Keeli (clone)

"The Twi'leks will live to fight another day"

- Clone Captain Keeli's last words when he makes his final stand on Ryloth

Keeli was the nickname of a clone trooper captain during the Clone Wars. He served under the command of Jedi Master Ima-Gun Di.

Battle of Ryloth
Keeli was at some point during the war dispatched to serve under Jedi General Ima-Gun Di, and help Twi'lek freedom fighters on Ryloth. Master Di's troops began to run perilously low on men, food, and medical aid. Seeing their dangerous situation, the general devised a plan to cut off all alleys of attack except for one, and to summarily channel the battle droids through it in a desparate attemp to buy the Twi'leks time to escape over the mountains.

This plan worked, and the droids began to stream into the pass. Keeli's forces were decimated to the last man, including Keeli and Di. Keeli had been knocked unconscious by a thermal detonator in the course of the fighting, but as Di was being overrun by the droids, he regained his footing and kept fighting. He helped fend off the surrounding droids with Master Ima-Gun Di. Master Di was shot dead, but Keeli stood when he saw the dead general fall. He quickly grabbed the Jedi's lightsaber and continued fighting against the battle droids. Knowing that he was surrounded, Keeli didn't stop, and kept on fighting until he shot dead. He managed to place the lightsaber into the dead general's hand, and died.