Attack on Kamino

The attack on Kamino, which included the destruction of Tipoca City and decommissioning of the Kaminoan cloning facilities, was carried out by Vice Admiral Edmon Rampart and the clones under his command around 19 BBY following an operation to withdraw all useful assets from the planet, leading to the majority of the Kaminoan population being killed. Though the attack was secretly part of his plans to expand the Imperial Military and control the Kaminoan's cloning technology, Galactic Emperor Palpatine denounced Rampart and the attack as a rogue action.

After the Clone Wars, Vice Admiral Rampart oversaw the removal of clone troopers, cadets, scientists, and cloning technology from Kamino before his forces destroyed the Kaminoan civilization by order of Moff Wilhuff Tarkin. The attack was part of a wider effort by the Galactic Empire, including Rampart's Project War-Mantle, to eventually replace the clone troopers of the former Galactic Republic with non-clone stormtroopers recruited from the Empire's populace. The Kaminoan Chief Medical Scientist, Nala Se, was also moved to Wayland where she was forced to join the Empire's own cloning program. The Kaminoan Prime Minister, Lama Su, was arrested and imprisoned on Coruscant.

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