The Clone Rebellion on Kamino started off a simple act of resistance against the horrific
treatment of their world by the Empire.
This quickly changed when the 501st, led by Boba Fett was sent to the planet to destroy
the rebellion once and for all, turning clones against clones, brothers against brothers.
So, I’m going to break down everything that happened on Kamino’s darkest day.
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In the years following the events of Order 66 and the Rise of Chancellor Palpatine to
the position of Emperor, Kamino was kept under close surveillance by the empire, to ensure
that the cloning technology and facilities on the planet were kept under imperial control.
Because of the harsh and strict restrictions placed on Kamino by the Empire, a small group
of outraged Kaminoans known as the “Clone Masters” began to grow an army of clone
troopers in their cloning laboratories, in hopes of fighting back against the harsh rule
of Palpatine.
The secret clones created by the rebellious Kaminoans were known as Clone Anti-troopers
and were mostly made up of clones who specialized in airborne combat with jetbacks.
Because the Kaminoans knew that the Empire would eventually discover their secret project,
they also began to create a small force of Clone-Anti Arc troopers, who would be given
the tough task of defending the Clone Production laboratories from imperial invasion.
The day that the rebel Kaminoans always feared the finally came, on one gloomy, rainy Kamino
morning.
The emperor became aware of the plan to remove the Empire’s tight grip from Kamino, and
sent the 501st to put down the Rebellion, quickly and quietly.
Tragically, a Clone himself, Boba Fett was placed in command of the 501st before the
invasion, making this a pure battle between imperial Clone Stormtroopers and Kaminoan
Anti-clones.
Boba Fett was placed in charge of the 501st for the mission because he had been created
there as an exact copy of his father, and had an incredible knowledge of the facility.
Let me know down below how you feel about Boba Leading the 501st into battle against
his own brothers.
Even though he wasn’t created to be a soldier, Boba is still as much a clone as they are,
so it is really heartbreaking to see.
As the 501st and Boba landed on the rainy world of Kamino in their sentinel-class landing
craft, Boba Fett travelled swiftly, but alone towards the Cloning facility, beginning the
tragic story of the Clone rebellion.
He quickly destroyed a door control console which was keeping the entire facility on lockdown,
and was able to break his way inside.
Boba killed countless anti-clones as he made his way down the hallways of the Cloning facility.
As boba continued to stom closer and closer to the laboratory storage area, he could see
that he was killing his own brothers, but ruthlessly continued on.
His primary mission was to discover the DNA template of his father, Jango Fett, which
was being used by the Kaminoas to create the Rebel Clones, and return it to the Emperor
so that it could not be used any further.
Boba was eventually successful in locating the DNA template, stealing it from the Kaminoan
storage and returning it to his landing craft.
The landing craft quickly took off with Jango Fett’s DNA template on board, on a direct
path to the Emperor on Coruscant, but Boba himself remained on the planet to lead the
troopers of the 501st into battle.
Boba then ordered the 501st to force their way into the cloning laboratories themselves,
where the anti-Clones were being created inside of the tubes.
Boba and his men fiercely marched towards the cloning tubes, but came up against a specialized
group of Clones created by the Kaminoans rebels, called Rail-Class ARC Troopers, or anti-ARC
Troopers.
I recently did a full video on their armour, weapons and story, so if you want to know
more about them, check out the card on screen now or the pinned comment down below for a
link.
The sole purpose of these anti-ARC troopers was to protect the anti-clones that were currently
growing inside of the tubes of the laboratory.
Unfortunately however, Boba and the 501st were simply too powerful and too experienced
in combat for the anti-ARC troopers to come up against, and they quickly defeated and
slaughtered almost every single one of them.
Once they had killed the last remaining resistance inside, they smashed the tubes where the unborn
anti-clones were growing and destroyed the life support systems, rendering the Kamino
cloning facilities completely useless and no longer able to produce Clones of anything.
Once their last hopes of rebelling against the Empire were destroyed, the Kaminoan leadership
quickly rushed to their ships to escape off world to a secure location, but were unfortunately
killed before they could make it there.
The two LAAT gunships that they were using to escape the rainy world were both ripped
out of the skyw by rockets fired by imperial shock troopers and ground based laser turrets,
which were placed by the invading troops.
After the 501st savagely killed their brothers in the tubes and the life support systems
were permanently destroyed, they moved to the outer platforms of Tipoca city, where
a massive standoff between the clone stormtroopers and the anti-clones took place.
This was the bloodiest battle ever seen in the history of Kamino.
Boba Fett soon joined them on the rain-filled platforms of Tipoca city, reinforcing the
already dominant Clone Stormtroopers.
Eventually, every single Clone anti-trooper and anti-arc trooper were pushed back to the
landing platforms of the city, where every single of them was executed on the spot by
their own brothers.
With the brutal deaths of the Rebellious Kaminoan leadership, the complete elimination of the
clone anti-troopers and the savage destruction of the cloning laboratories, Kamino had fallen.
This was Kamino’s darkest day.
With the defeat of the clone-anti troopers, Kamino once again came under strict and harsh
rule of the empire, and as a result the Empire decided that it would take control of the
now destroyed cloning facilities, hoping to repair them and use them for their own purposes.
After the intense battle was concluded, one of the members of the 501st who was there
on Kamino on that dark day wrote a journal entry, documenting his experience with the
Clone Rebellion, and how the empire changed as a result of it.
Here is the chilling journal entry:
"The bounty hunter left after the battle was over, he said something about tracking down
a smuggler on Tatooine.
After the Kamino uprising, the Emperor decided that an army of genetically identical soldiers
was too susceptible to corruption.
Future troopers would be cloned from a variety of templates.
Though the 501st itself remained pure, the rest of the Imperial Army gradually became
more and more diverse.
We never really got used to the new guys."
Honestly really heartbreaking to hear that journal entry after realizing that the Clones
of the 501st fought against their own brothers for the Empire that didn’t even value them.
Although the Clone rebellion was harshly defeated on Kamino, the incident convinced emperor
Palpatine to begin creating a series of clones from a different template, other than Jango
Fett;s.
It also caused him to recruit significantly more natural-born soldiers to fill the ranks
of the rapidly growing stormtrooper corps.
He also made the transition to natural born stormtroopers because he believed that Clones
soldiers would eventually turn on him, just like they did to the Jedi order in the events
of Order 66 and the great Jedi purge.
With the tragic deaths of every single Clone Anti-trooper and anti-ARC Troopers, the Kamino
uprising had failed, and not a single person other than Darth Vader, Boba Fett, the Emperor
and the 501st would know what truly went down on that day, as the Emperor declared the incident
highly classified, and not to be spoken of ever again.
And to end this heartbreaking story off, I’ll play another journal entry from an anonymous
member of the 501st legion, recounting his experience in the aftermath of the shocking
events of the Clone Rebellion.
The entry makes it clear that the General public had no idea that this battle went down,
because it was one of most covered up events in galactic history.
Officially, there never was a 'Clone rebellion' on Kamino.
Unofficially, approximately twenty years after we were created, a special detachment of the
Imperial 501st Legion was dispatched to Kamino with orders to eradicate an army of clones
that had been bred to take arms against the Empire.
Our mission commander, an expert on the inner workings of Kamino, was a young bounty hunter
named Boba Fett.
So that is everything that happened during the Kamino Uprising and the Clone Rebellion.
Thanks so much for watching, really hope you enjoyed the video.
Let me know down below how you feel about the Clone Rebellion and whether or not you
can forgive the members of the 501st for killing their own brothers.
Cheers guys, hope to see you in the next one.