GC - 1000 GC - 1000 was one of the original Fett clones . He was given the name Klick by an unidentified " humor - challenged " Rodian Jedi Padawan . Klick was short for a " kilometer " which was a reference to his créche identifier of Trooper Pilot 1000 . He was a veteran of the Clone Wars , from Geonosis to the Great Jedi Purge . He was a Group Captain in Lord Shadowspawn ' s army . He received a field promotion from Luke Skywalker to Air Marshal . He , along with the rest of Cronal ' s shadow troopers , died when their deadman interlocks were triggered by the exit of meltmassif from their bodies . Biography . Born on Kamino , GC - 1000 participated in the Battle of Geonosis , which he considered to be a source of pride . This led to the start of the Clone Wars , a galactic conflict which lasted for few years . During the war , he was given the nickname " Klick " , meaning kilometer , from a Rodian Padawan of the Old Jedi Order . He was later involved in the implementation of Order 66 where all clones were to execute their Jedi Generals . Serving in the newly formed Galactic Empire , Klick was promoted to Commander of a squadron and continued to serve the Empire until the Emperor ' s death in 4 ABY . After the battle of Endor was over , Admiral Kraven was among the warlords who were trying to get themselves a bit of power after Emperor Palpatine ' s death at the hands of Anakin and Luke Skywalker . There , Kraven appointed Klick as colonel , and sent him and his squadron to eliminate Lord Shadowspawn . However , when he and his squadron encountered him , Lord Shadowspawn revealed the codes that he received from Palpatine and declared that the Emperor had chosen him as his servant . He said that his job is to guard the throne of the Empire , as long as he does not appear Palpatine ' s successor . After Cronal explained a false story about how Vader killed his master and later slain by Luke , Klick thought that Skywalker was the rightful heir to the throne and agreed to serve Cronal in hopes of finding Skywalker . In 5 . 5 ABY , Klick was promoted to Group Captain and was tasked to lead the units in defending the electoral Center at all costs . Moments later , he was given orders to seal the center and shoot anyone who tried to leave him . After a moment , the door was sliced open by a green lightsaber and the person who emerged from the entrance was revealed to be Luke Skywalker . Klick was the first to recognize his face and didn ' t take the opportunity to shoot him . As Skywalker entered , he and the other stormtroopers knelt down and called him " Emperor " . Luke was surprised by this until he learned the truth . When Luke commanded all the forces to surrender to the New Republic , Klick didn ' t understand the orders , but he agreed to apply them . Since he was willing to follow Skywalker , he sided with the New Republic and received a field promotion to Air Marshal . After receiving his promotion , Klick followed Skywalker ' s command and was ordered to jam all the communication systems and gravity well generators in order to issue the Imperial forces to surrender . There , he addressed in evacuating the civilians from the decaying system . As the evacuation started , Klick led a company of troopers in boarding the " Millennium Falcon " . However , Cronal somehow entered Kar Vastor ' s body and tried to kill Luke and his sister . But when Cronal left Kar ' s body , Klick and the rest of troopers were killed by Blackhole when he contained all the armor within them which destroyed their bodies .