Battle of the TIE Fighter Construction Facility During approximately 3 BBY , Jedi General Rahm Kota , a survivor of the Great Jedi Purge led by the Sith Lord Darth Vader to eradicate the Jedi Order , led his militia in a battle to claim a TIE fighter construction yard orbiting the moon of Nar Shaddaa as part of a series of attacks on various Imperial targets , working under Senator Bail Prestor Organa of the planet Alderaan . A brilliant tactician , Kota ' s battleplan allowed his militia to take over the station . When it was clear that Kota and his army had a significant advantage over the defending Imperials , Darth Vader resorted to sending in his Dark Jedi disciple , " Starkiller " , to eliminate the threat . However , as Starkiller ' s existence was highly confidential to only Vader and an Imperial pilot named Juno Eclipse , being a tool in his plot to overthrow Emperor Palpatine , Vader ' s master , Starkiller was ordered to wipe out all witnesses inside the construction facility , including Imperial stormtroopers . After being deployed into the main hangar bay from his ship , the " Rogue Shadow " , Starkiller pressed onward through the facility , killing everyone he encountered , effectively ending the combat . This culminated in a lightsaber duel between Kota and Starkiller , taking place inside an observation tower . Kota used his prowess in the Force to detach the chamber from its base , causing it to freefall towards Nar Shaddaa ' s moon . Starkiller overwhelmed the Jedi , throwing him with great force into the floor and incapacitating him . In a last ditch effort to defend himself , Kota offered Starkiller a glimpse into his future , one without Vader , before being blinded and thrown out a shattered window , though he managed to somehow survive the ordeal . Starkiller found himself to safety before the observation tower collided with the moon . Prelude . Jedi Master Rahm Kota was ultimately saved from death during the execution of Order 66 at the end of the Clone Wars by his distrust of the Clone troopers . Believing clone soldiers unfit for battle , he instead relied on a small squad of his own special troops , selected and trained by Kota personally . When Order 66 was executed , there were no clones present to carry it out , and Kota ' s men would obviously refuse such an order . This allowed Kota to disappear into the Outer Rim Territories , his men joining him . Rahm Kota eventually resurfaced years later as a rebel insurgent , his original men having reformed into a group known as Kota ' s Militia . Kota was the first to truly rebel against the Empire , setting the stage for many other groups to do the same , ultimately leading to the formation of the Rebel Alliance . Provided with intel from his contact within the Imperial Senate ; Bail Organa ; Kota began a guerrilla war against the Empire , attacking numerous outposts and facilities and harassing the Imperial military at every turn . His ultimate plan was to gain the attention of Darth Vader , with the intent of assassinating the Sith Lord . This led him to gradually escalate his game plan , ultimately attacking the TIE Fighter Construction Facility above Nar Shaddaa . As Kota went about with his war , Vader trained his secret apprentice . Galen Marek , Vader ' s apprentice had been taken on by the Sith Lord to serve as his tool , working as Vader ' s assassin during his training . As Kota attacked the facility , Vader declared Marek ' s training complete . As a test , he sent him to the facility to kill Kota and retrieve his lightsaber . Marek was also given the mandate to kill all combatants , Imperials and insurgents alike , to ensure that there were no witnesses of his existence . The battle . Kota ' s assault . While the militia space force engaged TIE Fighters around the facility , Kota ' s ground forces managed to land within the facility itself . The infantry in the hangar pushed the Imperial stormtroopers back from the bulkhead door . At least one " Lambda " - class shuttle was destroyed , crashing into the hangar . With Kota leading the charge , the militia swarmed the facility , capturing the command center early on . Executing the stormtroopers within , Kota had his militia lock it down . He then left instructions for explosive charges to be places throughout the facility , specifically on levels two , nine and twelve , and for militia forces to funnel any enemies towards him . As his men got the command center holoprojector up and running , they received sensor input of an approaching ship ; the " Rogue Shadow " , Marek ' s ship . Mistaking Marek ' s ship for Vader ' s , Kota quietly gloated to having drawn the Sith Lord out of hiding . He ordered the hangar twelve containment field lowered , and told the men there to get into position . Starkiller ' s Intervention . Marek entered the facility via a service corridor extension next to the hangar . Militia men had dug in with E - WEB blaster turrets and had sealed the doors , preventing any Imperials from escaping the hangar , Marek appeared . He quickly killed all the troopers within the hangar , Imperials and insurgents alike . Using the Force to open the heavy bulkhead door locks , he moved on , cutting down any soldiers unlucky enough to cross his path . As he approached the central factories , his pilot , Captain Juno Eclipse , warned him of a squadron of TIE Fighters in his area , flying about the cavernous space of the hangar . Navigating the walkways and catwalks of the factory , Marek killed the soldiers in his way while assaulting the TIE fighters with telekinesis and Force lightning . As the battle dragged on and Marek massacred the combatants , the security level of the facility was raised , and an order was issued commanding any unauthorized personnel to be killed . At least 2 TIE Fighters were shot down by enemy fire , and crashed into the walkways . Marek took a lift to the next floor , where the militia and Imperial forces were in a firefight on a bridge leading across the station . A damaged TIE crashed into a walkway and destroyed a portion of it ; however , Marek easily jumped the gap and continued his mission . All hangars eventually fell to rebel forces , and the assembly lines began to crumble . Marek came across several Imperial Navy Commando squads thorough the factory , who where either retreating from pursuing Militia men or were pinned down ; all of the Commandos were killed by Marek . As Marek began breaching the assembly line , Kota ' s men trapped him within an energy shield . He deactivated it by pulling its generator out of the wall outside the barrier using the Force , and moved on . From there , he confronted an AT - CT walker in the wing assembly , which he compacted into a cube and smashed into the ground using the Force . After clearing the wing assembly , he rode one of the lifting TIE wings to a higher level , from which he entered a cockpit assembly area in which deadly laser arms manufactured the chassis of future Imperial war machines . He eventually reached the watchtower where Kota was waiting for him , after getting through the wing and cockpit factories . The duel . Breaching the command center , Starkiller confronted the surprised Kota , who had expected Vader to arrive . Despite this , Kota deigned to confront this " boy " anyway . Marek opened the battle with a blast of Force lightning , which Kota managed to deflect . Seeing the pointlessness of this barrage , Marek broke off and charged the general . Kota managed to duck and sidestep Marek ' s attacks , slashing at his assailant ' s legs as he passed . Marek retaliated with a telekinetic blast , which Kota again deflected . Having successfully tested Kota ' s defenses , Marek adopted a more cautious approach , circling Kota warily and keeping up a light telekinetic attack as he did so , blasting Kota with chair fragments that he had sliced up . Kota used Marek ' s pause to attack , coming on furiously and attempting to bring down the darksider with a quick and determined assault . In response , Marek fell back on his knowledge of Soresu to fend off Kota ' s wild attack . Kota changed tactics , utilizing a slower and more deliberate fighting method interspersed with quick and sudden strikes . Marek continued to fend him off , and as Kota ' s guard began to slip , he countered . Focusing entirely on Kota , he ignored all else , and their duel raged across the control center . While Marek acknowledged that Kota was strong and clever in his own right , possessing many moves the darksider had never seen before , he was ultimately able to drive him back . Despite Kota ' s attempts to regain the offensive or force a mistake on Marek ' s part , he was quickly wearing out and taking hits . In his desperation , Kota broke off from the duel momentarily . Admitting that he had underestimated Marek , he declared that he couldn ' t let him live . Telekinetically seizing the entire command center structure , Kota ripped it from the facility and sent it plummeting into Nar Shaddaa ' s upper atmosphere , citing that he was willing to " bring the facility down onto [ Marek and Kota ' s ] heads " if it was necessary to stop him . As the control center flipped over while plummeting , they resumed their duel . However , Kota was unable to keep up his defense . Marek seized Kota in a telekinetic stranglehold and hurled a chunk of debris at him , which smashed Kota hard into the wall behind him . Keeping up his grip , Marek bashed the hapless general against the floor then flung him against the ceiling , leaping up after him and physically assaulting him before blasting him back down . Kota hit the floor so hard he cracked the glass beneath him . As Kota attempted to regain his feet , Marek leapt at him and attacked . Kota managed to block , initiating a bladelock . As he pushed against Marek ' s blade , Kota said in a rather cryptic manner that he could see the young man ' s future , and that he would not always be Vader ' s servant . As Kota continued looking at the vision , he was startled to see himself as part of his opponent ' s destiny . Using Kota ' s surprise at the revelation as an advantage , Marek gained the upper hand . Overpowering Kota , he pushed the blades into his eyes , blinding and stunning him . In agony , Kota sent out a wave of Force energy that shattered the viewports of the command center , dropping his lightsaber in the process . Marek was sucked in briefly , however he still managed to hold on . Wind howled through the command center as debris was sucked out due to the drastic change of pressure , and Kota followed , dropping spread - eagle into the Vertical City below . Vader ' s apprentice retrieved Kota ' s lightsaber , taking it as a trophy of his victory . Aftermath . With Kota apparently dead , Marek departed the control center , leaping onto the hull of the " Rogue Shadow " as it flew below . Returning to the " Executor " to report to his master , Marek received a debriefing from Vader , who declared that while he was powerful , he was unfocused and easily distracted . Vader then sent Marek to the Jedi Temple to hone his skills . Once there , Marek carved his way through the Imperial garrison stationed there and made his way to the Jedi Trials Chamber . In the Chamber , he engaged a holographic Jedi training program modeled after the ancient Sith Lord ; Darth Desolous . Upon defeating the program , Marek received orders from Vader via PROXY , telling him to find and kill the deranged Jedi Kazdan Paratus on the planet Raxus Prime . Marek did so and preceded to have several other tests of finding and killing Jedi . Kota ' s Fate . Kota survived his fall , though blinded and injured from the duel . He went into exile and became a drunk on Cloud City . Marek , remembering Kota ' s last words , and trying to form up an army of people who were disloyal to Palpatine per Vader ' s suggestion , decided to locate the Jedi , asking him for assistance . Marek would eventually decided to defect from Vader due to the lies and treacheries bestowed on him , and confront his former master , and die fighting the Galactic Emperor Palpatine . He was killed during the duel with the Sith Lord , though he founded a rebellion , fulfilling Kota ' s vision . Behind the scenes . The TIE Fighter Construction Facility level of " " was released as a demo available for download on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network on August 21 , 2008 . The demo featured enhanced force powers and ended with a special AT - ST boss fight . On the consoles besides the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 , a presumably non - canonical build of the game presents a different approach to the facility . After the " Rogue Shadow " lands in the hangar bay , Starkiller fights his way through a series of corridors , hangars and an assembly line . He brings down a Rebel gunship trying to land in one of the hangar bays , and interrogates a survivor of the crash about Kota ' s whereabouts . A Rebel is depicted hijacking an AT - ST , and Starkiller destroys it by impaling the pilot and crushing the walker using his power . On a related note , a notable difference between the Xbox 360 / Playstation 3 versions and the PSP , PS2 , and Wii versions is that the former had the Rogue Shadow arriving at the production facility after the insurgents have completely taken it over , whereas the latter had them arriving in the middle of the space battle between the insurgents and the empire . Likewise , although the planting of explosives were referenced by Rahm Kota , they were never detonated in the Wii , PS2 , and PSP versions . On a related note , the TIE Fighter Construction Facility itself had differing designs between the two versions . According to Unlockable artwork , the duel between Rahm Kota and Starkiller was originally going to continue on top of the Rogue Shadow , but was dropped for unspecified purposes .