Kamino uprising

"Officially, there was never a clone rebellion on Kamino. Unofficially, approximately twenty years after we were created, a special detachment of the Imperial 501st Legion was dispatched to Kamino with orders to eradicate an army of clones that had been bred to take arms against the Empire."

- Retired 501st stormtrooper

The Battle of Kamino in the Imperial Era, also known as the Kamino Uprising, the Clone Revolt, or Rebellion on Kamino, was an isolated battle that occurred seven years after the formation of the Empire.

In the months following the rise of the Empire, the planet Kamino was kept under the watchful eye of Emperor Palpatine in order to ensure that the planet's cloning technology remained under Imperial control. A small group of Kaminoans, resentful of the Empire's presence, began to grow an army of clone troopers to use in order to fight against their oppressors. These rogue clone troopers were called clone anti-Imperial troopers because they were created to fight against the Empire. The conflict pitted these Kamino-grown troops against their own Imperial brothers: members of the 501st Legion of stormtroopers, led by bounty hunter Boba Fett, since he himself had been "born" one of these clones on Kamino and had great knowledge of the facility.



Boba Fett destroyed a locking mechanism to the upper cloning center, allowing him to infiltrate the Cloning Facilities. Inside, he aquired several canisters which contained samples of clone DNA. Meanwhile, his fellow imperial stormtroopers fought the enemy clones on the numerous platforms of Tipoca City with neither side gaining much of an advantage.

Fett then wiped out the life support systems located in the lower cloning center, ending any chances of more anti-Imperial clones being grown.

After Fett finished his work in the cloning facilities, he met up with the troopers outside and aided them in the battle. Mere moments after the clone life support was destroyed, the last of the anti-Imperial troopers were pushed back onto the landing platforms and finally annihilated.

The traitorous clones were exterminated, with Kamino remaining under Imperial control and the rogue cloning facilities being commondeered unto imperial rule. The leaders of the Kaminoan rebels attempted to escape in two LAATs, but shock troopers shot them down using rocket launchers.

The destruction of the gunships made it impossible to tell from the remains who exactly these mysterious, rebellious cloners had been. Though the anti-Imperial troopers' plot was foiled, it would never be fully revealed. The remaining Kaminoans who survived the battle, were put onto imperial rule and were carefully watched by the Empire, to prevent any chances or hopes of another uprising from occuring someday in the future.

Although the clone rebellion was soundly defeated, this incident convinced Emperor Palpatine to commission the creation of new clones from different templates and the recruitment of birth-born soldiers to fill the ranks of the Stormtrooper Corps. Although the Jango Fett template would still be used, none of the Fett clones, especially the members of the 501st who defeated the rebel clones, would ever get used to the increasing diversity in the army ranks that they once filled as a whole.


 *  The bounty hunter left after the battle. He said something about tracking down a smuggler on Tatooine. After the Kamino uprising, the Emperor thought an army of genetically identical clones was too susceptible to corruption. Future clones would be bred from a variety of templates. Though the 501st itself remained pure, gradually, the rest of the Imperial Army became more and more diverse. We never really got used to the new guys. 

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Battlefront II