Vill " Vill " was the nickname of a clone of the deceased bounty hunter Jango Fett . Originally a clone trooper of the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars , Vill became one of the first stormtroopers after the Galactic Republic was reorganized into the Galactic Empire . As a clone programmed with absolute loyalty , Vill was an obedient soldier who executed orders without moral or ethical restraint . A month after Emperor Palpatine ' s Declaration of a New Order , Vill served as commander of a regiment of stormtroopers from the 501st Legion , an elite unit of clone soldiers who served directly under the command of the Sith Lord Darth Vader . Vill and his regiment were dispatched on a mission to New Plympto with orders to eradicate the last remaining pockets of Separatist resistance . Biography . Battle of New Plympto . In 19 BBY , a month after Emperor Palpatine abolished the Galactic Republic in order to create the Galactic Empire , Vill was one of millions of clone troopers who continued his service as a stormtrooper . By this time , he was a regiment commander in the elite 501st Legion , and thus he answered directly to the Emperor ' s second - in - command , the Sith Lord Darth Vader . Around the same time , the Imperial subjugation of New Plympto proceeded at a slow pace with great difficulty . The native Nosaurians , former members of the Separatist Alliance , created their own resistance cell after the Clone Wars was concluded . Ironically , they found a new ally in a former enemy . General Dass Jennir , a Jedi survivor of Order 66 , joined the Nosaurians ' fight against the Empire . As a result of the Nosaurians ' ongoing rebellion , Emperor Palpatine dispatched a stormtrooper regiment of the 501st Legion , under the leadership of Commander Vill , to New Plympto with orders to bring the planet under Imperial control by annihilating the rebels . After their arrival , Vill and his soldiers steadily pushed the Nosaurians back until the rebels were forced to make a final stand at Half - Axe Pass . The Battle of Half - Axes Pass was a complete massacre in which the Nosaurian army was almost utterly destroyed . Those who surrendered after the battle were summarily executed by the 501st Legion . Their families were captured and , by order of Emperor Palpatine , Commander Vill had them all processed into slave market on Orvax IV . Afterward , the clone commander reported the details of the battle to Darth Vader via holocomm . As the 501st prepared to depart the conquered planet of New Plympto , Commander Vill returned to Vader ' s flagship , the " Imperator " - class Star Destroyer " Exactor " . He reported directly to Commander Appo , Vader ' s second - in - command in the 501st Legion , who wanted to know about an infiltration incident that occurred after the battle . Vill , unaware that the infiltrator was the Jedi Dass Jennir , said that a Alpha - 3 " Nimbus " - class V - wing starfighter was stolen from the 203rd Division and used to create a distraction that enabled most of the grounded civilian ships to escape from New Plympto . Death . Three months later , Commander Vill and the 501st Legion participated in the Imperial conquest of the planet Bandomeer , an operation that was personally overseen by Darth Vader . In the aftermath of the campaign , which was easily won against a group of lightly - armed rebellious miners , Vill provided a casualty report to the Sith Lord . Vader then took the opportunity to ask Vill if the clones were indoctrinated with a to kill him ; an order that they would carry out without question if it came from Emperor Palpatine . Vill ' s hesitation to answer the question confirmed Vader ' s suspicion . He then Force pushed the clone commander off of a cliff to ensure that his inquiry did not reach the Emperor . Personality and traits . Like virtually all clones who were grown to serve the Galactic Republic , Vill was programmed with absolute loyalty to the command hierarchy . As such , his full allegiance belonged to Supreme Chancellor Palpatine , the Commander - in - Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic . When Palpatine declared himself emperor of the first Galactic Empire , Vill dedicated his existence to enforcing Palpatine ' s New Order over the galaxy . As typical of a clone of Jango Fett , Vill ' s programmed loyalty made him susceptible to following any order without question or moral regard . He was neither conflicted by the ethical dilemma of executing unarmed prisoners , nor bothered by the transporting of civilian families into slavery . On the contrary , he adapted quickly to his new life as a stormtrooper . During the Clone Wars , Vill was concerned that the clones would be diminished as " glorified policemen " after the Separatists were defeated . Since the rise of the Empire necessitated further military operations , Vill was very pleased by the fact that the clones were still being used as soldiers . Furthermore , Vill fully accepted the purpose and role of all cloned stormtroopers ; they existed only to serve the Emperor until death . He felt empathy for his fellow clones to a certain extent , and believed that soldiers had to feel relevant — if only for the sake of troop morale . In terms of physical appearance , Vill bore a basic resemblance to millions of other clones from the same genetic template ; a genetic result of being a clone of Jango Fett , a bounty hunter who was killed during the first battle of the Clone Wars . By the time he and his regiment were sent to New Plympto , Vill ' s " face " — or more accurately , Jango Fett ' s face — sustained several scars . As was the same case with his cloned " brethren , " Vill was also designed to age at a faster rate than real Human beings . Thus , his physical age was at least twice as long as his actual , chronological age . Ironically , his loyalty to Emperor Palpatine was the cause of his demise . As a commander in the 501st Legion , Vill was loyal to his superior officer , the Sith Lord Darth Vader . But when Vader inquired about a secret contingency order to eliminate him , Vill was incapable of complying with an answer . His loyalty to Vader conflicted with his allegiance to Palpatine . Yet his lack of a reply was all the confirmation that Vader required before he killed the clone who had become nothing more than a loose end . Equipment . When Commander Vill became an Imperial stormtrooper , he continued to use his Phase II battle armor , which originally served as the armored uniform of the Republic clone troopers . Vill ' s armor sported the distinctive blue markings that identified him as a member of the 501st Legion . During the conquest of New Plympto , his armor was modified with the addition of a pauldron and kama . In addition to the DC - 15A blaster rifle , the primary weapon of cloned stormtroopers at the time , Vill was also equipped with dual DC - 17 hand blasters . Three months after the Battle of New Plympto , the Imperial code of uniformity became more strictly enforced , and thus the stormtroopers were required to remove the color designs on their armor . Vill obliged the new custom and restored his armor to its full white appearance . He also discarded his pauldron and kama , and thus adopted the same appearance as the other rank - and - file stormtroopers .