Device
Inhibitor chip
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Legends. This article is part of Legends: the expanded-universe stories that Lucasfilm set apart from canon in 2014.
Inhibitor chips were biochips that were engineered into the clone troopers of the Grand Army of the Republic.
The chips were originally intended by Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas as a safeguard against rogue Jedi. However, after his death at the hands of the Sith, they reprogrammed the chip to force the Clones to slaughter the Jedi upon command. When Chancellor Palpatine, secretly the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, issued Order 66 at the end of the Clone Wars, this caused the inhibitor chips to forcibly brainwash the Clones into turning against the Jedi, leading to the defeat and near destruction of the Jedi Order and rise to Palpatine's Galactic Empire.
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Facts
- Size
- Minuscule
- Material
- Organic
- Purpose
- Limiting independence and aggression in clone troopers
- Protocol obedience
Appearances
4 works, in story order
- Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones (first mentioned, indirect mention)
- Conspiracy (first appearance, first identified)
- Fugitive
- Orders
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