Starkiller

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Alot of people are familiar with his lightsabers from the first game and the second. But, he has had many more. See below and I'll run them through and what I think their meaning is.

The first, the shell, the apprentice.

This is Galen Marek's, then Starkiller's, first hilt. It resembles Anakin's "Revenge of the Sith" hilt although a shell of its former self. It doesn't look like his lightsaber exactly, but it looks like it was heavily inspired by his masters lightsaber, Lord Vader's.

The Clones.

This was Starkiller's second set of lightsabers that now came with two. These lightsabers were weirded by Subject 1138, the most successful and stable Starkiller clone. These lightsabers have no personality. Which I think is intentional. As we seen at the beginning of the game, Vader had undergone a rigorous gauntlet of trying to find the perfect Starkiller clone. Likely giving each a set of lightsabers. Indicative of the enemies we face later on. Vader Likely had the hilts mass produced in an effort to not have sentimental reason to keep the first set. Having no personality is also what Vader wanted. And what he got granting the Dark Side ending of the game.

The Dark Lord's.

This is a severely underlooked lightsaber that belongs to Starkiller. Starkiller obtains this lightsaber hilt as a result of the dark side ending to the first game when he is the apprentice of Darth Sidious. I think he built this one to disconnect himself from Vader, (AKA, the old hilt that resembled Vader's and Anakin's,) showing his new-found loyalty to his highness.

The Trophies.

With this image we see alot of lightsabers. I'll run through them

1. Darth Vader's. Likely given to him as a sign of victory over Vader. This one might not be Vader's as on the adjacent side of his belt, there is another hilt that also resembles Vader's.

2. Starkiller's First Hilt. Signifying his victory over Galen Marek's conflict with the light, now giving himself to the dark wanting to disconnect from Galen as much as possible.

3. Half of Darth Maul's. I'm not too certain with this one. Starkiller did win over Darth Maul's programming in Proxy's battle simulations. I would say Maulkiller but that's entirely different and hadn't happend yet. That's my best guess.

4. Rahm Kota's. Likely reaped from Vader's collection because Starkiller was indeed the one to "take him out." Not Vader.

These trophies will alternate positions depending on the variant of the sith stalker armor. Whether it be the desert apprentice, dark lord armor, or the sith stalker armor itself.

You are being pursued by Legends Starkiller and a severely amped Ahsoka Tano. Pick 2 defenders from the Star Wars universe in either Legends or Canon for aid.

After some research I have come to a realisation that Starkiller put the Empire into more debt than people know. So lets break it down.

Starkiller defeated the Nemesis Class gunship on Cato Neimoida before reaching Tarko-Se arena. The nemesis class gunship costs an unholy and fuckin rediculos 4,800,000 credits!!!

If we are to assume that starkiller destroyed a hundred tie fighters. That would be 600,000 credits of even more debt. If we safely assume that Starkiller destroyed a two dozen AT-STs that would be 1,800,000 credits. Starkiller would also destory about a dozen and a half AT-MP's. However the price of those hasn't been disclosed. Starkiller also brought down an Imperial-I class star destroyer above Raxus Prime which around 57,000,000 credits. Starkiller would also leave nigh ireperable damage to Timira City while crashing the Salvation into the centre of it, likely around a million or so credits in damage. Starkiller would destroy a highly experimental terror walker in the hyperdrive core of the Salvation, about a dozen biodroids, and some infiltator droids too. This is would estimate would cost about 500,000 to 750,000 credits maybe more. When starkiller was being clone, this likely costed untold millions of credits too. Point im trying to get accross here is that starkiller made the Empire crippling debt that would likely be felt for a while.

After all of my calculation.

4,800,000

57,000,000

1,800,000

600,000

750,000

────────

64,950,000

Including an educated guess on the infrastructure damages to Timira City, The Death Star, several other imperial garrisons, bases, and installations. We are likely looking at a price somewhere between 75,000,000 and 100,000,000 credits in damages and asset loss caused by one man. Did you know this.

This bastard...

This is the heavily reconstructed version of the starkiller sith stalker seen in the Jedi Temple dlc. Why this is terrifying. This bastard looks emotionless and brainwashed to do only one things annihilate and destroy. This also means something (likely Palpatine) was powerful enough to turn even Starkiller into this.

This statement is redacted from the constume menu in TFUI.

"An even more extreme version of the Sith stalker armour, this is the apprentice almost completely transformed into a biomechanical nightmare."

The Path of Pain is a chain of biographies written to further explore the pain and suffering the characters of Star Wars have been through and who that pain shaped them to become. These biographies in this series will not be solo projects. At the end of an entry, I will ask what character you would like analyzed next, and the name with the most likes, except my own will be selected next.

Enter Galen Marek, Code-name: Starkiller, and Subject 1138.

Galen Marek was born into the Marek family to Kento and Mallie Marek in the forest jungle world of Kashyyyk. During one of the Empire's many conquests of Kashyyyk, Darth Vader slaughtered Galen's father Kento. Seeing an opportunity Vader took Galen as his apprentice. Thereby denouncing the name Galen Marek and denoting the title Starkiller.

As always the parts where Galen Marek felt pain will be in bold and the parts where I speculate he felt pain will be in italics.

Galen did not have a good upbringing by societal standards. Not much is known about Galen's upbringing other than his mother was killed while protecting Wookiees from Trandoshan slavers, and his father's windpipe was crushed by Darth Vader. Before Kento was killed Galen had used telekinesis on Vader's lightsaber behind him, seeing an opportunity, Vader dispatched Kento and approach the young boy. This is where an unidentified imperial officer and three Kashyyyk troopers would enter the homestead and attempt the lay waste to the young boy. Vader had intervened and killed them in return. Vader would soon abduct Galen Marek and train him as his own. The pull of the dark side wouldn't take long to ensue, with all memory of his childhood suppressed, and his original identity banished, Galen Would give himself over to the dark side of the force truly believing he was indeed a sith lord. After a decade and a half of training, he was at long last deployed against his first Jedi target; this would be the clone wars military tactician Rahm Kota, in which, Starkiller would prove successful, or so he thought. It would not be long until he killed Kazdan Paratus on Raxus Prime, then Shaak Ti on Felucia. Emerging victorious after the defeat of the former high council member, Vader believed it was time to enact their plan to kill the Emperor. However, where Vader and Starkiller thought they were a step ahead, they were, in reality, two steps behind, as Sidious would soon board Vader's flagship the Ecexotor-class Super Star Destroyer where Starkiller was betrayed and brutally wounded. Starkiller would soon come to an Empirical Lab where he would be healed of his wounds, and Vader would soon alert Starkiller of his new orders. He was to build a rebellion against the empire to act as a distraction from He and Vader's goals. He would request the aid of Rahm Kota, Princess Leia of Alderaan, and Senator Bail Organa. More were swayed in the name of Mon Mothma and Garm Bel Iblis. They would strike a covenant whereby they would oppose the Empire's tyranny... The party was soon over when Vader stormed the keep and attacked. This is where Starkiller would become Galen Marek once more, where he would be betrayed a second time. Vader would viciously attack Galen and capture the senators. This is where the dark and twisted shell of Starkiller was shed in favour of remembering who he truly was. Galen would storm the death star in search of the captured senators and Jedi. He would be met by his former master where victory would blossom. This victory would soon wither away as he bought just enough time for the leaders of the alliance to restore the republic would be saved and he would die.

Alright, I thought an intermission was in order to sort of get up, walk around, stretch your legs, and discuss the Starkiller clones. How could I justify putting his clones in this Path of Pain entry? I thought back to Revan when he was defeated by Bastila Shan whereby Revan engaged in a force bond with his adversary. This force bond and the Jedi putting his soul for lack of better terms into the body of a republic soldier. Revan is Revan, and will always be Revan. So, apply that logic to Starkiller. Starkiller's many clones went mad. I speculate that because of Galen Marek's force sensitivity, his memories were somewhat instilled within Starkiller's clones. And the final clone, the one we play as in Force Unleashed II, has memories and remembers his past because of. Therefore I will be applying the Path of Pain to Starkiller clones as well.

Despite Galen Marek dying, Vader had preserved his body and his DNA and would clone him hoping for a stronger apprentice. During these experiments, Vader would recount Sidious' former apprentice Maul. Vader would meld genetic material from the dathomirian zabrak assassin and DNA from the deceased Galen Marek to create a ruthless and wrathful clone amalgamation of the two. This combination proved worrisome for Vader and due to the conflicting genetic material present in Maulkiller, it caused extreme physical and psychological instabilities that would be the cause of his demise. After many failed attempts at creating the perfect clone who exemplified stability and power, countless failures would occur. Starkiller clones would often come deformed and deranged, as the cloning process was being perfected clones would gradually become more stable although they still went mad. Failure after failure Subject 1138 would be produced. This was the most stable out of a long line of deranged and deformed subjects. However, the difficulty of cloning force sensitives caused even 1138 to manifest some of Galen's abilities, memories, and attachments. It was nigh impossible to escape and free 1138 of his former attachment to Juno Eclipse. This was more of a blessing rather than a dire curse. These memory flashes and attachments are what turned 1138 into the self-proclaimed Starkiller once and for all. After remembering Vader's betrayal he would turn on Vader and break himself free of Timira City's cloning facility, the dark side, and Darth Vader. embarking on a mission to find a rescue Juno Ecplise. After Boba Fett abducts Eclipse she is ordered to return to Kamino with her captor. Starkiller would have force visions of him towering over a defeated Vader, ready to strike, but his efforts to kill Vader are nullified when another subject of Galen Marek's cloning emerges to kill Starkiller." This vision did not come to pass as Starkiller would tower over a defeated Vader with the intent of securing his enemy.

Let us review all the pain Galen Marek, Starkiller, and Subject 1138 went through.

Mother was killed by Trandoshan slavers.

Father was killed by Darth Vader.

His training made him forget his childhood.

His training would corrupt Galen Marek.

Darth Vader betrayed Galen Marek.

Vader would betray him again.

Galen would sacrifice himself to save Mothma, Bel Iblis, Organa, and Kota.

Would be physiologically and physically unstable (Maulkiller).

Starkiller clones would be deformed and deranged.

Future subjects would still become deranged and be dispatched.

Subject 1138 would begin to go mad after indicting signs of Marek's memories and attachments.

What Star Wars character would you like me to break down and analyze next? To reiterate, the comment with the most likes not including my own will be selected for The Path of Pain: VI.

In your own theory/story, how would his life pan out? Would it be the same way how it happened in The Force Unleashed I & II, or would you completely revamp his story? The most popular fan theory is Galen becoming an Inquisitor, another one I saw was they’d have him be Rey’s father that fled from the Emperor, which could explain how powerful in the force she is without proper training. This has always been a thought for me throughout the years ever since TFU was placed in Legends, and although it’d be unrealistic to make Starkiller as OP in canon as how he was in the video games, it’d be awesome for him to be introduced in the canon timeline.

Ok so how did Juno revive when PROXY said he couldn’t save him? Was Starkiller using Force Heal in some form?