Behavioral modification biochip

Behavioral modification biochips, also known as inhibitor chips, control chips, behavioral inhibitor biochips, and Clone Bio Chips, were a type of organic bio-chip capable of dictating the response and actions of its host. Kaminoan cloners implanted them within each and every clone trooper in the Grand Army of the Republic at the third stage of their embryonic development. When they were activated, the troopers responded to take any order without question. This allowed the Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, secretly the Sith Lord called Darth Sidious, to initiate Clone Protocol 66, which wiped out nearly all Jedi marked for termination, and any soldier that did not comply with the order, would be executed for treason against the Galactic Republic. The Galactic Empire later employed these devices to keep in line its enslaved Wookiee population on Kashyyyk.

Text and facts from the “Behavioral modification biochip” article on Wookieepedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Modified for this site.