Battle of the TIE Fighter Construction Facility

The Battle of the TIE Fighter Construction Facility was a battle late during the Great Jedi Purge, or, early in the Galactic Civil War. Jedi General Rahm Kota led his militia to the facility under the guidance of Senator Bail Organa as part of his series of attacks on various Imperial targets. The battle would also prove as the final test of Galen Marek, Darth Vader's apprentice who was raised in the dark away from the eyes of Emperor Palpatine. Marek, ordered by Vader to kill Kota, was ordered to leave no survivors.

Prelude
During the Clone Wars, Kota believed that clone troopers were not fit to be soldiers, relying instead on a small squad of his own special troops, selected and trained by Kota personally. This ended up saving his life when Order 66 was issued, as his squad had no clone troopers to implement Palpatine's command. But he quickly learned what happened to the rest of the Jedi Order, and vanished into the Outer Rim Territories. Imperial records actually claimed he was dead.

Kota eventually became a secret ally of Senator Bail Organa, who fed him information about Imperial targets. With the backing of his militia, Kota led raids on these targets, eventually leading an attack on the construction facility over Nar Shaddaa.

Concurrently, the knighting of Galen Marek, codenamed Starkiller, took place. As his final test, Darth Vader sent him to take out Kota. As the Emperor must not find out about Marek, Vader ordered Starkiller to leave no survivors on board the station.

The battle
As TIE Fighters deployed and engaged the space forces of the militia, the militia's ground forces landed in the hangar and swarmed the facility. The infantry back in the hangar pushed the Imperial stormtroopers back from the bulkhead door. At least one Lambda-class shuttle was destroyed, crashing into the hangar. Imperial infantry moved in to secure the bulkhead door, as Starkiller appeared and killed all the troops in the hangar. He opened the bulkhead door using the force, and moved on, killing everybody in the hallways. As he apporached the central factories, Captain Juno Eclipse warned him of a squadron of TIE Fighters in his area.

As the battle went on and Starkiller killed anyone in his path, the security level of the facility was raised, and an order was issued commanding any unauthorized personnel to be killed. At least 2 TIE Fighters were shot down by enemy fire, crashing into the walkways. Starkiller took a lift to the next floor, where the militia and Imperial forces were in a firefight on a bridge leading across the station. At the end of the bridge, an All Terrain Scout Transport with a squad of stormtroopers was lifted, creating a temporary distraction for Starkiller, who was able to bisect the walker down the middle.

Duel
Starkiller eventually reached Rahm Kota's location, and the two dueled. Kota believed that Galen had a far greater calling, than just as Darth Vader's servant. During Kota's duel with the aspiring Sith, Kota used the Force to split the Construction Facility in half, and flipped it over making what was the ceiling, the floor. At the climax of their duel, before the apprentice could finish off the Jedi, Kota said in a rather cryptic manner that he could see the young man's future, and in it all he could see was himself, and that he would not always be Vader's servant. Starkiller badly injured Kota, and finished the duel by using the Force to push him through a glass floor, sending him to free fall to Nar Shaddaa.

Behind the scenes
The TIE Fighter Construction Facility level of The Force Unleashed was released as a demo available for download on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network on August 21, 2008. The demo featured enhanced force powers and ended with the AT-ST boss fight.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Force Unleashed