Kamino system / Legends The Kamino system was a star system located above the galactic plane , within a loose unnamed grouping sector of stars at the lower end of the satellite galaxy known as the Rishi Maze . Its aging primary sun was orbited by thirteen planets , out of which the fourth , Faa and the fifth , Kamino were terrestrial . Kamino had once been a world largely covered with land , but an an abrupt climate change around 19 , 000 BBY melted its glaciers , submerging the landmasses beneath hundreds of meters of seawater in two centuries . The sentient inhabitants of the planet , the Kaminoans lost their dryland cities and architectural treasures , such as the capital Derem City and the Clock Spires of Harai Nova . However , their technology permitted them to move into stilted cities rising above the global ocean , and their genetic knowledge made the preservation of many drowned species possible through cloning . Such engineering also shaped the Kaminoans themselves into a nearly uniform race . In 4500 BBY , Galactic Republic scouts made contact with Kamino , whose superiority in the field of cloning brought a number of breeding requests from various locations . More than four millennia later , Jedi Master Sifo - Dyas placed an order for a clone army . The Sith Lord Darth Sidious oversaw the project ' s completion , ensuring its secrecy by having Kamino deleted from stellar databases . The army eventually participated in the Clone Wars of 22 – 19 BBY on the side of the Republic , fighting against the Confederacy of Independent Systems . Three battles took place in the system — one in 21 BBY , another in 21 . 83 BBY and a third in 19 . 42 BBY , which devastated the cloning facilities . After the end of the war , Kamino became a fortress world of the Galactic Empire , dedicated to expand the Stormtrooper Corps , and the clone uprising of 12 BBY — orchestrated by rebellious cloners — was rapidly quelled . In 1 BBY , Starkiller — a renegade clone of the Sith Lord Darth Vader secret apprentice , Galen Marek — and the Alliance to Restore the Republic also assaulted the planet to free Starkiller ' s lover , Juno Eclipse . The shattering of the Empire in 4 ABY brought about an economic collapse on Kamino , which was forced to survive on smaller contracts , often with warlords or gangsters — a practice the world was still holding in 43 ABY . Description . The Kamino system was located outside of the galaxy , above the galactic plane in a loose cluster of stars at the lower end of the satellite galaxy known as the Rishi Maze . Its primary sun , Kamino was an aging star , orbited by thirteen planets — the molten world Kas , the searing rocks Yuka Major and Jomon , terrestrial Faa , oceanic Kamino , barren Mira , Miyuu and Donoa , the gas giants Casna Aure and Casna Besh , the frozen rocks Imoco and Talita and the ice ball Yuka . History . Pre - Republic . The Kaminoan species , long - necked humanoids , evolved on Kamino , the fifth planet in the system . They soon developed the coasts of their largely landlocked world , building cities like Derem City . However , a climate change in 19 , 000 BBY melted Kamino ' s glaciers , and two centuries later , all landmasses were submerged beneath several hundred meters of seawater . The Kaminoans moved into stilted cities rising above the ocean , and their knowledge of genetics allowed the preservation of several drowned species through controlled cloning . Genetics also shaped the Kaminoans : their attempts at reaching perfection resulted in a near uniformity of thought , appearance and mannerism . Contact with the galaxy . In 4500 BBY , contact was made with Galactic Republic scouts . Since Kaminoan cloning was superior to contemporary methods , a number of orders were made by both nearby and farther contractors , which resulted in breeds like the shovel - handed miners of Subterrel and the Leech Legion of the Unknown Regions . The Kaminoans also modified the flight - capable cetacean aiwhas of the planet Naboo for themselves . Clone Wars . In 32 BBY , Jedi Master Sifo - Dyas commissioned the Kaminoans to breed an army of clone troopers for the Galactic Republic . The Kaminoans ewith the inhabitants of the nearby Rothana system to build advanced combat machinery so that the army could be supplied with weapons and transportation . The Sith Lord Darth Sidious ensured the project ' s secrecy by erasing the world from stellar databases . His Sith apprentice , Dooku , also removed the mentions of the planet from the Jedi Archives . Ten years later , Jedi Knight Obi - Wan Kenobi visited the planet while investigating the origins of a Kamino saberdart that was used to kill the assassin Zam Wesell . In a meeting with Lama Su , the incumbent Prime Minister of Kamino , Kenobi learned of the clone army , of which 200 , 000 units had been completed .