortex grenade.
Empowered Badass Normal: After falling to Chaos, 65 develops a Healing Factor, a proficiently in wielding power axes, and a direct mental connection to the unnamed Chaos entity which initially corrupted him, thus enabling him to overpower a powerful Inquisitor Lord with psychic abilities even after losing an arm.
Expy: Of Commander Deviss, to the point where 65 borders on being a Captain Ersatz rather than just an expy. Like Deviss, 65 is a clone commander in the 327^th Star Corps who fought in the First Battle of Geonosis and his name is taken from Deviss's birth number CT-65/91-6120.
Eye Colour Change: In Episode 22, the irises of his eyes become deep yellow and fiery red as a result of being corrupted by Chaos after gazing into the detonation of a vortex grenade.
Fatal Flaw: Vengeance and recklessness. He's so caught up in his desire for revenge on the Imperium that it makes him act irrational, pressing on his attack when it would have been a better idea to fall back. This gets even worse when he falls to Chaos and attacks Tahr, which (seemingly) gets him killed by a bolt round to the head.
Healing Factor: 65 gains one after falling to Chaos. It doesn't save him from having his head blown apart.
Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: He stops wearing his helmet after falling to Chaos because his non-stop Tears of Blood (a physical mutation from Chaos corruption) make it difficult for him to see through his helmet.
Hero Antagonist: He serves as the main antagonist for Episode 22, which is largely centered around Major Lazarus and his Colambians attempting to extract themselves from the battlefield while being doggedly pursued by 65's clone troopers. Of course, 65 himself is part of the side that is trying to liberate Axum from a brutal regime.
Jet Pack: He and the clones under his command begin using jet packs not long after falling to Chaos.
Madness Mantra: After falling to Chaos, 65 eventually has only one word repeating through his mind by the time he encounters Tahr Whyler. It's the name of the unborn Chaos God currently gestating in the Dark Side.
Never Found the Body: Later in the battle, a clone squad was sent to search for 65 and his men. They manage to find and identify the bodies of 65's troopers but not the commander himself.
Original Character: He is an original clone character and has no direct canon counterpart.
Plot-Irrelevant Villain: Becomes one after falling to Chaos as 65 ultimately ends up having very little to do with the Axum arc's overall plot, which is a battle between the forces of the Republic and the Imperium. Really, the only things he does which are of note is nearly killing Lazarus in Episode 22 and almost mentally corrupting Tahr Whyler in Episode 26 before he is seemingly killed.
Psycho Knife Nut: Shortly after falling to Chaos, an Ax-Crazy 65 goes after Lazarus and eventually resorts to wielding his combat knife against him after the two of them lose their guns in their struggle.
Rank Up: When 65 is introduced in Episode 11, he holds the rank of Lieutenant. When he next appears in "The Soldiers of the Storm" special, he holds the rank of Commander and continues to be referred to as a commander in all his following appearances after that special. Presumably, he was given a quick Field Promotion offscreen between episodes.
Sanity Slippage: As the Battle for Axum draws on, he slowly descends into a raving lunatic. And this is before he stares into the explosion caused by Lazarus's vortex grenade and falls to Chaos.
Tears of Blood: After witnessing the firing of a vortex grenade in Episode 22, 65's eyes start to uncontrollably shed tears of blood which indicate that he's been corrupted by Chaos.
Uncertain Doom: His body hasn't been found. But his odds of survival aren't good, given that he took a bolt round to the temple and another stream of bolts down his body, even with his Healing Factor.
"You!" Exclamation: In "Soldiers of the Storm", he exclaims this upon finally coming face-to-face with Commissar Indricta on the battlefield after previously failing to shoot her dead from long range.

Sando

An ARC Trooper attached to the 327^th Star Corps during the Battle of Axum, nicknamed after the fearsome sando aqua monster native to Naboo. He serves as a major POV character for Season 2.

Arc Hero: He's one of the major Republic viewpoint characters in Season 2.
Badass Normal: Manages to take down three Sisters of Battle in Episode 29 thanks to some quick thinking and luck, even killing one of the battle nuns by using her own sword against her.
Cool Sword: He gets his own power sword in Episode 29, which he took from a Sister of Battle that he killed.
Elites Are More Glamorous: As an ARC Trooper, Sando is one of the Republic's most elite clone troopers trained for special forces assignments that the regular clone troopers are unsuited for. He is one of the major POV characters for the Battle of Axum arc in Season 2 and is used to show a clone's perspective of the ground battle.
Grenade Launcher: In Episode 29, he uses a grenade launcher to blow off the head of one Sister of Battle and finish off another whose arm he disabled with a blaster shot. Later in the battle, he uses the grenade launcher as a cudgel against two more Battle Sisters before throwing it into the face of another Battle Sister to briefly blind her while he steals her power sword and kills her with it.
Original Character: He's an OC made by the author for this story.
Out of Focus: He is barely featured in Season 3. His only POV appearance in that season was in Episode 37 where he and his men are sent by Obi-Wan to search for the Axumites' rebel leader Samael.

Gaff

Captain Gaff

A clone captain in the 327^th Star Corps who served under 65's command at the Battle of the Bloody Bridges during the Jedi's initial counter-invasion of Axum.

Bearer of Bad News: In the "Soldiers of the Storm" special, he winds up being the one who has to tell 65 about Catch's death over the transceiver.
Original Character: He is an OC clone trooper with no canon counterpart.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: By informing 65 of Catch's death, Gaff unknowingly causes 65 to take his first steps down the Sanity Slippage he undergoes over the course of the Battle of Axum.
The Voice: He doesn't make a physical appearance, but his voice is heard communicating with 65 over the comms.

Catch

A clone trooper who served as a marksman in the 327^th Star Corps who was particularly close to 65. He was killed during the Battle of the Bloody Bridges in the Jedi's counter-invasion of Axum.

Bash Brothers: With 65, the two seeing each other as pod brothers who survived the Battle of Geonosis.
Friendly Sniper: He's a clone marksman who is given the task of assassinating Imperial field commanders with his sniper rife during the Battle of Axum. Doesn't stop him from being a sociable brother-in-arms to Commander 65.
Killed Offscreen: He and his whole squad are killed offscreen early in the Second Battle of Axum. 65 only learns about it from the radio.
Original Character: An OC clone trooper created by the author for this series.
Sacrificial Lamb: His death seriously affects 65's mental wellbeing and is the first thing that gradually pushes 65 down his Sanity Slippage.
The Voice: His voice can be heard at the start of the "Soldiers of the Storm" special as he talks with Commander 65 over the comms.

Kindles

ARC Trooper Kindles

An ARC Trooper in the 327^th Star Corps who was placed under Commander 65's command during the Second Battle of Axum.

An Arm and a Leg He gets his right arm cleaved off by a Penitent Engine in Episode 22.
BFG: He uses a heavy repeating blaster cannon to bring down a Penitent Engine. It didn't quite do the job and he loses an arm because of it.
One-Shot Character: He has only appeared in Episode 22.
Original Character: He's another OC clone trooper created for this series.

Republic Commandos

Clone Force 99/"The Bad Batch"

Sergeant Hunter, Crosshairs, Wrecker, and Tech

An elite squad of Clones who all have genetic mutations. During the Battle of Axum, they are assigned to assist Anakin in infiltrating Tahr Whyler's warship.

An Arm and a Leg: Crosshairs gets part of his left leg sliced off by a Space Marine's combat knife in Episode 8.
Custom Uniform: All of them wear heavily modified versions of clone trooper armor that is unique and distinct to each member of their squad. While sneaking through Tahr Whyler's warship with Anakin, this proves to be extremely advantageous for them as they look so different from the standard clone troopers that Anakin is easily able to pass them off as Imperials with no one being the wiser.
Foil: To the Adeptus Astartes. Both are genetically-enhanced Super Soldiers who act as an Elite Army for their respective sides. However, each member of the Bad Batch has a single unique specialized ability while the Astartes all share the same enhancements. The Bad Batch are modified clones born with their enhanced abilities, while the Astartes were naturally born humans who were genetically modified later on. The Bad Batch tend to face Fantastic Racism from the regular clone troopers, who view them as defects. The Astartes, on the other hand, are practically worshipped by the Imperial Guard as their God-Emperor's Angels of Death.
Major Injury Underreaction: Crosshairs reacts to his left leg getting cut off by grunting as though he had merely been punched.
Out of Focus: Like Anakin, they are only given one focus episode in Season 3.
Super-Strength: Wrecker demonstrates his enhanced strength in Episode 8 when he picks up a fully-armored Space Marine and throws him across the hallway of the ship they were fighting inside.

Delta Squad

Boss (RC-1138), Fixer (RC-1140), Sev (RC-1207), and Scorch (RC-1262)

An elite special forces squad of clone commandos who participate in the ground fighting alongside Sando's ARC troopers during the Second Battle of Axum.

Combat Medic: Fixer is shown acting as one in Episode 27 where he gives medical aid by administering bacta to an injured Sando while they are in the middle of a battle against the Sisters of Battle.
A Day in the Limelight: Downplayed.
- Sev is given focus as a secondary character in Sando's plotline during Episode 28.
- Fixer gets some focus as a secondary character in Episode 42 Part 1.
Demolitions Expert: Scorch as per canon. In his first appearance in Episode 27, Scorch is strapping explosives onto a wall while happily humming.
Meaningful Name: Fixer is revealed in Episode 42 Part 1 to be something of a Mr. Fixit in his spare time, having his own private workshop where he disassembles and studies various pieces of Imperial technology.

Aquila Squad

A clone commando unit within the Grand Army of the Republic which participates in the Second Battle of Axum.

In General

Ascended Extra: In Legends, they only have a single brief appearance in the Republic Commando Series. Here, they serve as recurring characters throughout the Axum arc and play a significant role in Aayla's storyline.
Big Damn Heroes: They come to Aayla's rescue in Episode 16 right as Tahr Whyler was about to Mind Rape her into being his sleeper agent.
Cool Starship: They have one in the form of their own LAAT/i gunship called the Aquila, which has the nose of the gunship painted to look like an orange and red starbird (which would later become the symbol of the Rebel Alliance in canon).

Captain Graves

The clone captain leading Aquila Squad, Graves has been attached to the 327^th Star Corps for nearly the entire Clone Wars and has developed a close working relationship with Aayla Secura.

A Day in the Limelight: Downplayed. He gets half of a POV segment dedicated to him and his backstory in Episode 37 during the scene where he and Aayla are traveling aboard an LAAT gunship to search for Quinlan's missing Jedi strike force.
Mauve Shirt: So far, he's the only one on Aquila Squad who has a name and is given characterization.
Original Character: Like 65, he's an OC created by the author for this fic.
Satellite Character: He's mostly characterized as Aayla's right hand man while on the battlefield in the absence of Bly and 65. In fact, most of his characterization comes from his connection to Aayla and the 327^th Star Corps.

Aurek Squad

A clone commando squad led by Commander Husk. They participate in the Second Battle of Axum and get killed fairly early in the battle by Wyrdvane Psykers.

C-List Fodder: They are from an RPG sourcebook, so naturally they are the ones who get killed offscreen by Wyrdvane Psykers in Episode 16 when the series needed some named Red Shirts.
Death by Adaptation: In Legends, they were still alive in their last appearance during the Battle of Tirahnn in the Clone Wars. Here, they are all killed by Wyrdvane Psykers early in the Second Battle of Axum.
Red Shirt Army: Their entire purpose in Episode 16 is to serve as an elite special forces unit that gets easily killed by a trio of Wyrdvane Psykers in order to establish how much of a threat those psykers are.

Others

Bucket

Bucket (CT-7226)

A clone trooper who was stationed aboard one of the Republic's warships that was present during first contact with the Imperium. Afterwards, he is assigned as an escort for Dr. Shina.

Appropriated Appellation: The clone trooper CT-7226 was given the nickname "Bucket" by his friends after an incident where he got his head stuck inside his helmet for two months. He apparently decided he didn't mind the nickname and kept it.
Internal Reveal: He learns about the existence of Order 66 from Dr. Shina after they discover that Palpatine is responsible for causing Kraken to go crazy and suicide ram the Atlas of Steel during first contact.
Original Character: Like Dr. Shina, he's an OC created for this series by the author.
Satellite Character: He's mostly characterized as Dr. Shina's sidekick and Watson.
Secret-Keeper: He and Shina become one of the few to know that Padmé was pregnant with Anakin's children when the Senator goes into labor during their secret meeting.
Swivel-Chair Antics: He does this out of boredom in Episode 24 while he and Dr. Shina are waiting for Padmé to arrive for their secret meeting.

Neyo

Commander Neyo (CC-8826)

A clone commander in the 91^st Mobile Reconnaissance Corps who was among the reinforcements sent by the Senate to help the Jedi retake Axum in the second half of Season 3.

Number Two: Appears as Coleman Kcaj's second-in-command in Episode 43.
Small Role, Big Impact: He is the one who Mace Windu (after falling to the Dark Side) contacts via hologram at the end of Episode 42 Part 4 to order a second wave of Jedi and clones to assault the Basilica of Salvation, kicking off the events of Episode 43 and 44.

Fordo

Captain Fordo (ARC-77/Alpha-77)

An ARC Trooper Captain and one of the 100 Alpha-Class Advanced Recon Commandos personally trained by Jango Fett. Leader of the Muunilist 10, an elite squad comprised entirely of ARC Troopers. He makes his first appearance in Season 3 in the episode "The Light Flickers".

Awesome by Analysis: He quickly realizes that he and his forces had been lured into a trap but only manages to save Master Rancisis.
Badass Normal: He's not Force-sensitive like the Jedi nor is a mutant clone with superhuman traits like the Bad Batch. Despite this, he's able to kill a Tempered Hands Space Marine in close-quarters combat using nothing but a knife in Episode 44.
A Day in the Limelight: He's the primary viewpoint character for "The Light Flickers Part 1".
Vibroweapon: He has a knife with a vibro-blade which he uses to kill a Space Marine in Episode 44 by stabbing him in the eye.

Alpha (UNMARKED SPOILERS)

Alpha-17

The first ARC Trooper in the GAR. He was called in for the Second Battle of Axum as the Republic attempted to negotiate a ceasefire with the Imperium.—-

Jerkass Has a Point: He doesn't mince his words when talking to Ashoka and Rex, but neither could deny that he had a point.
Pragmatic Villainy: When Ashoka tells him that they couldn't bomb the Imperial temple from orbit, he actually agrees with her, but only because it would be a waste of resources and that they would be easier ways to take the Imperium.

Republic Navy

In General

Curb-Stomp Battle: Their fights with the Imperial fleet consist of one-sided slaughters. At one point, 250 Imperial warships massacred nearly a thousand Republic ships with their only losses being a dozen or so warships thanks to an imaginative and cunning Clone Captain. Eventually subverted in the Battle of Axum where they learn from their previous defeats and prove to be a far more difficult opponent for the Imperials.

Admirals

Wilhuff Tarkin

Admiral Wilhuff Tarkin

An Admiral of the Republic on very close terms with Chancellor Palpatine as well as being a strong critic of the Jedi Order. He was commanding the Republic's naval forces defending Axum during the disastrous Blue Massacre and sustained severe injuries from the battle.

The Creon: According to the author, Tarkin is the type of man who is steadfastly loyal to his superiors and doesn't covet power for himself. This is the reason that Palpatine favored Tarkin so much and trusted him with being given power.
Eye Scream: When he shows up at the Rothana military conference following the offscreen First Battle of Axum, he is sporting a bloodied bandage over his left eye on top of multiple other injuries. When he reappears at the start of Season 4 after being Put on the Bus at the end of Season 1, Tarkin is sporting an eyepatch over where his damaged eye used to be.
Jerkass: Not the most pleasant of individuals even at his best.
Jerkass Has a Point: Zig-Zagged. The author has confirmed that Tarkin's plans to hold Anaxes would have failed as 15 percent of the Republic's forces would have been slaughtered by Davik Thune. Tarkin does however make some compelling points about how the Jedi are not well equipped to lead a fight against the Imperials which Mace Windu later accepts.
Loyal to the Position: According to the author, Tarkin is the type of person who is undyingly loyal to the Republic and the foundations it was built upon, regardless of whoever is in charge. When the Republic became the Galactic Empire in canon, Tarkin's loyalties shifted to the new regime because as far as he was concerned, the Empire was practically the same government as the Republic minus all the Jedi.
My Country, Right or Wrong: The author has said in the Q&A for Episode 19 that although Tarkin views the Imperium as being mostly superior to the Republic, he would never defect because he is a patriot who places his loyalty to his own government above everything else. That being said, he wouldn't be opposed to trying to make the Republic more like the Imperium if given the chance.
Too Clever by Half: As demonstrated in Episode 9. During the meeting at Rothana following the Blue Massacre, Tarkin lays out some pretty common sense military strategies that he believes would have enabled the Republic to at least hold Anaxes rather than be forced to abandon it like Obi-Wan and Mace did. However, Word of God confirms that Tarkin's strategies, while sound on the surface, wouldn't have worked against the Imperium because Tarkin failed to understand just what kind of enemy he was dealing with and assumed that the Imperials followed similar military conventions to the Republic.
Underestimating Badassery: Severely underestimates Imperial ground forces since he thinks that 15 percent of the Republic forces at Anaxes would have been sufficient to hold them off while the author has confirmed they would have been slaughtered if they had stayed.
Unreliable Illustrator: At the end of Season 1, Tarkin is clearly described by the narrator as having his left eye bandaged. However, when he shows up in the Season 4 premiere, the episode's art depicts him having an eyepatch over his right eye while his left eye appears unscathed.
We Have Reserves: Regards losing 15 percent of his forces at Anaxes to be a perfectly acceptable sacrifice if it denies the Imperium the use of the planet.

Spikes

Captain / Admiral Spikes

A Clone captain in the Republic Navy. He is a veteran clone trooper who fought in the Battle of Jabiim where he earned his nickname "Spikes". At the start of the story, he has transferred out of the army and is serving as the naval captain of the Venator-class Star Destroyer Trusted Victory. In Season 3, he returns as the newly promoted admiral of the Victory Fleet in the Republic's counterattack armada sent to liberate Axum.

Appropriated Appellation: His name "Spikes" was originally a nickname given to him by Anakin during the Battle of Jabiim. He decide to adopt it as his actual name.
Breaking the Glass Ceiling: He is the first and only clone trooper to have achieved the rank of Admiral in the Republic Navy, something that Terrinald Screed makes clear in Episode 39.
The Captain: At the start of the story, he's captaining the Venator-class Star Destroyer Trusted Victory.
A Day in the Limelight:
- Episode 4 is told from his POV start to end, and also describes his backstory.
- Downplayed with Episode 36. Spikes makes his big return in that episode as a major POV character after being Put on a Bus for over 25 episodes.
Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: For once this is inverted. Spikes is distinguishable as the only Clone naval officer in the Republic Navy who wears a trooper helmet while on the job.
Original Character: He's an OC created by the fic's author.
Out of Focus: He was a significant POV character in the first season, even receiving an episode centered entirely around himself. In the second season, he barely appears at all. In the third season, he returns as a secondary POV character commanding the Republic Navy's forces against the Imperial Fleet in the Axum System.
Put on the Bus: Aside from a cameo in Episode 11, Spikes is absent from the series for the entirety of Season 2 and the first three episodes of Season 3. He eventually returns in Episode 36 where he's commanding one of the fleets that make up the Republic's counterattack armada sent to liberate Axum.
Rank Up: The fact that he was the only Republic naval commander at the Battle of System K749 to have successfully destroyed Imperial warships and survive is what ultimately gets him promoted from Captain to Admiral prior to the Republic launching their official counter-invasion of Axum.
Remember the New Guy?: According to him, he was present during the Jabiim arc in Star Wars: Republic and fought alongside Anakin and the Padawan Pack against the Jabiimi Nationalist Army.
Seen It All: By his own admission, Spikes is dead to novelty and unimpressed by power due to being jaded from fighting in the worst battles of the Clone Wars.
Shell-Shocked Veteran: He is still affected by the trauma from the Battle of Jabiim. It can be inferred that the reason he transferred out of the army and into the navy was because he couldn't stand being in ground combat or anything that might remind him of Jabiim.
Signature Move: His signature move is using his ships' tractor beams to move around space debris from large wrecked starships. During the Battle of System K749, Spikes coordinates eight Venators into using their tractor beams to grab a piece of space debris from a wrecked Imperial freighter and fling it at a dozen approaching Imperial warships. In episode 36, the move has received the name the "Spikes Wall Manuever" and is used to tear away chunks of a destroyed Mandator II-class star dreadnaught, then use those pieces of floating debris to shield vulnerable Republic ships from Imperial fire.
Sole Survivor: His backstory is that he was the only clone of his pod to have survived the Battle of Jabiim, the rest of his pod brothers having been killed during the battle.
The Strategist: A very competent fleet tactician, he's the reason that the Republic fleet was able to take out a dozen Imperial warships during the Battle of System K749, making it a Curb Stomp Cushion for the Republic instead of a total Curb-Stomp Battle.
Thousand-Yard Stare: Enters one when he returns to Rothana after barely escaping the first contact battle in Episode 4 and waits for the other Republic ships he fought alongside to join him. When none come, he realizes they perished during the battle but still waits for them while blankly staring.
He gave no more orders, he had no more orders, but his men stayed with him. And they waited for their brothers who would never come. Eventually the Jedi came to him. Obi-Wan Kenobi, Mace Windu, and Anakin Skywalker. They were saying things, but he couldn't hear them, couldn't see them.
Uniformity Exception: He distinguishes himself from the other identical Clone naval officers by wearing a clone trooper helmet.
Up Through the Ranks: He started out as a low-ranking grunt in the Grand Army of the Republic, fighting on the frontlines early in the Clone Wars. Near the end of the Clone Wars, he's shown to hold the commissioned rank of Captain in the Republic Navy before being promoted to Admiral in between Seasons 2 and 3.

Captains

Kraken

Captain Kraken (CT-1238)

The Clone captain of the Venator-class Star Destroyer Honor Hound. He serves under the Jedi General Renphi. During first contact with the Imperium, he was transferred to command of the Venator Bellejore.

Brainwashed and Crazy: When Palpatine secretly activates Kraken's clone programming and orders him to hyperspace ram the Bellejore into the Atlas of Steel during first contact, the Clone captain almost robotically follows his orders while mentally repeating how much of a "good soldier" he is.
The Captain: Normally, he's the captain of the Venator Honor Hound, but was transferred to being captain of the Venator Bellejore just prior to the Republic's first contact with the Imperial refugees.
Death in the Limelight: As Kraken's Venator is about to carry out its hyperspace ramming of the Atlas of Steel at the end of Episode 3, we're shown Kraken's obviously Brainwashed and Crazy perspective right before he activates his ship's hyperdrive and dies.
Original Character: He is an OC clone naval captain who was created by the author for this series.
Sacrificial Lamb: He first appears in Episode 2 as the clone captain who acts as Renphi's Number Two and is established to have a good relationship with both Renphi and Gaphin. At the end of Episode 3, he gets overridden by Palpatine's clone programming and is forced to carry out a Suicide Attack by ramming his Venator into an Imperial refugee ship at hyperspeed.
Small Role, Big Impact: Dies in the third episode, but his actions (influenced by Palpatine) are what start the war between the Imperium and Republic as well as convinces Orion, the Skywatch's Chapter Master and de facto leader of the Imperium's forces, that the aliens of the Star Wars galaxy are just as bad as the xenos in his home universe.

Touchy

Captain Touchy

A Clone naval officer in the Republic Navy. He was commanding one of the Venators which made up the KDY defense fleet protecting Rothana when the fleet was redeployed to escort Renphi's task force during first contact with the Imperium.

The Captain: Of the Venator-class Star Destroyer Ever True.
Killed Offscreen: He and his ship are destroyed mere moments after Spikes makes his Hyperspeed Escape from the battle. Prior to Spikes's Venator leaving, Touchy assured Spikes that he and his ship would follow him. However, when Spikes reaches Rothana and waits for Touchy and the other Clone captain with him to arrive, they never came, the implication being that they and their ships were all destroyed by the Imperial Fleet.
Original Character: He's an OC created by the author with no canon counterpart.
Sacrificial Lamb: He's around just long enough for Spikes and the audience to form a connection with him before he's Killed Offscreen so that his death shocks Spikes and motivates him to oppose the Imperium.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Ultimately dies in the same episode we meet him.

Torch

Captain Torch

A Clone naval captain in the Republic Navy. He and his ship, the Reverence, are among those that participate in the latter half of the Battle of Axum.

The Captain: Of the Victory-class Star Destroyer Reverence.
It Has Been an Honor: Says this to Spikes over the radio in Episode 36 as he prepares to hyperspace ram his ship into the Imperial flagship.
Original Character: Like Spikes, Torch is an OC clone created by the author for this series.
Senseless Sacrifice: He attempts to heroically sacrifice himself during the Space Battle in Episode 36 by hyperspace ramming his Venator into the shielded Imperial flagship, ignoring his admiral's orders to withdraw. Due to the strange way that hyperspace drives interact with Warp-based technology, Torch's kamikaze attack somehow supercharges the Imperial flagship's shields and teleports Torch's Venator straight into the Warp. Since Star Wars ships aren't equipped with Gellar fields to protect them from the entities living inside the Warp, Torch and his crew are almost immediately set upon by daemons, their screams of horror being the last things that the rest of the Republic fleet hear over the radio before losing communications.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies in the same episode he debuts in.

Gilad Pellaeon

Captain Gilad Pellaeon

A naval captain in the Republic Navy who commands the Mandator II-class dreadnought Pillar of Order during the Second Battle of Axum.

Adaptational Early Appearance: In both Canon and Legends, he doesn't make his first appearance until post-Battle of Endor. Here, his first appearance is during the Second Battle of Axum, which is near the end of the Clone Wars era.
The Captain: Of the Pillar of Order, one of three Mandators that were sent by Kuat Drive Yards to help the Republic's counterattack armada battle the Imperial battlefleet at the Second Battle of Axum.
A Day in the Limelight: He serves as one of the four POV characters for Episode 39.

Terrinald Screed

Captain Terrinald Screed

The captain of the Bulwark of Duro, a Mandator II-class dreadnought leading one of the Republic Navy's battle groups against the Imperial Navy at the Second Battle of Axum.

Adaptational Jerkass: He's prejudiced against clones, something that wasn't outright shown to be the case in the canon EU or Legends.
Adaptational Job Change: In Legends, prior to the last months of the Clone Wars, Screed had been promoted from Captain to Vice Admiral and given command over the entire Coruscant Home Fleet by Palpatine himself. However, when this fic's version of Screed appears during the Second Battle of Axum (which is set around the same time that the Clone Wars would have ended in canon), he is still a naval captain commanding a task force as part of Victory Fleet.
The Captain: Of the Bulwark of Duro, one of the three Mandator-II-class dreadnoughts sent by Kuat Drive Yards to assist in the Republic's liberation of Axum.
Combat Pragmatist: Despite the Mandators having been deployed specifically to combat the gargantuan Imperial Battleships, Screed quickly realizes after watching another Mandator get destroyed by a ramming Imperial warship that his dreadnought stands no chance of beating the similarly-sized Battleships in a direct slugging match, so he instead has his ship focus on destroying the much smaller Escorts while leaving the larger Imperial warships to the rest of his fleet. The only time he tries to take on an enemy Battleship is after his bridge crew reports that said ship has no shields.
A Day in the Limelight: Episode 39 is one for him as a quarter of the entire episode is told from his POV as he commands his dreadnought during the Second Battle of Axum.
Electronic Eye: His left eye is robotic.
Fantastic Racism: He chafes at taking orders from Spikes for being a clone and is privately in disbelief that any clone could be capable of attaining the rank of Admiral.
Fatal Flaw: Glory. When his bridge crew reports that one of the larger Imperial Battleships appears to have no shields, Screed immediately abandons his previous safe strategy of using his dreadnought to take out Escorts (which had proven to be massively successful) and orders his ship to head straight for the unshielded Battleship, believing it to be vulnerable and wanting to claim the glory of the kill for himself rather than let the other Republic ships have it. This proves to be a fatal mistake as the unshielded Battleship turns out to be an Ironclad — an extremely rare DAoT-era warship equipped with nigh-impenetrable armor and a massive Wave-Motion Gun capable of wiping out entire battlefleets in a single shot. By the time Screed realizes his mistake, it's too late as his ship has already come within range of the Ironclad and can't retreat without leaving itself exposed, so he has no choice but to continue the attack and hope that his dreadnought's shields can tank the Ironclad's fusion cannon. Spoiler alert: it doesn't.
Glory Seeker: As soon as he thinks an Imperial Battleship during a space battle is vulnerable due to it being unshielded, he orders his Mandator to make a beeline for it before the other Republic ships can destroy it and "steal" the glory of the kill from him. This winds up being a massive mistake as the Battleship (really an Ironclad) wasn't as "vulnerable" as he initially was led to believe.
Underestimating Badassery: At first, he severely underestimates the Ironclad and assumes that the ship will be easy pickings for his dreadnought because it is unshielded. Turns out the reason the Ironclad has no shields is because it doesn't need them, and it proceeds to one-shot Screed's dreadnought with its fusion cannon.

Others

The Oracle (Unmarked Spoilers)

Omega

A young, precocious Opposite-Sex Clone of Jango Fett who was Raised in a Lab on Kamino for all her life. She appears in Season 3 as the lynchpin for Project Axum-Omega, being the leader of the Oracle Team and the unwitting naval commander of the Republic armada counter-invading the Axum System.

Adaptational Intelligence: She's a prodigy at fleet strategy and coordinating massive space battles, something that her canon counterpart isn't.
And You Thought It Was a Game: During the space battle above Axum, Omega and the clone cadets of the Oracle Team are given command over the entire Republic counterattack armada, but are led to believe that they are playing a simulation of a fleet battle instead of coordinating the real thing because the Kaminoans deemed it necessary to ensure that Omega will do whatever it takes to win.
Child Prodigy: Despite only being a child, Omega can command a Space Battle and match wits with a seasoned military strategist like she's Ender Wiggin.
A Day in the Limelight: The first segment of Episode 40 Part 4 explores Omega's perspective as she commands the Republic counterattack armada against the Imperial Navy during the Battle of Axum.
Family of Choice: She views Nala Se and the clone cadets on her Oracle Team as her family and is distraught at the mere possibility of them being replaced.
Heroic BSoD: When the Mechanicus takes down her ship, reality sinks in and she has an emotional meltdown. And there's the fact that there's an Eversor currently after her head.
Motivational Lie: Nala Se lies to Omega that if she fails the "simulation" in Episode 34, her entire team will be blamed and get replaced. In reality, Omega is coordinating a real battle and Nala Se lied that it was a simulation so Omega wouldn't hesitate to sacrifice ships if she deemed it necessary to win. She also lied about Omega being separated from her team if she failed, believing that this would motivate Omega to take the battle seriously despite thinking it's all fake.
The Smurfette Principle: Being one of the extremely rare, almost unknown female clones of Jango Fett in existence, Omega is unsurprisingly the only girl on her team, which is made up entirely of clone cadets.
The Strategist: She's able to coordinate a massive space battle against a seasoned Lord Admiral of the Imperial Navy.

Oracle Team (Season 3 spoilers)

Arkanian, Sprout, Ally, and Meek

A team of prodigious clone cadets who debut in Season 3 as part of Project Axum-Omega. They are assigned to coordinate the Republic's counter-invasion armada under the leadership of the Oracle during the Second Battle of Axum.

Affectionate Nickname: Arkanian is called "Ark" by his teammates Sprout and Omega.
Expy: Sprout is based on Bean from Ender's Game, being a Child Prodigy, second-smartest on his team that is overseeing a simulated fleet battle which is actually a real battle, and his name is even a play on his.
Original Character: All of them save Omega are OCs exclusive to this fic.
Shout-Out Theme Naming: All of them are named after Ender's Game characters, specifically Ender's fellow students at Battle School. Arkanian is based on Petra Arkanian, Sprout is a play on words for Bean, Ally is based on Alai, and Meek is based on Dink Meeker.
Token Adult: Arkanian is the only clone on Oracle Team who is biologically an adult, being a mutated clone trooper who was Born as an Adult due to being created from Spaarti cloning as opposed to the usual Kaminoan cloning techniques.

First Officer Pin

A clone naval officer who serves as the First Officer aboard Admiral Spikes's flagship during the Second Battle of Axum in Season 3.

Mirror Character: To Alvat, the captain of the guard aboard the Imperial Navy flagship Price of Dignity. Both serve as a right-hand man to a high-ranking admiral on their respective sides and act as The Watson to their superiors during the Second Battle of Axum.
Number Two: To Admiral Spikes, being the first officer aboard his flagship.
Original Character: Like Spikes, he is an OC created for this fic.
The Watson: His primary purpose in Season 3 is to serve as someone for Spikes to explain his naval strategies to so the audience can understand them.

Broadside

Republic Citizens

Ahsoka Tano

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The former Padawan of Anakin Skywalker; Ahsoka left the Jedi Order following being framed for terrorism by her best friend Barris and the Jedi Council refusing to defend her for political convenience.

Almighty Janitor: Technically, Ahsoka is just an ex-Padawan who quit the Jedi Order before she could even be promoted to Jedi Knight. However, she is shown to be treated with more authority and respect among the Jedi than many Knights and Masters. During the Second Battle of Axum, she is handed command of the entire 501^st Legion and is shown directly answering to Mace Windu, who is the second-in-command of the entire Order.
All-Loving Heroine: A kind and compassionate young woman who repeatedly tries to find a peaceful resolution with the Imperials and goes out of her way to try to capture enemy combatants alive instead of killing them. She is also deeply bothered by the idea of others being afraid of her as shown when she discovers just how genuinely terrified the Imperials react when faced with her.
Defector from Decadence: Ahsoka has seen just how far the Jedi had fallen which is one of the key reasons she left the order.
Emotion Control: She is able to briefly control another person's emotions with the Force as shown in her interrogation of Farnus in Episode 41 part 1 where she uses the Jedi mind trick to tell him to calm down and he is briefly filled with a feeling of artificial tranquility before immediately returning to having a panic attack from having his feelings altered.
The Empath: As a trained Jedi, Ahsoka can naturally use the Force to sense the emotions of others. This is what initially leads Ahsoka to realize that the Imperials aren't true invaders as all she senses from the Imperial soldiers that she fights is fear, desperation, and a desire to defend themselves against a perceived existential threat.
Enemy Compassion: Ahsoka shows some to the Admech's forces aboard Trench's dreadnought in Episode 17. When she and the 501^st gain the upper hand on the Electro-Priest and his Skitarii guards, Ahsoka repeatedly pleads with them to surrender and promises that they will be treated humanely. When the Electro-Priest refuses, Ahsoka orders her clone troopers to only use stun blasts against them. Afterwards, when the clones are having difficulty disabling the various Swiss Army Appendages on their Admech prisoners, Ahsoka lets a clone Combat Medic borrow one of her lightsabers with these orders.
Ahsoka: Take this, and use it when you have no choice. But be careful, I just want them helpless, not to cripple them further. Make sure you don't damage them so badly we can't replace their cybernetics with our own. This is meant to be mercy, Trooper, not a dissection.
Green-Skinned Space Babe: Per canon, to the point where this gets Ahsoka misidentified as a Slaaneshi daemonette by a traumatized Skitarii Vanguard trooper on one occasion.
A Mother to Her Men: Ahsoka is friends with most of the clone troopers under her command and is offended when Farnus refers to the clones as her slaves (even if it is accurate).
Save the Villain: In the later half of Season 3, Ahsoka finds a servo-skull asking for her help in rescuing the pilots of a disabled Imperial Knight that was trapped under the crashed wreckage of Trench's flagship. Ahsoka agrees and follows the servo-skull to the trapped Imperial Knight where she helps free the guardsman stuck inside. She also tries her best to help a comatose Nerva, having the Tech-Priestess placed inside a bacta tank.
Taught by Experience: While dealing with a captive Farnus in Episode 42 Part 1, Ahsoka exercises a lot more caution and Properly Paranoid behavior due to her previous experience with the Electro-Priest. She makes sure to never turn her back or let her guard down around him.
Teen Genius: Ahsoka is remarkably skilled despite only being a teenager.
Wide-Eyed Idealist: She's one of the first Jedi to realize that the Imperials are not truly invaders and are a broken people, and continuously tried to find a peaceful resolution with the Electro Priest C-82. Unfortunately, the Electro Priest has been too jaded to accept any alternative outside of war. Though Ahsoka did at least manage to convince the Electro Priest enough to spare her life, which is big in itself due to the Imperial attitude of kill all aliens on principle.
Wise Beyond Their Years: Ahsoka despite only being a teenager shows more wisdom than most members of the Jedi Council. Notably, she is the only Jedi who really starts to get an understanding of the Imperials and how they think and why they are what they are.

Shina

Doctor Shina

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One of the protagonists of Season 1, Shina is a female Cerean scientist who works under the Office of the Supreme Chancellor as part of Palpatine's doctoral staff. She was part of the survey team sent by Palpatine to study the hyperwave anomaly created by the Imperium's arrival to their galaxy, and was present during the Republic's disastrous first contact with the Xek-Tek Imperials.

Chekhov's Skill: Her talent at data splicing is first shown during the first contact battle where Shina hacks into the computers of the Venator she's aboard to get access to images of the Imperial warships so she can show them to her science team. Later, she hacks into the data logs of the Honor Hound—the Venator that hyperspace rammed the Atlas of Steel—and uncovers Palpatine's role in starting this entire war.
Demoted to Extra: After being one of the major Republic characters in Season 1, she's given far less focus in Seasons 2 and 3, only appearing in what are essentially interlude episodes.
Know When to Fold 'Em: The moment she saw the Atlas of Steel get hyperspace rammed by Kraken's Venator, followed by the arrival of the entire Imperial Fleet, Shina knew that any hope for a peaceful First Contact with the Imperium was lost and that the KDY defense fleet would be destroyed unless they retreated into hyperspace immediately. Renphi, still under the native belief that first contact could be salvaged, didn't listen to her and had her confined to her quarters while he attempted to order the Republic fleet to carry out an ill-fated rescue operation that results in the KDY defense fleet getting destroyed.
Mirthless Laughter: Breaks down into this at the end of Episode 5 when she is brought to Rothana with the survivors of the first contact battle and is approached by Obi-Wan, who asks for her help and explains that the Republic is "facing a little bit of an emergency." This causes Shina to begin chuckling at his understatement before descending into Laughing Mad as she mentally relives the horrors of the Space Marines boarding the Honor Hound and her Near-Death Experience before eventually calming down.
My Brain Is Big: As a Cerean, Shina has a tall, conical head which houses a complex binary brain which seems enlarged when compared to that of a baseline human. Shina is one of the top scientists in the entire Republic.
Nay-Theist: Having seen the Jedi's Psychic Powers with her own eyes, Shina is willing to accept that the Force exists and is where the Jedi's "hokey space magic" comes from. However, being a scientist, she naturally refuses to believe that there's any mysticism involved and views the Force as nothing more than a Background Magic Field instead of a Sentient Cosmic Force like the Jedi do.
Omnidisciplinary Scientist: She's the galaxy's leading expert in various technological fields including hyperdrives and hyperspace travel. She's also well-versed in mathematics, history, xeno-anthropology, political sciences, and computer hacking. Episode 24 also reveals that Shina is pretty knowledgeable about genetics; despite claiming to not be a geneticist, she is able to analyze the samples of human DNA taken from Imperials during the initial Axum invasion and nearly determine their true origin simply by noticing how their DNA is structured in a way that suggests the Imperials are somehow older than the entire Star Wars human race.
Original Character: One of the handful of Star Wars characters in this series who don't have a canon or Legends counterpart.
Playful Hacker: On top of being a brilliant scientist, Shina is also a skilled data splicer who uses her skills to hack into the computers of the Honor Hound to gain access to images of Imperial warship to show to her scientific colleagues. She later hacks into the data logs of the Bellejore and discovers Palpatine's involvement in causing the destruction of the Atlas of Steel.
Properly Paranoid:
- Upon discovering that Palpatine was behind the hyperspace ramming of the Atlas of Steel which led to war with the Imperium, Shina immediately sets to work covering up her tracks and making sure that Palpatine can't find out she knows the truth. She has every reason to be paranoid given that Palpatine is a Sith Lord who has a long history of disappearing anyone who either knows too much or has outlived their usefulness to him.
- She also doesn't want to tell the Jedi of her discovery of Palpatine's involvement in the destruction of the Atlas of Steel because she's worried that the Jedi might try arresting the Chancellor without clearing things up with the Senate first, thereby either starting another civil war or provoking Palpatine into activating Order 66. For those who want proof that Shina's right to be worried, just look at what happened in Revenge of the Sith after Anakin told Mace that Palpatine was a Sith.
Recognition Failure: Shina doesn't recognize Obi-Wan Kenobi when she is introduced to him at the end of Episode 5 despite being one of the Republic's top scientific minds, working for the Supreme Chancellor himself, and knowing who Asajj Ventress is. Obi-Wan is a legendary Jedi Master and a major Republic war hero who commands a full third of the Clone Army, has participated in many major battles of the Clone Wars, and was a frequent opponent of Ventress. For that matter, Shina also doesn't appear to recognize Anakin Skywalker or Mace Windu either when they first approach her to ask about her near-death experience at the hands of a Space Marine. This can be partially hand-waved by the fact that Shina had just woken up in the hospital following an extremely traumatic event that did a number on her physically and psychologically.
Secret-Keeper: She and Bucket become one of the few to know that Padmé was pregnant with Anakin's children when the Senator goes into labor during a secret meeting they were having. She passes the secret onto Yoda in order to convince him to help save the lives of Padmé and her babies from being killed by Palpatine's remote Life Drain.
Sole Survivor: She is the only survivor of Palpatine's science team who were present during first contact with the Imperium. The other scientists were all killed by Space Marines during the boarding of the Honor Hound.
Super Wheelchair: While escaping from the Honor Hound during the Battle of System K749, Shina injures her leg and spends the rest of the series in a hovering wheelchair that has a built-in blaster which she can activate by pressing a button.

Shina's science team

Doctor Haknian, Doctor Turanni, and Doctor Orthan

A team of the Republic's top scientists specializing in various fields. They alongside Shina are sent by Palpatine at the start of the series to investigate the hyperwave anomalies caused by the Imperium's arrival and are present during first contact.

Adaptational Species Change: Shina's co-worker Dr. Haknian is depicted using an image of a male Mirialan in the YouTube audio drama. In the written FFN version, however, he is described as a human.
Cat Folk: The visualized audiobook on YouTube uses a picture of a female Cathar, a race humanoid felines, when depicting Dr. Turanni.
Dwindling Party: After the Honor Hound is boarded by the Skywatch's 3rd Company, Shina's survey team is slowly whittled down one by one until only Shina is left.
Gender-Equal Ensemble: Counting Shina, the leading members of their science team consists of two male aliens (Haknian and Orthan) and two female aliens (Shina and Turanni).
Heroic BSoD: Poor Turanni becomes borderline catatonic upon witnessing the gory and bloody carnage caused by the Skywatch Space Marines who board the Honor Hound; Shina has to personally drag her towards the escape pod room. She never recovers from this state because she is silently killed by a Space Marine as soon as Shina turns her back on Turanni to open the door to the escape pods.
Humanoid Alien: On the YouTube visualized audiobook version of Episode 5, Dr. Orthan is a depicted using the image of a Lutrillian, a humanoid alien race with fuzzy jowls and pointed ears.
Killed Offscreen: Dr. Turanni's death at the hands of the Space Marine who also killed Renphi is never shown onscreen. From Shina's POV, she set a limp and uncontrollably weeping Turanni down in the prep room leading to the escape pods and walked ahead to get the door to the escape pod room open. When she hears Turanni stop crying, Shina turns around to ask for her assistance, only to find that Turanni was just... gone. All that remained was a red smear while the door which they had used to enter the prep room (which Renphi had closed behind them) was now wide open.
Labcoat of Science and Medicine: Played with. They are scientists who all wear white jumpsuits, which are the Star Wars equivalent of white labcoats.
Omnidisciplinary Scientist: The three of them along with Dr. Shina are among the greatest scientific minds in the entire Republic, being well-versed in mathematics, history, Hyperron Mechanics, Quantum Theory, xeno-anthropology, political sciences, and many other different fields and subjects.
Original Character: Like Dr. Shina, all of them are OC characters created by the author with the purpose of getting killed off in their first appearance.
Sacrificial Lamb: They're established to be Dr. Shina's coworkers and seem to have a Vitriolic Best Buds relationship with one another. They all get killed off in the same episode they're introduced in to demonstrate how terrifying the Space Marines seem to the Star Wars characters and traumatize Shina with their deaths, motivating her to uncover the truth behind what caused Kraken to hyperspace ram the Atlas of Steel.
Stupid Scientist: During first contact with the Imperials, Orthan dismisses Turanni's theory that the Imperials are part of a theocratic society, citing the fact that the Imperials mentioned having an emperor as evidence that the Imperium is most likely a secular autocracy.
Orthan: Always hammering religion into your anthropological studies, Turanni. The outsiders are obviously some kind of autocracy, most likely an empire if they have an emperor. Nothing religious about that.
Tears of Fear: While trying to escape the Honor Hound, the scientists are led by Renphi to the hangar where they see Space Marines slaughtering clone troopers and find the floor covered with dead clones who have been eviscerated and dismembered. The sight of this sends Turanni falling to her knees as she covers her eyes and sobs uncontrollably in pure terror.
We Hardly Knew Ye: They all die in the same episode they are introduced in.

Ton'Vult Family

Kombirr Ton'Vult

A young human man of Mandalorian descent who lived on Axum with his family before the Imperium came and conquered his planet. He and his father were among the many Axumites who answered the Jedi's call to resist the Imperials and helped liberate the Imperial death camps.

Affectionate Nickname:
- Is called "Starshine" by his mother.
- Samael addresses him as "Kid".
Ancestral Weapon: Whilst he and his family don't really identify as culturally Mandalorian, their ancestors were Mandalorian, and as such they maintain an armory with weapons and armor dating back for generations to the Sith War.
Battle Couple: Downplayed with Jenova in Season 3. No actual romance has sprung up between the two, but there is a heavy amount of Ship Tease and Jevona is clearly smitten with Kombirr after he rescued her from a death camp. The two fight side-by-side during the Axum resistance's siege on the Basilica of Salvation in Episodes 40 and 41.
Boom, Headshot!: At the end of Episode 41 part 2, he gets blasted in the head by Samael while Taking the Bullet for Jevona.
Break Out the Museum Piece: When he takes up arms against the Imperium, he arms himself with an ancestral ripper rifle from his family's armory. Ripper rifles haven't been used in the Galactic Republic since the days of the last Sith War, nearly four thousand years before the present.
Death by Origin Story: The deaths of his family friends (all of whom are implied to be non-humans) is what initially motivates him and his father to join the Axum Resistance against the Imperium. The death of his father also further fuels Kombirr's determination to free his planet from the Imperium. He doesn't live to see it.
The Gift: He was born Force-sensitive and had a high enough midi-chlorian count to be considered eligible to join the Jedi, but both his parents refused to hand him over as an infant.
Heroism Motive Speech: Gives one to his mother in response to her initially refusing to let him and his father join the Axum Resistance due to fearing the Imperium's power.
Kombirr: This...this Imperium, what they are doing... If we let it go on, if we don't fight or draw a line or something... then things will NEVER get better! The burden will never get lighter, and I'll never be able to stop mourning all the people we lose, until you're mourning me instead.
Vinorra: Kombirr, no...
Kombirr: No what mom? We all die, life does not go on forever. You taught me that the reason we fight, the reason we keep the shrines and honor the fallen, is because the goal of the fight is freedom. Because the goal is justice. I know that this latest war has been cloudy, that it has been hard to see right from wrong between the Republic and the Confederacy. But this is no longer that same war. And if we choose not to fight, not to give everything we have, we will be dishonoring all the fallen we claim to care about. What good are the shrines to our honored dead, if we have no honor? If the causes they fought and died for...died here? Isn't that a truer death than the ones they have already suffered? Wouldn't doing that...make me worthless in their eyes?
Horrible Judge of Character:
- He wholeheartedly trusts Samael throughout the Axum arc despite the growing number of signs that all is not what they seem with him. At the end of their second meeting in Episode 23, Samael hands Kombirr a lighter literally engraved with the Imperium's infamous double-headed eagle... and Kombirr thinks nothing of it. He also fails to notice the obvious hostility Samael shows Jenova and Jenova's own visible discomfort at Samael's attention when they reunite in Episode 40 Part 4. Of course, Samael was an undercover Inquisitor all along and Kombirr winds up getting shot in the head by him.
- He also doesn't find anything suspicious or sinister about Jevona or her brother Bathrazan. Both are Genestealers who were probably part of the cult that summoned the Tyranids to the Xek-Tek Sector in the first place.
Jumped at the Call: Both he and his father were amongst the Axumites that almost immediately answered the Jedi's call for Axum to rise up against their Imperial occupiers.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Despite the pleas of his mother, Kombirr feels motivated to do the right thing and joins the Axum resistance alongside his father. His involvement with the rebels ends up getting both of his parents killed during the Battle of Axum — his father falls assaulting an Imperial strongpoint, his mother is killed when the plane she is piloting to rescue prisoners from an Imperial death camp is shot down. Kombirr also takes part in liberating the Imperial death camps and befriends one of the prisoners. Said prisoner turns out to be a 4th Generation Genestealer Hybrid Magus, and Kombirr's involvement with her gets him shot in the head by an Inquisitor.
Older Is Better: Kombirr's ripper rifle may be four thousand years old (give or take a few decades), but it was created in an era when the Jedi and Sith actively warred with each other, and so was designed to penetrate the most advanced armor and shields of its day. As a result, it is drastically more powerful than a standard issue blaster rifle. It literally blows holes clean through Bullgryns, ogre-like abhumans whose purpose is to act as living defensive walls through a combination of sheer physical bulk, Super-Toughness, heavy armor, and energized shields. The drawback is that, due to its status as a relic weapon, ammunition is extremely hard to come by.
Original Character: He's one of a small handful of Star Wars characters in this story who are fanmade and have no canon counterparts.
Ship Tease: With Jevona, a psyker being imprisoned at one of the Imperium's death camps until he rescues her near the end of the second season. Considering that she's a Genestealer, this is not a good thing.
Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Kombirr is one of the nicest characters in the story, being a genuinely well-meaning and idealistic young man who is driven by a sincere desire to stop the suffering caused by the Imperium's occupation of Axum. This especially makes him stick out given the supporting cast of his storyline include an undercover Inquisitor, a Genestealer Magus, and a Genestealer Primus Naturally, he gets blasted in the head by Samael's Hand Cannon while trying to save Jevona's life in Episode 41 Part 2.

Harrod Ton'Vult

A human man of Mandalorian descent living on Axum. During the Battle of Axum, Harrod is among those that answered the Jedi's call for the Axumites to rise up against their Imperial occupiers. He is the father of Kombirr and the husband of Vinorra.

Dropped a Bridge on Him: He's the father of a significant secondary POV character in the second and third seasons. He winds up being just another battlefield casualty and his son doesn't even learn of his death until after the battle ends.
Jumped at the Call: Like his son, he immediately leapt at the Jedi's call for the people of Axum to rise up against the Imperials. In his introduction scene, he's shown eagerly putting on some ancient Mandalorian armor and expresses optimism about the Axumites' odds of defeating the Imperium.
Killed Offscreen: We're never actually shown his death with Kombirr only finding his corpse after the battle in which Harrod died is over.
Perilous Old Fool: He seems to be mid-to-late aged and has no military experience unlike his wife, yet he still wants to join the Axum Resistance in fighting the Imperium, something which his wife is understandably extremely hesitant to allow. He winds up dying in the Axum Resistance's first battle against the Imperial Guard.
Sacrificial Lamb: He is Kombirr's father and he dies in the same episode he is introduced in order to hammer it into Kombirr's head that War Is Hell and make him more susceptible to Samael's suggestion for him and his mother to leave the area before the Imperial Guard reinforcements arrive to decimate the rebel forces.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies in the same episode that he is introduced.
Wrong Genre Savvy: He thinks he and his family are in a classic "La Résistance fighting The Empire" story like the kind Star Wars is so well-known for, and assures his wife that all it takes to defeat the Imperials occupying Axum is for the oppressed masses to rise up together as one. While that might work against a government like the Galactic Empire or First Order, which primarily rely on controlling their populaces through fear and propaganda, it proves utterly ineffective against the Imperium of Man, which is used to dealing with bloody uprisings on a regular basis and has plenty of experience in stomping out resistance movements.

Vinnora Ton'Vult

An human woman and former soldier living on Axum. She is the mother of Kombirr and the wife of Harrod.

Affectionate Nickname: Is called "Vin" and "Star Shower" by her husband.
Dad the Veteran: A female variation. When she's introduced in the story, Vinorra is established to have been a former soldier who was living with her husband and son on Axum when the Imperium took over.
Inconsistent Spelling: The subtitles for the episodes she appears in can't seem to make up their minds on whether her name is spelled "Vinnorra" or "Vinnora".
Sacrificial Lamb: She is Kombirr's mother and her death is mourned by her son, who has now lost both parents.
Underground Railroad: During the Imperium's occupation of Axum, Vinorra secretly helped prisoners of the Imperial death camps escape and remain hidden from the Imperial authorities.

Kuat Drive Yards

In General

Corporate Warfare: Per canon, Kuat Drive Yards has their own private fleet of military-grade warships as well as three Mandator II dreadnoughts which are far larger than any warship in the Republic Navy. At different points in the story, these assets are deployed against the Imperials and tend to get curb-stomped in order to establish the Imperials as a greater threat.
MegaCorp: They're a private shipbuilding corporation that has galaxy-wide influence, owns numerous habitable planets, and fields a private navy consisting of hundreds of advanced military starships.
N.G.O. Superpower: KDY owns entire planets and has access to a private navy of over a thousand armed starships including three Mandator II-class star dreadnaughts, which are the largest and most heavily armed warships in the Republic Navy. They also have enough employees to staff and crew all those warships as well as enough wealth to keep their warships constantly maintained and upgraded with the latest starship technology.
The Worf Effect: So far, all KDY has done is prove how superior the Imperial ships are to theirs as they get absolutely destroyed by the Imperium in every one of their appearances. In Season 1, almost the entire KDY defense fleet gets obliterated in a one-sided slaughter by the Imperial Fleet. In Season 3, KDY loses two of their prized Mandator II-class star dreadnaughts and Kuat of Kuat himself during the Second Battle of Axum while battling the Imperial Navy.

Kuat of Kuat

The Lord of Kuat and head of Kuat Drive Yards, the MegaCorp responsible for building many of the Republic's warships. He dreams of being able to build powerful warships and resent having his creativity stifled by the restrictions of the Ruusan Reformations. He appears as a character-of-the-day in Episode 34.

Adaptational Early Appearance: In the Legends continuity, Kuat of Kuat makes his first appearance during the height of the Galactic Civil War before the Battle of Endor. Here, Kuat of Kuat makes his first and only appearance at the Second Battle of Axum, which is around the same time that Revenge of the Sith would have canonically happened had the Imperium not intervened in the Clone Wars.
Adaptational Job Change: Played with. While he is the head of Kuat Drive Yards in Legends, he canonically doesn't gain that position until during Palpatine's reign as Galactic Emperor; his aunt Onara was in charge of KDY during the events of Revenge of the Sith, which is around the time that the Second Battle of Axum would have taken place if we were to compare it to the canon timeline.
Break the Haughty: He starts out extremely self-assured and confident in Episode 34, acting like victory has already been assured and internally going on how his fleet is four times larger than the Imperials' and is being led by his vaunted dreadnaught Pride of the Core. He quickly loses his cool and starts to panic once the Imperial Astropaths begin their psychic assault on his flagship's bridge crew and force them to kill each other.
Chekhov's Gunman: Is first mentioned way back in episode 2 before making his proper debut in episode 34.
Crazy-Prepared: He always carries a pill case with him that contains portable medications for radiation poisoning, airborne toxins and plagues, lethal proteins, and even the Blue Shadow Virus.
Death in the Limelight: After being The Ghost, he makes a full appearance in Episode 34 where he serves as a POV character and much insight is given to his character and his relationship with Palpatine. By the end of the episode, he is killed.
Dies Differently In The Adaptation: In Legends, he dies around the time of the Battle of Endor when he carries out a suicide bombing of his company's own shipyards due to having recently lost control over his company and being unwilling to let anyone else lead Kuat Drive Yards in his place. Here, his death occurs decades earlier around the time of the Clone Wars when the Mandator II-class dreadnaught he was commanding gets its bridge rammed by the Imperial flagship during the Second Battle of Axum.
Excellent Judge of Character: He's one of the few people in the entire Galactic Republic who isn't fooled by Palpatine's Wise Old Folk Façade and correctly has him pegged as a manipulative Villain with Good Publicity driven by an insatiable hunger for power. Unlike the others who are aware of Palpatine's true nature, Kuat isn't part of his inner circle or affiliated with the Sith; he figured it out all by himself simply from noticing how the Republic was increasingly nationalizing more and more legitimate private industries the longer that the Clone Wars dragged on.
Face Death with Dignity: When it becomes clear that there's no way for him to escape the destruction of his flagship's bridge, he remained composed and spent his last moments making sure to warn the rest of the Republic armada about the psychic assault by the Imperial astropaths.
Lord Country: His name is Kuat and he is a member of the ruling house of planet Kuat.
Non-Idle Rich: He runs a galactic MegaCorp and his family is one of the wealthiest in the galaxy. Despite this, he personally commands one of the Republic's Mandator dreadnoughts against the Imperial Navy during the Second Battle of Axum.
Photo Op with the Dog: Pretty much the only reason that he agrees to lend his company's precious Mandator II-class dreadnoughts to the Republic Navy for their counter-invasion of Axum. Kuat is aware that the entire galaxy will be watching the Second Battle of Axum and wants his company's famed Mandators to be front and center at the battle so that the people of the Republic will remember that it was Kuat Drive Yards and the warships they built which ultimately liberated Axum from the Imperium's grip.
The Patriarch: He is implied to be this given how the narration refers to him as the master of the Kuat family.
Right-Hand Cat: Has one in the form of a pet Felinx named Kubi that sits on his lap.
Unseen No More: He was first mentioned in the second episode of the series, but it takes until Episode 34 (over two years in real-world time) for him to make a proper physical appearance.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Only appears for a single episode before getting killed off.

Selimi

A brilliant KDY employee from Arthuria who is responsible for designing the powerful shield systems of the Mandator II-class star dreadnaughts. She serves as the shield operator aboard Kuat of Kuat's personal Mandator Pride of the Core during the Second Battle of Axum in Season 3.

Amazing Technicolor Population: She is depicted as having icy blue skin and white hair.
Not So Stoic: Her normally calm demeanor eventually collapses after her body is partially possessed by an Imperial Astropath and she kills herself using a grenade.
Satellite Character: Most of her characterization comes from her job as Kuat's employee.
The Stoic: She maintains a calm and monotone voice even while the Mandator she's aboard is getting rammed by the Imperial Navy's flagship in the middle of a huge space battle.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Dies in the first episode she's introduced.

The Jedi Order

In General

Asskicking Leads to Leadership: While not official the two highest ranking members of the Order are its two best fighters and most of the council members are the strongest of the Jedi.
Break the Haughty: The entire Battle of Axum is a huge wake-up call for the Jedi to the inadequacies and arrogance of their Order. They went in arrogantly assuming that fighting the Imperium would be no different then their battles with the Separatists and believing their Force abilities would give them a decisive advantage. They are brutally disabused of this notion with the Jedi and their clones taking massive casualties. What's more, the Imperial psykers have proven to be more then a match for Jedi.
Combat Clairvoyance: One of the Jedi's greatest strengths as their connection to the Force allows them to act against attacks even before the enemy can react.
Dwindling Party: The Jedi High Council loses quite a few of their members over the course of this fanfic. First, Ki-Adi-Mundi is Killed Offscreen by the Crimson Razors during the First Battle of Axum. Then, Shaak Ti dies in a Mutual Kill with Sister Rajulia during the early stages of the Second Battle of Axum. Next, Depa Billaba perishes from fatal wounds inflicted by Saphran during the Jedi's fight against him aboard the Hellsmasher. After that, Agen Kolar is killed by Ishtara Ordane in Episode 36. Not to mention how it's unlikely Mace Windu will hold onto his seat as a Jedi Council member after falling so spectacularly to the Dark Side and physically lashing out at Obi-Wan in front of all the other Jedi in Episode 42.
Divided We Fall: By Episode 46, their hypocrisy and arrogance have finally come full circle as the Jedi are clearly on the verge of a civil war with each other. Mace wants to bomb the Basilica into oblivion despite Xan, Ashoka, and even Alpha 17 deeming this to be a waste of resources while Xan wants to take the temple. The two end up nearly close to blows until Obi-Wan and Jocasta break up the fight and force Mace to return to Coruscant.
Fragile Speedster: What Jedi are compared to Space Marines. Your average Jedi is far more agile than any Space Marine however even the toughest Jedi's durability pales in comparison to the Astartes who are capable of shrugging off limbs being removed in addition to most Jedi only wearing robes while the Astartes wear their mighty Power Armor.
Glass Cannon: Compared to Space Marines. Their lightsabers allow them to cut through Power Armor, however, even a glancing blow from a Space Marine can seriously injure a Jedi while Space Marines can outright ignore serious wounds.
Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: The Jedi Order suffers from this problem and pays dearly for it. They can't fathom the reasons for the Imperium's cruelty and hatred for non-humans, believing that they are simply the Pius Dea corrupted by the Sith. In actuality, much of the Imperium's genocidal hatred is due to all the horrific aliens and daemonic forces that constantly assailed them. It's only when Ahsoka talked with a few of the Imperials that she actually learns that things are a lot more complicated.
Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: The Episode 21 After Talk really emphasizes just how painfully ignorant the Jedi are about the other Force religions which exist in the galaxy aside from themselves and the Sith. While the Jedi try to be tolerant of the non-Dark-Side Force organizations, they still act extremely patronizing and condescending towards them, viewing them as either proto-Jedi who will eventually join the Jedi Order once they "see the light" or just potential threats who might join the Sith any day now. The author even cites how groups like the Aing-Tii monks have mastered the Force to such an extent that they have Thinking Up Portals as a superpower, a Force ability that would've been a Game Changer for the Clone Wars, yet the Jedi never sought out these monks because they were so arrogant about their mastery over the Light Side that they think no other Force religions can compare, thus they never really kept tabs on the Aing-Tii monks and are ignorant of their impressive feats.
I Reject Your Reality: By this time of the Clone Wars, they have adopted this stance on anything that contradicts their beliefs, so they take it HARD when they suffer heavy casualties against the Imperium's psychic and non-psychic troops.
Weak, but Skilled: Compared to most Imperial psykers, the Jedi are very weak — their Force arsenal being restricted exclusively to various tricks of telepathy, empathy, telekinesis and precognition, and with little training in the more war-like techniques their ancestors used during the Sith Wars, whilst the Imperials have a far broader arsenal of offensive psionic techniques and naturally tap into the Dark Side. However, their lack of either fear of their powers or hate for themselves means they can wield the Force with far greater ease, precision and clarity than most Imperial psykers. As a result, they can easily deflect, disrupt or repel Imperial warpcraft. The problem comes when they meet Imperial psykers who lack that indoctrined weakness, such as Space Marine Librarians or Inquisitors, making them Strong and Skilled; these pose a serious threat to most Jedi.
Willfully Weak: During the era of the Sith War, the Jedi were far-more warlike and much more dangerous; they wielded powerful Light Side attacks, fought their battles in armor and wielded vastly more deadly weapons than their trademark lightsabers. Such as a rifle capable of blowing a hole clean through a Space Marine in Powered Armor. After the Ruusan Reformation, the Jedi chose to embrace peace and leave their warlike ways behind; the combat techniques have largely been left to gather dust in their archives, fighting training has devolved to simple physical training and sparring regimens, and they now go into battle with nothing more than robes and lightsabers. They still have all of their pre-Reformation technology locked up in the temple, they just haven't chosen to unlock it. Yet...
The Worf Effect: The Jedi definitely get it the worst in this fic. Usually, a newly introduced Imperial OC will establish themselves as a badass by easily taking down a Jedi. Season 3 sees this get taken up to eleven as that season features several individuals each singlehandedly plowing through hundreds of experienced Jedi simultaneously in different scenes.

Jedi High Council

Yoda

Grand Master of the Jedi Order and alongside Mace Windu its most powerful member.

Big Damn Heroes: Due to being aware by Dr. Shina of the fact that Sidious is using Life Drain on Padmé in order to rid himself of her interference and make Anakin fall to the Dark Side via his despair at losing her and their children, wherein Canon he was successfully tricked into believing that she was dying from the heartbreak of losing Anakin to darkness, Yoda is instead able to trick the Sith Lord into believing he has successfully killed her and her children and save her life once he departs. This is a twofold tremendous disruption in the flow of Sidious's plans, as Anakin's knowledge that his wife, son, and daughter are alive and well could make it that much harder to turn him to the Dark Side, but also that Palpatine exposed his Dark Side signature to Yoda as he withdrew his presence from Padmé, believing that the need for subtlety had passed.
Big Good: Serves basically as this, as the Republic's supposed Big Good Palpatine is actually a Sith Lord who has secretly caused most of its problems.
A Day in the Limelight: He gets a POV segment in Episode 32 when he uses the Force to save the lives of Padmé and her two unborn children from Sidious's Life Drain.
Determined Defeatist: The Episode 21 After Talk establishes that Yoda became one after he met the Force Priestesses and was taught by Qui-Gon's spirit how to become a Force Ghost, as during that training he saw glimpses of the future and knows the Jedi will ultimately be destroyed by Sidious as a result of a betrayal from within. However, this hasn't stopped Yoda from being a champion of the Light Side and doing his best to lead the Jedi Order in these dark times.
Heroic Sacrifice: Gives up much of his life energy to save Padme and her twins.
Withholding the Big Good: Despite being the Jedi Order's oldest and most powerful member, Yoda is the only Jedi Master who doesn't participate in the Second Battle of Axum, instead choosing to remain behind at the Jedi Temple to watch over all the Padawans and younglings.
You Wouldn't Believe Me If I Told You: The Episode 21 After Talk states that the reason Yoda never told any of the Jedi about his adventure with the Force Priestesses in Season 6 of The Clone Wars where he learned about the Jedi getting wiped out by Sidious in the near-future was because he realized that the Jedi Council wouldn't believe him since his new experiences contradict what the Jedi have traditionally believed about the Force, and the Jedi by this point have adopted an I Reject Your Reality stance on anything that conflicts with those beliefs. At best, he would've been disbelieved and ignored. At worst, the other Jedi would see Yoda's warnings about the future as proof he was going senile and begin to doubt his leadership.

Mace Windu

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Mace Windu is a member of the Jedi High Council who served as Master of the Order. An extremely conservative Jedi, Mace follows the Jedi Code to the letter and expects all other Jedi to do the same. He is also a legendary warrior only rivaled by Yoda in power and skill.

Adaptational Job Change: Mace is referred to as a Jedi Battlemaster by the narration during his duel with Samael in Episode 42 Part 3. In Legends, Battlemaster is a title traditionally held by a single individual within the Jedi Order and refers to their head instructor in lightsaber combat. This position was canonically held by Cin Drallig (who appears as part of Obi-Wan's strike force in Season 2).
Adaptational Villainy: He never falls to the Dark Side in canon (regardless of how this fic's author chooses to interpret certain scenes from the movies: Update, to be specific here the Author said he took Mace's delving into the darkside not directly from the movies but from the book adaption of the Revenge of the Sith, where it looks into the internal monologue/thoughts of the characters, where it showed that while Mace didn't "fall" he did utilize the darkside to defeat Sidious) nor has his canon self ever physically lashed out at Obi-Wan in anger.
Arch-Enemy: Considers Samael Whyler to be this. Samael doesn't reciprocate.
An Arm and a Leg: Gets part of his left arm sliced off by Samael's Energy Blade during their duel in Episode 42 part 4.
Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: He assumed that only the Sith could compete with the Jedi in terms of Force ability and as a result, he severely underestimated the Imperials' skills in using the Warp/Force. This is made clear to him when a team of Jedi he leads in a boarding action of an Imperial Cruiser is mauled by Imperial psykers.
Assassin Outclassin': In Episode 37, he takes out the Tempestus Scions that attempt to kill him with ease using nothing but his bare fists and Force-enhanced punches.
Attack! Attack! Attack!: Pretty much Mace's entire mindset in Episode 42 after falling to the Dark Side. He rabidly insists that the Jedi and Clones under his command continue to press their attack on the Basilica of Salvation despite Obi-Wan's protests that they've taken too many casualties and it is better to make a Tactical Withdrawal and regroup. This nearly gets him killed when Samael and Hecate lure him into a trap.
Ax-Crazy: Mace shows a lot of bloodlust during his duel with Samael and Hecate, at one point screaming at them to come at him. He even seems to enjoy killing Imperial soldiers. Unsurprisingly, it's all but stated that he's falling headfirst to the Dark Side, embracing it blindly out of his sheer urge to defeat his Inquisitorial opponent.
Big Damn Heroes: Arrives with a Jedi strike force just as the 327^th Star Corps was about to be overrun by the Sisters of Battle in Episode 35.
Broken Pedestal: Becomes one to his fellow Jedi at the end of Episode 42 part 4 after he falls to the dark side and physically lashes out at Obi-Wan for ordering a Tactical Withdrawal, striking him in the face so hard that he's knocked unconscious. When Mace then tries to belay Obi-Wan's orders, most of the Jedi and clone troopers just stare at him in horror and silently refuse to obey him.
Bullet Catch: In parts 2 and 3 of Episode 41, he's shown using the Force to intercept bullets fired from Samael's Hand Cannon with his bare hand.
Combat Sadomasochist: As he falls into the Dark Side during "Mortal Fall", he embraces the pain of his wounds, fueling himself with greater speed and strength.
Eye Scream: Has one of his eyes burned out by Samael's acidic spittle in "Mortal Fall Part 4".
Face–Heel Turn: He falls to the Dark Side in Episode 42 and becomes obsessed with destroying the Imperials on Axum at any cost.
The Fundamentalist: Mace Windu is essentially this for the Jedi. He firmly believes that the Force is a Sentient Cosmic Force that only grants full potential to those who devote itself to its will the way that the Jedi and (though through a more malevolent route) Sith do, without taking it for granted. However, the Imperium make use of it as nothing but a mere tool, with no expressed religious devotion to it whatsoever. And in spite of that, they have utterly decimated every major attempt by the Jedi to bring them down. And Mace hates that.
Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: Downplayed. When Mace and the other Jedi see Hondo's footage depicting the Imperium imprisoning all of Axum's nonhumans in death camps and murdering them en masse, Mace's initial reaction is to wonder if the mass killings are part of some sort of Human Sacrifice ritual. At the time, he had trouble grasping the idea that the Imperials were Absolute Xenophobes, unable to understand why any civilization would want all other alien races dead.
He Who Fights Monsters: As the Second Battle of Axum drags on, Mace Windu becomes increasingly more ruthless, prioritizing defeating the Imperials over saving Axumite civilians and later forbidding Ahsoka from taking any more POWs. This all comes to a head in the appropriately titled four-parter "Mortal Fall" where the deaths of so many Jedi (including Mace's former Padawan Depa Billaba), the loss of the Jedi's supremacy in the battle despite them having brought half of their entire Order, and the personal injuries Mace sustains in his battle with Samael and Hecate (including his eye and left arm), causes Mace to finally snap and fall hard to the Dark Side, becoming a raging Combat Sadomasochist who is obsessed with eradicating every Imperial, derives pleasure from killing enemy soldiers, and goes as far as to violently lash out at Obi-Wan (striking the latter across the face and knocking him unconscious) when he ignores Mace's demands to continue the siege on the Basilica of Salvation and instead orders a Tactical Withdrawal due to mounting Republic casualties.
Ignored Epiphany: When he meets back up with Ahsoka in Episode 37, Mace has a moment of lucidity where he internally feels remorse for having driven Ahsoka away from the Jedi Order by not supporting her during her rigged trial, acknowledging that Ahsoka's departure was a larger loss for the Jedi than most would have been willing to admit and hoping that Ahsoka will eventually make the choice to return to the Order. This sadly doesn't last; as soon as they begin to discuss tactics, the Idealist vs. Pragmatist clash between the two leads to Mace reverting to his usual Jerkass personality and he verbally lashes out at Ahsoka with a That's an Order!, likely pushing her even further away from the Jedi Order than she already was.
Kick the Dog: In Episode 10, while arguing with Ahsoka over whether they should prioritize liberating the Axum death camps or taking the Basilica of Salvation, Ahsoka points out that it is their duty as Jedi to help save the Republic's civilians first. Mace retorts by coldly reminding Ahsoka that she is no longer a Jedi, instead calling her a "concerned and appreciated citizen" who has no real say in how the Jedi operate.
Know When to Fold Them: Following their vicious battle with the Librarian Saphran, Mace realizes that what's left of the Jedi strike force is in no state to take the bridge of the Hellsmasher and he orders a retreat rather than press their attack.
Major Injury Underreaction: During his duel with Samael and Hecate, Mace gets a hand cut off and acid in one of his eyes. While Mace is certainly in pain, falling to the dark side allows him to not only keep fighting but even draw power from the pain.
Master Swordsman: The only member of the Jedi who can rival him as a swordsman is Yoda. Saphran during their duel considers him on a completely different level than any of the other Jedi he had faced. The secret to his success is his complete mastery of the Vaapad dueling form, which draws ever so slightly on the Dark Side to augment the user's strength and speed whilst focusing on aggressive, offense-centric maneuvers.
Pragmatic Hero: Mace is willing to do whatever he thinks is necessary to defend the Republic and Jedi Order, even if it means potentially compromising his own values as a Jedi. Throughout the Second Battle of Axum, he does morally ambiguous things like not planning to free the death camps until after the Imperials are defeated and ordering that no more prisoners be taken from the battlefield.
AFanWithTooMuchTime: Mace Windu is in it for the Republic. Mace Windu is in it for the Jedi as an organization. The Jedi philosophies take second place in Mace Windu's mind when it takes to the practicality of benefiting these two organizations as much as he possibly can.
Sword and Fist: As shown in his fights with Saphran and Samael, Mace's fighting style has him wield his lightsaber in one hand while using his other hand to deliver Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs with his Force-wreathed fist.
Ungrateful Bastard: He knocks Obi-Wan out cold for calling for a retreat, even though the latter just saved him from Samael and Hecate.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Mace just wants to protect the Republic and the Jedi from the Imperials but he is prepared to cross quite a few lines to do so such as ordering that no Imperial prisoners be taken. This is one of the early signs that he's unwittingly succumbing to the Dark Side.

Obi-Wan Kenobi

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A member of the Jedi Council and the master of Anakin Skywalker Obi-Wan is one of the Jedi's greatest warriors but prefers to handle things diplomatically which earned him the title "The Negotiator".

The Ace: One of the most powerful and skilled of the Jedi. He has defeated Darth Maul, Savage Oppress, Grevious, and Ventress at various points. He also holds his own quite well against the Space Marine Librarian Saphran who states that had Obi-Wan been a Space Marine himself he would be incredibly dangerous.
Adaptation Dye-Job: In Canon and Legends, he has auburn hair. Here, he is described as having blonde hair.
Fatal Flaw: Obi-Wan, while wise, can be very blind to certain matters. He still maintains faith in the Jedi Council despite them repeatedly making poor decisions. He is also completely oblivious to Anakin's deep-rooted issues, which in canon allows Palpatine to corrupt him.
Know When to Fold 'Em: During the siege on the Basilica of Salvation in Episode 42, Obi-Wan realizes that it was a mistake to launch an attack on the Basilica without waiting for reinforcements as the Jedi and Clones have overextended themselves and are taking heavy casualties. He orders a Tactical Withdrawal so that he can come up with a new strategy for taking the Basilica while giving his forces time to regroup and recover. Unfortunately for Obi-Wan, a recently fallen Mace Windu has other ideas...
Master Swordsman: One of the greatest duelists the Jedi have ever produced. He manages to hold his own in a duel with Saphran for a while though he was ultimately bested. Considering Saphran had several centuries of experience over him and managed to defeat multiple Jedi knights and Masters at once this is still an exceptional achievement.
Stone Wall: His Soresu lightsaber form puts enormous emphasis on defense. His complete mastery of it is what allows to hold his own against the more powerful and experienced Space Marine Saphran.

Plo Koon

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A Kel Dor Jedi Master and member of the Jedi Council, Plo Koon is one of the more reasonable members of the Council always keeping a cool head in addition to being one of Jedi's best warriors.

Ace Pilot: An extremely capable pilot which he demonstrates during the battle of Axum.
A Day in the Limelight: Serves as the main POV for the second half of Episode 39, which sees him piloting a starfighter during the Space Battle over Axum and attempt to destroy an Ironclad before it can destroy the Republic's vanguard fleet.
A Father to His Men: Cares deeply for the lives of his Clone soldiers and in turn has earned their complete loyalty and devotion. During the Space Battle over Axum, this leads the clone wingmen in Plo Koon's fighter squadron to interfere with his attempted Heroic Sacrifice by disabling his starfighter with an ion cannon and then towing him away to safety.
Not Afraid to Die: In episode 39's space battle, Plo Koon shows no fear or hesitation when he tries to carry out a Suicide Attack using his starfighter in order to take down the Ironclad before it fires its superweapon on the Republic fleet's last remaining Mandator-II-class dreadnought. He is stopped by Wolffe, who points out that Plo is too valuable to die, and Warthog and Jag instead volunteer to take Plo's place.
Out of Focus: Despite being one of the Jedi Council members most heavily involved in planning the Jedi's counter-invasion of Axum and even leading a tenth of the Jedi Order's forces in the battle, Plo Koon is given almost no focus in the story. His only appearance since the Second Battle of Axum began has been in Episode 39, which was specifically intended as A Day in the Limelight for him due to even the author realizing how little screen time Plo had been getting up until that point.

Shaak Ti

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A Togruta Jedi Master and member of the Jedi Council. She is a wise and patient master, and has a reputation for being quiet and calm.

Death in the Limelight: Shaak Ti dies in Episode 15 after being the POV character for half the episode.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: She is killed when Rajulia activates a grenade during their duel on Axum. In canon, she was killed by Darth Vader.
Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: During her fight with Sister Rajulia, Shaak Ti senses that Rajulia is fighting with no concern to her own survival and is willing to die so long as Shaak Ti dies with her. This leaves Shaak Ti extremely troubled, that an entire civilization would want her and other nonhumans dead despite the races of the Star Wars galaxy having never done anything to them.
Sacrificial Lion: She is the first major named Jedi Master to die onscreen, thereby establishing that Anyone Can Die.
Small Role, Big Impact: She dies five episodes after the Battle of Axum starts, yet her assassination of Lazarus's superiors is what leads to Lazarus being promoted to Major and later becoming an Imperial Saint.
Spanner in the Works: Among the high-ranking Imperials that she assassinates during the opening stages of the Jedi's counter-invasion of Axum is Major Flecken, who happened to be The Mole for Tahr Whyler and was essential to the Inquisitor's plan to destroy Axum using a virus bomb. By killing Flecken, Shaak Ti unknowingly upsets Tahr Whyler's plans, forcing him to improvise and find a new triggerman for the bomb.

Depa Billaba

A human female Jedi Master serving on the Council, and a former student of Mace Windu. The ferocity of the war with the Imperium takes a great toll on her moral compass.

Adaptational Nice Girl: Unlike her Legends counterpart, she doesn't become a war criminal who butchers innocent civilians and tries to commit genocide despite similarly falling to the Dark Side. The worst thing this version does is fatally wound Jaro Tapal in the heat of the moment, and she ultimately ends up Dying as Yourself.
Ax-Crazy: After falling to the Dark Side from overusing Vaapad, she acts completely unhinged and bloodthirsty. She continues kicking at Saphran's face even after he's seemingly defeated, goes on an insane rant where she says the Jedi should Pay Evil unto Evil, and even stabs Jaro with her lightsaber in the heat of the moment.
Composite Character: Of her Canon EU and Legends counterparts. She is the Jedi Master of Caleb Dume like her canon self, and falls to the Dark Side like she did in Legends.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: In canon, she is killed by her own clone troopers on Kaller during Order 66. Here, she dies aboard the Hellsmasher in orbit over Axum from injuries inflicted by Saphran.
Dying as Yourself: As she lays dying before Mace Windu in Episode 30, Depa Billaba (who had fallen to the Dark Side two episodes ago) appears to return to her normal self and apologizes to Mace for letting the Dark Side's influence overcome her, her final words being "Don't tell...Caleb."
Face–Heel Turn: She turns to the Dark Side in Episode 28 from overusing the Vaapad technique while battling Saphran and ends up completely discarding all her values as a Jedi in order to try to kill Saphran, up to and including turning on the other Jedi.
Family of Choice: She views the Jedi Order as her true family.
Last Request: Before succumbing to her wounds, Depa Billaba asks Mace to keep her brief fall to the Dark Side a secret from her Padawan Caleb.
Sacrificial Lion: She is a major named Jedi Master from canon whose death is ultimately meant to slowly push Mace further to the Dark Side and show just how costly and difficult the battle against Saphran was.
She Who Fights Monsters: After overusing Vaapad during her battle with Saphran, Depa Billaba falls to the Dark Side and becomes an Ax-Crazy revenge seeker who tortures already defeated opponents and believes that the only way to defeat the genocidal Imperials is to kill them all, painfully and slowly.

Ki-Adi-Mundi

A Cerean Jedi Master and longtime member of the Jedi Council, known for being considerably stricter with a habit of upholding traditions more fiercely than most other masters.

Dies Differently in Adaptation: In canon, he's gunned down by his own Galactic Marines during the middle of a battle on Mygeeto when Order 66 is issued by Palpatine. Here, he is Killed Offscreen by the Crimson Razors during the Imperial invasion of Axum.
Dropped a Bridge on Him: In Episode 8, he is sent by Palpatine to spearhead the Republic's initial defense of Axum from the Imperium. The next episode, which is set after that operation, reveals that he died there.
The Ghost: Is only ever mentioned and never makes a physical appearance in the series.
Human Outside, Alien Inside: Mundi was one of many killed Jedi whose bodies were dissected and studied by the Imperium. He was initially thought to be a mutated human of some kind due to the large presence of Rubber-Forehead Aliens in the Star Wars galaxy. This turned out not to be the case as his internal biology was anything but human, much to the surprise of the Imperials.
Killed Offscreen: He is mentioned to be among the Jedi killed by the Imperium in the disastrous First Battle of Axum.

Jedi Masters

Aayla Secura

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A female Twi'lek Jedi Master and former apprentice of Quinlan Vos. As a Jedi General, she leads the 327^th Star Corps in the Grand Army of the Republic. She is one of the major viewpoint characters for the Axum arc.

Arc Heroine: Is one of the major Jedi POV characters during the Battle of Axum arc and her personal clone legion, the 327^th, does most of the ground fighting against the Imperial occupation force.
Arch-Enemy: Develops a rivalry with Tahr Whyler over the course of the Battle of Axum. He's the first named antagonist Aayla faces during her Axum storyline and her Final Boss. His mind rape of Aayla and torture of Aayla's mentor Quinlan also makes this incredibly personal for her. He's also the one who indirectly breaks Aayla's faith in the Light Side by effortlessly defeating her alongside hundreds of Jedi simultaneously.
Ascended Extra: She's a minor character in the movies and The Clone Wars TV series, but is given her chance to shine during the Battle of Axum arc where she serves as one of the major viewpoint characters for the Republic side and her clone legion, the 327^th Star Corps, does most of the ground battles against the Imperial garrison.
Badass in Distress: Is briefly one in Episode 16 after being bested in a short duel by Tahr Whyler. Unable to move due to being telekinetically restrained, Aayla can only helplessly watch as Tahr gloats about his plan to shatter her mind and reforge her into his own sleeper agent which he'll use to destroy the Jedi Order from within. Just as Tahr is about to tear into her mind, she is saved by her clone forces led by Graves.
Bizarre Alien Biology: Aayla is a Twi'lek, which in this fic means she has natural night vision and a brain which is far better at remembering things than a baseline human's. Her POV narration mentions that thanks to her "alien brain", she could memorize the names of every single clone trooper under her command, which is over 300,000 clones according to the author's supplementary material.
Break the Badass: She lapses into the Despair Event Horizon after witnessing the god-like power on display during the duel between Darth Sidious and Tahr Whyler in Episode 44 Part 2, which leads Aayla to the horrifying realization that the Jedi never really stood a chance of defeating either the Sith or the Imperium, meaning that they'd already lost the war just when it barely began.
A Day in the Limelight: Episode 16 and Episode 41 Part 4 are told almost exclusively from her point-of-view.
Face–Heel Turn: All but confirmed to be her fate with her witnessing the sheer power coming from Palpatine and Whyler during their duel. But it still is not confirmed.
Frontline General: She actively takes to the battlefield and leads her clone troopers on the frontlines during the Second Battle of Axum.
Innate Night Vision: Aayla's eyes can naturally see in the dark due to her species' homeworld Ryloth being a Tidally Locked Planet with one half emerged in perpetual darkness.
Laser-Guided Amnesia: While fighting some Sisters of Battle in Episode 30, Aayla can sense the psychic connection that the Sisters all share with the God-Emperor and glimpses the Emperor's power twice through the Force. Each time, the Emperor's sheer presence was so overwhelming that she nearly went mad from the revelation. To avoid this, Aayla uses a Force technique called flashburn to scrub the Emperor's existence from her short-term memory.
Little "No": Aayla whispers out a little "no" in the Episode 44 Part 2 preview in response to seeing Darth Sidious and Tahr Whyler about to duel one another.
Mind over Matter: She is shown to be a very powerful telekinetic even for a Jedi. In Episode 16, she unleashes a telekinetic wave that wrecks the inside of a surveillance room. She is even able to momentarily pin an Alpha-Plus Psyker to a wall with the Force in Episode 43.
A Mother to Her Men: She has memorized the names of every single clone trooper under her command. In Episode 35, she initially refuses Obi-Wan's request for her to retire from the battle because she doesn't want to leave her clone troopers fighting the Imperials without her support. She is also clearly stricken by the death of Commander Bly, needing a moment to collect herself once the reality of that loss has sunk in.

Quinlan Vos

A Kiffar Jedi Master and the former mentor of Aayla Secura. During the Clone Wars, he fell to the Dark Side while attempting to assassinate Dooku, but eventually returned to the Light Side and was reinstated in the Order. During the Second Battle of Axum, he and Rahm Kota are assigned to collapse the Sapphire Spires atop the Imperial armored columns and later siege the Imperial occupation's headquarters.

Badass in Distress: Between episodes 35 and 41, he becomes a prisoner of Tahr Whyler after being defeated in battle by Tahr's daemonhost. It's only at the end of Episode 41 Part 1 when Aayla finds where Quinlan was being imprisoned through their Force bond that he is freed.
Battle Cry: Cries out "For freedom! For Axum and Anaxes! For the Republic!" in Episode 12 as he and his Jedi strike force leap down from the Sapphire Spires to finish off the remnants of Battlegroup Alpha that survived their ambush.
Break the Badass: By the end of Episode 41 Part 1, his Boisterous Bruiser persona is left shattered from Tahr's extended torture session. While Quinlan does act like a Defiant Captive, he breaks down crying as soon as Tahr leaves the room. If Aayla hadn't shown up then to rescue him, it probably would have gotten a lot worse.
Composite Character: Of his Canon and Legends versions. He has his canon counterpart's jovial, maverick personality mixed with the abilities and skills of his Legends counterpart.
A Day in the Limelight: Episode 12 features POV segments told from the perspective of Quinlan Vos as he and Rahm Kota prepare their ambush for the large armored columns of Imperial reinforcements heading towards the Basilica of Salvation. The second half of Episode 41 Part 1 is also told from Quinlan's perspective after his Cold-Blooded Torture in the captivity of Tahr Whyler.
Defiant Captive: When Quinlan Vos is being tortured by Tahr Whyler in Episode 41 Part 1, he responds to Tahr's sadism by making a literal Dehumanizing Insult that calls into question Tahr's own humanity.
Drama-Preserving Handicap: Throughout the series, it is established that Vaapad is one of the few Force techniques the Jedi have which are able to effectively counter powerful psykers like a Space Marine Librarian. Quinlan himself is a master of this technique and he uses it to No-Sell Tahr Whyler's mind lance during their duel in Episode 29. When Quinlan, Aayla, and the other Jedi prepare to fight a fully-powered Tahr Whyler in Episode 41 Part 1, Quinlan is shocked to realize that he can't access his ability to use Vaapad due to Tahr having figured out a way to block it while torturing Quinlan earlier. This robs Quinlan of the one thing which might have allowed him to stand a chance of defeating an Alpha-Plus Psyker like Tahr.
Eye Scream: He has both eyelids sliced off by Tahr Whyler while in his custody as part of his prolonged Cold-Blooded Torture.
Hero of Another Story: When Quinlan returns in Episode 29, it's revealed that he's had his own share of offscreen fighting during the Second Battle of Axum in which he led an attack on the Imperium's central HQ on Axum and took out the main commander of the Imperial Guard.
Let's Get Dangerous!: When he finds himself getting double-teamed by Inquisitor Tahr Whyler and Commissar Terrandor in Episode 35, he pulls out a blaster pistol from behind his back and starts fighting Sword and Gun with his lightsaber while letting out this quip.
Quinlan: Alright...let's get fracking serious.
Master of Disguise: In Episode 29, Quinlan disguises himself as an Imperial vox officer and goes undercover among Commissar Terrandor's battlegroup in an attempt to assassinate Tahr Whyler. Note that in order to accomplish this, Quinlan would have needed to know how to fluently speak High/Low Gothic without the use of a translator device and be able to convincingly act the part of a vox officer to blend in with Terrandor's Imperial Guard staff. He not only did both successfully but was even able to completely fool Tahr himself, who is a seasoned Lord Inquisitor with Psychic Powers.
Out of Focus: In Season 2. Quinlan pretty much disappears from the story after Episode 12 and only returns in Episode 29 near the end of the season. His whole sacking of the Imperial central headquarters on Axum and defeating Marshal Doven is treated as an Offscreen Moment of Awesome for the second season.
Sword and Gun: Fights using a lightsaber in one hand and a blaster pistol in the other as he duels both Tahr Whyler and Terrandor simultaneously in Episode 35.
Traumatic Haircut: As part of the Cold-Blooded Torture that Quinlan was put through during his brief time as Tahr Whyler's captive, the Kiffar Jedi had his dreadlocks forcibly shaved off by the Inquisitor.

Cin Drallig

A human male Jedi Master who is part of Obi-Wan's strike force assaulting the Hellsmasher in Season 2.

Adaptational Job Change: In Legends, he is the Jedi Battlemaster, meaning the Jedi Order's chief instructor in lightsaber combat. Here, he doesn't hold that position, which instead goes to Mace Windu.
Adaptational Wimp: Downplayed. In Legends, he holds the rank of Battlemaster and is considered one of the Jedi Order's best swordsmen, being a Master of All in every lightsaber form. Here, he isn't the Order's Battlemaster (that title instead goes to Mace Windu in a case of Adaptational Job Change) and is treated as just an exceptionally skilled Jedi Master who is still nowhere near as powerful as the likes of Obi-Wan and Windu.
Master Swordsman: He is notable for being the only other Jedi on Obi-Wan's strike team who was able to hold his own against Saphran (a Space Marine Librarian in full power armor) through his sheer skill as a lightsaber duelist and even managing to take down the Librarian's personal forcefield generator by repeatedly landing lightsaber strikes on him. Even Saphran notes that Drallig is far more skilled than the majority of the Jedi he was currently fighting and gave Drallig his full focus.
Mauve Shirt: His role in Episode 18 during the battle between Obi-Wan's strike force and Saphran. Drallig is one of the few Jedi on that strike force who is named and receives more focus than the others. He gets distinguished as the only other Jedi on the strike force aside from Obi-Wan who was able to hold his own against Saphran one-on-one. While he does get injured, he ultimately survives the fight as Obi-Wan has Serra Keto remove him from the battlefield for his own safety.
The Mentor: To Serra Keto, a Jedi Knight who was also present as part of Obi-Wan's strike force fighting Saphran in Episode 18.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: During the scene where Drallig briefly fights Saphran one-on-one, the narration mentions that Drallig was basing his fighting style from the lessons learned from Darth Maul's saberstaff, implying that this version of Cin Drallig encountered and fought Maul sometime during the Clone Wars and survived the encounter.
Punched Across the Room: How Saphran defeats him. During their one-on-one fight, Drallig enters a Blade Lock with Saphran in a way that would have left Saphran open to a killing blow. However, Saphran uses his other free hand to punch Drallig in the stomach so hard that the old Jedi Master is sent flying breathlessly into the air.

Jocasta Nu

A human female Jedi Master and Chief Librarian of the Archives in the temple on Coruscant.

Break Out the Museum Piece: Goes to the battle on Axum using a lightsaber rifle, a Jedi ranged weapon that has been stored in the Archives for over 4,000 years.
A Day in the Limelight: She serves as the viewpoint character for the segment of Episode 28 that focuses on Mace Windu, Jaro Tapal, and Depa Billaba's fight against Saphran.
Killer Rabbit: You wouldn't expect a little old lady whose day job is managing a temple library to be capable of fighting. Those underestimations would be a fatal mistake against Jocasta. She is the one who ultimately manages to kill Saphran, the Space Marine Librarian who devastates a Jedi strike force singlehandedly.
Mage Marksman: She is a Jedi Master who carries a lightsaber rifle, a gun which uses lightsabers as ammunition and fires kyber crystal energy beams capable of punching through Space Marine armor like it's nothing.
Old Soldier: She is one of the oldest masters in the Jedi Order, but is still more than capable of holding her own, even against some of the Imperium's deadliest forces.
Stupid Good: She delves into this behavior in Episode 28 when, after the Jedi have seemingly defeated Saphran following a long and drawn out battle, she suggests that they should take the Librarian alive as a prisoner to try to form a bridge of peace with the Imperium. Never mind that Saphran took down over a hundred Jedi Masters and Knights by himself and it took the combined effort of three of the Jedi Order's best fighters just to incapacitate him. Even an Ax-Crazy Depa Billaba who is Drunk on the Dark Side calls the idea insane and both Mace Windu and Jaro Tapal agree with her.
This Cannot Be!: Her horrified reaction to seeing Saphran get back up to continue fighting even though the Jedi had stabbed through his lungs and heart.

Jaro Tapal

A male Lasat Jedi Master who specializes in double-bladed sabers.

An Arm and a Leg: When he grabs Depa Billaba's shoulder in Episode 28 to restrain her after she falls to the Dark Side and looks like she's about to lash out at Mace Windu, Depa responds by stabbing him through the chest before then using her lightsaber to slice off the hand Jaro was using to grab her shoulder.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: In canon, he dies during Order 66 when he sacrifices himself to hold off the clone troopers so his Padawan Cal Kestis can escape. Here, he succumbs to a lightsaber wound inflicted onto him by Depa Billaba after she fell under the Dark Side's influence from overusing Vaapad while fighting Saphran.
Dreaming of Things to Come: Moments before his death, Jaro has a vision of the future of the galaxy. It is only vaguely described, but based on Jaro's reaction to it, it is not pretty and both the Republic and the Jedi are in for a rude awakening.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Gets stabbed through the chest by a recently fallen Depa Billaba in Episode 28 when he grabs her shoulder after she looks like she's about to attack Mace Windu in a fit of rage.
Last Request: Jaro's last words to Mace Windu is to beg him to prepare Jaro's Padawan Cal Kestis for the coming war that Jaro foresees in his dying moments.
Sacrificial Lion: He is a significant supporting character for Mace's storyline in Season 2 and his death at Depa's hands shows how dangerous a Jedi who falls to the Dark Side can become to their own allies as much as their enemies.
Turn the Other Cheek: As Jaro Tapal lays dying from a lightsaber wound inflicted by Depa Billaba (who was being influenced by the Dark Side at the time) in Episode 30, he understands that Depa wasn't being herself and seems quick to forgive her, almost immediately asking after her health and regarding her death as a tragic waste.

Rahm Kota

A human male Jedi Master and General known for his refusal to command clone troopers and his unparalleled expertise in urban warfare. He is extremely unusual case for the Jedi, having joined the Order at the age of 18 at the behest of Mace Windu himself.

Adaptational Early Appearance: This version of Rahm Kota makes his debut during the Second Battle of Axum, which is approximately 16 years earlier than his first appearance in the Legends continuity as shown in The Force Unleashed video game.
The Chains of Commanding: Feels the weight of this in Episode 12 just before he gives his Rousing Speech calling the people of Axum to rebel against the Imperials since he knows that many Axumites will almost certainly get killed in the battle and feels the pressure of being partially responsible for those deaths among the rebels that answer his call to arms.
Child Soldier: He grew up on a desolate, war-torn world where he was fighting for his life since he could walk.
A Day in the Limelight: Downplayed. While he isn't a POV character in Episode 12, he does receive some significant focus as his backstory is explained and he gives the Rousing Speech which inspires the Axumites to rebel against their Imperial occupiers.
A Father to His Men: Implied. Quinlan notes that Kota never orders frontal charges in all but the closest situations, implying that he deeply values the lives of the men under his command.
Small Role, Big Impact: He's a side character to the story, but his Rousing Speech in Episode 12 is what inspires the people of Axum to rise up and form La Résistance against the Imperium.
Urban Warfare: He is said to be an absolute master of conventional urban warfare by Quinlan Vos, which is why he plays such a significant role on Quinlan's Jedi strike force during the Second Battle of Axum.
What Happened to the Mouse?: He was last seen fighting alongside Quinlan against Commissar Terrandor and Tahr Whyler before Tahr summoned Jackal. While it's possible he was among the Jedi captured by Jackal, he isn't specifically mentioned to be among the captive Jedi.
Worth It: Prior to delivering his Rousing Speech, Kota acknowledges that many of the Axum rebels who answer his call will likely be killed in battle and the resulting collateral damage will be enormous. However, he says to himself that it will be worth it to deliver Axum back into the hands of the Republic.

Luminara Unduli

A female Mirialan Jedi Master who was among the Jedi that boarded the Hellsmasher at the start of the Second Battle of Axum. She led the Jedi strike force which was ambushed by Saphran and is used as live bait to lure Obi-Wan's strike force into a trap.

Sole Survivor: She is the only Jedi on her strike force who survived Saphran's ambush.
Stone Wall: She is a master of Soresu, a lightsaber form which focuses primarily on defense, though not to the same degree as Obi-Wan. During Obi-Wan's duel with Saphran, the Librarian recognizes Obi-Wan's lightsaber form as being similar to Luminara's and he mentions how her defensive combat style was partially the only reason she survived her fight with him.
The Voiceless: Never says anything during the scenes she appears in... mostly because she's too busy screaming in pain from having all her limbs crushed.
The Worf Effect: Gets this treatment in the Battle of Axum arc. Her only purpose in the story is to get easily defeated offscreen by Saphran in order to establish how dangerous he is, then get used as bait to draw in Obi-Wan's strike force.

Kirak Infil'a (Spoilers)

An exiled Jedi Master who resents the restrictions placed on the Jedi Order by the Ruusan Reformation and longs for a resurrection of the Jedi's warrior past. After the Second Battle of Axum, he emerges from exile and hijacks a Holo-Net broadcast to issue a speech calling the Jedi to arms against the Imperium of Man.

Achilles in His Tent: He wasn't involved in the Clone Wars due to having been in a Self-Imposed Exile at the time. However, after the Second Battle of Axum, he emerges from isolation during a time when the galaxy needs a Jedi like him the most in order to defeat the Imperium.
All There in the Manual: He's so far only appeared in this YouTube community post by the author.
Do Not Adjust Your Set: In the aftermath of the Second Battle of Axum, Kirak hijacks the Holonet so he can illegally broadcast his Rousing Speech calling the Jedi to arms.
Foil: Seems to be set up as one to Ahsoka Tano. Ahsoka is a teenage Jedi Padawan while Kirak is an old Jedi Master. Both are disillusioned with the Jedi Council and the current direction the Jedi Order is heading. However, Ahsoka believes the Jedi should be peacekeepers and sees the increased militarization of the Jedi Order as problematic, while Kirak is of the opinion that the Jedi aren't militarized enough and basically wants to bring back the Jedi Lords. Both have also spent some time isolated from the Jedi Order. But while Ahsoka voluntarily left the Jedi for wrongfully expelling her after she was framed for murder, Kirak is still a member of the Jedi who entered a Self-Imposed Exile as part of a religious oath and a form of atonement.
Jerkass Has a Point: He is extremely harsh towards the Jedi Council in his speech, but he's not wrong when he claims that the Republic needs leaders who will act swiftly and decisively without being bound by tradition or mired in politics. The whole reason that the Republic allowed Axum to be occupied for weeks was because the Galactic Senate spent that time arguing over whether the Supreme Chancellor had the authority to wage war on another galactic civilization even though said civilization had just wiped out several of the Republic's fleets and conquered two major Core Worlds.
Knight Templar: Shows subtle signs of this in his Rousing Speech where he says stuff like how the Jedi need to "cast aside the illusions of the Jedi Path" and let their "passion ignite our actions" in order to defeat their enemies, something that wouldn't sound out of place if it came from the mouth of a Sith. Then there's what he says about wanting the Jedi to "reshape the galaxy according to our own terms", coming dangerously close to advocating that the Jedi should unilaterally take over the galaxy.
Misplaced Retribution: In his speech, he lambasts the Jedi High Council for supposedly being a Head-in-the-Sand Management who spend all their time in their ivory towers while the rest of the galaxy suffers and calls for them all to step down. The Jedi Council actually did take to the frontlines in the Second Battle of Axum and organized the initial counter-invasion behind the Senate's back. The Galactic Senate are actually the ones who wasted time with petty politicking while Axum suffered for weeks under the Imperium's occupation.
Rousing Speech: Following the Second Battle of Axum, he gives a speech over the Holonet where he calls for the Jedi to rally under his banner so they can go on the offensive against the Imperium and reclaim their their true heritage as "Jedi warriors".
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: His speech absolutely oozes with this sentiment as he claims that the Ruusan Reformation and the Jedi High Council's leadership have caused the Jedi Order to become hesitant and complacent, before then declaring that the only way for the Jedi to fix this is to rally under his banner and discard all the traditions and laws which have "stripped us of our strength".
Walking Spoiler: The entire Rousing Speech he gives spoils the fact that the Battle of Axum was a Pyrrhic Victory that cost many Jedi their lives.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: To an even greater degree than Mace Windu. Kirak wants to save the Republic and Jedi from the Imperium, but is willing to cross lines that even Windu wouldn't consider. This includes calling for a mass desertion of Jedi from the Order so he can rally them into a private army and wage war upon the Imperials regardless of what the Republic's laws say. At one point in his speech, he also implies that he thinks the Jedi need to conquer the galaxy in order to make it a safer place.
Ye Goode Olde Days: He seems to hold a highly romanticized view of the pre-Ruusan Jedi Order. In his speech, he claims that the Jedi were always meant to be warriors, bashes the Ruusan Reformation as the supposed cause of the Jedi's complacency, and points to historical Jedi like Lord Hoth as a paragon of what all Jedi should aspire to be. He seems to be overlooking a few facts, namely that the Jedi were traditionally always meant to be peacekeepers not soldiers, the pre-Ruusan Jedi Order only became militarized because they Had to Be Sharp after centuries of Forever War with the New Sith, and that the Ruusan Reformation was the primary reason that the Republic was able to avert total civilization collapse after the end of the New Sith Wars and enter a golden age of peace.

Jedi Knights

Anakin Skywalker

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A former slave from Tatooine. Anakin is the apprentice of Obi-Wan, the master of Ahsoka Tano, and the husband of Senator Padme Amidala. Anakin has risen to be the most famous member of the Jedi Order and one of its greatest champions. He is also widely believed to be the Chosen One a figure in Jedi prophecy who is supposed to bring balance to the Force. Additionally, he is the Jedi General who formally commands the 501^st Legion of the Grand Army of the Republic.

The Ace: Anakin is the rising star of the Jedi Order growing in power at an astonishing rate. His power in the force is so great that even Khayon a powerful Chaos Space Marine who once defeated Magnus the Red is amazed.
The Archmage: Anakin's Force-wielding powers and potential are some of the mightiest in the series. He telekinetically alters Power Nullifier Blackstone Rods into power boosters, then with the aid of just one in episode 28, he floods the Anti-Magic field of a secret Inquisitorial prison with so much psychic energy that the Power Nullifier built into it spontaneously combusts and most of the Un Sorcerers assigned as guards die on the spot when the overwhelming surge of psychic energy detonates their brains.
Badass in Distress: Becomes one between Episodes 19 and 21 when he is defeated by a Sister of Silence, who leaves him hanging upside down while Bound and Gagged inside an anti-psyker cell. Anakin truly had no way out and it's only thanks to R2-D2 that he doesn't wind up becoming one of Tahr's experiments.
Beyond the Impossible: He manages to reverse the polarity of the Blackstone rods restricting Khayon's psychic power, a feat that simply should only be possible by technology. Justified because of a combination of Anakin's tremendous power in the Force combined with his prodigious engineering skills, allowing him to manipulate the technology behind the rods.
The Chosen One: Widely believed to be this by the Jedi. Rather ominously when Khayon hears about this prophecy after getting a taste of Anakin's power he starts muttering the word Everchosen, which was Archaon from Warhammer Fantasy's title and considering what Archaons actions resulted in that does not bode well.
Horrible Judge of Character: Kinda. After hearing Khayon's many titles, he is immediately wary of him but still chooses to assist him, reasoning that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" and while Khayon is most certainly an enemy of the Imperium, he is not the sort of friend the Republic needs. Despite that, it's clear that he treats working with the sorcerer as if he was working with Cad Bane.
Horrifying the Horror: After unintentionally wiping out the Anti-Magic field of a secret Inquisitorial prison in episode 28, he leaves Khayon, a 10,000 year old Chaos Sorcerer of Tzeentch, gaping at him in awe and demanding to know what Anakin is.
Living Lie Detector: Through the Force, Anakin can touch another person's mind and sense whether or not they are telling the truth as demonstrated the first time he met Iskandar Khayon.
Omniglot: By his own admission, he has a talent for picking up new languages. It takes him mere weeks to learn how to fluently speak and read High Gothic to the point where he doesn't need a translator device when interacting with the Imperials aboard the Luminous Reign.
Overranked Soldier: In Season 2, the Senate votes to make Anakin the Supreme Commander of the Republic Military. This gives Anakin total command over the Republic's entire military apparatus even though Anakin previously only commanded a single clone legion (the second largest unit of clones in the GAR below a corps), isn't even a Jedi Master, and is only 22 years old at the time of his promotion.
Out of Focus: Is given this treatment in Season 3, so far appearing in only a single episode out of the entire season.
Rank Up: Gets promoted by Palpatine and the Senate to be the Supreme Commander of the Republic, though he is not yet aware of it.

Renphi

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A Trandoshan Jedi Knight. At the start of the story, he is assigned by Palpatine to act as protection detail for Shina's survey team and is the one in command of the Republic's forces when first contact is made with the Imperium.

Battle Trophy: His lightsaber gets taken as a trophy by the Space Marine who kills him during the Battle of System K749.
Good Wears White: The commissioned artwork for Episode 1 depicts Renphi as wearing white, hooded Jedi robes.
Killed Offscreen: His death is never actually shown. The last Shina ever saw of him was aboard the Honor Hound when he escorted her to the prep room for the escape pods and then left to confront the Space Marines assaulting his ship. Later, Shina is cornered by a Space Marine who is missing an arm and is holding Renphi's lightsaber in his other hand, insinuating that Renphi was killed in combat.
Lizard Folk: He is a Trandoshan, an alien race of sapient, bipedal, humanoid-shaped carnivorous reptiles.
The Mentor: To his Padawan Gaphin, being his Jedi mentor and teacher.
Mentor Occupational Hazard: He gets killed offscreen by a Space Marine in Episode 5 while trying to get Dr. Shina and her team safely to the escape pods of his ship, leaving his Padawan Gaphin without his mentor.
Oh, Crap!: His reaction in Episode 3 upon seeing Kraken's Venator suddenly break formation and charge towards the Atlas of Steel during First Contact. His panic only increases as all his attempts to hail Kraken's ship and order the clone captain to stop are ignored.
Original Character: He's an OC Jedi Knight exclusive to this fic.
Sacrificial Lion: He's introduced in the first episode and is the first Jedi to appear in the story. Palpatine makes him responsible for protecting Shina's survey team and later gives him command of the fleet that makes First Contact with the Imperials. He gets Killed Offscreen by a Space Marine in Episode 5 when his Venator gets boarded during the Battle of System K749 in order to establish how much of a threat that Space Marines are to even trained Jedi.
Sssssnake Talk: Being a reptilian alien, he talks in a slurring, hissing speech.
Supporting Leader: Despite being the official commander of the Republic fleet that makes first contact with the Imperials, Renphi is more of a supporting character as his subordinates Gaphin, Dr. Shina, and Spikes instead serve as the main POV characters in Season 1.
Technicolor Blade: Wields a yellow lightsaber.
Tempting Fate: In regards to the Clone Army, Renphi once said "An entire army and armada of what amounts to be tamed Mandalorians? The Republic will never lose another conflict due to strength of arms, that is certain." Then the Imperium of Man came along...
Token Heroic Orc: Trandoshans are a race of vicious Lizard Folk who are infamous for hunting Wookiees for sport on their homeworld, and the ones seen in canon are usually either criminals or bounty hunters. Renphi is a Trandoshan Jedi Knight and is shown to be no less noble or selfless than any other member of his Order.
Underestimating Badassery: When the Imperial Fleet turns hostile during First Contact with the Republic, he ignores Dr. Shina's pleas to retreat, brazenly assuring her that just because the Imperial ships are larger doesn't mean they're stronger, and expressing confidence that his fleet's numbers advantage will carry them through the battle. Suffice it to say, he is quickly proven wrong as the Republic fleet gets utterly decimated by the Imperials in one of their worst defeats in military history.

Jedi Padawans

Gaphin

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The fourteen-year-old human Padawan of Renphi and a former acquaintance of Ahsoka's. He accompanies his master to Pzob where first contact is made with the Imperium of Man.

Air-Vent Passageway: He mischievously does this in Episode 2, using the Force to move his small body through the ventilation system of the Venator he was traveling aboard. This becomes a Chekhov's Skill later on as Gaphin is able to survive the Skywatch's boarding assault of the Honor Hound by traveling through the vents to the escape pods, where he pulls a Big Damn Heroes moment by saving Dr. Shina from being killed by a Space Marine.
The Apprentice: Is the Padawan learner of his Jedi master Renphi.
Chekhov's Skill: In Episode 2, he is shown being skilled at stealthily and quickly navigating the ventilation system of the Honor Hound without being detected by using the Force. Later in Episode 5, Gaphin is able to use this and his knowledge of the ship's vents to make his way to the escape pod room and comes to Dr. Shina's rescue just as she was about to be killed by a Space Marine.
A Day in the Limelight: The first half of Episode 2 is told from his perspective.
Dumbass Has a Point: Downplayed. Gaphin isn't presented as being unintelligent per se, but he is shown slacking off on his meditation exercises and is far less knowledgeable about hyperspace anomalies than Dr. Shina, who confounds him with her expertise on the subject. That said, when Shina starts freaking out in Episode 2 because she detected and identified a massive extragalactic fleet (the Xek-Tek refugees) heading their way and bemoans how Renphi's task force is too far out to receive any clone or Jedi reinforcements, Gaphin asks why they don't just ask their Republic-allied local systems nearby for back-up instead, to which Shina blushes from embarrassment as she realizes that Gaphin actually offered a good solution.
Heroic Sacrifice: After the Honor Hound is boarded by Space Marines and his master is killed, Gaphin helps Dr. Shina reach the escape pods by staying behind to hold off the Space Marine that was chasing her, buying enough time for her to just barely escape with her life.
Locked Out of the Loop: He heard about Ahsoka leaving the Jedi Order but doesn't know the exact details as to why.
One Degree of Separation: He was a former close acquaintance of Ahsoka Tano and knew her from her days as a Jedi initiate before drifting apart after she was selected by the Jedi Council to become Anakin's Padawan.
Original Character: Like Dr. Shina and Renphi, he's an OC created for this fic and has no canon counterpart.
Sacrificial Lamb: He's introduced in Episode 2 as Renphi's Padawan and is around long enough to be established as a mischievous scamp who enjoys playing pranks on the clone troopers serving under his master. Ends up sacrificing himself in Episode 5 to protect Dr. Shina from a Space Marine.
Uncertain Doom: He's last seen holding off a Space Marine in order to buy time for Shina to escape the Venator they were fighting aboard. His final fate isn't shown.
The Watson: To Dr. Shina in Episode 2. His complete ignorance of her Technobabble requires her to explain it to him (and the audience) step-by-step.

Characters / Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K: Galactic Republic and Jedi Order

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The Galactic Republic

The Republic Senate

Sheev Palpatine (Darth Sidious), Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic, Dark Lord of the Sith

Padmé Amidala, Senator and former Queen of Naboo

Grand Army of the Republic / Clone Troopers

Captain Rex (CT-7567)

Echo (CT-1409)

Jesse (CT-5597)

Boomer (CS-2207)

Commander Wolffe (CC-3636)

Captain Jag (CT-55/11-9009) and Warthog

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Commander Bly (CC-5052)

Lieutenant / Commander 65 (CT-6221)

Captain Gaff

ARC Trooper Kindles

Republic Commandos

Sergeant Hunter, Crosshairs, Wrecker, and Tech

Boss (RC-1138), Fixer (RC-1140), Sev (RC-1207), and Scorch (RC-1262)

In General

Captain Graves

Others

Bucket (CT-7226)

Commander Neyo (CC-8826)

Captain Fordo (ARC-77/Alpha-77)

Alpha-17

Republic Navy

Admirals

Admiral Wilhuff Tarkin

Captain / Admiral Spikes

Captains

Captain Kraken (CT-1238)

Captain Touchy

Captain Torch

Captain Gilad Pellaeon

Captain Terrinald Screed

Others

Omega

Arkanian, Sprout, Ally, and Meek

First Officer Pin

Republic Citizens

Doctor Shina

Doctor Haknian, Doctor Turanni, and Doctor Orthan

Ton'Vult Family

Kuat Drive Yards

The Jedi Order

Jedi High Council

Jedi Masters

Jedi Knights

Jedi Padawans

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