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The emotional campaign left Rex and the

other surviving clones with upsetting questions
about how the war was being conducted.

Disillusioned with the futility of the
conflict, and keenly aware of his own

expendability, Cut Lawquane chose to
run, forging a new life with a family of
his own. This brief interaction forced
Rex to confront his own thoughts
and feelings, including the unsettling
idea that loyalty was not a given,
and even he could choose a different
path for himself at the expense of his
dedication to the Republic and the
ongoing war effort.
Rex is also a prime example
among the clones that loyalty, while
admirable, cannot be given blindly.
When his squadron was dispatched to
Umbara, their leader Anakin replaced
by the nefarious Jedi General Krell,
Rex and his fellow soldiers had to In The Lost Missions, Rex was designations and tattoos, dye,
contend with the enemy outside and confronted by his longtime friend and warpaint to distinguish their
within, fighting against Umbaran Fives, an ARC trooper who discovered identical faces and armor from one

forces as well as a commander who that every clone was implanted with a another, Rex and other clones in
had no respect for clone safety or bio-chip as part of a mass conspiracy the new episodes will appear with
autonomy. Constantly at odds over that would render their autonomy, flaming orange helmets bearing the

Krell’s plans that amounted to suicide and indeed their ability to think for unmistakable markings of Ahsoka’s
missions, the emotional campaign left themselves, obsolete. skin, in tribute to her. And we’ll fi nally
Rex and the other surviving clones The series gave us far too many get the chance to meet Hunter and
with upsetting questions about courageous and wholly unique clones the the Bad Batch, a group of clones
how the war was being conducted, to mention here, but with the new who take individuality to a whole new
and how best to walk the fi ne episodes, Filoni promises to continue level using deformities and medical
line between insubordination and expanding on the stories of individual mistakes from the cloning process to
standing up for what was right when clones in extraordinary circumstances. their advantage with specialized skills,
their leader was patently wrong. Having long used nicknames over honed for battle.

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