Two-Eight,[3] also identified by the number RC-8028,[4] was the name of a clone commando created on[3] the Wild Space planet[5] Kamino[3] at some point during or after 32 BBY.[2] As a male Human clone of the bounty hunter Jango Fett, Two-Eight stood 1.83 meters tall.[1] Two-Eight was trained by Cuy'val Dar sergeant Kal Skirata to serve in the Galactic Republic's Grand Army.[3]
At some point before the outbreak of the Clone Wars[3] in 22 BBY,[2] Two-Eight was decapitated in a training exercise with their squad on Kamino as a result of their own mishandling of explosives during a rapid entry procedure. Although Two-Eight was quickly replaced with another commando, the loss of Two-Eight haunted the squad's sergeant, Niner,[3] sometime after Two-Eight's death.[6]
Behind the scenes
Two-Eight was first mentioned in the 2004 novel Hard Contact, the first novel in the Republic Commando series written by Karen Traviss.[3] In the 2008 reference book The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, the trooper was given the full designation of RC-8028.[4]
Appearances
- Republic Commando: Hard Contact (First mentioned)
- Republic Commando: Triple Zero (Mentioned only)
Sources
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia (First identified as RC-8028)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3
clone troopers in the Databank (original site is defunct) — Based on corresponding biographical and physical details for all clone troopers
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Republic Commando: Hard Contact states that the first units of clone commandos deployed in the Clone Wars were ten years old and born on Kamino. Two-Eight's squad leader, RC-1309, was among these soldiers, meaning that Two-Eight must have been created during or after 32 BBY. Furthermore, The New Essential Chronology places the beginning of the Clone Wars in 22 BBY and the creation of the clone army in 32 BBY, meaning that Two-Eight's death on Kamino occurred sometime between those years.
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 Republic Commando: Hard Contact
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. III, p. 84 ("RC-8028")
- ↑ Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds
- ↑ Republic Commando: Triple Zero