Timira City Timira City was a Kaminoan city located on the planet Kamino . Like Tipoca City , Kamino ' s planetary capital , Timira City was the site of a major cloning facility that produced the Galactic Empire ' s stormtrooper clones . Shortly after the onset of the Galactic Civil War , Timira City became the secret location of a clandestine project initiated by the Sith Lord Darth Vader . With the death of Galen Marek , Vader ' s former secret apprentice , the Sith Lord sought to create a new version of his fallen disciple via cloning . History . After the Clone Wars concluded in 19 BBY with the ascension of Darth Sidious , Dark Lord of the Sith , as emperor of the Galactic Empire , the New Order swiftly proceeded to implement total Sith control over the known galaxy . Kamino , the planet responsible for the creation of the Emperor ' s clone army , was ironically subjugated by the native Kaminoans ' own creations in the name of the Empire . By 1 BBY , almost two decades after the Declaration of a New Order , Kamino was a heavily guarded world protected by military assets such as Imperial warships and a large stormtrooper garrison . The garrison force included an Imperial battalion , filled with enlisted troopers , led by Commander Cody , a first generation clone of Jango Fett and a veteran of the Clone Wars . On a lesser note , the stormtroopers who guarded Timira City regarded it as a miserable assignment , which ultimately had a negative impact on the troop morale . Due to the planet ' s importance , Kamino ' s cloning facilities , the Empire ' s most valuable possessions on the ocean - covered world , was naturally subjected to a heavy presence of Imperial scientists and troopers ; Timira City was no exception . Although the Empire vastly expanded its cloning program beyond Kamino , the original source of the clone army , Kamino still retained much of its importance as a clandestine site for the Imperial cloning operation , which thus earned the planet its sizable military garrison . Clones were still produced en mass to serve as soldiers , but no longer as the defenders of the Old Republic . Instead , they were grown and programmed to become the faceless enforcers of the Galactic Empire . In Timira City , Imperial scientists endeavored to improve the Kaminoan method of cloning , and eventually created the highly experimental " accelerated cloning process . " With this new procedure , the growth rate of clone subjects was immensely hastened to the point where they could reach adulthood in a mere few weeks . However , the accelerated cloning process was wrought with imperfections , and was thus responsible for the creation of extremely unstable clones , none of which were able to survive for very long . The known genetic source material for the accelerated clones came from two subjects : Boba Fett and Galen Marek . The side - effects caused by the flaws in the accelerated cloning process notwithstanding , the selection of Fett and Marek as templates also contributed to the creation of failed experiments . The fact that Boba Fett was not conceived by natural process , but was rather himself a clone , undermined the process ; clones bred from a clone source were exposed to even greater risks of genetic anomalies . As for Galen Marek , the fact that his blood was Force - sensitive made it almost impossible for a stable clone to be created from his genetic material . Although the exact nature of the instability was unclear , it was believed that the Force was responsible , and thus a Force - sensitive had never been successfully cloned in the past . Hence , Timira City was the location of entire stocks of psychologically deranged Fett clones and aberrant freaks bred from the Marek template . The individual responsible for the inclusion of Marek ' s DNA as a genetic source material was none other than the Sith Lord Darth Vader , Marek ' s former master . Through painstaking efforts , Vader endeavored to create the ultimate apprentice and assassin : a new version of Galen Marek ; a clone who possessed all of the original apprentice ' s strengths , but none of his weaknesses . Over the course of six months , Vader occasionally visited Timira City in order to personally oversee the progress of his secret experiment , only to be disappointed by a variety of imperfect clones . In spite of a laboriously slow rate of improvement , each clone was psychologically flawed in one way or another , mostly due to the emotional attachments that they inherited from Vader ' s deceased apprentice . As a result , the clones were eventually driven into a state of madness , and thus none of them were deemed suitable to replace Marek at Vader ' s side . Eventually , however , one clone in particular had proven stable enough for Darth Vader to hope that the project would finally become a success . But like the others who came before , the clone was unable to resist the controlling influence of his progenitor ' s memories , the imprints used to train the clone . After developing an obsession with Juno Eclipse , the female Human whom Galen Marek fell in love with prior to his death , the clone escaped from his creator ' s custody and embarked on a single - minded quest to find Eclipse . But despite the loss of a wayward clone , Vader was greatly pleased by the ultimate outcome of another clone subject . Unlike all of his precursors who preceded him , this clone successfully compartmentalized all of Marek ' s memories , which enabled him to distinguish himself as a unique individual , separate from the person whom Galen Marek had been . The clone came to hate his genetic donor so much to the point where he was immensely proud of rising above the weaknesses that destroyed Marek . As a sign of his approval , and in order to prove that Marek was truly dead , Darth Vader revealed the preserved corpse of Galen Marek to the clone that he regarded as his new apprentice . Marek ' s body , hidden in a secret location within Timira City , confirmed what the clone already knew to be true : that he was indeed a clone and the real Galen Marek perished during his final stand against the Sith . Not long after Darth Vader finally deemed the project a success , Kamino was suddenly besieged by a rebel fleet that belonged to the Alliance to Restore the Republic . By this time , Boba Fett returned to Kamino with Juno Eclipse as a hostage , in accordance with instructions from Vader . Due to Eclipse ' s presence on Timira City , Vader anticipated the arrival of the rebels , followed by the renegade clone who became known as " Starkiller " , Galen Marek ' s Sith codename . Vader was confident that his Imperial forces were more than capable of defeating the fledgling Alliance in battle , but nevertheless he prepared for the inevitable confrontation with Marek ' s clone . In order to guarantee his own survival , however , he ordered his Dark Apprentice to remain hidden and to avoid intervening unless absolutely necessary ; Boba Fett was also retained as a contingency asset in case Starkiller came too close to killing Vader . Vader ' s plan , however , apparently backfired . With the aid of Starkiller and the Jedi General Rahm Kota , the Rebel forces breached Kamino ' s naval defenses and stormed Timira City itself . The Rebel soldiers ultimately subdued the Imperial garrison , though not without sustaining severe casualties to their own numbers . Meanwhile , Starkiller fought and ultimately overpowered Vader in a lightsaber duel . Though he was tempted to kill his creator , Starkiller reluctantly relented and allowed Kota to arrest the defeated Sith Lord ; neither Boba Fett or the Dark Apprentice intervened . Hence , the Assault on Kamino was secured as the Alliance ' s first major victory against the Empire in the Galactic Civil War . As the Rebels evacuated Kamino with their valuable hostage , they crashed the massive wreckage of Star Destroyers into the ocean , intending to destroy all of Timira City and its cloning technology with the resulting tsunami . Unknown to the Rebels , and even Starkiller , Boba Fett secretly pursued them in " Slave I " as they moved to transfer Darth Vader to the secret Rebel base on Dantooine .