Zyix K ' zzt Zyix K ' zzt was a Human male born into a family loyal to the Galactic Empire . While growing up he quickly learned obedience and how to serve the Empire , studying long and hard to please his parents as well as his teachers . He went on to achieve academic greatness , eventually going on to work as a genetic scientist for the Moraabian Corporation which in turn gained him the attention of the Emperor himself , who recruited him as a great asset to his secret cloning projects . He had decided that , no matter what the price , K ' zzt was the right man to provide him with an army of fanatical , unthinking soldiers to do his work . K ' zzt was , rather obviously , flattered by the offer as well as all the incentives it entailed ; money , influential friends , prestige , as well as status which all proved too much for him to resist . He continued his research in his new work with the Empire , with the Empire listening intently to his theories all the time which only further stroked his already bulging ego . Morality never entered into K ' zzt ' s mind as only his life ' s ambitions and serving the Empire mattered to him . This changed , however , when his wife gave birth to K ' zzt ' s first child ; a son . K ' zzt looked down upon his son in the maternity ward and held his tiny hands , suddenly realizing that what he was doing was wrong ; life should not come from clone vat s but from nature itself , where the being had the right to make their own decisions instead of having everything decided for them . He decided that life was far too precious to be mass produced . He soon realized that his own life was not much better than that of the stormtroopers he created ; in a way , he was just like them , having been conditioned to be a loyal servant of the Empire with no choices , no objections to the way things were run , and of course no second chances . Looking back , he noticed that whenever he had had second thoughts on what was happening , he would quickly be reminded of his " patriotic duties " or sometimes seduced with trinkets and flattery ; two things he would soon learn to do without . He felt deeply ashamed of his life , and so decided to secretly join the Rebel Alliance . He started to supply the Alliance with a steady stream of information in regards to Imperial genetic engineering projects , as well as stormtrooper programming flaws and tactical subroutines . Occasionally he would also plant subversive subroutines within stormtroopers ' minds which caused them to act as spies or one - man suicide bombs without even realizing they were doing so . Unfortunately for K ' zzt , this did not last . The Imperial Security Bureau soon became suspicious of him and infiltrated both his personal life , as his wife was in fact an agent working for them , and his workplace with spies and surveillance devices . His wife soon discovered what her husband had been doing and , acting as a good Imperial citizen , turned him in without even having to think about it . K ' zzt learned of this , however , and before the ISB agents could come to take him away he conducted one last act of self - defiance ; he sabotaged his entire laboratory ' s computers and " brain - jacked " himself into one of the clone tanks , having his entire mind transferred into the clone body of Colonel TC - 1289 . When the security forces arrived to arrest him , they simply discovered his former body , shot dead with a self - inflicted blaster bolt to his head . Though they did notice that there were some wires connecting his head to an undamaged memory storage unit , they dismissed this as a failed attempt at electronic sabotage . K ' zzt lived on in his new body , sharing his mind with that of the mindlessly loyal TC - 1289 . Though at times he would appear to be nothing more than another drone in the Stormtrooper Corps , at others he would be completely himself and contacted the Rebel Alliance on several occasions giving call signs and signals known only to him . This greatly confused Alliance forces , as they did not know how a stormtrooper would have access to these codes and so Airen Cracken issued a 10 , 000 credit reward for his capture . Alliance High Command feared that , if left on his own , Imperial security may have grown suspicious of the circumstances of K ' zzt ' s death and reopen his case and , upon hearing the reports of an eccentric stormtrooper colonel , they may do a simple background check and discover that K ' zzt was still alive . The Alliance did not give this information to the bounty hunters hired to capture him , however , they simply told them that TC - 1289 was a wanted criminal . By the time of Grand Admiral Thrawn ' s campaign against the newly formed New Republic , K ' zzt was still known to have been in Imperial service in his clone body . His last known location was on board the Star Destroyer " Crusader " in the Kala sector .