During the Clone Wars, one savage, brute clone trooper killed his Mandalorian trainer on
Kamino, leading him to be locked up in a cage for the rest of the Clone Wars.
This insane clone trooper carved his name deep into his skin, and bulked up to a size
three times larger than any Clone trooper ever had…
But were the Kaminoans telling the truth about this brutal beast, or was there a soft, good
man hidden behind the tales of his violent actions?
I’m going to breakdown the story of the CT-5539, Kadak, the most insane and savage
Clone Trooper to ever exist.
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So, the story begins with a celebration for the victory of the Empire, and the destruction
of the treasonous Jedi Order.
The people were happy, and cheering because the Clone Wars had finally come to end, after
so much pain and suffering.
One face in the crowd however is a familiar one.
A clone trooper is enjoying the celebrations, and listening intensely to the announcement
that there will be “a future without conflict or fear!
Where peace and security are offered to every citizen of the empire”...
This clone trooper however still hopes there are more fights to be had, and more combat
to take part in.
The main reason that the empire was showering this town in glory and partying in the streets,
was not only because the Clone Wars had been ended, but also because the citizens captured
and turned over a Jedi traitor, savagely locking him up in a cage, on display for all to see.
This clone trooper did not know him, but he felt like he did… because in his eyes, all
Jedi are the same.
He looks directly into the eyes of the clean Jedi Master, and thinks to himself “It’s
amazing how quickly things can change in two years…”, before he is violently snapped
into a flashback from not too long ago.
The Trooper has been downed in the desert, left for dead by his Jedi general and even
his brothers.
After eight days of lying in the scorching desert heart, this Clone Trooper no longer
wondered *if* he was going to die, but rather when.
While waiting for his vision to fade to black and to never wake up again, he was attacked
by countless vicious creatures, but managed to channel his anger for the Jedi to defend
himself and crush the foul beasts with a rock.
The creatures left a massive, bleeding scar over his right eye, but he continued fighting
on.
After brutally crushing the skulls of the attacking creatures in, he then entered his
a horrible fever dream, and wrote a word into the walls.
Hock.
This word would then become his name, despite having absolutely no idea what it meant.
After choosing a name for himself, Hock decided that his future wasn’t going to be set in
stone like his brother.
His destiny wasn’t going to coded into his cells on Kamino like the rest.
Hock was in control of his own destiny, and there were still many more chapters in his
life story.
Following this, Hock has another vision.
A vision of the only other Clone Trooper to ever give *himself* a name.
Hock and his friends at the Kamino training centre jokingly referred to this other clone
trooper as “The Mandalorian anomaly”, but nobody joked about his savage abilities.
This trooper excelled at absolutely everything his instructors threw at him.
He was trained for commando operations by one of the best mandalorian instructors ever
to serve at the kamino training centre,
But the rumour had it however, that he and his instructor were not on the best terms,
and eventually their anger towards each other reached a boiling point, where this savage
Clone killed the instructor with nothing but his bare hands.
Following this, the barbaric clone trooper was locked away and was deemed a mutant Clone
Trooper, a horrible mistake in the Kaminoan cloning process.
The Kaminoan scientists had performed countless tests on him to see how the cloning process
could go so horribly wrong, and produce such a freakish beast of a human.
Some time after the incident, Hock was placed on the duty that no other Clone Trooper wanted
to do.
He was told to bring meals to the savage beast, and all the crazy Clone said to hock, every
time was…
Thank you, slave.
This freak clone named himself Kaddak.
An urban legend spread among the other Clone Troopers of the time, which said he took the
first name of the Mandalorian Destroyer God Kad Ha’Rangir, and used it forwards and
backwards.
Kaddak talked of destroying the entire galaxy and building it up again.
He even bulked himself up to a humongous size for a clone trooper, and inscribed his name,
Kaddak all over his body so that nobody would forget that he is a destroyer god.
Kaddak didn’t like sharing a face with the rest of the Clone Troopers… so he took matters
into his own hands, modifying his face with scratches, scars, bruises and cuts.
Rumours spread across Kamino that Kaddak was terminated the moment the scientists had completed
the testing process on him…
But there were also whispers that the mandalorian anomaly had escaped.
While recounting this story, Hock says to himself.
“Escape or die in captivity”...
“I figured those were my two options as well”...
Which meant, that the only decision left in his mind was to decide which way to start
walking… to desert the Clone army forever.
Eventually, hock even took a last name, something that not many other of his brothers had ever
done.
Hock took the name Malsuum.
He chose this name because although he was created and raised on Kamino…
He was truly born as his own man, in the scorching deserts of the Malsuum expanse.
The horrid conditions of the Malsuum expanse provided for Hock, like the Kaminoans never
did.
It disciplined him more than the Kaminoan training ever had, and most importantly to
him, it served as the mother and father that he never had.
The scorching expanse taught Hock lessons about himself that he would carry into every
system.
He even marked his helmet with a scar, matching the one on his face.
Following this, he was deployed under Darth Vader himself, who took notice of the Clone
Trooper’s unusual traditions and methods.
Hock had neve seen anything like Vader.
Lord Vader was more than a warrior, his mere presence was enough to demoralize the enemy.
The Jedi, who hock now hated so much, could never command this level of respect.
In his eyes, the Jedi only cared about their order, and nothing else.
Eventually, Hock moved from planet to planet, following the command of the Dark Lord of
the Sith, enslaving local citizens, and imprisoning them just for existing.
Hock’s hard work eventually led to Lord Vader promoting him to the rank of Commander,
and gaining Vader’s trust….
Following this, Vader led a squadron of his finest pilots into battle over the hot, rebellious
world of Ostor, where they surprisingly came up against huge resistance.
Hock was in absolute amazement at Lord Vader’s piloting skills, even saying “Lord Vader
was, by far, the best pilot I had ever seen.
Or Ever will see for that matter.
But before he could let his amazement run wild, the V-19 fighters that were giving them
so much trouble in the air, seemingly vanished.
The reason for this bizarre event hit both Vader and Hock at the same time.
In a very rare mistake, Vader had left his star cruiser without air defence, leaving
it wide open to attack.
Vader Rushed back to his cruiser in an attempt to save it, but Hock had his own problems.
One fighter tailed him with extreme accuracy.
It was the second-best fighter pilot he’d ever seen.
Moments later, Hock was brutally shot out of the sky by the man he had delivered food
to all those years prior, Kadakk.
Kaddak angrily exclaimed “Time to die slave”, before tearing Hock’s fighter to shreds
mid air, causing him to impact the surface and turn his vision black.
A long while after the crash, Hock was jolted back into reality, but this time he found
himself in a hospital in an unknown location.
Eventually, Hock stumbles into a command room, where he comes across the three main rebel
leaders on the planet, who very quickly inform him that Kaddak is actually helping the rebellion,
and has inspired the citizens to fight back against the evil Empire.
Hock refuses to believe this.
He refuses to believe that Kaddak isn’t the horrid beast that the Kaminoans told everyone
he was.
He refuses to believe that Kaddak could actually be a good man.
Still in denial, Hock begins a spree of destruction around the command centre, attempting to remove
the last hope of the Ostor citizens.
Once he exited the building however, he saw something that chilled him to the core.
The name Kaddak was being shouted in the streets, by the people of Ostor, who believed he was
a hero to their world.
Eventually, Vader moved his ground forces to the main city of Ostor, and Kaddak’s
rebel forces did the same, bringing the two brothers face to face, once more.
When Hock laid his eyes on Kaddak for the first time in years, he realized that he wasn’t
the savage beast that he remembered.
He was a normal looking Clone, who simply was fighting for hope in the galaxy.
Hock refused to believe that he was lying to himself for all these years, and lashed
out at Kaddak, punching the innocent man directly in the face, spilling blood.
Kaddak held his men back, and Vader held his stromtroopers back, allowing the two Clone
Troopers to enter a horrific fist fight, with jabs, hooks and strikes flying brutally in
every direction.
Eventually, Kaddak managed to pull a blaster on Hock and was moments away from ending his
life, but before he could pull the trigger, Hock used the skills he honed in the desert,
wrapping up a rock, and crushing Kaddak’s skull, killing him instantly.
As a result of this, Kaddak’s rebels crumbled, and Vader’s forces were able to storm into
the main city, slaughtering every living being they saw.
At this point, Hock hated himself, and no longer looked up to Vader.
Hock wondered if there was even a single ounce of humanity left inside of Vader’s dark,
mechanical suit, because the things he saw Vader do that day left him haunted and traumatized
forever.
Vader killed younglings, blasted innocent people through the face and much, much worse.
This finally snapped Hock.
And to end the story, Hock leaves the Empire and Vader, to live a life as a farmer, where
he was married to a loving wife.
He enjoyed the peaceful life, but was living in constant fear of Vader’s shadow hunting
him down at all times.
So that is the story of the most brutal and vicious clone troopers to ever exist…
Or at least, that’s the lie the Kaminoans told the galaxy.
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