Lead Cloning Technician The Lead Cloning Technician was an Imperial scientist who was stationed on the planet Kamino , the homeworld of the Kaminoan race that developed the Clone Army of the Old Republic . At the time when the Lead Cloning Technician was stationed on Timira City , Kamino had long since lost its freedom ; its people became obligated to serve the Republic ' s successor state , the Galactic Empire . Under the Technician ' s observation , the Imperials eventually developed the " accelerated cloning process , " a procedure that engineered stormtrooper clones at a much faster rate than the Kaminoan method and Spaarti technology . At the behest of the Sith Lord Darth Vader , the Technician was placed in charge of a clandestine project : the creation of a perfect clone of Galen Marek , Vader ' s secret apprentice who perished in an act of rebellion against the Sith Order . History . The Lead Cloning Technician of Timira City , a Kaminoan cloning facility located on the planet Kamino , was tasked with a seemingly impossible task in 1 BBY : the creation of a stable clone of a Force - sensitive genetic template . At the time , there had never been a known successful attempt to clone a subject who was strongly connected to the power of the Force . Although the exact reason was unknown , it was generally assumed that the Force was somehow responsible for the instabilities that undermined the development of Force - sensitive clones . Darth Vader , Dark Lord of the Sith and apprentice to Emperor Palpatine , was determined to achieve the impossible , and thus the Lead Cloning Technician was assigned to engineer the first successful clone of a Force - sensitive subject . The genetic template , from which the Force - induced DNA would be extracted from , was the deceased body of Galen Marek , a former Sith assassin who once served Darth Vader under the codename of " Starkiller . " The motive behind Vader ' s actions was the assassination of his own Master , an act which he was incapable of achieving on his own . As such , the operation to duplicate Marek ' s genetic code was classified and conducted within the secret laboratories of Timira City . In order to prevent Marek ' s DNA from becoming compromised by the natural process of decomposition , the former secret apprentice ' s corpse was frozen and preserved within a secret chamber in Timira City , thus preventing it from rotting . Although the Lead Cloning Technician desired greater access to the template itself , Darth Vader alone possessed unrestricted access . The flaws within the accelerated cloning process , combined with the inherent difficulty of replicating an exact copy of a Force - sensitive subject ' s genetic code with perfect precision , essentially made the project a frustrating series of " trial and error " attempts . After roughly six months since the project began , Timira City ' s laboratories were filled with hundreds of aberrant monstrosities , completely unstable and utterly deranged in mind . Through unyielding determination and labor , the Lead Cloning Technician slowly but steadily corrected the various mistakes , which eventually led to more stable subjects . As further attempts to clone Marek gradually led to greater progress , the frequency and intensity of instabilities became increasingly rare with each clone . Physical deformities were eliminated , and thus the improved clones bore an exact physical resemblance to their genetic donor at the time of his death . Yet while the physical aspect was corrected , the unstable minds of the clones remained a dilemma for some time . The clones that Darth Vader personally trained proved too inadequate to replace Marek at the Sith Lord ' s side . The primary factor behind their collective failure was Marek ' s own mind . The apprentice ' s memories had been downloaded into the clones as a form of flash training , thus enabling them to utilize their genetically inherited gifts almost immediately after their creation . But the clones acquired more than just the knowledge of Marek ' s skills due to the memory imprints ; they gained the memories of his life and experiences , as well as certain emotional attachments . Ultimately , however , some clones were emotionally different than others . During their training in lightsaber combat against Sith Training Droid s , certain clones refused to destroy the droids that were disguised as Marek ' s long dead father . Other clones were too distracted by memories of the child that their progenitor had once been . The Lead Cloning Technician observed one particular clone who was unable to attack a Sith Training Droid . Although the subject struck down every camouflaged droid without hesitation , an undisguised droid triggered the memory of PROXY , due to its similar appearance to the apprentice ' s holodroid friend . As the project neared its end , only two clones proved to be more stable than those that preceded them : the so - called Starkiller and the Dark Apprentice . Although the two were virtually identical in various ways , only the latter proved worthy to become the new disciple of Darth Vader . Starkiller , the clone who eventually became known by his progenitor ' s former codename , succeeded in his trials to the point where Vader assumed that he would be the first success in a very long line of failures . But as with the others who became compromised by certain emotional attachments due to the memory imprints , Starkiller was ultimately deemed as yet another disappointment because of his obsession with Juno Eclipse , the Human female whom Marek fell in love with . This obsession caused the clone to rebel against his Master by escaping from Kamino in order to locate Eclipse . The clone who became Darth Vader ' s " Dark Apprentice " proved to be far greater and more impressive than his renegade " brother , " as well as the rest of his imperfect precursors . Although his rate of progress impressed both Vader and the Technician who observed his development , the clone was initially troubled as the others were , but to a lesser degree . Early signs of his inherent weaknesses included the first memory he experienced upon his decanting — a memory of Juno Eclipse . In spite of his initial curiosity about her whereabouts , the clone maintained a steady focus on the objective of passing his trials without error . Nevertheless , he still experienced the same identity crisis that drove his brothers to madness , but eventually overcame the side - effects after compartmentalizing Marek ' s memories , an action which allowed him to distinguish his own experiences from those of Marek . The clone ' s rate of success astounded the shocked Lead Cloning Technician , who finally concluded that the project was finally ready to be deemed a success . With the project ' s conclusion , the Technician anticipated an opportunity to leave Kamino for home . By this time , the results of the entire project had been recorded onto the Technician ' s personal entry logs in the form of a private journal . In the aftermath of the Assault on Kamino , fought between the Alliance to Restore the Republic and the Galactic Empire , the Technician ' s notes were found in the garbage processing facility on Kamino Station X . Personality and traits . The Lead Cloning Technician found the aberrant clones ' meaningless gibbering to be extremely disturbing . The constant rate of failures greatly vexed the Technician , who hoped in vain for greater access to the source of the Force - sensitive genetic material . Having become accustomed to a steady series of one disappointment after another , the Technician was joyously elated and encouraged by the progress made by the Dark Apprentice , a clone who succeeded where all of the others failed . All of the Technician ' s hopes became invested in the final outcome of the dark clone , and thus it was the Technician ' s great hope that the project would finally be concluded after months of laborious , error - filled procedures . Furthermore , the Technician was also eager to complete Darth Vader ' s project in order to return to home and family . Behind the scenes . The Lead Cloning Technician ' s logs appear in the in - game Databank of the 2010 video game " . " It is possible that the Lead Cloning Technician is the same character as the Unidentified cloning technician from the interactive online feature , as they both kept similar logs in terms of content and mannerisms and were in charge of important clone subjects . He may also be the same technician killed by Boba Fett in .