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mamuzzyClone personnel have free will, even if they do follow orders. If they couldn’t think for themselves, we’d be better off with droids—and they’re a lot cheaper, too. They have to be able to respond to situations we can’t imagine. Will that change them in ways we can’t predict? Perhaps. But they have to be mentally equipped to win wars. Now thaw those men out. They have a job to do.
—Jedi Master Arligan Zey, intelligence officer
Secure briefing room, Fleet Support, Ord Mantell, three standard months after Geonosis •───────•°•❀•°•───────•
So I mentioned a here that I find Arligan Zey a little bit written-as-a-soldier character. Not because he actually is a war-veteran or something. But for me, Zey insantly give me the impression of a very pragmatist person.
I want to talk about this Chapter 2 intro quote a lot regarding how he speaks about the clones, but I will examine this from a different angle later. Now let's concentrate on the title INTELLIGENCE OFFICER.
Arligan Zey is a very interesting case, we don’t know his background, we don’t know what role he had in the Jedi Order before the Clone Wars started, but when we meet him in the books, he takes the role of an Intelligence Officer.
In the old canon/Legends, the closest the Jedi Order has for “intelligence officers” are the Jedi Sentinels and their sub specializations, the Jedi Shadows, who are skilled in infiltration, intel gathering, sabotaging, and often dancing in the fine line between Light and Dark side.
Master Zey isn’t named as such in the books, but he already acts like he has experience in such things, despite never leading an army before or participating in a war. This theory about Arligan Zey being a Jedi Shadow is my similiar "hear me out" like how I think Republic Commando is plays in the same universe as Knights of the Old Republic. (Jedi Shadows were introduced in this Universe too)
