Uncomfortable as it may be to fans of the show and its characters, writer Henry Gilroy has made vocal his thoughts about the actions of much-loved character Commander Wolffe, and what he did in the immediate aftermath of Order 66.
While later turning his back on his programming and the deeply embedded message encoded into him, Gilroy believes Wolffe would have carried out his orders. The good people at Star Wars Explained tweeted this.
According to Henry Gilroy, Wolffe likely carried out Order 66 and removed his chip afterwards. ????
— Star Wars Explained (@StarWarsExplain) August 31, 2018
Dramatically it gives the character a dark place to come back from and most importantly it makes sense, given that almost all of the Jedi were eradicated post-Order 66.