CC-3636

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CC-3636, nicknamed "Wolffe," was a veteran clone trooper commander in the Grand Army of the Republic who was assigned to Jedi General Plo Koon during the Clone Wars. The leader of a squad named the "Wolfpack," Commander Wolffe served with Koon on board the Jedi Master's flagship, the Triumphant, when Koon led a task force to eliminate the Separatist warship Malevolence. During the battle in the Abregado system, however, all but Wolffe, Koon, and troopers Sinker and Boost were eliminated. The four were eventually rescued by Jedi General Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan, Ahsoka Tano.

Wolffe also participated in the Battle of Khorm alongside Generals Koon, Kit Fisto, and Tauht, as well as the ambitious Major Kendal Ozzel, whom Wolffe was frequently at odds with. After establishing a base at the agrocite processing facility, Wolffe and Ozzel were left in command of the main Republic forces while the Jedi left to destroy the Confederacy's weather-control station. Though Wolffe himself sustained injuries from Dark Acolyte Asajj Ventress, the Republic was able to defeat the Separatists, liberating the Confederacy's Khormai slaves and securing the planet's repositories of rare agrocite ore for the Grand Army. Wolffe was later scarred from an injury and forced to wear a cybernetic eye.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Battle of Abregado 1.2 Battle of Khorm 2 Personality and traits 3 Equipment 4 Behind the scenes 5 Appearances 6 Sources 7 Notes and references 8 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Battle of Abregado

Clone Commander 3636,^[5] nicknamed "Wolffe," was born on Kamino to serve in the Grand Army of the Republic.^[2] During the Clone Wars, Wolffe was assigned to Jedi General Plo Koon and commanded a squad named the "Wolfpack."^[4] Around 22 BBY,^[6] Commander Wolffe served as the first officer on board General Koon's flagship, the Star Destroyer Triumphant,^[7] when the Jedi Master was sent to find and destroy a Separatist superweapon that had been ambushing and ravaging Republic fleets. In actuality, the weapon was the ion cannon–equipped Subjugator-class heavy cruiser Malevolence, commanded by the Confederate General Grievous. Tracking the superweapon to the Abregado system, Koon's task force of three Venator-class Star Destroyers arrived and approached the massive Separatist warship, which Wolffe reported to be holding its position. At Koon's recommendation to report their position before commencing attack on the superweapon, Wolffe offered that Jedi General Anakin Skywalker's fleet was stationed in the nearby Bith system, and Koon and Wolffe made contact with Skywalker and his Padawan, Jedi Commander Ahsoka Tano.^[8]

As Koon requested reinforcements for the impending assault on the Separatist ship, the Malevolence's battle droid crew jammed the Republic's transmissions, and Wolffe informed his general that they had lost the connection. The Malevolence converged upon the fleet, and before the three Star Destroyers could get within firing range, the Confederate weapon fired one of its ion cannons at the task force. With their deflector shields disabled from the blast, the unprotected Triumphant and the rest of the fleet fell under turbolaser fire from the Malevolence. Koon immediately ordered his crew to flee in escape pods, and Wolffe accompanied Koon, Clone Sergeant Sinker, and trooper Boost in one of the craft. The four jettisoned shortly before the Tranquility was ripped apart by the intense laser fire.^[8]

Drifting amidst the debris field that had been erected from the wreckage of the cruisers, Wolffe reported that their pod's power grid had burned out, limiting both communications and life support. While Sinker and Boost worked to restore the power, Wolffe questioned Koon if he believed that they had a chance, to which Koon replied that although he did not believe in chance, he knew that they would survive and be rescued if they worked together. Spotting another escape pod nearby, Wolffe mused that if only their own pod had power, they would have been able to contact the other survivors. However, when Koon used the Force to telekinetically rotate the pod, the Jedi and troopers were met with a grim surprise—the pod's viewport had been split wide open, its dead passengers floating in the vacuum of space.^[8]

After Sinker and Boost were finally able to reactivate their pod's power, Wolffe picked up a signal from another life pod, Pod 1977. Wolffe soon spotted the pod, which was under attack from a Separatist Droch-class craft and several rocket battle droids. Unable to help the other pod, Koon and the clone troopers were forced to watch as the B1 battle droids split open the pod, submitting the craft's clone survivors to the airless vacuum of space. By this time, Koon, Wolffe, Sinker, and Boost were the only survivors of the battle, as the remainder had been hunted down and eliminated by the Confederacy. Having been spotted by the droids, Koon decided to personally confront the enemy,^[8] as his species was able to withstand the pressure of space for a brief amount of time.^[7] Sinker and Boost utilized their armor suits' oxygen supply and accompanied Koon, leaving Wolffe inside the pod to keep its communication signal alive—as it was the only chance of being found and rescued. Just as the Separatist craft latched onto the life pod with its pincers, Koon, Sinker, and Boost appeared to the battle droids and engaged their adversaries in combat.^[8]

While the droids retreated into their own craft and activated its "squeeze" mechanism to crush the pod, Wolffe picked up a signal from Ahsoka Tano, who had arrived in the system with her Master, Anakin Skywalker, to search for the survivors of the encounter with the Malevolence. However, the Separatists' damage to the pod caused Wolffe to lose the signal before he could return a message to Tano. Koon severed the Confederate vessel's pincers, breaking its hold on the pod, and then Force-pushed the craft away, causing it to hit some nearby debris and explode. Skywalker and Tano eventually found the escape pod floating amongst the debris field and pulled it into the rear cargo hold of Skywalker's freighter, the Twilight. After the survivors were inside the vessel's airlock, Skywalker freed Wolffe from the damaged pod by pulling off its viewport with the Force. Skywalker supported the coughing and weakened Wolffe before lowering him to sit beside Sinker and Boost against the pod. Leaving the clones to recover in the Twilight's cargo hold and be tended to by the ship's medical droid, TB-2, Koon left to debrief the failed attack on the Separatist superweapon with Skywalker and Tano on the freighter's bridge.^[8]

The Malevolence itself soon approached the Twilight in search of the destroyed Droch-class craft, and in order to avoid detection, the Jedi were forced to shut down all of the freighter's systems. With the cargo hold's lights disabled, Wolffe deduced that the power had gone out and suspected that the Separatist ship had returned. Despite his weak condition, Wolffe attempted to get up to the bridge to find out what was wrong. However, he nearly collapsed and was caught by TB-2, who went to check on the situation for the clones. Picking up the signal from the Twilight's still-active medical droid, the Malevolence fired its ion cannon at the freighter, but the Republic ship was able to avoid the ion wave by escaping the debris field and jumping to hyperspace. The Twilight rendezvoused with the Republic fleet,^[8] and aboard Skywalker's flagship, the Resolute,^[7] Wolffe thanked both Skywalker and Tano for rescuing them, glad that Koon's admonitions that someone would find them had come true.^[8]

[edit] Battle of Khorm

Wolffe was dispatched alongside Jedi Masters Plo Koon, Kit Fisto, and Tauht, as well as the ambitious and recently promoted Major Kendal Ozzel, to the planet Khorm in order to secure its deposits of agrocite, a rare ore that granted exceptional power to starfighters. However, the Separatists had already arrived on the planet and, under an alliance with native Khormai Warlord Unger Gout, had enslaved the majority of the planet's species and put them to work in the agrocite processing facility. After landing on Khorm during a storm, the Republic deployed its forces to attack the processing plant. En route to the facility with a squad of All Terrain Tactical Enforcers, Wolffe—who had donned cold assault armor as protection from Khorm's icy climate—conferred with Master Fisto on General Koon, whose age had been of much recent debate in the clone commander's unit and whose curious manner had sparked the clone's curiosity. The two met with Koon himself atop an AT-TE before rendezvousing with Adaroo and others of the Republic's Khormai allies.^[5]

As the Republic forces approached the Separatist processing plant, Warlord Gout's proton cannons attacked the AT-TE walkers. Major Ozzel ordered the clone troops to disembark, and Wolffe and Adaroo followed as Generals Koon, Fisto, and Tauht led the attack. After the walkers were in position, Ozzel commenced fire on the Separatist cannons, destroying them and forcing Gout to flee from the facility on a rail jet. With the processing plant secured, the Republic forces established their command post. Wolffe and Ozzel met with the Jedi Generals to discuss the primary objective at hand—liberating the Khormai slaves in the mine. While the major petitioned for a direct assault on the mine, Koon maintained that such an attack would cost them too many casualties.^[5]

Receiving word from Admiral Wieler and the Republic fleet in orbit of Khorm that a Separatist ship—Dark Acolyte Asajj Ventress's Trident—had somehow reached the surface through an opening in the ongoing storm, the Jedi realized that the Separatists possessed a sort of weather-control station. Believing that air support would be able to participate in the impending assault on the mine if the storm were to stop, Generals Koon and Fisto departed with the Devil Dogs unit to eliminate the Confederate station, leaving Ozzel, Tauht, and Wolffe at the Republic base, with Master Tauht in command. The Republic's recently established base soon came under attack by Ventress and a deployment of Separatist battle droids. Tauht was killed by the Dark Acolyte, leaving Ozzel in charge of the Republic forces. While Ozzel ordered his troops to charge the Separatist lines, Wolffe maintained that they should obey the Jedi's orders for holding the facility, but Ozzel refused to idly wait for the Separatists to attack again. As the Republic forces charged, however, a large amount of DSD1 dwarf spider droids appeared and surrounded them, forcing Ozzel to surrender.^[5]

Wolffe, Ozzel, and several clone captives were taken to the agrocite processing plant for interrogation. Despite Wolffe's admonitions to keep silent, Ozzel—influenced by the fear of death invoked by Ventress's beheading of two of the clones—betrayed the Jedi's mission. Ozzel and the clones were only saved from death at the Dark Acolyte's hand by Warlord Gout, who instead had the group imprisoned.^[5] While Ozzel attempted to justify his actions, the troopers were able to cut through their cell's lock. Major Ozzel and the clones commandeered an Armored Assault Tank to make their escape, cutting through the facility's droid forces and blasting out of the base. Returning to the Republic command post, Wolffe maintained that they should contact the Jedi, while Ozzel, believing them to be dead, ordered the commander to mobilize the transports and rendezvous with the fleet to prepare a counterattack. Before the Republic forces could escape, however, Confederate tanks led by Asajj Ventress appeared and assaulted the base once more.^[9]

With their transports frozen and their heavy armor destroyed in the first offensive, the Republic forces were trapped. Wolffe protected Major Ozzel—who was fully prepared to surrender—and gave the order to retreat to the ships. Before Ventress and her forces could exterminate the Republic detachment, the Jedi's elimination of the weather-control station allowed Admiral Wieler and the fleet to move in. The approaching LAAT/i gunships and V-19 Torrent starfighters forced the Dark Acolyte and her army to retreat. While Ozzel took credit for the victory, Wolffe was able to contact the Jedi, bringing them up to date on the situation.^[9] As Koon and Fisto reconnoitered the Separatist mine, Ozzel mobilized the Republic troops for an assault on the facility. Though he did not agree with Ozzel's orders—since the Jedi had intended to scout out the mine before beginning the attack—Wolffe began preparations for the coming battle with troopers Sinker and Boost.^[10]

Commencing the assault on the mine, Wolffe accompanied Ozzel as he led the Republic forces from an LAAT/i gunship. However, Warlord Gout loaded several agrocite cannons and targeted the approaching task force. An Acclamator-class transport was ripped apart by the heavy fire, and a shocked Ozzel panicked before being knocked out in the subsequent retreat. Commander Wolffe led a ground assault on the mine with a line of AT-TE walkers. After General Fisto eliminated the agrocite cannons, Wolffe and a squad of troops arrived to assist Master Koon in his duel with Ventress, who was preparing to detonate explosives planted in the mine. Koon Force-pushed the Dark Jedi's detonator away from her, allowing Wolffe to personally shoot the remote. In making her escape, Ventress slashed at the clone commander, causing him head injuries. Back at the command post, Wolffe was patched up and witnessed Ozzel's promotion^[10] to captain^[11] by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine. After Ozzel's promotion, Wolffe once again inquired on Koon's age, and Koon told Wolffe and Fisto that he was 382 Kel Dor years old, though he left the two to figure out how long that meant.^[10] Later in the war, Wolffe received a facial scar from an injury and was forced to wear a cybernetic silver eye replacement.^[3]

[edit] Personality and traits

A veteran of the Clone Wars,^[2] CC-3636 was a practical strategist,^[8][10] possessing a natural ability for both problem-solving and strategy.^[2] Serving with Jedi General Plo Koon throughout the war, Wolffe became acquainted with the Jedi Master,^[8] and Koon's curious manner drew the clone's interest.^[5] When the lights in the Twilight's cargo hold went out, Wolffe deduced that the power had been shut down and, though weak from his injuries, was determined to get up to the freighter's bridge and find out the source of the deactivated power. He was also grateful to Skywalker and Tano for rescuing him and his squad.^[8] Wolffe's dedication and loyalty to the Jedi often put him at odds with the ambitious Major Kendal Ozzel, who—unlike Wolffe—operated separately from the Jedi and disobeyed their orders to promote his own reputation. During interrogation, Wolffe told Ozzel not to reveal the Jedi's whereabouts; however, Ozzel betrayed the Jedi's mission to Asajj Ventress to protect his own life.^[5] Wolffe proved himself to be more focused than Ozzel, taking command and protecting Ozzel when the major himself panicked.^[9][10] Though Wolffe often scorned the unnerved Ozzel,^[9] he obeyed the major's orders^[10] and did not attempt to take credit for the successful defense of the Republic base when Ozzel—who had, in fact, done nothing but panic—claimed it for himself. Wolffe was able to speak Galactic Basic Standard.^[9]

[edit] Equipment

Wolffe's usual choice of clone trooper armor included a wolf design–painted helmet equipped with a silver visor.^[3] On Khorm, Wolffe donned cold assault armor^[5] made up of a rebreather hood and a thick thermal suit^[3] to protect himself from the planet's cold climate,^[5] although the armor limited his movements in battle.^[3] After an injury that he took to the face, Wolffe used a cybernetic silver eye replacement.^[3] He made use of a DC-15S blaster against the Separatist forces on Khorm.^[5]

[edit] Behind the scenes

The character of Wolffe was created for the 2008 Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series. First given a short entry in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Visual Guide publication, Wolffe made his debut in the episode "Rising Malevolence," which aired in the series' October 2, 2008 premiere. Like all clone troopers throughout the series, he was voiced by Dee Bradley Baker.^[7] Wolffe was later given a role in the 2009 In Service of the Republic story arc of The Clone Wars comic series, published by Dark Horse Comics. His clone designation was revealed in the first installment of the story arc. Series Director Dave Filoni has promised to include Wolffe in a future episode of The Clone Wars television series that will take place after Wolffe receives his facial scar.^[3]

"Wolffe" is a cheat code for the online game Live Fire, which gives the player a 60-100% accuracy rating. The code is second most powerful in the game, bested only by "Droidbait," which boosts the rating to 80-100%.

[edit] Appearances

• Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Rising Malevolence" (First appearance)
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Jedi in Training (Picture only)
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Jedi Adventures
• Star Wars The Clone Wars: In Service of the Republic (First identified as CC-3636)

[edit] Sources

• Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Visual Guide (First mentioned)
•  The Clone Wars Episode Guide: Rising Malevolence on StarWars.com (backup link on Archive.org)
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Official Episode Guide: Season 1
•  Plo Koon in the Databank

[edit] Notes and references

[edit] External links

•  Wolffe in the Completely Unofficial Star Wars Encyclopedia