After completing their accelerated growth they trained in Mandalorian military and survival combat to kill and destroy by any means possible.ĭuring training, the Nulls also endured near-death 'training' torture to become resistant to interrogation. Even before two years of age, Ordo and his Null brothers had already undergone flash instructions and live ordnance tests, obtaining immeasurably high scores.

Kal volunteered to train them as 'black ops' commandos, named them, and taught them their Mandalorian heritage-sequestered from the other clones throughout their training. The next batch of clones, 100 of them, were designated the Alpha-ARCs and trained by Fett himself. They were designated Null-class and slated for termination, and they were saved from destruction by Kal Skirata, a Mandalorian training sergeant hired by Jango Fett to train clone commandos. The Kaminoans attempted to enhance the Fett genes: the initial production run produced six 'uncommandable' young clones. ' Highly intelligent, deviant, disturbed-and uncommandable.' ― Orun Wa They were deemed a failure by the Kaminoans and were not put into mass-production, but were saved from termination by Mandalorian mercenary Kal Skirata who later adopted all of them.Īll of the Nulls were named after Mandalorian warriors. Numbering only six, the Null-class Advanced Recon Commandos were the first clones of Jango Fett created by the Kaminoan cloners, and the prototypes for the Grand Army of the Republic. ' ―ARC Trooper Lieutenant N-7, Mereel, in an encrypted transmission to N-11, Ordo But we will not be defeated by time, ner vod.

But there's one thing I don't know yet-and that's how they controlled the aging process. They had to remove what made Jango a selfish loner, because that makes a bad infantry soldier, and you can tell from the Alpha ARCs that the Kaminoans weren't wrong. They used our genes against us, the ones that make us bond with our brothers, make us loyal, make us respect and obey our fathers-that's what they manipulated to make us more likely to obey orders.

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