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going in today's video i'm excited to talk about another clone unit by talking
about the 327th star core who fought in the clone wars i love
making these videos because it reminds me of how much they brought to the clone
wars storyline and how much it hurts that they executed
order 66. so who were the 327th well we saw the 327th for the first time in
revenge of the sith as they were led by jedi general ayla
sakura the female blue twilek who we see in the battle of genosis in episode 2
and then in episode 3 as a jedi master she led the 327th with clone commander
cc5052 aka commander bly bly led the advanced
recon commando team and sakura trusted him completely which
of course would be her undoing when order 66 rolls
around at the start of the clone wars the 327th
was like every other clone unit and wore the standard phase 1 clone trooper
armor once the phase 2 armor rolled out the 327th customized their armor with
their distinctive yellow markings that identified their
affiliation with the 327th in addition to the
colorized pattern design they wore pauldrons and
commas with their armor pauldrons are the shoulder pieces that identify rank
which we first saw in episode four and the commas are the skirt-like armor
additions that sometimes were blast resistant
and also protected against the cold and other elements the 327th fought against
the separate destroyed armies on multiple planets across the galaxy and
began their fighting under master sakura's direction after
the first battle of genosis aboard three venator-class star destroyers including
sakura's flagship when they engaged multiple separatist munificent class
star frigates culminating in the battle of quell
during the battle the 327th took casualties like you wouldn't believe
and was so overwhelmed that it called anakin skywalker and his forces for
reinforcements by the time skywalker's flagship
the resolute arrived secure ship was all that remained of the three ships
and it was being boarded by b-2 super battle droids equipped with jet packs
the droids were super hard to fight because of their mobility
but sakura ordered commander bly to repel them as skywalker ahsoka tano and
captain rex boarded to help now after some intense
fighting sakura blai ahsoka rex and a handful of clone troopers
managed to escape the damaged cruiser when anakin force pushes them into the
escape ship while also keeping back an explosion
with the force it's definitely one of anakin's coolest moments
even though he's pretty injured during the blast so a ton of the 327th were
lost in that battle but their danger didn't stop there in the battle their
ship's navicomputer was damaged and its coordinates were changed to send the
ship flying straight for a star in the meridian
system after fighting to not crash into the star
they divert their ship into the planet meriden itself
they crash land and the clones and the jedi barely survive
they set up camp on the dangerous planet which is full of tall grass
that hides the dangerous wildlife around them skywalker is still too
injured from the explosion above to fight right away
so rex stays with him while the others including cameron flash and lucky from
the 327th search for aid from the planet's inhabitants
lucky's name doesn't turn out to be true though when they unluckily run into
mastiff fallons huge avian quadrupeds like the varactyl
that obi-wan rides in episode 3 which kill the three 327th clones
one of these mastiffs also attacks rex and anakin but rex shoots off one of its
feet to send it running scared why well because that's what rex does
later commander bly rex and the others discover a separatist
outpost where separatist general lock durd announces his new weapon
the defoliator deployment tank which is basically
firing large capsules that spreads fire all over the place when they hit their
target the flames turn everything organic to ash but droids are
immune to it bly and rex go in for a closer look when
durd suddenly tests the weapon causing the clones to have to run for their
lives rex is able to fire his ascension cable
and get up into a nearby tree away from the fire but bly with all his
training and exterity trips and can't make the same leap the
shell comes firing towards him when master sakura swings down on a mine
and lifts bly to safety right as the fire almost engulfs him bly is
overwhelmed and eternally grateful for sakura saving him
which makes his betrayal against her during order 66 even more painful
bly and the jedi then learned that dooku wants the weapon tested
on the lerman population so sakura and tano enter the separatist outpost while
blind wrecks help anakin destroy the battle droids guarding it rex and bly
then steal their shield generators and they escape from the village in the
separatist shuttle the 327th would fight in many other battles but as the clone
wars came to a close the 327th's most famous moment
approached they were deployed on the planet felucia
as part of the outer rim sieges they marched through the dangerous jungles
full of aclays to take on a separatist army in the distance but it was at that
moment that bly and his comrades received order 66
from chancellor palpatine and shot master sakira dead
despite everything they had gone through they shot her in the back without
hesitation such a sad end when you consider how
close the clones and jedi became during the war the jedi trusted them completely
so much that they never saw the portrayal coming palpatine was quite the
genius when he figured out the only way to kill the jedi
was from the inside to make their murderers their most
trusted friends it was really cool seeing felucia in the clone wars season
7 as we got that scene in revenge of the
sith as well what's your favorite moment from the 327th
let me know in the comments below thanks for watching this video and i'll see you
in the next one until then remember the force will be
with you always
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