KE-829

"Do you know whats going on?"

- KE-829

KE-829 was a clone stormtrooper.

Biography
Stationed on the first Death Star, he was on guard duty near Tractor Beam 12. When Obi-Wan Kenobi deactivated the tractor beam to allow the Millennium Falcon to leave Docking Bay 327, he overheard this trooper and his partner conversing about the BT-16. After accomplishing his objective, Kenobi used the Force to confuse the stormtroopers and escape the area.

Though a few individuals were known to have escaped the space station, KE-829 presumably died when the Death Star was destroyed in the Battle of Yavin.

Behind the scenes
In the popular non-canon comic Tag & Bink Are Dead 1, it is retconned these two stormtroopers are Tag and Bink.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
 * Tag & Bink Are Dead 1