During the early months of the Clone Wars, Captain Rex and his Torrent
Company were sent to the agricultural world of Biitu on a mission to inspect
the local farming facilities on the planet. After landing on the dustry world however,
Captain Rex and Clone Sergeant Coric, who was heavily involved at the battle of Teth,
come across something incredibly mysterious. One of the local farmers on the planet tells
the two Clones a tale about a separatist battle droid who has come back to life like a zombie,
and has been reanimating his fellow battle droid brothers. Rex and Coric don’t believe
the Farmer’s story, until they come face to face with the zombie droid themselves.
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The story begins with Captain Rex, Coric and the Torrent company touching down on the farming world
of Biitu, in their LAAT gunship, after being sent to inspect the local operations on the planet.
The foreman and lead farmer on the planet had been capturing and collecting stranded
B-1 battle droids and other separatist equipment for their own use, which angers Coric, who tells
captain Rex that he hates war profiteers almost as much as he hates the clankers.
Rex quickly and firmly responds to Coric, telling him to keep that attitude on the LAAT,
because the local Bituians aren’t running a tatooine-style black-market. They’re being
commissioned by the Republic senate. Coric brushes his Captain’s advice off saying, “Whatever you say
captain”... “All I know is that the business of this planet caused the death of plenty of Clones”,
including many from the brave Torrent company. Rex looks away from Coric as he says this,
because deep inside of him, Rex wonders if this may actually be the truth.
Moments after this the Clones of the Torrent Company touch down on the dusty surface of the
planet, where they are joyfully greeted by Pitor, who is the foreman and leader of the
plantworks on the planet. Coric is shocked at just how excitable the small Bituian is,
but Rex quickly urges him to keep his mind on the mission.
Just moments after he does this however, Pitor rushes up to Captain Rex, hugging
him around the waist with a tremendous amount of force for a being of his size.
Rex is stunned by this, but remains composed and introduces himself and Coric to Pitor.
Rex then quickly tells Pitor that Republic command had sent him and his men to the
planet to investigate a disturbance, but that they weren’t given too many details.
The small Bituian then begins going on a long tangent about how he has created
a scrap recycling plant on the planet and the fact that it is the largest in the outer rim,
collecting thousands of destroyed and horribly damaged B-1 Battle droids. While the small foreman
is talking, Coric remarks that with the amount of B-1 Battle droids on the scrap pile, you’d think
the Republic were winning the war. And let me know down below whether you think it is right for Pitor
to go behind the backs of his people to collect and salvage these broken down battle droids,
which does provide them resources and funding to stay afloat, but also puts them in severe danger.
There are definitely arguments both ways, so let me know down below what you think!
Pitor continues on explaining the process of how he recycles the metal from the many
fallen battle droids, happily telling Rex that he removes the useful components,
before melting down the shiny outer plating of the droids. Rex hurries Pitor along with his story,
this time being annoyed and asking him why exactly he needs the clone forces to help him out at all.
This drives Pitor into a massive panic, scaring him to the bones. Pitor worriedly tells Rex that
he needs the Clones on his homeworld because of “the Reanimator”. Rex and Coric are absolutely
lost, asking, “The What?”. In response to this, Pitor continues his nervous walk and explains to
Rex that the Reanimator was a Zombie-like droid who forged himself from the bodies of his fallen
battle droid brothers. On top of this, this undead battle droid was raising his fellow clankahs from
the dead, bringing them back to life in order to fight the local population on the planet.
Coric however, doesn’t believe the story that the local scrapper is telling,
asking Rex to pack up shop and move their men off the planet to somewhere more important.
Rex does agree with Coric, but he takes a moment to pause and evaluate his options.
During this short pause, a massive blast of Red and yellow light rushes through the area,
taking the two Clones by surprise and harshly knocking them to their feet.
Pitor begins to clench his hands nervously as Coric and Rex urgently take cover.
As the two clones look over the nearby crates that they are taking cover with,
they spot the reanimator who is standing tall and bringing his shiny,
metal droid brothers back to life around him. Coric quickly tells Rex that he would like to
strike his last comment from the record about not believing the Scrapper’s story,
and Rex is happy to grant that wish… If they manage to survive the horrible ordeal.
As the Clones continue to take cover from the quickly growing horde of battle droids,
Pitor begins to run off into the dusty hills behind them, absolutely scared to death. The
Reanimator then begins to shout absolutely crazy lines through his artificial voice box,
claiming that he is the vengeance forged from Rebirth. He is the chosen vessel of the droid,
and that all shall fall before the might of the reanimated Army. Yep,
this zombie droid has gone absolutely insane. Most likely as a result of mixing and matching
his circruity and components with the other types of Battle droids from the massive metallic scrap
pile. His body is a mixture of parts from IG-100 magna guards, and B-1 Battle droids
Coric quickly realizes that his blaster bolts are having absolutely no effect on the zombie
reanimator from their current rage, so he quickly agrees to retreat. While cautiously moving back
from the wildly flailing reanimator, Coric tells his brothers that he absolutely hates retreating,
but they quickly respond, asking him “But you still like breathing, right?”.
The three are quickly surrounded by reanimated B-1 battle droids,
who aren’t fully rebuilt properly, but they manage to rush up a small set of stairs,
frantically bashing on the small door, desperate to be let inside.
Pitor rapidly opens the door, and brings the Clone Brothers inside, where they are able to
lie down the injured Clone of the group and allow Coric to give him the necessary treatment, since
he is the medic of Torrent company. While this is happening, the Reanimator rapidly rushes to
the outside of the building where the Clones are worriedly hiding, and explains to his reanimated,
undead army “Surround the Republic Scum! We shall convert their hiding place into a crematorium”.
Moments later, Rex apologizes to Pitor for doubting his story,
but tells the small Biituian that the reanimator is only a reconstructed IG-100 magnaguard,
with a faulty neural processor and a bad attitude. To the fright of Pitor,
Rex tells him that he has all the tools he needs to take down the malfunctioning droid.
The Clones and Prior then burst out of the building with rapid force, to the shock of
the reanimator droid. The droid furiously exclaims “hunt them down, the cowering Lizard-monkeys”. In
response to this, Coric begins casually singing, while eating an apple, leaving up against a nearby
metal building. The droid is completely enraged at this, sending his army of reanimated battle
droids towards him. Coric warns the droids not to come any close, while continuing to
calmly eat his apple, jokingly asking them “did no one warn you that Clones have Jedi power too?”
Coric then again swiftly reaches his arm out, and all of the droids are knocked off
of their metallic legs, onto the cold hard ground. The zombie Magna guard droid is
completely shocked and stunned at this action by Coric. In a panic,
he orders his droids to get back up off dustry ground and attack the casual clone.
The horde of B-1 battle droids rapidly pile onto Coric, to the satisfaction
of The Reanimator, causing him to laugh crazily, believing that he had outsmarted the Clone.
Again, to the absolute shock and surprise of the Reanimator,
Coric has survived the monumental pile on by the droids, and stands up, with his back straight.
The droids are then quickly repelled from Coric, allowing him to bull out his blaster,
and viciously take the Reanimator’s metal head off with a swift blast of energy.
Following the death of the Reanimator and his undead army of droids,
Rex and Pitor reveal that they were simply using a magnetic grapple to lift the droids
up into the air and to keep Coric out of harm's way. Rex and Coric are genuinely
impressed with Pitors accuracy with the grapples, ,telling him that he would make
a fantastic Republic Sharpshooter in the Grand Army of the Republic!
Pitor is ecstatic with the Clones, so glad that they were able to free his people from the threat
of the Droid Zombie army being brought back to life to dominate and hold them down with fear.
And to end the story, Rex asks his sergeant and Medic, Coric,
if this very interesting mission was enough to change his view on War Profiteers.
Coric quickly responds to his Captain, telling him that he wouldn’t go that far…
But he does know one thing. The only reliable battle droid is a very carefully recycled one.
Pitor then waves the Clones away as they zoom off in their LAAT gunship, ready to fight another day!
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