Luuke Skywalker Luuke Skywalker was a genetic clone of the Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker , grown from cells extracted from the hand Skywalker lost during his duel with the Dark Lord Darth Vader on Cloud City . Skywalker ' s hand and lightsaber were recovered by Vader and taken to Emperor Palpatine ' s Mount Tantiss storehouse on the planet Wayland . In 9 ABY , the insane clone Jedi Master Joruus C ' baoth performed a mind trick on Imperial Grand Admiral Thrawn ' s subordinate , Captain Gilad Pellaeon , ordering him to make a special clone for him . The clone that later became Luuke Skywalker was grown in secret from sample B - 2332 - 54 , the sorting code assigned to Luke Skywalker ' s hand . The clone was grown in a Spaarti cloning cylinder over the period of less than a month . When he was ready , the clone was given Jedi training by C ' baoth and over time became little more than an extension of C ' baoth ' s will . C ' baoth wished to turn Skywalker and the former Emperor ' s Hand Mara Jade over to the dark side and take them on as his apprentices . When they refused , C ' baoth incapacitated Jade and unleashed the Luuke clone , determined to have at least one Skywalker serve him . The clone , wielding the lightsaber Skywalker lost in Cloud City , faced off against Skywalker in the Emperor ' s throne room at Mount Tantiss . The clone ' s presence caused a buzzing pressure to form within Skywalker ' s mind , and Skywalker was constantly put on the defensive as the clone attacked with vicious thrusts of his lightsaber . The clone proved to have a similar proficiency in lightsaber dueling and Force techniques as Skywalker , utilizing Force attacks such as lightsaber throw . Eventually , Skywalker ' s sister , Leia Organa Solo , entered the throne room but was quickly neutralized by C ' baoth . As Skywalker continued to lose ground to the clone , Jade found an opportunity to recover Organa Solo ' s lightsaber . Jade was able to slip under the clone ' s guard and kill him , and C ' baoth was killed shortly thereafter . However , the entire experience went on to traumatize Skywalker in the days following . Biography . Creation . Luuke Skywalker was created from tissue cells taken from the severed hand of Luke Skywalker , which was lost along with Skywalker ' s lightsaber during a duel with the Dark Lord Darth Vader on Cloud City in 3 ABY . The hand and lightsaber were discovered in a pile of scrap by an Ugnaught named Groggin in Cloud City ' s Smelting Core D , who intended to melt the lightsaber down for metal . Vader intervened and took both the severed hand and the lightsaber as trophies for Galactic Emperor Palpatine . As Vader boarded his shuttle to leave Cloud City , he briefly contemplated creating a clone of Skywalker from the severed hand to serve as his own apprentice . However , Palpatine discovered Vader ' s deception and ordered him to bring Skywalker ' s severed hand and lightsaber to his private storehouse at Mount Tantiss on Wayland . Vader personally presented the hand and lightsaber to Palpatine , where they were added to the Emperor ' s personal collection . Six years later , Grand Admiral Thrawn returned from the Unknown Regions in a campaign to crush the New Republic and rebuild the Empire , and formed an alliance with the Guardian of Mount Tantiss , a mad Jedi clone named Joruus C ' baoth . C ' baoth , through the use of a mind trick , ordered Thrawn ' s subordinate , Captain Gilad Pellaeon , to secretly create a clone for himself inside Mount Tantiss ' s cloning facilities using sample B - 2332 - 54 , the sorting code for Luke Skywalker ' s severed hand . C ' baoth then erased the order from Pellaeon ' s memory in order to make sure that the captain would never report it to Thrawn . The clone that later became Luuke Skywalker was grown in a Spaarti cloning cylinder in under one month , was trained to be proficient in the Jedi arts , and was eventually put under C ' baoth ' s total control . Confrontation at Mount Tantiss . The clone ' s abilities were soon tested when C ' baoth summoned him to the Emperor ' s throne room on Mount Tantiss , which had recently been infiltrated by the original Luke Skywalker , now a Jedi Knight , with the help of former Emperor ' s Hand Mara Jade . When C ' baoth realized he could not turn Skywalker to the dark side , he struck Jade with Force lightning and introduced the clone . At C ' baoth ' s command , the clone , dressed in a brown robe and concealed by the light of a hologram next to him , unclipped a lightsaber from his belt and began moving toward Skywalker and Jade . The lightsaber the clone wielded was Skywalker ' s first , retrieved from Cloud City and stored at Mount Tantiss along with his hand . The clone ' s presence caused a buzzing pressure to form against Skywalker ' s mind and gave the Jedi a disturbing sense of familiarity . Skywalker was quickly reminded of his confrontation in the Dark Side Cave on Dagobah with the Dark Spirit , a Force manifestation of himself that he had dueled , and the clone Luuke finally revealed his face to the Jedi . Skywalker ' s mind froze in shock as he gazed upon a face that was his own , the buzzing pressure in his mind continuing to grow . C ' baoth disclosed the clone ' s origins and claimed that whichever Skywalker defeated the other would be the one to serve him . Catching Skywalker off guard , the clone ignited his lightsaber and began aggressively swinging his blade toward Skywalker ' s chest . As Skywalker attempted to block with his own lightsaber , the force of the clone ' s attack nearly threw the Jedi off balance . When Skywalker retreated to a raised guard platform at the lower level of the throne room , the clone followed through with a lightsaber throw , which sliced halfway through the platform , causing Skywalker to perform an unsuccessful backflip onto the ground . The clone retrieved his lightsaber and once more engaged Skywalker . He hurled his lightsaber at Skywalker when the Jedi leaped up to a nearby catwalk . The saber barely missed Skywalker but sliced through most of the catwalk and the support struts holding it to the ceiling . Skywalker attempted to Force - pull the clone ' s falling lightsaber to himself but was thwarted by C ' baoth , who stopped the lightsaber in midair and insisted that the duel be fought fairly . The clone had been standing still the whole time , knowing precisely what his master was doing . Skywalker threw his own lightsaber at the clone ' s , intending to destroy the clone ' s weapon . However , C ' baoth intervened once again and threw an object at Skywalker , which caused the Jedi to miss and lose his mental grip on the clone ' s lightsaber . The clone recovered his lightsaber and raised it to an en guard position as a weary Skywalker prepared to continue the duel . Skywalker ' s sister , Leia Organa Solo , along with her husband , Han Solo , and the smuggler Talon Karrde , found their way into the throne room during the battle . An attack from C ' baoth left Organa Solo incapacitated , prompting Skywalker to aggressively attack his clone in a bid to finish the duel quickly and save his sister . The clone Luuke fell back before the onslaught , barely being able to block Skywalker ' s blows . The clone then retreated up a set of stairs to his master ' s side while Skywalker seemingly pursued him . Skywalker , however , switched his lightsaber off and attempted to bargain his own life with C ' baoth for those of his comrades . As C ' baoth conversed with Skywalker and Jade , the clone reignited his lightsaber and leaped toward Skywalker , who ignited his own weapon just in time to parry the clone ' s aerial attack . The clone drove Skywalker off the stairway and onto the floor below , and the two continued their fight on the lower level until Skywalker leaped back up to the main floor with the clone in pursuit . The clone then attacked Skywalker with vicious horizontal thrusts , slowly backing the Jedi against a wall . Jade managed to recover Organa Solo ' s lightsaber while C ' baoth was distracted and charged at Skywalker ' s clone . The clone was aware of Jade ' s imminent attack but decided to take a gamble and finish off Skywalker first . As the clone swung his lightsaber for a finishing blow , Skywalker ducked , causing the clone ' s lightsaber to slice through a viewscreen mounted on the rock wall behind Skywalker . The electronic components of the viewscreen exploded in the clone ' s face , and he shrieked , staggering backward . Dazed and angry , the clone raised his lightsaber in attack toward Jade . The former Emperor ' s Hand ducked and struck the clone with a killing strike , thus fulfilling the last command given to her by Palpatine : to kill Luke Skywalker . Legacy . The death of the clone Luuke caused a deranged Joruus C ' baoth to go on a rampage . Mara Jade was forced to slay the insane Jedi Master with the help of Luke Skywalker , who had been instantly relieved of the buzzing pressure in his mind after the death of his clone . After the duel , Skywalker gave the clone ' s lightsaber , his own first lightsaber , to Jade as a gift . Skywalker continued to be haunted by the duel with his clone , causing him several sleepless nights . He recorded his experience with his clone in a personal datapad journal written several days after the confrontation . In it , he described his fears about his own future and how restless it left him . Skywalker compared the clone to the spirit he fought on Dagobah , describing how both adversaries had his own strengths and weaknesses and were his equals in almost every way . Skywalker was disturbed at the thought that a nearly exact duplicate of himself could become , in his mind , evil . Skywalker continually wondered if the same potential was present in himself and whether one day he could fall to the dark side . Personality and traits . Physically , Luuke Skywalker was an exact duplicate of Luke Skywalker . Mentally , he was little more than a mindless drone , an extension of Joruus C ' baoth ' s will . The clone was created for C ' baoth ' s use as a tool , and he obeyed the insane Jedi Master ' s every command instantly . The clone was devoid of any sense of individuality and showed no recognizable sign of emotion until the end of his bout with Skywalker , when he shrieked and attacked Mara Jade in fury after a viewscreen blew up in his face . Skywalker considered the clone to be thoroughly evil , a twisted perversion of himself . Powers and abilities . Luuke Skywalker had much of the same proficiency in application of the Force and lightsaber dueling as the original Luke Skywalker . During the duel at Mount Tantiss , Skywalker found himself constantly matched by the clone . Their abilities were nearly equal , though the clone ' s presence caused a pressure to form in Skywalker ' s mind , giving the clone a slight advantage . The clone ' s lightsaber techniques utilized vicious , aggressive thrusts , and he was able to synchronize with C ' baoth ' s mind , allowing him to carry out the Jedi Master ' s will instantly . The clone was adept in several telekinetic Force techniques , including Force jumping , pulling , and lightsaber throwing . Behind the scenes . Luuke Skywalker was created by Timothy Zahn in 1993 for " The Last Command " , the third and final novel in the " " . His background was expanded upon in " The Last Command Sourcebook " , written by Eric S . Trautmann and published in 1994 . The clone later made an appearance in the final issue of " The Last Command " comic book adaptation in 1998 . A slight discrepancy exists in the nature of the clone ' s death . " The Last Command " describes Mara Jade as striking the clone down with Leia Organa ' s lightsaber . However , the comic book adaptation of the novel depicts Jade stabbing the clone through the chest . " An Apology " . On April 1 2012 , Luuke Skywalker featured in " An Apology " , a non - canon short story written by Timothy Zahn that was posted on the Random House genre website Suvudu as an joke . The story was presented as an epilogue to the " " novel series and was recounted from the first - person perspective of Luuke , as an in - universe recollection of his life . According to the story , Luuke was secretly selected by Grand Admiral Thrawn to take Luke Skywalker ' s place among the New Republic hierarchy , and during Mara Jade ' s duel against Luuke on Mountain Tantiss in " The Last Command " , the former Emperor ' s Hand inadvertently killed the real Luke Skywalker and Luuke subquently took the Jedi ' s place , pretending that he was the original Luke . According to the text that accompanied the story , this " revelation " rendered all appearances of Luke Skywalker in post – " Last Command " " Star Wars " media as appearances of Luuke . " An Apology " went on to elaborate that after the clone ' s infiltration of the New Republic , Thrawn surreptitiously fed Luuke orders , and the Dark Jedi adapted well to his new role , although at times he struggled to accustom himself to Luke Skywalker ' s taste in food . Luuke went on to establish a new Jedi Order and founded a Jedi Academy on the moon Yavin 4 . Thrawn requested that Luuke obtain tissue samples from the Sith spirit Exar Kun and the unorthodox Jedi Callista , and the clone failed to complete the task , although Luuke subsequently mollified the Grand Admiral by providing him with genetic samples from the crime lords Prince Xizor and Durga the Hutt . According to " An Apology " , Luuke later participated in the Black Fleet Crisis and the conflict surrounding the rediscovery of the Caamas Document , but the strains of war began to show on him and Thrawn considered replacing the Dark Jedi with a new clone . Over time , Thrawn gathered a collection of clones , and during the Yuuzhan Vong War , Luuke came to suspect that the Admiral was insane . Thrawn also began substituting clones with their original progenitors , as he had with Luke and Luuke , then imprisoning the progenitors inside the Grand Admiral ' s fortress in the Patagonia system . A replacement for Luuke , named Luuuke Skywalker , was eventually created by Thrawn , and Luuke planned to go forth to Patagonia , to accept his final fate .