Mission to Nar Shaddaa ( Galen Marek ) Shortly after escaping from the " Empirical " , Galen Marek , Darth Vader ' s secret apprentice , conducted a mission to The Undertow on the planet Nar Shaddaa in 2 BBY . This mission to find Rahm Kota resulted in a standoff between the Force - user and both Imperial - aligned bounty hunters in the tavern and the armed forces of the Galactic Empire . Before Starkiller ' s arrival on Nar Shaddaa , 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 . Tracking the Jedi Master to the Undertow , 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 Imperials entered the cantina and located their target — Rahm Kota . As a result , Starkiller had to fight Imperial soldiers throughout the cantina ; 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 Nar Shaddaa . 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 . Deciding to check the last place he saw Kota , Marek then arrived at the Undertow on Nar Shaddaa . The skirmish . Upon arrival at the cantina , Marek approached the Weequay bartender of the Undertow , who was under the impression that he was another customer . Marek then told him he was looking for someone by the name of Rahm Kota , and asked if he knew where he was . The bartender denies any knowledge of him . Marek eventually tried to pull a Mind trick on the bartender , although he still denied any knowledge . Pushed to his limit , Marek then telekinetically strangled him and demanded to know where he was . Eventually , the bartender revealed that Kota ' s little more than a stumbling distance from the Undertow , assuming he wasn ' t already " dead at a gutter . " The bartender then told the patrons , who were all bounty hunters , that Marek was likely to be a Jedi , and that they should get him so they can be awarded a bounty . Marek was then forced to fight the patrons within the bar while trying to locate Rahm Kota . When he found the former Jedi General , Kota was half - passed out and extremely intoxicated . Hence , he was uncooperative and insistent on being left alone . Starkiller , who masqueraded as a Jedi at the time , attempted to reason with the unkempt general , but a further group of bounty hunters arrived , forcing Marek to defend Kota against the onslaught . To make matters worse , just as he was about to leave , Imperial Navy commando s and EVO trooper s , who had presumably been notified of both Marek and Kota ' s presence at the cantina , were waiting just outside the door , thus forcing Marek to fight his way through them as he returned to the entrance . Starkiller then arrived at the entrance , calling out Kota ' s name , only to be unexpectedly shoved back telekinetically by an Emperor ' s Shadow Guard , who was seemingly accompanied by four EVO troopers . After taking out his accompanying troops , Marek then dueled with the Shadow Guard . A short time later , however , the Shadow Guard revealed an ace up his sleeve : Shadow Trooper s who promptly decloaked to aid the Shadow Guard in subduing Marek . Despite a difficult fight , Marek ultimately managed to beat the Shadow Guard via a Force Repulse when the latter attempted to use Force Grip , sending the Shadow Guard flying out of the tavern . Aftermath . Kota , who had witnessed the fight from behind the bar , 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 PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game , with the search for Kota being instead on Cloud City in a cantina called the Vapor Room with a Shadow Guard ( four times as many in the novelization ) , many stormtroopers and ugnaughts to fight . Despite this , however , the mission was nonetheless implied to have occurred offscreen in that version due to Marek when meeting Kota mentioning that he tracked him down " from Nar Shaddaa to Ziost . "