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clonekiller) wrote2016-02-17 09:53 am
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Character Information:
Name: Galen Marek (aka Starkiller, aka Subject 1138)
Canon: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Canon Point: During the mission to Kamino, during his descent onto the planet’s surface
Age: mid-20’s
Type of Character: Canon with supplemental Headcanon
Reference: Starkiller’s First Entry on Wookieepedia
Starkiller’s other entry on Wookieepieda
There’s some confusion in the transition from the first game to the second whether or not Starkiller is a clone. He was killed at the end of the first game, but in the Star Wars universe, characters can appear dead, only to be revived later in a Bacta tank. It’s said repeatedly that it’s impossible to clone Force-sensitive people, as the Midichlorians themselves interfere with the process, yet Darth Vader has Starkiller convinced that he is. Depending on which canon source you look at (Game, Novel, or Comic Book), each are vague in one direction or another.
For the sake of simplicity, my interpretation will be that Starkiller is not a clone, but was submerged in Bacta after he defeated Emperor Palpatine on the Death Star, as Darth Vader wanted to attempt to clone Starkiller, but needed the original alive in order to make Memory Flashes in order to train the clone batches (as one needs a living brain in order to copy memories). After copying Starkiller’s memories, Darth Vader used Sith techniques to attempt to wipe Starkiller’s memory, so that he would have a backup plan should the clones fail. Vader then fed Starkiller’s own memories back into his mind, but fragmented in such a way that Darth Vader could manipulate Starkiller into the belief that he was an expendable clone. Additional proof is in Starkiller’s medical designation “Subject 1138”, which is used in the first game when Darth Vader has him brought to the experimental medical frigate “The Empirical”, and in the second in the cloning facility on Kamino that Starkiller escapes from, which is staffed by Imperial personnel.
Thus, Starkiller is not a clone, but has been manipulated into the belief that he is. This is all headcanon, mind you, but it fills out his story in such a way as to clear up the confusion regarding his story from the first game to the second.
Setting Concepts:
The Force - An invisible energy that surrounds all living things, it’s what allows Force-sensitive individuals to use abilities like Telekinesis, and the Jedi Mind Trick. Starkiller is shown to be one of the most powerful wielders of The Force at the time, stronger even than Darth Vader, and on equal footing with Emperor Palpatine.
The Dark Side - The Force alignment that Starkiller spent most of his life being trained in, Starkiller spent years in isolation, with only his droid for company, to hone his anger to the razor-sharp point that fuels his mastery over the Dark Side. It causes him to be mercilessly heavy-handed when it comes to combat.
Darth Vader - One of the strongest Sith Lords of his day, and Starkiller’s Sith Master and nemesis. Vader killed Kento Marek (Starkiller’s father) and kidnapped Starkiller at Emperor Palpatine’s behest, to train the boy into believing he was to be used as a weapon against Palpatine, but in truth were using him to bring together the Rebel Alliance, so they could be killed in one fell swoop.
The Rebel Alliance - An alliance of senators from the former Galactic republic, Starkiller was instrumental in gathering them together, and proving to them that the Empire could be defeated. He later becomes a martyr, galvanizing the senators to officially rebel, and take Starkiller’s family crest as their symbol.
Juno Eclipse - The last pilot assigned by Darth Vader to Starkiller’s personal starship, Starkiller would eventually fall hopelessly in love with Juno, with her acting as his conscience, causing him to disobey Darth Vader, and calling him out when it’s revealed that Starkiller was still loyal to Vader after he began gathering the Rebel Alliance. After being resurrected by Vader, Starkiller was single-minded in his pursuit of Juno, wanting more than anything just to see her again. Juno is both Starkiller’s greatest source of strength, and greatest weakness.
Personality:
Conflict is at the very core of Starkiller’s nature. He was all of 5 or 6 years old when he was first taken from Kashyyyk, and he spent 15 or so years under the care of Darth Vader. It’s said that while Vader did his best to mold Starkiller into the perfect Sith Assassin, he was never outright cruel to Starkiller, taking care to provide Starkiller with the focus he needed to maintain his hatred of the Empire (for taking his father from him, as Vader had done it on Emperor Palpatine’s orders), and of Vader himself. Vader also provided Starkiller with the training droid PROXY, who would play the dual role of friend and enemy, as PROXY was programmed to attempt to kill Starkiller whenever the opportunity arose, when he wasn’t caring for Starkiller’s every other need.
Starkiller’s personality would undergo its most dramatic shift when he was introduced to his new pilot, Juno Eclipse. Though he initially held her at arm’s length, seeing her only as a means to get where he needed to go (which, realistically, he could have done himself), he would eventually warm up to her, deliberately disobeying Darth Vaders orders to save her when instructed to cut all ties with his past, when he was given the mission to gather the Rebel Alliance. Her presence in his life from this point on would provide him with a voice of reason, causing him to genuinely commit to his cause for his own reasons, rather than the orders he was given. She caused further conflict, as Starkiller had been blindly loyal to Darth Vader up until that point, and he had to choose between his loyalty to Vader, and his budding feelings for Juno.
After Starkiller’s resurrection, he initially sought out his Jedi Master, Rahm Kota, hoping for advice and guidance, as he believe himself to be a clone. He wanted to find Juno, but Kota wanted him to rejoin the Rebellion he’d started, seeing him as little more than a figurehead and a weapon. He was torn by his love for Juno, his desire to help Kota, and his own confusion regarding the truth of his identity.
Ultimately, Starkiller is ruled by rage, pessimism, compassion, and love. What you get from him is ultimately dependent on what you give in turn.
Appearance:
Abilities:
Starkiller is easily one of the most powerful and deadly Force-users of his day. He was trained in multiple lightsabers forms (notably Ataru, Vapaad, Shien, and Soresu) and wields two lightsabers (though he was originally trained in single-saber use). He is able to use Force Push (ant it’s subskill, Force Repulse) and Force Grip to high degrees, to the point of pulling an Imperial Star Destroyer out of the exosphere of a planet and send it crashing to the ground. He is also capable of a simplified form of Mind Trick, able to send simple commands to weak-minded individuals in his vicinity that they will be unable to resist doing. He is also capable of using Force Lightning, with only Emperor Palpatine being his equal in its use. He can use Saber Throw, able to throw both of his lightsabers far distances away to strike distant targets.
Inventory:
2 Lightsabers, with blue focusing crystals
1 set of Jedi Armor, given to him by Rahm Kota
Soul Gem:
An Ilum Crystal on a silver chain around his neck.
Writing Samples:
Third Person:
As large as Tu Vishan was, Starkiller nevertheless walked everywhere he went as though he was still trapped in a submerged cage on Kamino. He couldn’t bring himself to trust anyone or anything here, no matter how peaceful it seemed. He had been taken, against his will, when he had been fighting harder than he had ever fought before to find Juno. As far as he was concerned, she was his everything now. Whatever Vader had done to him had made him almost completely apathetic about his parents, and even the Rebellion he’d helped start, and had made him focus exclusively on Juno. It didn’t feel right to him, but he couldn’t stop himself.
He’d heard a name floating on the lips of some of the locals “Anakin”. Just hearing the name made his blood boil. Though Darth Vader’s original identity had been a closely guarded secret in the Empire for many years, Starkiller knew it. It was one of the few things that Vader had ever seen fit to reveal about himself to Starkiller and had, ironically enough, done so in order to convince the young Galen Marek to give up his birth name. He’d claimed that Anakin was weak, and becoming Darth Vader had made him strong enough to do as he wished. Though if it truly was Anakin Skywalker, and not Darth Vader, did he have any real right to hate him? Yet another thing for him to struggle with, as if the crippling migraines and visions weren’t bad enough.
Network:
[Video]
[When the video clicks on, it looks as though it was by accident, as the young man on camera had his eyes closed, looking as though he’s meditating. After a few moments, however, Starkiller opens his eyes. It’s fairly easy to tell that something’s bothering him. For all his training on controlling his emotions, he’d never been very good at not showing what he felt on the outside.]
I…I need help. There was…something kept from me, where I came from. Something important.
[He pinches the bridge of his nose as a vision comes and goes.]
I was…told that I’m the clone of a dead man, that…my memories aren’t really mine. I need to find out if any of this is true. I can’t offer anything in compensation except my gratitude.
[He pauses, sighing.]
I just need to know if I’m really me, or if he’s still out there somewhere.
Name: Dirk
Age/18+?: 34
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Character Information:
Name: Galen Marek (aka Starkiller, aka Subject 1138)
Canon: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Canon Point: During the mission to Kamino, during his descent onto the planet’s surface
Age: mid-20’s
Type of Character: Canon with supplemental Headcanon
Reference: Starkiller’s First Entry on Wookieepedia
Starkiller’s other entry on Wookieepieda
There’s some confusion in the transition from the first game to the second whether or not Starkiller is a clone. He was killed at the end of the first game, but in the Star Wars universe, characters can appear dead, only to be revived later in a Bacta tank. It’s said repeatedly that it’s impossible to clone Force-sensitive people, as the Midichlorians themselves interfere with the process, yet Darth Vader has Starkiller convinced that he is. Depending on which canon source you look at (Game, Novel, or Comic Book), each are vague in one direction or another.
For the sake of simplicity, my interpretation will be that Starkiller is not a clone, but was submerged in Bacta after he defeated Emperor Palpatine on the Death Star, as Darth Vader wanted to attempt to clone Starkiller, but needed the original alive in order to make Memory Flashes in order to train the clone batches (as one needs a living brain in order to copy memories). After copying Starkiller’s memories, Darth Vader used Sith techniques to attempt to wipe Starkiller’s memory, so that he would have a backup plan should the clones fail. Vader then fed Starkiller’s own memories back into his mind, but fragmented in such a way that Darth Vader could manipulate Starkiller into the belief that he was an expendable clone. Additional proof is in Starkiller’s medical designation “Subject 1138”, which is used in the first game when Darth Vader has him brought to the experimental medical frigate “The Empirical”, and in the second in the cloning facility on Kamino that Starkiller escapes from, which is staffed by Imperial personnel.
Thus, Starkiller is not a clone, but has been manipulated into the belief that he is. This is all headcanon, mind you, but it fills out his story in such a way as to clear up the confusion regarding his story from the first game to the second.
Setting Concepts:
The Force - An invisible energy that surrounds all living things, it’s what allows Force-sensitive individuals to use abilities like Telekinesis, and the Jedi Mind Trick. Starkiller is shown to be one of the most powerful wielders of The Force at the time, stronger even than Darth Vader, and on equal footing with Emperor Palpatine.
The Dark Side - The Force alignment that Starkiller spent most of his life being trained in, Starkiller spent years in isolation, with only his droid for company, to hone his anger to the razor-sharp point that fuels his mastery over the Dark Side. It causes him to be mercilessly heavy-handed when it comes to combat.
Darth Vader - One of the strongest Sith Lords of his day, and Starkiller’s Sith Master and nemesis. Vader killed Kento Marek (Starkiller’s father) and kidnapped Starkiller at Emperor Palpatine’s behest, to train the boy into believing he was to be used as a weapon against Palpatine, but in truth were using him to bring together the Rebel Alliance, so they could be killed in one fell swoop.
The Rebel Alliance - An alliance of senators from the former Galactic republic, Starkiller was instrumental in gathering them together, and proving to them that the Empire could be defeated. He later becomes a martyr, galvanizing the senators to officially rebel, and take Starkiller’s family crest as their symbol.
Juno Eclipse - The last pilot assigned by Darth Vader to Starkiller’s personal starship, Starkiller would eventually fall hopelessly in love with Juno, with her acting as his conscience, causing him to disobey Darth Vader, and calling him out when it’s revealed that Starkiller was still loyal to Vader after he began gathering the Rebel Alliance. After being resurrected by Vader, Starkiller was single-minded in his pursuit of Juno, wanting more than anything just to see her again. Juno is both Starkiller’s greatest source of strength, and greatest weakness.
Personality:
Conflict is at the very core of Starkiller’s nature. He was all of 5 or 6 years old when he was first taken from Kashyyyk, and he spent 15 or so years under the care of Darth Vader. It’s said that while Vader did his best to mold Starkiller into the perfect Sith Assassin, he was never outright cruel to Starkiller, taking care to provide Starkiller with the focus he needed to maintain his hatred of the Empire (for taking his father from him, as Vader had done it on Emperor Palpatine’s orders), and of Vader himself. Vader also provided Starkiller with the training droid PROXY, who would play the dual role of friend and enemy, as PROXY was programmed to attempt to kill Starkiller whenever the opportunity arose, when he wasn’t caring for Starkiller’s every other need.
Starkiller’s personality would undergo its most dramatic shift when he was introduced to his new pilot, Juno Eclipse. Though he initially held her at arm’s length, seeing her only as a means to get where he needed to go (which, realistically, he could have done himself), he would eventually warm up to her, deliberately disobeying Darth Vaders orders to save her when instructed to cut all ties with his past, when he was given the mission to gather the Rebel Alliance. Her presence in his life from this point on would provide him with a voice of reason, causing him to genuinely commit to his cause for his own reasons, rather than the orders he was given. She caused further conflict, as Starkiller had been blindly loyal to Darth Vader up until that point, and he had to choose between his loyalty to Vader, and his budding feelings for Juno.
After Starkiller’s resurrection, he initially sought out his Jedi Master, Rahm Kota, hoping for advice and guidance, as he believe himself to be a clone. He wanted to find Juno, but Kota wanted him to rejoin the Rebellion he’d started, seeing him as little more than a figurehead and a weapon. He was torn by his love for Juno, his desire to help Kota, and his own confusion regarding the truth of his identity.
Ultimately, Starkiller is ruled by rage, pessimism, compassion, and love. What you get from him is ultimately dependent on what you give in turn.
Appearance:
Abilities:
Starkiller is easily one of the most powerful and deadly Force-users of his day. He was trained in multiple lightsabers forms (notably Ataru, Vapaad, Shien, and Soresu) and wields two lightsabers (though he was originally trained in single-saber use). He is able to use Force Push (ant it’s subskill, Force Repulse) and Force Grip to high degrees, to the point of pulling an Imperial Star Destroyer out of the exosphere of a planet and send it crashing to the ground. He is also capable of a simplified form of Mind Trick, able to send simple commands to weak-minded individuals in his vicinity that they will be unable to resist doing. He is also capable of using Force Lightning, with only Emperor Palpatine being his equal in its use. He can use Saber Throw, able to throw both of his lightsabers far distances away to strike distant targets.
Inventory:
2 Lightsabers, with blue focusing crystals
1 set of Jedi Armor, given to him by Rahm Kota
Soul Gem:
An Ilum Crystal on a silver chain around his neck.
Writing Samples:
Third Person:
As large as Tu Vishan was, Starkiller nevertheless walked everywhere he went as though he was still trapped in a submerged cage on Kamino. He couldn’t bring himself to trust anyone or anything here, no matter how peaceful it seemed. He had been taken, against his will, when he had been fighting harder than he had ever fought before to find Juno. As far as he was concerned, she was his everything now. Whatever Vader had done to him had made him almost completely apathetic about his parents, and even the Rebellion he’d helped start, and had made him focus exclusively on Juno. It didn’t feel right to him, but he couldn’t stop himself.
He’d heard a name floating on the lips of some of the locals “Anakin”. Just hearing the name made his blood boil. Though Darth Vader’s original identity had been a closely guarded secret in the Empire for many years, Starkiller knew it. It was one of the few things that Vader had ever seen fit to reveal about himself to Starkiller and had, ironically enough, done so in order to convince the young Galen Marek to give up his birth name. He’d claimed that Anakin was weak, and becoming Darth Vader had made him strong enough to do as he wished. Though if it truly was Anakin Skywalker, and not Darth Vader, did he have any real right to hate him? Yet another thing for him to struggle with, as if the crippling migraines and visions weren’t bad enough.
Network:
[Video]
[When the video clicks on, it looks as though it was by accident, as the young man on camera had his eyes closed, looking as though he’s meditating. After a few moments, however, Starkiller opens his eyes. It’s fairly easy to tell that something’s bothering him. For all his training on controlling his emotions, he’d never been very good at not showing what he felt on the outside.]
I…I need help. There was…something kept from me, where I came from. Something important.
[He pinches the bridge of his nose as a vision comes and goes.]
I was…told that I’m the clone of a dead man, that…my memories aren’t really mine. I need to find out if any of this is true. I can’t offer anything in compensation except my gratitude.
[He pauses, sighing.]
I just need to know if I’m really me, or if he’s still out there somewhere.
Application Revisions
As for Starkiller's Setting Concepts, I'll explain further here:
The Force - Starkiller was taken from his home due to his strength in the Force. Vader first became aware of Starkiller when he pulled Vader's own Lightsaber from his hands when Vader was about to execute his father. The only reason that Starkiller was allowed to live, was because Vader sensed the potential he had as a Force-wielder.
The Dark Side - Considered by many as a corruption of the otherwise neutral Force, Starkiller took to the Dark Side as a result of Darth Vader's influence, as Vader pushed Starkiller into hating both himself and the Emperor (though Starkiller never really understood why, until he confronted the Emperor on the Death Star). It draws upon passion, rage, and other negative emotions to fuel it's control (or lack thereof, in Starkiller's case) over the Force.
Darth Vader - Starkiller maintains a strange relationship with Vader. On one hand, Vader raised Starkiller to become the feared Sith Assassin that he was for many years, but Vader also betrayed Starkiller more than once. At his current canon point, Starkiller both hates and pities Vader, for what was done to him, and for how much of what Vader did to him is a reflection of how Vader has been treated at the hands of Emperor Palpatine.
The Rebel Alliance - Though Starkiller was the rallying point for the rebellious Senators, it was ultimately Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine who had engineered the Rebel Alliance. They used Starkiller to gather the worst enemies of the Empire, so that they could be eliminated all at once. Starkiller initially gathered the Rebels because Vader had ordered him to, believing that the end result would lead him to killing the Emperor with Vader, but over time Starkiller began to see the Rebels as something more than just a means to kill the Emperor.
Juno Eclipse - Juno Eclipse is described as being "the one bright spot" in Starkiller's life. It's her that he thinks of when he engages the Emperor in their last duel, and she's all he can think of when he is resurrected by Darth Vader on Kamino. Starkiller loves Juno, and it's the love he has for her, that broke Vader's hold over him. One could argue that it's Juno that brings out the Jedi in Starkiller.
Starkiller's relationship with Vader started as one of hatred-fueled loyalty. Vader encouraged Starkiller to hate him, while also being dependent on him to teach him the ways of the Dark Side. As with all Master-Apprentice relationships with the Sith, Vader had convinced Starkiller that it was only through the Dark Side that Starkiller could have his revenge, for himself and his father. It created a dependency that was only finally broken by Juno Eclipse.
When Starkiller rescued her from the Empirical, he couldn't explain why, but she would become Starkiller's voice of reason and his conscience as he came face-to-face with the consequences of what he'd done under Vader's orders. After rescuing Juno and starting on his path to creating the Rebel Alliance, Starkiller allowed himself to really engage in empathy for the first time in his life, feeling remorse for what he'd done on the planet Felucia (by killing Shaak Ti, he left her Padawan, Maris Brood, susceptible to the Dark Side, and the planet itself was left susceptible to Imperial takeover).
Starkiller honestly believes himself to be a clone. It's implied that he had been "awake" for months, and had been brutally treated by Vader, in order to reinforce, or possibly reestablish his connection to the Dark Side. When he escapes from Vader and the cloning facility, it was as a result of a memory flash of the time Vader had killed him, in order to allow Starkiller to assemble the rebel alliance. Starkiller knew that his life meant very little to Vader, with his only value being his potential use as a weapon, so he escaped to pursue the one thing that really meant anything to him; Juno.
He only begins to question his status as a clone when his Jedi Master mentions that it's impossible to clone Jedi, backed up by a member of the Rebel Alliance who had served in the Kessel Spice Mines with a Khommite (Khommites being another race of aliens who rely on cloning, rather than traditional reproduction for the propagation of their species). As Starkiller continues to search for Juno, while simmultaneously helping the Rebels, he begins to believe that it doesn't ultimately matter if he's a clone or not, and starts to believe that Vader had only told him he was a clone to keep him off-balance, to make him more easily manipulated.
As for Starkiller's powers, he's kind of a literal expression of the phrase "the star that burns twice as bright, burns half as long". While Starkiller has a tremendous amount of power, he lacks any real endurance, and when he's exhausted himself (like pulling a Star Destroyer out of the sky, or engaging in a Force Lightning-loop with Emperor Palpatine), he can't use any of his powers for at least a day, if not longer. He tends to throw himself head-first into whatever he's doing with his powers, and is incredibly prone to injury. As for limitations, Starkiller won't actively use his powers or his lightsaber unless he feels threatened, or unless he is protecting someone. While he was raised as a literal weapon of the Force, he's trying to be something other than that, and chafes at people trying to use him that way.