Clone Force 99

Clone Force 99 (CF 99), alternatively designated as Experimental Unit Clone Force 99, or simply known as Force 99, and nicknamed the Bad Batch or Batch was an elite clone commando special forces squad that operated under the Special Operations Brigade in the Republic during the Clone Wars. The squad had five modified troopers that were also designed with genetic mutations. The squad was led by Clone Sergeant Hunter, a clone with enhanced sensory abilities; Wrecker, a clone with an enhanced muscular form; Tech, a clone with enhanced mental capacity and intelligence; Crosshair, a clone with keen eyesight and marksmanship that allowed him to excel in long-distance firefights; and Clone Corporal Echo, a clone with cybernetic implants and a scomp arm that gives him the ability to extract information with ease via computer systems.

Mutations of the CT-99s caused their inhibitor chips to be less effective, due to extensive experimentation and the cloning process, which meant that Clone Force 99 was able to disobey Order 66, at least at first, while they were fighting in the Battle of Kaller, and Hunter helped Jedi Padawan Caleb Dume escape the other clones by lying about his death. However, unlike the rest of the team, Crosshair was affected by his chip, attempting to kill Dume during the incident. In the aftermath, as the Galactic Republic became the Galactic Empire, the Bad Batch's loyalty was questioned by Admiral Wilhuff Tarkin. He sent them on a mission to eliminate a group of insurgents, but as the squad found out, that was not what was happening. After the squad disobeyed orders to kill civilians and former Republic fighters during a mission to Onderon, all of the squad's members except Crosshair deserted from the Empire, taking with them Omega, a young experimental female clone they met on Kamino. Now fugitives from the Empire, they eventually came to work as mercenaries for the information broker Ciddarin Scaleback in the early Imperial Era.

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