Wookieepedia:Featured article queue/Week 41, 2011/1

BL-1707, also known as CT-1707 or Able-1707, was a clone trooper who fought for the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars under the command of Jedi General Shaak Ti. A year into the war, he was stranded on an uninhabited jungle planet when his LAAT/i gunship was shot down. More than twenty years later, the planet was contested between the Alliance to Restore the Republic and the Galactic Empire during the Galactic Civil War. In the midst of the battle, Able-1707 revealed himself to the Imperial stormtroopers, believing that they were clone troopers wearing a new form of armor, but was fired upon. He then joined the Alliance after one of its members, Luke Skywalker, introduced himself as a Jedi General. After helping the Rebels escape from the planet, the clone trooper joined Alliance Intelligence and adopted the name Able, omitting the numeric part of his designation. Although Skywalker was not actually a general, Able addressed him as one anyway, as he had become accustomed to all Jedi being generals during the Clone Wars.

In the months that followed, Able participated in a number of Alliance missions. He was part of the team that retrieved Alliance mathematician Jorin Sol from an Imperial prison on the planet Kalist VI. Later, Able participated in a raid on an Imperial supply convoy at Per Lupelo. Sol was eventually exposed as a traitor and led the Empire to the Rebel fleet. Able was aboard the starship Rebel One as it escaped from the Imperial attack. When Rebel One accidentally emerged from hyperspace near the Imperial Bannistar Station, a major refueling installation, Able participated in a successful mission to destroy it. Able later accompanied Skywalker and other Rebels in a mission to an abandoned moon in search of an alleged secret Imperial weapon. There, Able was transformed into a rakghoul monster by the power of the Muur Talisman, a Sith artifact that was in possession of the centuries-old Jedi Master Celeste Morne. Now a mindless creature, Able accompanied Morne as she escaped from the moon in order to explore the galaxy.