Decoy Squad Five

"Anyone could grab some deformed kid and claim it's anything they want. How do you know it's a Jedi?" "My lightsaber, the first clue would be, hmm?"

- Yoda reveals himself the leader of Decoy Squad Five

Decoy Squad Five was an eight-member detachment of clone troopers from the 501st Legion, led by a sergeant. Their mission, in the wake of Order 66 and Operation: Knightfall, a planned assault against the Jedi all across the galaxy that virtually wiped them out, was to eliminate any Jedi that attempted to return to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. To that end, they had disguised themselves by wearing Jedi robes, and had been bred to possess very quick reflexes and to be constantly alert. The squad was deceived and killed by Jedi Masters Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda during their mission to the Temple to terminate the false homing signal that had been activated by Darth Vader.

History
"Oooh, sher. Sher, Yer Grace. Jedi babby, sher azzell iddiz! Come from outcher Temple, dinnit? Lookit!"

- A disguised Obi-Wan Kenobi to the leader of Decoy Squad Five

The squad was deployed at the Coruscant Jedi Temple's downlevel loading dock; where every day, the Jedi had imported food and supplies that they could not grow in the gardens of the Temple themselves, after the enacting of Order 66; a measure programmed into the clones that told them to kill their Jedi commanders, from even before the Clone Wars began, and the subsequent Operation: Knightfall; Darth Vader's march on the temple, killing almost all of the Jedi inside and the turning on of a beacon informing surviving Jedi that the war was over and to return to the temple, only to be killed by the clone upon doing so. They were approached by a hunchbacked man, who drooled constantly, with a bundle in his arms. The eight men drew their weapons and commanded him to identify himself but he assured them that he was on their side and insisted that he had captured a Jedi baby for them to eliminate. Curious, they lowered their weapons and allowed him to show them what he was carrying. He brought it to the sergeant in the group who looked upon it and judged it the ugliest looking baby he had ever seen. He questioned the man regarding the baby's identity as a Jedi. The "baby" chose that moment to speak, suggesting that his lightsaber would prove his identity and brought a green blade so close to the sergeant's face that he could smell the air burning around it. The hunchbacked man straightened and started speaking with a standard and dignified Coruscanti accent, telling the group that if none resisted then they would not be harmed. The men of Decoy Squad Five would not comply and were swiftly cut down by the Jedi Masters within six seconds.

Yoda and Obi-Wan decided not to hide their bodies because they had no time to spare in their mission to deactivate the decoy signal and that if the clones were perceived as leaving their post, it would be just as odd as finding their bodies in the seedy lower levels of Coruscant.

Behind the scenes
A production photo included on the Revenge of the Sith DVD shows Temuera Morrison brandishing a blaster while disguised in Jedi robes. This indicates that the idea of clone troopers disguising themselves as Jedi was at one point considered to appear in the film.

In LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game, released a whole month before Episode III, a "Disguised Clone" appears as an unlockable character. It wears brown Jedi-style robes, and functions like a normal clone trooper. This clone also appears in the LEGO Star Wars compilation game, LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith novel
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga