Etiqueta: order 66

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]

Did the surviving Jedi ever found out that it was the chips that made the clones betray them? Or they kept thinking that the clones willingly betrayed them?

padawanlost:

I’m not sure. Some of them,
the ones who knew about the chips and survived Order 66 probably made the connection.
The whole chip story is complicated because that arc belongs to season 6 of TCW
and when season 6 was aired SW already belonged to Disney and Disney had put a
halt on the EU stuff. That arc and its consequences was never explored in
George’s SW.

People complain
that we never saw Anakin’s reaction to Fives death or that chips were “forgotten”
but they forget the reason we never got any follow up on that arc is because
Disney pulled the plug and we never got any EU stuff to fill the gaps. The only thing that is kind of set around the Order 66 time is the Ahsoka book (Disney’s canon). She seems to
understand the chip is the reason the clones turned on her but I’m assuming Rex
told her about Fives because she was not there for any of that arc.

“[Ahsoka] thought about all the clone troopers
she had ever served with. They had been so quick to accept her, even when she
first became Anakin’s Padawan. Sure, part of that was their genetic code, but
that only went so far. They respected her. They listened to her. They taught
her everything they knew. And when she made mistakes, when she got some of them
killed, they forgave her, and they stood beside her again when it was time to
return to battle. The Jedi were gone, but what happened to the clones was
almost worse. Their identities, their
free will, removed with a simple voice command and the activation of a chip. If
she hadn’t seen it for herself, she wouldn’t have believed it was possible.” Ahsoka,
E.K Johnston

to keep it simple:

  • Disney’s canon: some of them did.
  • George’s canon: we don’t know for sure who knew what.