- "I was sent here with other commandos…"
- ―Gregor, on his and Scorch's assignment to Daro
Scorch, also identified as RC-1262, was a clone commando who served in the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars and in the Galactic Empire's Project War-Mantle and Advanced Science Division with the military rank of Clone Commander. Scorch's military service with the Galactic Republic included the time serving with the commando unit, Delta Squad. In 20 BBY, the squad recovered two killed Jedi from the planet Devaron following a massacre there led by Count Dooku's new Sith apprentice, Savage Opress. Delta Squad took the bodies to the Jedi temple on the planet Coruscant and reported to four Jedi High Council members there.
In the period following the end of the Clone Wars and the rise of the Galactic Empire in 19 BBY, Scorch was involved in the training of the first generation of non-cloned Imperial stormtroopers at an Imperial base on the planet Daro. After fellow clone commando Clone Captain Gregor was captured trying to desert the base, the rogue clone commando unit known as Clone Force 99 infiltrated the base to free him. Scorch engaged Gregor and his liberators and pursued them, wounding Gregor and overpowering Tech before being incapacitated by a flurry of stun blasts by the remaining rogue commandos. He later regained consciousness and joined Imperial troops on an LAAT/i gunship to apprehend the Bad Batch leader, Hunter, taking him into Imperial custody. Scorch then served in the Advanced Science Division under Dr. Royce Hemlock, leading the Imperial royal guard commandos as a Clone Commander.
Biography[]
Clone Wars[]
- "There were no survivors on Devaron. Everyone was killed, including Master Halsey and his Padawan."
- ―Boss reports after Delta Squad returned from Devaron
RC-1262 was created on the planet Kamino as a clone of the bounty hunter Jango Fett to be part of the Galactic Republic's clone army. Nicknamed Scorch, he became a clone commando and part of commando unit Delta Squad—alongside Clone Sergeant Boss, Fixer, and Sev—during the Clone Wars between the Republic and the Separatist Alliance. At one point he and the rest of Delta Squad were dispatched into a conflict from an LAAT/i gunship to seize a location of importance to them.
In 20 BBY, Delta Squad was deployed on a Nu-class attack/transport shuttle to the planet Devaron, where Jedi Master Halsey, his Padawan Knox and their clone troopers had been massacred at the Jedi Order's Temple of Eedit by Separatist forces led by Count Dooku's new Sith apprentice, Savage Opress. The squad recovered the bodies of Halsey and Knox and transported them to the Jedi temple on the capital planet Coruscant. After landing, the commandos brought a coffins of the two dead Jedi, Scorch flanking Boss, who informed Jedi General Obi-Wan Kenobi and three other members of the Jedi High Council about how none of the Republic forces had survived the attack on Devaron.
Imperial Era[]
Extraction on Daro[]
- "The muster report lists 50 clone commandos and 1,000 TK troopers."
- ―Echo comments on the Imperial base's personnel, which included Scorch
The Clone Wars ended in 19 BBY with the fall of the Separatists and the transition of the Republic into the Galactic Empire. The Empire sought to begin to phase out the clone army inherited from the Republic and began training a new conscripted stormtrooper army. On the planet Daro, Scorch was one of fifty clone commandos involved in the training of the first generation of the new stormtroopers at an Imperial base encased in a mountain. One of the commandos, Gregor, became disillusioned with the Imperial cause and attempted to desert, but was quickly captured by the base's troopers. Gregor, though, had activated a distress beacon, and Clone Force 99, a rogue clone commando unit better known as the "Bad Batch," was sent to rescue the imprisoned commando.
Three members of the Bad Batch, Sergeant Hunter, Tech and Echo, infiltrated the Imperial base and freed Gregor from his cell, alerting the Imperial forces there of the incursion. Scorch and a squad of stormtroopers went to a turbolift, only to encounter Gregor and the three infiltrators. As the Imperial commando and his troops raised their blasters, Gregor and Hunter kicked Scorch back into the troopers and shut the lift door just as the Imperials fired on them. Scorch and two stormtroopers fired on the turbo lift as it descended. The commando and his troops continued to pursue Gregor and the infiltrators, who stunned many of the troopers along the way and utilized a smoke bomb to cover their retreat.
To flank his targets, Scorch took a shortcut and jumped across a moving lift. Scorch was quick to ambush Gregor and his liberators, shooting Gregor twice in his chestplate and overpowering Tech. However, Hunter and Echo bombarded the Imperial commando with multiple stun blasts to incapacitate him. After regaining consciousness, Scorch joined a complement of stormtroopers and two clone commandos on an LAAT/i gunship as Gregor and the Bad Batch attempted to escape on their Omicron-class attack shuttle, the Marauder. In the escape attempt, Hunter failed to board the Marauder and fell down the mountain. The LAATs deployed Scorch and his troops shortly before Hunter, and the unit apprehended the rogue clone commando.
Working for Hemlock[]
- "Did any of the villagers see the Zillo?" "Several. The locals have been detained and will be dealt with. However, one vessel escaped our assault. It was a military-class shuttle." "Find out who it was." "Yes, sir."
- ―Hemlock and Scorch
Some time after, Scorch was reassigned to the Advanced Science Division which was overseen by Dr. Royce Hemlock, and by that time had obtained the military rank of Clone Commander. In 18 BBY, when a young Zillo Beast clone belonging to the Advanced Science Divison escaped and caused the ship transporting it to crash on the planet Silla, Scorch was tasked with recapturing it and covering up the incident. Deployed from a Venator-class Star Destroyer, Scorch's strike team encountered Clone Force 99 in their ship the Marauder, who were trying to neutralize the beast after they unintentionally released it while scavenging the wreck of the ship that it had been aboard. The Bad Batch was pursued and subsequently fled the system as the Imperials stunned and recaptured the rampaging Zillo Beast clone. Due to the beast being witnessed by the entirety of a local village near the crash site, Scorch and a team of other clone commandos rounded up the villagers and forced them onto shuttles, and had them "dealt with" in order to preserve the clandestine nature of the cloned animal. Following its capture, Scorch returned with the beast to the cloning facilityy at Mount Tantiss on the planet Weyland, where he gave his mission report to Hemlock. He mentioned the skirmish with Marauder, but did not seem to recognize it. Hemlock then ordered him to investigate the ship's owners since they bore witness to his classified experiment.
Capturing Omega[]
Later, during a battle in Ord Mantell City between Hemlock's forces and Clone Force 99, Hemlock and his commandos were ambushed in the streets of Ord Mantell by Omega while escorting a captured Hunter and Wrecker, who demanded the return of her brothers. Hemlock cunningly stalled Omega, which allowed Scorch to drop behind the young renegade clone and stun her unconscious, allowing her capture and delivery to Mount Tantiss.
Stationed on Tantiss[]
Scorch was later present on Mount Tantiss when Hemlock was informed about Shuttle 135's crash.
During Darth Sidious's visit to Mount Tantiss to inspect the progress of Project Necromancer and Omega and Crosshair's concurrent escape from the facility, Scorch and Hemlock became informed of their escape and deployed troops to pursue them. After the two escaped prisoners commandeered a Rho-Class transport shuttle to escape, four Alpha-3 Nimbus-Class V-Wings were deployed to shoot them down. However, before the pursuers could succeed, Imperial scientist Emerie Karr, who had recently received test results from Omega's blood, approached Hemlock with news of its positive M-count transfer. Hemlock immediately ordered Scorch to call off the V-Wings, and though Scorch protested the order, he obliged, ordering the fighters to break off and allow the shuttle to escape.
In hot pursuit[]
After the shuttle crashed on the planet Lau, Imperial forces spotted the shuttle and reported it to Captain Mann, who alerted Hemlock of the two escaped prisoners, and Hemlock travelled to the planet with Scorch. However, a skirmish broke out prior to Hemlock's arrival, in which Crosshair and Omega escaped again in a stolen Imperial cargo transport. Hemlock and Scorch arrived at the crash site of the shuttle, and Hemlock ordered that the stolen transport be tracked.
During the Empire's efforts to attack and sabotage the Clone Underground, clone assassin CX-1 was stunned and captured by resistance member Howzer during a failed attempt to assassinate senator Avi Singh. Following his capture, Scorch ordered another assassin, CX-2 to travel to the hidden resistance base on Teth to assassinate CX-1 and prevent his interrogation. After CX-2 discovered Omega's presence at the base, he contacted Scorch and reported his findings. Scorch then ordered CX-2 to transmit the bases coordinates and await reinforcements commanded by clone commander Wolffe deployed to recapture Omega, though the ensuing battle sees Omega escape yet again with key members of the underground.
Project Necromancer[]
As part of the Empire's Project Necromancer, Hemlock enlisted the help of numerous well-known bounty hunters such as Cad Bane, and used them to abduct force-sensitive children suspected of a high M-Count and holding them in containment on Mount Tantiss, regularly collecting blood samples for testing. Hemlock believed the young minds of the children to be more influenceable. However, this did not stop some children, like the Mirialan child Jax, designated SP-32, from attempting to escape.
Scorch and three Imperial commandos were deployed to contain him, quickly surrounding the child. Still refusing to back down, Jax attempted to rush past Scorch and down the hall behind him, but Scorch stunned him the instant he moved. When Emerie Karr, now promoted to Chief Medical Scientist of the project in Nala Se's place, criticized Scorch for his extreme methods, Scorch explained he was complying with protocols.
Not long after, Hemlock assigned Scorch to personally retrieve the newly captured Tarlafar infant, Bayrn, for the project, as Bayrn was force-sensitive. Karr volunteers to travel with Scorch to the exchange point at a space station above Coruscant to ensure that the specimen is "handled carefully." Hemlock reluctantly grants her request, and Karr accompanies the commander to the station.
Aboard the station, Scorch, Karr, and a group of stormtroopers, met with Cad Bane, who had been responsible for the specimen's abduction, outside of his ship, the Justifier, to make the exchange. Upon viewing the infant subject, Karr was surprised by their young age, though Scorch was seemingly unbothered by this, saying that then they would be less trouble. After the exchange was made and Bane received his payment, Karr took the child into custody, and they returned to Tantiss with their new subject.
Personality and traits[]
As a clone of the legendary bounty hunter Jango Fett, Scorch shared his genetic template's basic physiological characteristics, and as such was a human male that stood at 1.83 meters tall and had tan-colored skin.
Scorch was a diligent soldier that understood the clandestine nature of the Galactic Empire's secret operations and worked closely with the troops under his command to ensure that the sensitive nature of such dark projects into cloning remained secure.
Equipment[]
Scorch wore the standard Katarn-class armor of a clone commando with gray, white and yellow markings and a backpack. He wielded a DC-17m Interchangeable Weapon System and later a DC-15A blaster carbine.
Behind the scenes[]
- "And I busted out the original game sound for Scorch's DC17 that I made 18 years years [sic] ago."
- ―David W. Collins
Scorch first appeared in canon continuity in "Witches of the Mist," the fourteenth episode of the third season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars which aired on January 21 2011. He was identified as "Scorch" in the original episode guide for the episode, and as RC-1262 in the 2021 reference book Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Character Encyclopedia - Join the Battle!. Scorch was originally created in Star Wars Legends continuity when he appeared in the the 2005 video game Star Wars: Republic Commando, which was centered around Scorch's unit Delta Squad. In the game, Scorch was voiced by Raphael Sbarge, who also previously voiced the character Carth Onasi in the 2003 digital roleplaying game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
After a clone commando modeled after Scorch reappeared in canon in "War-Mantle," the fourteenth episode of the animated Disney+ series Star Wars: The Bad Batch which aired July 30 2021, David W. Collins, who did sound for the episode, revealed that he had reused the original game sound for Scorch's DC-17 blaster from Star Wars: Republic Commando. Although the Scorch's identity was never outright confirmed during the events of "War-Mantle," Collins's Tweet confirmed it was indeed Scorch. Indeed, he was once more identified as "Scorch" in the credits of the tenth episode of Season 2, "Metamorphosis," when he was also voiced by Dee Bradley Baker for the first time. His identity was further confirmed in a named episode poster added to the Season 2 poster gallery on StarWars.com.