Bloy

Bloy was a human male sergeant in the Imperial Army who was responsible for training the newest recruits. In 2 BBY, he and his inexperienced squad of Imperial security troopers were deployed to the planet Ghorman as part of the Imperial occupation there. Arriving in the capital, Palmo, in a troop transport, the sergeant and his men were greeted by Captain Kaido in Palmo Plaza.

The following day, Bloy oversaw the rearrangement of the barricades in the plaza, allowing large numbers of local protestors to gather there to object to the occupation. When Kaido ordered Bloy and his squad to patrol among the protestors, Bloy objected, but followed orders once the captain threatened to throw him and his men in the brig. The protestors jeered at the Imperials and began to throw projectiles at Bloy, who was about to call a retreat when an Imperial sniper shot one of his men on Kaido's orders.

Thinking that the shot had come from the protestors, Bloy ordered his men to open fire and shot one of the unarmed protestors himself. As Ghorman Front resistance fighters in the crowd returned fire and Imperial forces around the plaza's edge also joined in, a massacre ensued that claimed the lives of Bloy and hundreds, if not thousands, of Ghorman civilians. The entire event had been orchestrated by the Imperial Security Bureau in order to justify relocating the Ghorman population to allow for Imperial mining on their world, but it ultimately backfired and convinced many opposed to the Empire that armed resistance was their only option.

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