Star Wars: The Force Unleashed III (KDTA)

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed III is an action-adventure video game developed by LucasArts and released in 2013. It is the third installment of the The Force Unleashed series.

Ralltiir
In the immediate aftermath of the events on Kamino, the rebel fleet still has Darth Vader in their captivity, and are currently travelling to a Rebel base on Ralltiir. On board the Rogue Shadow, Starkiller, Rahm Kota and Juno are speaking with Bail Organa through PROXY. Organa says that he will meet them at Ralltiir after they are done interrogating Darth Vader so he could have Vader brought to Alderaan to be tried in court for his crimes.

They arrive at the Rebel base on Ralltiir, where they meet General Jan Dodonna, along with several other members of the Alliance military command. Dodonna has Vader transported to a high-security holding cell within the base to await interrogation before calling Starkiller and his associates into the primary command center of the base, where he initiates a holo-conference call with Bail Organa, Mon Mothma, and Garm Bel Iblis. Dodonna reveals that he had learned of several secret hyperlanes that could only be accessed by high-ranking Empire officials, and he could use information extracted from Vader to access these hyperlanes and launch a three-way attack on what he believed to be the Empire's three most vital worlds: Coruscant, Kuat (where most of their starships were constructed) and Carida (where most of their military was trained.) At that moment, Starkiller senses a disturbance in the Force. Moments later, an aide rushes in to inform them that an Imperial strike force had arrived at Ralltiir. Dodonna hastily orders a counterstrike to defend their base, with Starkiller and Kota taking charge of leading it. They both rush outside to join the battle that has already begun.

Starkiller and Kota are able to lead the Rebel forces in an effective defense of the Ralltiir base. At that moment, Starkiller is confronted by the bounty hunter Boba Fett, who reveals that he tracked Starkiller from Kamino and tipped off the Empire to their location. Kota returns to the larger battle while Starkiller fights Boba Fett. Fett proves himself to be more than a match for Starkiller, but Starkiller calls upon the Force to ultimately defeat Fett. Fett is unfazed by his defeat, however, and admits that he was simply distracting Starkiller to buy time for an elite squadron to break into the Rebel base to rescue Darth Vader. Starkiller rushes back into the base and fights through the Imperials within the base, which includes Shadow Troopers, Saber Guards, and even Sith Acolytes. When he reaches the command center, he finds Vader strangling General Dodonna with the Force. The two begin to duel, with their fight taking them all over the base and eventually back outside of it after they go through a service exit.

The duel eventually leads close to where the Rogue Shadow is parked. Starkiller, being worn from the earlier battle and his fight against Boba Fett, is starting to show signs of fatigue. Vader takes advantage of this and grabs Starkiller with the Force, starting to repetedly slam him into the side of the Rogue Shadow over and over again. Despite this vicious assault, Starkiller is still alive. Kota finally returns from the larger battle to witness the last moments of the duel. Vader, angry that Starkiller is still alive, grabs a nearby fuel cell with the Force and hurls it at Starkiller. The fuel cell explodes on contact and completely destroys the Rogue Shadow, consuming Starkiller in the explosion. Enraged, Kota tries to attack Vader, but is suddenly brought down by a flurry of blaster bolts, revealed to have been fired by Boba Fett. As the smoke clears, Starkiller's body is shown to have survived the explosion, but he is unmistakingly dead. Vader arrogantly declares that Starkiller was nothing more than a failed experiment and now was finally out of his way. He then says to Kota - who survived Boba Fett's attack but is still down - that he would allow him to live out of mercy this time, but soon all the other Rebel leaders would fall by his hand. After informing Fett that the Empire would compensate him handsomely for his work with them, he contacts the commander of the battle and orders them to withdraw. He is next shown arriving on his Star Destroyer, where he contacts a mysterious individual - a tall, muscular person wearing a black Sith robe that obscures his features, and orders him to begin hunting down the Rebel leaders. The robed man tells Vader that he would begin soon, referring to him as "Master."

Back on Ralltiir, Kota, Juno, PROXY, and Dodonna recover Starkiller's body from the wreckage of the Rogue Shadow and bring it into the base. Juno desperately pleads with the medical droid to find a way to revive Starkiller, but the droid says that there is nothing it can do, claiming that it's a miracle Starkiller's body wasn't obliterated. The four are devastated, with Kota claiming that Starkiller was the Alliance's "last and best hope."

At that moment, a flashback sequence occurs. Darth Vader is shown standing in a dimly-lit chamber conversing with a man in a doctor's uniform, and the two of them are standing over a pair of bodies strapped to operating tables. Vader says he needed the bodies for a "very important project" and asks the doctor if he can "do it." The doctor replies that it would be "tricky" but he says he thinks he can.

Suddenly, back in the Rebel base, Starkiller's eyes snap open. Kota, Juno, PROXY, and Dodonna look on, shocked. Starkiller sits up and declares that he is Galen Marek - the real Galen Marek. Juno asks what he means and Starkiller replies that, somehow, someway, he had been "reborn" in the body of the clone. Kota asks if he possessed any of the clone Starkiller's memories, to which he replies that he did, but it was like he was on the outside looking through a window. The four of them are all confused as to how this is possible, and Galen is wondering the same thing, but he is positive that he is himself again.

After healing from his injuries, Galen joins the others in the command center, which had been heavily damaged during the Imperial attack. Dodonna once again calls the other Rebel leaders in a holo-conference call and says in despair that, during Darth Vader's attack on the command center, he and his troopers destroyed the main computer, thus erasing his three-way attack plan, so that, even if they were able to recapture Vader, without the hard data on the main computer, it was useless, and since it took Dodonna six months to come up with it the first time, starting from scratch was out of the question. The others are dejected, but say that they would just need to come up with another plan. Galen thinks hard for a moment before proposing a bold plan: finding a way to get to the Empire's superweapon, the Death Star. The other leaders - particularly Bel Iblis and Kota - decry this plan as lunacy, claiming that the Death Star was too big and heavily armored to be destroyed. Galen counters that his plan wasn't to destory the Death Star - not yet, at least - but rather find some kind of schematics for the battlestation to study and possibly find some kind of weakness they could exploit. Mon Mothma admits that they had actually tried this once before as part of a mission known as "Operation Skyhook"; she also reminds Bel Iblis that he had gained valuable information about the Death Star on a mission to Darkknell, but Bel Iblis sternly reminds Mothma that he was almost killed on that mission, which was why Skyhook was terminated in the first place. Galen reminds the others that the Rebel Alliance was the only thing standing in the way of the Galactic Empire having total dominion over the entire galaxy, and that in order for them to achieve a unifying peace, they needed to take whatever risk was necessary to achieve their goal. Bail Organa agrees and pledges his full support, as do Mon Mothma, Juno, PROXY, and General Dodonna. Though they are both still skeptical, Kota and Bel Iblis pledge their support as well. Bel Iblis tells Galen that during his mission to Darkknell, he learned that a full set of Death Star schematics did indeed exist, but it had been split into five separate components and was divided amongst various Imperial bases in order to prevent them from falling into enemy hands. One component had already been obtained by an Imperial defector named Kyle Katarn during a raid on an Imperial base on Danuta; Katarn had also obtained a second component from a Rebel strike force on Polis Massa. Galen asks where he could find Katarn, and Mothma informs him that he'd been captured by the Black Sun crime syndicate. She adds that she knew the Black Sun had a base on Ord Mantell, and suggests that Galen begin his search there. Galen mentions that, since the Rogue Shadow had been destroyed, he needed a new ship. General Dodonna agrees to provide him with an X-Wing starfighter.

Fighting the Black Sun
En route to Ord Mantell, Galen is contacted by Mon Mothma, who informs him that she'd contacted some of her allies in the Bothan Spy Network, who informed her that the Black Sun were planning to turn Katarn over to the Empire in exchange for protection. The exchange would be taking place in a junkyard between the Black Sun's leader on Ord Mantell, a Gen'Dai named Kalak, and an Imperial commander named Gorshin. As Galen enters Ord Mantell's atmosphere, he is spotted by the Empire's forces, who shoot him down near the junkyard. Galen survives the crash and infiltrates the junkyard, fighting through the combined forces of the Empire and the Black Sun. He finally arrives at the exchange site, finding Katarn heavily guarded by a squadron of riot troopers. Both Kalak and Gorshin escape, leaving Galen to the mercy of their combined forces. Galen is able to defeat them and free Katarn.

Katarn thanks Galen for rescuing him. Afterwards, Galen asks about the whereabouts of the two components of the Death Star plans he had. Katarn admits that the Black Sun confiscated them when he was captured, but they were unaware of what they actually were. Katarn tells Galen that he knew the Black Sun had a hidden data center somewhere in the junkyard, but in order to access it, he'd need to kill Kalak, the Black Sun leader. Katarn also warns Galen that, as a Gen'Dai, Kalak would be very hard to kill, as he could easily regenerate himself. The only way Galen would be able to kill him completely would be to totally vaporize him. Katarn mentions that Kalak used an abandoned Republic attack cruiser in the junkyard as his hideout, and that if Galen could somehow get the reactor core up and running again and somehow push Kalak into it, that would probably be enough to kill him. Katarn volunteers to look for the data center while Galen tracks Kalak down.

Galen makes his way through the junkyard to the attack cruiser, fighting through the remaining Empire and Black Sun forces along the way. Once he reaches the cruiser, Galen is contacted by Katarn, who says that, even though the cruiser was dormant, he could still reactivate the reactor manually via the backup power stations throughout the ship with a strong enough electrical charge. Galen says that his Force lightning should be able to do the trick and asks where he'd be able to find each power station. Katarn replies that there were three backup power stations on the cruiser: one on the command bridge, one on the observation deck, and one in engineering. Fighting his way through the Empire and Black Sun, Galen uses his Force lightning to activate the first two power stations with ease. After activating the second power station, Galen has another flashback: he sees himself - or rather, his body - suspended in a bacta tank, with Darth Vader once again speaking to the man in the doctor's uniform. Vader tells the doctor that all the clones were quickly succumbing to madness, to which the doctor explains that it was because of the accelerated cloning process as well as the fact that Galen was Force-sensitive. Vader asks the doctor if there was another solution, to which the doctor replies, "Possibly." The flashback ends there. Galen tries to piece together what he just saw, but moves on to continue his mission.

As Galen makes his way to engineering, he begins fighting Imperial terror troopers. Finally arriving in engineering, he is able to activate the third power station, which restarts the reactor core. However, only moments after he does, Kalak finally shows up, commandeering a terror walker and informing Galen that he would pay dearly for ruining his deal. The two start to fight, and Galen is eventually able to disable the terror walker, but Kalak manages to leap off and continue fighting Galen in one-on-one combat. Wielding an electrostaff, Kalak is more than a match for Galen, and tries to throw Galen into the reactor himself, but Galen uses a combination of his Force lightning and a powerful Force blast to throw Kalak into the reactor and disentigrate him. He is able to recover the access codes needed to gain entry into the Black Sun's data center, and contacts Katarn, who has just found it.

The two gain entry to the Black Sun data center, and find the two components of the Death Star plans on the main computer hub. Katarn tells Galen that they needed to return to the Rebel leaders on Yavin 4, but Galen replies that his starfighter was shot down. Katarn thinks for a moment and mentions that an old associate of his, a smuggler named Han Solo, was doing business in Ord Mantell's capital, Worlport, and that he could get them to Yavin 4 easily. Galen suggests they go find him, but Katarn says that it wouldn't be simple, as Han on the hit list for both the Empire and Jabba the Hutt. Galen replies that they simply needed to get to Solo before they did.

As Galen and Katarn are shown leaving the junkyard in a speeder, they are being watched from the shadows by the robed assassin that Darth Vader spoke to after leaving Ralltiir. He contacts Vader and informs him that his suspicions were true and Starkiller had survived. Vader is clearly irked but reassures his assassin that if he followed him closely enough, Starkiller would eventually lead him to the Rebel leaders and allow him to complete his mission.

The smuggler
Meanwhile, in Worlport, Han Solo and his Wookiee co-pilot, Chewbacca, are sitting in a cantina talking about their most recent job when they are suddenly approached by bounty hunter Aurra Sing. Sing reveals that Jabba the Hutt knew about Solo dumping his last load of glitterstim spice and was not happy about it, and had placed a bounty on his head, and she was planning to collect that bounty. She also mentions that she and her associates had locked down the docking bay where Solo's ship, the Millennium Falcon, was located, so he wouldn't be getting off Ord Mantell unless it was with her. Solo then shoots several of her associates to distract her, before escaping.

Galen and Katarn arrive at Worlport and approach a Mantellian security guard, asking if he knew the whereabouts of a smuggler named Han Solo. This is overheard by a bounty hunter working for Aurra Sing, who promptly attacks them before contacting Sing and warning her about them. Soon, Galen and Katarn are attacked by more bounty hunters as they progress through Worlport, but manage to fend them off. Eventually they discover that Solo and Chewbacca have been cornered at the Mugwaar's Palace casino. They are able to fight off the bounty hunters and rescue the two. Solo greets Katarn enthusiastically and asks who Galen is. Galen replies that he was "a friend" and that's all he needed to know, and that he and Katarn needed him to take them to Yavin 4. Solo replies that his ship, the Millennium Falcoln, was at Docking Bay 12 at Morro Spaceport, and was under lockdown by Aurra Sing. Galen replies that she wouldn't be a problem and leads Katarn, Solo, and Chewbacca to the spaceport, still contending with Sing's hunters, but defeating them nevertheless.

When the four finally arrive at Docking Bay 12, they find Sing and her hunters securing the ship, with plans to deliver it to Jabba the Hutt as well. At that moment, Solo demands that Sing get away from his ship. Surprised that Solo was still walking free, and even more so that he had friends with him, she demands that Galen step aside, as he was meddling in affairs that didn't concern him. Galen refuses and ignites his lightsabers, challenging Sing to a fight. Realizing that he was a Jedi, Sing furiously attacks Galen. The two engage in a grueling battle; Sing proves herself to be evenly matched with Galen, but soon enough Galen gains the upper hand. In a fury, Sing Force pushes Galen out of his way. Caugh off-guard by Sing's use of the Force, she reveals that she had trained with the Jedi when she was younger, but the Order had "abandoned" her, and now it was her personal mission to eradicate as many Jedi as she could. She pulls out a lightsaber of her own, and the two resume fighting, with Sing being far more aggressive now and forcing Galen to stay on the defensive for a bit. Though her aggressive strikes begin to take their toll on Galen, he manages to call on the Force and gain his second wind. She attempts to use the Force to hurl a volley of cargo bins from the Millennium Falcon at Galen, but he manages to catch them and throw them back at her. Distracted by the bins being thrown back at her, Galen leaps at her and gets in several direct hits on her with his lightsabers. She manages to blast him with the Force and tries another offensive strike on him, but Galen blocks it and fires a bolt of Force lightning at her. Sing briefly blocks the lightning with her lightsaber, but eventually is overpowered by the lightning and disarmed.

Realizing that she's lost, Sing tells Galen to finish her off, but Galen declines, saying that he saw no reason to kill her. However, Solo comes up behind her and pistol-whips her in the back of the head, knocking her out. Galen reiterates that he and Katarn needed to get to Yavin 4. Solo agrees to take them, and as a thank you for rescuing him, would do it free of charge. The four then board the Falcon, which is then shown leaving Ord Mantell.

Yavin 4 and Hephaestus Station
Once they arrive at Yavin 4, Galen and Katarn meet with the Rebel leaders in the Massassi Temple and deliver the two components of the Death Star plans. Mon Mothma reveals that they'd actually just been contacted by the Bothan Spynet, who'd located a third component and was requesting a Rebel task force come to Bothawui to retrieve it. Galen volunteers to lead the task force, but General Dodonna counters by saying that time was of the essence. He and General Kota would lead the task force to Bothawui while Galen searched for the remaining two components. Galen asks if they'd gotten any leads as to where they'd be kept, but the leaders say they have none. However, Katarn speaks up, claiming that, while he was still a member of the Empire, he'd heard rumours about the Empire operating 20 secret space stations known as "Shadow Stations", where the Empire allegedly worked on their most secret projects. Juno seconds this claim, saying that one of her earliest missions as the leader of the Black Eight Squadron had her escorting Grand Moff Tarkin from an Imperial space station called "Hephaestus Station." She had never been told the nature of Hephaestus Station, and it had been curiously absent from most Imperial records. They decide to analyze the two components of the Death Star plans that they had; even though they were useless at the moment in helping them learn the Death Star's capabilities and possible weaknesses, the components by themselves could possibly reveal where they were originally designed. With help from R2-D2, Bail's personal astromech droid, they are able to learn that both components of the plans were originally designed at Hephaestus Station. Juno recalls that the station was located in the Raxus system not far from Raxus Prime, and Galen volunteers to go there at once, with Juno and PROXY volunteering to accompany him. At the same time, Dodonna, Kota, and Katarn prepare to depart for Bothawui. Bail announces that he was returning to Alderaan to meet with his daughter, Leia, regarding a mission to locate an "old friend" of his, but he would keep in contact with the others.

Galen and Juno meet up with Han Solo, who is still on Yavin 4, and request that they be taken to the Raxus system. Han agrees to take them once again. As they are leaving Yavin 4, Juno reveals to Galen that she had personally commissioned several Rebel engineers to construct a new ship for him in the mold of the Rogue Shadow, but until it was complete, they'd need to rely on Solo to finish their missions.

Meanwhile, Darth Vader's assassin, accompanied only by a squadron of Sith Acolytes, is leading a brutal assault on the Rebel base on Ralltiir. The assassin massacres many Rebel soldiers without mercy. Eventually making his way to the inner sanctum of the base, the assassin captures the commander and demands to know where the Rebel leaders were hiding. The commander refuses to say anything, and the assassin promptly kills him. A sith acolyte comes up to him to inform him that the base was secure, and Darth Vader wished to hear a status report from him. The assassin pulls down his hood for the first time and finally reveals his identity: he is another clone of Galen Marek, but is much more immersed in the dark side, as evidenced by his pale skin and yellow eyes. The Dark Apprentice reports to Vader and states that the Rebels at Ralltiir refused to give away the hideout of the Rebel leaders, and his trail on Starkiller had grown cold. Vader informs his apprentice that his spies had learned that a group of Bothans had called a Rebel task force to Bothawui to give them a component of the Death Star plans, and that General Rahm Kota was one of them, and that it was important that he catch up with the task force, as they were bound to tell him where the Rebel base was. The Dark Apprentice expresses his desire to kill Starkiller, reffering to him as the "disgraced echo of a dead man" (unaware that the real Galen Marek had been "reborn" in the clone body) and a "false Sith." Vader comments that he would soon get that chance if he succeeded in capturing the Rebel task force, as Starkiller would likely not be far behind him. The Dark Apprentice then ends the transmission and orders an orbital bombardment of the Ralltiir base, watching the base's destruction with a smile on his face.

The Millennium Falcon arrives in the Raxus system and, with help from Juno, finds Hephaestus Station. They manage to board the station, with Galen promising to find the area where the Death Star plans were designed. As he progresses through the station, Galen finds that it is populated by the most advanced and elite troops the Empire had to offer; these include Shadow Troopers, Terror droids, Purge Troopers, and Saber Guards. Despite this opposition, Galen is able to fight through them and tracks down the Imperial general in charge of the station. The general tells Galen that the Death Star plans were developed in Research Lab X-29, which was two floors above them. Galen travels to the lab and locates the component of the plans, downloading them onto a holodisk. However, as he is looking through the computer the files were stored on, he spots another weapons project called "Project Starkiller". His curiosity getting the better of him, Galen researches this and discovers several medical readouts and a post-mortem report on him, immediately after his physical death onboard the Death Star, as well as reports that the project had been terminated after the failure of "Phase Two". He is able to quickly discern that Project Starkiller was the code name for Vader's attempts to clone him on Kamino.

Galen then experiences yet another flashback, triggered by what he learned about Project Starkiller. Vader is standing in a dark research laboratory, once again conversing with the same doctor from the other visions. His body is once again suspended in a bacta tank, but this time, another body is also shown in a bacta tank. Galen recognizes what he believes to be another clone - resembling the aberrant clones of himself he'd fought on Kamino - but lacking the deformities that the aberrant clones had and not being as defined. The doctor, whom Vader calls "Doctor Cornelius", explains that it was a basic body template with only skin, bone and organs, lacking the full genetic template of Galen Marek, and that future clones of Galen from this template should be much more stable and able to retain their Force-sensitivity. The flashback ends here. Galen, shocked to learn more about what happened to him after his death on the Death Star, researches more into the project and learns that the head of the project was Dr. Cornelius Evazan, and Phase Two took place onboard a science ship called the Empirical II.

Galen is contacted by Han Solo, who warns him that an Imperial fleet was on their way to Hephaestus Station, and that they needed to get out of the system as soon as they could. Galen says that he'll rendezvous with them separately and that a new mission has just come up for him, but that he would remotely transmit the plans he recovered to them via the station's overbridge. Galen fights his way to the overbridge and successfully transmits the plans to the Millennium Falcon. Immediately afterwards, he is confronted by an Imperial Shadow Guard. Galen fights the Shadow Guard and successfully kills him.

Making his way back to the hangar, Galen briefly meets with Juno and tells her of his discovery of Project Starkiller, and how important it was for him to find out more. He encourages her to continue the search for the remaining components of the Death Star plans, and he would rejoin them as soon as he was done with this. They share a romantic moment before the Millennium Falcon escapes, and Galen steals a TIE Fighter to try and find the Empirical II.

Revelations of the past
Galen manages to locate the Empirical II on the fringes of the Outer Rim. Masquerading as a recon pilot, Galen requests permission to dock with the vessel. They allow him to board, but Evazan, who was still on the ship, recognizes him on the security cameras and believes that he was there to kill him out of revenge. He orders the ship's stormtrooper compliment to kill Galen on sight. The troopers all begin attacking Galen en masse, but he was able to defeat them as he made his way to Evazan's laboratory. Arriving at the security mainframe, Galen learns that the doctor has heavily fortified himself inside his lab and has also locked out the main security controls, forcing Galen to locate the backup security controls. Galen eventually finds them and is able to open the lab, but finds himself face-to-face with Ponda Baba, an Aquilish who served as Evazan's enforcer. Despite Baba's strength and skill with a blaster, Galen was able to overcome him in short order (though he didn't kill him) and enters the lab, finding Doctor Evazan cowering in a corner and begging him not to kill him.

Galen assures the doctor that he didn't want to kill him and just wanted information about Project Starkiller, and demands to know everything. Evazan explains that, after Galen had been killed on the Death Star, Vader had his body preserved and moved to the cloning facilities on Kamino (which Galen already knew) but after the failure to clone Galen directly, the operations were moved to the Empirical II, where the basic template of Galen was created as a way of creating more stable clones, but even then, the clones went mad. After this, the project was shut down, and Evazan reveals that he brought him back to life on Vader's orders and erased his memory. This revelation triggers another flashback: Galen sees his body on an operating table, with a harness attached to his head. After a moment, the harness beeps several times, to which Doctor Evazan informs Darth Vader that the memory wipe was complete, and Galen would have no recollection of his past life. Vader states that he'd convince him that he was a clone of the original Galen Marek, and he'd make due with him as his apprentice until the cloning process (still using the Phase Two body template) was perfected.

Stunned by the revelation that he had never been a clone at all and had always been Galen Marek, he triumphantly declares that there would never be another chance to create a perfect clone, as the cloning operations had been destroyed. Evazan counters this by saying that, just before Project Starkiller was shut down, one perfect clone was created from Phase Two. Galen, shocked, demands to know what happened to this clone. Before Evazan can say anything, an alarm begins blaring. Ponda Baba contacts Evazan and reveals that he has set the Empirical II to self-destruct. Galen is momentarily distracted, which allows Evazan to escape. Fighting his way back to the main hangar, Galen once again commandeers a TIE Fighter and escapes from the Empirical II before it is destroyed.

Shortly after his escape from the Empirical II, Galen is contacted by Juno, who informs him to meet with her at a certain set of coordiates where part of the Rebel fleet was gathering, and that they'd located another component of the Death Star plans. Galen agrees to meet Juno, and flies to those coordinates.

Framed
When Galen arrives at the coordinates given to him by Juno, he finds, not Rebel ships waiting for him, but ships he didn't recognize. One such ship uses their tractor beam to pull him into their hangar. Galen exits his fighter and demands to know what is going on. He is greeted by Corellian shock troopers, who all start firing on him. Confused and reluctant to attack them, as he believes them to still be fellow Rebels, Galen nevertheless is forced to defend himself and kills some of the shock troops out of self-defense. He tries to contact Juno, but his personal comms are being jammed. He is still being attacked, but tries to avoid killing any of them if possible and simply uses the Force to render them unconscious instead.

Galen soon learns that Juno was indeed on board the ship, being contained in a holding cell. Galen decides to feign surrender so he can be brought to the detention block. He is brought there and thrown into a cell with Juno. The two are happy to be reunited, but Galen demands to know what was going on. Juno tells him that their base on Ralltiir had been destroyed, and Garm Bel Iblis believed Galen to be responsible and issued a warrant for his arrest. With Bail Organa out of contact since he returned to Alderaan, Mon Mothma personally conducting an investigation on Ralltiir, and the other high-ranking leaders on Bothawui, no one was available to disprove Bel Iblis' accusations, and she had also been arrested on the grounds that she was Galen's accomplice. Galen then tells Juno everything he learned on the Empirical II, about him never being a clone, but simply being brought back to life and having his mind wiped, as well as the existance of an actual clone of his. Juno is amazed and wonders how its possible.

At that moment, Bel Iblis' captain of the guards arrives at their cell and informs them that they are wanted on the bridge. The guards protecting the cell are confused but open the cell and release Galen and Juno into his custody. The captain then kills both guards before revealing himself to be PROXY in disguise. PROXY tells Galen that the three of them needed to make their way to the bridge to convince Bel Iblis of Galen's innocence.

They are able to make it to the bridge and confront Bel Iblis, who is surprised that they escaped from their cell. He orders his guards to attack, but Galen pleads with Bel Iblis to just let him speak. Bel Iblis considers this for a moment, and concedes, saying that "even traitors have a right to explain themselves." Galen then explains that he had not returned to Ralltiir since Darth Vader escaped and had nothing to do with the destruction of the Ralltiir base. Bel Iblis then shows a holorecording of the Dark Apprentice calling the orbital strike on the base. Galen realizes that the Dark Apprentice was the clone that Doctor Evazan told him about. Bel Iblis laughs this explaination off, claiming that it was impossible to clone Jedi or Sith. He then orders the three of then to be take back to their cell, and informs them that they were en route to Corellia to be tried for treason. Despite the three's protests, the troopers slowly escort them off the bridge when PROXY suddenly announces that he was receiving a transmission from Alderaan. He turns into Bail Organa, who implores Bel Iblis to reconsider his decision, as Galen was innocent. Annoyed, Bel Iblis shouts back that he had the proof in the form of the holorecording. Bail states that, as impossible at it sounded, the other Galen was indeed a clone. Bel Iblis demands proof, and Bail states that he'd just been been informed that the Empire was attacking Bothawui, and the clone was their leader, and it was impossible for Galen Marek to be in two places at once. Bel Iblis is thunderstruck, and immediately orders his soldiers to stand down. He then sets coordinates for Bothawui. Afterwards, he apologizes for his mistakes and asks for Galen's forgiveness. Galen forgives Bel Iblis, as does Juno, and states that the only thing that mattered now was rescuing their people.

The Dark Apprentice revealed
On Bothawui, the Empire have landed a full-fledged invasion force centered in the capital city of Drev'starn. The Dark Apprentice is holding Kota, Dodonna, and Katarn hostage in the Combined Clans Center Building, reminding them that he can torture them as long as he felt like until they revealed what they'd done with the Death Star plans. He also admits that it was only a matter of time before the other Rebel leaders came to their rescue, so very soon they would all die and the Alliance would be no more. Kota snaps back that the Dark Apprentice puts too much faith in the dark side, and that would be his undoing. The Dark Apprentice blasts Kota with red Force lightning, and comments that his faith in the dark side would bring him victory. Katarn snidely remarks that they'd see where that would get him in the end; this prompts the Dark Apprentice to angrily blast all three of them with Force lightning, demanding to know what they did with the plans.

Bel Iblis' fleet finally arrives at Bothawui. Onboard his flagship, Bel Iblis is speaking with Bail through PROXY, informing him that his forces were preparing to rescue Dodonna, Kota, and Katarn. Bail informs him that he would be sending his daughter, Leia, onboard the Tantive IV to extract them when they needed it, and that Bel Iblis should probably return to Yavin 4. The transmission cuts, and Bel Iblis promises to send his finest troops to support Galen on the planet's surface. He once again apologizes for mistakenly arresting him and Juno, and wishes him good luck, reminding him of how imporant it was for him to get those plans and their people secured.

Back at the Combined Clans Building, the Dark Apprentice is still torturing Dodonna, Kota, and Katarn. At that moment, a squadron of Bothan soldiers enters the room where they are being held in a rescue attempt. The Dark Apprentice easily cuts all of them down except one, blasting the surviving Bothan with Force lightning and demanding to know where the Death Star plans were. The Bothan gives in and confesses that they are being stored at the Intergalactic Trade Mission. Satisfied, the Dark Apprentice contacts Darth Vader and informs him he had learned the location of the plans. Vader orders his apprentice to do whatever he felt was necessary to prevent the Rebels from getting them. He also infoms him that he has had a change of heart regarding the Rebel leaders, and wants them to be kept alive for interrogation, mentioning that he was on his way at that moment with reinforcements. The Dark Apprentice kills the surviving Bothan before departing for the Intergalactic Trade Mission.

Galen, Juno, PROXY, and Bel Iblis' Corellian soldiers touch down in the city. Juno says that she and the soldiers will keep the Imperials busy by fighting them off while he rescues Dodonna, Kota, and Katarn. Galen and PROXY start to make their way through the city and, despite the brunt of the Imperial soldiers fighting Juno and the Corellians, still had to contend with heavy opposition. Fighting through the city towards the Combined Clans Building, Galen is eventually able to reach the building and rescues Dodonna, Kota, and Katarn. Kota informs Galen that his evil doppelganger was headed for the Intergalactic Trade Mission to get ahold of the Death Star plans before they did. Clearly conflicted about how he'd react to seeing his clone in person for the first time, Galen promises to get there before he did. At that moment, Galen is contacted by Princess Leia, who has arrived onboard the Tantive IV. Galen instructs PROXY to get the three of them to the Tantive IV while he pursued the Dark Apprentice.

Once again fighting his way through the streets of Drev'starn, Galen is now contending with many Sith Acolytes and Shadow Guards, presumably under the direct command of his clone. Once he reaches the mission, Juno informs him that an Imperial bomb sqadron had been dispatched to the mission, intending to blow the building up to prevent them from getting the Death Star plans. Juno adds that a Bothan combat response team, lead by a Bothan named Captain Trask, was already there to try and locate and defuse the bombs. As he enters the building, Galen senses his clone somewhere in the building as well.

Galen meets with Captain Trask on the first level of the mission. Trask informs Galen that the rest of his squadron was throughout the building in an effort to try and secure it against the Empire. He says that he's located an anti-matter bomb already rigged to blow, as well as a second one already being set up. Galen is shocked, as an anti-matter bomb could level the entire city, but Trask admits that it was smaller than normal anti-matter bombs, so its blast radius was also smaller, but would still do a large amount of damage, destroying the whole building and a significant portion of the surrounding area. Galen suggests that Trask and his squadron get to safety and evacuate as much of the surrounding area as possible while he disarmed the bombs. Trask agrees, but says that the bombs were encrypted and he still needed to get the codes, so he'd keep in contact with him via his pesonal comm. Trask tells Galen that the first bomb was primed to detonate and was located in the primary audience chamber, while the second bomb that was still in the process of being set up was located in the security force's armory.

Galen begins fighting his way towards the audience chamber. Along the way, he is met with heavy resistance from Imperial bomb troopers, who are armed with heavy-duty weaponry and strong armor, as well as EVO troopers. When Galen arrives at the audience chamber, more bomb troopers are present and are under command of a sith acolyte. The bomb is set to detonate in three minutes, and Galen asks Trask if he's gotten the deactivation codes, to which Trask replies that he was still working on it. Galen fights off the Imperials guarding the bomb, and with 50 seconds before detonation, he receives the codes from Trask and deactivates the bomb. Galen moves on to find the second bomb, which is under heavier guard from troops armed with Bothan security weapons. Galen is able to use the Force to render the bomb useless.

Following the disabling of the second bomb, Captain Trask returns with his squadron to inform Galen that the entire three blocks in the vicinity of the trade mission had been evacuated, but he and his men would remain as his backup. Sensing a tremor in the Force, Galen is able to learn that his clone was on the top floor of the building, and asks if that was where the Death Star plans were. Trask replies that it was, and Galen advises him and his men to remain downstairs while he went after the plans.

In the computer hub room, the Dark Apprentice is already in the process of erasing the computer's contents. At that moment, Galen arrives and confronts his clone in person for the first time, calling him "Starkiller." The clone denounces that name and declares that he was only known as "the Dark Apprentice." Galen attempts to reason with him, saying that he was only a pawn of the Sith, and that once Vader had accomplished his goals, he would toss the Apprentice aside, like he'd done with him. The Dark Apprentice laughs at Galen and replies that Vader tossed him aside because he was weak; unlike him, he had fully embraced the dark side. He then shows a demonstration of his power by blasting Galen with Force lightning. At that moment, Captain Trask and his squadron arrive, demanding that he surrender. However, the Dark Apprentice reveals a third anti-matter that he'd concealed with the Force and sets it off. Though Galen is caught in the subsequent explosion, he manages to shield himself from any physical harm with the Force.

Awakening from the impact of the explosion, Galen finds himself back on the outside on the ground level, having been blown off the top by the force of the bomb. Nearby, he finds Captain Trask crushed under a large piece of destroyed wall. Though he is able to remove the debris with the Force, Trask has already suffered fatal injuries. The dying Bothan informs Galen that there was a backup hub hidden in a bunker beneath the trade mission, where the Death Star plans had automatically been transferred after the other hub was destroyed. He tells Galen that the entrance was marked by a damanged speeder bike before he dies. Finding the speeder bike, Galen uncovers the entrance and quickly travels through the attached tunnel and finds the computer hub. He then contacts the Tantive IV and informs them of his survival and that he was transmitting the fourth component of the plans to them.

As Galen emerges from the bunker back to the surface, he finds an unfamiliar ship waiting for him, looking almost identical to the Rogue Shadow, except painted white and blue. Juno comes out and emerges that it was his new ship, and that it was rightfully known as the New Hope. The ship is next seen flying up from Bothawui and jumping alongside the Tantive IV into hyperspace.

Moments after they escape, Darth Vader's relief force arrives at Bothawui. He meets with the Dark Apprentice on the surface, and the apprentice reports that, while he failed in securing the Rebel leaders and killing Galen Marek, he'd prevented them from accessing the fourth component of the Death Star plans (unaware of the existance of the backup computer hub) and without all of the separate components, the Alliance would no longer be able to obtain a full set of schematics. Vader tells the apprentice that he'd informed the Emperor of Bothawui's betrayal and he was on his way to punish the remaining Bothans personally, and that he needed his assistance for a new mission.