Coppertop Coppertop was the name assumed by a B1 battle droid who served in the Droid Army of the Confederacy of Independent Systems . During the Clone Wars , the battle droid participated in a battle on the planet Bogoa against the forces of the Galactic Republic , a rival state to the Confederacy . There , the droid was selected as the subject for an experiment enacted by the Confederate leader Count Dooku , to test the willingness of a programmed being to disregard its primary protocols . As the droid marched into battle , the directive Order 99 was issued to the mechanical soldier , which compelled the droid to ignore its orders to kill as a part of the Confederate war machine . The droid subsequently sought to be a free individual , and he took to administering medical assistance to the wounded of both the Confederacy and the Republic . While bandaging up the injured Republic trooper Gunner , Coppertop encountered Jedi General Obi - Wan Kenobi and Clone Commander CC - 2224 , and the droid explained to them his origins . However , shortly afterward , Kenobi and the clones were attacked by the Dark Jedi Asajj Ventress and the bounty hunter Cyreltov , who sought to recover the droid on Dooku ' s behalf . Not wanting to be the cause of any further violence , Coppertop surrendered to Ventress , then disabled himself using Cyreltov ' s deactivator pistol . Biography . Manufactured by the company Baktoid Combat Automata , a B1 battle droid with a masculine personality served in the Droid Army of the Confederacy of Independent Systems . The droid fought during the Clone Wars , a conflict waged between the CIS and the Galactic Republic . In about 21 BBY , the battle droid was deployed during an engagement against the Republic on the planet Bogoa . Elsewhere in the galaxy , the Dark Lord Darth Sidious — a Banite Sith who had plans to order the Republic ' s clone troopers to eliminate the Jedi Order as part of the Sith Grand Plan — instructed his apprentice , the Confederate leader Count Dooku , to perform an experiment to test how well a droid could disregard its primary orders , because he considered droids to be similar in nature to clones . The battle droid was selected as Dooku ' s intended test subject , and on the second day of the struggle on Bogoa , the droid was sent into combat alongside ranks of other B1 battle droids , during a Confederate attack on the Republic ' s rearguard forces . However , as the droid advanced into battle , a voice whispered the words " Order 99 " over the droid ' s comm unit , which triggered a shutdown of the droid ' s primary systems . The issuing of the order caused the droid to disregard his primary programming , overriding his desire to fight and granting him a new sense of individuality . Sometime later , the droid reactivated and found himself abandoned on the battlefield . Rather than rejoin the Confederate Droid Army , he decided to remain behind and provide medical assistance to both Confederate and Republic casualties of the fighting . He took to calling himself " Coppertop " and also customized his physical appearance , donning a cape and gaining a gold - colored crest on the top of his head . Count Dooku ordered his Dark Acolyte Asajj Ventress to recover Coppertop , so that he could examine and dismantle the droid , and she set out in pursuit of the errant battle droid , accompanied by the renowned Chiss bounty hunter Cyreltov . Republic troops ultimately broke through the Confederacy ' s stronghold on Bogoa , and in the aftermath of the engagement , Coppertop came across the stricken clone trooper Gunner and bandaged up the clone ' s torso . However , unbeknownst to the droid , he was sighted by Ventress and Cyreltov , and the pair observed his actions from afar . During an effort by the Republic forces to roundup their missing comrades , Clone Commander CC - 2224 — nicknamed " Cody " — also came across Coppertop , and he immediately assumed that the droid had hostile intentions toward Gunner , so he pointed his blaster at the droid and ordered Coppertop to put his hands up . Before Cody could destroy the droid , his superior , Jedi General Obi - Wan Kenobi , intervened and ordered Cody to hold back , because he could sense that Coppertop was different than other battle droids . When challenged by Kenobi to explain why he was helping Gunner , Coppertop introduced himself and told the Jedi that he had overcome his primary protocols . Suspicious of Coppertop ' s motives , Kenobi asked the droid to accompany him back to the Republic encampment . As Coppertop , Kenobi , and the clone troopers moved off , the droid told Kenobi the story of how his programming had been overridden as a result of the issuance of Order 99 . Just as he completed his tale , they were confronted by Ventress and Cyreltov , and the Dark Jedi demanded that Kenobi hand the droid over to them . The pair then proceeded to attack Kenobi and the troopers , and the Jedi ordered Coppertop to stay down , so as to avoid coming to harm . Not wanting to be the cause of any more violence , Coppertop ignored Kenobi ' s instruction and surrendered , handing himself over to Ventress . Determined to not be used by the Confederacy to cause any further loss of life , Coppertop decided to choose his own fate . As he was escorted away , he grabbed Cyreltov ' s deactivator pistol from the bounty hunter ' s belt and used it to disable himself . While Ventress had not been able to recover Coppertop intact , Dooku considered the experiment a success , and he reported his findings to Darth Sidious . Coppertop ' s example demonstrated that a conditioned individual could , when prompted , engage in a course of action that conflicted with its primary programming . As a result , in 19 BBY , Sidious issued the directive Order 66 to all clone troops , instructing them to turn against their Jedi commanders . Characteristics . Coppertop entered service with the Confederate Droid Army as a standard , bipedal B - series battle droid , standing at 1 . 91 meters in height , with black sensors and tan - colored plating . As a fourth - degree droid , Coppertop was designed for fighting , his primary aim being to kill the enemies of the Confederacy . To that end , he wielded an E - 5 blaster rifle . As a consequence of the activation of Order 99 during his service on Bogoa , Coppertop underwent a major personality change , and his primary aim became to ignore his old , combat - oriented programming and to come to the aid of weak and wounded beings instead . He believed that helping injured clone troopers — his former enemies — was the right thing to to , because the Humans were treated as expendable in the same way that battle droids like himself were , and he gained an aversion to fighting and sought to resolve conflict through peaceful means . The change in his programming caused Coppertop to gain a greater degree of individuality . He sought to live as a free droid rather than to serve the Droid Army , and felt that conviction to such an extent that he would rather deactivate himself than return to the Confederacy . In addition , he customized his appearance , gaining mandibles on the side of his face and a gold - colored crest atop his head . He also took to wearing a cape and he marked his torso with an inverted red stripe . Behind the scenes . Coppertop made his first and only appearance in " Star Wars " canon in " The Only Good Clanker " , a comic strip written by Robin Etherington and illustrated by artist Will Sliney , which was included in the October 2011 magazine " " . The comic was later reprinted in the publication " " .