Galen Marek

Vader's apprentice was a Human male Youngling secretly spared and taken as an apprentice by Darth Vader during the Great Jedi Purge.

Darth Vader spent years training the young Human in the ways of the dark side in secret, even from his own master, Palpatine. When Vader deemed his training complete, he sent his apprentice on a series of trials to destroy his enemies. When those trials were complete, Vader finally sent him on a mission to hunt down a single rogue Jedi. Vader hoped that this mission will deem him ready to stand with him to confront and destroy Palpatine.



On this mission, Vader hand-picked a young cadet named Juno Eclipse to pilot his apprentice's ship, the Rogue Shadow and allowed for him to take his long-time droid companion, PROXY. Though it is unlikely, Vader suspected that his apprentice would fall in love with the pilot.

Though skilled with telekinesis and Force lightning, he was not officially considered a Sith apprentice, owing to the fact that the position was occupied by Vader himself. His existence was considered such a secret that he would make a point of leaving few witnesses to his work, even Imperial ones like stormtroopers.

Behind the scenes



 * Vader's apprentice is the main protagonist of the video game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.


 * Haden Blackman, writer of The Force Unleashed, has said that he has a name, but that they cannot release it yet.


 * Vader's apprentice is portrayed by Sam Witwer, best known for his role as Crashdown in Sci-Fi's Battlestar Galactica.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Force Unleashed game
 * Star Wars: The Force Unleashed comic
 * Star Wars: The Force Unleashed novel

Notes and references
Aprendiz de Darth Vader