Kamino uprising The Kamino uprising was a conflict in 12 BBY on the aquatic planet Kamino , the origin world of the Grand Army of the Republic during the waning days of the Old Republic . After having spent the better part of the last couple decades growing clone troopers for the Old Republic and stormtroopers for the Galactic Empire under Emperor Palpatine , a group of Kaminoans went rogue , using their cloning resources to grow an army with the intent of combating Palpatine ' s New Order . The Kaminoan resistance once again used the Grand Army of the Republic ' s template , Jango Fett ' s DNA and equipped their soldiers with phase I clone trooper armor . Upon learning of the insurrection , the Galactic Empire hired renowned bounty hunter Boba Fett , himself a clone of Jango Fett , to penetrate and sabotage the cloning facilities of Tipoca City . Fett ' s childhood spent in the city granted him intricate knowledge of the facility ' s layout , and he led the Imperial Army to a crushing defeat of the " anti - clone " army . The Kaminoan leadership themselves were destroyed when their escape transports were shot down as they attempted to flee . Before the battle ' s end , Fett extracted a sample of the Jango Fett DNA and delivered it to his Imperial clients . The uprising led to a restructuring of the Imperial cloning policy ; the previous model of centralized cloning sources was abandoned in favor of having a wide variety of cloning centers and genetic templates . Prelude . In the years following the rise of the Empire , the planet Kamino was kept under the watchful eye of Emperor Palpatine , in order to ensure that the planet ' s cloning technology remained under Imperial control . A small group of Kaminoans known as Clone Master s , resentful of the Empire ' s presence , began to grow an army of clone troopers to use in order to fight against their oppressors . These rogue clone troopers were called clone anti - Imperial troopers because they were created to fight against the Empire . They wore Phase I clone trooper armor and were mostly Jet Troopers and Rail ARC Commandos . The conflict pitted these Kamino - grown troops against their own Imperial brothers : members of the 501st Legion of stormtroopers , who were led by the bounty hunter Boba Fett , since he had been " born " and raised on Kamino and had a great knowledge of the facility . The battle . The Imperial forces landed in the city in a " Sentinel " - class landing craft . Boba Fett , hired for his knowledge of the cloning facility , made his way towards the cloning facility and destroyed a door control console that kept the facility in lockdown and proceeded inside , killing any rogue clones who got in his way . Fett and his troops were then ordered to retrieve a Template Sample of Jango Fett ' s DNA to prevent the Kaminoans from using it to clone more rogue soldiers . After getting his hands on the sample , Fett returned it to the Landing Craft which shortly took off upon acquiring it from Fett . The bounty hunter then returned to the facility and wiped out the life support systems located in the lower cloning center , ending any chances of more anti - Imperial clones being grown . Meanwhile , his fellow Imperial stormtroopers fought the enemy clones on the numerous platforms of Tipoca City . After Fett finished his work in the cloning facilities , he met up with the troopers outside and aided them in the battle . Mere moments after the clone life support was destroyed , the last of the anti - Imperial troopers were pushed back onto the landing platforms and finally destroyed . With the traitorous clones exterminated , Kamino remained under Imperial control and the rogue cloning facilities were commandeered unto Imperial rule . The leaders of the Kaminoan rebels attempted to escape in two LAAT / is , but were brought down by rockets fired from Imperial shock troopers and from lasers fired by ground turrets . Aftermath . Although the clone rebellion was soundly defeated , this incident convinced Emperor Palpatine to commission the creation of new clones from different templates and the recruitment of birth - born soldiers to fill the ranks of the Stormtrooper Corps . He also did this because he believed that the non birth - born troopers were too susceptible to corruption , and believed that a more diverse group of soldiers would solve this issue . Although the Jango Fett template would still be used , none of the Fett clones , especially the members of the 501st who defeated the rebel clones , would ever get used to the increasing diversity in the army ranks that they once filled as a whole . Behind the scenes . The Kamino uprising first appeared in the 2005 LucasArts video game " " as the fourth mission in the Empire section of the " Rise of the Empire " campaign . The event was later mentioned a few times during the " Legacy of the Force " novel series .