Unable to fight him though, he ended being electrocuted and killed by Starkiller. After that incident, when Starkiller eventually arrived on Bespin, another Shadow Guard was sent to kill him and Master Kota. The Shadow Guard was flanked by Imperial Navy Commandos and he tried to kill Starkiller, but he failed fatally. Starkiller went to the world of Nar Shaada in order to find the Jedi Master Rahm Kota. Their true usage though would come when the rogue apprentice of Darth Vader, Starkiller, escaped from his master in 2 BBY. However the Space Station was attacked by the Alderaanian Resistance and the Shadow Guards attacked and killed multiple Resistance troops. The Force-sensitive Sun Guards were selected to be trained as Shadow Guards.Ĭirca 17 BBY, two Emperor's Shadow Guards were dispatched along side the Imperial Inquisitor Valin Draco, to a Golan Space Defence Platform in the orbit of Byss, as part of a training exercice.

The ones who survived made it into Palpatine's Red Guard and later Royal Guard. The chestplate bellow a Shadow Guard's tunic.ĭuring the Clone Wars, the Sith apprentice of Darth Sidious, Darth Tyranous (Count Dooku), ordered his own Sith assassin and apprentice, Assaj Ventress, to hunt and kill as many of the Sun Guards as she could. They were capable of using a range of Force abilities such as Force lighting, Force repulse, Force push, Force choke and Force maelstrom. Each Shadow Guard had access to his own squads of Stormtroopers or Imperial Navy Commandos. As a result they were more than capable, in fighting the enemies of the Emperor. Furthermore they possesed enough authority to command groups of Stormtroopers into battle. The Shadow Guards had quite a reputation among the Imperial hierarchy and they were respected by others. Moreover the Shadow Guards were an Elite division of the Emperor's Royal Guards. This was just a rumor though and no one had solid evidence to prove it's credibility. Because of their gifted and natural ability to use the Force, many theorized that the Shadow Guards were tortured and brainwashed Jedi, that the Emperor had captured and as a result he utilized them and their abilities in order to hunt down the remaining Jedi survivors. These Dark Side users were some of the most fierce soldiers of the Galactic Empire and they only received orders from the Emperor himself, although they could be supervised by Darth Vader. The Shadow Guards were silent warriors, thus only a few Imperials knew their true identities.

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