Appo

Appo, whose clone trooper designation was CC-1119, was a clone trooper officer who served as a Clone Sergeant and later as a Clone Commander in the 501st Legion during the Clone Wars. As a soldier in military service to the Galactic Republic, Appo was a veteran of several major battles fought between the Grand Army of the Republic and the droid armies of the Confederacy of Independent Systems including Umbara at the height of the galactic conflict, and on the Republic capital world of Coruscant by the war's end. He was a loyal trooper who obeyed the orders of his commanding officer, conditioned to render unquestioned allegiance to the Republic.

As with all troopers in the Grand Army, Appo was cloned on the extragalactic world of Kamino, where Kaminoan scientists used the genetic template of Jango Fett, a human bounty hunter, to create a clone army for the Republic. Before Appo's promotion to the military rank of commander, he served as a sergeant in the 501st Legion, led by Jedi General Anakin Skywalker and Clone Captain Rex. During the Battle of Umbara, command of the 501st was temporarily transferred to another Jedi officer, General Pong Krell, as a result of Skywalker returning to Coruscant at the request of Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine. Sergeant Appo witnessed firsthand Krell's willingness to sacrifice his troops but nonetheless faithfully executed the general's orders until Krell's treason.

In the final days of the war, Chancellor Palpatine had put Order 66 into effect, declaring that all Jedi were enemies of the Republic. As a result, Appo, serving as the commander of the force of the 501st active on Coruscant, accompanied the Sith Lord Darth Vader as the 501st participated in Operation: Knightfall, invading the Jedi Order's home on Coruscant as part of a systematic purge that occurred across the galaxy. He encountered Senator Bail Organa during the attack, and used the threat of force to keep the Alderaanian politician at bay. But as Organa tried to leave, Padawan Zett Jukassa ambushed Appo's contingent. The young Jedi struck down the commander, wounding him in the lower leg, and several troopers until Clone Lieutenant Bow killed the Padawan.

In the aftermath of Order 66 and the rise of the Galactic Empire, Appo retained his position as Commander of the 501st Legion and continued his military service in the army of the new regime. Into the early weeks of the Imperial Era, Appo, along with twenty other clone troopers, was handpicked by the newly christened Darth Vader to serve in an elite unit known as Shadow Platoon.

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