PROXY

"I can hear thousands of droids all calling out to each other."

- PROXY

PROXY was a prototype holodroid who served as a companion and long time friend of Galen Marek and traveled with him on the Rogue Shadow. Despite their friendship, PROXY would routinely try to kill Marek during training as this was his prime directive provided by Darth Vader. PROXY was equipped with advanced hologram technology that, when coupled with its built-in servos, would allow it to change appearance and adopt a wide range of disguises. He could also present messages: he would turn holographically into the sender, and the sender would say the message. Also, when Galen wanted information on an individual, PROXY would turn into that person and access databases to confirm his/her identity. He was also capable of holding his own in lightsaber combat against Marek for a short time.

Missions with Starkiller
PROXY was the only known witness to his master being knighted by Darth Vader. Shortly afterwards, he traveled with Galen when he was sent to eliminate Jedi Masters Rahm Kota, Kazdan Paratus, and Shaak Ti.

"I hate being him."

- PROXY talking about being Darth Vader

Accompanying a Rebel
When Vader seemingly killed Galen after the Emperor discovered his presence, it wasn't until six months later that he was recovering on the Empirical. Through PROXY, Vader told Galen to gather an army of the Empire's enemies so that they could distract the Emperor's spies, and ordered that all ties to his past, save for PROXY, were to be severed. PROXY did everything he could to make his master disappear, by sending the Empirical into the nearby sun, ejecting all escape pods. He advised Galen to leave Juno, who was being held captive aboard and branded a traitor, but he chose to rescue her.

When Galen returned to Raxus Prime to destroy a Star Destroyer factory, PROXY and many other robots on the garbage planet, where under the control of the core of Raxus Prime, and Galen was forced to fight PROXY, who had red photoreceptors. The holodroid then faced his master in the forms of the Emperor's Shadow Guard, Maris Brood, the temporarily-blinded General Kota, the late Shaak Ti, and lastly, one of Vader's predecessors: Darth Maul. Galen managed to destroy the core, freeing PROXY, but critically damaging him in the process. He begs his master to leave him, as the Core erased his primary programming, but Galen refused to leave his childhood friend behind.

After many missions, including rounding up the Rebel leaders, PROXY eventually accompanied Galen and Juno under the guise of Bail's "daughter," Princess Leia, to the signing of the Corellian Treaty. Darth Vader and Imperial troops ambushed Senators Garm Bel Iblis, Bail Prestor Organa, and Mon Mothma. But Bail managed to have PROXY cut off Leia's image, so that Vader wouldn't know that she was involved. PROXY in a bold move managed to save the lives of Galen and Juno by using his hologram capabilities to disguise himself as Obi-Wan Kenobi. Vader was momentarily distracted by the assault, enough for Galen and Juno to get away. Vader, being immensely superior to PROXY in lightsaber combat destroyed the droid and succeeded in capturing the Senators.

After Death
Some time after Galen's death, the deactivated PROXY was recovered from the snow and harsh winds on Corellia by Senator Organa and Juno Eclipse. They were recovering records of the birth of the Alliance, and wanted PROXY because he held the records of the Alliance founder, Galen Marek. PROXY related exactly the events that led Galen down the path of redemption, up until his own deactivation at the hands of Darth Vader. Galen had also left specific standing orders that in the event of his death, ownership of PROXY would pass to Juno.

Personality
Programmed to specific directives, PROXY was primarily programmed to randomly attack Marek in attempts to kill him. Though friendly with Marek, he enjoyed every attempt to fulfill this primary function. With each failure in fulfilling this function, PROXY, loyal to his friend as well as his programming, apologized to Marek for his inadequacy.

One of the worst things PROXY hates is becoming Vader, whenever he wants to communicate with Galen. This experience leaves PROXY fatigued.

Abilities
As a holodroid, PROXY was capable of assuming the appearance of nearly any humanoid life form and duplicating his/her voice. He could also access information on any person Marek asked him about.

Programmed with different training modules, PROXY could battle Marek in a lightsaber fight, utilizing the images of many past Jedi, even Obi Wan Kenobi, who PROXY did not know was his Master's Master's Master. His repulsors enable him to fight like a Jedi. At one point, PROXY even takes the form of Darth Maul in an attempt to kill his master. It is not revealed how PROXY managed to record this data, only that PROXY had the program stored for years without using it as a way of taking his master by surprise.

During Darth Vader's betrayal of Marek, when PROXY tries to save him, he takes the form of Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Behind the scenes
PROXY was conceived by The Force Unleashed producers as "not C-3PO, not HK-47, but somewhere in between." PROXY was voiced by David W. Collins.

In a G4 exclusive interview with Project Lead Haden Blackman revealed that PROXY is an unlockable playable character in the video game. If you enter PROTOTYPE (HOLOGRAM in the Playstation 2 version) as a cheat code, you can play as PROXY.

According to The Art and Making of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed book, along with a character card, it is revealed that PROXY was programmed by Vader with the primary objective to kill Galen. While PROXY is indeed loyal to his master, he does not realize that fulfilling his goal does not exactly mean well for the secret apprentice.

In the PS3 and Xbox 360 version, Galen encountered him on Raxus Prime's ore cannon and was forced to fight him. During the battle, PROXY morphed into the Jedi and Sith he had defeated. Near the end of the battle Galen presumed that PROXY had no one left to morph into, until PROXY revealed one last module he'd stored for years: Darth Maul. After Galen defeats him, takes down the Star Destroyer shipyard and brings down one of the ships onto the ore cannon, the resulting in the PROXY's primary programming getting scrapped by a shockwave.

Appearances

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

Notes and references
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