First off, should note that protocol Order 66 is not a particularly insidious or devious plot on its own. If people were to openly talk about it, it is akin to talking about rules and regulations. There was technically a protocol Order 65 which involved taking out the Chancellor if he was proved “unfit for duty”. It’s all book talk – and unless there was a very specific context that implied other things, I’m not sure if just talking about Order 66 would clue 99 or anyone that something was amiss.
So, I think the more major bit of information that 99 would need to overhear would be about the chips being inserted into the clones.
Considering that they seem to treat 99 like a droid (being that he only really exists to them when they need him to do something), I can definitely see him overhearing something of that nature. When people get complacent, they forget who to watch out for – and it may be that they did not consider 99 to be a threat.
However, that couldn’t be further from the truth. We’ve seen him overhear conversations and then use that info to try and help fellow clones already. And we also know that he has the respect of all the clones he interacts with – they would believe him if he were to tell them about a conspiracy involving a chip that would control them. It would be the beginning of the end. And I definitely believe that Fives would help him find out more information about it.
Ok real talk. How the fuck does her fucking stripper overalls thing stay where it is. Did she. Fucking glue it to her tiddies. Look at it. It is literally defying gravity to cling to the undersides of her boobs. She is a farmwife who performs manual labor all day why couldn’t the writers give her a real fucking shirt.
My personal “fuck you, Filoni” headcanon is that Suu only throws that mess on when there are strangers visiting, to take advantage of how Twi’leks are hypersexualized by pretty much everyone in the galaxy. If she got her stripper-alls on and her titties out, the potential-threats won’t notice that she can shoot a deathstick out of their mouth at 15 meters or suplex them into the ground until it’s already happened.
At all other times she wears farming- and weather-appropriate clothes.
So happy I got to draw her and some other amazing characters in the book, this project was an absolute joy to be a part of. Thank you @chroniclebooks and @starwars!
the 501st is a battallion, not a company, and has been for some time now.
anakin has no idea how rank works, to the point where it’s a running joke in the “company”, but also sometimes actively detrimental or causing his troopers to be undervalued or given jobs below their positions. appo was actually a pretty high-ranking lieutenant on umbara, but was still a sergeant in name.
which is also why rex, despite being in command of as many troops as a commander and doing all the active duties of one, is still referred to as a captain.
some time after umbara, appo becomes essentially a captain, in command of one of the companies ( though likely not torrent ), but he’s now called a lieutenant in name for the same reason.
a bit before rex and ahsoka are both gone, someone finally notices the disrepancies here ( possibly appo, again, finally straightening out years worth of shoddy or unfiled paperwork ), and fixes the rank system, so rex is, for a short time, called a commander, and appo is a captain.
which is how he became a commander, by the time of revenge of the sith – he didn’t rankjump from sergeant to commander, it was a fairly natural promotion chain. also, lieutenant is a rank we’ve seen given to cc class clones before, with thire, so it starts to actually make sense why appo, also a cc-clone, is in that position on umbara.
Appo just about becomes an alcoholic trying to fix all the paperwork and unfuck the 501st’s personnel database. When Anakin was inputting his officer’s names to match their numbers, he apparently couldn’t understand the difference between the “rank” field and the “name” field. So he put Rex’s name in as “Captain Rex”. and his rank in as “Captain”. Appo doesn’t have the admin authority to edit the names, just the ranks. So he sighs and switches Rex’s official rank to Commander.
During the few days that it takes for the promotion to make its way through the bureaucratic machine, everyone has a grand old time addressing Rex as “Captain Captain Rex”. then it finally comes through and Rex gets to introduce himself as “Commander Captain Rex”.
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