Galen Marek, codenamed “Starkiller,” was a human male Force-sensitive who became an accomplished warrior during the Imperial Era. Marek was trained in secret by Sith Lord Darth Vader and was known as Starkiller—but came to the light side shortly before his death. Marek was the son of two Jedi Knights, Kento and Mallie Marek, born on the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk in the aftermath of the Clone Wars. Following his mother’s death, Kashyyyk was invaded by the Galactic Empire as a target of the Great Jedi Purge, Kento was confronted and slain in a lightsaber duel by the Dark Lord of the Sith, who discovered the fugitive Jedi’s son in the process. Gauging the orphan’s raw strength in the Force, Vader abducted and ultimately raised Marek, who became Starkiller, to embrace the dark side of the Force.

GM Notes

This build of Starkiller was created on the seventh episode of the How We Roll Gaming Podcast, “Let’s Stat an Over-Powered Adversary.”