The Tarkin Initiative was a secret think tank within the Imperial Military Department of Advanced Weapons Research, an organization that belonged to Imperial Intelligence and the Imperial Security Bureau.[3] Founded by Governor Wilhuff Tarkin,[1] it gave birth to both the first and second Death Star battle stations.[10] Officers within the Initiative, like Director Orson Krennic, were guarded by Imperial Intelligence's death troopers.[3] Tarkin Initiative canisters were used as part of a mining operation on the planet Ilum.[8]
At some point, the Tarkin Initiative also constructed the assassin droid BT-1 in one of their bases. The droid, however, was revealed to be homicidal, wiping out everyone at the base and then self-destructing the base itself. At some point before the secret mission to Geonosis, it was found by Doctor Aphra, who, after adjusting the droid's behavior and activating it, put it under the service of Darth Vader.[1] The initiative developed the Hutt clone trooper, though they did not see wide scale deployment and were instead stored aboard Hivebase-1.[5]
The logo of the Tarkin Initiative was a hexagon representing a stylized faceted kyber crystal.[3] Scientists of the Grand Moff Tarkin Initiative worked to unlock the secrets of the crystal on the planet Eadu, aiming to develop a superweapon.[11]
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- Star Wars Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy
- Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide
Star Wars Helmet Collection 8 (Databank A-Z: Bric–C-3PO)- Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know, Updated and Expanded
- Star Wars: Geektionary: The Galaxy from A - Z
- Star Wars: The Rebel Files
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi: The Visual Dictionary
- Star Wars Helmet Collection 49 (Weapons & Uniforms: Creators of the Death Star)
- Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary, New Edition
- Star Wars Helmet Collection 71 (Helmets: General Merrick)
- Star Wars Helmet Collection 76 (Databank A-Z: Xev Xrexus–Yavin 4)
- TIE Fighter Owners' Workshop Manual
- Star Wars Day-at-a-Time Calendar 2020 (First identified as Grand Moff Tarkin Initiative)
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary
- Star Wars Day-at-a-Time Calendar 2021
- The Star Wars Book
- "BB-8 and Other Astromech Droids" – Star Wars Encyclopedia
- Eadu in the Databank (backup link)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Darth Vader (2015) 3
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Star Wars: The Rebel Files
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide
- ↑ Darth Vader (2015) 20
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Doctor Aphra (2016) 18
- ↑ TIE Fighter Owners' Workshop Manual
- ↑ Doctor Aphra (2016) 16
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
- ↑ Star Wars Battlefront II
- ↑ Star Wars Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy
- ↑ Star Wars Day-at-a-Time Calendar 2020, "Eadu" (July 3)
