

Later, Marek was reconstructed in a suit of Sith stalker armor, similar to Vader was after his defeat on Mustafar. After seeing the corpses of the Senators, Marek was smashed by his own ship. He retaliated by blasting him with Force Lightning, and used the Force to grab the Rogue Shadow. Just as he was about to strike, he turned around and attacked Palpatine, who defended himself. Despite urges from the Senators to help his comrade, Marek instead chose to finish Vader, impaling him with both his and Vader's lightsaber.Īfter returning to Palpatine, he told Marek to finish off Rahm Kota to secure his place as his apprentice. Sensing his use of the Dark Side, Rahm Kota rushed to his side, but was quickly incapacitated by the Sith. Palpatine, pleased to be relieved of his cripped apprentice, urged Marek to kill Vader and take his place. After throwing support beams at Vader, he grabbed the Dark Lord and threw him into Palpatine's Throne Room. The newly-redeemed Galen Marek later travelled to the Death Star to rescue the leaders, where he dueled his former Master. He later revealed to Starkiller that he was merely a tool, and never planned to overthrow Palpatine with him.

However, Vader tracked the rebels to Corellia, and captured the leaders and brought them to the Death Star for execution. After gathering a group of Imperial Senators with General Rahm Kota, the Alliance to Restore the Republic was formed. Starkiller was later sent to create a rebellion to battle the Empire. When he was discovered by Palpatine, Darth Vader faked his death in front of his Master, but later sent a droid to salvage his body. Galen Marek was taken from Kashyyyk in 18 BBY by Darth Vader, who trained him to become his apprentice, giving him the codename 'Starkiller', with the intention of overthrowing Emperor Palpatine.Īfter 15 years of training, Vader sent him to hunt down Jedi such as Masters Rahm Kota and Shaak Ti.
