Arligan Zey Arligan Zey was a male Human Jedi Master who served the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic as a General in the Grand Army of the Republic and the Director of Special Forces during the Clone Wars . Biography . Early years . A Force - sensitive Human , Arligan Zey was educated in the ways of the Force by the Jedi Order , attaining the rank of Jedi Master . Before the start of the Separatist Crisis in 28 BBY , Master Zey selected the young Initiate Bardan Jusik as his Padawan and traveled the galaxy on missions for the Jedi High Council . Clone Wars . Qiilura campaign . When the Clone Wars erupted between the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems , Master Zey took up the rank of General in the newly founded Grand Army of the Republic . Serving as an intelligence officer , Master Zey was given oversight of several groups of the Republic ' s clone commandos ; specialized units that performed insertion missions to wipe out specified targets without needing a General to lead them . A strong proponent of the clone trooper development program , and backed the creation of the Grand Army and espoused its superiority over the Separatist Droid Army . In addition to the commandos , Master Zey was privy to the top secret group of Null - class ARC Troopers , and preferred to use them during data - gathering missions . Early in the war , Master Zey oversaw the operations on Qiilura where Master Kast Fulier and Padawan Etain Tur - Mukan had gone missing in the confusion surrounding the start of the war . When the commandos of Omega Squad recovered Padawan Tur - Mukan , they assumed the mission of capturing the scientist Ovolot Qail Uthan , who planned to develop a nanovirus which would target the clone troopers . When the commandos were successful in capturing Uthan , Master Zey and Padawan Jusik flew to Qiilura to oversee clean - up operations on the world and arm the colonists on the planet to oppose Confederate occupation . Working closely with Jusik and Tur - Mukan , both were raised to the rank of Jedi Knight , and Master Zey strived to reestablish a Gurlanin colony on the world . Director of Special Forces . Following his successful operation on the planet , Master Zey was placed in charge of one of the two Special Operations Brigade s , serving alongside Master Iri Camas as Director of Special Forces . As Master Zey came to rely more and more on the ARC troopers , he was assigned Captain Maze , who served as liaison between the Special Ops and the ARCs . During this time , Master Zey was informed by his agents that discrepancies were being brought to light regarding the production numbers of Separatist droids . The media and representatives of the Confederacy released numbers which made the army appear to be made up of more than a quadrillion droids ; however Zey ' s Null ARCs had laid their hands on datafiles that set the actual number as less than half a billion . Believing that a planned , large - scale assault on droid production plants could end the conflict , Master Zey took his evidence to the Supreme Chancellor of the Republic ; Palpatine dismissed the claims and stated that the use of such excessive force would be unnecessary . To keep Master Zey occupied , Chancellor Palpatine assigned the Director with capturing the rogue Kaminoan scientist Ko Sai . Tasking Delta Squad and his former Padawan , Jedi Jusik , to find the defector , Zey was unaware that Jusik was purposely throwing his squad off the trail to cover the movements of Kal Skirata . Skirata , one of the many mercenaries who assisted in the initial training of the clones , was also hunting Sai with the assistance of Omega Squad and together they wanted to kill the Kaminoan . Once Sai was captured by Skirata , Jusik and his men discovered the abandoned lab of Ko Sai and deemed her work destroyed . To make the operation see successful , Skirata gave the head of Ko Sai to Delta Squad for them to deliver to Master Zey back on Coruscant . As the war continued , Master Zey began to feel sympathy for the clones , believing that the Order was wrong to employ men who were bred to fight and had no choice in the matter . To this end , Master Zey offered to find a way to get Captain Maze off Coruscant and into retirement if he ever wanted to leave the military . In addition to the forced lifestyle , Master Zey was mortified when confronted with increasing amounts of evidence pointing to clone executions by the Republic . When this information was brought to light , Master Zey ' s former Padawan , Jedi Jusik , left the Order , declaring that he could no longer ignore his heart and would protect innocents , including the clones . Sorry to see the man turn to the Mandalorian culture for acceptance , Zey understood Jusik ' s motives and allowed him to keep his lightsaber . Assigning Jedi Tur - Mukan and both Delta and Omega Squad to Haurgab , he was not pleased when they returned having reached a stalemate . Approaching clone trainer and mercenary Walon Vau , Master Zey requested that the man keep watch on Kal Skirata , as the man was suspected of treason . Order 66 and exile . Following the failed invasion of Coruscant by the Confederacy , Master Zey was forced to spend more time at the Jedi Temple as he consulted with the High Council and received reports from other Jedi . On a late night trip to the Temple , Master Zey was walking amongst its halls when Sith Lord Darth Vader led the 501st Legion against the Temple . Unbeknownst to the Jedi , Chancellor Palpatine had betrayed the Order , issuing Order 66 to the Grand Army , ordering all Jedi executed . As part of , the 501st stormed the Temple ' s halls and shot anyone they encountered . Escaping the burning Temple with severe injuries , Master Zey managed to make it back to his offices at the Special Ops headquarters when he encountered Null ARC Captain Ordo . Asking Ordo why the troopers were killing the Jedi , Ordo told him about Order 66 . Captain Maze arrived at this point and told Zey that he was only following orders , and that they had been sent down directly from the Office of the Supreme Chancellor . Realizing what had happened , Master Zey revealed to the clones that Palpatine was indeed the traitor and that he must be the Dark Lord of the Sith , Darth Sidious . Unaware of what a Sith was , Maze pleaded with Zey to allow himself to be arrested and bring these charges forward in front of the Galactic Senate . Refusing to be taken prisoner by the Sith , Zey ordered Maze to follow orders and execute him . Captain Maze , however , decided not to follow orders , shooting the wall a meter from Zey ' s head ; he then succeeded in hiding Zey until he could smuggle him offworld to Mandalore . Smuggled to Kal Skirata ' s secret bunker at Kyrimorut , Zey was met with an icy reception ; Skirata and his clones hated the Jedi and were angry that the clones had not followed orders . Allowed to stay , the Master met with other Jedi refugees hiding out on the planet , including his former Padawan and the ancient Jedi Kina Ha . Master Zey was surprised when he detected the Force - sensitivity of an infant staying at the bunker . Named Kad , the clones taking refuge there revealed that the boy was the son of the dead Jedi Tur - Mukan and Clone Commando Darman Skirata . Keeping to himself at the bunker , the fates of Masters Zey and Ha were hotly debated by the Mandalorians . Deciding not to execute the two , the Mandalorians were successful at contacting Master Djinn Altis and his hidden community of Jedi , and the Jedi were secretly transported to their secret hiding spot and joined their community . Personality and traits . Zey had to constantly deal with the unorthodox behavior of Kal Skirata and his associates , such as allowing Skirata to use military funds as he needed them , or often turning a blind eye to Generals Bardan Jusik and Etain Tur - Mukan ' s doings . Arligan Zey was described as a large bearded , muscular man , uncomfortable with a desk job and the power he wielded , but extremely loyal to the Jedi Order . He was shocked to learn of the execution of clones during the war , and was known to express exasperation over such issues to Mace Windu . He also offered Captain Maze a way out of the army if he ever wanted it .