After the call to execute Order 66 was given by Chancellor Palpatine in the final hours
of the Clone Wars, one Clone Commander began to question the order, realising that he was
not making his own decisions, and instead being controlled by an inhibitor chip.
This Clone trooper was called Commander Grey and served Jedi Master Depa Bilaba and her
apprentice Caleb Dume.
So why did Commander Grey refuse Order 66?
I’m going to break down exactly why Commander Grey Refused to follow Order 66 and how he
saved the life of Caleb dume, who later became Kanan Jarrus.
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Shortly before the events of Order 66, Depa Bilaba’s Clone Battalion arrived on the
planet Kaller, engaging in a fierce battle against the separatist droid army.
The leader of the separatists on the planet, was a Devaronian warrior called General Kleeve.
After General Kleeve’s separatist forces were defeated on the planet, many of the locals
were still disappointed, because they did not see any difference between the Republic
or separatists occupying their home world.
After getting into a heated argument with the locals, Master Depa Billaba, her apprentice,
Caleb Dume and Commander Grey set up a camping site in a nearby field.
While sitting in front a warm yellow fire, with embers flying around the three, something
chilling happened.
Commander Grey received an incoming hologram transmission from the leader of the Grand
Army of the Republic, Chancellor Palpatine.
He stepped away from the fire to properly receive the hologram, where he was given the
order to execute Order 66 on Master Depa Billaba and Caleb Dume.
Luckily, Depa Billaba had already received a force vision only moments earlier, similar
to the one Master Yoda received on Kashyyyk before he was attacked, allowing her to be
prepared to fight back.
Bilaba and Caleb Dume were forced to kill many of their Clones including ones they had
formed deep friendships with, in order to survive.
Commander Grey ordered the rest of his men to surround the two Jedi, causing Bilba to
tell her apprentice to run.
Caleb Dume managed to rush out of the campsite to relative safety, but Depa Billaba was unfortunately
shot in the back multiple times by Commander Grey and the other clones, killing her immediately.
In the days after Order 66 was given by chancellor Palpatine, Grey and his second in command,
Trooper Styles continued to search for Caelb Dume on the surface of the planet Kaller.
Dume had joined up with a local on the planet named Kasmir, as a scoundrel, participating
in many criminal activities to survive.
Unfortunately, after a job Caleb Dume was given went wrong, Kasmir immediately sold
him out and gave up his location to Commander Grey and Styles.
The locals on the planet were holding Caleb Dume in a prison cell, awaiting the arrival
of Commander Grey, but fortunately Kasmir came back to rescue Dume because he felt bad
for giving him up to the Clones.
As the two escaped from the prison, Commander Grey and styles wildy chased them, until they
finally caught up with the two on the planet Lahn.
As Caleb Dume was negotiating a business deal on the planet in order to survive, his associate,
Kasmir was ambushed and held at gunpoint by Commander Grey.
Grey demanded to know the location of Caleb Dume, but Kasmir refused to give it up, claiming
that he separated with the boy long before he arrived on the surface of the planet.
The two Clones continued their sweep of the planet, eventually managing to ambush Caleb
Dume who had joined the separatist general Kleeve from the earlier battle They then knocked
him unconscious.
While transporting Dume back to the planet Kaller from earlier, Commander Grey and Styles
decided that they would have to execute him on the spot, or risk losing him once again.
Caleb Dume begged for his life, reminding them of the friendship they had only a few
short days ago.
His begging managed to buy enough time for Kasmir and Kleeve to catch up with Commander
Grey’s ship, attempting to rescue him.
Once his two allies arrived on the ship, Caleb Dume force pushed the two Clones away and
managed to make his escape.
It was at this point that Commander Grey began having huge doubts about executing Order 66
and killing his former friend.
I really love this, because in a small way it brings back how the Clones were in Legends.
In legends, the Clones did not have inhibitor chips, but simply had to make a decision whether
or not to believe that the Jedi really did commit treason against the republic, and to
follow the order to execute them.
Despite easily having enough firepower to kill Dume, Kasmir and the former Separatist
General, more serious doubts clouded his mind about why the Clones obeyed Order 66 so easily.
He shared his doubts about Order 66 with trooper Styles, but he disagreed, stating that the
Jedi attempted to kill the supreme chancellor and take power for themselves, and are therefore
traitors to the Republic and now the empire.
After failing to convince styles that Order 66 was not a decision of their own mind, Commander
Grey snapped and decided to completely disobey it.
Grey pulled his blaster rifle out and destroyed the controls of the ship, crippling its defences,
and allowing it to be brutally attacked.
After Caleb Dume was brought to safety, Kasmir and General Kleeve fired upon Commander Grey
and Trooper styles’ ship, destroying it, killing both of the clones.
Commander Grey’s heroic actions ultimately saved the life of Caleb Dume.
For some unknown reason that will never be discovered, Grey’s inhibitor chip failed
to work, causing him to disobey Order 66 and save the life of a Jedi.
My theory is that his chip simply malfunctioned in the same way that Tup’s did when he killed
Master Tiplar, but this time, it malfunctioned in the opposite way.
Either way, let me know why you think Commander Grey’s free will was strong enough to refuse
Order 66 and disobey Palpatine’s Order.
I really hope they expand on the inhibitor chips, and how they really work.
I’d also love to see how Palpatine had direct access to them, with Clones being spread so
far across the Galaxy.
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