TK - 875 TK - 875 was a clone stormtrooper who served in the Galactic Empire during the Galactic Civil War . In 0 BBY , he was present on the Empire ' s Death Star battlestation when a group of Alliance to Restore the Republic operatives infiltrated the station to rescue one of its prisoners , Princess Leia Organa . Following the rescue , within the Death Star ' s Central Core Shaft , the Princess , along with another member of the group , Luke Skywalker , found themselves behind a blast door leading to a shaft . Skywalker had unknowingly disabled the controls to a bridge meant to extend across the shaft , and as the two were trapped on a narrow overhang , TK - 875 was part of a trio of stormtroopers who exchanged blaster fire with them from a higher overhang across the shaft . Eventually , Skywalker and Organa managed to swing across the shaft with the use of a grappling hook , evading TK - 875 ' s blaster fire . The Alliance would later on destroy the Death Star over the Yavin system . Biography . The Human male TK - 875 was a clone who served the Galactic Empire as a stormtrooper during the Galactic Civil War , a conflict between the Empire and the Alliance to Restore the Republic . By 0 BBY , he was present aboard the Imperial Death Star battlestation . That year , the Death Star was infiltrated by a group of soon - to - be operatives of the Alliance to Restore the Republic , consisting of Han Solo , Chewbacca , and Luke Skywalker , as part of an attempt to rescue one of the Death Star ' s prisoners , Princess Leia Organa of the planet Alderaan . Skywalker escorted Organa to Docking Bay 327 , the hangar bay that the group arrived in aboard the YT - 1300 light freighter " Millennium Falcon " . Going through the station ' s corridors on the way to the hangar , the pair were spotted by a stormtrooper patrol , and were forced to take cover behind a blast door leading to the Death Star ' s Central Core Shaft . Attempting to prevent the stormtroopers from opening the door , Skywalker used his stolen stormtrooper E - 11 blaster rifle to shoot the control panel by the door , unknowingly destroying the controls meant for a bridge to go across the chasm . As Skywalker and Organa were stuck on a narrow overhang , TK - 875 was part of a trio of stormtroopers who arrived on a higher overhang across the pair , firing their E - 11 blaster rifles at the Alliance operatives . Skywalker fired back , hitting one of the troopers , TK - 119 , who fell down the shaft . As Skywalker prepared to swing across the chasm with the grappling hook in his stolen stormtrooper utility belt , Organa exchanged fire with TK - 875 and the third stormtrooper , eventually killing the latter . TK - 875 , the only one remaining , continued firing at the pair before they successfully swung across the shaft , evading his fire . Organa and the Alliance operatives evacuated the Death Star to their base on the moon Yavin 4 . However , a tracking device was placed by the Empire on the " Millennium Falcon " to follow the ship to the Yavin system . The Death Star was sent to destroy the base , but the Alliance ' s starfighter squadrons launched a counterattack on the superweapon itself . Skywalker , piloting a T - 65 X - wing starfighter , fired a pair of proton torpedoes which reached the Death Star ' s reactor core and detonated , obliterating the station . Personality and traits . TK - 875 wore full stormtrooper armor and wielded an E - 11 blaster rifle . Behind the scenes . TK - 875 first appeared in 1977 ' s , the first film of the original trilogy . He was portrayed by an uncredited extra . In 2003 , he was first identified by name , and revealed to be a clone stormtrooper , in a card for Wizards of the Coast ' s " Battle of Yavin " set of its Trading Card Game .