RC-2197

Name: RC-2197

Alias: Katarn

Species: Human (clone)

Eye color: Brown

Hair: Black

Birth: 32 BBY Kamino

Age: 10 Galactic standard years

Affiliation: Grand Army of the Republic, Echo Squad (Reformed into) Triton Squad

RC-2197 "Katarn" was born and trained on the planet of kamino as cadet for the Republic Commandos. Where he would be trained by the Cuy'val Dar Sergeant Shale Xaivus as the squad leader for Echo Squad. During the training, Shale Xaivus utilized a live fire hunting and survival style of training. Any clones that she found was deficient in her training became prey for her to hunt, targets included clones she believed wouldn't work well in a team, persistently getting injured, or lack of awareness of their surroundings. Shale would target Katarn multiple times though would not be able top put him down, causing him injuries but nothing permanent. However this did not apply to all of the original members of Echo Squad as one of his squad mates was caught slipping up and was hunted down. Katarn earned his name for a creature that Shale always found difficult to get a bead on.

Katarn since was deployed with the rest of his squad to Geonosis. During the invasion, his squad was assigned with securing new battle droid schematics that were believed to be in development within the factories. However Echo squad's gunship came under fire by Geonosian AA fire where the transport crashed in hostile territory, more specifically in Geonosian infested hives. Katarn and members of his squad were cut off and for all they knew abandoned by their leaders, struggled tooth and nail through the hives until only Katarn and his pod brother Sarlaac were left. The mission was a failure, as they headed to the evacuation transports, as troopers were shipped off. Since then Echo squad, or what was left of it was assigned to a Republic Admiral as apart of a special taskforce troop, where during an ambush the last of Echo Squad would be dismantled, leaving Katarn alone. However has since been reassigned to Triton Squad.