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As a matter of fact, they were modeled after the voice actors. I remember reading an interview with one of the developers which stated as much. User Info: Lionheartx Topic Creator, have you been lving under a rock? He focused entirely on the mission at hand, ignoring all other distractions. Updated by Juno of activity at a downed corvette near his location, Starkiller assumed that Vader's orders to "leave no witnesses" still stood, and attacked the Rodian salvagers , though he ignored most of the droids controlled by the planetary intelligence known as the Core.
The scavengers likewise had intended to turn Starkiller in for a bounty issued by the Empire, presumably for his actions earlier. Meanwhile, he had Juno check the local Imperial records for information on the scavengers while he continued to perform recon. The corvette they were stripping was in Starkiller's path and would take too long to circumvent, so he attacked.
After killing a Rodian sentry and entering the corvette, Starkiller made his way to engineering and activated the remaining engine with a pulse of Force lightning, clearing his path to the Temple. When asked by Juno whether he was creating a distraction or simply attracting attention, Starkiller simply replied to take her pick. The apprentice killed Paratus in the tower of a makeshift Jedi Temple modeled after the one on Coruscant.
Cautiously ascending to the junk Temple's foyer, Starkiller was attacked by Kazdan Paratus' droid sentries. Starkiller cleared the foyer by blasting the droids out of the Temple doors before being attacked by a massive junk golem. His battle with the golem tore through the junk Temple, eventually reaching Paratus' mock Jedi Council chamber, replete with mannequins of long dead Jedi Council masters.
Starkiller disabled the golem and Kazdan Paratus then revealed himself, extricating himself from the golem's chassis, where he had been controlling it. Paratus was an Aleena , a small being, but compensated with a four-limbed mechanical harness on his back. With the limbs offering him extra height and mobility, Paratus was able to wield his lightsaber pike with deadly skill.
The mannequins of the Jedi Council masters now activated, revealing themselves to be droids, and Starkiller was momentarily distracted by them. Paratus lunged at Starkiller, scoring a shallow cut along his forearm before the Darksider countered.
With the mobility offered by his mechanical limbs, and his own skill with the Force, Paratus simply outpaced Starkiller, blocking all of the apprentice's attacks with his pike. However, Paratus was more vulnerable to Force lightning without the protection of his droid shell, and Starkiller became concerned that the battle would end before it had truly begun, only to be attacked unawares by one of the Jedi Council masters; the Jedi mannequins were combat ready, equipped with vibroblades and utilizing crude approximations of the lightsaber styles practiced by the original individuals.
Disarmed by " Plo Koon ," Starkiller destroyed the droid with a Force push and reclaimed his lightsaber just in time to deflect another of Paratus' attacks. Dividing his attention between Paratus and the mannequins, he fought back and destroyed all of them. Finally, he flung the Yoda mannequin at Paratus, who was now distraught and weeping with the deaths of the "masters.
Starkiller now had the advantage over the mad Jedi. Paratus retreated to the chamber floor, casting a massive chunk of machinery at Starkiller, who in turn caught it and threw it back, crushing the Jedi underneath it.
Starkiller was actually moved to pity by the emotional display, though he quickly repressed it and departed. However, his repose was interrupted by Vader's communication via PROXY, who again dispatched Starkiller to the Jedi Temple for further training despite his apprentice's performance against Paratus.
Starkiller returned to the Jedi Temple where he fought against the simulacrum of Darth Phobos. When Starkiller returned to the Jedi Temple, he found that security had been increased after his first intrusion.
This time the soldiers guarding the entrance were reinforced directly by Imperial Senate Sentinels and the garrison within had snipers incorporated into their ranks. Despite the heightened opposition, Starkiller had little trouble decimating the Imperial ranks, even with the continued reinforcements they received from other areas of the Temple. As he exited the main entrance hall, Starkiller experienced another vision; his father's voice warning him not to be blinded by anger.
Entering the Jedi Archives, Starkiller cleared the chamber. At that moment, however, he saw Juno Eclipse at the head of the hall, bent over as if in pain.
As Starkiller approached, "Juno" leapt into the air and transformed into Darth Phobos. Yet another holographic simulation, Darth Phobos was a powerful Sith Lord who fed off the fears of her enemies, assuming the shape of these horrors through various Force-based illusions. Phobos' literal reign of terror made her the enemy of both the Jedi and her own Sith colleagues, prompting an unprecedented alliance between the two factions to bring her down. As with Desolous, she left such a long-standing impression on the Jedi that she was "honored" with a holographic simulacrum modeled after her, which Jedi Padawans were tested against during their trials.
Also like Desolous, her simulation remained intact, despite the widespread destruction within the Jedi Temple. The hologram's aggressive fighting tactics encouraged Starkiller to adopt more passive methods, though he fought back ably, and the simulation retreated into the shadowed archive shelf-stacks.
His vision clouded by the simulacrum's imitation Force abilities, Starkiller prowled the stacks in search of his opponent. Fending off the hologram's surprise assault, Starkiller sent it crashing into the book stacks. As the hologram weakened, it began adopting more desperate tactics, teleporting around the room and projecting illusionary copies of itself to double up on Starkiller.
It even attempted disguising itself as Juno Eclipse to make him hesitate, though Starkiller remained unfazed. Sending the Phobos hologram crashing through the book stacks again, Starkiller advanced to deliver the finishing blow, ignoring the hologram's final attempt at dissuasion and running his lightsaber through its chest. With his victory over Darth Phobos, Starkiller had faced his fears and completed his trial of Insight. The Dark Lord congratulated his young apprentice for succeeding against Phobos, and then charged Starkiller with hunting down the former Jedi Council master Shaak Ti on Felucia.
Starkiller barely said a word during the trip to Felucia, instead looming at the back of the cockpit with his hood raised, only speaking to give orders and avoiding all of Juno's attempts to converse. She confided in him her involvement in the Bombing of Callos , and how as a consequence of her actions, what was once a verdant jungle world had become dead and barren. Starkiller had read the reports, and assured her that she had followed her orders to the end.
Starkiller was quickly engaged by the Felucian natives; an entire race of Force-sensitives who had evidently been trained by Shaak Ti while hiding on the world. He dealt with them quickly and efficiently, saving his energy for his ultimate target. Starkiller respected Ti's prowess, and her evident intelligence and skill in surviving for so long since the end of the Clone Wars.
However, he considered her activities on Felucia to be disrupting the natural rhythm of the Force, i. The Felucian natives fought back with determination against Starkiller, looking to preserve her "regime. The Felucian resisted Starkiller, though he was quickly brought down, and Starkiller killed the Rancor with a blast of Force lightning.
From the vantage of the Rancor's high body, Starkiller saw a landmark in the direction he was traveling; the Felucian village. Using the Force to tame one of the river-dwelling animals, Starkiller traveled by water to the village, occasionally killing Felucian guards along the bank with Force lightning attacks. Reaching the village, he braced himself against a large standing stone only to discover that it was a massive tooth; the entire village was built atop a colossal living creature.
While the Felucians fled from him, Starkiller made his way towards the village center, finding it to be the maw of a Sarlacc ; the entire town was built around a mega-Sarlacc dubbed the " Ancient Abyss " by the Felucians, and awaiting him there was Shaak Ti. The Jedi Master was perched on one of the concentric gums of the Sarlacc, untouched by neither the massive feeding tentacles nor the flexing teeth, deep in meditation.
Starkiller telekinetically ripped a mushroom out of the Sarlacc's skin and hurled it at Ti, who flicked it aside. She stood up, dubbing Vader a coward for sending Starkiller in his place, while Starkiller raised his lightsaber in challenge. Ti opened the duel with a spinning, downwards strike, throwing Starkiller off-balance as he backflipped and blocked. Tearing off his hood as it snagged on one of the Sarlacc teeth, Starkiller could only fend off Ti's assault until he regained his balance.
He overleapt her and fell down two layers of gums towards the Sarlacc's maw, before leaping back up. Shaak Ti intercepted him, and her rapid attack prompted him to send a bolt of lightning into the Sarlacc's flesh below them. Its shaking and tremoring caused Ti to lose her footing and she leaped back from his attack. Starkiller pursued, swinging as he went.
Though defeated by Starkiller, Shaak Ti pitied the apprentice, believing he could have been more than Vader's assassin. Their fight progressed towards the lower rings of the Sarlacc, with Starkiller slicing off teeth and hurling them at Shaak Ti, or slashing and shocking the flesh beneath to keep the beast quivering underfoot. Ti countered by taking control of the Sarlacc's distributed intelligence and sending its feeding tentacles after Starkiller.
As they neared the very center of the pit, digestive byproducts from the Sarlacc's reeking maw made breathing difficult. All the while, despite the ferocious fight, Ti lectured Starkiller on Jedi philosophy, much to the Sith apprentice's chagrin.
However, Ti reemerged, perched on one of the Sarlacc's massive tentacles, commanding the Sarlacc to assault Starkiller. Starkiller dodged the first two massive tentacle strikes, climbing onto one of the fleshy masses as it pulled back.
However, he was unable to maintain his grip, and nearly fell into the maw, becoming pinned between four tentacles. He blasted them apart with a Force repulse and launched himself back at the ground. When Ti charged off the Sarlacc at him, he deflected her strike and drove her back into the tentacles, blasting the entire mass with a wave of Force lightning. Shaak Ti managed to regain her feet, but she was already dying. As she began to expire, Ti stated that Starkiller was nothing but Vader's slave, warning him that the Sith always betrayed each other in response to Starkiller declaring his loyalty to his master.
She then fell into the Sarlacc pit and died, exploding in a massive flash of Force energy. Starkiller quietly left, satisfied that the removal of Shaak Ti's influence would allow the dark side to again take hold on Felucia and return life to its normal rhythms. Starkiller reported his mission's success to Vader, who concluded that the time was right for both of them to overthrow the Emperor in a combined effort together. Instead of overthrowing the Emperor together, Vader struck down his apprentice as a sign of loyalty to his master.
Starkiller had to suppress a smile as he strode into Darth Vader's chambers. Beyond the viewport, a fleet of Imperial Star Destroyers clustered around the incomplete Executor, the Emperor's flagship.
When Vader informed him as much, Starkiller assumed that Vader had lured the Emperor to them and asked when they would strike. Vader corrected him: Palpatine's presence had not been requested, his spies had followed Starkiller there.
With that, Vader ignited his lightsaber through his shocked pupil's abdomen, just as the Emperor, communicating via-PROXY, entered the room. Palpatine declared that Vader had forgotten his place, and taking on Starkiller as his apprentice had been an act of treachery. The Emperor demanded Starkiller's death, and after a moment of hesitation, Vader complied, ignoring Starkiller's pleas. The apprentice was thrashed about the chamber and smashed through the viewport into the vacuum of space, much to Palpatine's sadistic delight.
While Starkiller was unconscious, his body was collected from the vacuum by Vader's droids and brought to the Dark Lord's science vessel, the Empirical. While Starkiller's body was rebuilt, he remained unconscious, believing himself dead as he experienced a multitude of visions and memories.
When he finally awoke, he was relieved for the end of the visions, but he screamed when he realized the nature of his circumstances; he was restrained on a laboratory table with Darth Vader standing above him.
Starkiller accused Vader of trying to kill him, but Vader told him that his "execution" was Palpatine's demand, which forced the Sith Lord's hand. Starkiller was presented with the option of reentering Darth Vader's service, with the assurance that if he refused, he and all witnesses would be destroyed in the laboratory's self-destruction. With no other options, Starkiller grudgingly accepted, and Vader released his apprentice's restraints. Starkiller remained loyal to Vader, believing they would still overthrow the Emperor but through a different plan.
Darth Vader elaborated that with Palpatine's spies watching his every move, he needed a distraction to divert attention away from him. While the laboratory droids provided him with a new lightsaber, Starkiller suggested an assassination, though Vader dismissed it, as no single act of that kind would gain Palpatine's notice.
Instead, Vader made clear that Starkiller would have to raise an army to oppose the Emperor; an alliance of rebels and dissidents. Vader gave Starkiller free rein in how to pursue his objective, leaving only the order that he was to sever all ties to his past, save PROXY, to ensure that no one found out that he served Vader. PROXY was overjoyed by his Master's survival, as it meant that he could still fulfill his primary programming and kill Starkiller himself.
Informing Starkiller of their location aboard the Empirical in the Dominus system , PROXY then hacked into the Empirical ' s navigation system and set it on a collision course for the Dominus star, forcing him and Starkiller to make their way to the Rogue Shadow before the imminent destruction of the Empirical. When Starkiller inquired about Juno, PROXY informed him that she was alive and on board, left in a holding cell after being branded a traitor for her association with Starkiller.
As they encountered Imperial forces aboard the dying ship, Starkiller drew his new lightsaber, realizing it was Rahm Kota's former weapon. Then, despite PROXY's cautions that doing so was contrary to Vader's orders to sever ties with his past, Starkiller made a beeline for Juno's cell to rescue her. Assuring her that he was leaving the Empire behind, thus keeping her in the dark about his continued allegiance to Vader, Starkiller brought her along to continue working as his pilot.
Explosive bolts severed the umbilical connecting the Rogue Shadow to the Empirical just as they boarded, and Starkiller ordered PROXY to fly the ship away from the science vessel. Juno took control of the ship almost immediately after, with Starkiller giving her free rein as to their destination.
Once they had escaped, Starkiller shared with her his intention to create a rebel army to oppose the Empire, as well as his desire to find a teacher to show him the aspects of the Force that Darth Vader could not—or would not. To that end, they resolved to find Rahm Kota, who had survived his duel with Starkiller.
Starkiller was confronted by a Shadow Guardsman while attempting to recruit Kota. Starkiller's search for Rahm Kota took him across the galaxy, from the Jedi's last sighting on Nar Shaddaa to the ancient Sith world Ziost , finally discovering Kota's latest location on Bespin. Rahm Kota, after his defeat and blinding by Starkiller, had fallen into depression, resorting to alcoholism to drown his sorrows.
Intercepting an Imperial transmission that Kota had been found and the Empire was sending one of its most dangerous agents to retrieve him, Starkiller was forced to rush to Bespin.
He approached Kota in the Vapor Room cantina, masquerading as a Jedi. Rahm Kota was drunk and uncooperative, and before Starkiller could reason further with the unkempt Jedi, they were attacked by the local stormtrooper garrison, backed by Ugnaught contraptions.
He disabled one with telekinesis and overloaded the other's electrical systems, killing the pilot and scattering the stormtroopers. Starkiller found himself hampered by the need to avoid harming innocent bystanders, if only to keep up his Jedi masquerade, though he still intended to use his original landing site to extract Kota. Slicing through the Vapor Room storeroom while Kota eventually got moving, Starkiller didn't hesitate to attack the Imperial forces, making short work of them.
Then he dragged Kota along the series of corridors to the Vapor Room's supply dock. He warned Juno to stay away from the loading dock where he expected to meet a heavy Imperial presence, and instead go to the shipping balloon dock.
Starkiller himself was unconcerned, planning to board the Rogue Shadow via Force jump. He saw the Imperial Shadow Guard waiting at the docks and killed the guard's stormtrooper escort with blast-deflections.
With Starkiller engaged, Kota made himself scarce, searching out an alternate escape route which allowed Starkiller to drop his masquerade and draw on the dark side. Blasting the guard back with a telekinetic surge, Starkiller attacked with Force lightning, winning the subsequent energy struggle and blowing the guardsman's corpse off the side of the dock. Making his way to the balloon dock, and hoping Kota was still alive as well, Starkiller puzzled over the Shadow Guard's identity and affiliation, deducing him to be a servant of Palpatine rather than Vader.
While he made short work of the Imperial forces in his path, he was attacked by another guardsman. This one was more able than the first, though Starkiller ultimately dismembered him with a giant fan blade. Arriving at the dock, he found it crowded with stormtroopers and Uggernaughts, led by two Shadow Guardsmen. During the fight, Starkiller's connection to the Force deepened, and he fought on pure reflex. Stormtroopers and Uggernaughts were thrown off of the dock or into each other, and Starkiller even brought heavy freight raining down from one of the shipping balloons above.
When his enemies regrouped, Starkiller seized one of the shipping balloons itself and sent it crashing down onto them. As he stood in triumph, Kota appeared. Kota was unimpressed by Starkiller's victory, feeling that it didn't even begin to dent Palpatine's "infinite" army.
However, after Starkiller appealed to his warrior sense of honor, Kota agreed to join him, revealing that he had a contact in the Imperial Senate who could use Starkiller's lightsaber, due to his eagerness to kill stormtroopers. Starkiller's final sojourn to the Jedi Temple began much the same as his previous visits, though this time the security forces attacked him immediately upon arrival, rather than calling for his surrender.
Despite the garrison now further reinforced by the presence of Imperial jumptroopers , the apprentice still had little difficulty cutting them down. Clearing out rubble at the rear of the main entrance hall, Starkiller discovered a lower level tunnel. Following it, all the while taking out any Imperials in his path, he reached an elevator platform. The elevator ascended to one of the top towers of the Jedi Temple, bringing Starkiller into the old Jedi Council chamber. Once there, he found Darth Vader in battle with a Jedi unknown to him.
Unaware of the nature of the battle, and ignorant as to the Jedi's identity, Starkiller leapt to his Master's aid. The Jedi attempted to dissuade Starkiller from intervening, encouraging him to turn away from the dark side of the Force, but Starkiller countered that the dark side was all that he had.
The Jedi fought with efficiency, but was ultimately unable to hold his own against Starkiller's raw power. Evasively leaping about the chamber, the Jedi was intercepted by Starkiller, physically assaulted, telekinetically thrashed about, and blasted with Force lightning before being thrown aside. Starkiller then charged the Jedi as he attempted to rise and stabbed him through the abdomen.
As the Jedi lay dying, he apologized to Starkiller before vanishing, and only then did Starkiller realize that the mysterious Jedi was his father. Through the Force, Starkiller beheld a vision of himself, a cybernetic Sith Warrior consumed by the dark side. Looking for more information on his father, Starkiller had the Rogue Shadow ferry him up to one of the other Temple spires, which he entered by way of its external landing platform.
Starkiller brutally fought his way through the Imperial garrison, as well as the Temple's own derelict security systems, before finding the Holocron Vault. Approaching the main holocron, he activated a message left by his father, who stated that Starkiller's destiny was indeed in his own hands, and that he had to complete the Jedi Trials once and for all.
Starkiller then fell into another Force vision in which he was forced to navigate the labyrinth of his own mind before entering into a confrontation with a dark specter. In a brutal lightsaber duel, Starkiller managed to knock off the specter's helmet, thus revealing the face underneath to be his own—pale and twisted through deep immersion into the dark side.
The sight of his own visage caused Starkiller to hesitate, and the specter seized the opening by driving Starkiller down to a lower level within the labyrinth. The fight continued on with renewed vigor in both opponents, and Starkiller only gained the advantage when he drove the dark warrior to the brink of the round platform they fought on.
However, as the warrior fell, he grabbed Starkiller's ankle, pulling him down while hauling himself back up. Having gained the high ground, the warrior telekinetically wrenched several massive columns from the labyrinth and cast them at Starkiller, who reacted by using them as stepping stones to climb back up. Once again on equal footing with the specter, Starkiller impaled him from behind. The warrior exploded in a blast of Force energy, thus ending the vision.
However, as Starkiller regained his senses within the Holocron Vault, he saw that his left hand had taken on the clawed and emaciated appearance of the warrior's arm, who intoned that Starkiller would never escape him.
Upon his return to the Rogue Shadow , Starkiller sat down with Kota and attempted to discuss the events within the Temple, though Kota quickly ended the conversation by asserting that it was none of his business. Even in his much-reduced state, Rahm Kota proved to be a valuable ally, communicating with his contact and providing them with another destination—Kashyyyk—with the assurance that if they retrieved what his contact wanted, he would provide them with further help. Although PROXY provided a faithful reproduction of Jinn's fighting style , he was hampered by his inability to use the Force as well as the confined space they fought in.
With the battle over, Starkiller joined Juno and Kota in the cockpit, seeing the Imperial skyhook being constructed above Kashyyyk. Inserted into the ravaged Kashyyyk landscape, Starkiller made his way towards the local Imperial base, fending off a giant spider ambush along the way. To avoid further ambushes, and to save time, Starkiller ascended up into the leafy canopy of the forests , leaping from branch to branch.
Once he spotted the skyhook from ground level, Starkiller was struck by how it resembled one of the visions he had experienced during his reconstruction on the Empirical. Scouting out the Imperial base from the vantage point of the trees, Starkiller dropped down and intercepted a two-man patrol. Using a Mind Trick, he compelled one trooper to fall asleep while convincing the other that he was authorized to be there.
He learned of the identity of the base commander, a Captain Ozzik Sturn , and that a guest was present in the lodge at the center of the base. As his control over the trooper began to slip, he compelled him to fall asleep as well. He then began planning out his attack on the base. Making his way towards the entrance of the base, Starkiller found his path blocked by an AT-ST and a contingent of stormtroopers, thus forcing him to attack.
Dodging the walker's heavy weapons and ordnance, Starkiller closed the distance and leaped at the legs and the bottom of the cockpit, damaging both knee joints, three control junctions, and the drive engine.
The walker managed half a step before it dropped nose first to the ground. Drawing deeply upon the Force, Starkiller deflected the walker's heavy blaster fire right back at them and telekinetically deflected their concussion grenades into the massive gate protecting the base entrance.
As the Imperials intensified their attack, Starkiller allowed the Force to completely guide his movements without any conscious thought. As the walkers advanced on what they thought was Starkiller's corpse, he telekinetically took control of their systems and directed them to collide with one another before using a concentrated blast of Force lightning to ignite their ammunition stores.
Entering the main lodge at the center of the base, he began searching for the item that Kota's contact wanted.
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