Starkiller (Clone) Respect Thread
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Respect Starkiller:
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Power
Starkiller inherited Galen Marek's strength in the Force. Noting that while the quote says "clones", this is likely a reference to Starkiller and the Dark Apprentice, which would thus exclude the aberrant clones:
Galen Marek's clones possess their genetic host's fighting skills, including incredible abilities with the Force.
Credit to: ShootingNova
-- The Ultimate Visual Guide: Updated And Expanded
This is also corroborated by the fact that Rahm Kota mistook Starkiller for Galen and didn't believe he was a clone (which is actually confirmed by sources) because he sensed how powerful he was, as well as by the game guide:
Starkiller turned to face Kota. “What do you think I’m afraid of?”
“Being yourself. Being Starkiller. Being Ga—”
“Don’t say that name. I’m not him. I’m a clone, a copy—and a bad one at that.”
“Is that what Vader told you?”
“Yes.”
“I don’t believe it.” Kota spoke with surety and great force. “No one can clone Jedi. It’s never been done.”
“That you know of.”
Kota grabbed Starkiller by the shoulders. “I can sense how powerful you are—and here you are wasting it—”
-- The Force Unleashed 2
Starkiller's clone
Darth Vader's secret apprentice, Starkiller, may have perished on the Death Star, but that didn't stop the Dark Lord from creating an army of Starkiller clones. After several failed attempts, Vader is confident that this clone is exactly what he needs -a new puppet to control, a powerful Force wielder that can succeed where Starkiller failed... a clone that will fulfill Starkiller's destiny.
When he escapes, however, Starkiller's clone proves that even though he may have Starkiller's power, memories, and master, he still has the power to choose his own destiny
-- Star Wars The Force Unleashed 2: Prima Official Game Guide
Vader claims that Starkiller is his most deadly creation, implying he is above his genetic template, though this might refer solely to the other clones:
"Yet here you are. " Darth Vader's words fell on him like heavy weights. "My most deadly creation. "
Credit to LordOfTheLight
-- The Force Unleashed 2
According to Sean Williams, author of the TFU novels, Starkiller is more powerful than Galen. Bearing in mind that Williams was referring to a time before he wrote the novel, and that this is part of the reason why he wrote it, suggesting the creators of the games also intended to make the clone stronger than Galen:
The Force Unleashed was one of the biggest games of 2008, and its magic touch extended to bookshelves when Sean Williams' novelization hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. So how do you top a blockbuster? Williams says it's all about Starkiller this time around.
"Bringing Starkiller back reinvigorates a story that probably couldn't have been developed much further," he says, speaking of LucasArts' decision to bring back the protagonist of the original game after what appeared to be his ultimate end. "Once I found out that Starkiller was coming back stronger, deadlier, and with more to lose than before, I knew I had to write it. His journey has become much more interesting."
-- Insider 120
This is also suggested by the fact that Haden Blackman gave Williams much input in writing the novel:
Q: As the lead writer of the game story, how much input were you able to give Sean Williams while he was writing the book?
A: He was on a pretty tight schedule, and I was deep in crunch on the game, so we only had a few opportunities to talk and exchange notes. Fortunately, he was able to use the game's shooting script as his starting point, which I think gave him a strong foundation. After he finished his first draft, I was able to take a few days reading it and providing notes, most of which he incorporated into the final draft. A great deal of my feedback was centered on keeping the characters true to the way they are portrayed in the game. This was really important because, in the game, we can't get into the characters' heads the same way a novel can, and there were thoughts and feelings expressed by the characters in the first draft that weren't always true to our vision of the characters. Juno was probably the toughest character in this regard: The novel spends a lot of time exploring her character, and I really wanted to make sure that it was aligned with our take on her personality, motivations and psychology, even in areas that aren't explored in depth in the game.
Speed
Starkiller moves his blade so fast that it is visible only as a blur:
Finally, Starkiller saw an opportunity. They were exchanging rapid blows along the edge of the buckled platform, blades swinging so fast they were visible only as blurs.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
He is much faster than his clones:
The next wave either learned from the fate of the first or had enough innate caution to stand back a moment and observe the way he fought. They came at him from all sides, using telekinesis to try to knock him off balance on the blood-slicked floor. He was too fast for them, leaping over their heads and attacking from be- hind, slashing at their overdeveloped shoulders and hunched backs without remorse.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
Stamina
Starkiller survives for thirteen days without sleeping or eating, drawing on nothing but the Force to sustain himself:
Starkiller opened his eyes. He knew that voice. It rugged at parts of him that had lain dormant for a long time-or never genuinelyexisted at all, depending on one's viewpoint.
He shied away from both memory and contemplation. There was no point wasting energy on either when his very survival was at stake. How many days he had been down the pit he no longer knew, but in that time he had neither eaten nor slept. His enemy wasn't physical in the sense of a foe he could strike down or manipulate. It was himself-his fallible body, his weak mind, his faltering spirit.
He would endure and emerge whole, or never emerge at all. Such was the life of Darth Vader's secret apprentice.
"He is dead. "
"Then he is now more powerful than ever. "
More voices. He closed his eyes and shook his head. Kneeling, he placed his manacled hands on the slick metal surface below him and concentrated on hearing the world outside.
Long stretches of isolation had attuned him to the cloning facility's many moods. Through the metal he heard a relentless hiss that could only be rain. Sharp cracking sounds were lightning, coming and going in staccato waves. Rolling rumbles were thunder, and a deeper note still was the song of seabed-hugging currents that circled the world.
He was on Kamino. Starkiller was sure of that much. He had been reborn on the distant water world, where a significant percentage of the Emperor's stormtroopers were grown. Here it was that he would live and grow strong, or die weak and unmourned. Every hardship, every hurdle, was one step closer to full mastery of his fate. That was the lesson underlying all lessons.
A new note entered the planet's endless song: the scream of a TIE advanced prototype starfighter. Angular and fleet, with bent vanes, it entered the atmosphere with a whip-crack sonic boom and descended on a bold, high-energy descent toward the facility.
Starkiller tensed. He knew that ship's sound and could sense the well-practiced hand behind its controls. He heard stormtroopers marching quickly in response to their master's electronic summons, calling orders to one another as they went. Blast doors opened and closed with booming thuds. The facility woke from its unattended slumber.
He didn't move as the TIE fighter landed. He didn't open his eyes as two heavy, booted feet dropped onto the platform and began the long walk through the facility. He breathed at a steady- pace through the whine of the turbolift and the hiss of doors opening. A ring of red lights at the top of the pit came on, and although he felt the light against his hunched back, he didn't look up.
He heard breathing, mechanical and regular. Heavy footsteps came to the very lip of the pit, and stopped.
"You're alive, " said Darth Vader.
At the voice of his former Master, Starkiller looked up, blinking against the light. Vader's boots were three meters above him, barely visible behind the lights and the grate that separated the pit from the dark room beyond. The Dark Lord loomed like a shadow, a black hole in the shape of a robed man.
Starkiller's throat worked. It was so dry he could barely talk at all.
"How long this time?"
"Thirteen days. Impressive. "
The compliment was hard-won. It ground out of the triangular grille covering Vader's mouth and fell on Starkiller's ears like dust.
"The Force gives me all I need. "
-- The Force Unleashed 2
Starkiller had to endure intense training after being cloned:
The clone has undergone intense training to once again carry out Vader's bidding.
-- Story And Gameplay Unleashed: The Force Unleashed II At Comic-Con
Combat Skill
Starkiller possesses Galen Marek's fighting skills:
Galen Marek's clones possess their genetic host's fighting skills, including incredible abilities with the Force.
Credit to: ShootingNova
-- The Ultimate Visual Guide: Updated And Expanded
Sam Witwer claims that Starkiller is an even more lethal combatant than Galen. It should be noted that this was said within the context of an interview with Witwer and Haden Blackman, developer of Tfu, in which the latter didn't contradict Sam, implying he agrees:
Certainly he is as lethal a combatant as he ever was-even more so-but in terms of being on an emotional steady ground, no.
-- Insider 118
Sean Williams claims that Starkiller is deadlier than Galen:
The Force Unleashed was one of the biggest games of 2008, and its magic touch extended to bookshelves when Sean Williams' novelization hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. So how do you top a blockbuster? Williams says it's all about Starkiller this time around.
"Bringing Starkiller back reinvigorates a story that probably couldn't have been developed much further," he says, speaking of LucasArts' decision to bring back the protagonist of the original game after what appeared to be his ultimate end. "Once I found out that Starkiller was coming back stronger, deadlier, and with more to lose than before, I knew I had to write it. His journey has become much more interesting."
-- Insider 120
Force Lightning
Starkiller unleashes an extremely powerful burst of Lightning that hits Vader, resulting in a painful whine from the latter's breathing apparatus, causes droid parts and debris to rise up and spin across a room, and makes a metal wall burst outward:
A burst of lightning arced from Starkiller's fingers. Too late, the Dark Lord raised his lightsaber to catch the attack. Lightning crawled up and down his chest plate and helmet, provoking a painful whine from his breathing apparatus. The servomotors in his right arm strained.
Starkiller had only a split second before his former Master repelled the attack. The Force flowed through him. Droid parts and debris rose up and spun around the room. With a harsh rending sound, the metal wall burst outward, letting in the fury of the storm.
But even in the grip of his passions he knew that there was a difference. He was intimately familiar with what being driven by negative emotions felt like. His original had been a slave to the dark side until Juno and Kota had shown him how to be free. That legacy remained even now. He would choose the emotions that ruled him. He would not be a slave to them.
The dark side tugged at Starkiller, and it was hard to resist. He hated his former Master. He feared for Juno. He doubted the very fact of his existence. Killing the man who had created him would go some way to solving at least two of those problems. The temptation was very strong.
Vader's blade caught the edge of the lightning. The Dark Lord began to straighten.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
He pours a stream of Lightning into the Gororg's mouth, enraging the creature as a result:
Starkiller took a moment to concentrate, and then poured a powerful stream of lightning through the thick metal teeth, directly into the rippling muscle tissue.
The Gorog flailed and roared. It rose up and up until the surface Starkiller was clinging to became very nearly vertical. He ceased shocking it and climbed from anchor to anchor, heading for its head. Its hands groped blindly, swinging the chains from side to side.
He dodged claws longer than his entire body and leapt, finally, onto the great bald skull. A metal plate sealed shut a massive rent in its skull, where some genetic defect or wound had left its brain exposed.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
He stabs his lightsabers into the Gorog's head, and channels his Lightning through them, conducting the electricity to the beast's neurons and enraging it even more:
He didn't know if it could feel him yet, but he didn't doubt that it would soon. Raising both lightsabers blade-down, he stabbed deep into the metal plate and ran forward, melting a double line downward, toward its hideous face. At the same time, he shocked it with lightning, using the plate and his lightsabers to conduct the electricity directly to the creature's giant neurons.
The Gorog's fury doubled. The head whipped from side to side with a great grinding of vertebrae and sinew. Huge ropes of spittle splashed from its slavering mouth. The sound of its roars was deafening at such close range.
Starkiller leapt onto one of its thick, plated eyebrows and clung tight to a branch-like hair with one hand. The other pointed down into the creature's nearest eye, ready to send a shock along its optic nerve, right into its brain.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
Starkiller discharges a concentrated bolt of Lightning into the Gorog's metal anchor, stabbing through its chest, reaching its heart, and severely injuring the creature. The Gororg was later killed by Boba Fett, but keep in mind that the beast didn't die against Starkiller because it had two hearts, so it's still an impressive showing:
He took a deep breath, reaching deeper into the Force than he had before. He had never journeyed to the center of a planet, where the molten metal raged and burned under pressure hard enough to make diamond out of dust, but he imagined something much like that.
This time, he wanted to do more than just enrage the Gorog. He could feel the web of veins thudding a panicky bear beneath the skin.
He concentrated on that beat, on the rapid pulsing of life that would be extinguished when it reached the bottom of the sinkhole. Why wait that long, when Kota's life was at stake as well?
For a moment, he faltered. He had never killed anything this big before.
But it was just one life, and it stood between him and his goal. He had no choice.
Instead of a wild crackle of lightning, he discharged a single pure bolt into the metal anchor, stabbing deep through the creature's chest into its heart.
Its back arched. A strange, fluting cry emerged from its mouth. Starkiller rode out the spasm, maintaining the electric shock for as long as he was able. Muscular waves rolled back and forth, twisting him from side to side. It felt like a groundquake-a fleshquake on a planet-sized monster.
The pulsing coming through the soles of his boots ran wild, faltered, ceased.
He sagged as the mountain of flesh finally grew still. The fight was over, but darkness enfolded them as they entered the mouth of the sinkhole and went into free fall.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
For reference, this is the size of the Gorog compared to a Rancor and to a normal human:
He destroys the camouflage system of a trooper and electrocutes him:
Kota stood over the fallen troopers and pointed down into the shadows. Starkiller could see nothing with his eyes, but he drew the full power of the Force into his hands and blasted the empty air. Blue lightning made short work of the camouflage system of the trooper hiding there. He writhed and sparked until Starkiller released him, letting him drop heavily to the depths below.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
He fires a concentrated burst of Lightning in Vader's suit so powerful that even the new insulation can't absorb it:
But the same was true in reverse. And when Vader forced Starkiller onto his back foot and raised his lightsaber to strike him down, Starkiller fired a lightning blast into the side of Vader's armor that was so concentrated, even the new insulation couldn't absorb it.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
He vaporizes 3 stormtroopers with only a short burst of Lightning:
Telekinesis
With no apparent strain, Starkiller rips a huge communications tower from a Kaminoan facility, using it to knock three AT-STs into the ocean and crush stormtroopers:
His arrival took the squadron of stormtroopers guarding the facility by surprise, but they reacted quickly enough. Sirens sounded. Blaster rifles came up to target him. Three AT-STs standing guard over the landing platform clanked and began to turn.
Starkiller bared his teeth. His heart beat with an excitement he hadn't felt since his awakening in Vader's laboratory. This was why he had been made. This was why he existed.
He reached out with his hands and flexed his will. The Force responded, swelling and rising in him like an invisible muscle. A nearby communications tower groaned and twisted. Sparks flew. He wrenched the tower down and sideways, sweeping it over the platform, knocking the AT-STs into the ocean and crushing the stormtroopers gathering to rush him.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
In the game, he collapses the massive tower, and proceeds to hurl it at Vader:
He crushes two missile launchers:
The lift doors opened, and a pair of heavily armed troopers emerged, already firing. Pressed on three sides, Starkiller forced himself to forger about the potentate and concentrate on the immediate threats. Blaster bolts ricocheted wildly around him, deflected by his double blades and hitting neck joints, visors, and breathing systems. Missiles from the newly arrived pair peppered him, filling the air with smoke. His Force shield kept the worst of their effects at bay, and he pressed forward, reaching our to telekinetically crush the missile launchers and trigger the remaining charges. With a bright flash and a deafening boom, the last of his obstacles disappeared.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
He seems to telekinetically guide a skytram into the side of a building:
He could feel the crowd's roar through the soles of his feet. He was close now, very close. The casino's defenses were tight but no match for him. What he couldn't fight through, he simply destroyed. At the final juncture, he guided a sky-tram off its tracks and into the side of the building, tearing a hole large enough for an army to burst through. He jumped into the maelstrom of sparks and molten metal and ran to where he could sense Kota, still fighting for his life in the potentate's theater of death
-- The Force Unleashed 2
He pushes six stormtroopers aside and bursts open two durasteel doors :
One long, straight corridor led to a double door made of durasteel. It was guarded by six stormtroopers. Starkiller didn't bother stopping to fight them. With a gesture, he pushed them aside, then burst open the doors.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
While in his meditation chamber, he sends occasional shudders and shakes through his ship:
He had gone to Dagobah hoping for clarity, and all he had received were visions and cryptic advice. Was he closer to Juno or getting farther away? Would he be able to save her, or was she already dead?
The Force reflected his inner turmoil, sending occasional shudders and shakes through the ship. He tried his best to calm down. If his mood disrupted life support or the hyperdrive, he might not make it to Malastare at all.
Finally the navicomp chimed, warning him that his destination was approaching. Leaving the meditation chamber, he hurried to the pilot's sear and took the controls. The moment the stars of real- space ceased streaking, he had the ship under power and accelerating toward the high-gravity world.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
Starkiller shakes machine parts, smashes glass and causes a section of a wall to swing back with a Force Push:
He faced the wall and Force-pushed, gently at first but with growing insistence. Machine parts rattled and shook. Glass smashed. With a groan and squeak of tortured metal, a section of the wall began to swing back.
There was movement on the far side. Someone fired at him. He deflected the bolt effortlessly into the ground and leapt through the gap, sending what seemed like a mountain of spare parts flying ahead of him.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
Despite the pressure of the vacuum of space, Starkiller tries to bring Juno back, but fails because the cargo bay doors were closed:
Then the force field collapsed, sending everything in the room rushing toward the endless vacuum of space-including her and the dark figure standing where the inner doors had once been.
She lost her footing and jarred her shoulder. Dazed by pain, she would have tumbled helplessly out of the cargo bay but for a cable that whipped about her waist and dragged her back toward the bounty hunter.
At the same time, a stubby missile protruding from the top of his jetpack launched itself our into the void. Halfway between the cargo bay and the hanging ship outside, its tip unfolded into a grappling hook that an instant later found solid purchase on the side of the ship.
The cable binding Juno brought her within arm's reach of the bounty hunter. Unaffected by the rapidly thinning atmosphere, he slapped a breather across her face and bodily threw himself out of the cargo bay, taking her with him.
She kicked and struggled but his grip and the cable combined were impossible to resist. Her cry of anger and frustration fogged up the mask of the breather, so for a moment she couldn't tell what was happening behind her.
They jerked to a halt, and she assumed at first that it was because they had reached the bounty hunter's ship, but a rapid volley of blasterfire back the way they had come, followed by the straining sound of the grapnel retractor, revealed that something very different was happening.
She held her breath, cursing the foggy visor and willing it to clear more quickly. By the fiery light of the nebula she glimpsed the Salvation looming ahead of her, sparkling jets indicating where breaches were venting air into the vacuum. Flames burned on the other side of several transparisteel windows. Bodies tumbled like dead stars, too many to count.
Clinging to the edge of the cargo bay door, withstanding the emptiness of space, the doors that were trying to close on him, and the shots fired his way by the bounty hunter, was Starkiller. One hand reached for her, fingers straining as though clutching at something invisible. Through the Force, he was trying to bring her back.
The whining of the grapnel reached a higher pitch. It was only a matter of time before something snapped-either the cable or the motor trying to reel it in. Juno had no doubt of that. Starkiller had shifted whole Star Destroyers. It would be nothing for him to overpower a single motor.
The bounty hunter reached around her to push yet another button on his gauntlet. For a second it had no obvious effect. Then, in the cargo bay behind Starkiller, something vast and angular moved.
Sparks flared. Starkiller turned with lightsabers swinging. The force pulling her back to safety faltered-and then died entirely as the cargo bay doors slammed shut between her and him.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
Starkiller muses that he could vaporize the cargo bay doors in an instant, but rejects this course of action to avoid harming Juno:
Starkiller reached the cargo bay doors. They were locked, but that didn't slow him for longer than a second. Inert matter was no match for the Force, and therefore no obstacle to him. Had Juno not been on the other side, he would have vaporized it in an instant, sending scalding metal shrapnel flying all through the cargo bay.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
He tries to pull a ship toward the frigate, but fails because his concentration wavered:
Still he tried, straining against the cable winch and, when that proved too difficult, actually dragging the ship in toward the frigate. Why fight the winch when he could just as easily move the anchor it was attached to? The stocky ship rocked and swayed and began to creep toward him, Juno and her captor with it...
Then a shadow fell across him from behind. His concentration wavered. Something was moving toward him. Nor a stormtrooper, visible or otherwise. It came from above, and got bigger the more it came into view.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
Starkiller moves a 300-meter long Nebulon-B frigate while at the same time protecting himself from very intense heat with his Force shield:
He found a maintenance ladder leading to an air lock and leapt up it in two bounds, blowing the inner hatch as he came. He could feel a wild drumming from the far side of the outer door. The ship was moving so fast now that unexposed flesh wouldn't last a microsecond. He would have to rely on a Force shield to keep him safe. A single lapse in concentration would be the end of him.
This was where it got difficult. He needed to maintain the Force shield against the sort of heat he might find in the outer layers of a star. He also had to keep in mind the target ahead-a target he couldn't see through the plasma, but had to hit square-on or else the planetary shield generators wouldn't fail. No matter what happened, he had to fly straight.
He raised his hands and spread his fingers wide. His eyes closed tightly against the fiery brightness of the plasma. With each bucking and shaking of the ship beneath him, he encouraged himself to ride with it instead of fighting it. He was part of the ship, not a passenger. He was the ship, not a reckless pilot guiding it to destruction.
In the same way that he could feel his fingers and roes, his mind seeped outward into the metal and plastoid of the frigate, until every joint and weld, every porthole and deck became part of his sense of being. There was no line anymore between Starkiller and the Salvation. They were one and the same being, from the perspective of the Force.
He raised his right arm, and the ship followed the movement, listing slowly and heavily to starboard. Some of the headlong shuddering faded, as though it were grateful to have someone at the helm again. Even the wind's shrieking seemed to ebb.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
While still maintaining the above mentioned Force shield, and with only a few seconds left, he disintegrates the fore half of the 300-meter long frigate. This is easily Starkiller's most impressive feat:
Just seconds remained before the Salvation's fore section hit Kamino. The facility was in close focus ahead of him, and he imagined he could see Juno's eyes widening on seeing him, haloed with his Force shield on top of her precious ship.
Did she know it was him, or did she wonder at this strange apparition? Did she imagine that he was her death coming at last, from the skies instead of Darth Vader's hand?
Starkiller closed his eyes. He didn't have time to wonder what was going through her mind. He had to think of something fast, or Juno was going to die.
There was only one thing he could do, and although he knew he wasn't likely to survive, he didn't hesitate. What was death when the love of his former life was at stake? Besides, anything was possible. Dying, as he had thought once before, always seemed to bring out the best in him.
With his mind and all the power of the Force, Starkiller embraced what remained of the frigate beneath him-and blew it into a billion pieces.
--
The ship was almost upon them when the figure brought his hands down in a fierce, pounding motion, and the last solid fragment of the Salivation exploded into fiery pieces.
Juno coughed and wished she could wipe her eyes clear of ash. Her ship had blown itself practically to atoms; she had seen it happen, right in front of her. There was no chance at all that Starkiller could have survived. He had been riding right on top of it.
--
Starkiller's eyes jerked open. Where was he? All was dark around him. He smelled smoke and his body felt as though it had been hit by an asteroid. The last thing he remembered was tightening the Force shield around him and destroying the Salvation so it wouldn't kill Juno.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
For reference, this is the fore section of the aforementioned frigate, which is 150m long and 166m high, which would mean that Starkiller destroyed at least 200m of the ship:
The ED76 Nebulon-B escort frigates were 300m long and 166m high, but only a slender 72m wide.
-- The Official Starships And Vehicles Collection 38
He pushes a stormtrooper and brings down a ceiling over a hatch:
He reached the maintenance hatch and cut his way through it. A stormtrooper armed with a flamethrower tried to roast him once he was inside, but a solid Force push threw him back into his squadmates, where his fuel tank exploded. Starkiller rook a moment to bring down the ceiling over the hatch, so no one could follow him, then crawled on hands and knees into the secure facility.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
He shatters a window:
He ran faster and leapt when he was at the closest point to the tower. For a moment he was in free fall, and then he hit the side of the tower with lightsabers pointing forward. They arrested his downward slide just above an observation window, which he shattered with a quick Force push. Swinging himself down and through the window, he made his way to the nearest stairwell be- fore any of the snipers could turn their high-powered weapons inward.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
He buckles lofty platforms, uses cloning tubes as flying bombs, and peels plates from the walls:
He fought his way into the second tower against a steady rain of blasterfire, while at the same time defending his back. He buckled lofty platforms, ripping stormtroopers to their deaths far below. He used cloning tubes as flying bombs, turning the floor underfoot slick with spilled amniotic fluids. He peeled plates from the walls and sent them flying into clutches of stormtroopers too time-consuming to confront head-on.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
With maximum effort, Starkiller unleashes a telekinetic storm that collapses platforms, shatters cloning tubes in many pieces, makes the interior of the cloning tower ring, and kills all of his remaining clones, causing every surface around him to be slick with their blood:
The dark side awaited his call. But if this was his final test, then he would not fail. There was too much riding on it. If he gave in to temptation and became Darth Vader's apprentice once more, then it was clear from the vision that Juno would die. She was the whole reason he had escaped, and then returned. He would not turn his back on that, even to survive.
He sought strength from within himself, and pushed outward with all his might. Clones went flying. The empty tubes from which they had emerged shattered into millions of pieces. Platforms buckled and fell with reverberant crashes. The interior of the cloning tower rang as though struck with a giant hammer. Every muscle in his body shook with the effort of it.
The echoes faded, and he felt a peculiar kind of quiet descend.
The air was misted red, and every surface was slick with blood. He tasted it on his tongue and smelled it in his nose. His blood. A veritable ocean of it.
He maintained a defensive pose, breathing rhythmically and deeply, regaining his strength. The tips of his lightsabers shook. He had never felt so exhausted, at every level of his being. He felt simultaneously cleansed and poisoned.
Nothing moved. Slowly, incredulously, he began to believe that it was over.
They were all dead. He had destroyed every last one of them. He was the only one left-of the many Darth Vader had created to do his bidding.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
He pushes four stormtroopers:
It happened so fast she barely had time to flinch. Vader had been keeping her alive for so long now that it didn't seem entirely real that he would dispose of her so suddenly. She jerked forward as far as the shackles allowed her, straining to get away. Every muscle in her body tensed in readiness.
The weapons' muzzles flashed...
...and at that very instant a massive force struck her and the guards, flinging her backward so hard she thought her chains might break her wrists. The stormtroopers effectively disappeared, swept off the top of the spire in an instant. The shots they had fired all missed, deflected by the powerful force, although one burned her right cheek as it went by. The four energy bursts followed wild trajectories, outward across the crowded sky.
--The Force Unleashed 2
Force Barrier
Starkiller conjures a Force shield that repels missiles:
His Force shield kept the worst of their effects at bay, and he pressed forward, reaching our to telekinetically crush the missile launchers and trigger the remaining charges. With a bright flash and a deafening boom, the last of his obstacles disappeared.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
He creates his strongest Force Barrier to protect himself from the Gorog's fists, which were strong enough to crush a Bull Rancor and bury Starkiller a meter deep in the ground:
Through the open gate behind the rancor came a giant hand, attached to an arm as thick as a small cruiser. Each clawed finger was as long as a starfighter. With surprising speed, it reached out and snatched the bull rancor off the floor of the arena, right in front of them, and pulled it screaming back into the darkness. Something crunched, and the screams were cut off. Bones cracked and splintered with a sickening sound. Sinewy tissue stretched and tore.
The Gorog's heavy, domed head swung to its left, looking for the general. Starkiller drew its gaze back to him, pushing through the Force at its nearest foot. It barely moved, but the effort didn't go unnoticed. Keeping its center of gravity low and stable probably took much of the creature's resting energy, so the last thing it would want was to be nudged off balance in the middle of a fight.
Whether it reasoned consciously or simply reacted by instinct, Starkiller didn't care. He definitely had its attention now.
Both fists came for him, converging with enough force to crack a moon in two. He stood his ground, adding his defiant shout to the creature's angry roaring. The fists came together, making Starkiller's world shake, but he went unharmed behind the strongest Force barrier he could muster. When the fists lifted, he found himself buried almost a meter deep in a gravel pit of shattered rock.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
He hits the stadium with such violence that every bone in his body would have been broken, but is saved by a Force Barrier:
For a moment he was both weightless and stunned. The world turned around him, and he thought he heard Juno saying, "Have you done this before?" and himself responding, "Trust me. I'm doing the right thing, for both of us. "
Then he hit the stadium, and only a Force-barrier reflex honed by thousands of hours of punishing training stopped him from breaking every bone in his body. His senses only slowly returned. Holograms flickered and sparked around him as he climbed groggily to his feet.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
Starkiller's Barrier repels a missile that had blown a massive hole in the Salvation:
And he had seen her, briefly, face white and spattered with her own blood, eyes wide and staring at him in utter disbelief. What was going through her mind he could not begin to guess. Joy? Confusion? Relief? Doubt? They had only locked stares for a moment before the man who had taken her captive pushed her out of sight.
Then he had fired a missile at Starkiller's feet that had blown a massive hole in the frigate. Starkiller had thrown up a Force shield at the last instant, but had still found himself four decks away when the blast dissipated. By the time he had retraced his steps, Juno was gone.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
He creates and maintains a Force shield that protects him from heat comparable to that found in the outer layers of a star. He also repels droplets of water that were hitting like thermal dethonators:
He found a maintenance ladder leading to an air lock and leapt up it in two bounds, blowing the inner hatch as he came. He could feel a wild drumming from the far side of the outer door. The ship was moving so fast now that unexposed flesh wouldn't last a microsecond. He would have to rely on a Force shield to keep him safe. A single lapse in concentration would be the end of him.
This was where it got difficult. He needed to maintain the Force shield against the sort of heat he might find in the outer layers of a star. He also had to keep in mind the target ahead-a target he couldn't see through the plasma, but had to hit square-on or else the planetary shield generators wouldn't fail. No matter what happened, he had to fly straight.
The frigate slammed into the clouds with a rearing sound. At that speed, individual droplets of water hit like thermal detonators.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
He protects himself from a barrage of Lightning fired by his clones:
Moving out of the center of the ring of converging clones brought him into contact with the third wave, the most cunning he had encountered so far. Long-armed and long-fingered, with blackened, blistering skin, these employed lightning when attacking him, and then by devious means.
They would wait until he was distracted and attack him from behind, or come at him from three directions at once, or even use one of their fellow clones as an impromptu conductor. Deadly currents crackled and sparkled around him, kept barely at bay by the judicious application of a Force shield. Sometimes a lucky strike caused him pain, but he fought through it, found the source, and put the attack quickly to an end.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
Telepathy/Force Sense
He senses a knot in the Force:
He closed his eyes and let the Force tell him what it could. Life roiled around him, tugging his mind in a dozen directions at once. He let himself be buffeted, tilting his head from one side to the other, testing the flows. There was a hint of something unusual to the east, a knot in the Force unlike any he had felt before. It drew him and repelled him at the same time. The longer he studied it, the more he felt as though it was studying him right back.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
He uses telepathy to distract a trooper:
There he put the thought into the mind of another trooper that he had heard a disturbance some distance away.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
He creates half-seen phantoms in the mind of troopers:
So Starkiller turned the screws a little tighter, creating half-seen phantoms in the minds of the troopers that literally ran circles around them. Pressure hoses exploded with the force of grenades when Starkiller blocked them from afar. Clone tubes opened unexpectedly, spilling disoriented, half-minded bodies across the decks.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
Starkiller uses a Mind Trick on a Gran:
He went inside. It looked perfectly innocent, from the mess of spare parts to the three-eyed Gran behind the counter. Behind the facade, though, Starkiller could sense something very different.
"The Jedi, " he said, exactly as he had on Cato Neimoidia.
"Where is he?"
"No Jedi here, " said the Gran, blinking its eyes one at a time from right to left. "Got something to fix?"
"I'm not a customer. " He raised and passed his hand in front of the Gran's face. "You'll show me the way. "
The Gran couldn't resist the Force. Starkiller's suggestion was as implacable as gravity, made all the more irresistible by his urgent need. The Gran pointed hesitantly at the shelves. There was no door visible. Starkiller didn't have the patience for guesswork, not when Juno's life might be at stake.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
He senses both Juno and Darth Vader above him:
Starkiller had his sights set much higher. He was sure now that he had the right spire. He could sense both Juno and Darth Vader in the cavernous spaces above him. It was just a matter of getting to them.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
He senses Juno's presence two decks up:
He forced himself to concentrate, seeking her through the many walls and decks of the Salvation, and finally sensed her presence two decks up. They were connected through the Force, by invisible lines that might fade but would never entirely break. Now he saw them clearly, it was just a matter of following them. Forgoing stairwells or lifts, he simply blasted his way through the ship's infrastructure. Metal and plastoid could be repaired. Wires and hydraulics could be rerouted. Human life-Juno's life-could not be replaced.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
He seems to sense improvements in Vader's suit:
Vader himself fought more cautiously than he had on the Death Star, the last time they had dueled in earnest. His armor seemed to have improved, too; it was less vulnerable to lightning than it had been just days before.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
Alter Environment
Starkiller exstinguishes a fire and manipulates smoke by summoning a wind, possibly via Alter Environment:
Thick smoke hid the carnage, but he could smell it in the air. A fire was burning and no one was purring it our. He extinguished the flames with one sweep of the Force and sucked the acrid black smoke into the corridor outside. The unnatural wind howled, echoing the tension in his heart.
-- The Force Unleashed 2
Force Concealment
Starkiller uses Force Concealment to avoid detection:
The moment he and his fellows were busy, Starkiller crept past them, too. The Force absorbed all sound of his movement and shrouded his form in shadow. He didn't just fade into the background: he became the background.
-- The Force Unleashed 2