CT-4379 "Dat"

"You're dumber than me, that's sayin something"

- Dat to Jurkadir

SF-4379, otherwise known as Dat, was born and breed on Kamino like most clones. Unlike most clones though, he was born with a physical defect. His right arm was inverted leaving it useless, but during a visit from a unknown Jedi, Dat's arm would be fixed but his right thumb would remain inverted. Dat's life on Kamino was normal from that point on, being part of 'Zulu Squad' during his training. This squad consisted of troopers Flower, Frost, Fauna, and Techead. Dat would later be assigned to Enigma Battalion, where he would become good friends with CT-9019 "Jax", and CT-6626 "Vulcrov".

Early Life
SF-4379, nicknamed "Dat" was a clone spec ops trooper born and raised on Kamino. Ever since he was young he showed traits of being compationate to his brothers, and often considered as being overly emotional. He'd eventually show great skills in slicing tech which lead him down the path of becoming a spec ops trooper.

The First Battle of Geonosis
Dat was not a part of the main force on the ground during the battle of Geonosis, being a part of the 412th First Assault Battalion during this battle. Instead being stationed on an the Venator class assault ship 'Regainer.' During this period of battle a deployment of clones, containing troopers Frost and Flower alongside others, were being sent down to reinforce a platoon of men. Dat was assigned to inform command of this team being sent down, unfortunately failing at this task. This caused the tank gunners to fire their weapons on the LAAT, as command had deemed this as the crew deserting. Dat felt personal guilt over the death of the men on the LAAT, believing that this incident was his fault. After the battle, Dat was transferred to Enigma Battalion.

The Stranded Clone
2 days after Evo and Slicer were transferred to the Victorious from Sullust, they would lose contact with the Republic Base on the planet. In order to find out what happened, especially to the other Enigma Battalion member, Cobalt (who was at the base at the time), Slicer organized a recon force to figure out what happened to the base. It would eventually end up being a trap, the recon team would be attacked by commando droids in the base, while the Victorious was attacked by 2 Seperatist Cruisers which attempted a boarding party on the venator. Fortunately, Evo's forces on the venator managed to defeat the enemies but with significant loses. The recon group on the ground also managed to escape with some interesting intel gathered by SF-4379 "Dat". Dat managed to pull out some info from the Sullust base which indicated that some unidentified ships escaped shortly before the attack. The Victorious is now stationed on the Ord Cestus medical station transporting their wounded to the medical station while mechanics repaired the damage inflicted on the venator.

The Battle of Christophis
Enigma Battalion arrived to Christophis in order to return the stranded clone, Jinx, to the 501st. Little did they know they'd be staying in the planet longer than they had originally planned. Suddenly 8 Separatist cruisers would jump out of hyperspace and force the Republic Venators out of the system. The Separatist cruisers would then send transports down towards the surface in hopes of destroying the Republic base once and for all. Enigma Battalion and the 501st, currently led by Jesse in Rex's absence, attacked the separatist forces head on. It seemed they were going to lose since they were vastly outnumbered but just when hope seemed bleak, 10 Republic cruisers would jump out of hyperspace and attack the separatist cruisers driving them off in a retreat. The Republic cruisers would then send reinforcements consisting of LAATs and bombers. General Skywalker, Commander Tano, and Captain Rex would lead these reinforcements, together with the remaining troops of Enigma Battalion and the 501st they would defeat the sepi forces and send them in a retreat. Among these reinforcements was Jedi Padawan Egathon who was transferred to Enigma Battalion. Hours later, General Skywalker was able to retrieve the location of the Separatist Base from General Loathsoam. Now the 501st, 212th, and Enigma Battalion are forming a plan of attack.

A day later, Dat and Jax discovered a young child among the ruins of a destroyed building. Upon searching for the child's parents, they'd eventually find them....the two parents laying on the ground...crushed by rubble. The two clones were left with a difficult decision to make? What would they do with the child? So they contacted Evo and asked him themselves. The three of them would come to the conclusion that perhaps it would be best to keep the child with them on the Rebuplic outpost, at least until they found a relative or an orphanage. During his time interacting with the kid on the outpost, Dat and Jax would form a strong bond with the child and even go as far as to give him a name, Javie. During this time, he'd also get to know another clone, one that went by the name Vulcrov. Instantly the two disliked each other. Dat was compassionate and emotional while on the other hand, Vulcrov was cold...rutheless....and an asshole to top it off. Vulcrov often insulted Dat's bond with Javie, which caused great friction between the two of them.

In the next day Evo would organize a squad, Dat and Vulcrov being among them to sweep out the buildings surrounding the Republic base. While sweeping one of the buildings they would encounter droids, they were attempting to hide in the buildings, waiting for their chance to strike on the Republic base. Evo, Dat, Vulcrov, Jax, and the rest of the squad managed to zip-line to the closest building in the area. Evo ordered their canons to fire upon each building surrounding their base. The canons fired upon each building, while they fired, Droids were seen attempting to run out of each building. Soon each droid was destroyed, Evo's squad managed to get out with minor injuries. The sepis would then launch bombers and fighters in a last attempt to destroy the Republic Base. The Republic would then send their fighters to intercept. The enemy fighters were soon destroyed. With the danger of the Separatists attacking them first the Repiblic begins to for their attack upon the enemy base, to get rid of the sepis on Christophis once and for all.

Once the Republic forces on Chirstophis have enough troops and weaponry, they launch their attack upon the Separatist base. The Republic's plan of attack involved Enigma separating into two, a half went with the 212th under the command of General Kenobi to launch a full on assault on the base. The other half was assigned to the 501st under the command of General Skywalker and Commander Tano. The battle seemed to be going pretty well for the Republic forces as they decimated whatever droids the Base sent at them, until 8 separatist cruisers jumped out of hyperspace in order to assist the Separatist forces at the ground. The Republic fighters escorting the LAATs, lead by Sergeant CX-3791 "Kasper", would then be ordered to launch an attack upon the Separatist cruisers. The tide of the battle seemed to be going at the Separatist's favor once the Republic's TX-130 tanks were all destroyed. The Separatist's Armored Assault tanks would then lay waste upon the 212th and Enigma Battalion forces. Meanwhile, the 501st forces managed to infiltrate the base. Once they were inside the base they would divide. One squad would head to capture the command center, led Anakin Skywalker and corporal CT-6626 "Vulcrov", while the other would place bombs around the base The squad led by General Skywalker would successfully take control of the command center and capture the Separatist General. In his rage, Vulcrov engaged the general, hoping to make the general suffer for having Vulcrov tortured. Before Vulcrov was able to kill the general, Dat stopped him and convinced him to back down. This moment between the two of them would kickstart a better and healthier relationship. Fortunately the other squad would also successfully place the bombs around the base. Meanwhile, the 212th and Enigma forces would manage to take down all the Separatist Armored Assault Tanks, because of this they were soon defeated resulting the Battle of Christophis to a Republic victory. Unfortunately this battle took a heavy toll among the clones, resulting in 243 clone deaths and may more injured. Enigma's first assignment would end as a success, but it came with many costs. The 212th and 501st forces would remain in Christophis in an attempt to make sure the Separatist forces remained defeated. Fortunately before leaving, Dat and Jax were able to locate some of Javie's relatives that still lived in Christophis. Dat, Jax, and Javie would part ways but Dat promised the kid that they'd stay in touch. Enigma would then head back to the Victorious and wait for their next orders.

Hidden Powers of Harton
Once Enigma Battalion had left Chirstophis, they'd refuel and resupply on Coruscant. This would serve as a break for the troops to head down to the surface and rest up before their next deployment. During their break, Dat and Jax headed down to 79s bar. Here they encountered Vulcrov who seemed to be having quite a miserable time. The three clones decide to sit together, drink, and chat. As they did so, Vulcrov began to warm up to Dat slowly even if he still seemed tense and cold at first. As they conversed, Dat began to drop hints of his disatisfaction of the war and how clones were being treated. They were short comments, but Vulcrov had noticed them. Vulcrov, being the cold and loyal clone he was, disagreed. But that didn't stop them from having an entertaining time at the bar.

Enigma Battalion would than receive news from Chirstophis. Grievous has started assembling a fleet in the area and are mining the planet of Harton for fuel for their fleet. In order to cripple this fleet, Enigma would make it their top priority to destroy the Separatist's operation on Harton. Before jumping towards Harton, Enigma Battalion would send the 51st Special Operations Battalion to recon the planet before their attack. The Victorious alongside two Acclamators would then jump towards the planet. Once they've jumped out of hyperspace Enigma Battalion would send a boarding party to the separatist Lucrehulk. This team would be under the command of Jedi General Rinhole and Captain ARC-2754 "Evo". The team would successfully destroy the Lucrehulk and as a result the blockade would be defeated. Once the blockade was defeated Enigma Battalion would send all their forces to the surface where they'd land on the plains and make their way towards the Separatist's Defense line on the Forest of the Nightcrawlers. During this battle, Enigma would suffer heavy casualties but eventually they'd force the Separatist defense line into a retreat once Enigma sent bombers lead by Sergeant CX-2743 "Blizzard". Enigma would then make their way to their two targets, the fuel depot and the research station. These two targets were the last targets where the 51st were last spotted and before they lost their communications with. Evo and Rinhole would lead part of the battalion towards the research station where the rest would head to the fuel depot. Once both groups arrived they'd find that both places were abandoned.

Rinhole's group would then be attacked by General Grievous himself which resulted in the death of 10 clones (pretty much the entire Dagger Squad). Fortunately Rinhole with the help of his padawan, Egathon, they'd force Grievous into a retreat. Sixer was also found alive in the research outpost. The other group would also be attacked by droids but luckily they'd manage to defeat them and escape. Meanwhile both groups were being attacked, Cobalt would lead a team of clones to a nearby village they spotted. While on this village they'd be attacked by droids as well but fortunately they would escape suffering a few deaths and injuries. Evo would then order an LAAT to retrieve their wounded and up towards the Victorious, Enigma remained in the trenches, planning their next move.

For a long and miserable day, Enigma would be hiding on the Harton trenches where the COs would be coming up with their next plan of attack against the CIS. While the clones were off duty, they'd hear an explosion a mile away. It's soon confirmed that this explosion came from a nearby Village. Lieutenant SLicer and Captain Evo would send a squad of clones to investigate, Dat and Vulcrov being among them. Once they've arrived they would find CIS droids rounding up villagers for execution, unfortunately all the Villagers were executed, much to Dat's horror. Slicer would lead his team to attack the CIS forces while Evo's team remains behind for back up.

While they were sweeping the remains of the Village, they would find a datachip in the pocket of one of the dead villagers. He'd would spend the rest of the day decoding this chip where he would find very valuable information on the mysterious surrounding the conflicts on Harton. Slicer finds out that Enigma has just steped into the middle of a civil war, a three-way civil war to be exact. The first faction is called "The Black Coats" they are allied with the CIS and they are the dictatorship looking to keep control of the planet with CIS backing. The other faction calls themselves "The Alliance". This faction was the former government before the Black Coat takeover, they were allies of the Republic and now fight to restore their government. The village Enigma encountered where the CIS forces were executing the villagers was an Alliance village. After hearing this information, Enigma Battalion makes it their number 1 priority to befriend "The Alliance". And the final faction was known as "The Outsiders". This faction wanted to restore Harton to the independent state of which it was before all of this conflict. This faction did not like either side.

Slicer would also discover the location of a Separatist Droid Factory which is "The Alliance's" next target. In order to assist "The Alliance" and befriend them, Evo and Jedi Commander Egathon, send their forces to assist. During this battle a small squad of clones was placed under the command of Dat. One of the clones in particular was extremely strange, his name was Gummy oddly enough, and he liked to make paper planes. Gummy greatly pissed off Dat throughout the entire battle, but the strange clone proved himself to be quite capable in combat. While the battle ensued, Enigma would take heavy casualties from the Separatist snipers, including Captain Evo, where he was shot and wounded in the chest. But fortunately, the battle was won by Enigma and "The Alliance", which resulted in the destruction of the Separatist Droid Factory. "The Alliance" then agrees to form an alliance with Enigma Battalion's forces, and as a gift, they allowe Enigma Battalion to stay in the city for the time being, Trata City.

During their time in Trata city, Vulcrov befriended an old man who found himself sitting alone in a dilapidated old bar, This old man was in fact the owner of the establishment. Dat and Jax joined Vulcrov and the Old Man as he told them about his rather bizarre life story. The Old Man stayed in the bar because his great great great great great grandfather lost all his money to a lady who owned the bar at the time. The lady would then force his great great great great great grandfather to stay in the bar for 300 years until his descendants reach passed the time limit, when this happened the Old ladies descendants would then return the money. This story seemed pretty stupid and bizarre to the three clones.

The three clones were captivated by the Old Man's bizarre story. Then, Dat got an idea. He was going to help the Old Man transform this old dilapidated bar into someplace great. Vulcrov, Jax, Dat, and the Old man worked together to rework the entire bar. They fixed the walls, painted them (even adding small drowings of Enigma Battalion on the wall), brought in new drinks and flavors, and they even added a colorful sign that read: The Old Man's Bar of Drunken Clones and Idiots. Once the bar was completed, the Old man began to recieve a huge number of customers.

After an extensive few days of negotitations, Jedi Master Tharmarc Rinhole was able to successfully negotitate terms with the group known as the Alliance. For their continued support of the republic presence on Harton, Enigma Battalion would need to assist them. Enigma Battalion led by Captain Evo and Commander Egathon were sent to a nearby power station to disable it. Corporal Thunder, with an escort of three CTs and Scraphead inflitrated the facility and disabled the shield generator while Captain Evo and Commander Egathon led a main assault on the base. Taking minimal casualities, razor squadron was called in and airstriked the power station once the shields were down. This offensive struck a critical blow to the Blackcoats, and the CIS, and has given the republic a new ally in the chaos of Harton.

It took multiple weeks of planning, but finally the Blackcoat capital was exposed. Enigma Battalion seized the opportunity, with Captain Evo and his team inflitrating enemy air defenses, back to the charge led by Jedi General Rinhole, and jet trooper companies bombarding the city. It was taken in less than a day. Many civilian lives were lost, but fortunately the CIS Forces were pushed out. Now that Enigma Battalion's objective in Harton was over, Vulcrov, Dat, and Javie gave their goodbyes to the Old Man. And they promised him that they'd one day return to visit him in his bar.

Crisis on Arka'sas
After leaving Harton, Enigma Battalion would head back to Coruscant and celebrate the new year until they recieve new orders. During the New Year, Dat and Vulcrov spent their time in 79s bar. As they drank, they talked about their plans after the war. Dat wanted to live a peaceful life with his squad, a life without war and conflict. Once he asked Vulcrov, Vulcrov responded with the bizarre answer that he wanted to start a hat shop. At this moment, Dat realized something...Vulcrov had ended up becoming one of his greatest friends.

Few minutes after the galaxy reaches the year 21 BBY, Enigma recieves new orders from Yoda, Mace Windu, and the Chancellor himself. They were to head to the water planet of Arka'sas where the Separatist Fleet were hiding. Enigma would join forces with the 451st legion on this mission. Once the Republic Venators reached Arka'sas they'd find themself attacked byt he Separatist fleet led by Grievous. Enigma and the 451st would then launch a ground assault on the Separtatist Outposts guarding the perimeter of the Capital City which is located underwater. During the assault, Evo's LAAT would be shot down over the ocean and Evo alongside Shatter squad, which was the squad Gummy was in, would be marked as KIA. As the battle ensued and Enigma, led by Jedi General Rakashar and Arc Lieutenant Vermillion, landed on the ground, they'd be attacked by sepi snipers on the city wall that surrounded the outpost. Fortunately they'd be able to breach this wall and get into the city where they encountered more defenses. Enigma would split up into three groups. One group led by ARC Sergeant Cobalt would launch an assault on the rear side of the outpost while Rakashar's group would launch a frontal assault on the front entrance of the Outpost. Vermillion would also take a squad to liberate the captured civilians on the park square. Both these groups would be succesful in taking over the outpost. Although they did suffer a lot of loses including Clone trooper Zap.

While the Republic ground forces waged battle on the sandy islands of Arka’sas, Sgt Blizzard would lead winter squadron into battle in orbit where they would take the new Z-95 Headhunters into their first combat scenario. The Victorious’s turbo lasers would manage to take down a Munificent cruiser. In a shocking turn of events Clone Pilot Coldfront was overwhelmed by a surprise trio of Vulture droids. Unable to evade the droids Winter 4 was shot down, taking both a toll on Winter Squadron’s forces and Emotions. Grievous would then recieve a transmission fro Dooku ordering him to retreat. The fleet was far to valuable to lose, the fleet was to be used for the Separatists attack on Kamino. Grievous would then retear leaving the Separatist on the ground, led by Riff Tamson, surrounded by the Republic. Rakashir was then be able to restablish communications with the Victorious. After the first siege, Enigma and the 451st would take control of all the outposts surrounding the capital.

Enigma Battalion would remain stationed on the southern outpost. While they were stationed there. Jedi General Rakashir would receive information from Commander Viper that the western outpost was destroyed by some sort of kraken, since the witnesses stated they saw some sort of spiked tentacle destroy the outpost. Rakashir would then organize a group to retrieve the prince who was being held captive i the city of Shand'sari. This team consisted of Jedi Padawan Egathon, Arc Trooper Vermillion, Commandos Wyvern and Thunder, and troopers Rage and Dat. This team would succesfully retrieve the prince and bring him back to the outpost. Now Rakashir forms a plan to take back Shand'sari city.

The Republic then launched their next strike against the separatists by attacking Shand'sari city and the Capital. The attack on the city of Shand'sari was led by Jedi General Rakashar while the 451st legion, led by Commander Viper, attacked the capital. The attack against Shand'sari city was a success at first as they drove the droids to a retreat and soon cornered them. The droids were quickly destroyed until a beast known in Arka'sas legend as the Schakin Kraken was unleashed by the Separatists, led by Riff Tamson, on the city. The Republic forces were quickly forced to retreat from the kraken as it destroyed the nearby architecture. Fortunately thanks to their numbers, the republic forces managed to corner the kraken and various explosions placed on the body of the Kraken, many of which Dat himself placed, would cause it's defeat and eventual death. The Republic now has full control of Shand'sari city, unfortunately 80% of the city was destroyed by the kraken attack. Rakashir would then receive word from Viper that they were forced to retreat from attacking the Capital. Viper confirmed that they were forced to retreat because of a kraken, a second one remains alive and currently guards the capital.

Whilst the battle of Arka'sas raged on, in his attempts to locate Captain Evo, Jedi Padawan Egathon Dalor found a hidden landing base among the islands, along with ARF Corporal Bomber, Corporal Dat, Trooper Oya'Karir and Chase they set off to investigate... Upon reaching the island the team approached only to find a Seperatist supply base, siphoning resources off Republic submarines to the Capital and supplying the seperatist defence. Unfortunately Dat became surrounded and in the chaos was captured alongside Oya'Karirand Chase. The three clones were brought to the sinister Captain Calvara and were offered three choices: defect from the army and live as free men, be killed, or join him. Dat became really tempted by the first option, he had always dreamed of defected from the Republic Army....alongside his squad. However an attack came before any could be put into effect and Calvara fled, taking the three clones with him. Utilising a TX-130 Fighter tank; Egathon, Bomber, Jaybird, Thunder and Wyvern launched an attack on the base, crippling the Seperatists supply lines with the assistance of a bombing raid from Blizzard. While the Republic succeeded they returned with bad injuries and a heavy heart.

Egathon, in attempt to rescue Chase from Separatist captain Calvara, would eventually get captured by the enemy captain alongside Clone troopers Dat, Chase, and Oya'karir. After a few more days, Enigma would then send an attack against the capital where they would successfully be able to defeat the kraken defending the gates to the capital. Once inside, they would regroup with Jedi General Rakashir and Clone Commander Viper's forces. The republic forces would then split up into three groups, one group led by Rakashir would head to the park square to save the king from being executed by Riff Tamson. The other two groups would be tasked to release the civilians from the prison camps and take over the king's palace. During the battle, Egathon, Chase, Dat, and Oya'karir were able to escape their inprisonment. All three operations ended up being a success, though unfortunately the effort to save the king fail once Tamson uses him as shield for escape. Once his escape was secured, Riff Tamson would immediately kill the king. Captain Calvara would then also escape the battle. After the battle, the prince of the Aquarians became king and allied himself with the Republic.

Drama on the Victorious
After Enigma Battalion left the planet of Arka'sas, an IG-86 unit snuck aboard disguised as a clone and brought along several BX Commando droids, they took out a tank crew and disguised themselves before releasing Face, a traitorous clone, from his cell to cover their operations, as more and more clones became their prisoners and more knew the droids begun to get desperate and eventually snapped when Bomber, Frost and Jaybird found their sabotage droid and extracted critical intel from it, from there the droids used the AT-TE to try cover their escape in fighters but all were supposedly stopped by Egathon and Geyser. During all this, Face would reek havoc across the ship and even manage to kill a clone until he was captured yet again. Unfortunately, in his rage, Sergeant Dat would attempt to kill Face which would eventually landed him in the brig. While in the brig, Dat would attempt to have his squad, Hilt Squad, desert but they were unfortunately caught. The plan of desert in Enigma Battalion would then catch the attention of Coruscant, specifically, the Coruscant Guard. Once the Victorious arrived to Coruscant, a squad of the Coruscant Guard would be dispatched to the ship to deal with the 'traitors'. Dat and the rest of his squad would then be executed by the Coruscant guard for committing treason against the Republic. These events would mark a lot of clones who were great friends with Dat, mainly Vulcrov.

The Clone Wars
After Dat's death, Vulcrov decided to wear Dat's cherished poncho as one of the final remaining memories of his dear friend. As the clone wars dragged on and Vulcrov lost more and more of his brothers to the war, he slowly began to become disheartened with it. Much like Dat, he found himself wishing he could desert and live a peaceful live away from the war. As he left the planet with the remainder of his squad, a photo of him and Dat was left behind. The two of them were smiling in the picture, knowing that greater times lay ahead.

The Galactic Civil War
After his presumed death during the incident in Talun-Vir, Vulcrov decided to carry out Dat's final wishes and settled down on the planet of Xaldor Prime. During his time living there, he eventually reunited with Javie and the both of them decided to start a hat shop together.

Behind the Scenes

 * Dat emoji.png this day an emoji of Dat's helmet remains in the Enigma Battalion Discord server. It served as a memory of Colonel-Honkers, the man behind the character of Dat who left the server.