If they’d known how much I could shape their thoughts, too, they’d have fled from me. Now I know different they probably saw someone they didn’t trust, with powers they didn’t understand, someone they didn’t elect but who shaped their lives behind the scenes anyway. He’s so serious, so committed.Yes, that was me, just months ago.Ī passerby glances his way and I sense her unease. When I walked around the city in my robes, I thought that others saw me as someone there to help them. Nobody should stand back and let that happen, least of all a Jedi. Clone troopers aren’t anyone’s citizens. They have no legal rights. And for them, of course, they’re not. It’s someone else’s war in every sense–fought on other worlds, fought by other beings, fought by men who aren’t Coruscant citizens. It’s very strange–obscene, even–to see everyone going about their business on Coruscant as if we’re not in the second year of an ugly war. He can sense me. I’m lost in the crowd of shoppers and sightseers. Mandalorians on Coruscant are just foreigners, bounty hunters, one more bunch of economic migrants out of the many thousands of species who flock to the galaxy’s capital.Īh, the Jedi’s looking around the crowd. I want to grab him by the shoulders and ask if he thinks this is a just war, a war fought honorably, but he’ll panic if a Mandalorian in full armor accosts him–especially one he’ll sense is a Force-user like himself. The war makes us veterans before our time. At the very least, he’ll be on active service on his own. We should all see ourselves from a stranger’s perspective at least once in our lives. There’s a Jedi walking toward me, all brown robes and earnest piety no braid, so despite his youth he’s not a Padawan any longer. With their faith in the Republic and their loyalty to their Jedi allies put to the ultimate test, how will the men of Omega and Delta squads react to the most infamous command in galactic history? Translation: The Jedi have tried to stage a coup, and all must be shot on sight. And now even the deadliest weapon may not be powerful enough to defeat the real menace: the apocalyptic horror to be unleashed when Palpatine utters the chilling words The time has come. But no matter who wins, the stakes are highest for elite Special Ops clones like the Republic Commandos in Omega and Delta squads–and the notorious renegade Advance Recon Commando troopers known as Null ARCs.

and the dreaded dawn of a new empire.Įven as the Clone Wars are about to reach an explosive climax, no one knows whether victory will favor the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) or the Separatists. Commandos, Jedi, and the entire Galactic Republic must face the end of life as they know it. The Clone Wars rage to their bloody climax.

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