Hello,
Rebelscum fans! Join us this week for a batch of articles on the
Republic Commando game and its subsequent tie-in games. Make sure to check back to our “
Expand Your Mind” base article to understand the game’s story, its history, and how it changed the
Star Wars universe through its clone perspective. Bobby’s merchandising videos will explore some of the best collectible items related to
Republic Commando, and we’ll be thinking about how we’d like to see
Republic Commando adapted in our “Force Casting” segment and we’ll highlight some key characters with our “Character Profile.”
Today, with our “Timeline Breakdown” we’ll be looking at how
Republic Commando fits into the
Star Wars canon. While like most projects made pre-Disney it is now considered non-canon, the entire
Clone Wars era timeline was vastly changed when Dave Filoni’s
The Clone Wars series launched in 2008. As we covered in a previous week, the era of
Clone Wars content released between the releases of
Attack of the Clones and
Revenge of the Sith was quite different.
Delta Squad themselves are now part of canon thanks to a brief appearance in
The Clone Wars season 3 episode “Witches of the Mist,” but Filoni’s projects have focused on new Clone Commando characters such as Captain Gregor. However, fans looking for more adventures from these characters will want to check out the excellent novel series by Karen Traviss.
Traviss wrote several novels that explored the relationship between the clones throughout the war, their involvement in key battles, and how they are impacted by Order 66. In addition to Delta Squad, the books introduced Omega Squad and explored a different interpretation of the Mandalorians than how they’re portrayed in
The Clone Wars and
The Mandalorian.
Republic Commando Novels
- Republic Commando: Hard Contact (2004) - The first novel follows Omega Squad as they team up with Jedi Padawan Etain Tur-Mukan to destroy a Sepratist laboratory.
- Republic Commando: Triple Zero (2006) - Omega Squad and Delta Squad join forces with select ARC Troopers to hunt down Separatists plotting a terrorist attack on Coruscant.
- Republic Commando: True Colors (2007) - Two years into the war, a mission to Mygeeto exposes the clone characters to their heritage on Mandalore, which has been shunned from the galaxy.
- Republic Commando: Order 66 (2009) - You guessed it- this is a pretty emotional book that explores the devastating impact that Palpatine’s orders have on the clones. It’s particularly impactful in the book because of Tur-Mukan’s personal relationship with a member of Omega Squad.
- Imperial Commando: 501st (2009) - The first post-Clone Wars set Republic Commando novels shows the clones adjusting to their new responsibilities under the Empire. Unfortunately, the sequel Imperial Commando 2 was cancelled after Traviss left the Star Wars universe.
What do you think? Did you read the
Republic Commando novels? Are you a fan of their interpretations of the clones and Mandalorians? Let us know in the forums
here, and as always, may the Force be with you!
