Zeta Magnus's clone army

During the early Clone Wars, the mutant genetic terrorist Zeta Magnus created a clone army from the genetic template of a Thyrsian Sun Guard mercenary named Sarsius Torne. Inside the throne room of his Rennek palace in his Unknown Regions kingdom known as the Dark Worlds, Zeta Magnus stored hundreds of clones in suspended animation in clone cylinders. Four of the Sun Guard clones were hand-trained by their prime clone Sarsius Torne and were organized into a unit named Tark Squad. When a clone of Zeta Magnus subjugated the planet Skye, Darth Sidious helped disguise Tark Squad as clone commandos and planted them on Kamino. They were then assigned to accompany a Jedi strike force sent to the planet Skye to arrest Zeta Magnus. When the Jedi reached Magnus's fortress, their clones stunned them and brought them before Magnus. The Jedi were eventually able to break free and kill both Tark Squad and the clone of Zeta Magnus. Despite the eradication of Tark Squad, the rest of Zeta Magnus's clone army remained safely hidden in the Unknown Regions. 
Following the Battle of Endor, NewsNet reporter Andor Javin of TriNebulon News identified Imperial Warlord Lord Shadowspawn as K'am'ir Zaarin, an alias of Zeta Magnus. Javin claimed that he was in possession of a clone army and was in league with a clone of Grand Moff Tarkin.
==Behind the scenes==
Atha Prime was the primary antagonist of the cancelled The Epic Continues storyline developed by Kenner Products. Described as a "genetic master" and the "architect of the Clone Wars", Atha Prime created an army of clone warriors that he used to take over the shattered remnants of the post-Endor Empire and to conquer worlds recently liberated by the Alliance to Restore the Republic. In a cancelled article on Imperial Warlords that was intended to be published in Polyhedron magazine, co-author Abel G. Peña attempted to canonize Atha Prime by consolidating him with the character Shadowspawn first mentioned in the Dark Empire Sourcebook. When elements of the article were eventually released in the 2014 StarWars.com blog post The Imperial Warlords: Despoilers of an Empire, Peña made the first canonical reference to Atha Prime's clone army by describing it as being lead by an Arkanian geneticist named K'am'ir Zaarin who was in league with Shadowspawn. In Peña's 2015 novella SkyeWalkers: A Clone Wars Story, Atha Prime's origins were fleshed out through the character Zeta Magnus, a mutant Arkanian geneticist who used K'am'ir Zaarin as an alias. The novella includes the first appearance of a clone army that Zeta Magnus is creating as a reference to the one lead by Atha Prime. It is currently unclear whether Zeta Magnus's Thyrsian clones are visually similar to Atha Prime's clones or whether Zeta Prime conquered Imperial and Alliance worlds with them as Atha Prime did.
==Appearances==
*SkyeWalkers: A Clone Wars Story 
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