Nala Se Nala Se was a female Kaminoan doctor and scientist who served the Galactic Republic throughout the Clone Wars . As the Chief Medical Scientist of Kamino , her home planet , she was directly involved in the creation of the Grand Army of the Republic . She was also one of the few individuals who knew about Clone Protocol 66 , a secret directive within the design of every clone trooper ' s inhibitor chip . During the war , Nala Se went to great lengths to preserve the secrecy of Protocol 66 , believing it to be a contingency against rogue Jedi . Biography . An army for the Republic . Thirty - two years before the Battle of Yavin , Jedi Master Sifo - Dyas hired the Kaminoan cloners to create an army for the Galactic Republic . As the chief medical scientist of Kamino , Doctor Nala Se was one of the primary engineers of the clone trooper s — an army cloned from the genetic template of Jango Fett , a human bounty hunter . With the death of Sifo - Dyas shortly after the army ' s inception , Nala Se and her people gained a new benefactor : the Sith Lord Darth Tyranus . At Tyranus ' behest , Nala Se oversaw the installation of an inhibitor chip in the brain of every clone trooper in development . She was told by Tyranus that the bio - chip and its directive , Clone Protocol 66 , served as a safeguard against betrayal from renegade Jedi , although its true purpose was to fulfill the Sith plot of exterminating the Jedi Order . As a contingency plan , Protocol 66 was classified information that Nala Se guarded in accordance with Tyranus ' instructions . The Clone Wars . In the aftermath of the first battle in the Clone Wars , Nala Se became an asset to the newly - formed Grand Army of the Republic due to her close involvement in the creation of clone trooper s . As a doctor , she served on multiple " Haven " - class medical stations where her medical skills were put to use for the treatment of injured clones . In addition to her off - world duties , Nala Se supported the war effort as a scientist and doctor from the Tipoca City cloning facility on her homeworld . The " Malevolence " . While serving as the Kaminoan chief of the Kaliida Shoals Medical Center , Nala Se learned that her facility had become a target for the " Malevolence " , a Separatist " Subjugator " - class heavy cruiser commanded by General Grievous . While coordinating the evacuation of the station ' s staff and patients , she was informed by Admiral Wullf Yularen that the Separatist attack was imminent — making it impossible to completely abandon the facility in time . However , the Kaliida Shoals station was ultimately saved by the efforts of the Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan , Ahsoka Tano , before Grievous could destroy it . Following the Separatist withdrawal , Nala Se commended Skywalker for his service . The infestation of TB - 73 . After the near - destruction of the Kaliida Shoals facility , Nala Se was transferred to a new post at the Ord Cestus medical station . After the second Republic victory on Geonosis , the crew of the " Pelta " - class frigate TB - 73 was assigned the errand of delivering medical supplies to the Ord Cestus station . However , the frigate became infested by numerous brain worm s — parasitic lifeforms native to the Geonosian homeworld . The incident aboard the TB - 73 almost resulted in the contamination of Nala Se ' s facility , but was ultimately prevented by Tano who succeeded in killing the worm s . Clone Protocol 66 . During the Battle of Ringo Vinda , CT - 5385 fatally shot the Jedi Tiplar as a result of a malfunction in his inhibitor chip . The defective clone was subsequently taken to Tipoca City in order to undergo an extensive evaluation . As the chief medical scientist on Kamino and one of the cloning program ' s founders , Nala Se was given the task of discovering the cause of the malfunction . She subjected the clone to a hyper test which caused her patient to undergo extreme convulsions . The test ' s data revealed no signs of infection , but Nala Se recognized the clone ' s actions and aggressive behavior as signs of a premature activation of Protocol 66 . Alarmed by this discovery , she communicated her findings to the Kaminoan Prime Minister Lama Su and Darth Tyranus , leading the latter to insist on the clone ' s termination in order to protect the secrecy of the inhibitor chip and its true nature . However , the ARC trooper CT - 5555 conducted his own test on CT - 5385 which , despite its fatal consequence , led to the discovery of the chip . The ARC trooper ' s interference caused Tyranus to doubt the clone army ' s reliability in the event of an intentional activation of Protocol 66 , although Nala Se assured him that the preemptive execution was an anomaly . As for the clones ' growing sense of individuality , she believed that it was due to the Jedi ' s influence , yet remained confident that it would not interfere with the execution of the protocol . When CT - 5555 discovered that every clone had a bio - chip in their brain , Nala Se claimed that it was a safeguard designed to suppress the more aggressive tendencies of the clones ' template , Jango Fett . As a result of these revelations , CT - 5555 was taken to the Grand Republic Medical Facility on Coruscant — along with the bio - chips of himself and the late CT - 5835 — in accordance with the wishes of Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine . Fearing the possibility of the Jedi discovering the true programming in the bio - chips , Nala Se accompanied Shaak - Ti and the ARC trooper . Prior to their arrival on the Republic capital world , the Kaminoan injected the clone with a drug in order to make him appear unstable and his testimony unreliable . At the medical facility she asserted that the ARC trooper was dangerous without his control chip , and that the death of Tiplar was the result of a virus that infected CT - 5835 . Despite her efforts , the secrecy of Protocol 66 was ultimately saved when CT - 5555 unsuccessfully attempted to kill Palpatine after learning of the chancellor ' s involvement in the conspiracy . Palpatine entrusted the bio - chips to Nala Se ' s care , knowing that the Kaminoan scientist would send them to his Sith apprentice , Tyranus . Personality and traits . As the chief medical scientist of Kamino , Nala Se was highly intelligent and well - versed in the science of cloning . Her background in the development of the clone army enabled her to serve in the Clone Wars by caring for wounded clones and supervising their rehabilitation . Although she was willing to risk her own life to oversee the evacuation of injured troopers during a Separatist assault on medical facility near Kaliida Shoals , Nala Se possessed a ruthless side to her personality . She favored scientific methods that yielded the quickest results , such as hyper tests , and was unconcerned by their adverse effects on a patient . If an initial test failed to produce a satisfactory result , she would advocate for a more intrusive method such as surgery regardless of the risk to her patient ' s survival . She held no regard for the lives of her clone creations beyond their usefulness to Kamino and the Galactic Republic . From Nala Se ' s point of view , clones were disposable assets and the property of their creators . Her methods and opinions greatly differed from those of Shaak Ti , who regarded the clones as living beings . As such , Nala Se experienced difficulty in her professional relationship with the Jedi . In addition to her disregard for the Jedi ' s moral views , Nala Se disapproved of their spiritual beliefs as well . Nala Se was a Kaminoan female who possessed the average physical features of her people , including white skin and large black eye s with white pupils . She was tall in height and possessed a slender build , both of which were also common to the Kaminoan anatomy .