#Carno used to care for his men just like Rex did but he eventually gave up on sticking his neck out for them

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Couldn't leave these tags unanswered, so here ya go @squirrelno2

Heads up, this will definitely suck a bit, but then again this is Krell and his machinations we're talking about.

They started off just as any other clone fresh off Kamino. Bright-eyed, with a million and one expectations of the glory of serving the Republic and the Jedi, and just as many aspirations of being remembered as proud and powerful warriors, etc...

That is to say, they were in way over their heads and naive in a way only a Shiny could be, because anywhere was better than the frigid and wet hellhole that was Kamino, and surely all the good they'd heard of the Jedi thus far had to apply to their own General, right? How terribly wrong they were...

Now, I can't be sure of Krell's character prior to the war. We're never given much context of what he did before he was conscripted into fighting but, since he was likely a knight before he became a Jedi Master and doesn't appear to have had a Padawan, it's safe to assume he did (and preferred) a lot of solo missions before becoming a Jedi General. And I doubt he liked his position at all because it both meant he was being forced out of his comfort zone (the style of approach that worked for him) and being forced to look after several beings he didn't regard as particularly sentient (not many sentients understood the fine details of cloning and not all Jedi trusted the clone army)...

From my perspective, it definitely seems to me like Krell never wanted to lead a battalion of what he came to consider expendable subhumans, so he did everything in his power to get rid of these hindrances that kept slowing him down. And yet, no matter how many casualties, no matter how many expenses, he still got saddled with more and more troopers to replenish the numbers he'd lost while adding a bigger workload onto himself.

All of the logistics and strategy meetings, the unending flimsywork, every minute detail he was forced to tend to and iron out when he probably thought that he could do more on his own, without all of the dead-weight that could most definitely not keep up with him... It made him more and more hostile towards his men as time went on. Made them seem like little more than stubborn cockroaches. And then he started making the best of it.

If he himself couldn't get rid of them in battle, then he'd make it so they did it themselves outside of it. And thus started what the Imperial Scientists might consider and interesting "Social Experiment": How miserable did one have to make the lives of an entire clone battalion before they inevitably turned on each other?

Denial of amenities here, a few excessive punishments there, and maybe some coercion to fight amongst themselves on false pretenses of special treatment/favoritism on occasion ... The more troopers ended up dead by their own hands or via sabotaging each other, the less clones Krell had to deal with while on missions. And he got a bit of a kick watching them act like what he considered them to be: Nothing more than mindless killing machines.

To put it simply, Krell REALLY destroyed his battalion's sense of loyalty and camaraderie, and he enjoyed doing it. Might have done the same with the 501st if he'd had them for longer than just Umbara. But, since he was on a self-appointed mission to join Dooku, he opted with toying with them a little while actively sabotaging them.

Hence why Dogma was pitched against his vode so effectively. Krell already had the practice and he was fairly easy game...

The core members of Krell's Battalion (aka the Anti-501st)

They're... Uh... Something alright!

Lets be real, if they survived long enough under Krell's rule to get names and even ARC Troopers, then of course they're not going to be the most social or trusting of vode. If anything, the fact these 8 lads are considered their battalion's veterans is more than an explanation as to why they have such screwed up personalities/character traits.

I'm sure you can figure out who is which 501st lad's anti/mirror version. A detail not mentioned above however is that they all lack paint and are instead marked by battle damage and carbon-scoring. That's not even taking into account the scarring they all have...

Krell really did a number on them.