Unidentified stormtrooper sergeant A stormtrooper sergeant operated on the planet Garel during the Age of the Empire . While patrolling locked down hangar s in the Garel City Spaceport , the sergeant and his squad of stormtrooper s came across the bounty hunter Ketsu Onyo and her old partner Sabine Wren while they were in the middle of a standoff . When the sergeant ordered them and their other companions to disperse , Onyo opened fire on the stormtroopers . After several of the sergeant ' s men were incapacitated , he tried to fight Onyo in single combat after she disarmed him , but he was defeated . After Onyo and the others departed the hangar , the sergeant returned to his feet and expressed a dislike for the bounty hunters on Garel . Biography . A male individual served the Galactic Empire during the Age of the Empire as a stormtrooper sergeant on the planet Garel . One day during the year 4 BBY , the sergeant was patrolling the Garel City Spaceport with a squad of stormtroopers when they encountered the rebels Sabine Wren , Ezra Bridger , C1 - 10P , and EG - 86 squaring off with the Black Sun bounty hunter Ketsu Onyo . The sergeant informed them that the hangar was closed and that they were to leave immediately . In response , Onyo fired her weapons at the stormtroopers . The Imperials opened fire on everyone present , prompting a violent skirmish . Several stormtroopers were incapacitated during the firefight while the sergeant climbed atop some crates to get a better vantage point . With the help of C1 - 10P , the rebels were able to escape aboard a starship and left Onyo to face the remaining stormtroopers alone . The sergeant and his men surrounded Onyo and ordered her to surrender . The bounty hunter responded by grabbing a stormtrooper to use as a shield , which another stormtroopers shot in the chest as they tried to shoot Onyo . The bounty hunter used her staff to melee her way past the remaining stormtroopers , and disarmed the sergeant in the process . He chased her , but she turned around and whacked him across the head with her staff . After jumping over the last conscious stormtrooper , Onyo escaped to her personal ship , the " Shadow Caster " . The sergeant got back to his feet along with the another stormtrooper and , after watching Onyo leave the planet in her ship , he verbally expressed a distaste for the bounty hunters on Garel . Personality and traits . A male individual , the sergeant was serious when he ordered Onyo and the rebels to leave . When Onyo attacked , the sergeant responded by firing back and climbing nearby equipment to get a better shot at the insurgents when they took cover . After the skirmish ended , the sergeant shook off the ordeal as an annoyance . The sergeant held a low opinion of bounty hunters . Equipment . The sergeant wore white stormtrooper armor along with a white pauldron to denote his rank as a sergeant . He carried an E - 11 blaster rifle . Behind the scenes . The sergeant first appeared in " Blood Sisters " , an episode of the second season of the television series " Star Wars Rebels " . His voice was provided by Stephen Stanton , credited as " Stormtrooper # 1 . " Although his rank went unmentioned in the episode , the canon source book " Ultimate Star Wars " mentions that stormtroopers with white pauldrons are sergeants .