By the time the First Order was on a mission to stamp out the New Republic, the clones
of the Grand Army of the Republic had been all but forgotten.
Their heroism, their honor, their commitment to peace through ending the Clone Wars…all
gone.
Well…all but one.
50 Years after the fall of the Republic and the Jedi order, the memory of the 501st Legion
lived on through one lone clone trooper.
Much had changed about the galaxy, but in his head his brothers were still very much
a part of who he was…and the war was still fresh.
This is the story of CT 6116, the medic of the 501st Legion known as Kix, and how he
survived longer than any other clone trooper.
And stick around to the end for my analysis of whether Kix could have changed the way
Order 66 turned out.
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A discovery has been made.
A crashed separatist ship carrying Count Dooku’s valuable treasure has been located and the
race is on for Sidon Ithano, the Crimson Corsair, to get to it first.
This treasure could put him and his crew on top and mean the end of his financial struggles.
But what he found wasn’t a treasure of monetary wealth, at all.
Instead, it was a lone clone trooper in stasis.
As impossible as it seemed, the clone was still alive.
Sidon Ithano realized the treasure was this clone and awoke him from his stasis.
The clone known as Kix immediately began rambling about a plot to destroy the Jedi and that
he HAD to get back to the Republic and warn General Anakin Skywalker.
Kix had no idea how long he had been removed from the war, and to him it was still going
on.
But Ithano realized this treasure was far more important than he first thought.
But so much time had passed that it was only valuable to those fighting 50 years prior.
The war had been long over.
The Jedi were gone.
The Republic before the Empire was gone.
Before Kix could be informed of the changed galaxy, he slipped into unconsciousness.
The security surrounding Kix must have been high.
One lone B1 battle droid awoke, and his sensors indicated there was an intruder aboard the
ship…more specifically in the vault where Kix was being kept.
With the Battle Droid’s remaining energy, he reactivated a team of Super Battle Droids
to dispatch the thieves.
Sidon Ithano understood the threat and ordered the evacuation of his crew, taking with them
the unconscious hero of the Clone Wars.
While he was unconscious, Sidon Ithano noticed there was only one escape pod and not enough
room for his remaining crew and Kix.
In an act of selflessness, he shoved everyone into the pod and stayed behind to face the
coming threat.
For three weeks, Ithano’s crew was marooned on the planet.
Coming to terms with the loss of their captain, they roamed the desert.
But miraculously Ithano emerged.
The Crimson Corsair was alive, and with him, he brought the memory core of the Separatist
ship, which contained all hidden Separatist locations…which had long since been abandoned.
Kix was in a state of shock.
Saddened that he wasn’t able to save the Jedi and the Republic, he agreed to join the
Crimson Corsair and his pirates in an effort to find the Separatist bases and gather the
treasures found.
Kix had learned of the plot to destroy the Jedi when his friend and comrade Fives had
discovered it…after Tup’s chip malfunctioned.
Darth Sidious had learned that Kix was aware of what was going on and ordered Dooku to
intercept him.
The mission was a success and the Separatist forces captured Kix and put him into cryo
stasis for transport.
Without knowledge that Kix was aboard the ship, the Separatists were attacked, causing
critical damage to the ship and in turn being the reason for the ship’s crash landing.
Believed to have been destroyed, the Republic forces moved on.
And this is where Kix lay in dormant for 50 years.
The story of CT 6116 is only one of the tragedies of the Clone Wars.
But it had a huge impact on the outcome.
Had Kix survived and been rescued, the Clone Wars could have ended much differently.
Order 66 could have been a failure and the Jedi would have likely turned-on Chancellor
Palpatine much sooner.
But it’s unclear if they would have been victorious.
A big part of the Republic turning on the Jedi was the assassination attempt on Palpatine’s
life by Jedi Master Mace Windu.
It gained sympathy in the Senate for the victimized chancellor.
And ultimately, the Jedi were not in control of the Clones.
Even though the Jedi often listened in on Senate hearings, they were not part of the
Galactic Senate and had no real say in politics.
So, telling the Jedi of what Kix learned may not have been useful.
But Padme Amidala was one senator who would listen to the Jedi.
If there was an alarm raised about a possible plot to destroy the Jedi, Padme would hear
it and bring it before the Republic.
But that, too may have been a wasted effort, as Palpatine was mostly in control of the
Senate and would have spearheaded the investigation, himself…covering it up and disposing of
the “defective” clone.
Kix was but one clone against an army of millions and a senate controlled by the very man behind
the plot…a Sith Lord.
I know we all like to think Kix would have been successful, and had he got the chance
to present the evidence, the future of the Jedi and the Republic would have changed.
But would it have?
Kix was not the only one to discover the secret.
Before him was Fives.
Following the chip malfunction in Tup, Fives discovered the truth about the purpose of
the clones.
He tried to present his findings and was killed for it…by clones.
Kix tried to continue what Fives had started but was intercepted.
Had he succeeded in getting the information to Anakin Skywalker, his fate would have been
the same as Fives.
The only way Kix would have been successful is if he had evidence that it was Palpatine
himself who orchestrated the entire war and the plot to kill the Jedi.
But as it was, clones and Jedi alike trusted Palpatine…especially Anakin Skywalker.
But as it stood, no one knew that Palpatine was Darth Sidious, and chances are, they would
have told him of the betrayal.
Thus ending the same as Fives.
Like I said before, the story of Kix is just one of the tragedies of the Clone Wars.
Another being that Captain Rex knew of what Fives discovered, as evident of him telling
Ahsoka to find Fives when he himself was in the midst of Order 66.
Yet he didn’t do anything about it.
But I’ll get into that in another video.
But let me know what you think.
Could Kix have stopped Order 66?
Or would have his fate been the same as Fives and Tup?
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