The result were efficient, capable soldiers, but not ones who wouldn’t voice disagreement whilst following orders. Though Alphas were less altered like the Nulls, ARC-Alphas were driven to serve more directly by Jango, instilling a sense of duty where Skirata inspired humanity in the Nulls.
They were also some of the last clones to be trained under Jango directly before his death on Geonosis, with several directives of his own installed in their minds, echoing Palpatine’s own scheme with Order 66. Where Nulls were treated as a dirty secret, harnessed primarily as black ops teams, Alphas were instead planned as an ace up the Kaminoans’ sleeve. This led to a second attempt with the ARC-Alphas, a batch of over 100 clones that fans of Genndy Tartakovsky’s Star Wars: Clone Wars and Dark Horse’s Star Wars: Republic will be most familiar with. While the Kaminoans were successful in creating more docile stock among standard clone soldiers, the appeal of the ARCs was too tempting. Skirata saved them from termination and taught them how to become not only soldiers, but their own persons. Though Fett was their progenitor, for the six troopers who would come to be known as ARC-Nulls, Kal Skirata was their true father. They were the first clones to be trained by old Mandalorian allies of Fett, and though deemed a failure, they were saved by one of their teachers, Kal Skirata.Ī Mandalorian with a deep appreciation for his people’s traditions, Skirata viewed the clones as true Mandalorian warriors, teaching them and giving them names. Six clones stepped onto the testing grounds, proving themselves capable but not very obedient, sharing too much in common with Fett.
In the original Clone Wars multimedia project, the first ARCs were a test run to see if Jango Fett’s genetic material could make for effective soldiers. You see, an ARC (Advanced Recon Commando) trooper wasn’t always merely a rank, but instead a special breed of clone - a variant that would never have seen combat were it not for the intervention of two Mandalorian legends. Where for many audience members, Star Wars: The Bad Batch is presumably their first time experiencing “defective,” independent-thinking clones, this isn’t the first time the galaxy has met rough and tumble clones who break the rules. It’s funny how ideas cycle through franchises over time.
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