What Happened When A Clone Commando Got A Jedi Padawan Pregnant?

They kept it, and then it killed her. Jedi General Etain Tur-Mukan and clone commando Darman, designation RC-1136, had a son named Venku Skirata during the Clone Wars, and formalised their union under Mandalorian custom. Etain survived the first hours of Order 66. Then, waiting to be collected by the family she had married into, she stepped between a Jedi Padawan and a clone trooper and was cut down by the Padawan's lightsaber. (Republic Commando: True Colors; Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel)

Who Etain was#

Etain Tur-Mukan started the war as a Padawan. Her master was Jedi Master Kast Fulier, and when the Jedi Order lost contact with him, Omega Squad was deployed to Qiilura to destroy the scientist Ovolot Qail Uthan's laboratory. Etain helped them do it, and Uthan was taken into Republic custody. (Republic Commando: Hard Contact)

She was never a standout in the way the Order measured people. Not gifted with raw Force power, not especially strict about the Jedi Code. What she did have was a genuine affinity for the clones. Etain sympathised with them and treated them as people. (Republic Commando: Hard Contact; Republic Commando: Triple Zero)

That temperament showed up in the field too. She was able to encourage and calm troopers during the fighting she took part in, enough that some have read it as a hint of battle meditation. (Republic Commando: Triple Zero; Republic Commando: True Colors)

By the later years she was a Jedi General. She and Bardan Jusik led Omega Squad, Delta Squad and a unit of Null ARC troopers through a purge of a Separatist terrorist group on Coruscant. (Republic Commando: Triple Zero)

The relationship, and the child#

The Order banned attachment. Etain was not the only one who ignored that. Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala are the famous case. Etain Tur-Mukan and clone commando Darman Skirata are another. (Attack of the Clones; Republic Commando: Triple Zero)

Etain fell pregnant and had the boy, Venku. Then she kept it from Darman. She left the baby with Kal Skirata, and Darman only learned later that he was a father. (Republic Commando: Triple Zero; Republic Commando: True Colors)

The union was formalised at the very end, when Darman proposed by comlink as Order 66 broke and they married under Mandalorian custom. The boy's surname comes from the clan, not the wedding. The Skirata name belongs to Kal Skirata, the Mandalorian trainer who raised Darman and his brothers and who built the family that took Venku in. (Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel; Republic Commando: True Colors)

What Order 66 did not do#

Etain lived through the start of Order 66. That alone puts her in a very small group. The clones she had spent the war alongside were the ones with the orders, and the men closest to her did not carry them out against her. (Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel)

The end came hours later on Coruscant, and it was close to an accident. Waiting on the Shinarcan Bridge Extension for Kal Skirata to collect her, she watched a group of Padawans try to break through a 501st checkpoint. When one of them went to kill a clone, she stepped in front of him. His lightsaber cut her from shoulder to spine, with Darman and Kal close enough to see it. (Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel)

No villain, no duel, no Sith. A frightened Padawan swinging at the wrong person. (Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel)

Venku after the war#

The child outlived his mother and the war that made him. (Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel; Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice)

Venku Skirata, also called Kad'ika, grew up inside Kal Skirata's Mandalorian household and survived the Imperial era, the start of which is covered by Imperial Commando: 501st. He was Force-sensitive, and he did not become a Jedi. (Imperial Commando: 501st; Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice)

He was still around decades later. When Jaina Solo went to Mandalore to train under Boba Fett, she encountered a pair of Force-sensitive Mandalorians: Bardan Jusik, using the name Gotab, and Venku. Jusik told her who he really was, and that Venku was the son of a Jedi and a clone. He had been a Jedi Knight who fought alongside Etain, and by then he had spent a lifetime living the other way. (Legacy of the Force: Revelation; Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice)

Legends only#

All of this belongs to Karen Traviss's Republic Commando novels, principally Hard Contact, Triple Zero, True Colors and Order 66, with the aftermath in Imperial Commando: 501st. It is Legends. Etain, Darman, Venku, Omega Squad and the Skirata clan have not surfaced in Disney canon. (Republic Commando: Hard Contact; Republic Commando: Triple Zero; Republic Commando: True Colors; Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel; Imperial Commando: 501st)

The reason the storyline still gets talked about is what it does to the clone premise. Most Clone Wars fiction asks whether the clones are people. This one just answers the question and moves on to the consequences: a Jedi General and a commando raising a child in the middle of a genocide, and the Order's own rules being the least of what goes wrong. (Republic Commando: True Colors; Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel)