Before the construction of the Rishi Moon Outpost in the Early Days of the Clone Wars, a squad of highly trained and elite Clone Troopers led by Kit Fisto were sent to the planet of Rishi, after the separatists had invaded it for its resources. While there, Kit Fisto is forced into a situation where he needed the best sharpshooter in his sequad to do something...pretty crazy.
I’m going to break down how Kit Fisto discovered one of the most accurate and precise Clone Sharpshooters to ever serve the Republic!
We begin on a pretty dry and rocky part of the planet Rishi, deep in the outer rim the the fierce separatists have arrived, desperate to strip the world of all of it’s resources in order to power their new sonic weapons. On the planet, they want to extract it’s rich supply of Exonium, which was a very potent fuel that could power separatist weaponry for a large chunk of the war.
In order to stop the sepraraist plan and to protect the bird-like natives of Rishi, the Jedi Council immediately dispatched an elite company of Clone Troopers to the area, in order to secure the mining facilities and ensure that the serparatis could not get their hands on this fuel.
Unfortunately however, because the was was spreading the Jedi so thinly throughout the galaxy, on different missions, campaigns and battles, there was no Jedi general available to guide these Clone Troopers in battle just yet. The Clone Troopers however were more than capable of leading themselves into battle, with their own command structure, but were simply not prepared for the pure strength of the separatist defence.
Because of this, The Clone Commander in charge of the operation orders his men to pull back and retreat from the exonium mines, much to the horror of the native Rishii leader, Chieftain Gwarrk.
Gwarrk is of course furious that the Clone Troopers have pulled back, and allowed his mines to be occupied by the separatists, before demanding to know who gave the order to retreat.
Moments after this however, Jedi General Kit Fisto lands on the mountaintop, greeting his Clone Troopers and confirming to the native Rishii chief that he gave the Order. He tells Gwarrk that the Jedi council sent troopers to protect his people, but that there was to be no full scale effort until Fisto arrived to oversee the operation. Gwarrk is not too happy with this response, asking Fisto “Created this army for warfare, did you not? I put your warriors to their purpose. They failed because their power is not great enough.
The Green Trimmed Clone Commander then rushes in to defend himself, telling the Rishii Chief that the Geonosians were just dug in too deep to make any progress, but the bird-chief isn’t having it, telling the Clone Commander that “Energy from the stones within the mountain are needed for my kind to prepare food in the first time. We must attack again! We need strength to give us victory!.
And as usual, let me know in the comments below what you think this Green Trimmed Clone Commander should be called, since he is never given a name in the story. I’m sure you guys will come up with something awesome for him like always!