Rex's battle strategy algorithm

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Rex's battle strategy algorithm

Production information

Type

Computer algorithm^[1]

Creators

Clone Captain Rex^[1]

Usage and history

Purpose

To counter theClone Captain Rex's strategy(Confederacy of Independent Systems)^[1]

Affiliation

Galactic Republic^[1]
Confederacy of Independent Systems(appropriated)^[1]

"Here's the algorithm. You're looking for a program using this sequence."

―Captain Rex, to Tech^[1]

Rex's battle strategy algorithm was an algorithm that belonged toClone Captain Rex of the501st Legion in theGrand Army of the Republic, which he had created to analyzeRepublic Military strategies for weaknesses and come up with ways to counter them.ARC troopers Fives andEcho were the only other people who knew the algorithm. However, during theBattle of Anaxes, theSeparatist Droid Army was somehow pushing back theRepublic forces on all fronts, and Rex theorized that theSeparatists had somehow gained access to the algorithm, despite Echo and Fives both being presumeddead and that he was the only person who should have known of its existence. Infiltrating the SeparatistCyber Center onAnaxes, Rex andClone Force 99 memberTech discovered that the algorithm was actually being broadcast live fromSkako Minor by a still-alive Echo, who was in the custody of the Separatist-alignedTechno Union. SeparatistAdmiral Trench had been using the algorithm to gain an advantage over the Republic's forces during the battle.

Description[]

"Look, Rex, I hear what you're saying. But it's just not possible."
"I hope you're right. But the fact is, Echo's fingerprints are all over these Separatist strategies."

―Commander Cody and Captain Rex^[1]

The algorithm was invented byClone Captain Rex of the501st Legion, who was one of the most talented officers theRepublic Military had during theClone Wars,^[1] to analyzeGalactic Republic strategies and develop counters to any discovered weaknesses.ARC troopers Fives andEcho were the only ones besides Rex who knew the algorithm.^[2]

History[]

"I think Echo's alive."
"That's not possible. He died at the Citadel."
"The way the droids are countering us here, the strategies I'm using, they're all old battle plans Echo and I drew up together."

―Captain Rex and Commander Cody^[1]

Rex developed the algorithm, with only Fives and Echo also aware of its existence, some time before theBattle of Lola Sayu.^[1]^[2] With Echo's apparentdeath in an explosion during the action onLola Sayu^[3] and Fives' later death onCoruscant after having allegedly gone insane,^[4] Rex was seemingly the only person alive who knew of the algorithm's existence.^[2] However, Echo had not actually died at theCitadel. Severely injured in the explosion of theSheathipede-class Type B shuttle he had been attempting to reclaim, he was salvaged by theSeparatists, eventually winding up in the hands of theTechno Union.^[3]^[5] He was turned into acyborg, and the Union extracted information from his brain,^[5] allowing them to use him to work out the algorithm.^[6] Kept in stasis in a facility inPurkoll onSkako Minor, he was unaware of his surroundings or what was happening to him.^[5]

When thecampaign for control of theplanet Anaxes began,Admiral Trench, in command of the Separatist forces, had the algorithm transmitted from Skako Minor to aCyber Center constructed on Anaxes' surface,^[1] where he could review it from his flagship.^[7] Over the course of several weeks, the Republic's hold on the planet began to slip away, with their forces sustaining unusual losses.Captain Rex believed that the Separatists were somehow using his strategies and algorithm, and came to the conclusion that Echo was the only possible way the enemy could have gotten a hold of them, meaning that he might still be alive. He andClone Commander Cody came forward toJedi Generals Mace Windu andAnakin Skywalker with the theory that the Separatists had somehow figured out how to counter Rex, but the Captain was loath to admit his idea that Echo was still alive as he thought the Jedi might think he was crazy for suggesting it. Rex and Cody received permission to lead a strike team behind enemy lines to the Cyber Center to find out how they were being countered.^[1]

Cody called inClone Force 99, an irregular unit ofclone commandos informally known as the "Bad Batch," to participate in the mission alongside himself, Rex, ARC trooperJesse, andclone medic Kix. When let in on the theory that Echo was still alive, Cody was skeptical. En route, thegunship the strike team was travelling was shot down, leaving Cody severely injured and Rex in charge of the mission, as Kix stayed behind with Cody to wait for an evac. Upon breaching the Cyber Center in a two-pronged attack,Tech of the Bad Batch accessed the center's computers and found that the algorithm was a live transmission instead of a stored program. Digging deeper, Tech found a transmission of Echo's voice, and when Rex asked for the voice's identity, the response was Echo's identification number, CT-1409, proving he was alive.^[1]

The discovery led Rex, Skywalker, and the Bad Batch to launch an unsanctionedmission to Skako Minor to rescue Echo from the Techno Union. Despite heavy resistance frombattle droids, and Trench having warnedWat Tambor that the infiltration was likely, the strike team was able to get to Echo and release him from the stasis chamber.^[5] After Tambor'sbattle droids failed to recapture Echo, Tambor decided to hold off on informing the Separatist military of the loss as he wanted to find a way to recoup the lost profits that the ARC trooper's escape represented.^[8]

Behind the scenes[]

"As you know, I've studied our battle lines for some time. I developed an algorithm to counter all our tactical tendencies, with the hope we could use it to shore up our weaknesses. Since this battle for Anaxes started, the Separatists have always been one step ahead of us. If I'm right, Admiral Trench has my algorithm, and he's using it to predict our strategies. It's just… I don't know how he got it. My data files areheavily encrypted."

―Rex, in the original version of "The Bad Batch"^[9]

Within the story reel version of "The Bad Batch," Rex stated he made the algorithm to counter theGrand Army of the Republic's tactical tendencies.^[9]