Korbel " Korbel " was the nickname of a medic - trained clone trooper captain serving in the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars . In 22 BBY , he and a squad of his men accompanied Senator Padmé Amidala to the Wild Space planet of Zigoola to rescue Jedi Master Obi - Wan Kenobi and Senator Bail Organa , who had been injured and stranded there during an investigation of the planet . After retrieving the two , the group returned to the galactic capital of Coruscant . During their flight , Korbel and his men treated Kenobi , and the Jedi was later able to make a full recovery . Biography . The clone trooper nicknamed " Korbel " was cloned from the bounty hunter Jango Fett on Kamino to fight in the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars . Serving as a clone captain in the Republic army , Korbel was fully medic - trained . In 22 BBY , Jedi Grand Master Yoda assigned the captain and several of his troopers to help Senator Padmé Amidala retrieve Jedi Master Obi - Wan Kenobi and Senator Bail Organa from the Wild Space planet of Zigoola , where the two had been stranded during their investigation of a Sith - related threat to the Jedi Order and the Republic . Because Kenobi had been severely injured on Zigoola , Master Yoda hand - picked Korbel and his men for their medical abilities to participate in rescuing the Jedi Master . Korbel and five of his men met Amidala in her private Coruscant spaceport , where Korbel introduced himself and his men and became acquainted with Amidala . Once the troopers had made quarters in Amidala ' s H - type Nubian yacht , the group set out for the Wild Space world in the vessel using a pre - plotted hyperspace course that Yoda had provided . Arriving in orbit of the planet , Korbel commented that the Royal Yacht was the " sweetest ship he had flown in his life " while scanning the world for Kenobi ' s and Organa ' s lifesigns , which had also been provided by Yoda . Locating the stranded pair on the planet ' s night side , Korbel told Amidala that , as a safety measure , he and his men would reconnoiter the area before she disembarked , to which Amidala agreed . After Korbel and the clones had completed their inspection of the vicinity , Senator Amidala joined them on the surface of the planet . Both Organa and Kenobi had been injured , and the latter ' s leg was badly wounded . After briefly conferring with the two , Amidala allowed Korbel and one of his men to carry the Jedi onto the yacht . On the return trip to Coruscant , Korbel treated and administered a painkiller to Kenobi . After a week of healing in the Jedi Temple , Master Kenobi was able to make a full recovery . Personality and traits . A Human male , Korbel stood 1 . 83 meters tall . Fully medic - trained , he was compassionate , even with his intense clone trooper training on Kamino . During the flight to Zigoola , he and his men kept a " professional and polite " distance from Senator Amidala and also took care of both her and themselves with efficiency . He was complimentary about the yacht ' s medbay and noted that the vessel was " the sweetest ship had piloted in his life . " After landing on Zigoola , Korbel and his men performed a reconnaissance on the nearby area for Senator Amidala ' s protection . Korbel and one of his men carried Kenobi onto the yacht " with a careful tenderness " that surprised Amidala . Behind the scenes . Korbel served as a minor character in the December 2008 novel " " , written by Karen Miller as the second installment in . To date , the novel is Korbel ' s only appearance .