Etiqueta: Cut

In season 2 episode 10, The Deserter, we are introduced to Cut Lawquane. A Clone Trooper who deserted the army of the republic to live a quite life as a farmer with his wife and two kids. We know that Rex, Wolffe, and Gregor are the only clones to remove their inhibitor chips prior to Order 66 and avoid the Clone purge. Does this mean Cut abandoned his family to go kill Jedi? Or was he safe since no Jedi were around? And did the empire come hunting him down when they killed all the other clones?

padawanlost:

This is one
of the things that were never explored in length by the EU because the EU got
cancelled before the show was even finished.

Before
Disney bought Star Wars LF was working on The Essential Guide to Warfare book, on that book we would learn that Cut’s
daughter wrote a book called My Stepfather’s Face: A Soldier’s Secret about her
father and her childhood. But when Disney’s bought Star Wars that tidbit was
removed from the book before being published so now it’s technically Legends.

Now and again clones – mostly ARCs and commandos — retained
sufficient independence to make up their own minds about the conduct of the
war, and either refused orders or fled the war altogether. Some clones refused
to accept Order 66 — the 22nd Air Combat Wing’s Ion Team, for example, helped
Roan Shryne and two other Jedi escape Republic forces on Murkhana. Kal
Skirata’s Null Squad deserted en masse, as did other clone troopers he had
trained. And some clone troopers survived encounters in
which they were listed as MIA or KIA, taking the advantage to slip away to a
quieter life. The story of one such clone, Cut Lawquane, emerged in the time of
New Republic with the publication of Shaeeah Lawquane’s memoir of a Felucian
childhood, entitled My Stepfather’s Face: A Soldier’s Secret. [Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare Author’s Cut]

This is
implies Cut was fine during Order 66 and that he was not overcome by a desire
to killed Jedi (btw, that was not how the chip worked). Order 66 was an order
the clones were forced to obey but that doesn’t mean they got thirst for Jedi
blood. They were ordered to kill and so they did. Cut, no longer part of the
army, would not have received such order. This is confirmed by Disney’s canon:

“Both of
you, picking sides. Side you should pick is your family. No matter what. Above
all else. But here you sit, bickering like a bunch of starkles over which one
gets the first and last worm. You know
the Lawquanes? Old man Cut, he fought in the Clone Wars. He saw the truth of things: No side in war
is the right side. He did the right thing. Settled down. Had a family. Never
got drawn back into the muck. But you two. Not good enough for—” [Chuck
Wendig. Aftermath: Star Wars]