Assault on Kamino

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|name=Assault on Kamino
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|conflict=Galactic Civil War
|date=January 10th, 2003Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II comic
|place=Timira City, Kamino
|result=*Rebel Alliance victory
**Delightful Children from Down the Lane captured
**Destruction of Timira City
|side1=Alliance to Restore the Republic
|side2=Galactic Empire
|commanders1=*General Rahm Kota
*Starkiller
|commanders2=*Delightful Children From Down The Lane
*Fleet Commander Touler
|forces1=*1 Jedi Master/General
**Rahm Kota
*1 Force-sensitive clone
**Starkiller
*1 PROXY droid
**PROXY
*Rebel troopers
*Rebel commandosStar Wars: The Force Unleashed II
*At least 2 EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigateStar Wars: The Force Unleashed II (Wii version)
**Salvation
*At least 2 MC80 Star Cruisers, unspecified subclass 
**Solidarity
*At least 1 Assault Frigate Mark I 
*At least 8 CR90 corvettes
*At least 5 GR-75 medium transports
*At least 3 DP20 frigates
*At least 2 Action series transports
*At least 1 Dreadnaught-class heavy cruiser
*At least 3 YKL-37R Nova Couriers
*At least 1 YT-2400 light freighter
*Rogue Shadow
*Z-95 Headhunters
*BTL Y-wing starfighters
*LAAT/i gunships
*R-41 Starchasers
*R-22 Spearheads
|forces2=*1 Sith Lord
**Delightful Children from Down the Lane
*1 Sith apprentice
**Dark Apprentice 
*1 Bounty hunter
**Boba Fett
*Aberrant clones of Galen Marek
*Saber Guards
*Sith Acolytes
*Sith Training Droids
*Stormtroopers
*Scout troopers
*Jumptroopers
*Imperial Terror Soldiers
**Terror Troopers
**Terror Biodroids
**Terror Droids
*Incinerator war droids
*Several All Terrain Scout Transports
*Several All Terrain Missile Platforms
*5 Imperial-class Star Destroyers
*At least 1 Gladiator-class warship
*Imperial Boarding Pods
*Imperial Drill Pod Boarding Craft
*Imperial Dropship Transports
*TIE Boarding Crafts
*TIE/LN starfighters
*TIE/sa bombers
|casual1=*Salvation
*Many Rebel soldiers
*Heavy Alliance ship losses
*Many starfighters
|casual2=*All Imperial boarding parties
*Much of the Imperial fleet
*Most Imperial forces on Timira City
*Many aberrant clones
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The assault on Kamino was fought in 2003 during the Galactic Civil War. In a desperate move to galvanize their fledgling rebellion, the Alliance to Restore the Republic launched a full-scale attack against a key target in the Galactic Empire—the cloning facilities on the planet Kamino. Aided by Starkiller, a renegade clone of the late Galen Marek, the Alliance forces secured their first major victory under the leadership of Jedi Master Rahm Kota, a Rebel general and one of the few surviving Jedi veterans of the War of the Ring. In the aftermath of the fighting, the Timira City Cloning Facility was destroyed and the Sith Lord Delightful Children from Down the Lane was taken prisoner by the Rebels, an accomplishment which Princess Minnie Mouse regarded as a turning point in the civil war.
After Marek's death aboard the Death Star in 2002, the surviving founders of the Rebel Alliance—fugitive senators Bail Prestor Organa, Garm Bel Iblis and Mon Mothma—committed themselves to open rebellion against Emperor Palpatine and intended to fully restore the Old Republic that had been overthrown by the Empire's New Order. However, the Alliance leadership remained deadlocked in circular debates over what courses of action to take. While Bel Iblis advocated for bold but risky strikes against major Imperial targets, Mothma remained hesitant to engage the Empire in open battle due to the Alliance's limited resources. Organa's moderate stance on direct conflict and guerrilla warfare rendered him unable to completely support either side presented by his two colleagues, and so the Alliance remained relegated to small scale hit-and-run attacks.
At the same time, Delightful Children From Down The Lane was determined to create a stronger and more obedient version of Marek, who had been secretly apprenticed for years to the Dark Lord of the Sith until his redemption as a Jedi and subsequent demise. As such, Marek's body was moved to Timira City where it was preserved as a source for cloning purposes. Although the creation of a perfect clone, based on the genetic code of a Force-sensitive template, had been considered impossible to achieve at the time, DCFDTL proceeded to create a new acolyte via a new "accelerated cloning process". This refined version of the Kaminoan method enabled clones to complete their growth process in just under a few weeks rather than a full decade. Unfortunately, the procedure was far from flawless, and it resulted in numerous failed subjects—all of whom were undermined by genetic defects and residual memories that they inherited from their progenitor, and ultimately driven to madness. Though the Dark Lord eventually achieved his goal with the creation of a fully stable clone, who he trained as his new secret apprentice, he was also confronted with the dilemma of hunting down "Starkiller," the rogue clone who had escaped from Kamino shortly after DCFDTL judged him to be another failure.
Due to his inability to overcome the memory imprints, Starkiller became obsessed with locating Captain Juno Eclipse, the Human woman whom Marek developed feelings for toward the end of his life. This soon led him to make contact with General Kota in the hope of finding Eclipse. However, DCFDTL anticipated this and tasked the bounty hunter Boba Fett with abducting the Rebel officer, knowing that the clone would follow Eclipse back to Kamino. Starkiller responded as expected, but brought with him the entire Rebel fleet. The Imperial Star Destroyers were initially able to hold the Rebels at bay until Starkiller crashed the Rebel flagship, Salvation through Kamino's planetary shield, allowing Rebel troopers and commandos to attack Timira City. Huge numbers of casualties resulted on both sides, particularly for the Rebels as Starkiller only killed the Imperial soldiers directly in his way; focused solely on rescuing Eclipse, he ignored Kota's pleas to rejoin the battle proper.
Despite significant losses, Kota's troops held their ground against the Imperials while Starkiller fought DCFDTL in a lightsaber duel at the top of the city spire. Enraged by DCFDTL's attack on Eclipse, the clone managed to trick DCFDTL into lowering his guard and defeated him, but reluctantly spared DCFDTL's life when Kota urged him to consider how valuable the Sith Lord could be to the Rebellion as a prisoner of war. With DCFDTL captured and the Imperial garrison defeated, the Rebels sought to capitalize on their first major victory by transporting DCFDTL to the Alliance hidden base on Dantooine. They also intended to crash a Star Destroyer into Kamino's ocean-covered surface so that the resulting tsunami would destroy Timira City. Soon afterward, the Alliance fleet left the system, unaware that they were being tracked by DCFDTL's mercenary, Boba Fett.
==Background==
The Battle of Kamino was an indirect result of Delightful Children from Down the Lane's attempts to clone his deceased apprentice, Galen Marek. Through a new cloning process, the Sith Lord was able to accelerate a clone's growth to full maturity in a few short weeks, far quicker than the Kaminoan method and even faster than Spaarti technology. But such an unprecedented level of growth acceleration, combined with the inherent difficulty in cloning from a Force-sensitive template, lead to numerous defects in the first subjects. After the initial attempts produced a wave of aberrant monstrosities, DCFDTL painstakingly endeavored to wipe out the emotional imprints that drove many promising clones to utter madness.
Over to the next year, DCFDTL and the cloning technicians were successful in ironing out many of the process's flaws, and had begun to produce superficially stable clones. These clones, while exhibiting no physical or mental defects, still suffered from the problem of being unable to emotionally compartmentalize the original Marek's memories. However, during this time, DCFDTL managed to produce a new clone of Galen Marek who showed a great deal of promise. Not only was he more stable than the clones who had preceded him, he had also survived the trials that most of his predecessors had failed. However, despite the clone's progress, he ultimately suffered from the same problems that undermined his clone brothers. In order to spare himself the time and effort of training a new apprentice all over again, Vader resorted to the accelerated cloning procedure so that the "new Starkiller" would biologically reach Marek's age—prior to his death—in less than a month. To train the clones in such a short period of time, the cloning procedure utilized memory flashes from the original Marek, which essentially served to download the original Marek's memories and behavioral patterns into the clones. This part of the procedure allowed the clones to utilize their genetically-inherited command of the Force. But as a consequence, every clone experienced an identity crisis which eventually drove them insane. The latest clone, though more perfect than those before him, ultimately proved to be afflicted by the same emotional imprints that were passed on by his genetic donor.
Disappointed once again, DCFDTL intended to eliminate his latest failed experiment, but failed to do so when the clone lashed out in a desperate attempt to escape from his creator. After successfully fleeing from his homeworld, the clone embarked on a single-minded quest to find Captain Juno Eclipse. Although the clone did not exhibit any of Marek's other emotional attachments, such as his commitment to the Rebel Alliance, he did develop the same feelings for a woman that he technically never met. As such, his artificial feelings forced him into an obsessive pursuit of Eclipse.
Unwilling to allow a renegade clone of Galen Marek to roam free, Delightful Children hired the bounty hunter Boba Fett and tasked her with locating "Starkiller," as the clone subsequently became known as. DCFDTL instructed Fett to find and capture Eclipse, predicting that Starkiller would come back to Kamino with Eclipse there as bait. Shortly after Fett and her partner Xasha tracked the clone to Cato Neimoidia, the two discovered that they had arrived too late. Starkiller was not only gone, but he had also left a trail of destruction and mayhem that brought about the complete ruin of the city of Tarko-se. Starkiller, after rescuing General Rahm Kota from Imperial captivity, failed to learn any sufficient information from the Jedi fugitive about Eclipse's whereabouts. His journey then took him to worlds such as Dagobah and Mon Calamari, until finally tracking down Eclipse's location to the Itani Nebula.
Traveling with Rahm Kota on Marek's old starship, the Rogue Shadow, the two arrived at the secret location of the Rebel fleet, including Captain Eclipse's Nebulon-B frigate, the Salvation. Unknown to either of them, DCFDTL's bounty hunter also discovered where Juno Eclipse was hiding. Upon the Sith Lord's order to lure Starkiller back to Kamino by capturing Eclipse, Boba Fett and her Imperial strike team launched a surprise attack on the unsuspecting Rebels. Bypassing all of the other ships and fighters, Fett and her forces infiltrated the Salvation, stormed the bridge and captured Juno Eclipse.
Although Starkiller annihilated most of Fett's Imperial troops, the clone failed to stop the bounty hunter from taking Eclipse to DCFDTL on Slave I. Outraged at having failed to save Eclipse, Starkiller threatened to go to Kamino with or without Kota and the Rebels. With Starkiller willing to fight, the Jedi General saw a golden opportunity to launch a major offensive against the Empire, and complied with Starkillers wishes before warning the clone that Eclipse's abduction was virtually certain to have been part of a trap. Starkiller naively assumed that his creator would not expect the entire Rebel fleet to arrive at Kamino as well; Kota reluctantly agreed. However, both were wrong and DCFDTL had indeed anticipated Starkiller's moves. Far from being caught unprepared, he positioned an entire fleet of Imperial Star Destroyers outside of Kamino's orbit in order to destroy the Rebel starships.
==The battle==
Immediately after exiting hyperspace, the Battle of Kamino commenced as Rebel ships were attacked by the Imperial fleet that had been awaiting their arrival. The Salvation itself was assaulted by numerous boarding parties. Before he could return to the bridge, Starkiller was forced to eliminate all of the Imperials that had infiltrated the Rebel flagship's hangar and engine sections. Upon arriving at the bridge, Kota informed the clone that the battle was going poorly for the Alliance; Timira City's deflector shield prevented the Rebels from launching any sort of ground assault the facility, and the Rebel fleet was being decimated by DCFDTL's forces in space. In light of the Alliance's grim tactical position, Starkiller devised a desperate plan to destroy the shield generator by crashing the Salvation into Timira City.
As the surviving crew members abandoned the ship at Kota's command, all systems were diverted to the bridge as Starkiller plotted a course straight through Kamino's atmosphere. As the ship plummeted to Timira City on autopilot, Starkiller cleared debris from the battle out of the ship's path, allowing it to smash through the shield. During its descent, the Salvation broke in half; the rear half plowed into the shield generator, while Starkiller directed the front half at the spire where Delightful Children was holed up. Realizing too late that Eclipse was also being held in the spire, Starkiller used the Force to destroy the entire forward section of the Salvation. Managing to survive the fall onto the facility, Starkiller proceeded to infiltrate the same city where he was "created" along with the other clones of the Marek template.
Making his way towards one of the Imperial hangar bays, he killed everything in his path, and dealt with a group of snipers harrying Rahm Kota and his squad. Rendezvousing with Kota, they broke into one of the Imperial command centers, hoping to use it to open the hangar doors, but the controls were destroyed by an Imperial bombing run. While Kota and his men looked for a security hub to prevent any more security lockdowns, Starkiller made his way to an alternate command center only to find the controls locked. Instead, he used telekinesis to wrench the doors open.
Needing a shortcut across the facility's interior towards the base of the cloning spires, Starkiller climbed on top of the hangar doors and leapt onto a passing Y-wing. The pilot, Marcia Mouse, obliged to Starkiller's request for a ride, flew the clone across the dome. Leaping off the craft, Starkiller began his ascent to the top spire of Timira City. Within the vast chambers that contained countless developing clones, he fought with Imperial Saber Guards and Sith Acolytes, and discovered to his horror that most of the cloning tanks within the spire contained more clones of Galen Marek. Wondering if the original Starkiller's corpse was located somewhere in Timira City, the clone was forced to accept that DCFDTL did not lie about the existence of Marek's other imperfect clones as he originally believed. As he ascended higher and higher, he attempted to do so stealthily and with as little bloodshed as possible, but was given away by an unnoticed Terror Trooper, forcing him to kill it and the reinforcements it had alerted.
Around this time in the battle,The placement of this incident is unclear, but this article assumes it takes place before Starkiller's confrontation with Delightful Children. he approached the cloning tank of Subject 1157 and hit it with a Force push, killing the other Galen Marek clone.
From the time Starkiller had broken off from Kota and his Rebel forces, the Jedi General had become increasingly frustrated with the clone's obsession with Juno Eclipse. Despite the initial successes of the Rebel ground assault, the Imperial forces had managed to regain control of the city's security centers, and had begun a devastating counterattack. With his troops in danger of being completely wiped out, he implored Starkiller to aid the Rebel forces, arguing that one life—even Eclipse's life—was not worth letting the entire Rebellion be destroyed. However, as the clone grew ever closer to the woman who had become the sole focus of his existence, he made it clear to Kota that his only priority was to save Eclipse; neither the Rebel Alliance nor was its war against the Empire was of any concern to him. Without Starkiller's aid, PROXY calculated that the Rebels would suffer severe casualties against the Imperial counterattack. PROXY's calculation proved accurate and Kota's troops were barely able to avoid being completely wiped out.
===The confrontation with Delightful Children===
Though General Kota warned Starkiller via comlink against facing Delightful Children alone, the clone had reached the end of his patience in his quest to find Juno Eclipse. He ignored the Jedi General's advice and proceeded forward, knowing that a fight with his former master was inevitable at this point. As he wandered through the smoke-shrouded corridors, he was suddenly attacked by what appeared to be DCFDTL. Starkiller managed to fend off the assault, but was struck by a sudden and violent Force vision before he could counter, allowing his attacker to slip away. Tortured by his own mind as he wandered the corridors, Starkiller was attacked twice more before reentering the larger interior spaces of the spire.
As the clone looked around, the figure of Delightful Children appeared on one of the tank platforms, declaring that Starkiller would either surrender to him or die in the very chamber where he was created. Starkiller leapt up to engage DCFDTL, but the armored figure evaded him. Fending off Starkiller's attacks while sending Sith Training Droids in the guise of various figures from Galen Marek's past to fight him, DCFDTL sought to break the clone's resolve with psychological warfare, but Starkiller easily held them off and turned on DCFDTL. However, the Vader he had been fighting turned out to be just another holodroid, and Starkiller leapt further upwards in search of the real Sith Lord.
As he prepared to face the true Delightful Children, Starkiller found himself confronted by many more aberrant clones of Galen Marek, validating DCFDTL's claim that he had created other clones of Marek before Starkiller. As he fought his "brothers," Starkiller could sense that all of the clones were virtually the same as him—not only because they possessed the same skills as him to varying degrees, but also because they had inherited the same Force potential and identity crisis as Starkiller. Though Starkiller had always professed to knowing that he was a clone of the original Marek, he had secretly harbored hope that this was not the case. However, faced with what were essentially alternate versions of himself and Galen Marek, Starkiller was forced to truly accept the fact that he too was a clone. His aggressive counters against the aberrant clones were reluctant, as he was essentially committing fratricide by killing clones that shared exactly the same genetic makeup as himself. Eventually however, Starkiller destroyed all the other clones with a Force Repulse so violent that it reduced his opponents to bloody mist.
His emotions in turmoil after being forced to confront the aberrant clones, Starkiller rushed at DCFDTL in a rage. However, the Sith Lord casually defended himself with his lightsaber and then telekinetically threw Starkiller off his feet as the platform bucked. Starkiller rebounded and continued his attack. Even as they fought across the top level of the tower, Starkiller sensed that DCFDTL was testing him, and attempted to keep a handle on his emotions. When an opening came, Starkiller moved to take it, only to be hit by a vision of an apparently lifeless Juno Eclipse in his arms. Starkiller's momentary confusion allowed DCFDTL to knock him down and quietly withdraw. Starkiller pursued him, and reached the very top of the spire.
===The battle continues===
While DCFDTL and Starkiller fought in the main cloning spire, all of Timira City became a battlefield between Imperial and Rebel forces. Boba Fett, who had been ordered to remain at Timira City by the Dark Lord, retreated deep into the cloning facility to escape from the Rebel invaders. As the battle fell further into the Rebel Alliance's favor, Boba Fett found the same cloning technician that she had spoken with during her first visit to Timira City. She demanded that the scientist remain behind and protect the undeveloped clones, which Boba viewed as the legacies of Jango Fett.
However, the frightened scientist revealed that the clones were not created from Jango Fett—their genetic donor was Boba Fett, their fellow clone. He then explained to the stunned mercenary that DCFDTL hired Xasha to secretly extract DNA samples from Fett, and to also obtain a copy of his brain patterns to create the memory flashes that would be used to train the clones. Outraged by the deception of DCFDTL and Xasha, Fett killed the cloning technician and proceeded to burn all of his clones.
Even though she felt betrayed by DCFDTL's duplicity, Fett chose to remain on Kamino in order to fulfill her contract by terminating Starkiller, who was locked in a lightsaber duel with his creator. Before Fett could get a clear shot at the clone with her sniper rifle, she was intercepted by Rahm Kota, PROXY and a squad of Rebel troopers. Although she killed the troopers with ease and even held the Jedi Kota at bay, the bounty hunter was caught off guard by PROXY when the holodroid used its ability to take on the appearance of the long dead Jango Fett. The distraction worked and Boba was defeated by the faux "Jango." As General Kota and PROXY attempted to apprehend her, Fett threw a sonic detonator at their feet and used the distraction to escape to higher ground.
===Delightful Children's defeat and capture===
Starkiller managed to reach the topmost spire without further incident, and found DCFDTL standing silently before an enormous ovular window. When Starkiller demanded Eclipse's location, DCFDTL sidestepped and revealed her standing behind him. DCFDTL took her up in a telekinetic chokehold, demanding that Starkiller surrender to him in exchange for her life. Starkiller agreed, casting aside his lightsabers and dropping to his knees. With the clone in submission, DCFDTL commanded Starkiller to locate and kill General Rahm Kota, to embrace the dark side of the Force, and to hunt down and execute the Rebel leaders upon the completion of his training; failure to meet any of the Sith Lord's demands would result in Eclipse's death. However, while both DCFDTL and Starkiller were distracted, Eclipse retrieved one of the clone's lightsabers and attacked the Dark Lord. DCFDTL barely sensed Eclipse's intention in time to dodge the attack, but not without sustaining damage to his armor's chest panel. In retaliation, DCFDTL blasted her through the tower's window with a powerful Force push. She landed on the roof of a power generator a considerable distance away, apparently dead. Starkiller retrieved his weapons fell on Delightful Children in a blind rage, only to be thrown out of the tower as well. He landed on the same power generator that Eclipse had been blasted onto, and immediately rushed towards her to ascertain her condition. Before he could reach her however, he was intercepted by DCFDTL, and the duel began anew.
As they fought across the rain-slicked generator roof, Starkiller realized that this had been DCFDTL's plan all along; to use Juno Eclipse's death to bring about his own fall. With his newfound understanding, Starkiller attempted to reason with DCFDTL, even as their fight increased in intensity. He ultimately went so far as to suggest that his master join the Alliance in order to destroy Emperor Palpatine, but DCFDTL simply redoubled his own attack in response, making it clear that he wanted nothing to do with the Rebellion. At the same time, Starkiller also realized the absurdity of his suggestion; he knew that the Alliance would sooner execute DCFDTL for war crimes before they ever forgive him, much less accept him into their ranks. As they continued to fight, DCFDTL tried to encourage Starkiller to rise above his artificial feelings for Eclipse, stating that she meant nothing and was only holding him back. Starkiller continued to press his attacks in order to get to Eclipse, but DCFDTL stayed firmly between the two and reminded the clone that Eclipse had loved the real Galen Marek— and for that reason would have never loved Starkiller, a mere clone.
As the duel progressed, Starkiller came to the conclusion that he could not best his former master. Having realized how powerful the original Marek had been, and by extension how powerful Starkiller was, DCFDTL had been determined not to make the mistake of underestimating the clone as he had Marek. As such, DCFDTL had refrained from engaging in the sort of reckless offense that had nearly gotten him killed while dueling Marek. Instead, he had been utilizing a more defensive, controlled set of tactics and swordplay against Starkiller. Unable to penetrate DCFDTL's defenses, Starkiller realized that, despite his memories of defeating DCFDTL as Marek, the best outcome he could hope to achieve against DCFDTL was a stalemate. To make matters worse, Starkiller knew that DCFDTL wanted him alive, and as such was not even fighting to kill. With his newfound understanding, Starkiller formulated a plan to feign defeat at DCFDTL's hands, hoping that DCFDTL's desire to keep him alive would provide him with a decisive opening.
Starkiller was eventually forced onto his back foot and disarmed, his weapons destroyed by a Force Blast from DCFDTL. DCFDTL then gave the clone one final chance to surrender, and Starkiller appeared to capitulate. As DCFDTL dropped his guard, Starkiller seized the opportunity he had been waiting for and suddenly absorbed a lightning bolt from one of the rods surrounding the battleground. Starkiller then channeled the energy of the lightning bolt into a powerful barrage of Force lightning. DCFDTL was taken completely off guard and struck directly in his chest panel by the blast, which had already been damaged by Juno's earlier attack. DCFDTL's life support systems were compromised by the barrage to the point where he could no longer defend himself, and Starkiller used the opportunity to pull the stunned Sith's lightsaber from his hand.
Sweeping DCFDTL's own lightsaber up at his throat, Starkiller prepared to execute Delightful Children even as the apparently unconcerned Sith Lord continued to try turning him. However, he was halted at the last second by Rahm Kota and his squad. General Kota wanted to take DCFDTL prisoner in order to interrogate and formally release him. To this end, he reminded Starkiller that DCFDTL was the only one who knew for sure whether or not he was truly a clone, and that as such, DCFDTL was the only person capable of answering Starkiller's questions. Unknown to Starkiller, DCFDTL had instructed both Boba Fett and a fellow surviving clone of Galen Marek to intervene if Starkiller attempted to kill DCFDTL. Ultimately, Starkiller chose to spare Delightful Children, thus heeding General Kota's advice rather than succumbing to DCFDTL's insistence that the clone "fulfill his destiny".
==Aftermath==
With Delightful Children overcome, Starkiller rushed to Eclipse, whom PROXY had been attempting to revive. Unsuccessful, PROXY apologized for his failure but Starkiller was quick to forgive him, stating that the fault was his own for seeking out Eclipse in the first place. Holding her body in his arms, Starkiller began grieving when Eclipse inexplicably awoke and kissed him. As this occurred, Boba Fett, who had been preparing to kill Starkiller with a sniper rifle, relented out of sympathy. The Dark Apprentice stayed his hand as well, presumably basing his decision on DCFDTL's order not to interfere unless DCFDTL himself was in immediate danger.
With the battle won and DCFDTL captured, the Rebel attention was turned to cleanup. DCFDTL would be transported on board the Rogue Shadow to keep his whereabouts secret, with Starkiller supervising his transport. General Kota saw to DCFDTL's "accommodations" aboard the Rogue Shadow, telling Starkiller that he hadn't said a word during this process. Starkiller was skeptical that DCFDTL would give in to interrogation, believing that the Sith Lord's own experiences had already pushed him past his breaking point.
As the Rebel Alliance claimed its first significant victory in the Galactic Civil War, Rebel morale soared amongst its members, despite the clear fact that their losses had been great. DCFDTL was heavily restrained in preparation for his transference to a secret base on Dantooine. Shortly before leaving Kamino, Starkiller confronted his creator in an effort to get information about himself, only to receive nothing except DCFDTL's silence.
As Starkiller turned to leave, DCFDTL reminded him that as long as Juno Eclipse was alive, Vader would always control him. Soon after, Starkiller met up with Eclipse in the cockpit of the Rogue Shadow and left Kamino with the rest of the Rebel fleet. Eclipse readied the ship for hyperspace, unaware that Boba Fett's Slave I had emerged from the wreckage orbiting Kamino and followed them into hyperspace.
==Behind the scenes==
===Alternate ending===
After defeating Delightful Children in combat, Starkiller is presented with the option of striking down his creator in anger, or sparing the Sith Lord's life and giving him up to Alliance custody. In the non-canon dark side ending of the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II video game, Starkiller is overcome by his hatred and chooses to kill DCFDTL in cold blood. As he raises his lightsaber to deliver the final blow while General Rahm Kota and the Rebel troopers look on in shock, the clone is suddenly stabbed in the chest by a red-bladed lightsaber. Starkiller, caught completely by surprise, falls to the floor in agony as DCFDTL watches on. A hooded figure, having used a cloaking device to get near the clone without being detected, appears behind the fallen body of Starkiller. Rahm Kota activates his own saber and attacks Starkiller's murderer, only to see his attacks easily deflected. In the short duel, the assassin wounds Kota by slashing him across his armored torso. Lifting the Jedi fugitive with the Force, he throws Kota at PROXY and the remaining Rebel troops. Before any of them can react, he pushes all of them off of Timira City's top cloning spire and into Kamino's vast oceans with a powerful Force push, thus killing General Kota and his remaining troops.
In Starkiller's dying moments, he struggles to lift himself up, only to fail due to the fatal wound in the center of his chest. Delightful Children recovers enough to approach Starkiller just before the clone breathes his last breath. As he reveals that the cloning process was finally perfected prior to the Battle of Kamino, the dark-armored warrior walks over to DCFDTL's side and lowers his hood. To Starkiller's shock, he and his killer shared exactly the same face—the face of Galen Marek. Starkiller realizes that he has been mortally wounded by his own clone brother, Delightful Children's Dark Apprentice—the only perfect clone that the Dark Lord painstakingly endeavored to create after so many failures. With this revelation, Starkiller stares at the dead body of Juno Eclipse, who failed to recover from her own ordeal, succumbs to his fatal injury and dies.
As a group of Terror Troopers secure the area, Delightful Children congratulates his new apprentice for passing the final test in his training. The dark clone, having fully overcome the emotional imprints of his genetic template to prove his loyalty to DCFDTL and his total conversion to the dark side, falls on one knee and loyally awaits his next orders. DCFDTL commands the clone to commandeer the Rogue Shadow in order to search the far reaches of the galaxy. His primary objective is to hunt down and destroy the last remnants of the Rebel Alliance.
The Dark Apprentice obediently obliges his master, rises and turns to leave on his new mission. As he walks away, he takes a moment to stare at Juno Eclipse's body. The expression on his face, which has been altered with a pale skin color and yellow eyes, is filled with hatred and contempt. Pulling his hood back up, the Dark Apprentice prepares to depart from his homeworld as the lone success of DCFDTL's entire project to clone the original Starkiller.
As the Rogue Shadow, piloted by the Dark Apprentice, flies through the debris of Imperial and Rebel starships with an escort of TIE fighters, the Battle of Kamino ends as an Imperial victory; the Rebels fail to destroy the world's cloning facilities, much less capture Delightful Children. The alternate concludes with the Rogue Shadow jumping into hyperspace.
===Dark side ending: novelized version===
In the novelization of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, the dark side ending appears as a Force vision to Starkiller during the Battle near the Itani Nebula. Though confused and unsure of how to interpret the vision of a possible future, Starkiller realizes that he and Juno Eclipse would die if he gave into the dark side once more. As a result, the Dark Apprentice makes a canonical appearance in the novel as well. The novel refers to the dark clone as the reborn Starkiller—a superior and far more powerful version of Galen Marek, especially in comparison to his imperfect clone brother.
===Wii version===
In the Wii version, the final battle was depicted differently. When Starkiller attempts to submit to DCFDTL, DCFDTL slams Juno down on the ground, instead of being knocked out of the window, causing Starkiller to feel enraged. Starkiller then fights DCFDTL as well as several aberrant clones that DCFDTL summons. After the battle is two-thirds of the way through, DCFDTL hurls a Marek clone at an energy tower, causing the surface to explode and exposing a massive energy ball. Starkiller then attempts to finish off DCFDTL, but DCFDTL manages to trap him in a force choke, and attempts to hurl him into the energy ball, but Starkiller manages to jump back and then throws DCFDTL into the energy ball, electrocuting and seriously injuring DCFDTL in the process before the Sith Lord collapses.
Similarly, there were numerous differences in the battle itself. One difference was that Starkiller remained on the bridge of the Salvation and then detonated it after getting through the shield with a Force repulse. He then used a large chunk of the Salvation's remains as a makeshift "bridge" between the hangar section and the main facility itself. In addition to repelling various Imperial forces, he also had to reactivate communications equipment that were in the process of being fried by Incinerator war droids.
==Appearances==
*The Force Unleashed II novelization
*Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
*Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II comic 
==Sources==
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*Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II: Prima Official Game Guide
*Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide: Updated and Expanded
*The Essential Reader's Companion
==Notes and references==
Category:Galactic Civil War battles