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After the Battle of Genosis, Mark was assigned to serve as Captain of the Eighty-Second (82nd) Battalion. Under the command of Jedi General Thalen – who was bookish and nervous – the 82nd suffered many loses. Everything came to a head 3 months later, during a battle on Eadu’s moon, where Thalen and nearly the entire Battalion was massacred. Only Mark and 11 other clones survived.

Mark and the remaining 11 were then reassigned to Chimera Company, a new clone company made up of the remnants of more than a dozen similarly-decimated armies. Chimera was led by Jedi General Teyla Marin and her Padawn, Commander Gida Tiatkin. With the poor leadership of Thalen, Mark was very reluctant to take orders from more Jedi, but he eventually found common ground with Teyla and Gida, and the three of them were able to turn the fragmented company into a cohesive, close-knit unit.

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While he repainted his armor to match the purple of the rest of Chimera Company, he kept the green of the 82nd on the fin of his helmet as a tribute to the ones he lost. The rest of Chimera followed suit, wearing the purple paint of their current company, and the color of their original units on their helmets.

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Mark is Force-sensitive. Discreetly, she and Gida Tiatkin began teaching – but not training – Mark about how to utilize his newfound abilities.

Once it came into her possession, Teyla gifted Mark the lightsaber of her old maser, Sifo-Dyas. He fitted it with a kyber crystal he had found in a cave while on a mission two years before. Mark’s fighting style leans towards offense, and is somewhat aggressive, similar to Form V, Shien & Djem So.

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And thus completes the design sheets for the heads of Chimera Company!! Though time consuming and tedious, I'm so pleased with how they've turned out!!

You can read more about Mark, Teyla, and Gida on my AO3, HERE!