Boost

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"Boost" was the nickname of a clone trooper who fought in the Clone Wars. Around 22 BBY, Boost was stationed on the Venator-class Star Destroyer, Triumphant. Along with two other Venator-class Star Destroyers, they chased General Grievous' warship, the Malevolence, to the Abregado system.

The Malevolence destroyed all three ships, but Boost, along with Jedi Plo Koon, Sergeant Sinker and Wolffe, managed to escape via an escape pod. They were attacked in their escape pod by Rocket battle droids on a Droch-class boarding ships, however, the group was able to defeat them. Eventually, Jedi General Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan Ahsoka Tano, rescued Koon and the clone troopers. Afterward, the Malevolence began to attack Skywalker's freighter, the Twilight, however, the group escaped and jumped into hyperspace.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Malevolence 1.2 Khorm 2 Personality and traits 3 Behind the scenes 4 Appearances 5 Sources 6 Notes and references

[edit] Biography

[edit] Malevolence

"Boost" was the nickname of a clone trooper who was a part of the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars, a galaxy-wide conflict between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems.^[2] Boost, like all clone troopers, was one of the many clones of the Mandalorian bounty hunter Jango Fett.^[1] In the beginning of the war, Boost fought in the first battle of the war on the planet Geonosis. During the battle, Boost received scars after he fought battle droids.^[3]

Around 22 BBY,^[4] the Jedi High Council dispatched General Plo Koon to search for the Separatist "mystery weapon," which had destroyed several Republic fleets. Onboard the Venator-class Star Destroyer, Triumphant, Koon was accompanied by Boost and a group of clone troopers—few of which were: Commander CC-3636, nicknamed "Wolffe", and Sergeant Sinker. Upon discovering the Malevolence in the Abregado system, the warship fired its ion cannons on Koon's Venator-class Star Destroyer, which rendered the ship without energy. The many turbolasers of the Subjugator-class cruiser began to fire, quickly destroying the three ships. Koon told Boost, Wolffe and Sinker to evacuate the Triumphant in an escape pod, before it was destroyed by the Malevolence.^[2]

In the pod, Wolffe told them that they had suffered a total system blackout, and only the life support was working. Boost hoped that someone would search for them, but Sinker was not so positive thinking. After that Koon advised to conserve energy and while doing this, Sinker commented negatively about Boost's hygiene. Sinker also said that it would not be strategical to search for them, and that he would have instead searched for the superweapon, but Koon answered that their lives were more important for him. Shortly after Boost discovered another escape pod, but those inside were all dead and the pod was crushed. Shortly after, they pick up another signal from pod. However before reaching it, it was destroyed by a Droch-class boarding ship and its group of rocket battle droids, who then quickly turned their attention to Koon's pod. While Wolffe remained in the pod in order to keep their signal going, Koon, Sinker and Boost go out to fight the droids. During the fight, Wolffe contacted Padawan Ahsoka Tano, and Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, on a rescue mission for survivors of the battle. Meanwhile, Plo Koon used the Force to throw Sinker behind the droids and he was able to destroy them. Shortly after, Plo Koon contacted Tano using the Force, showing her their location. Eventually, they were found by the Twilight, Skywalker's personal freighter and the Twilight then recovered the escape pod, and once onboard, the clones were treated by a medical droid. Shortly afterward, the Malevolence discovered the Twilight. Despite their attempts to shut down all the ships energy, they had forgotten the medical droid. Still, the Twilight managed to escape the system before it was able to be incapacitated by the ion cannons of Malevolence.^[2]

[edit] Khorm

Boost, Sinker and Wolffe were members of a Republic force dispatched to the Separatist-occupied planet Khorm in order to secure the Agrocite, an ore used to increase power to starfighters. Under the command of Jedi Generals Koon and Kit Fisto, and Major Kendal Ozzel, the Republic managed to capture an Agrocite processing facility, only to lose it soon thereafter in a Separatist counterattack. Later, while Plo Koon and Kit Fisto went ahead to scout out the main Confederate base located in an Agrocite mine, Major Ozzel led his troops to recapture the processing facility. The facility, however, had been abandoned, and Ozzel—certain that the Republic had crushed the enemy—ordered to initiate an assault on the Agrocite mine.^[5]

In contrast to Ozzel, Boost and Sinker thought that the Confederacy had moved its troops for a reason and was preparing to make a final stand at the mine. The two expressed their opinion to Wolffe, but he replied that they had their orders and told Boost to load the Republic walkers into landing ships. Just as Boost and Sinker thought, the Republic forces faced heavy opposition from the Separatists, but eventually managed to win the battle.^[5]

[edit] Personality and traits

Boost was a positive thinking clone trooper. When stuck in an escape pod, he never gave up hope that someone would come and rescue the group. ^[2]

[edit] Behind the scenes

Boost first appeared in the second episode of the The Clone Wars (TV series), Rising Malevolence. There he was voiced like all clone troopers through the series by Dee Bradley Baker.^[6] In the decoded episode of Cloak of Darkness it is stated that many troopers who fought at the Battle of Tibrin have adopted double stripe hairstyle to honor their fallen comrades, so it is possible the Boost served in that battle.

[edit] Appearances

• Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Rising Malevolence" (First appearance)
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Jedi Adventures
• Star Wars The Clone Wars 9: In Service of the Republic, Part 3

[edit] Sources

• Star Wars PocketModel TCG: Clone Wars
• The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
•  The Clone Wars Decoded Episode: Rising Malevolence on StarWars.com (backup link on Archive.org)
•  Plo Koon in the Databank

[edit] Notes and references