Echo

Echo, formerly designated CT-1409 and known as the Hero of Anaxes, was a genetically defective human male clone trooper, veteran Clone Corporal, and former Advanced Recon Commando of the elite 501st Legion. He would also serve as a CT-99 clone commando of the elite Clone Force 99 in the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars. Originally identified as CT-21-0408, Echo was born on Kamino, a cadet of the Domino Squad, along with his friends Fives, Hevy, Cutup, and Droidbait, before he graduated from the clone training center. On his first assignment after graduating, Echo was tasked with guarding the Rishi Station moon base, where he, along with Clone Captain Rex, Clone Commander Cody, Fives, and Hevy, who sacrificed himself during the fight, aided in warning the Republic of an impending Separatist attack on Kamino. Echo was commended for his bravery and absorbed into the 501st Legion.

After the attack on the Rishi Moon, Echo defended his homeworld from Separatist forces as they attacked Tipoca City, where they sought to destroy the Republic's cloning facilities. Once Republic forces successfully repelled the attack, Echo and Fives were both promoted to the elite rank of ARC trooper. Echo was later tasked with a mission to Lola Sayu, where he joined a group of Jedi and experienced clone troopers to retrieve coordinates to the Nexus Route from the Jedi Master Even Piell, who had been imprisoned on Lola Sayu's Citadel led by Commandant Osi Sobeck. After Piell and his surviving subordinates were rescued, the group headed for the landing field to escape on a shuttle. However, when Echo noticed a commando droid target their shuttle with a laser turret, he advanced to secure their ship, ultimately being blown up with the ship in a massive explosion that led his comrades to believe he was killed. Despite the loss of Echo and Piell's death later during the mission, it was ultimately a success.

Unbeknownst to the Republic, Echo actually survived but was gravely injured as he was taken prisoner by Separatist forces, where he was sold to the foreman, Wat Tambor. Echo was kept alive by being turned into a cyborg, albeit at the cost of his consciousness. As a result of the Techno Union's experiments, Echo became a genetically defective clone. He became an unwitting pawn for the Separatists during their campaign on Anaxes, led by Admiral Trench. When Rex found traces of Echo's survival, he, accompanied by the elite Clone Force 99's Special Operations Brigade and Jedi General Anakin Skywalker, led a mission to rescue Echo on Skako Minor. They succeeded, and, in turn, Echo used his cybernetic capabilities to turn the tide against the Separatists on Anaxes, leading to the Republic's victory. After the mission, Corporal Echo decided to join Clone Force 99.

When Order 66 was activated, CT-99 clone commando Echo was unaffected due to his cybernetic enhancements and witnessed to his dismay the execution of the Jedi Depa Billaba by her own clone troopers on Kaller. Following this event, Echo saw the Republic becoming the Galactic Empire, which he was quickly disgusted with and ultimately deserted it after refusing to execute innocent civilians refusing to submit to the Empire. Joined by the female clone Omega, Echo and the Bad Batch became mercenaries for the Trandoshan Ciddarin Scaleback on Ord Mantell. Having to come back to Kamino to rescue their comrade Hunter, the clones eventually witnessed the Imperial destruction of Tipoca City and were thought to have died during the attack.

After a mission on Coruscant which led the Imperial Senate to find out what had happened to Tipoca City, Echo left the Bad Batch and decided to join Rex and his network to help discarded and in danger clones, notably through hijacking Imperial ships to free prisoners. He later rejoined Clone Force 99 for a mission on Eriadu with the goal of locating their brother Crosshair, who had been captured by the Imperial Advanced Science Division, a clandestine research organization experimenting on clones. The mission failed, leading to every member of Clone Force 99 becoming injured and Omega being captured after they returned to Ord Mantell. Omega was brought to Mount Tantiss.

A few months later, Echo heard from Clone Force 99 that Omega and Crosshair had escaped Mount Tantiss. He joined them as them as they flew to an imperial depot. There, Echo confirmed there were even more prisoners on Tantiss than they had previously thought. The intel Echo gathered made them one step closer to discovering Tantiss' location. Later, Echo infiltrated an Imperial research transport and disabled the proximity checkers in time for the rest of Clone Force 99 to attach their shuttle to the hull.

As the science vessel made its descent on Tantiss Base, Echo disguised himself as a TK stormtrooper and took the hand of an RA-7 protocol droid. Once the science vessel landed in the hangar, he snuck inside and made his way to the central lab. Doctor Emerie Karr noticed Echo had a droid hand and determined it was Echo in disguise. The two planned their rescue of Omega and the other Force-sensitive children that were being held captive in the vault. Karr informed Echo he would have to trust her. After discovering that Omega and the other children had broken out, Karr led Echo up to a hangar. There, Echo instructed Karr to bring the children to the coordinates he gave her. He told her that he and Omega would meet them there after they rescued the rest of the clones. Echo and Omega went back inside Tantiss to free the rest of Clone Force 99 and all the other prisoners. Once they were all freed and Hemlock was killed, the survivors all loaded up a Rho-class shuttle and rendezvoused with Karr and the children on Pabu. On the island, Echo told Karr he planned on resettling some of the clones on Pantora with the help of Senator Riyo Chuchi and he invited her to join him. She agreed, and the two departed Pabu on the Remora.

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