Sith stalker armor

The Sith Stalker Armor was a type of body encompassing armor.

Specifications


Sith stalker armor was meant to transform dark side disciples into fearsome assassins. This sinister armor, painfully grafted on the the wearer's flesh and bone, was designed to inspire fear in both Jedi and Sith.

Rather than utilize gauntlets, stalker armor instead replaced the vast majority of the hands with prosthetics, though some flesh remained, allowing the user to apply Force lightning in combat without fear of it backfiring. The prosthetics featured a set of metal claws attached to the finger tips. Despite their considerable length, they did not appear to cause any inconveniance on the part of the wearer. The head protection consisted of a form-fitting helmet that covered the entire head. The helmet face-plate resembled a ubese bounty hunter mask with a Mandalorian-style T-bar visor. The armor also appeared to include some type of breathing apparatus, though the mechanism appeared to be controlled by the wearer, as the breathing pattern was forced and eclectic.

Protecting the neck was a high metal collar that connected to a form-fitting pauldron protecting the right shoulder. The right forearm was protected by a set angular metal plates grafted to the flesh and connecting to the largely prosthetic right hand. The left arm and shoulder was left bare. The chest was protected by a set of ribbed, flexible armor plates. The armor included a series of leather belts, holding grisly trophies of lightsabers collected from cold, dead fingers.

Below the belts were another series of ribbed plates forming a girdle that protected the waist and crotch. Whatever leg protection was utilized remains hidden by the ragged, floor-length combat skirt. Beneath the plates and combat skirt, the wearer was clad in a skin-tight black bodysuit made of what appeared to be leather.

Marek's Visions


"Kill me, and you destroy yourself."

- The Jedi in Galen Marek's vision.

During his mission to Kashyyyk during the Great Jedi Purge, the Dark Jedi Galen Marek wore this armor while experiencing a Force vision in which he killed a Jedi Knight. He later saw this armor again while fighting a vision of himself wearing it in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant.

Behind the scenes


In the dark side ending of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Galen Marek was grievously wounded by Emperor Palpatine but was salvaged with his body reconstructed similar to how Darth Vader was when he became the Emperor's Sith apprentice. Though this event is non-canon, the armor's appearance in the novelization and subsequently the Jedi Temple DLC for the X-BOX 360 version of the game brings it into official canon.

There are six lightsabers on Marek's belt in this costume: his new Sith lightsaber, which features a set of 3 spiked blade guards; his original lightsaber that he built under Vader's tutelage; Rahm Kota's lightsaber, which also served as Marek's second; one half of the lightsaber that previously belonged to Darth Maul; Darth Vader's lightsaber; and the top portion of Kazdan Paratus' lightsaber staff.

Once completing the game and choosing the dark side ending, players have the option of playing again and wearing the Sith Stalker Armor. Modified versions of it are featured in the Ultimate Sith Edition version of the game. During the Tatooine mission, the player wears a set dubbed the "Desert Protection Gear", which includes Tusken Raider garb worn over the armor itself. In the Hoth mission, a varient referred to as the "Dark Lord's Armor" is featured. The description stub stated that it was largely inspired by Vader's armor, and it included many modifications from the standard Sith Stalker Armor. The original skin-tight leather body suit and the ribbed abdomanal plates are replaced by a full body-suit made of the same quilted material as the one featured on Vader's armor. The hands are gloved and the helmet has an outwards slanting metal plate attached that protects the rear and sides of the neck, and mimics the silhouette of Vader's helmet.

In this alternate storyline, Starkiller has been given the nickname "Darth Stalker" by fans, after the armor, though his official name, as revealed in the Tatooine DLC, is Lord Starkiller.

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