Talk:Rex (Star Wars)/@comment-26173775-20150503163712/@comment-27354396-20151206132057

@Swoobatman

If you read the wiki on Captian Rex, he wasn't the one that led the 501st in the execution of order 66. He stepped down, and let Commander Appo lead it.

Eventually, Rex relinquished his command of the 501st Legion, and the newly promoted Commander Appo assumed his leadership position. [186] [238]  As a result, it was Appo and not Rex who oversaw the 501st through the end of the Clone Wars and into the time of the first  Galactic Empire, the product of Palpatine's  reorganization of the Republic. [239]