CT - 5539 CT - 5539 , nicknamed " Hock Malsuum , " was a clone trooper that was active during the Clone Wars and reported as dead , only to resurface during the early years of the Galactic Empire and join Darth Vader ' s 501st Legion of the Stormtrooper Corps . Biography . A clone serving during the Clone Wars , CT - 5539 served under many campaigns during the war . One particular battle had him working alongside a Twi ' lek Jedi General , only for him to take over command when the general , in a tactical mistake , ended up leading her troops into an explosion . He then hoisted her body over his shoulder and ordered for Red Team to provide cover fire and Blue Team to follow him and undergo a flanking procedure , taking down several super battle droids . By the time of the end of the war , however , he had been left for dead by the Jedi Generals , causing him to hate his former commanders , also gaining a scar over his right eye . Eight days after his abandonment , he was attacked by creatures . In his delirium , he came up with the name " Hock " . He then decided his future would only be in his hands , similar to another clone trooper who had named himself : Kaddak . Hock walked across the Malsuum Expanse and passed out in a city , where he was taken in by farmers . Eventually , while at a bar , he began to hear of stories relating to another warrior : That of the then - newly formed Galactic Empire ' s top enforcer , Darth Vader . Although he was normally skeptical of stories told by spacers and pilots , he was interested , wanting to believe . He abandoned his duties to the farmers who had taken him in and and went off alone . By that point he had not fired a blaster in two years . He was able to join Lord Vader ' s command . He proved himself in battle and eventually attained the rank of commander . He was able to decorate his Phase II clone trooper armor with a red stripe over his wounded face . At one point he single - handedly captured a pirate ship . Hock Malsuum later participated in the Shrouded Offensive of the Reconquest of the Rim , a military operation to wipe out a Separatist holdout on Ostor in the Outer Rim and subjugate the planet to the Empire . The Shrouded Offensive would later turn out to be one of the worst military disasters the Galactic Empire had ever experienced . He cited three primary reasons for the operation ' s disastrous end , all relating to Vader : first , Vader did not directly participate in the battle ; second , Vader never did reconnaissance beforehand ; third , he assigned General Rohn to oversee the operation . Malsuum also cited that it was largely because of his participation that the Shrouded Offensive didn ' t get worse . After noticing the Separatist retreat to be suspicious , he attempted to get Rohn to call off the advance , but to no avail , forcing the clone stormtrooper to board the general ' s AT - TE and shoot the general . He was unable to stop the advance until nearly all the stormtroopers were killed in an ambush near the cliffsides by two additional Separatist armies within 15 minutes . As a direct result of the disastrous operation , Hock , alongside Vader , were brought before the Emperor for questioning , also marking the stormtrooper ' s first time meeting the Emperor face to face , as well as ordered to " lie through [ Hock ' s ] teeth " to the Emperor , something Hock had , prior to that moment , never thought of doing . He later come back with Vader on Ostor for phase two of the offensive . He flew a V - wing and ordered Green Squadron to attack . They were ambushed by followers of Kaddak , and he was shot down . He later woke up in an enemy hospital , and wandered through the city . He eventually found the command center , and attempted to convince the separatist leaders to surrender . They refused , so Malsuum sabotaged the city deflector shield , allowing the Imperial Army to enter . He was then personally engaged by Kaddak . Malsuum slew the rogue clone , and joined with Vader and the Imperial troops in razing the city . He followed Vader into the hospital , and tried to force the enemy wounded to bow down to Lord Vader , but they stood defiantly . When Vader started executing them , Malsuum called for him to stop , and Vader paused . The clone then dropped his blaster and walked away . Later , he took up agriculture and married the woman Telia , fathering a child with her . He once tried writing down his experiences in a letter , but ended up burning it that night . Personality and traits . Due to his abandonment during battle , Hock hated the Jedi . During the Clone Wars , he had considered them to be fearless warriors , but believed others could be fearless even without a lightsaber , and that even Jedi could make mistakes . He acknowledged the fact that he was created by the Kaminoans for a purpose , and could take pride in that . He also believed he was a machine with unlimited replacements , meaning that each was equally unimportant . He also considered that he was trained to fight well . To him , loyalty is a choice , and was loyal to Darth Vader and the Empire until the hospital massacre . During his exile , he did not care to fire a blaster . He reflected that he was trained to fight , and the desert taught him everything else . After hearing rumors of Vader , he considered that his debt to the farmers who had taken him in was paid months before . Much of Hock ' s life after his abandonment were filled with idealistic daydreams and imaginings . Often in his solitude , Hock would imagine Darth Vader destroying ships , defeating rebels , or hunting down Jedi . He was also creative , using his wits and lessons learned from the desert to outsmart his enemies . From realizing traps to lying to the Emperor , his intuition elevated the clone ' s status in the eyes of Darth Vader . However , Hock ' s blind idealism gave him a somewhat skewed perspective of the universe . For example , he imagined Kaddak to be a monstrous mutant clone , when in reality he was virtually no different from Hock save for his own scars . Only at the end of the Shrouded Offensive did he realize his error , deciding to place his devotion elsewhere . Hock was also a rather emotional individual . When General Rohn ordered the clone army to keep pushing forward into the valley despite his objections , Hock angrily threw his helmet at the General ' s AT - TE in defiance . In the captivity of the Separatists , when he realized that his attempts to sway their leaders into leaving their cause were futile , Hock grabbed a nearby pipe and threatened to kill them with it . In battle , he noticed Darth Vader ' s actions and reflected that he was a great warrior . Hock sensed that his mere presence could demoralize order , and he sought order , and he demanded results from his subordinates . Hock also wanted success , and desired Vader ' s trust above all else . During the Shrouded Offensive , he saw Vader do unspeakable things , and knew that the lack of humanity would haunt his memory . He then realized his respect for the warrior had been misplaced , and dropped his blaster . Wondering if he could have done more at the hospital massacre would also haunt him . He also recognized that there were things he would never know , such as his genetic code and how he would die . He decided to write a letter to confess his sins and memorialize his history , expressing a conviction that the Empire will not succeed , and to express hope for a child . He later burned the letter , crying while he did so . He considered his wife Telia to be a source of light for him . Behind the scenes . CT - 5539 serves as the narrator in Dark Horse Comics miniseries " " .