CT-8770 was a clone trooper who served the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars.^[2] Like the rest of his brethren, CT-8770 was a clone of the bounty hunter Jango Fett and was born and raised on the planet Kamino to fight in the Grand Army of the Republic.^[1] In 19 BBY, during a battle on the planet Cato Neimoidia, CT-8770 was stationed in a clone staging area in one of the planet's bridge cities. When Order 66 was issued, a command that commanded all clones to kill their Jedi Generals, and General Plo Koon's Delta-7 Aethersprite-class light interceptor was shot down, it crashed into the staging area, killing CT-8770^[2] and 140 other clone troopers.^[3] Moff Marcellin Wessel later reported on CT-8770's death to Palpatine, the Emperor of the newly proclaimed Galactic Empire.^[2]

Behind the scenes

CT-8770 was first mentioned in the article Order 66: Destroy All Jedi, written by Daniel Wallace and published in Star Wars Insider 87 in April of 2006. In 2008, the clone trooper received a joint entry with CT-8910—another victim of Koon's crash—in The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia.

Sources

• "Order 66: Destroy All Jedi"—Star Wars Insider 87 (First mentioned)
• The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. I, p. 155 ("CT-8770, CT-8910")

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