Skirmish on Cloud City A skirmish in Cloud City on the planet Bespin occurred in 2 BBY between the armed forces of the Galactic Empire and Starkiller , the secret apprentice and personal assassin of the Sith Lord Darth Vader . Before Starkiller ' s arrival on Cloud City , his master ordered him to create an army that would fight the Empire for control of the galaxy . Once Darth Sidious , the Dark Lord of the Sith who was publicly known as the Emperor Palpatine , became sufficiently distracted by the rebellion , Vader assured Starkiller that they would both assassinate Sidious before usurping control over the Empire . Shortly after Starkiller began his mission , he decided to search for an ally who could provide him with the contacts and resources that were required to build an army of rebels and dissidents . His choice fell on General Rahm Kota , a Jedi fugitive whom Starkiller severely injured on a TIE Fighter Construction Facility above Nar Shaddaa . The apprentice eventually tracked Kota to Cloud City , only to discover that the Jedi had fallen into extreme alcoholism out of despair . Starkiller also learned that Kota had lost his sight ; his eyes had been burned by his own lightsaber during his duel with Starkiller above Nar Shaddaa . As Starkiller attempted to persuade the drunken Jedi to fight the Empire once more , a group of stormtroopers entered the cantina and located their target — Rahm Kota . As a result , Starkiller had to fight Imperial soldiers throughout much of the city ; he was also forced to protect Kota , especially due to the general ' s intoxicated and depressed state of mind . Although Starkiller defeated the Imperial garrison , including a member of the Emperor ' s Shadow Guard , Kota still regarded resistance against the Empire and its " infinite " army as a futile course of action . Nevertheless , Starkiller still convinced Kota to provide the contacts that he needed to begin a galactic - wide rebellion . Prelude . Starkiller ' s search for Rahm Kota took him across the galaxy , from the Jedi ' s last sighting on Nar Shaddaa to the ancient Sith world Ziost . From there , he tracked Kota to Bespin . As a result of his defeat and blinding by Starkiller , Kota gave up his struggle against the Galactic Empire and turned to alcoholism in order to suppress his jaded state of mind . But after Starkiller intercepted an Imperial transmission that Kota had been found , and that the Empire dispatched one of its most dangerous agents to retrieve him , he was forced to rush to Bespin . When he found the former Jedi General in the Vapor Room , a local cantina in Cloud City Kota was half - passed out and extremely intoxicated . Hence , he was uncooperative and insistent on being left alone . The skirmish . Starkiller , who masqueraded as a Jedi at the time , attempted to reason with the unkempt general , but a group of stormtroopers discovered their location with the assistance of Ugnaught informants . For the first time , Starkiller actively fought Imperial troops as an enemy of the Empire . In his previous assignments , he usually killed Imperials to eliminate potential witnesses . While Kota hid under the table , Starkiller drew his new lightsaber and attacked and prioritized the heavily armed and armored Uggernaught s . He disabled one with telekinesis and overloaded the other Uggernaught ' s electrical systems , which thus killed the pilot and scattering the stormtroopers . During the fight , Starkiller felt as though his efforts were constrained by the need to avoid harming innocent bystanders , but only to preserve his facade as a Jedi . Despite the engagement with Imperial forces , he still intended to use his original landing site to extract Kota . He then contacted Juno Eclipse confirming he had Rahm Kota , and that they needed to get an immediate extraction from the Vapor Room . As Kota began to follow the apprentice in his inebriated state , Starkiller hoped that the Jedi could look after himself , but was ultimately forced to protect him . After cutting through the Vapor Room storeroom , Starkiller attacked the nearby squad . As he dragged Kota along the series of corridors to the Vapor Room ' s supply dock , Starkiller expected to meet a heavy Imperial presence , but was unconcerned as he planned to board the " Rogue Shadow " via Force Jump . His plan , however , was countered by the arrival of an Imperial Shadow Guard at the docks . As Starkiller eliminated the guard ' s stormtrooper escort with blast - deflections , he warned Juna to stay away from the loading dock . Hence , the new extraction point was redirected to the shipping balloon dock where the " Rogue Shadow " would await the apprentice ' s return . While Starkiller engaged the guardsman , Kota retreated from the fight and sought an alternate escape route . This allowed Starkiller to drop his pretense as a Jedi in order to draw on the power of the dark side of the Force . He first blasted the guard back with a telekinetic surge , which was followed by a Force lightning attack . Starkiller ultimately won the subsequent energy struggle before he forced the guardsman off the side of the dock . As he made his way to the balloon dock , while hoping that Kota managed to survive on his own , Starkiller was puzzled over the Shadow Guard ' s identity and affiliation . He eventually deduced him to be a servant of Emperor Palpatine rather than Darth Vader , whom he initially confused the guardsman with due to their similar appearances . After he effortlessly dispensed with the Imperial forces in his path , he was attacked by yet another guardsman . This one was more able than the first , though Starkiller ultimately defeated him as well . Once he arrived at the dock , he found it crowded with stormtroopers and Uggernaughts , led by two Shadow Guardsmen . During the fight , Starkiller ' s connection to the Force deepened , and he fought on pure reflex . Stormtroopers were thrown off of the dock or into each other , and Starkiller even brought a heavy freight down from one of the shipping balloons above . When his opponents regrouped , Starkiller telekinetically seized an entire shipping balloon and sent it crashing down onto them . They then promptly cleared out most of the Imperial soldiers , including Imperial dropships before trying to disembark . As they made their way to the " Rogue Shadow " , however , a " Lambda " - class T - 4a Shuttle arrived at the landing pad next to the extraction point , with eight stormtroopers and yet another Shadow Guard disembarking . Marek and the Shadow Guard then proceeded to enter an intense duel via both Force abilities and lightsaber combat . Ultimately , Marek prevailed , with the Shadow Guard promptly being forced into a headlock , then swept him around and threw him into the air before blasting him with Force lightning and then having him fall to the ground , where Marek finished him off by impaling him with his lightsaber . As he stood in triumph , Kota appeared . Aftermath . Kota was unimpressed by Starkiller ' s victory ; his defeat at Nar Shaddaa left him with a pessimistic view of the galaxy . Thus , he asserted that victory was ultimately impossible to achieve because of the " infinite army " that enforced Palpatine ' s Empire . But after Starkiller appealed to his warrior sense of honor , Kota agreed to be of partial help to the apprentice ' s cause . He confided in Starkiller that he had a contact in the Imperial Senate who could use the assistance of a Force - sensitive warrior , especially one who was eager to fight the Empire . Shortly after being extracted by the " Rogue Shadow " , Starkiller felt drawn to the Jedi Temple , which thus caused him to return to Coruscant for a third time . Behind the scenes . This mission does not appear in the PS2 , PSP , or Wii versions of the game , with the search for Kota being instead on Nar Shaddaa in a cantina called The Undertow with only one Shadow Guard , many stormtroopers and " bar scum " to fight . On a related note , in the game , Marek only fought against one shadow guard , while in the novelization , he fought against four of them . In the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions , Kota is armed with a blue lightsaber .