#grand army of the republic

[therealcalrissian]

echo, i’ve got to say you were gone for so long i was starting to think i made up your whole character in my head from the get-go

#domino squad? DELUSION #the citadel? DELUSION #skako minor? DELUSION #echo? DELUSION #star wars #the bad batch #sw tbb #tbb #star wars the bad batch #tbb season 3 #tbb spoilers #the bad batch star wars #echo tbb #tbb echo #tcw #the clone wars #grand army of the republic

[star-wars-forever]

Soldiers of the Republic

by Nico Bechennec

#star wars #star wars art #clone troopers #the clone wars #grand army of the republic #star wars tcw #captain rex

[toastyrobos]

In honor of May the fourth we have “brothers”

(99, Heavy, Cody, Gregor, Fives and Rex)

Thank you all for your service to the grand army of the republic♥️

#may the fourth be with you #star wars the clone wars #clone wars #clone 99 #heavy clone wars #commander cody #Gregor clone wars #arc trooper fives #captain rex #star wars #grand army of the republic #501st #megabeeart #rex #Cody #99 #heavy

[mon-mothmas-collar]

every single clone trooper was inherently good

i’ll repeat, every single clone trooper was inherently good

Never was there an episode where a clone performed a morally indefensible action without being controlled.

Dogma was good

Fox was good

Crosshair is good

Jesse was good

these were genetically modified beings designed to be killers warriors and soldiers and still they were good.

Even when asked to do an order they KNEW to be wrong they still tried hard to be good to do the right thing and they often died for it

they showed kindness and softness and loyalty while they suffered through 3 years of hell in active war

They were not good soldiers

They were just good.

#i’m emo about the clones again sorry #clone troopers #the clone war #clone wars #tcw #star wars #the bad batch #tbb #grand army of the republic

[dangerlynx]

All types of clone troopers ❤️‍🔥

#star wars #clone wars #clones #grand army of the republic #clone troopers #the bad batch #clone armor #bad batch

[evesartblog]

Forgotten

#star wars #star wars fanart #tcw #artwork #clone wars #clone wars fanart #clone wars drawings #the clone wars #the empire #post-republic #clones #grand army of the republic #GAR #the graffiti on the wall says END THE WAR #congrats if you bothered to look in the tags you get secret info✨✨

[derpymidnight]

Crosshair saying "I would've left him for dead too, after all he's just another reg" then patting Echo on the shoulder for shooting a droid. Father and family dog behavior

#crosshair tbb #ct 9904 #echo tbb #ct 1409 #the bad batch #clone force 99 #tcw #tcw final season #sw #star wars the clone wars #star wars the bad batch #derpymidnight #grand army of the republic

[pockafwye]

PSA from the Grand Army of the Republic

Pace yourself, Shiny

Slow down. Hydrate. Moderate.

#psa #moderation #hydrate #don't be the enemy of tomorrow you #propaganda #grand army of the republic #tcw #the clone wars #my pics #toy photography #clone trooper #aurebesh

[lettucebunch]

Sometimes I forget Fox isn’t actually his fanon self and we know little about him. Like wdym he isn’t an overworked, caf-addicted, sleep deprived commander with greying hairs??

#clone wars #star wars #commander fox #the clone wars #grand army of the republic #clone wars series #coruscant guard

[star-wars-forever]

Commander Cody

by Dan Watson

#star wars #star wars art #clone troopers #commander cody #the clone wars #tcw #grand army of the republic

[alphamecha-mkii]

AT-TE Clone Tank In battle by Hexanity

#Star Wars #The Clone Wars #Old Republic #Grand Army of the Republic #AT-TE #Sci-Fi #Mecha #Hexanity

[momojedi]

“This ship is going down, and these soldiers - my brothers - are willing to die and take you and me along with them.”

This sentence always gives me chills. The thought that all troopers were so brainwashed by Order 66 and caught in their trance, they were willing to sacrifice their lives as long as it meant killing the one "Jedi" and traitor on board with them.

#star wars #clone wars #star wars the clone wars #the clone wars #star wars clone wars #captain rex #ahsoka tano #clone trooper #grand army of the republic

[ranahan]

I just read the Republic Commando: Hard Contact and Republic Commando: Triple Zero novels by Karen Traviss. Republic Commando is Legends now, but here are a few points that struck me about arguments I’ve seen go back and forth here on tumblr. Spoilers for the books!

Several mentions of entire batches of brothers “disappearing” for minor variances & clones being more afraid of the kaminoans than their training sergeants. Kal Skirata drunkenly breaking into tears over the poor boys. Very clear that in Traviss’s books, clones were being decommissioned.

Several mentions of clones dying in live fire exercises on Kamino before being deployed & the training sergeants standing by and doing nothing.

There’s a blurb of a retired commando, chronological age 23, biological age 60. Again, in Traviss’s books, the artificial ageing doesn’t stop when the clones reach adulthood. The main characters are also described as visibly ageing between the two books.

Pretty chilling description of the kind of brainwashing that you believe because you don’t have any reason not to when your entire life so far has lined up with it. I would completely believe these boys could execute Order 66 without the chips & all I could do would be to empathise with them.

Troopers telling their concerned jedi to not worry their pretty little head about what happens to dead troopers. Later a reinforcing mention of no bodybags needed in the GAR.

Vau nearly killing a trooper in training & making the troopers beat each other into a pulp in training.

So again, Republic Commando are Legends now but if anyone wonders where the fandom got the idea that these things happen, here’s your answer. They aren’t fandom inventions.

Other notes and personal opinions:

I mostly enjoyed Hard Contact. There were some bits near the end that fell a little flat, but overall an enjoyable military action/military science fiction novel.

Triple Zero on the other hand, not so much. The pregnancy storyline was just icky. Both in how Etain herself makes it her entire raison d’être, how she makes it the reason for why Darman now has a future, and the lack of consent on Darman’s part. She intentionally gets pregnant without ever discussing anything with him (they’ve been together for two whole weeks at this point), whether he wants kids at all, wants them with her, wants them in the middle of a war, or sees having children in the same light as she does. She’s had the most superficial of introductions to Mandalorian culture and has no idea whether or to what degree the clones or Darman as an individual share those notions—given that they probably have an understandably complicated relationship with Mandalorian culture and especially the notions of children, parents, and legacy. For all we know at this point in the series she could have completely misconstrued the whole thing. But there she goes, and decides that this is how she will fix everything and give Darman a future: a genetic legacy to outlive him.

The force-accelerated pregnancy reads like a bad fan fiction and the whole “go undercover to hide the pregnancy” reads like a Victorian novel.

Etain feels like an odd choice for a point of view character in a military science fiction story. She’s aggressively the-girl-next-door, pointedly unremarkable and ordinary. I guess the point is that readers could have a regular person’s point of view, with which to contrast the commando mindset, and to whom things can be naturally explained without infodumping. But it goes overboard and makes her seem incompetent and immature, so you start wondering what the hell is she even doing in the story or on a battlefield or what does anyone see in her.

There are sexist attitudes straight from the planet Earth. It’s in men and females, how Etain and other female characters are seen through their sex first and other characteristics second, and how they are always “other” in comparison to men. But it’s not just the women, it’s young men—the clones—too where I get this vibe. It’s very bioessentialist. There seems to be this underlying thread of pairing up and reproducing being the most valuable thing a person can do with their life. Which again, seems like an odd choice for a thematic storyline in a military science fiction novel. Like, this is not what it said on the tin.

Some of the tactical/counterterrorism side in Triple Zero feels inauthentic to me as well. There’s too much being bad boys for shock value and too little professional soldiering for my tastes anyway. But I don’t kick in doors professionally so what do I know.

No sense of numbers for galactic economy. Exhibit A: Qiilura.

Lastly, fandom: can we get more Corr? This is an EOD trooper who gets both of his hands blown off early in the war, gets stuck in a logistics centre duty while waiting for better prosthetics, still determined to get back into action to fight alongside his brothers, gets accidentally adopted by some commandos, and makes a career change from disabling fiddly explosives to kicking in doors. A round of appreciation for Corr!

#republic commando spoilers #the clones #clone troopers #star wars clone troopers #republic commando #the grand army of the republic #grand army of the republic #karen traviss #repcomm #repcomm spoilers #spoilers #republic commando novels #republic commando: hard contact #republic commando: triple zero #star wars meta #sexism in media

[evesartblog]

The good doing evil, or the good in the evil..?

#star wars #star wars fanart #tcw #artwork #clone wars #clone wars fanart #clone wars drawings #the clone wars #clones #GAR #grand army of the republic #the republic #the empire