Sith Training Droid

Sith Training Droids were an advanced series of training droids used by the Order of the Sith Lords and were based on the design of the holodroid prototype unit known as PROXY. Constructed on the vast ocean-covered world of Kamino, the training droids were primarily used as instruments in a secret project conducted under the surveillance of the Sith Lord Darth Vader. Following the redemption and death of his former secret apprentice, Galen Marek, Vader was determined to create a "new Starkiller" by utilizing the experimental advanced cloning process.

In order to ensure that the perfect clone would learn in a matter of months what took Marek years to learn as an apprentice, part of the overall process included using the training droids to help the clone in developing his inherent skills with a lightsaber. The other purpose for the droids was through their built-in holographic technology. By mimicking the appearances of several individuals who were close to Marek before his death, the clone would have to overcome the psychological side-effects of his genetic template's imprinted memories.

But due to the initial imperfections in the cloning procedure, as well as the natural complications in cloning a Force-wielder at an over-accelerated rate, many clones resulted in abject failures. Thus, Vader was forced to repeat the procedure over and over again until the flaws could be eliminated, thereby enabling him to finally engineer a genetically perfect replica of the original Starkiller. As a result, the training droids were required to test many clones of Marek, all of which resulted as failures, save one that succeeded in rising above all of his precursors to reach the expectations and approval of Darth Vader.

The training droids would later be used for a different purpose when a Rebel Fleet attacked Imperial forces in the conflict known as the Assault on Kamino. As a renegade clone of Marek followed the rebels in assaulting Kamino, the training droids became part of the Imperial defense on the Timira City Cloning Facility.

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