104th Battalion




The 104th Battalion, also known by its moniker, the "Wolf Pack" Battalion, or alternatively, the Wolfpack Battalion, was a clone trooper military battalion serving within the ranks of the Grand Army of the Republic. Throughout the duration of the Clone Wars, the 104th was under the command of Jedi General Plo Koon in conjunction with Clone Commander Wolffe. A smaller unit within the battalion was the Wolfpack squad, which shared a similar nickname.

Description

The 104th Battalion customized their armor with special unit markings and grey-black patterns.

Prior to the conclusion of the Malevolence Campaign, clone troopers belonging to the 104th Battalion—a component of the Grand Army of the Republic—were identifiable by the maroon colored markings present on their Phase I clone trooper armor. Following significant losses suffered by the battalion's clones during the Battle of Abregado, the battalion's clone troopers subsequently adopted a flint grey or blue-grey color scheme on their armor as a tribute to those who perished at Abregado. The elite Wolfpack squad was one of the specialized subunits within the 104th.

Jedi General Plo Koon held the position of commanding officer for the battalion, and he also operated under the callsign of Wolf Leader. Serving as the second-in-command was Clone Commander Wolffe. Notable members of the battalion encompassed figures such as Clone Sergeant Sinker, Clone Corporal Comet, clone troopers Boost, Wildfire, and Umbra, in addition to clone pilots Warthog and Corvis. The 104th Battalion's structure included standard clone troopers, clone trooper officers, clone pilots, clone sharpshooters, and heavy weapons clone troopers among its ranks.

History

Mission to Quarmendy

The 104th Battalion's Wolfpack squad fought on the Nexus during the early days of the Clone Wars.

During the initial stages of the Clone Wars, General Koon tasked Commander Wolffe along with three members of the Wolfpack, specifically Boost, Sergeant Sinker, and Corporal Comet, with a mission aimed at reclaiming the Nexus. The Nexus was a floating city and trading hub situated on the planet Quarmendy, which was well-known for its sophisticated defensive capabilities, but had been seized by Separatist forces under the leadership of Emir Wat Tambor.

Equipped with JT-12 jetpacks and grappling hooks affixed to their DC-15A blaster carbines, the squad ascended the city's wall while facing fire from both the city's defense systems and Tambor's D1-series aerial battle droids. The clone troopers successfully reached the summit of the wall without sustaining any casualties.

However, as Tambor's forces were compromised by their intrusion, he chose to obliterate the city to prevent its capture by the Galactic Republic. Prior to the city's destruction, the clones managed to rescue a hostage, who was the city's custodian, named Orkle. Despite the loss of the city, Koon expressed his appreciation to Wolffe for ensuring the survival of the team and for rescuing Orkle. At least one member of the battalion also participated in the mission to Krystar, assisting in the liberation of captured clones from a secret compound. Clone troopers Wildfire and Umbra also served in the 104th. At one point, their squad was marooned on the planet Felucia for a duration of one month, during which they resorted to consuming insects in order to survive.

Siege of Hisseen

Clone Commander Wolffe lost contact with Jedi General Plo Koon during the siege of Hisseen.

Following the missions to Quarmendy and Krystar, Wolffe, Koon, and the Wolfpack were deployed as part of the Republic's siege of Hisseen alongside Jedi Generals Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi and their clone commanders, Clone Commander Cody and Clone Captain Rex.

When the Jedi were called away from the battlefield to engage with Count Dooku and his Sith apprentice Asajj Ventress, Koon attempted to establish communication with Wolffe, but his attempts were thwarted by the mountainous terrain. After Wolffe only received fragmented instructions pertaining to the Hisseenian parliament, Koon instead transmitted coordinates to Boost, and Wolffe inferred that they were tasked with rescuing the parliament members. Spearheading the assault, the Wolfpack engaged the droids in combat while fighting alongside members of the 212th. Their efforts resulted in the successful rescue of the parliament members.

However, immediately upon their return, they were ambushed by Count Dooku's forces and were on the verge of being taken prisoner, when Jedi Generals Plo Koon, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Anakin Skywalker arrived and rescued the clones. The Republic emerged victorious in the siege of Hisseen.

Rising Malevolence

Sinker was a member of the Wolfpack part of the 104th Battalion.

As multiple Republic fleets were being decimated by a Subjugator-class heavy cruiser, known as the Malevolence, Jedi General Plo Koon, aboard the Triumphant, and his fleet consisting of Venator-class Star Destroyers were dispatched to locate the then-unidentified superweapon. The 104th Battalion successfully tracked the ship to the Abregado system, where they determined that it was, in fact, a Subjugator-class heavy cruiser equipped with an ion cannon.

Before the fleet could request reinforcements, they lost contact with the Republic. Plo Koon instructed Clone Commander Wolffe to engage the Malevolence with fire, but Wolffe informed him that they were beyond its effective range. Nevertheless, the Malevolence had already discharged its ion cannon, which struck the fleet. Deprived of power, the fleet was now susceptible to destruction, and the Malevolence commenced firing with its laser cannons, obliterating the entire fleet. Koon commanded his troops to evacuate to the Republic escape pods before their ships were destroyed.

Following the fleet's destruction, the Malevolence deployed a Droch-class boarding ship, also referred to as a hunter, to locate and eliminate any surviving escape pods. Concurrently, Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano, while searching for survivors, arrived aboard the freighter Twilight. Meanwhile, the hunter had located Plo Koon's escape pod and prepared to eliminate them. Thanks to Koon's antiox breath mask and the oxygen system integrated into the clone troopers' armor, Koon, Clone Sergeant Sinker, and Boost managed to exit the escape pod and enter space while Commander Wolffe maintained the pod's signal. Koon and his troops repelled the B1-series rocket battle droids carried by the hunter and were subsequently rescued by Skywalker and Tano. They successfully evaded the Malevolence and reported their findings to the Jedi High Council.

Koon would later aid Shadow Squadron in inflicting severe damage upon the Separatist superweapon during the Battle of the Kaliida Nebula, and later on during the battle the Malevolence was destroyed.

Battle of Khorm

At a later time, the 104th Battalion's ranks were replenished with new troopers, and the battalion participated in the Battle of Khorm, where they fought alongside Anakin Skywalker. During the fighting, Wolffe sustained a permanent scar when Asajj Ventress slashed his right eye, leaving a prominent mark across the right side of his face. He subsequently had a silver cybernetic replacement installed. Despite his injury, Wolffe continued to serve and lead his troops.

First Battle of Felucia

Warthog flew for the 104th Battalion during the Battle of Felucia.

Following the Battle of Khorm, the Wolfpack and Koon were deployed on the Negotiator, a Venator-class Star Destroyer, with the objective of breaching the Confederacy navy's blockade surrounding the planet Felucia, and participated in the First Battle of Felucia. The Republic forces, under the leadership of Jedi Generals Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, and Jedi Commander Ahsoka Tano, had been overwhelmed by the droid army, so Koon led a group of Low Altitude Assault Transport/infantry gunships and V-19 Torrent starfighters through the blockade to rescue Skywalker and his troops, while Wolffe oversaw the space battle against the Separatist battleships and starfighters. Wolffe directed the clone gunners to target and destroy the Confederate Munificent-class star frigates. Meanwhile, Koon and the rest of the Wolfpack extracted Skywalker, Tano, Kenobi, and the clone soldiers and brought them to safety aboard the Negotiator. They then returned to Coruscant, having completed the rescue mission.

At some point after the First Battle of Felucia, where the maroon-colored markings had still been part of 104th armor, the legion shifted to a grey-based coloration in memory of those lost in the Battle of Abregado. Following Grievous's capture of the Jedi Eeth Koth, Wolffe discovered a coded message from Koth that told him that Grievous was heading to the planet Saleucami.

Rescue on Vanqor

The Wolfpack traveled on gunships to Vanqor to rescue Jedi Generals Mace Windu and Anakin Skywalker.

After an assassination attempt on Mace Windu by a young Boba Fett failed, the Venator-class Star Destroyer Endurance was forced to crash on the planet Vanqor. However, R2-D2 managed to escape from Vanqor and came to the Jedi Council and showed them the hologram of Skywalker and Windu inside the wrecked Endurance. Plo Koon, Ahsoka Tano, and the Wolfpack were dispatched to the planet to retrieve them. They came down in space gunships to get Skywalker and Windu out of the destroyed bridge. While Koon and Tano used the Force to hold the collapsing bridge steady, Wolffe and Comet jumped in and got Windu and Skywalker onto the gunship.

Citadel rescue

A Republic rescue team was rescued on Lola Sayu by Plo Koon's 104th Battalion.

When it was confirmed to the Jedi that Kenobi and Skywalker could not get off Lola Sayu with Even Piell and his men, Saesee Tiin, Plo Koon, Adi Gallia, and Kit Fisto went to the prison planet to extract them. They gave Kenobi and the rescue team the coordinates to a small island that would act as an evac-zone. As the rescue team made its way to the evac-zone, a fleet of four Republic cruisers engaged the Separatist blockade. General Koon and Commander Wolffe went down with a gunship escorted by Fisto, Gallia, and Tiin in their Jedi starfighters. When the gunship reached the ground, they managed to get all the survivors onto the gunship and got back to the fleet.

Return to Felucia

The leaders of the 104th and the 501st coordinated their attack strategy upon the return of Republic forces to Felucia.

During the Second Battle of Felucia the 104th Battalion, along with the 501st Legion, returned to Felucia to make a night assault on one of General Grievous' outposts in the system. Anakin Skywalker and Clone Captain Rex were leading a diversion on the front gate while Ahsoka Tano, Comet, Sinker, and Boost scaled the back wall. Plo Koon, Wolffe, and their team used jetpacks to fly over the sidewall and surprise attack the enemy inside. After the battle, they realized Tano was missing. The rest of the night they spent searching for her, until the next morning when they left the system.

Mercy mission on Aleen

The Plo's Bros gunships brought the Wolfpack Aleen where they conducted a mission of mercy to help the Aleena.

Aleen suffered from frequent natural earthquakes that resulted in numerous civilian casualties and widespread destruction of their cities. The 104th Battalion was deployed to assist in the reconstruction efforts under the directives of Senator Padmé Amidala and Grand Master Yoda, providing the inhabitants with both food and medical assistance. The astromech droid R2-D2 accompanied them to aid in restoring power, while the protocol droid C-3PO was present to facilitate communication between the clones and the native Aleena. During their mission C-3PO and R2-D2 disappeared underground, so Commander Wolffe was unable to communicate with the Aleena without C-3PO to help translate. The two droids discovered the source of the earthquakes. The tree-like alien species Kindalo, who lived in the subterranean caves beneath the surface of Aleen, had been angered because the surface-dwelling Aleena had dug too deep and disturbed them. The two droids were then able to negotiate with them, and came to the surface in time to regroup with the 104th as they left the planet.

Rescuing Adi Gallia

After regrouping with Plo Koon's fleet, the 104th Battalion was deployed to free Adi Gallia from General Grievous' dreadnought following Gallia's capture in the Battle of Patitite Pattuna. Koon and his forces successfully boarded the dreadnought and liberated Gallia, though Grievous fled the battle.

Battle of Kadavo

The 104th was part of a Republic strike force that rescued a group of Togruta slaves as well several Jedi and clone officers.

In a mission to rescue enslaved Togruta from Zygerrian enslavers, Jedi General Obi-Wan Kenobi and Clone Captain Rex were captured. Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano launched a rescue operation on the planet Kadavo, which was where the slaves were being transferred. Arriving in the YV-865 Aurore-class freighter Tecora, the two Jedi called for reinforcements, in the form of the Wolfpack. As part of a fleet led by Plo Koon and Admiral Barton Coburn, members of the Wolfpack launched a strike force that contained consisted of LAAT/i gunships and clone Z-95 starfighters. The force attempted to break through, but they could not, on account of the ray shield over the facility. Skywalker, however, was able to destroy the ray shield while Kenobi and Rex rebelled and killed the Zygerrian Keeper Argus. The strike force then successfully extracted Obi-Wan, Anakin, Ahsoka, Rex, and the slaves, and then destroyed the facility.

Investigation on Oba Diah's moon

Koon and the 104th recovered the missing lightsaber of the late Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas.

Upon the Jedi Temple receiving a distress signal originating from the Jedi T-6 shuttle 775519, Koon, Wolffe, and the 104th Battalion were dispatched to the moon of Oba Diah in order to conduct an investigation. The 104th Battalion landed on the surface and discovered the T-6 shuttle's crash site. Inside, Koon and Wolffe discovered a lightsaber that had belonged to Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas. Koon ordered the shuttle to be taken back to Coruscant.

Imperial Era

Wolffe continued to wear parts of his 104th clone trooper armor years after the Clone Wars ended.

The conclusion of the Clone Wars occurred soon after Sheev Palpatine, the Supreme Chancellor, revealed his true identity as Darth Sidious, the Dark Lord of the Sith. He then initiated Order 66, compelling clone troopers to betray and assassinate their Jedi officers through the use of control chips that were implanted in their brains. Wolffe, having had his chip removed at an unspecified time, was residing on the planet Seelos by 4 BBY. He shared a converted All Terrain Tactical Enforcer with Captain Rex and Gregor, a former clone commando who had also removed his chip. The Spectres arrived on Seelos, dispatched by Ahsoka Tano to locate Rex.

While Rex departed with the Spectres to join the rebellion, Wolffe and Gregor remained at their home, known as Joopa Base, on Seelos. Trooper Wildfire, who had joined the Rebellion, discovered that Wolffe was an ally and subsequently joined the mission to Seelos. Sometime after Rex's departure, Gregor and Wolffe were enlisted to aid in the liberation of Lothal from the control of the Galactic Empire. During this operation, Ezra Bridger, a Jedi Padawan, sought assistance from the native Loth-wolves of Lothal, creatures deeply connected to the Force. Following a remark by Gregor about Wolffe regaining his "wolfpack," Wolffe conceded that the Loth-wolves fought similarly to the "boys" from his previous unit.

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