X1

"As his brother, it was my sworn duty to stop him."

- X2, prior to the Battle of Mustafar

X1 was a Force-sensitive clone trooper created by the Galactic Republic who would go on to serve the Empire and the Sith. Along with his brother, X2, he was created from the DNA of a Jedi Knight, Falon Grey, and grew up in secret on Kamino with the purpose of training the Clone Army. Following the outbreak of the Clone Wars in 22 BBY, X1 and his brother fought in many battles and helped train young clone troopers under the eye of Master Ferroda. Following their exploits during the Battle of Tatooine, the two gained special recognition from Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, and played important roles during the Battle of Coruscant. During the battle on Cato Neimoidia, Order 66 was enacted, X1 and his brother were forced to kill Ferroda.

As the new Galactic Empire rose in power, X1 and his brother served in its military ranks. However, following a mission to Dantooine to kill a fugitive Jedi, X1 and his brother took separate paths. X2 defected from the Empire; as a result, X1 vowed to hunt him down and killed the Jedi on the planet, none other than his genetic "father", Falon Grey, and knocked X2 unconscious, believing him to be dead. X1 continued to serve the Imperial Military for almost two decades, playing a minor role in the construction of the Death Star and also gaining some mastery with the dark side. At the Battle of Hoth, a decisive Imperial victory, X1 commanded the Star Destroyer Avarice. Inside the ship, he saw his brother for the first time in over fifteen years, dueled him, and fled. After the Battle of Endor and the death of the Emperor, X1 became one of many Imperial warlords fighting for control of the shattered empire. He also proclaimed himslef to be a Sith Lord and operated from a temporary base on Dathomir and then from Darth Vader's fortress on Vjun. X2, now a Jedi Knight, infiltrated the fortress only to find that X1 had escaped. X1 fled to Mustafar, where he planned to conquer the galaxy by using an army of clones following Luke Skywalker's capture. However, using a Sith holocron, X2 tracked him there and attacked the planet in a climactic battle. X1 dueled his brother multiple times, first aboard his Star Destroyer and then on the fiery surface. Finally, as the New Republic forces destroyed X1's base of operations, X1 confronted his brother one last time, and X2 defeated him, ending the threat he posed to the galaxy.

Creation
"The Kamino cloners must have taken my genetic information without my consent. With it, they made you my son...and your brother, X1."

- Falon Grey

X1, along with his brother, X2, was a Force-sensitive clone trooper created by the Kaminoans using the DNA of the Jedi Knight Falon Grey. Prior to 22 BBY, Grey was badly injured while traveling with his master, Rahm Kota and Kota made an emergency landing on the planet of Kamino, where the Kaminoans healed Grey, but in exchange took a sample of Grey's genetics without his consent. From the sample, they produced two clones, X1 and X2. The two grew up unaware of their origins, raised in secret by the Kaminoans alongside Jango Fett's clones. During this time, X1 and X2 were responsible for training their clone brothers.

Fighting on Tatooine
"Now that's what I call a victory, little brother! There'll be medals in this for both of us!"

- X1, to X2

In 22 BBY, the Clone Wars began with the Battle of Geonosis. X1 and X2 became clone troopers in the Grand Army of the Republic and fought together many times during the conflict. Due to their exceptional abilities, they were assigned to train young clone troopers to be better soldiers. In 19 BBY,, during the latest stages of the war, X1 and X2 went to Tatooine in order to oversee the training of new clone troopers in a training outpost in Mos Eisley. After telling X2 to demonstrate various fighting skills to the clones, X1 helped in the training session. However, the training session was abruptly stopped after the discovery of a CIS recon droid inside the Republic hangar. X1 ordered his brother to destroy the droids, as well as the others in the reconnaisance patrol. He then sent X2 in a V-wing into space in order to destroy the transport ship from which the droids had been deployed.

However, the brothers' troubles were far from over. X1 realized that an invasion of Tatooine was underway, so he X2 prepared for the ensuing battle. X1 and X2 began in the Republic hangar, giving support to clone pilots who were trapped inside. The Separatists continued their attack, sending spider walkers into Mose Eisley. Lacking the heavy weapons necessary to destroy the spider droids, X1 and his brother went through a cantina and destroyed the battle droids inside. X1 then sent reinforcements onto the battlefield as X2 destroyed the droids. X1 sent X2 to fire the ion cannon in order to destroy the shields of a Separatist battleship flying above Tatooine. With the hangar clear and the CIS cruiser's shields down, X1 and his brother took V-wing starfighters into space and fought the droid starfighters flying around the ship. X1 sent X2 into the ship's interior in order to sabotage the reactor core and therefore destroy the cruiser, which X2 succeeded in doing. In the end, the Battle of Tatooine was a Republic victory.

End of the war
"An attack on Coruscant seemed unthinkable. So when the CIS struck at the heart of the Republic, few were prepared. For X1 and I, it was just another chance to prove ourselves in battle."

- X2

Following their exploits at the Battle of Tatooine, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine invited X1 and X2 to Coruscant the Republic's capital, for a special ceremony. Palpatine confused X1 with X2 before X1 explained the msiunderstanding. However, the ceremony was abruptly stopped after the Confederacy attacked the world. After ordering a group of clone troopers to get the Chancellor to safety, X1 and X2 separated taking separate routes through Coruscant's streets. After X2 injured General Grievous in combat, X1 went with his brother into space, taking nearby ARC-170 starfighters and battling Separatist Vulture droids. Soon, they were joined by Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi, who had arrived to rescue the Chancellor. X1 continued flying in the space battle as X2 flew into a nearby destroyer's hangar in order to sabotage it. The brothers' actions helped the Republic rescue Palpatine and win the Battle of Coruscant.

The Clone Wars were almost over, but the Republic was still fighting on many important worlds. X1 and X2 battled alongside Ferroda on Cato Neimoidia at the end of the war. X1 led clone troopers in the bridge cities in order to capture the planet. X2, having fought in space over the planet, joined him in the ground battle. As the troopers advanced on Viceroy Gunray's palace, X1 sent his brother to deactivate the battle droids from inside the palace. Soon, the droids were no longer a threat to the clones.

However, a message from Coruscant would completely change the outcome of the battle. Palpatine told the clone troopers that Ferroda, and all other Jedi, had betrayed the Republic and ordered them to execute Order 66 and kill Ferroda. X1 forced his brother to comply, and the two of them, along with the other clone troopers, attacked the Jedi Master. However, Ferroda would not fall so easily. He wounded X1 and killed most of the clones in the platoon, leaving only X2. Finally, he obeyed the order and killed Ferroda, a decision that would shape the destiny of both brothers.

Taking separate paths
"The rise of the Galactic Empire offered X1 power beyond his wildest dreams. But Order 66 and the Jedi Purge soon turned brother against brother."

- X2

Following the issuing of Order 66 and the extermination of most Jedi, Palpatine reformed the Republic into the Galactic Empire, with himself as Emperor. X1 and X2 became stormtroopers in the new Imperial Military and served the Empire, gaining them a reputation as two of the Empire's most trusted agents. However, X1 noticed signs that X2 was concerned and insecure since ever since Order 66. At some point between 17 BBY and 15 BBY, Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader sent the two brothers to find and kill a fugitive Jedi who was hiding in a village on Dantooine in order to exterminate the last members of the Jedi Order. X2 was reluctant to embark on the mission, but X1 ordered him to do so. The two brothers, along with other troopers, took ARC-170s and headed for Dantooine's surface. X1 ordered the troopers under his command to enter the planetary atmosphere and destroy the village where the Jedi was hiding. X2 refused, saying that the villagers were innocent, but X1 strongly believed that the villagers deserved to die for harboring a Jedi. After X2 continued arguing, X1 ordered Zeta Squadron to escort X2 back to the carrier ship. X1's commands angered X2, who defected from the Empire.

X1, enraged by his brother's treachery, ordered the stromtroopers in the squadron to kill X2. Meanwhile, X2 went into the village and helped the rebels as well as the Jedi, Falon Grey, the brothers' genetic father. The inusrgency was short-lived, though, as X1 arrived with a group of stormtroopers to kill Grey, the rebels, and X2. Landing in LAATs, they arrived in the mountain hangar, killed the militia rebels, and wounded X2 with a blaster bolt. However, Grey blasted off the stormtrropers under X1's command. X1, who was armed with a force pike, engaged in a lightsaber duel with his genetic father. X1 was soon at the mercy of the victorious Grey, but the Jedi spared his life and even returned his force pike to him, believing that he could still be redeemed from the dark path he had taken. X1, however, seized the opportunity to strike back and took Grey's lightsaber. He then shot him in the back and cut X2 with Grey's lightsaber. With Falon Grey dead and X2 left to die, X1 and his stormtroopers departed the planet.

The early Galactic Civil War
"Whatever happened to your brother? Does he still serve the Empire, I wonder?"

- Rahm Kota

With his brother out of the way, X1 rose in the ranks of the Imperial Military. In 2 BBY, when the Alliance to Restore the Republic created by Galen Marek opposed the Empire in the Galactic Civil War, X1 served the Empire against the Rebels. However, X1 was unaware that his brother had survived their encounter on Dantooine over a decade earlier and was himself a member of the Alliance. X1 played a small role in the operation of the Empire's new superweapon, the Death Star. While on a mission for the Rebels, X2 saw a holorecording of X1, and therefore learned that he was still alive, though X1 was still ignorant of X2's survival. When the Rebel Alliance managed to destroy Desolation Station along with the Tributary Superlaser component for the Death Star, he personally executed the station's commander.

Even after the Death Star's destruction at the hands of the Alliance, X1 contineud to serve the Empire. He was involved in the Battle of Hoth, a major Imperial victory, where he commanded the Star Destroyer Avarice in orbit around the ice planet. X2, having helped the Rebels escape their base on Hoth, had boarded the Avarice in an attempt to destroy it. X1 arrived in the reactor control room and ambushed his brother. X1 was surprised to see X2, as he believed that he had killed him almost two decades earlier on Dantooine. X1, now a Dark Side Adept, used Force lightning on his brother and brandished Falon Grey's lightsaber. The two brothers dueled, but X2 gained the upper hand, and X1 fled. Only a year later, the Empire was dealt a major defeat at the Battle of Endor. Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader were both killed, and the Empire fragmented.

Fighting for power
"Vader and Palpatine were slain&hellip;and the Death Star obliterated. For a brief moment we celebrated. But X1 was already drawing up plans for a new Galactic Empire, with himself at the throne."

- X2

After the Imperial defeat at the Battle of Endor, the Empire was in ruins. X1 was involved in the Battle of Bespin, commanding the Imperial forces in order to seize tibanna gas reserves, but failed to hold the planet. Soon, the newly founded New Republic took over much of the Empire's territory, and the Empire split into multiple warring factions. X1 became one of many Imperial warlords fighting for power in the remains of the Empire. He had an entire fleet under his command, with an Executor-class Star Dreadnought as his flagship. Eventually, X1 set up a base of operations on the planet Dathomir in order to experiment with cloning. However, after X1 had feld his base, it was overrun by Nightsisters and attacked by X2 and Grey Squadron.

With Darth Vader and Palpatine dead, X1 proclaimed himself to be a Sith Lord. He shaved and tattooed his head, and showed disfigurement similar to that of Palpatine. X1 operated from Bast Castle, the late Darth Vader's fortress on the acid planet Vjun, in order to learn many dark side secrets. Inside Bast Castle, X1 had stored several trophies, such as Falon Grey's lightsaber and his own Sith holocron. X2, who had learned of his brother's identity as a Sith Lord, vowed to track down X1. X2 led troops to infiltrate Bast Castle and stop X1, but he had already fled. However, X1 had left his holocron inside Vader's meditation chamber. While inside the castle, X2 recovered the holocron, and the New Republic engineers processed the data inside.

X1 had set up his new base on the volcanic planet Mustafar, from which he commanded all of his Imperial Remnant forces. On the fiery world, he began a series of cloning experiments with the intent of using his own clone army in order to conquer the galaxy. He captured Luke Skywalker in order to use him as a prime clone for an entire army of Dark Jedi. Following their attack on Bast Castle, X2 and his troops were able to use X1's holocron to track down X1 to Mustafar. X2 believed that it was his duty to stop X1 and bring him to justice. A decisive battle that would decide X1's fate thus began.

Endgame
"After him, X2! If we want to restore peace to the galaxy, we have to stop X1 now!"

- Shara

The Battle of Mustafar began when X1's fleet was attacked by the New Republic forces, led by X2. X1's Star Destroyer was boarded by X2, who destroyed the ship's reactor core. As soon as he had done this, an enraged X1 arrived in the reactor control room, along with several dark troopers and Imperial Guards. He engaged X2 in a lightsaber duel, but it was brief, and X1 said goodbye to his brother. He escaped the exploding Star Destroyer, and X2, having managed to defeat X1's guards, soon followed. X1, piloting a TIE Advanced x1, began a dogfight against X2's X-wing starfighter but soon flew down to the planet's surface. In order to buy himself some time, he sent a swarm of TIE Interceptors and TIE Defenders against his brother. X2 soon defeated the Imperial starfighters and proceeded down to X1's base in pursuit.

On the ground, X2 and his soldiers were able to capture the ion cannon control bunker, so X1 tried to attack his brother from a distance. He sent stormtroopers, as well as dark troopers and hovertanks, which X2 defeated as well before proceeding to the cloning laboratory. X1, however, ambushed X2 and began another brief duel with him. X1 soon dismissed his brother as an unworthy opponent, and released a group of rabid Wookiees, the result of a failed cloning experiment. X2 killed the Wookiees, but X1 was still waiting for him, this time in the ion cannon control room. X1 had more Imperial Guards with him, which he used to distract his brother. X1 escaped to the landing platform on the back of the complex, but X2 followed, hoping to stop his brother once and for all.

Once X2 arrived on the platform, X1 immediately threw his lightsaber at him, and their final duel began. The two fought with lightsabers and various Force powers, but finally, X2 managed to overpower X1. X1 admitted defeat and asked his brother to kill him. However, X2 followed the Jedi Code and refused to do so. Then, in a final act, X1 leviatated his fallen lightsaber and threw it at X2. He jumped over the lightsaber, causing X1 to be impaled by his own blade. With the lightsaber in his chest, X1 stepped back over the edge and fell down into a lava river to his death. His army was defeated, and Skywalker was rescued. With X2 and the New Republic victorious, X1's dreams of galactic conquest were over.

Personality and traits
"You should realize you destroy your enemies when you make peace with them.''" "''You should realize you can only make peace after destroying your enemies completely."

- Falon Grey and X1 on Dantooine

From the time of his birth on Kamino, X1 was trained to serve in the military. When he and X2 trained young clone troopers, they developed leadership skills. When the Republic was reformed into the Galactic Empire, X1 strongly supported the New Order and developed strong anti-Jedi sentiment. X1 was ready to kill innocents if it was necessary to enforce the Emperor's will. These aspects of his personality were apparent during the Battle of Dantooine, when he killed Falon Grey and left X2 for dead. Following the Battle of Endor, though, he went from serving the Empire to creating his own small empire as a Sith Lord.

X1's relationship with his brother, X2, affected both brothers' lives. While the two were at first very similar in personality, X1 often acted with authority towards his brother, even giving orders to him. . X1 became more violent and power-hungry than X2, especially following the creation of the Empire. Because X1 was born an hour earlier than X2, he referred to X2 as "little brother", and used this name as late as the time of their confrontation on Mustafar. When X1 quickly tried to kill X2 after admititng defeat, echoing what he had done to Falon Grey deceades earlier, he demonstrated the treachery he had developed as a Sith, though this backfired and killed him. He also developed an obsession with chaos as a Sith Lord, and believed that the galaxy should be a large battlefield like the clashing lava on Mustafar.

Powers and abilities
"Bad move, little brother...You've made me angry. And anger only fuels the power of the dark side!"

- X1



Behind the scenes
X1, along with X2, had his first appearance, and his only one to date, in the 2009 video game Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron, for the PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS. X1 is a playable character in the non-canon Instant Action mode of the game, which lacks a specific storyline. He is available in three skins, depending on the era and planet chosen by the player.Clone trooper X1 is available on Hoth, Imperial X1 is available on Coruscant and Kashyyyk, and Sith Lord X1 is available on Hoth, Dantooine, as well as on Yavin IV and Kashyyyk, though only in the Heroes and Villains mode. During the game's campaign, in which the player controls X2, X1's role changes as the storyline advances. In the Clone Wars missions, on Tatooine, Coruscant, and Cato Neimoidia, X1 acts as a mentor to the player, giving instructions on what to do, which are then used by the player to advance through each mission. During the mission to Dantooine, X1 becomes the antagonist in the game. X1 is essentially absent during the Galactic Civil War missions, but during the Battle of Hoth mission, the player duels X1. The plotline in the final missions becomes how X2 tracks X1 down to Mustafar. The final mission, the Battle of Mustafar, requires the player to fight X1 multiple times before finally defeating him, ending the campaign.

Because the game was released on two handheld platforms, the PSP and the DS, some missions are present in one version but absent in the ther. In addition, there are numerous differences between the missions as they are presneted in both versions. The Battle of Tatooine, for example, is retold here as it was in the PSP mission. While X1 and X2 train troopers in the PSP mission, they supervise the construction of an outpost in the DS version. Additionally, while the PSP version claims that Tatooine was an "early" victory for the Republic, the Nintendo DS version explicitly states that the battle takes place in 19 BBY, as stated here. The Battle of Coruscant is shown here as it is portrayed in the DS version, as Palpatine's award ceremony was absent in the PSP version. As for the Cato Neimoidia mission, the PSP storyline is used here. The DS version states that months elapsed between the Battle of Coruscant and the brothers' assignment to Ceto Neimoidia, while the canonical elapsed time was much shorter. The Battle of Hoth follows the DS portrayal here, as in the PSP version, X1 uses a blaster rifle and duels X2 before the Star Destroyer explodes. The Battle of Mustafar is presented here as it is in the PSP version, as in the DS version, some of the discrepancies are that X2 crashes X1's flagship on Mustafar and X1 and X2 have more lines following their final duel.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron