Kamino / Legends Kamino ( ) , called Big Stormy by some clone troopers , also known as the Planet of Storms , was the watery world where the Clone Army of the Galactic Republic was created , as well as the Kamino Home Fleet . It was inhabited by a race of tall , elegant beings called the Kaminoans , who kept to themselves and were known for their cloning technology . Kamino was located just south of the Rishi Maze , and was governed by the Ruling Council , headed by the Prime Minister . Astronomy and geography . Kamino was in a system of 13 planets orbiting an aging star south of the Rishi Maze , a dwarf satellite galaxy in a decaying orbit in a loose sector of an unnamed grouping of stars between the Rishi Maze and the main galaxy . The stormy water world of Kamino was located in the Wild Space region beyond the Outer Rim . It was the fifth of the thirteen planets in the system . The planet orbited an aging star called Kamino and had three moons orbiting the planet itself , including Korasa . The planet was composed of a molten core with a rocky mantle and silicate rock crust . Climatic change had long ago submerged the planet ' s continents , drowning the planet under a global ocean that covered almost all of the surface , with a few islands left that were once mountain tops . These mountain - tips , though , were rained on almost incessantly . However , the surface of Kamino was not always subject to constant rain , as such was in a Separatist attack to gain a DNA sample of Jango Fett . Its savage storms and powerful lightning bursts could be seen vaguely through its relatively thick atmosphere . Although technically part of Wild Space region in the galaxy , it is sometimes referred to as an extra - galactic planet due to its system being located between the main galaxy and the Rishi Maze dwarf galaxy . Sentient life . Being somewhat secluded from the rest of the galaxy , little is known about the origin of the Kaminoans . There were many peculiarities about the particulars of Kaminoan physiology : their , once adapted for firm seabeds , eventually only saw use in the hallways of their science facilities , while only male Kaminoans exhibited fin ridges along the rear of their small , bulbous skulls . The almond - shaped eyes were able to see color only in the ultraviolet spectrum . Therefore , what appeared as white dwellings were actually colored with shades that Humans and other humanoid species couldn ' t see . Kaminoans rode flying cetaceans called aiwhas . Indigenous to the planet Naboo , these aiwhas were probably created using cloning technology . History . Early history . Around 19 , 000 BBY , dramatic climate shifts began to melt the extensive glaciers of Kamino . As a result of resourceful adaptation , the Kaminoans survived the Great Flood of their planet ' s continents . The Kaminoans used cloning to keep themselves sustained . Jedi Order . Throughout its history , the location and very existence of Kamino was known to only a handful of beings , becoming known to members of the Galactic Republic as late as 4500 BBY . In 3996 BBY , following the devastation of Ossus , a number of artifacts saved from Ossus were hidden in the ruins of Derem City by Jedi Master Qalsneek the Bull . After the Jedi Civil War , Kaminoan kyber dart s were being used in the galaxy , but most beings were ignorant of their source . Kamino was able to survive through the worst ages in the galaxy before the Clone Wars . New technology . In later years , the Kaminoans created saberdarts , similar to the older kyber dart . These deadly weapons were favored by bounty hunter Jango Fett . The Kaminoans created clone miners to toil on Subterrel . While prospecting on Subterrel , Dexter Jettster became familiar with the Kaminoan cloners , and even found a saberdart . Clone Wars . In 32 BBY , Sifo - Dyas placed an order with the Kaminoans for a Clone Army without the knowledge or approval of the Jedi Council . Darth Tyranus , at the bidding of Darth Sidious , murdered Sifo - Dyas to keep the creation of this army secret from the Jedi and the Republic . Tyranus then recruited Jango Fett to serve as Prime clone . Fett agreed on the condition that the Kaminoans create him an unaltered clone , his son Boba Fett . Jango raised Boba on Kamino for the next ten years . Obi - Wan Kenobi was directed there in 22 BBY to follow a lead on the whereabouts of Senator Padmé Amidala ' s would - be assassin through a single saberdart . The saberdart had been used by Jango Fett to murder Zam Wesell before she could be interrogated by Kenobi . Kenobi had the dart identified by Dexter Jettster . Jettster directed him to Kamino , and Obi - Wan and Yoda were disturbed that Kamino had apparently been erased from the Jedi Archives . During Obi - Wan ' s stay on Kamino at Tipoca City , he discovered the source of the Clone Army ' s genome , Jango Fett , and his " son , " Boba Fett . Once he was discovered , Jango and Boba narrowly escaped the planet with Obi - Wan close behind . The battles begin . Grand Master Yoda later went to the planet to receive a desperately needed contingent of clone troopers to assist in the rescue of Obi - Wan Kenobi , Anakin Skywalker , Padmé Amidala , and the Jedi Knights in the Battle of Geonosis , which began the infamous Clone Wars . When the Separatists discovered the source of the clones , Commander Merai launched an attack on Kamino at the bidding of Passel Argente , but the First Battle of Kamino , 22 BBY , was won by the Republic . In the Second Battle of Kamino there was an attempt by Mandalore the Resurrector and his Mandalorians to destroy a cloning facility , but it was foiled by the clone trooper garrison . A further attempt was made by the Confederacy at some time after the second Battle of Kamino to capture and destroy the cloning facilities , but this plan was prevented due to the actions of clone troopers at a nearby monitoring station . After the Battle of the Rishi moon , Separatist leaders , General Grievous and Commander Asajj Ventress , launched an attack on Kamino to capture a sample of Jango Fett ' s DNA . The attack force was turned back by elements of the Open Circle Fleet and clone troopers garrisoned there . Fighting the Empire . The end of the Clone Wars resulted not only in the near destruction of the Jedi Order , but also the rise of the Galactic Empire in the place of the fallen Republic . Seeking to secure the vital cloning facilities that were responsible for providing the Empire with the clones that helped to secure Emperor Palpatine ' s rise to ultimate power , Imperial control was firmly established upon Kamino through force of arms . Although Kamino would continue to grow more stormtroopers for the Empire , a small group of Kaminoans grew resentful of the Empire ' s treatment of Kamino as a virtual military police state . In response to the Imperial presence on their world , the Kaminoans launched a covert rebellion against the Empire by discreetly breeding a new army of clones , all based on the genetic template of Jango Fett . Unlike the first Clone army that had been bred for the Republic , the newest generation of clones were engineered with absolute loyalty to Kamino . Over the next decade after the conclusion of the Clone Wars , the Anti - Imperial Clone troopers were grown and trained to eventually liberate Kamino from Imperial rule . Garbed in Phase I armor and composed entirely of Jet troopers , the Anti - Imperial clones were augmented with a series of ARC troopers , as well as a few LAAT gunships . Approximately twenty years after creating the first generation of clones based on the Fett template , the Anti - troopers were fully grown , armed and evidently prepared to fight against their Imperial brothers . Around the same time , however , the Empire discovered Kamino ' s clandestine operation and responded by sending an elite detachment of the 501st Legion to Kamino in order to destroy the Kaminoan rebellion and restore Imperial rule to its cloning centers . The 501st ' s main target was Kamino ' s capital , the Tipoca City Cloning Facility , by then occupied by the Kaminoan rebels and their Anti - troopers . Boba Fett , also a clone of the long dead Jango Fett , was hired to serve as the 501st ' s mission commander during the re - taking of Kamino , due to his extensive knowledge of the inner layout and workings of Tipoca City . To prevent any chances of encouraging other insurrections throughout the galaxy , the mission to Kamino was completely off the record . The entire battle was virtually lost to the Anti - troopers from the start . Despite their advanced training , the younger Fett clones were outmatched by their older and more experienced Imperial brothers , none of whom held any reservations about gunning down their fellow clones . Aside from possessing many veteran troopers from the Clone Wars and superior firepower , the 501st Legion was greatly assisted by Boba Fett ; the bounty hunter commanded his forces on site and led the stormtroopers into Tipoca City , killing the Anti - troopers where ever they encountered them . Unwilling to risk losing what remained of Jango Fett ' s blood , the main source for producing the Fett clones , one of the 501st ' s primary objectives was to capture a container that held a sample of Fett ' s DNA . After storming Tipoca City and retrieving the container , the 501st brought their progenitor ' s blood sample to a landing platform an Imperial shuttle awaited them . From there , the shuttle took Fett ' s DNA off planet to safety while the 501st fought on against their rebel brethren . After gaining further ground from outside the city , the 501st went on to fulfill its next primary objective — destroying the Kaminoan life support systems in order to kill all of the rebel clones that had not yet been decanted , thus preventing the Kaminoans from raising more Anti - troopers against the Empire in the future . Despite being protected by a numerous elite ARC troopers , the rebel clones failed to prevent the 501st from killing the undeveloped clones within the facility . After securing most of Tipoca City from the inside , Boba Fett and the 501st Legion proceeded to crowd the remaining Anti - troopers and ARC troopers onto the platforms where they were brutally wiped out . As the fighting dragged on , the Kaminoan rebel leaders saw the hopelessness of their situation and attempted to retreat by utilizing their LAAT gunships . Their efforts were in vain , however , as the 501st managed to destroy both gunships , along with the Kaminoan traitors as well . When the battle came to an end , none of the rebel clones were left alive . With his assignment completed , Boba Fett left the 501st Legion to mop up on Kamino while he returned to deal with his own personal affairs as a bounty hunter . Although the stormtroopers of the 501st Legion proved their loyalty to the Galactic Empire once again , the circumstances surrounding the battle convinced Emperor Palpatine that a clone army , composed entirely of clones based on one genetic source , was too susceptible to corruption . From that point on , it was decided that new clone stormtroopers would be created from various templates ; the Empire even resorted to enlisting regular Humans into the Stormtrooper Corps . Though the 501st Legion remained composed purely of Jango Fett ' s progeny for the time being , the rest of the Imperial Army became increasingly diverse through an ever - growing pool of enlisted troopers and alternative source clones . Thus , the " Clone Revolt " on Kamino was indirectly responsible for turning the clones of Jango Fett into a minority within the army that they once filled as a whole , an irony that the Fett clones neither appreciated nor ever grew accustomed to . Roughly a decade after the incident on Kamino , Commander Cody was bitterly resentful of the Imperial Army ' s pitiful decline in operational effectiveness . In addition to that , Cody absolutely hated enlisted stormtroopers , dismissing them as incompetent idiots that were utterly expendable . Galactic Civil War . Secret cloning project . In the year 1 BBY , shortly after the start of the Galactic Civil War , the Sith Lord Darth Vader secretly brought the deceased body of his fallen apprentice , Galen Marek , to Kamino . With Marek ' s corpse preserved as a source of genetic material , Vader utilized an experimental version of Kaminoan cloning technology , known as the " Accelerated Cloning Process " , in an attempt to create a far more powerful version of his former disciple . Deep within the Timira City Cloning Facility , Vader personally oversaw the secret project , determined to possess once more an assassin of Marek ' s caliber . But due to the inherent flaws in creating clones of Force - sensitive subjects , the first series of Marek ' s clones were grotesquely deformed and highly unstable . After months of painstakingly correcting the imperfections in the procedure , each clone after another was somewhat more stable than the last , thus forcing Vader to train many clones in a " trial and error " process until finally achieving the creation of a single perfect clone to replace the original apprentice . Although one clone managed to escape from Kamino after failing to purge himself of the imprinted emotions that he gained from Marek , Vader recalled Boba Fett to Kamino and tasked the bounty hunter with luring the rogue clone back to his homeworld . Despite losing the clone that was very nearly the first success of the entire project , Darth Vader ' s efforts were finally rewarded in the form of a unique clone who did not fail to meet any of the Sith Lord ' s expectations . Just like the rest of the clones that came before him , however , the latest clone was also haunted by the imprinted memories and emotions of his dead progenitor . But unlike his precursors , the clone was absolutely determined to prove his worthiness by becoming free of his former self ' s feelings through a combination of strong will and constant training on Kamino . As the clone all but completed his trials , he emerged as his own person with a deep sense of resentment over his former self ' s weaknesses and failures . With the perfect clone of the original Starkiller at his service , Vader ended the cloning project on Kamino in victory . Meanwhile , Boba Fett succeeded in bringing Starkiller , the renegade clone who had been dubbed by his progenitor ' s former codename , back to Kamino by taking Captain Juno Eclipse as a hostage . As Starkiller unleashed an onslaught of destruction on Kamino and throughout Timira City , the clone ' s Rebel allies engaged Kamino ' s Imperial garrison in a brutal fight in space and on the planet . Although both Boba Fett and the Dark Apprentice remained in reserve to intervene on Vader ' s behalf only if absolutely necessary , the Empire was defeated in the Battle of Kamino , which also resulted in the capture of Darth Vader after being spared by a most reluctant Starkiller . Although the Rebels ' had neither the resources or the manpower to liberate and hold onto the planet , the victory on Kamino marked the Rebellion as a legitimate threat to the Galactic Empire . After destroying Timira City by causing a tsunami wave to obliterate the cloning facility , the Rebels departed to the secret rebel base on Dantooine , unaware that Fett was pursuing the Rebels and their valuable hostage in his ship . Stolen Sith artifact . In that same year , Urai Fen , concerned with the Zann Consortium ' s survival after they stole Jabba the Hutt ' s artifact , moved the Consortium ' s base of operations to Kamino for a time before settling on Ryloth . The era of the New Republic . After the Battle of Endor , the collapse of the Empire triggered an economic collapse of Kamino and the production of clones eventually ended . The planet continued to survive on smaller contracts , often for warlords and . Years later , Kaminoan Taun We would seek revenge against the Mandalorians who attacked them during the Clone Wars by hiring Boba Fett to kill Fenn Shysa , the last remaining Mandalorian veteran of the Second Battle of Kamino . In 40 ABY , Boba Fett traveled here to consult his doctor and was told that he was dying . The only being who could heal him was Ko Sai , a scientist who had invented the accelerated aging process . She had disappeared after the First Battle of Kamino . He decided to hunt down Taun We , who had defected more recently . The current Prime Minister of Kamino , Koa Ne , offered to pay him to return Taun We ' s data to them . Boba Fett refused after Koa Ne would not pay his exorbitant price , stating that he would sell the data to the highest bidder . Behind the scenes . The buildings of Kamino served as inspiration for University of Texas designs for a Marine Research Facility . According to the map in " The New Essential Chronology " , Kamino is located exactly where Obi - Wan Kenobi said that it was . In the film however , he points toward the Unknown Regions , where no known systems are located . " The Essential Atlas " , Kamino is shown with some land , instead of being covered totally by water . This is only marsh , however , and not solid ground . " " also shows some land masses on Kamino .