Having been tasked with sabotage in a nanovirus lab on a separatist-controlled planet, four clones work right under the enemy's nose. Small, with insufficient firepower, they not only act in the rear of the enemy without cover, but are also forced to deal with strangers, and not with proven combat comrades. The situation becomes even worse when Darman, a bomb squad member, is cut off from the rest of .. Even though Darman stumbles upon the Jedi Padawan Etain Ter-Mukan, his luck turns into nothing when Etain confesses his blatant inexperience. Fleeing from his commando and lost Jedi is waiting for a long and dangerous journey through a hostile land infested with slave traders, separatists and suspicious natives. A single wrong step can lead to disclosure and inevitable death. On a mission like this, anyone would fold their necks... anyone but the Republic Commandos.