Battle of the TIE Fighter Construction Facility

"...a boy? Months of attacking Imperial targets and Vader sends a boy to fight me?"

- Rahm Kota

The Battle of the TIE Fighter Construction Facility was a battle during the late Great Jedi Purge. Jedi General Rahm Kota led his militia to the TIE Fighter Construction Facility orbiting the moon of Nar Shaddaa as part of a 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 trained in the dark side of the Force away from the eyes of Emperor Palpatine. Marek, ordered by Vader to kill Kota, was ordered to leave no survivors. The battle would be disastrous for both sides, with no survivors on either side, Kota incapacitated, and the construction facility heavily damaged.

Background
"Master Rahm Kota, he is attacking a critical Imperial shipyard. Destroy him and bring me his lightsaber."

- Darth Vader giving a mission to Starkiller.

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 of the Jedi Order's fate of the actions of Order 66 and the Great Jedi Purge, and vanished into the Outer Rim Territories.

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 TIE Fighter 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 approached 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. A shot down TIE crashed into a walkway and destroyed a portion of it, however, Starkiller easily jumped the gap continuing his mission. All hangars eventually fell to rebel forces, and the assembly lines began to crumble.

As he began breaching the assembly line, Kota's men trapped him within an energy shield. He deactivated it by pulling the machinery out of the wall outside the barrier using the force, and moved on, confronting an AT-CT walker in the wing assembly, which he compacted into a cube using his power. He eventually reached the watchtower where Kota was waiting for him, after getting through the wing and cockpit factories.

Duel
"You're stronger then I thought! But I can't let you live, boy. I'll be sure to send your ashes back to Vader."

- Rahm Kota to Starkiller.

Starkiller eventually reached Rahm Kota in the control room, 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, in it all he could see was himself, and that he would not always be Vader's servant. During a saber lock, Starkiller gained the upper hand and overpowered Kota, bringing the blades to Kota's eyes and stunning him, and finished the duel by using The Force to push him through a glass floor, sending him to free fall to Nar Shaddaa.

Aftermath
"Vader thinks he's turned you... but I can sense your future... And Vader won't always be your master... I sense only... me?"

- Rahm Kota to Starkiller before the former gets blinded in the duel.

Following the battle, Starkiller returned to Darth Vader, with another assignment: locate and kill the deranged Jedi Kazdan Paratus on the planet of Raxus Prime.

Kota actually managed to survive his fall, but was blinded as a result of the duel. He would spend his time in various bars, before Starkiller found him and asked for his help to gather the enemies of the Empire. Thus, Kota's prophecy to Starkiller during the duel would become true.

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 a special AT-ST boss fight.

On the consoles besides the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, a presumably non-canonical build of the game presents a different approach to the facility. After the Rogue Shadow lands in the hangar bay, Starkiller fights his way through a series of corridors and brings down a Rebel gunship flying outside the hangar bay, and interrogates a survivor of the crash about Kota's whereabouts. A Rebel is depicted capturing an AT-ST, and Starkiller destroys it by impaling the pilot and crushing the walker using his power.

Appearances

 * The Force Unleashed novel
 * The Force Unleashed comic
 * The Force Unleashed video game

Notes and references
Batalla en el Complejo de Construcción de Cazas TIE