LE - 2003 LE - 2003 , nicknamed " Elli , " was a First Order stormtrooper and personal guard of General Brendol Hux . Biography . LE - 2003 was found and taken into the First Order at a young age , programmed by General Brendol Hux ' s stormtrooper training program to be an excellent and loyal warrior . She served directly as one of his guards , traveling with the general on his various travels to different fringe worlds such as Otomok in search of new recruits for the First Order . One such trip took them to Parnassos ; a wasteland world where civilization had collapsed over a hundred years prior , and whose long dormant orbital defense systems reactivated at the First Order ' s approach - shooting down Hux ' s ship . LE - 2003 , alongside her fellow stormtroopers , PT - 2445 and HF - 0518 , was able to secure Hux and his personal droid in an escape pod . Their escape pod landed in territory controlled by the Claw clan , ruled by a Dug named Balder . The Claws freed Hux and the trooper s from the crashed pod , and in turn , were offered membership in the First Order , with stormtrooper training similar to LE - 2003 ' s . Their meeting was interrupted , however , by the arrival of Phasma and her warriors from the Scyre , who declared that they were Parnassos ' greatest warriors , and thus most fitting to lead Hux to his ship and join his clan . Phasma killed Balder , while LE - 2003 and her stormtrooper allies shielded Hux from harm as they escaped Claw territory - displaying a tenacity that impressed the Scyre warriors . During the long trek across the cliffs and desert s of Parnassos surface , the First Order forces and Scyre warriors faced many challenges , including beetles , skinwolves and other clans of survivors . During one of these battles , Hux was injured by a skinwolf , and the disease spread swiftly - forcing the group to seek medical attention from the remains of Terpsichore Station , a mining facility once operated by Con Star Mining Corporation before Parnassos fell into disarray over a hundred years prior ; now cared for by over forty still active but increasingly eccentric droid s . The droids were happy to heal Hux ' s wounds , but required payment - forcing the warriors to become Con Star Mining staff , and putting them to work on a sixty day plan to pay off their debts . While LE - 2003 and the other stormtroopers initially balked at the idea of performing menial mining labor for a company that no longer existed , they ultimately relented to keeping up an illusion of servitude until Hux was healed and they could plan an escape . Deprived of their face - concealing armor and isolated from the authority of their general , the stormtroopers slowly bonded with the Scyre warriors - finally giving each other nicknames to appease the native warriors who found their First Order numerical designations difficult to remember . LE - 2003 took the name " Elli " and declared that HF - 0518 would be " Huff " despite his protests . When Hux recovered after a few days of treatment , Elli and the others orchestrated an escape , shutting down the entire colony of droids and taking a group of speeder bike s and a ground assault vehicle to quickly travel across the sands . Initially , the troopers used the bikes so they could scout ahead of the GAV , but at Gosta ' s request , Hux allowed the Scyre girl to accompany LE - 2003 in learning to operate the vehicle . During their time together , Gosta had taken a shine to Elli , and the stormtrooper was happy to show her the intricacies of the bike ' s controls and workings . Their time together was short lived , as their bike was the first to run into a massive trench trap , set by the people of Arratu to capture anyone who approached their city . While Elli and Gosta survived the crash , Elli was badly injured and unresponsive , forcing PT - 2445 to drag her out of the trench and carry her back to the others . When the group was captured and brought to the prison s of Arratu , her stormtrooper companions continued to haul her comatose body around , until Phasma and Hux examined her and concluded that she had broken her neck in the fall . While Hux was sure she ' d survive , and it was noted that if they escaped the planet , First Order medical technology would repair the damage fully , until they got to space , she would have no hope of recovering the use of her limb s . Phasma dismissed her as dead weight , and Hux offered no disagreement . When the group was called to meet Arratu himself , Phasma removed Elli ' s armor and claimed it as her own . As her companions left her alone in the prison cell , she was killed and eaten by the starving prisoners . Behind the scenes . LE - 2003 was first introduced in the 2017 novel " Phasma " , written by Delilah S . Dawson .