Imperial Commando: 501st (coming soon)

The story begins with Ny Vollen at a spaceport, where she barely passes an Imperial checkpoint. She delivers her cargo, a Kaminoan Jedi named Kina Ha and a teenage female Jedi nicknamed Scout to Kyrimorut. Things are tense with the Jedi around.

Meanwhile, Niner and Dar attend an orientation meeting with Darth Vader, where they learn the 501st Commando Corps will be hunting down Jedi and deserters, including the Nulls and other clones with Kal. They are assigned to take out an Antarian Ranger called Jilam Kester. Two commandos, named Bry and Ennen, are also assigned with Niner and Dar on the same mission.

In Kyrimorut, everyone realizes that Kina Ha is at least a thousand years old and was genetically engineered for long life and received midi-chlorians by accident. They decide to use her genetics to try to find a way to stop the clone aging.

On the planet Celen, Squad Forty arrives. They head to Jilam's house which is surrounded by police. They enter, to find Jedi Master Camas, the commander of Republic Special Forces before Order 66. They fight, but Bry is killed by the Jedi before a gas line explodes, burning the house and Camas down with it. The only item of importance recovered is a computer.

Kal meets with Fenn Shysa, and Shysa asks Kal to have Bardan Jusik try to introduce Midi-Chlorians on Mandalore by having children. Kal refuses. Arla Fett is coming off medication, and is slightly crazy. Mij Gilimar monitors her.

Meanwhile, Niner and Dar meet with Jaller Obrim in a CSF Office. He had recovered data on the computer's memory chip, and gives it to Niner, telling him to get it to Kal at any cost.

The Nulls and Skirata hatch a plan to get Niner and Dar out of the barracks, and acquire stormtrooper suits. They also establish a secure comm link in Niner's helmet so they can talk to him. Commander Roly Melusar also takes command of the 501st Commando Corps, and appears to genuinely care about his men, and he quickly becomes popular, advocating for the complete destruction of Force users.

On Qail Uthan's homeworld, Gibad, her virus is used to destroy the planet's population, and in it, Uthan's relatives. Skirata gets Uthan working on an immunogen if in case Palpatine uses the virus on Mandalore.

The Nulls and Ny land on Coruscant, and Niner goes out with Darman in the city. Niner tells Darman that he wants to desert and Darman reluctantly agrees. The halfway there, he decides not to, saying he wants to help Kad by killing Force users. Niner goes ahead anyway, delivering the chip and fending off would-be thieves before returning to the 501st.

Melusar talks to Darman and Niner, saying he wants them to report only to him, as he doesn't trust other Imperials. They agree. On the chip, Jaing finds information on getting fugitives off of Coruscant, and Ny's name is on a list.

The Nulls also pick up Captain Maze, and General Zey is also with him. They are brought back to Kyrimorut, and greeted icily. Everyone discovers Maze staged Zey's death in order to get him off-planet.

A new commando, a Spaarti clone, Rede, is assigned to replace Bry. Ennen is more and more depressed by Bry's death and kills himself in the refreshers. Uthan finishes the immunogen, which is in a fever virus. She also begins gathering materials to create her killer virus to unleash on Coruscant as revenge for the Imperial slaughter at Gibad.

Squad Forty is deployed to fight a man with a lightsaber on Coruscant, and take him out easily. They then discover he was simply a thief with a saber, not a trained Jedi. Rede proves himself in taking out the man, who was named Yelgo.

The Nulls attach a secure link for Darman, so he can talk to Kad. Skirata decides to find a way to get rid of the Force users, and contacts Jedi Master Altis. They meet, and Altis agrees. Kal decides when the time comes, to erase the Jedis' minds so they have no memory of Kyrimorut. Jusik agrees to do it.

Everyone heads out to Keldabe to spread the immunogen, which they carry. They run into Dred Priest, and discover he is a member of a new Death Watch. Gilimar kills him.

Darman and Niner are assigned to destroy Altis and his small group. Darman decides to return to Kyrimorut at the news that there are Jedi there. He also decides to take out the Jedi to protect Kad. They ask Roly Melusar if they can go to Mandalore to get some Intel, and he agrees. The two plan to desert then.

I was a little upset with the random jedi nonsense. Especially when Maze called up and I thought that this meant that the "Clone Retirement inc." was actually going to start doing it's job but it turned out to be more jedi nonsense. And freaking Maze didn't have the balls to kill Zey which was... frusturating to say the least. Much as I like Djinn Altis, I thought he could have been left out, too. All he really did was complicate things and show me (again) that Etain needed to get her priorities straightened out.

The random love interests thrown in also seemed, well, random. And Jusik was left out. Of course, that puts a cramp in Shysa's evil mastermind plan, which makes me imagine Shysa setting Jusik up with random girls. I liked the romance between Mij and Uthan. It seemed so adorable and filled me with a warm and fuzzy "awwww" feeling for a while. (He also gained a permanent place on my list of favorite characters with his speech about empires and that RepoMan move he did on Mr. Deathwatch-crazyman. So freaking cool.)