Kamino/Legends

"There it is, R4. Right where it should be. Our missing planet, Kamino."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi to R4-P17

Kamino was the watery world where the Clone Army for the Galactic Republic was created. It was inhabited by a race of tall, elegant creatures, called Kaminoans, who kept to themselves and were known for their cloning technology. Kamino was located just south of the Rishi Maze.

Geology and geography
Kamino was in a system of 13 planets orbiting an aging star south of the Rishi Maze, a dwarf satellite galaxy in a decaying orbit around the main galaxy. The planet was composed of a molten core with a rocky mantle and silicate rock crust. Climatic change had long ago submerged the planet's continents, drowning the planet under a global ocean that covered 100% of the surface. It was subject to savage storms and powerful lightning bursts that could be seen from orbit.

The stormy waterworld of Kamino was located in Wild Space. Kaminoans rode flying cetaceans called aiwhas. Indigenous to the planet Naboo, these aiwhas may have been created using cloning technology.

History
As a result of forced but resourceful adaptations, the Kaminoans survived the drowning of the planet's continents.

Throughout its history, the location and very existence of Kamino was known to only a handful of beings. In 3,996 BBY, following the devastation of Ossus, a number of artifacts saved from Ossus were hidden in the ruins of Derem City by Jedi Master Qalsneek the Bull. After the Jedi Civil War, Kaminoan saberdarts were being used in the galaxy, but most beings were ignorant of their source.

In later years, the Kaminoans created saberdarts, similar to the older kyber dart. These deadly weapons were favored by bounty hunter Jango Fett. The Kaminoans created clone miners to work in the mines of Subterrel. While on Subterrel prospecting, Dexter Jettster became familiar with the Kaminoan cloners, and even found a saberdart.

"Lost a planet Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing&hellip; how embarrassing."

- Yoda

In 32 BBY, Sifo-Dyas placed an order with the Kaminoans for a Clone Army. Darth Tyranus, at the bidding of Darth Sidious, murdered Sifo-Dyas to keep the creation of this army secret from the Jedi and the Republic. Tyranus then recruited Jango Fett to serve as Prime Clone. Fett agreed on the condition the Kaminoans create him an unaltered clone, his son Boba Fett. Jango raised Boba on Kamino for the next ten years. Obi-Wan Kenobi was directed there in 22 BBY to follow a lead on the whereabouts of Senator Amidala's would-be assassin through a single saberdart. This saberdart had been used by Jango Fett to murder Zam Wesell before she could be interrogated by Kenobi. Kenobi had the dart identified by Dexter Jettster. Jettster directed him to Kamino, and Obi-Wan and Yoda were disturbed that Kamino had been erased from the Jedi Archives by Dooku. During Obi-Wan's stay on Kamino at Tipoca City, he discovered the source of the Clone Army's genetic code, Jango Fett, and his "son," Boba Fett. Once he was discovered, Jango and Boba narrowly escaped the planet with Obi-Wan close behind. Yoda later went to the planet and brought a contingent of the Clone Troopers to assist in the rescue of Obi-Wan, Anakin, Padmé, and the Jedi Knights in the Battle of Geonosis, which began the infamous Clone Wars. When the Separatists discovered the source of the clones, Commander Merai launched an attack on Kamino at the bidding of Passel Argente, but the First Battle of Kamino, 22 BBY, was won by the Republic. In the Second Battle of Kamino, the planet's cloning facilities were severely damaged by Mandalore the Resurrector and his Mandalorians.



With the rise of the Galactic Empire, Kamino found itself under Imperial control. A small number of Kaminoans, resentful of the Empire's presence on their world, began to breed a group of clones that would fight against them. This threat was put down by elements of the 501st Legion, led by Boba Fett, in a conflict that would become known as the Kamino Uprising.



When the New Republic defeated the Empire in the Galactic Civil War and took over the machinery of galactic government, they terminated the stormtrooper program including the cloning process on Kamino. Evidently, these Kaminoan clone production centers were destroyed, along with many other clone centers throughout the former Empire's territory.

Years later, Kaminoan Taun We would seek revenge against the Mandalorians who attacked them during the Clone Wars by hiring Boba Fett to kill Fenn Shysa, the last remaining Mandalorian veteran of the Second Battle of Kamino.

Behind the scenes

 * "Camino" (pronounced exactly as "Kamino") means literally in Spanish both "I walk", in present tense, and "Path". Another way to say "I walk" in Spanish is Ando.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Jango Fett
 * Star Wars: Zam Wesell
 * Boba Fett: The Fight to Survive
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
 * Star Wars Republic 50: The Battle of Kamino
 * Republic Commando: Hard Contact
 * The Clone Wars: The Pengalan Tradeoff
 * Republic Commando: Triple Zero
 * Odds
 * Boba Fett: Pursuit
 * Tides of Terror
 * Star Wars: Battlefront
 * Star Wars: Battlefront II
 * Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game
 * Bloodlines