Republic Commando tells the story of the four clone hero of the Delta squad. Sev is the close combat specialist of the team, and he loves to kill things.
Sev is the master of vibroblade, martial art, and hand-to-hand fight. Aggressive, fast moving, but in the meantime very strong. One of his favorite things is sniping - so became the sniper of the squad, too. When the Boss orders him to take a sniper position, and shoot down some enemy, Sev often reacts "with extreme pleasure, sir". He was trained by the Mandalorian sergeant Walon Wau, who taught him well, maybe even too well...
I have already written an article on Republic Commando game, mentioning almost everything for you about the game itself, the clones, their training, their weaponry, and their missions. In this article I will write about one of my favorites,
RC-1207, alias Sev, and I would like to show you a Sev custom figure. (RC stands for Recon Commando. The clones identify each other with the last two digit of their ID, that is why "oh seven" or just short "Sev" is his name).
Let's start with its painting! This guy looks crazy! Imagine a housewife who is kneading a dough,
while the telephone starts ringing! The woman hurries towards the telephone, and splodges her floury and soggy hands in her pinafore. Well, Sev does the same, he splodges his bloody, dirty hands in his armor. First randomly, in his thigh, and other random places, then he noticed, how this bloody armor frightens and terrifies the enemy, so he started to splodge his armor knowingly! And finally he made a special design, creating
this red painted, bloody, smeary end product.
Do you remember the
American movie "Cast away", when Tom Hanks grabs the ball with his bloody hand, and angrily throws it away on the island? That is how he created Mr. Wilson , the modern Friday (ala Robinson)... :-)
Well, you can see a very similar formation on Sev's helmet! This shape is a bloody palmprint! I suppose once he took it down, or put it up with a bloody hand, and he let the blood become dry, because it was cool, and agonized, too...
His
custom rifle is shining like it would have been a metal, not just a simple
piece of plastic. It is a bit worn, its edges are silvery because of the
usage. The display says there are 100 ammo in the shell. The barrel seems like as it would be a hole in it. The blue aiming laser seems like coming out from the rifle. The optic is like really made from glass, shining like a real binocular.
The backpack is unique, and typical of Sev. Yeah yeah, that is red, but
you can
read his ID on it, 07! Cool, I like it.
You can see on his calf and his forearm where the blood spattered, and how the blood ran down. It is thicker at some areas where the blood dried in the last years, and there are newer
spots from the latest fights. You can imagine Sev as he is fighting in the middle of many enemies, beating, kicking, wrist-blading them during the close combat, and after that he comes out red, bloody, in total madness, that his own squad members get frightened of him.
This clone
is crazy. His fellow squad members suspect that somebody has spiked his cloning vat.
He is too
aggressive, and enjoys the fight too much. Other clone troopers fight because they have to, because that was the order, but Sev fights because he likes it. You can read it on the back of his
custom card. If someone hears his menacing,
disturbing, low voice, that will think Sev is a brute clone. Sev was programmed and trained to be a soldier, to kill if necessary, but it seems it became to much, he enjoys it more then that would be acceptable. He has a grim sense of humor.
Delta squad member like Sev. They
are all brother by genes, and also brothers-in-arms. They
would given their lives for the others. Sev and Scorch
are like two clowns, they are always joking, and they boost
the moral of the squad with it. This is very practical, when they are before
action, when they afraid of dead, and never know if they even came home after
the battle. These two wags are always making fun, playing tricks, and they try
to make the mood better. The team laugh their heads off, uproarious, wildly,
manly, and dares to face their faith, and with their fears.
Have you seen Alien 2?
When the commando travels to the planet LV-426
to face the hundreds of deadly Aliens you could watch their hearth beats on
the monitors. It was so quick, that you couldn't see the pause between two
beats. And there stood up Hudson, the wag of that
commando, and he started to make fun. Do you remember? He wanted to make them
laugh, wanted to see his squad members to forget theirs fears, to be prepared
for the fight. He asked who is the greatest team, which is the best squad, WE
ARE, we go down, and we kick their ass!
Well, the same wags are Scorch
and Sev. Two good friends. They have developed a bond as strong and deep as family. They are joking before and during
missions, but they trust, love, help, and respect each other, and they are true
friend. Maybe that was the reason that I wanted these two clones on my shelf.
Delta Squad manned four Heavy AA turret against a CIS dropship. Once the ship was destroyed, Advisor ordered the Deltas to regroup at Boss's position. Only two clones arrive... Sev did not make it to the rendezvous point. The squad receives a last transmission from him, in which it becomes clear that he is under heavy attack and is possibly injured or killed. The clones always
obey orders unconditionally, but this time they almost disobey it, they wanna go back for Sev, no matter what the Advisor told. Delta Squad prepares to rescue Sev, but the commander orders them to pull back. However Scorch is raving with fury, they can't risk the mission, they had to leave their
friend back. As Anakin was not permitted to turn back the
Gunship to pick up Padme Amidala who felt out from the Republic Gunship, as it would have given a good chance for Dooku to escape, Republic Commando neither
were permitted to rescue their brother, because it should have risked the secret operations that were started and led by Master Yoda. He was a Jedi general at this time, and he is just arriving to Kashyyyk to help the wookies, which was continued in EPIII.
Many of the fans hope or
believe that we can find and rescue Sev in the second part of Republic Commando. Gossips say chapter II will be titled Order 66, and
we will be together with Sev again, but unfortunately we won't
only meet battle droids, super battle droids, spider
droids, trandoshans, but also Jedi masters, what would be very painful to kill
Jedi.
While we are waiting for Order 66 I bought the available figures (Scorch, Republic commando battle pack, Sun Fac) and handmade a custom Sev to be able to take a look for the heroes of Republic Commando PC game in my home. I think many other fans have done the same. At l(e)ast we can review our
favorites in plastic.
Please take a look at my custom Sev figure!
custom Sev figure close front
custom Sev figure front
custom Sev figure back
Thanks for visiting me, I expect you back!
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