#my repcom musing

Anyone familiar with the Republic Commando game knows how Delta Squad’s voices are unique. The Prime Guide states that “despite being trained by Walon Vau, Three-Eight somehow inherited Jango’s strong Concord Dawn accent and speech patterns”.

In Triple Zero book, when Omega and Delta Squads officially met for the first time during rescue operation, Fi noted that Boss and Atin sound very alike, only except Boss had stronger accent:

The whole squad maneuvered so they could see what he was looking at. 

“About time,” Niner said. Fi listened in. “Delta, Niner here. You been sightseeing?" 

"Boss receiving. Sorry, we had to stop and ask for directions.” He had a voice very like Atin’s but with a stronger accent.

So it is fair to assume Atin sounded like Jango Fett as well as Boss.

While answering the latest asks about Republic Commando in regard to Etain’s pregnancy it hits me that all the mess was avoidable if only Kal Skirata - a man that was fully aware of Darman and Etain (sexual) relationship and how babies are made - actually acted as a father should, give a proper talk to his son (if not to them both) and provided them with condoms for a safe sex. Here, the most simple resolution that no one apparently thought at all. 

Hell, the talk should not be only with Darman but with Ordo and Atin (the RC series / old canon stated Twi’leks and humans weren’t capable of conceiving children, was the sex betwen human and alien Twi’lek actually safe from the medical standpoint then? I know that Twi’lek ladies are the top sexy image in-universe and between a great part of fandom, but c’mon, there are no consequences like some venereal diseases from copulation between two actually different, incompatible species?). And let’s no forget the rest of Omega and Nulls. Especially the Nulls, who work out there somewhere in the galaxy and have freedom they did not have before.

What, from the perspective of time is one of the wildest thought I had about Republic Commando and the implication that no clones nor Jedi* had idea of safe sex and/or contraception is just… disturbing.

(Okay, in case of Besany and Laseema, who were naturally born citizens, there is a high probability that both women took this issue into account, but the realization that once again  all “responsibility” for contraception / safety matters may fall solely on women irritates me to no end.)

*I still need to research more about Etain in that regard, since Order 66 says “She’d deceived Darman from the start, planning to conceive, making him think there was no risk of pregnancy. It was her fault” but I do not remember them even talking about the potential danger of pregnancy in Triple Zero, as in she reassured him of the lack of consequences and I’m pretty sure the idea to have a kid with him came after they start sleeping together, not before so I’m not sure if that was Etain’s guilt speaking due to Kal’s influence or an actual plan of her but I’m kinda already deep into researching other stuff for myself so not feeling like touching that aspect right now.

I’m deep in research mode so I’m currently digging a lot of Clone Wars-era source materials at once and along the way it hits me the funny realization about Mandalorian training sarges. Like, I knew this fact for years, but having this knowledge collated with other data makes it plainly visible how Clone Commandos were special compared to common troopers and ARCs. Not only in how their training was structured differently but also they are like one of few clones who actually get officially their (nick)names way before it became the norm (with a clear Jedi influence there).

I mean, Legends sources, especially around 2002-2005/6, were quite consistent that before Geonosis, clones rather did not have a proper (nick)name. Kaminoans considered names to be a weakness - something that changed after Jedi and clones started working more closely together and ARC-17 took over training the future clone officers (x). This approach against names (individuality) mostly touched the common troopers (mass trained) but also Advanced Recon Commando (personally trained by Jango Fett). And then we have Mandalorian training sarges like Kal Skirata and Walon Vau - men with a very different training methods and approach to their trainees - who apparently decided to fuck that rule on the spot.

As Prima Guide states, Vau literally gave his Delta Squad - and logically assuming all subordinates - nicknames (or a full Mandalorian name, at least in case of Atin) so they have a sense of uniquenessandimportance

which is pretty much the opposite of what Kaminoans originally wanted.

So it is really hilarious in insight, because whatever we could say about Kal Skirata and Walon Vau - and there is plenty to say about both - they came to Kamino, got bunch of little clone cadets who were meant to be obedient and expendable and totally disagreed with Kaminoans take on clone troopers individuality and were like,

No names for clones? We are gonna fixthat.

And this is both sweet and hilarious at the same time.

Sweet because even if names were clone commandos’ private secret, something to share only with the closest brothers and training sergeants (x), they had the names, identity, something personal and just theirs outside of Kaminoan control.

Hilarious because trust Mandalorians to be a bunch of stubborn individuals who most likely were the biggest thorn in Kaminoans side for like eight to ten years (and Jango apparently not helping much in that regard).