"You were the Chosen One!

It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join
them! Bring balance to the Force, not leave it in darkness!"
Obi-Wan Kenobi, to the fallen Anakin Skywalker[src]
Anakin Skywalker was a Force-sensitive Human male who served the Galactic
Republic as a Jedi Knight and later served the Galactic Empire as the Sith Lord Darth
Vader. Born to the slave Shmi Skywalker in 41.9 BBY, Anakin was conceived by midichlorians, the symbiotic organisms that allowed individuals to touch the Force, and
he and his mother were brought to the desert planet of Tatooine to be the slaves of
Gardulla the Hutt. They soon ended up as the property of the Toydarian Watto, and
Skywalker exhibited exceptional piloting skills and a reputation for being able to
build and repair anything even at a young age. In 32 BBY, Skywalker encountered
the Jedi Qui-Gon Jinn and Padm Amidala, and he helped them secure the parts they
needed for their starship by winning the Boonta Eve Classic podracing eventonly
to learn that he had also won his freedom in doing so.
Reluctantly leaving his mother behind, Skywalker accompanied Jinn and his group to
the Republic's capital of Coruscant and participated in the Battle of Naboo, helping
to free Amidala's homeworld from the armies of the Trade Federation. While Jinn was
killed during the battle, Jinn's student Obi-Wan Kenobi followed Jinn's wishes and
took on Skywalker as his Padawan, and much of the Jedi Council believed that
Skywalker was the Chosen One of Jedi prophecy: one who would bring balance to
the Force by destroying the Sith Order. Skywalker and Kenobi had a number of
adventures during the Padawan's decade of training to become a Jedi, but as the
Separatist Crisis threatened to tear the Republic apart in 22 BBY, Skywalker was
reunited Amidala when he was assigned to protect her from assassins. The two grew
close during the course of the assignment, though they were caught up in the Battle
of Geonosis and the beginning of the Clone Wars between the Republic and the
Confederacy of Independent Systems. Losing an arm during the fighting, Skywalker
received a cybernetic replacement, and he and Amidala were secretly married in
the days after the battle despite the Jedi Code's restrictions on attachments.
During the Clone Wars, which raged for the next three years, Skywalker was granted
the rank of Jedi Knight and became known to the public as the "Hero with No Fear."
Taking on the Togruta Ahsoka Tano as his apprentice, Skywalker fought alongside
Kenobi and his fellow Jedi in scores of battles, and his friendship with Supreme
Chancellor Palpatine deepened despite the Jedi Order's wariness of Palpatine's rapid
acquisition of further powers during the Clone Wars. Throughout the Clone Wars,
Skywalker's anger and sense of loss pushed him ever closer to the dark side of the
Force, and his visions of Amidala dying in childbirth in 19 BBY made him desperate
to find a way to save his wife. Palpatine, who was in fact the Sith Lord Darth Sidious,
manipulated Skywalker into becoming his apprentice with the promise of saving
Amidala, and Skywalker became the Sith Lord Darth Vader as Palpatine transformed
the Republic into the Galactic Empire and decimated the Jedi Order.
Vader and Kenobi clashed on Mustafar after Vader attacked his wife in the belief that
she had betrayed him, and Vader was left limbless and ravaged by fire at the end of
their battle. Encased in a suit of life-sustaining black armor and believing his wife to

be dead, Vader embraced his role as the Emperor's right hand and enforcer, hunting
down Jedi survivors and enforcing the will of the Empire for years to come. The Sith
Lord trained a number of secret apprentices and Dark Jedi, though his plans to
overthrow his master had not advanced far when the Galactic Civil War erupted
between the Empire and the Alliance to Restore the Republic in 2 BBY. In 0 BBY, the
Death Starthe Empire's greatest superweaponwas destroyed by a young Rebel
pilot despite Vader's efforts, and Vader became obsessed with discovering the
pilot's identity, only to learn that it was Luke Skywalker: his own son, born before
Amidala's death.
Vader continued to pursue both Skywalker and the Alliance over the next three
years, finally luring his son into a trap on the mining colony of Cloud City in 3 ABY
where the two dueled. Vader revealed his identity to Skywalker, though his son
refused to join him and escaped. When Darth Sidious learned of Skywalker's
existence, he set in motion his own plans to recruit Skywalker and thereby replace
Vader, but Skywalker surrendered himself to Imperial forces on the forest moon of
Endor in 4 ABY in hopes of redeeming his father and turning him back to the light
side. In a final duel on the second Death Star as the Battle of Endor raged around
them, Skywalker and Vader fought each other, and Vader refused his son's attempts
to redeem him, learning that Skywalker had a twin sister named Leia in the process.
Skywalker defeated his father but refused to kill him, and when Sidious attempted
to kill the young man, Vadermoved by his son's loveabandoned the dark side
and sacrificed himself to destroy the Emperor, fulfilling the prophecy of the Chosen
One. Mortally wounded, Anakin made peace with his son and became one with the
Force, though his reputation, his legacy, and his family endured for decades
afterwards.
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Biography
Before his birth
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Q'Anilia's vision
"Is thisis this happening now, or in the future?"
Q'Anilia[src]
Thousands of years before his birth, Anakin Skywalker appeared as Darth Vader, the
Sith Lord he would eventually become, to the Jedi Master Q'Anilia in a Force vision.
The vision also included the Jedi Zayne Carrick, Skywalker's son Luke, and his
descendant Cade; all four of them would be affected by the Sith artifact known as
the Muur Talisman.[23] Similarly, at an unknown period of time, Skywalker was also
foretold by the Heinsnake Cult to overthrow both the Jedi Order and the Empire, and
leave the galaxy in eternal chaos.[24]
Around 42 BBY, the Sith Lord Darth Plagueis and his Sith apprentice Darth Sidious
were able to shift the Force and tip it towards the dark side after months of intense

meditation. Plagueis sought to manipulate the midi-chloriansmicroscopic lifeforms

which lived symbiotically within all living things and allowed those with sufficient
numbers of midi-chlorians to touch the Forceand use them to gain power over life
and death. He was able to resurrect the Bith Darth Venamis (whom he had been
using as a test subject for years) using only the power of the Force. Using his
newfound power to heal his own body, Plagueis decided to take his powers further
and reached out to the midi-chlorians across the galaxy in order to gain dominance
over them, but the Force resisted his efforts and refused. In response, the midichlorians acted of their own accord and conceived a child within the Human slave
Shmi Skywalker.[25]
Early life
Life as a slave
"There was no father. I carried him, I gave birth, I raised him. I can't explain what
happened."
Shmi Skywalker[src]
AnakinShmi
Anakin and Shmi Skywalker arrive on Tatooine.
The Human male Anakin Skywalker was born to Shmi Skywalker in 42 BBY (7:4 BrS).
[2] In 38 BBY, when he was around three years old, Anakin and Shmi were sold to
the Hutt Gardula Besadii on the desert planet of Tatooine, and the two were brought
to the planet by a freighter[26]though they were not permitted to know their
destination, and the ship's single refresher backed up during the flight, making the
crowded ship's passengers extremely uncomfortable. During the flight, Anakin had
premonitions of podracing, and he saw a vision of himself as an older man, racing
across the flats of Tatooine. He was awoken from his dream by his mother, who
carried him out of the ship when they landed, and they were lined up before
Gardulla and her aides.[27]
However, when a shot rang out in a nearby alleyway, Skywalker did not duck for
cover like the others in the area and instead watched as an Arcona slave rushed
through the area to escape his pursuers. The Arcona's slave transmitter exploded
moments later, killing the slave and showing Skywalker what would happen should
he ever try to escape. Shortly afterward, Skywalker was implanted with his own
transmitter. In the city of Mos Espa, the Skywalkers were forced to share quarters
with six other slaves while they were owned by Gardulla,[28] but the fact that he
was coupled with his mother allowed Skywalker to endure slavery with relative good
humor.[29] Though Anakin was not altogether fond of Tatooine, he set about
learning as much about the desert world as possible. He listened to traveling
spacers and Gardulla's attendants, learning about the history and function of the
planet in the galaxy. He heard of the Tusken Raiders, apparently bloodthirsty
savages that roamed the wastelands, Jawas, krayt dragons, but the element that
interested the boy the most was Podracing, descriptions of which matched his

premonition.[27] He tired quickly of Tatooine, however, and one day hoped to visit
Coruscant, the galactic capital.[30]
While he was a slave of Gardulla, he became friends with fellow slaves Kitster
Chanchani Banai and Pala Kwi'teksa, a Human and Twi'lek. Though the three were
eventually sold to other masters, they remained friends, as they all lived in Mos
Espa.[31] Several months after his arrival on Tatooine,, while repairing a vaporator
outside Gardulla's residence, Anakin decided to take the initiative, and modify the
device. His handiwork was observed by Watto, a Toydarian junk dealer who
frequently gambled with Gardulla on podraces. Impressed, the Toydarian gambled
for custody of the Skywalkers and won, becoming the pair's owners two days later.
[27] Skywalker began working at Watto's Shop as a mechanic,[9] and Watto
reluctantly allowed the two to move into a small hovel on Slave Quarters Row in the
city of Mos Espa, though he intended to quarter the rest of the slaves he intended to
purchase with the Skywalkers when he could afford to buy more.[28]
At an early age, Skywalker exhibited signs of Force-sensitivity; he could sense things
before they happened, occasionally sensed the emotions of others, and had
exceptional piloting skills which Watto put to use when he made the child race his
podracerthe first Human to survive and excel at the sport. Only Shmi knew of her
son's abilities, and by the age of nine, Anakin was strong, quick, an expert driver,
and an expert at building things.[32] A child prodigy,[33] Anakin excelled at
mathematics and engineering.[34] Skywalker did not mind working for Watto as a
mechanic, as he enjoyed building and repairing machinery and droids, and his room
was filled with a workbench, tools, and various projects in different stages of
completion.[31] Skywalker always had something to do at Watto's junkshop; with his
mechanical aptitude, he was often called upon to fix the unfixable. Watto kept the
Skywalkers in line by threatening to let other slaves share their hovel, should they
disobey him. Over the years, Skywalker became familiar with the Mos Espa locals,
picked up alien languages, and would often familiarize himself with the controls of
starships, by "practicing" with derelict cockpits found in the junk yard.[27]
Even at a young age, Skywalker had a reputation for being able to repair or build
anything. Around 34 BBY, Skywalker began to build both a podracer from the pieces
he could salvage from the junkyards, restoring a junked podracer cockpit and a pair
of Radon-Ulzer 620C racing engines. Knowing Watto would try to take it if it was
valuable, Skywalker purposely kept the podracer in a state of seeming disrepair
underneath a tarp. Watto gave Shmi an aeromagnifier that she used to clean
computer memory devices, allowing the Skywalkers to have a modest income, but
Anakin refused to give up on his dreams of freedom, making plans to create a
scanner that could locate the transmitter in his body.[27]
Amee and Anakin
Skywalker and Amee
Around 34 BBY, when Skywalker was seven, Watto traveled to Anchorhead in order
to bid on parts from a recent crash, leaving the boy with a long list of chores to do.
However, Skywalker was able to program the droids around the shop to finish the

chores by midday, allowing him to take his pack that his mother had filled with meat
pies and fruit and meet with his friend Amee for a picnic. In a small canyon near the
city that had a strange tree with flickering leaves, the two ate Shmi's meat pies and
turnovers made by Amee's mother Hala, but when they returned to Mos Espa, they
found the city almost empty. From their neighbors, the two children learned that the
pirate Krayn had conducted a slave raid, capturing a number of slaves and
overriding their transmitters with their own. Terrified for his mother's safety, Anakin
raced home but was relieved to find Shmi safe and sound at their houseunlike
Amee's mother Hala. When the boy noticed Amee and Hala's master, Yor Millto,
dismissing the abduction of Hala as a "nuisance," Skywalker resolved to remember
every moment of that day, save the look of terror on his own mother's face, in order
to fuel his ongoing struggle as a slave, and his eventual quest to free slaves.[35]
Around 33 BBY, Skywalker met a retired pilot who told him about the moons of Iego
and the angels that supposedly lived there. That year, Skywalker was searching
through Watto's junkyard when he came across an ancient battle droid. Curious, the
boy dragged it behind Watto's shop and then once Watto was gone hooked it up a
power source. The droid was too rusted to move, but its holoprojecter was able to
display a damaged and chaotic recording of a battle that involved the Sith.
Disturbed by the recording, Skywalker headed home later that day and encountered
the pilot, who panicked and thought that the boy was saying the Sith had returned
when Skywalker questioned him about the Sith. The pilot explained the history of
the Sith Order and the New Sith Wars, a thousand-year conflict between the Sith
and the Jedi, though the pilot also noted the rumors that some Sith had survived
their defeat in the conflict.[30]
The Ghostling children
"Mom. What if you want to do something good, but it's hard? Or what if you want to
help someone, but you're afraid?"
"Helping others isn't always easy, is it? If people paid us to be good, the galaxy
would be overflowing with kindness. But most of the time there isn't much reward,
and sometimes it even costs us dearly to do good things."
"Yeah. What if it costs so much that it hurts?"
"I think we should do it anyway. Make it a habit, like eating or breathing. Once you
do, you'll hardly even notice the cost."
Anakin and Shmi Skywalker[src]
Skywalker continued to race for Watto, frequently encountering the Dug racer
Sebulba and losing to him, as the Dug was prone to cheating. One afternoon in 32
BBY, Skywalker was working in Watto's shop when Banai arrived and told his friend
about the arrival of Sebulba and another racer named Gasgano in the spaceport,
and Banai was able to convince Watto to let Skywalker investigate by telling the
Toydarian about a mysterious crate that Sebulba had brought on his freighter. The
two joined the growing crowd at Mos Espa's spaceport to watch the two racers'
freighters unload. Studying Gasgano's podracer, Skywalker could instinctively sense

that there was nothing new or important about the changes Gasgano had made, but
Sebulba's podracer drew his attention, and he soon noticed the new Kuat 40-Z
stabilizers that had been installed.[31]
ShmiAnniemoment
Anakin and his mother as slaves in Watto's shop.
However, Skywalker's friend Kwi'teksa was uninterested in his discovery, and the
other children nearby gathered to listen as she told them how she had been sold to
the pirate Lord Tantos so that Tantos could train her as an assassin. Angry and
saddened, Skywalker questioned Kwi'teksa as to Tantos's location so that he could
go study Tantos and try and figure out a way to help his friend, but he suddenly
realized that he had failed to investigate the crate when it was moved to a secure
warehouse nearby. Kwi'teksa and the other children then served as a distraction to
lure away the Gamorrean guards at the warehouse door, allowing Skywalker and
Banai to slip inside and look at the crate, which they soon realized was an energy
cage that was holding captured children. One of the children, Princess Arawynne,
told the two boys that they were Ghostlings from the planet Datar and begged for
their help, but Skywalker was unwilling to do so until she stated that the Ghostlings
had not yet been implanted with transmitters.[31]
However, the Dug Khiss entered the warehouse at that point and opened fire on the
two boys, who were wearing hooded cloaks and whom he thought were trying to
free the slaves. Banai and Skywalker fled into the darkness of the warehouse and
escaped via another entrance, and the two returned to Watto and told him of their
findings about Sebulba's podthough Skywalker did not explain in detail about the
Ghostlings. Dismissing Banai, Watto then ordered Skywalker to head out into the
Jundland Wastes region, where he was to barter with a tribe of Jawasscavengers
that were one of Tatooine's two native species. Taking his sandskimmer out into the
Jundland Wastes, Skywalker reached the towering rock known as the Market after a
few hours, where hundreds of the sandcrawlers that the Jawas used to traverse
Tatooine's deserts were parked in the shadow of the monolith.[31]
Searching through the endless array of junk that the Jawas had laid out on the sand,
Skywalker found the items he needed within an hour and negotiated a good price,
though he decided to wait until nightfall before heading back to Mos Espa. In order
to preserve his money and buy a present for Kwi'teksa before she left Tatooine,
Skywalker settled for a hubba gourd to satisfy his hunger and thirst, and then he
began exploring the junkyard in order to find a present. However, he was drawn to a
Jawa who was offered a large Radon-Ulzer podracer engine, one that Skywalker
believe he could use to repair his podracer, but the Jawa insisted on selling it for
cash. When Skywalker was heading back to his sandskimmer, he noticed an old
Jawa who was offering a pile of random items, and his attention was drawn to an
ancient-looking cube that was small enough to fit in his hand.[31]
ShmiTucksAnakin
Anakin and his mother Shmi

Studying the device, Skywalker noticed a number of pictures on the cube's sides,
including two Jedi Knights battling each other, a star map, and a lamp with a knife
blade through ita symbol of forbidden knowledge. Unnerved by the darkness that
he could sense in the cube, Skywalker was about to set it down when the Jawa
offered to sell it for three wupiupi, which was the exact amount that Skywalker had
in his pocket. Despite his reservations, the boy purchased the cube and headed
back to Mos Espa, though he was unable to open it through any means. He was
surprised to find his mother still awake and working on a maintenance droid when
he arrived, and Shmi explained that she was helping her sick friend Matta finish her
quota of repairs so that she would not be sold by her master Dengula. Anakin
stayed up with his mother to finish the droid, though he continued to think about
the Ghostling children and what he could do to help both them and Kw'teksa as the
night went on and as he went to sleep.[31]
The following day, Banai and the Bothan child Dorn, both of whom were slaves of
Gardulla, came to him with Pala and told him how they had hacked into Gardulla's
computer network to learn that the Hutt intended to use the Ghostlings as lawn
ornaments in her underground pleasure garden. Disgusted by Gardulla's disregard
for how the Ghostlings would die in less than a year in those conditions, Skywalker
agreed to help his friends break the Ghostlings out of Gardulla's dungeons. Donning
Jawa robes and disguises, the three approached Gardulla's fortress on their
sandskimmers, taking advantage of the dusk shadows to hide them, and Kitster led
them to a narrow chasm that allowed them to reach the walls of the fortress
unseen. An enormous cliffborer worm attacked them as they passed through the
chasm, though the three escaped unharmed and reached the fortress, which they
infiltrated through a ventilation grate in the outer wall.[31]
However, their plans went awry when Kitster was forced to stay with Gardulla the
Hutt in the fortress's pool room, forcing Skywalker and the others to find their own
way to the dungeons, and Dorn went ahead to scout around while Skywalker and
Kiw'teksa stayed behind. When Kitster avoided being eaten by Gardulla, the fortress
was thrown into chaos, and Skywalker and Kiw'teksa fled deeper into the dungeons
when a Gamorrean guard pursued thembut Skywalker was unaware that his
current route was taking them straight to the security control room. Skywalker
managed to prevent the security chief from setting off the alarm by using his ion
blaster, and Kiw'teksa closed the door just before the chief shot at him, causing the
blaster bolt to richochet and strike the man.[31]
The four children rendezvoused at the slave infirmary, but when Dorn opened the
infirmary, they were confronted by an enormous Abyssin whom Skywalker was able
to convince to leave, as he claimed that they were replacement guards for the
Ghostlings. However, the four accidentally locked themselves in the infirmary, and
Arawynne came up with a plan to use a box of bomb transmitters to blow open the
door. Taking the rest of the transmitters, Skywalker and the others led the
Ghostlings through the fortress to the open hangar, but the young slaves soon
realized that they needed to hide the children and come back for them later, so
Banai hid the Ghostlings in Gardulla's pleasure garden. The four slaves then snuck
out of the fortess alone, with Skywalker using the transmitters to destroy the

passage and a seeker droid that was pursuing them with a group of battle droids,
and they then headed back to Mos Espa and their homes.[31]
Annie and friends
Skywalker and his friends
The next day, Watto berated Skywalker for his lethargy, and the boy showed his
owner the box he had bought at the Jawa market the previous day. Watto allowed
Skywalker to go home and take a nap, but on his way, he encountered Banai, Dorn,
and Kiw'teksa, who told him that Gardulla's security had a sample of Kiw'teksa's
skin and would soon identify her as one of the perpetrators of the break-in. The old
woman Jira brought the four of them into her apartment and began to scold them
for trying to free the slaves, but told them that she knew someone who might take
the Ghostlings off-world for a high price. Skywalker then offered to make a signal
jammer so that Kiw'teksa could evade capture, and he split up with his friends to
head back to Watto's in order to make the jammer. As he was heading back to his
friend in the market, Skywalker had a strange sense that he was being followed, and
Dorn confirmed his suspicions by pulling him aside and pointing out a Sakiyan
tracker with a seeker droid who was searching for him.[36]
Donning a Jawa robe, Skywalker hid in a crowd of Jawas while Dorn distracted the
hunter Djas Puhr and his partner, Sebulba, and Kiw'teksa sent him toward the
podrace hangar before she disabled the seeker droid with a bucket of ganno juice
that blocked its olfactory sensors. Grabbing his goggles from Watto's podracer, he
heeded Banai's advice and stole Sebulba's podracer as a getaway vehicle, dodging
the seeker droid's stun darts and destroying it by catching it between the podracer's
energy binders. The reinforced podracer was able to smash straight through the
partially-open hangar doors, catching the Dug Khiss on one of the stabilizer fins as
Skywalker struggled to slow down. To prevent the Dug from reaching him and Banai
in the cockpit, Skywalker toggled a random lever that caused the engine to vent
fire, sending the Dug flying.[36]
However, Sebulba began to pursue the two in Brant Rumble's podracer, and when
Sebulba prepared to ram the podracer and kill the boys, Skywalker gave Banai the
signal jammer and let him leap off the vehicle before he tried to open the throttles
and escape. When they responded slowly, Skywalker realized that the reinforced
engines Sebulba used as battering rams meant that he could not rely on speed
alone, so a smaller and faster vehicle would be able to beat Sebulba. Evading
Sebulba's blaster shots, Skywalker realized that the Dug was trying to protect his
own podracer, and he tossed Sebulba's own goggles and hydrospanner towards
Brant Rumble's podracerwhere they were promptly sucked into the engine and
caused massive damage.[36]
In the chaos, Skywalker escaped and returned to Jira's apartment that evening,
where Banai, Dorn, and Jira were waiting for him. Banai explained that he had
hidden Kiw'teksa with the Ghostling children, and the three slaves began to pool
their money. However, when Anakin returned home, Shmi confronted him about
Kiw'teksa, and though she did not say it outright, Shmi knew that Anakin had been

one of the children who had broken into the fortress. That night, Skywalker had a
dream of an evil voice telling him to open the cube, and when he awoke in the
middle of the night, he was sure that the voice had been realand he realized that
the cube was giving off a small amount of heat, just as living creatures did.[36]
The next day, Jira confirmed that the smugglers would arrive the following sunset to
pick up the Ghostlings and Kiw'teksa. However, that night, Dorn contacted him via
comlink and reported that his master Jabba had ordered him to track down
Kiw'teksa. Dismayed, Skywalker told Dorn to meet him at noon so that he could give
the Bothan a signal jammer, and he fell asleep after remembering that he had just
had a dream of a man with intense eyes, a lightsaber, and a tan poncho who had
come to take him away from Tatooine. The next morning, Skywalker headed out to
give Dorn his jammer, but he intercepted Sebulba when he noticed the Dug and his
crew attempting to locate the Bothan. After giving Dorn the jammer, Skywalker
incited a bar fight in the nearby Racer's Edge Cantina when Sebulba and the
hunters tried to follow Dorn into the building.[37]
However, when Banai, Skywalker, and Dorn headed out to Gardulla's fortress in
disguises, they were followed by Djas Puhr, Sebulba, and other hunters. The
pursuers attacked the children in the pleasure garden, separating them, and
Skywalker evaded the Abyssin Gondry by trapping him in quickclay from the planet
Circarpous V before Sebulba began to pursue him. Coming across a Myrkr SS-23
sewage cannon, Skywalker fled into the bushesonly to come across an
unconscious Dorn while trying to stay ahead of Puhr. When Dorn did not waken,
Skywalker encountered a green Wistie, a small radiant creature who led him to the
Ghostlings and Kiw'teksa just as Djas Puhr captured them. At the Wistie's urging,
Skywalker fled the garden and headed home, leaving the Ghostlings and his three
friends in Puhr and Sebulba's hands.[37]
Anakin and Jira
Jira, the woman who helped Skywalker's friends escape.
When he reached Mos Espa, Skywalker headed straight for Jira and told her what
had happened, just as a slave execution was announced for that evening. Jira
suggested that Skywalker himself go with the smugglers, and she regretfully
explained that she had been unable to gather all of the money necessary for the
children and the Ghostlings to escape. However, the boy refused and told Jira to be
ready at sunset before he departed, determined to rescue his friends. Selling some
of the valuable junk from his room, Skywalker purchased glowrods, sandmasks, and
a hand-held beamdrill, and he headed to the Mos Espa Grand Arena where his
friends were being held. Entering a large drain in the unguarded holding pens,
Skywalker soon located his friends and freed them, ushering them into the sanddrainage system through the drains in their cell just as a guard sounded the alarm.
[38]
As they fled through the drainpipes, Skywalker gave the others sandmasks while
Dorn led the way with a glowrod and Skywalker followed at the rear of the group
with another. The group made their way towards the Podrace hangar, fighting off

capture droids with Skywalker's ion blaster, but their path was blocked when sand
began to pour into the tunnels and sent the children rushing along the pipes in a
torrent of sand. Fighting off a rock wart that tried to steal his glowrod, Skywalker
finally came to a stop with the others in a large catch basin, and Skywalker set off to
find a way out through the pipes. Using his beamdrill to ward off womp rats and to
mark his path, Skywalker was nearly detected by two Morseerian pirates who heard
him through the grates, but he managed to steal their treasure from their storeroom
after they departed the chamber, giving him enough money to buy passage for the
Ghostlings and his friends.[38]
Searching through the pipes and the various grates, Skywalker was able to convince
a slave man to let the Ghostlings and his friends out of the drainpipes by removing
the grate in his house, but Skywalker was dismayed to learn that Dorn and an
unconscious Ghostling named Coniel had been separated from the rest by slave
hunters and would meet them at Bantha Rock, the place where the smugglers were
supposed to meet the group. Using Watto's landspeeder, Skywalker ferried the
Ghostlings and his friends out of the city, away from the slave hunters and to
Bantha Rock, where Jira was waiting for them. The smuggler, whom Kitster
recognized as his father Rakir Banai, accepted Skywalker's payment and took the
children aboard, though Skywalker refused to go with them and leave his mother
behind.[38]
However, when Dorn and Coniel arrived, Rakir informed the group that his ship's
life-support systems could not take that many peopleone of them would have to
stay behind. A dismayed Kitster decided to let the others go in his place, as he was
not wanted by Gardulla and her thugs, and Skywalker, Kitster, and Jira watched from
a distant plateau as the ship lifted off just as Sebulba and the other hunters arrived.
Jira gave the two boys the rest of the money, and Skywalker decided to save his
money in order to one day buy his freedom. When he reached home, Skywalker
found his mother up late working again, and she refused Anakin's offer of help and
instead ordered him to clean himself up. Two days later, Skywalker raced Watto's
pod yet again, but Sebulba used his exhaust vents to send the boy flying out of
control as they went over Metta Drop, wrecking Watto's racer once again.[38]
Podracing and looking to the stars
"You want to fly the big ships, I think maybe you will. Yep, Anakin Skywalker, I do
think maybe one day you will."
The retired pilot[src]
Anakin Skywalker slave
Skywalker as a slave on Tatooine.
One day when Anakin was working, Watto kicked W. Wald and another child out of
his shop before he left to meet with Jabba the Hutt, though Anakin let the two back
in to the shop when he was gone. The others began to explore the shop and Wald
soon came across what he believed to be a lightsaber, the weapon of the Jedi
Knights, but they were interrupted by a passerby who told them that the Dug

Sebulba's new podracer had arrived. While Sebulba was not looking, Skywalker and
his friends opened up the podracer's engines, and Skywalker was able to identify a
vertigo flux override in the engine before an overeager Wald dropped the lightsaber
in the open hatch. Skywalker was barely able to pull the lightsaber free before an
angry Sebulba reached them, though Skywalker was unaware that the ancient
weapon had damaged the inner workings of the podracer. The three of them headed
back to Watto's shop, but when the owner returned and found them, he kicked Wald
and the other boy out. However, as a result of Skywalker's unintentional sabotage,
Sebulba crashed on his next race, ensuring that Watto did not lose his shop to the
Hutt Jabba Desilijic Tiure in their betting on the race.[39]
One day, while chatting in the junk yard with Banai, Skywalker came across a
broken 3PO-series protocol droid chassis. Though he surmised that the droid was
very old, he was confident that he could restore the droid. Though not totally sure
as to what purpose it would serve, Skywalker smuggled it back to his hovel piece by
piece, making sure not to alert Watto. Shmi, apprehensive, explained that it was a
protocol droid, and not very useful in their line of work. Anakin protested, claiming
that the droid would be able to help with chores and converse with those using alien
languages. Shmi relented, but explained to Anakin that the droid was his
responsibility alone. Skywalker felt that the droid was a sort of kindred spirit,
speculating that he had perhaps tried to escape from his masters, but had been
demolished in the process. He named the droid C-3PO, the "three" due to the fact
that Skywalker considered him a third member of the Skywalker family.[27]
A few days later, Skywalker dreamed that he won a podrace and was greeted in the
winner's circle by a wise man and an angel, but his mother's voice roused him from
sleep, and he told her of the dream over breakfast. Skywalker also told Banai of the
dream on his way to Watto's shop, where Watto sent Skywalker out to Mochot Steep
to acquire the thrusters from the pod of a famous racer named Regga the
Hammerhead. Searching through the junk in Watto's shop to find things to trade,
Skywalker found a vaporator cylinder and decided to keep it after he had a strange
feeling that it would be useful. After picking up C-3PO to use an interpreter,
Skywalker headed out to Mochot Steep to trade with the Jawas who had scavenged
the thrusters. However, the Jawas wanted money or his water pouches, so
Skywalker gave them the vaporator cylinder and offered to repair it in exchange for
the thrusters when he realized the Jawas' vaporator was broken.[40]
The grateful Jawas gave Skywalker the remains of the pod, and Skywalker decided
to keep the intact engine for his secret podracer. When he returned to Watto's shop
that evening, Watto ordered the boy to install the thrusters the next morning, as he
would fly Watto's podracer in the next race. The day of the race, Sebulba warned
Skywalker of a "surprise" he was planning for the Human in Bimmira Canyon, but
Skywalker reached the canyon before Sebulba did during the race. Sebulba and the
racer Rimkar managed to pass Skywalker, but Sebulba used his afterburners to
destroy Rimkar's pod in Metta Canyon, also causing Skywalker to lose control and
crash.[40] An angry Watto demanded that Skywalker repair the pod that night,
though Banai and Wald convinced him to go out for ruby bliels, and the three were

discussing starfighters when the retired pilot who had told Skywalker about Iego
intervened to compliment Skywalker's racing skills.[32]
Anakin energy binder
Skywalker in Watto's junkyard
Buying the boys more ruby bliels, the pilot told them of his exploits in the Republic
Starfighter Corps, speaking of other planets and Jedi Knights. The three children
spent so much time listening to the man's stories that Skywalker arrived home late
for dinner, earning a reprimand from his mother. Shmi once again expressed her
opposition to his racing, but Anakin reminded her that Watto would make him race.
A little over a week later[32]by which time Skywalker had C-3PO's intelligence and
communication processors repairedan angry Watto sent the boy out to Mochot
Steep to trade with the Jawas.[32]
Picking up C-3PO from his house in order to use as an interpreter, Skywalker took
Watto's speeder out to Mochot Steep, where he was able to barter for several
mechanic droids, several multipurpose droids, and a damaged hyperdrive converter.
Skywalker then headed back towards Mos Espa with the droids in tow, heading
towards the Xelric Draw canyon that split the Mospic High Range on the Dune Sea's
edge, but Skywalker stopped when he encountered an injured Tusken Raidera
hostile species native to Tatooine. The Tusken's leg was trapped beneath a boulder,
and the Tusken and the slave stared at each other for several minutes before
Skywalker decided to use the droids to free the Tusken. By the time they succeeded,
night was falling, so the boy decided to stay the night there and had the droids set
up a glow unit. C-3PO attempted to communicate with the Tusken when he was
awake, but the Tusken remained hostile and wary of Skywalker's intentions. The
next morning, Skywalker awoke to find that there were Tusken Raiders surrounding
him and the droids, but they left in peace after reclaiming their injured kin.[32]
The next day, Skywalker was working in Watto's junkyard, attempting to repair
machinery, when a womp rat triggered one of Watto's snares in the junkyard and
caused Skywalker to start, hitting his head on the machinery. His friend Amee
arrived in time to witness this, and after realizing that the womp rat was very
young, Skywalker freed the creature and began to search for parts for his podracer.
The pair witnessed a herd of banthas stampeding past the city, leading Skywalker to
realize there was a sandstorm approaching. Just as Skywalker was about to return to
Watto's shop, the womp rat he had freed earlier appeared again on top of what the
boy realized was an energy binder after he shooed the creature away.[41]
Taking the part for his racer, Skywalker raced back to Watto's shop, where Watto
ordered him to go to the market and trade with another group of Jawas whom Watto
believed had salvaged Skywalker's crashed podracer. Handing his mother the
energy binder, Skywalker headed out to the market, where his friends Wald and
Banai snuck up on him and convinced him to join them for ruby bliels at Maggy the
Gorgon's cantina. Picking up fruits from Jira at his mother's request, Skywalker
promised Jira that he would help fix her cooling unit, but the trio encountered
Sebulba just outside the cantina. Fortunately for Skywalker, their fight was broken

up by the arrival of the retired Republic pilot, whose presence deterred Sebulba
from making any further trouble.[41] Before he left, Skywalker asked the pilot if he
would tell him about the angels from Iego again the next time they visited, since the
cantina was currently embroiled in a bar fight.[42] At the market, Skywalker and his
friends arrived just in time to see the parts Watto wanted sold to a pit droid, and
Skywalker returned to the shop. and was ordered to clean the junk bins because of
his failure.[41]
Discovery
"You should be proud of your son. He gives without any thought of reward."
"He knows nothing of greed. Only of dreams. He has"
"Special powers."
"Yes."
Qui-Gon Jinn and Shmi Skywalker[src]
While exploring the junkyard a few days later, Skywalker came across the womp rat
from earlier, which led him to an intact cooling unit for Jira. Looking up in the sky,
Skywalker witnessed a starship flying by overhead, and he sank into daydreams of
Jedi and angels. However, he was roused by Watto's shouting for him to come
inside, and Skywalker entered the shop to find a tall man, a young woman, a
Gungan, and an astromech droid conversing with Watto. At Watto's instructions,
Skywalker manned the shop while Watto took the man, Qui-Gon Jinn, into the
junkyard. Skywalker found himself unable to look away from the young woman,
viewing her as supremely beautiful, and he hoisted himself onto the counter before
asking her if she was an angel from the moons of Iego. The woman introduced
herself as Padm Naberrie, just as the GunganJar Jar Binksactivated a DUMseries pit droid that began to wreak havoc in the shop. As Naberrie and Skywalker
laughed, he told Binks to hit the droid on the nose, and after peace was restored to
the shop, Skywalker declared that he would one day marry her.[9]
Just then, Watto and Jinn returned to the shop, and Jinn informed his companions
that they were leaving. Fortunately for Skywalker, Watto allowed him to leave after
he cleaned up the mess that Binks had made. As he headed home, Skywalker came
across Binks, who was being attacked by Sebulba after the clumsy Gungan had
disrupted the racer's meal. Breaking up the fight, Skywalker greeted Naberrie and
the rest of her group when they arrived to see what was happening, and he
convinced the group to follow him to Jira's fruit stand nearby, where he told the old
woman about the new cooling unit he had found and then purchased four pallies.
When Skywalker dropped one of his coins and Jinn reached to pick it up, the boy was
astonished to see a lightsaber on the man's waist when his poncho opened slightly.
Masking his surprise, Skywalker realized he only had enough for three fruits, and he
forewent a pallie so the others could have one. When Jira warned the group that a
sandstorm was coming, Skywalker insisted that the unprepared group come with
him to his house.[32]

When they reached his house, he introduced the group to his mother and explained
about the sandstorm before pulling Naberrie into his room to show her his project.
Naberrie was genuinely impressed by Skywalker's work on C-3PO, prompting him to
turn the droid on, and he also told her about the podracer he was constructing. The
two spent the rest of the day examining Skywalker's various projects as the
sandstorm continued to rage, and during dinner he began to explain life as a slave,
though a brief argument between Naberrie and Shmi about slavery led Anakin to
the subject of podracing. Mustering his courage, Skywalker asked Jinn about his
lightsaber, and he refused to believe the Jedi's statement that he was not there to
free the slaves. As the conversation turned to the group's damaged Nubian starship,
Skywalker volunteered to race in the Boonta Eve Classic podrace so that Jinn could
get the prize money. When his mother objected, Anakin reminded Shmi of her belief
that people needed to help one another, convincing her to allow Anakin to race for
Jinn.[32]
Jinn's imagecaster
Jinn wagers his ship as Skywalker looks on.
The next morning, Jinn and the others accompanied Skywalker to Watto's shop, and
the boy began to tell Watto about Jinn's proposal when Naberrie stopped Jinn
outside for a brief conversation. To appease Watto, Jinn put forth his ship as the
entry fee, and convinced the Toydarian to front the cost of Skywalker's entry into
the race in exchange for splitting the winnings fifty-fifty. Watto accepted the deal,
and Skywalker was dismissed immediately with instructions to check out Jinn's
podracer. Skywalker arrived home before Jinn and the others did, and he led the
group to the bone yards behind the slave quarters to where his podracer was
concealed under a tarp. With the others' help, Skywalker activated the antigrav lifts
and brought the podracer out back behind his house, and there he began preparing
the vehicle for the race. As Skywalker worked, his friends Banai, Seek, Amee, and
Wald arrived, but Wald, Amee, and Seek were skeptical of Skywalker's chances and
left to go play elsewhere. Despite Skywalker's warnings, Binks became caught
between the podracer's energy binders, causing his face to go numb. Jinn then
helped the boy into the cockpit, where he used a power pack that Jinn had lifted
from Watto's shop to start the podracer, and the group was heartened to witness
the engines activating and running perfectly.[9]
That afternoon, Skywalker sustained a cut on his arm, though he did not notice it
until later that night when Jinn tended to it and took a sample of his blood. Before
Skywalker could get Jinn to tell him what he was doing with his blood, his mother
called him inside their house for bedtime. That night, Skywalker had a strange
dream of darkness, war, and armiesand Naberrie was leading an army into battle.
When he awoke, he told Naberrie about the dream, though he soon forgot about the
dream in the excitement of the pre-race preparations. With the two eopies Banai
brought to help, Naberrie, Banai, Shmi, Anakin, R2-D2, and C-3PO hauled the
podracer to the arena hangars, where Jinn had gone to meet with Watto. The
Toydarian angrily left the hangar just as they arrived, confusing Skywalker with a
comment about Jinn and betting, but Banai unintentionally revealed to Naberrie and

the others that Skywalker had never actually finished a race, causing Naberrie to
lose hope in the boy's chances.[32]
Racing to freedom
"You carry all our hopes."
"I won't let you down."
Naberrie and Skywalker[src]
Anakin podracer
Skywalker in his podracer
A little while later, the racers and their pods entered the arena and lined up for the
race, and Shmi stopped her son to ask him to be safe before he headed out to his
racer. Naberrie reminded him that their hopes were riding on him, furthering his
determination to win the race, and not even Sebulba's threats rattled Skywalker as
Jinn helped him into the podracer cockpit. But to Skywalker's dismay, when the
starting light turned green, the pod's engines stalled immediately, leaving him stuck
at the staring line with only Ben Quadinaros and his stalled racer as the rest of the
competitors flew off. Realizing that he had fed the engines too much fuel, he rapidly
flipped switches and adjusted settings to reset the engines and succeeded in
starting the engines, flying out of the arena and chasing after the others.[32]
He soon caught up to the other racers, passing two before they even noticed him,
and he prepared to pass the Troiken Gasgano as they approached Arch Canyon.
Gasgano blocked his first few attempts, but Skywalker overtook him as they
dropped over a short mesa and proceeded to slip into Arch Canyon quickly and
without any trouble. As he left the canyon, Skywalker witnessed Sebulba cause the
racer Mawhonic to crash into a rock formation when Mawhonic tried to claim the
lead, and Sebulba took out Xelbree by venting fire from one of his exhaust vents
when he tried to pass the Dug. Skywalker was in eighth place as they shot through
the arena, completing the first lap of three, but he soon became seventh as Ody
Mandrell's podracer was damaged in the pits by a clumsy pit droid.[32]
As they started the second lap, Skywalker passed Aldar Beedo and Clegg Holdfast
just before Arch Canyon, unknowingly drawing on the Force to strengthen his
perceptions and virtually become one with his podracer. When the racers exited
Arch Canyon, they were surprised to encounter a group of Tusken Raiders who
began to potshot the racers from the nearby cliffs of Tusken Turn, taking out Teemto
Pagalies's podracer. Passing Elan Mak and Habba Kee, Skywalker began to creep up
on Mars Guo and Sebulba, but Sebulba damaged Guo's engine and caused him to
slam into Skywalker'sripping one of his engines lines free. It took a great deal of
maneuvering to keep the podracer stable as Skywalker used a magnetic retriever to
catch the engine line that was now loose and reattach it, causing him to fall behind
Mak, Kee, and Obitoki. Recovering, Skywalker shot after the four leaders and passed
Elan Mak again, only to see Obitoki put of commission the same way he did Xelbree.
[32]

Anakin Pod
Skywalker pulls ahead of Sebulba.
Obitoki's damaged racer collided with Habba Kee's and caused both to explode, but
Skywalker used the Force to guide himself through the smoke and debris cloud,
evading the dangerous wreckage and shooting off after Sebulba. He caught up with
the Dug just as they shot through the arena and began the third and final lap, but
Sebulba tried to eliminate Skywalker as he done to Obitoki and Xelbree just as they
left Arch Canyon. Swerving upward and out of reach, Skywalker was forced onto a
stone ramp covered in warning signs, sending his podracer skyward. To recover, he
accelerated forward and came down just in front of Sebulba right before they
entered a series of caves that led to Tusken Turn. He maintained the lead until they
finally reached open plains again, where Sebulba tried to capture the lead as one of
Skywalker's horizontal stablizers on his engines began to shudder violently.
Experiencing a vision of Sebulba sabotaging the stablizer before the race, Skywalker
jettisoned the stablizer but was forced to lose ground to Sebulba.[32]
As they approached the arena, Sebulba blocked every attempt of Skywalker's to
pass, and he finally swerved his larger racer into Skywalker's in anger at the boy's
repeated attemptsonly for the two racers's steering rods to be caught together.
When Skywalker's rod finally snapped completely, his podracer began to shudder
violently but broke free of Sebulba's racer, the engines of which shot forward and
went flying out of control, slamming into rock and sand and exploding. As Sebulba's
pod skidded to a halt, Skywalker shot toward the arena and across the finish line,
emerging victorious as the youngest winner of the Boonta Eve Classic ever.[32]
As he came to a halt, the crowd swarmed Skywalker's racer, and Banai was the first
to his pod and began hugging his friend tightly. The crowd hoisted Skywalker onto
their shoulders in celebration, chanting his name, and it was not until almost an
hour later that the arena emptied of people and Skywalker could meet up with his
family and friends. As Jinn approached, Anakin became embarrassed at Naberrie
and his mother's constant hugs and kisses, but Jinn soon departed with Binks and
Naberrie to take their parts back to the ship. Anakin, Shmi, and C-3PO walked home
together, and he stored C-3PO in his room and headed out to Mos Espa Wayonly
to be confronted by a Rodian child who accused Skywalker of cheating. Skywalker
attacked the Rodian, but Jinn's timely arrival ended the fight, and the Jedi gave him
a pouch of credits that Jinn had received for selling the podracer to Sebulba.[32] On
their way back to Skywalker's house, Jinn intervened when he saw several slaves
being mistreated by their master, and the Jedi used the Force to convince the
slaves' owner to treat them better.[42]
Returning home with Jinn, Skywalker ecstatically showed his mother the credits, and
his happiness only increased when Jinn told him that he had been freed and Jinn
wanted him to become a Jedi. Anakin was so excited that it was several minutes
before he realized that Shmi had not been freed as well, and he was dismayed when
Shmi insisted that Anakin go with Jinn to a better future without her. Packing his
stuff, Skywalker bid goodbye to C-3PO and Banai, but when it came time to leave,
Anakin's resolve broke and he ran back to his mother. Despite their sorrow at being

parted, Shmi convinced her son to go with the Jedi, and he said goodbye to Jira as
he and Jinn left Mos Espa. However, Jinn destroyed a strange probe droid that had
been surveying them on their way out of the city, and the concerned Jedi urged
Skywalker to hurry with him.[32]
As they raced towards the starship that Naberrie and Jinn had come to Tatooine on,
Skywalker was suddenly ordered to drop to the ground and complied just as a darkrobed figure shot overhead on a speeder. The man leapt at Jinn, drawing a redbladed lightsaber and attacking the Jedi as Jinn urged Skywalker to get aboard the
ship and to take off. Rushing aboard, he told Naberrie and the security officer with
her Jinn's instructions, and Naberrie pulled him aboard to the cockpit to tell Jinn's
apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi what had happened. The pilot Ric Oli followed Kenobi's
instructions to fly towards the fight, and Skywalker scrambled into a seat as Kenobi
raced to the landing ramp and helped Jinn escape from the dark warrior. Skywalker
rushed to help Jinn as the ship took off and left Tatooine.[32]
New worlds
"Anakin, this path has been placed before you. The choice is yours alone."
Shmi Skywalker Gnome-speakernotesListen (file info)[src]
Later that night, aboard the ship, which Skywalker learned was the personal starship
of the Queen of the planet Naboo, Skywalker struggled to fall asleep in the central
chamber, as the ship's temperature was radically different to the constant heat of
Tatooine that he was used. As he huddled in silence and wondered whether leaving
was a mistake, Skywalker witnessed Naberrie enter the room and watch a recording
of a plea for help from the Naboo official Sio Bibble. She soon noticed him and gave
him her overjacket as a blanket, and the two discussed the Trade Federation's
invasion of Naboo and Naberrie's hopes that the Republic's Galactic Senate could
resolve the crisis. Skywalker gave her a japor ivory wood pendant that he had
carved for her so that she would remember him, and Naberrie comforted him as he
once again began to cry as he remembered his mother.[32]
When they finally arrived at the Republic capital of Coruscant, Skywalker watched
from the cockpit in awe as they approached the city-planet, and the ship was
greeted when it landed by Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum, Senator Palpatine of
Naboo, and a contingent of Senate Guards. The Queen and her handmaidens
including Naberriedeparted with Palpatine, though they brought Skywalker and
Binks along with them to Palpatine's office and left them outside while they
discussed the situation. Skywalker soon began to listen at the door, though he
began to wonder where Jinn and Kenobi had gone. Amidala changed into a new
outfit before the group departed for the Senate Building, though Skywalker was
unhappy to not see Naberrie among the handmaidens who accompanied the Queen,
Panaka, Palpatine, Binks, and Skywalker to the Senate.[32]
The boy was amazed by the size of the Senate chamber, and he and Binks watched
the proceedings froma small viewscreen that Rab gave them when Amidala and
Palpatine addressed the Senate. However, when Amidala's request for an

intervention was denied through bureaucracy, the Queen moved for a vote of no
confidence in Valorum just as Palpatine recommended. Less than an hour after the
Senate went into recess, Skywalker was met by Qui-Gon Jinn, who told him he would
be brought before the Jedi High Council. Before he went to the Jedi Temple,
Skywalker went to the Queen's chambers in search of Naberrie, but the Queen
promised to pass on his message when the handmaiden was absent.[32] However,
Skywalker grew impatient at the amount of time it took for Jinn to meet with the
Council at the Jedi Temple, and decided to explore the premises, eventually getting
lost after a sparkly pyramid-like building caught Skywalker's eye.[43]
High Council Chamber
Skywalker being tested by the Jedi Council.
While trying to find his way back to the temple, Skywalker and Binks encountered a
Coruscanti boy named Finn, who ended up not only lost, but his nanny droid ended
up malfunctioning. Skywalker and Finn eventually stopped the nanny droid and
repaired it, and returned both the droid and Finn to the latter's mother. In return, the
mother directed him to the Jedi Temple, where he met up with Jinn.[43] At the Jedi
Temple, Skywalker faced the twelve Jedi Masters on the Council who began to
question him almost immediately, testing his memory and knowledge. Mace Windu
then began to test Skywalker's abilities by asking him to determine what images
were appearing on a screen that the Jedi was holding but that the boy could not see.
Skywalker found his mind filled with images of what appeared on the screen, and he
was able to name them all with perfect accuracy. However, when Windu and Master
Yoda began to question him about his feelings and his mother, Skywalker asked how
that was relevant. Yoda explained that fear was the starting point on the path of the
dark side. Staying silent on the subject,[9] the boy put aside his fear and continued
the examination.[32]
As night fell, Skywalker, Kenobi, and Jinn were called before the Council. The Jedi
Masters acknowledged Skywalker's great power, but refused to train him on account
of his agecausing Jinn to declare that he would take the boy on his own
apprentice. However, Windu declared that the matter would be dealt with later, as
the Naboo problem was more pressing. The Council permitted Skywalker to
accompany Jinn, and the three returned to the Queen's starship, where Skywalker
questioned Jinn about midi-chlorians. The Queen and her retinue departed not long
afterwards, leaving Coruscant and heading back to the occupied Naboo in hopes of
freeing the world from the Trade Federation.[9]
The Battle of Naboo
As they came out of hyperspace and began to approach the Naboo system,
Skywalker sat in the cockpit with Oli and learned about the ship's controls while
Queen Amidala held a meeting with the Jedi and her staff and announced her
intentions to ally with the Gungans in order to drive the Trade Federation off Naboo.
The group landed in the swamps of Naboo and sent Binks to the Gungan capital city
of Otoh Gunga, and Skywalker talked briefly with Naberrie while they were waiting
for him to return. He explained that the Council had decided not to accept him as a

Jedi, but he became excited when Naberrie revealed that there would be a battle
against the Trade Federation soon. When Binks finally returned, he explained that
Otoh Gunga was empty, but he took the group to the Gungan sacred place where
the Gungans had no doubt fled after the Trade Federation invaded.[32]
When the group was brought before Boss Rugor Nass, the leader of the Gungans,
Skywalker was astonished to learn that Naberrie was in fact Padm Amidala, the
Queen, and that she had been posing as her double's handmaiden as a safety
precaution. Skywalker, the Jedi, and Amidala's handmaidens joined the Queen in
dropping to their knees before Boss Nass in a plea for Gungan aid, and Nass agreed
to lend his army to the Queen's cause. In the hours that followed the meeting,
Amidala and the Jedi began strategizing with the Gungan generals, leaving
Skywalker to wander over to the Gungan sentries who were keeping watch for the
returning Captain Panaka. Skywalker was dismayed to learn of Amidala's true
identity, as it only furthered the distance between them, but his ruminations were
cut short by the return of Panaka with several speeders of Naboo security officers
who had escaped the Trade Federation's occupation. When Skywalker questioned
Jinn as to what he would do in the upcoming battle, the Jedi told the boy that he
would be safe as long as he stayed close to Jinn.[32]
NabooSpaceBattle-EGTW
Skywalker as a pilot during the Battle of Naboo.
When the group entered the Theed hangar bay, Skywalker heeded Jinn's command
for him to stay hidden in the cockpit of one of the hangar's N1 starfighters. When
several droidekas cornered the Naboo personnel in a firefight, Skywalker attempted
to aid them with the N1's blaster cannons, although he accidentally activated the
ship to go into space in the process.[9]
Ultimately, Skywalker fought in the Battle of Naboo in a vicious starfighter battle
above the planet. After accidentally joining the battle in orbit, Skywalker singlehandedly destroyed the orbital Droid Control Ship from within the ship, moments
after Lt. Gavyn Sykes destroyed the deflector shield generator, thus rendering the
Trade Federation's ground forces inactive and saving the Gungan Grand Army from
destruction. The following celebration, however, was tainted with the death of Jinn,
slain by Darth Maul.[9]
Anakin Obiwan Quigon
Skywalker becomes Kenobi's Padawan.
The Master's dying wish was for Kenobi to undertake Skywalker's training, which
Kenobi promised to fulfill. The Council reluctantly agreed for Kenobi to begin
Skywalker's training, though they were concerned that Skywalker would be too
difficult a student for young Kenobi to handle, due to Kenobi's young age.[9]
Meanwhile, Palpatine, the Republic's newly-appointed Supreme Chancellor,
promised Skywalker that he would watch the young Jedi's career with "great

interest,"[9] beginning a long friendship between the young Jedi and the new ruler
of the Republic.[10]
Continuing to pod race
At this age, Skywalker participated in more podraces. He was the racetrack
champion on the Naboo-based Lianorm Raceway.[44]
Jedi apprentice
Early years
AniPadawan
Skywalker as a Jedi Padawan
"The boy has exceptional skills."
"But he still has much to learn, Master. His abilities have made him well,
arrogant."
Mace Windu and Obi-Wan Kenobi[src]
As Kenobi's Padawan, Skywalker was given his own room in the Jedi Temple on
Coruscant, in which he soon installed a workbench with tools. He continued to tinker
with machines and droids despite the fact that the Order largely had no use for
them, and his droids could often be found throughout the Temple on various
assignments. Skywalker found himself uncomfortable with the fact that the Jedi
Council and other Jedi treated him differently than other Padawans, as the boy's
skills and abilities were far more advanced than his fellows. He and Kenobi soon
developed a bond of mutual love and respect, though Skywalker continued to test
the limits of their relationship to reassure himself that Kenobi still cared for him.
However, whenever he tried to look inward with the Force, Skywalker was terrified
by the great pain and power that he sensed in his futurea sensation that he
described as "burning like a sun inside"and his fear drove him to recklessness.[45]
Not long after arriving at the Temple, Skywalker met the Cerean Jedi Master Ki-AdiMundi and his Tusken apprentice A'Sharad Hett.[26]
Anakin training EGtF
Skywalker training at the Jedi Temple.
About three years into his training, Skywalker and Kenobi had their first mission
together to investigate cult leader Kad Chun. Chun, calling himself Uni, was coleader of disenchanted idealists and refugees who wanted to flee their bureaucracyflooded worlds. Kad's father, Vox Chun, the leader of the cult, was killed when
Kenobi and Skywalker came to investigate. Later, Kad Chun forgave Kenobi and his
scheming father for what they had done.[46]
Zonama Sekot
Still craving thrills and adventure at the age of twelve, he salvaged a pair of race
wings and secretly participated in the highly dangerous and illegal garbage pit races

held in the lower levels of Galactic City. During one such race, he was nearly killed
by a Blood Carver named Ke Daiv before Kenobi reached him.[47]
The next mission they took was to the living planet of Zonama Sekot to find Jedi
Knight Vergere, who had recently vanished on a mission there. Unbeknownst to
them, Wilhuff Tarkin and Raith Sienar had followed them to exploit Zonama Sekot's
ability to fuse organic and high technology into starfighters, creating them at an
astonishing rate and at an extremely high quality. On the planet, the colonists sold
"seed-partners," which bonded with their hosts and allowed the planet to customize
a starfighter for the individual. Skywalker attracted many more seed-partners than
anyone, and thus, had a bigger and more intricate ship. He named this new
biological ship Jabitha. When Tarkin and Sienar arrived, the planet revealed its
sentient consciousness to the Jedi, explaining that Vergere had left with the
mysterious "Far Outsiders" in order to protect Zonama Sekot. Skywalker and Kenobi
could not rescue the Fosh Jedi, but they were able to halt Tarkin's attack.[47]
When Ke Daiv, now Tarkin's bodyguard, attempted to kill Skywalker, the boy, in a fit
of uncontrollable rage, telekinetically burned the Blood Carver from the inside out.
Unfortunately, Skywalker was captured and brought before Tarkin. Kenobi, however,
managed to destroy Tarkin's flagship and rescue his Padawan. During this
altercation, Zonama Sekot was able to activate its planetary hyperdrive, causing the
planet to vanish, bound for the Unknown Regions. Afterward, Sienar and Tarkin
returned to the Republic. Skywalker's organic ship, unfortunately, died while away
from her creator. After the conclusion of this mission, Kenobi and Skywalker returned
to Coruscant.[47]
Crafting a lightsaber
"We are not here on a mission. It is a quest. It is here that you will gather the
crystals to fashion your own lightsaber."
Obi-Wan Kenobi[src]
In 28 BBY, Kenobi took his Padawan on a journey to the planet Ilum to construct his
lightsaber, though he did not tell Skywalker where they were going at first. When
they arrived, Kenobi had Skywalker land their ship on a small ledge near the crystal
cave that was their destination. When Kenobi told him the name of the planet and
their purpose there, Skywalker became excited at the prospect of getting his
lightsaber, and the two pulled on winter survival gear before they departed their
ship. They two used cable launchers to climb the icy cliff nearby and reach the cave
in the cliff face, but the two happened upon a group of sleeping gorgodonslarge,
hulking predators native to Ilum. One of the creatures awoke almost immediately
and attacked, striking Skywalker with its enormous tail and tossing him back
towards the cliff edge, though Kenobi was able to pull him to safety.[35]
Using his training lightsaber, Skywalker aided his master in battling the gorgodons,
though when Kenobi slipped on a hidden patch of ice and was in danger of being
pinned, Skywalker used the Force to leap to Kenobi's aid only to be swatted into the
wall. Recovering, Skywalker tried to rush to Kenobi's aid but did not notice another

gorgodon sneaking up on him, forcing Kenobi to jump in front of his apprentice and
be pinned against the cliff instead. Using his cable launcher, Skywalker climbed the
creature's back and stabbed it with his training lightsaber in a vulnerable point in
the gorgodon's neck, killing it, and the other gorgodons fled the cave when they
caught the death scent of their fellow.[35]
Removing their survival gear, the two prepared to enter the cave, but Kenobi
warned his student of the visions that he would face within, and Kenobi stopped just
inside the first cave as Skywalker went on alone. Striding confidently into the cave,
Skywalker ignored the voices that he heard whispering in the darkness, but when he
encountered a vision of himself at the age of seven or eight, he stopped dead. A bell
that the boy had been playing with rolled towards Skywalker and blood began to
pour from the bell's opening, though Skywalker reminded himself that it was an
illusion. However, a vision of his mother being attacked a shadowy figure drove the
boy to charge the illusions in anger.[35]
The visions finally ended when he looked down and saw formations of lightsaber
crystals on the cave floor, and at Kenobi's urging, Skywalker reached out and chose
three that seemed to speak to him. Following Kenobi's instructions, he began to
meditate, but Kenobi's form suddenly twisted into that of the Sith Lord who had
killed Qui-Gon Jinn. The Sith began to taunt Skywalker and tossed him a red-bladed
lightsaber, stoking the boy's rage and trying to lure him to the dark side, but
Skywalker resisted the Sith's attempts until he mentioned Skywalker's mother.
Enraged, the Padawan attacked the vision, but the Sith Lord quickly destroyed the
boy's training lightsaber and sent him flying into the cave wall.[35]
Determined, Skywalker summoned his will and banished the vision, though the Sith
warned him that his darkness would remain within the Jedi. When he opened his
eyes, Skywalker found that the lightsaber that the Sith had thrown himone that
was just like what Skywalker had in mind for his ownremained in his lap, and the
blade glowed blue when he activated it. Returning to the cave entrance, Skywalker
showed the weapon to Kenobi and told him about how he had apparently made the
weapon during a trance state, though he did not tell his Master about the vision of
the Sith. Just then, Kenobi was contacted on his comlink and informed that they
were being summoned back to Coruscant for a mission.[35]
On a mission to Nar Shaddaa when Skywalker was 13, he killed the T'surr slave
trader Krayn by burning a hole in his chest. This allowed all the slaves of Krayn to
be freed, as well as ending Jedi Knight Siri Tachi's undercover mission there.
Mission to Radnor
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Skywalker during his mission to Radnor
Not long after, the young Jedi and his Master were called upon, along with Tachi
(who was now a Knight), Soara Antana, Ry-Gaul, and their Padawans, Ferus Olin,
Darra Thel-Tanis, and Tru Veld, respectively, on a mission to Radnor to help with the
evacuation of the planet. The evacuation was due to a deadly toxin that had spread

throughout the planet because of a chemical leak. He and the other Jedi and their
Padawans later discovered that the toxic leak was connected with the Avoni raiders.
The path of guilt led to Galen, a traitorous Radnoran, who was taken into custody for
his crimes. However, the Avoni did not pay for their crime and were not forced to
make amends. To Skywalker, it almost seemed as if the planet was worse off than
when they had found it.
The Outbound Flight project
"Sometimes a Jedi's most important duty is to stand and wait. I presume you've
mentioned that to Anakin on occasion?"
"Not more than twice a day."
Mace Windu and Obi-Wan Kenobi[src]
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Skywalker during the Outbound Flight mission
Before this, Skywalker and Kenobi were sent to Barlok to monitor the overbearing
Jedi Knight Jorus C'baoth and his timid Padawan, Lorana Jinzler, in their negotiation
mission between the Corporate Alliance and the Barlok. Unbeknownst to them,
Kinman Doriana, on behalf of Darth Sidious, had planned for the negotiation to work
splendidly in Cbaoth's favor, gaining him enough prestige to go ahead with his pet
project, Outbound Flight.
Skywalker and his master were again sent to observe the self-acclaimed Jedi Master
C'baoth on this project, at least until its last stop within the known galaxy. Kenobi
did not approve of Cbaoth's overseeing of the project, butting heads with the Jedi
Master on numerous occasions. However, the hardheaded and arrogant C'baoth
would not listen, and was glad when they disembarked the venture on Outbound
Flight's last stop, Roxuli. Despite the problems his master and Cbaoth had had,
Skywalker greatly admired C'baoth, whom he saw as an example of a great leader.
These views would also shift his view of a better galaxy under the harsh rule of
Palpatine.
Trouble on Ragoon VI
Later on, a simple Jedi training mission to Ragoon VI caused Skywalker and Kenobi
to get tangled up with a mysterious man whose mission in life seemed to be to kill
them. Further research on him revealed that he was from Nierport VII, collected Sith
artifacts, and was extremely wealthythough he had no tangible source of income.
The Galactic Games
Skywalker and Kenobi were then dispatched to the Galactic Games in order to
ensure the peace. Skywalker found out about an illegal podrace being set up, and,
instead of reporting it, he decided to join. Meanwhile, Kenobi, with the help of Siri
Tachi and apprentice Ferus Olin, unraveled a huge plan to ruin several senators'
careers by framing them in a plot to rig some of the games. The plan was
orchestrated by Maxo Vista, and Kenobi learned from him that the podrace was also

rigged so that the lead podracer would lose control of his brakes and possibly kill
hundreds. Too late, Kenobi set out to warn Skywalker, but his Padawan had already
started racing and eventually took the lead. Kenobi could only watch helplessly as
Skywalker's brakes malfunctioned. However, using the Force and his piloting skills,
Skywalker managed to gain control of his craft and avert a tragedy. After this event,
further investigation was done on the man who previously tried to kill them, and it
was revealed that the man was trying to take over the marketing of bacta through a
mining venture. Skywalker, after being captured by him, found out, with the aid of
Kenobi, that the man's name was Granta Omega. He also discovered that he was
trying to impress a Sith Lord by killing Skywalker. Master and apprentice were able
to escape, halting Omega's mining of titanite in the process. Omega himself,
however, escaped their grasp.
Student and warrior
Kenobi and Skywalker were later sent on a mission to find out what had happened
to the Consular-class cruiser, the Radiant IX, which was carrying the Jedi Et Rex and
Alysun Celz back to Coruscant to be punished for falling to the dark side. They
discovered that, while on their flight, a large group of mynocks had fed on energy
from the ships electrical couplings, causing the ship to plummet into the gravity well
in the Hoth system, and crash landed on an asteroid known as the Poison Moon. The
distress signal was sent even as Celz killed everyone on the ship. Rex managed to
escape Celz and befriend a group of mynocks. When the Jedi found Celz on the
bridge of the ship, she insisted that it was Rex who did it. Kenobi went to find Rex,
leaving Skywalker with Celz. When Kenobi found Rex, Rex convinced him that Celz
was framing him, and the two hurried back to save Skywalker. In the meantime,
Celz tried to convince Skywalker to leave his master, but failed. Celz angrily
knocked out Skywalker with her Force lightning, revealing to the Jedi as they
entered that she had killed everyone on board. Kenobi engaged her with his
lightsaber, only to be knocked back by a dose of Force lightning. Rex sent his
mynocks after her lightning, feeding on it like they would electricity. The Jedi left the
moon on Kenobi and Skywalker's ship, with Celz as their new prisoner, and headed
back to Coruscant.
Mission to Andara
"You had a responsibility! Just as I had one to Siri. You betrayed me and the Order by
your actions. And your inability to see that troubles me the worst of all."
Obi-Wan Kenobi, berating Skywalker[src]
Not long after, in 27 BBY, fourteen-year-old Skywalker and his Master were given a
mission to investigate a senator's son's disappearance, which they presumed to
have much to do with an elite school for senators' children. In order to investigate a
band of renegade students and the school itself, the Jedi council gave Skywalker
and Ferus Olin the task of penetrating the school, which was located on Andara, by
posing to be senators' sons. Soon, Skywalker had located the students and acquired
their trust. He decided to join them on a mock attack on a Senator's ship, which in
Skywalker's view would be helping those who were unrepresented under the

Senator's jurisdiction. Olin did not like the plan and warned Skywalker of its
problems; however, Skywalker dismissed his caution due to his rivalry with Olin.
Later, Olin suddenly disappeared, but Skywalker neglected to inform his master.
Before the "mock" attack could begin, he found out that the attack would actually
be real, and it threatened to start a war. Before he could leave and inform Kenobi,
the leader of the group, revealed as Gillam Tarturi, the Senator's missing son,
informed Skywalker that the Padawan would have to die in order for Gillam's plan to
proceed. Left with no choice, Skywalker disarmed Gallam and the rest of the
members, shut down the lasers of the starfighter the group was planning to use,
and, at the same time, destroyed ten attack droids. At this point, Kenobi, along with
Siri Tachi and Ferus Olin, had arrived to Skywalker's aid, but he had finished the
fight before they could help him. Skywalker's level of skill, nearly equal to some
great Jedi Masters, left Kenobi unnerved. However, Skywalker's master was also
furious that Skywalker had not told Kenobi that Olin was missing, and for the first
time, Kenobi shouted at his Padawan. This incident widened the gap between
Skywalker and Kenobi.
Yaddle's sacrifice
Anakin The Shadow Trap2
Skywalker with Kenobi and Yoda during the mission to Mawan
"When you look back, lose your place on the path, you do. Learn, you will, Anakin,
that stars move and stars fall, and nothing at all, do they have, to do with you."
Anakin and Yoda discuss the death of Master Yaddle[src]
When Skywalker was fifteen, he, Kenobi, Yoda, and Yaddle were sent on a
negotiation mission to Mawan to settle a devastating gang war, in which three
criminal organizations fought one another. These gangs, led by Decca the Hutt,
Feena Shaan, and Striker, caused the remainder of the population to take refuge
underground. During the mission, Skywalker was kidnapped by Striker's men.
Striker, revealed to be Granta Omega, tried tempting Skywalker to leave the Jedi
Order and come with him, offering visions of freeing the slaves and his mother on
Tatooine. When he saw that Skywalker would not yield, he made Skywalker arrange
a meeting with himself and Yaddle. Unbeknownst to her and the rest of the Jedi, the
chaotic planet was a trap set for the Jedi by Omega. He released a fatal chemical
weapon that killed Yaddle when she absorbed it through the Force. However,
through her sacrifice, she saved the city of Naatan. The weapon was intended by its
vengeful maker to kill Skywalker and Kenobi, but it failed because of what Yaddle
had done. Kenobi and Skywalker immediately contacted Master Yoda, who knew
Yaddle had died, and prepared his transport to Mawan. Skywalker and Kenobi
managed to bring peace to Mawan, and even after Yoda's words of comfort,
Skywalker still felt responsible for the death of the Jedi High Council member.
The Zone of Self-Containment

Skywalker's guilt about Yaddle's death caused friction between him and Kenobi, who
felt that he was less than capable of teaching the mischievous Skywalker properly.
When sent on a rescue mission in the Uziel system to a planet called Vanqor, the
two were forced to try and reconcile their differences. They were forced through
several tribulations, including a run-in with a nest of gundarks. Skywalker was then
placed under the influence of a drug called the Zone of Self-Containment, and taken
prisoner by the insane and fanatical scientist Jenna Zan Arbor. Siri Tachi, Ferus Olin,
Garen Muln, and Clee Rhara, who were also sent on another mission entirely,
received the distress signal from Kenobi while en route to their own destination.
They picked up Skywalker and Kenobi on Vanqor.
Trailing Jenna Zan Arbor
Anakin- The Moment of Truth
Skywalker fighting the forces of Granta Omega and Jenna Zan Arbor
Zan Arbor escaped, however, and did not resurface again until Skywalker was
seventeen. From information given to them by Tyro Caladian, they discovered that
she had reappeared on Romin, a focus of corruption and villainy and a shelter for
criminals. In order to infiltrate the planet, he, his Master, Tachi, and Olin disguised
themselves as a band of thieves looking for refuge on the planet. They discovered
that Zan Arbor had allied herself with Roy Tedathe ruler of Rominand Granta
Omega, Kenobi and Skywalker's old adversary. The Jedi were about to be captured
when civil war erupted. The underworld was trying to overthrow Teda, and, in the
midst of it, Teda and Zan Arbor fled. The two criminals contacted the Jedithinking
they were actually criminalsto try to find a way offworld. Unfortunately, Zan Arbor
recognized Skywalker from their previous encounter, and Teda ordered his men to
seize the Jedi. Before they could do so, Mace Windu and a team of Jedi arrived,
arresting Teda and Zan Arbor. In spite of this, since the Jedi were trying to get to
Omega, and they knew the two would lead them to him, they set the two captives
free.
Trouble on Coruscant
Only a few weeks later, Kenobi and his apprentice trailed Zan Arbor and Teda to
Falleen, where the rogues had managed to set up the Blackwater Systems facility to
mass-produce her drug, the Zone of Self-Containment. When they were found, Zan
Arbor was forced to destroy the facility and they once more fled.
Skywalker and Olin were again paired when the trail of Zan Arbor and Teda led back
to Coruscant. Sano Sauroa friend of Granta Omegaand Bog Divinian started to
make anti-Jedi accusations in order to convince the Galactic Senate to lessen or
completely dissolve its support of the Order. This vote, which was about whether or
not the Jedi should be involved in the Senate's activities, was all a part of Sauro and
Omega's plan to leak the Zone of Self-Containment drug into the Senate's vents and
assassinate Chancellor Palpatine. Skywalker and Olin, who were learning to forget
their rivalry and understand each other, managed to prevent the assassination
attempt on the Supreme Chancellor. Omega's plan was uncovered, but not in time

to save twenty-one Senators and several other Senate employees from being killed
by seeker droids programmed by Teda. Unbeknownst to the renegade, since Zan
Arbor and Omega had no more use for the man, a seeker droid killed him, as well.
Afterward, Kenobi, Skywalker, and Tachi set off to find Omega, leaving Olin to
protect the Senators and Palpatine.
Confronting old adversaries
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Kenobi and Skywalker confront Granta Omega.
Tracking Omega and Zan Arbor to Korriban, four Jedi pairsSkywalker and Kenobi,
Tachi and Olin, Ry-Gaul and Tru Veld, and Soara and Darrajourneyed there to
confront and stop them. During the course of the hunt, the apprentices were split up
from the Masters to better accomplish the mission. The investigation of Dreshdae
led them to the Valley of the Dark Lords. Because of the dark side power of the
planet, the Padawans, instead of working as a team, started fighting amongst
themselves. When Skywalker found out about Olin's advanced training, he was
extremely jealous of him, and, because of all of the friction, their journey to find
Omega was catastrophic. They were caught and halted by numerous traps that they
would have been able to avoid were they able to function as a team. Because of
this, the confrontation with Omega was a complete and utter disaster.
Previously, during the fighting, Veld's lightsaber was damaged, and Olin decided to
repair it. Skywalker, who was more mechanically adept than Olin, noticed that the
repair job would not work. Instead of speaking out and properly repairing the saber
himself, he kept quiet, hoping to humiliate Olin. During a battle in one of the tombs,
Veld's lightsaber began to fail. Olin switched lightsabers with Veld in order to protect
him. Darra noticed the faulty lightsaber and leaped to protect Olin. However, she
was riddled with blaster fire and killed. This caused friction between Tru Veld and
Skywalker, her death being partly Skywalker's fault. Kenobi, who showed up just in
time, was forced to kill Granta Omega with a stroke of his blade. Zan Arbor
managed to elude capture once more, and was not seen again by the Jedi or the
Republic.
Olin, blaming himself for Darra's death, resigned from the Jedi Order.
Growing up
JQFalsePeace
Skywalker in 24 BBY, alongside Supreme Chancellor Palpatine
Sometime later, Skywalker and his Master were sent on a diplomatic mission to a
planet wishing to join the Galactic Republic. They soon found out, however, that the
planet's indigenous population considered thievery an important social asset.
During their stay, Skywalker's lightsaber was stolen. The Padawan searched for it,
ashamed to tell Kenobi that he lost it, but soon had to admit defeat. Asking Kenobi
for help, he found that the Jedi Knight knew the lightsaber had been stolen, and,

using a trick of the Force, had "acquired" it from the thief. Kenobi had merely been
waiting for Skywalker to admit that he had lost it.
Kenobi and his apprentice, who was then sixteen, were then assigned to the task of
protecting Senator Simon Greyshade from assassination. Greyshade had recently
filled the station of Senator of the Commonality; a Senatorial seat left by his
assassinated cousin. Simon's cousin, Jheramahd Greyshade, had been thrown off of
the roof of 500 Republica in an attempt to stall the passage of the Financial Reform
Act, which the Senator had supported. The act was a bill that addressed and was
meant to reduce the amount of corruption that was causing the Senate, and,
through them, the Republic, to disintegrate.
Senator Greyshade, who had received a death threat for his stand, was now under
protection by the Jedi duo. Commander Zalin Bey of the Senate Guard and her unit
were assigned to investigate Jheramahd's assassination. Skywalker and Kenobi had
their hands full protecting Simon from myriad assassins: droids; Keluda, a Dug; and
Princess Tsian, whom they could not seriously investigate because of her diplomatic
immunity. Despite these hurdles, Tsian was arrested and Keluda was killed.
Sagoro Autem and Isaru Omin continued the investigation of the Senator's murder,
turning up several disturbing facts. Sagoro's brother, Venco, had assassinated
Jheramahd, and convinced Reymet Autem, Sagoro's son, to unwittingly help him in
another assassination, this time an attempt on Simon's life, but this second attempt
failed. Sagoro managed to let his son escape, but, unfortunately, when Omin
discovered his obstruction of justice, too late for him to arrest Reymet, he arrested
Sagoro. The man took the blame and disgrace for what his son had done, and was
removed from the office of Senate Guard. Simon Greyshade was safe once more.
Because it was found that the assassination and attempted assassination was
because of the Financial Reform Act, it never got a vote. Some say that this was the
cause of a good portion of the seceding planets that would soon make the
Confederacy of Independent Systems, and could have prevented the Clone Wars
had it been passed.
War on the horizon
"Ani? My goodness, you've grown."
Padm Amidala to Anakin Skywalker, upon their reunion[src]
At the age of nineteen, in 22 BBY, Skywalker and Kenobi, along with Luminara
Unduli and her apprentice, Barriss Offee, were sent to Ansion to settle a border
dispute that had the potential to cause the extremely strategic planet to secede to
the Confederacy. If Ansion fell, so would countless other worlds. The Jedi negotiated
a settlement with city dwellers to remain in the Republic, provided they also
convinced the nomadic Alwari to allow expansion into the grasslands. Little did they
know that Presidente Shu Mai of the Commerce Guild was pulling the strings to
cause Ansion to secede. Arriving early, Kenobi and Skywalker were just in time to
rescue Unduli and Offee from a mob of killers. Thanks again to Shu Mai and her
minion Soergg the Hutt, the Jedi were in constant danger from attack by hired

killers, including a successful kidnapping of Offee by two Ansionians, Kyakhta and

Bulgan. Offee healed the two killers of injuries though, and they became guides for
the Jedi to find the nomadic clans, particularly the Borokii overclan. Traveling on
suubatars, the Jedi braved hazards such as flying chawix, kyren hordes, capture by
the Yiwa clan and shanhs. On one occasion, the Jedi were required to publicly
entertain their hosts, each in turn and in their own way. When called up himself,
Skywalker chose to sing a song - a ballad he had known and often sung in
childhood, impressing both the Ansionians and his fellow Jedi with his deep and
resonant voice.
The Jedi eventually made contact with the Borokii overclan, who, after requiring the
Jedi to retrieve a tuft of rare albino surepp wool, agreed to the Jedi's settlement
provided they helped wage war against their rivals, the Januul clan. Skywalker was
shocked when Kenobi agreed, but he had a plan. When the battle lines were drawn,
the Jedi marched out into the middle and refused to fight either side, calling on both
clans to negotiate a settlement. Kenobi, Skywalker, Unduli, and Offee were
subsequently attacked by both sides, but they deflected the assaults, and
amazingly parried only the weapons, defeating both armies with no loss of life. In
the wake of the following peace between the tribes, the Jedi journeyed back to the
capital of Cuipernam to inform the Unity Council controlling the planet's fate of their
success. While they were attacked again by thugs, the two clans sent an honor
guard to help the Jedi, and Ansion remained in the Republic thanks to the efforts of
Skywalker and his companions. Because of her status as President, Shu Mai was not
discovered to be a part of the matter.
Reunited with Amidala
"You're asking me to be rational. That is something that I know I cannot do. Believe
me, I wish I could just wish away my feelings, but I can't."
Skywalker, to Amidala[src]
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Skywalker and Amidala share their first kiss.
Just one day after his twentieth birthday,[48] there was an attempt on the life of
Padm Amidala, now the Senator of the Chommell sector, by the bounty hunter
Zam Wesell. Skywalker was personally assigned to protect and escort Amidala back
to her homeworld. To avoid looking conspicuous, the two traveled as refugees.
Skywalker had not seen her in ten years, though he had thought about her daily
since their parting at Naboo. His childhood fascination with her had turned into a
powerful infatuation. In conversation, Skywalker revealed his affection for her, his
frustration with Kenobi's training methods, a distrust of the political process, and his
view of the need for one strong leader. Over a short time, his infatuation for her
blossomed into something more: love. Eventually Amidala began to return his
feelings.[11]
It was at Amidala's lake retreat where the two lost their inhibitions and shared their
first kiss. Both seemed entranced with the other despite their different social castes.

However, Amidala eventually came to her senses, and while Skywalker was
concerned with his feelings and living in the present momenteven suggesting
they could keep their relationship a secretAmidala was more concerned with duty
and obligation. She had enough foresight to know their current situations would not
allow for a relationship between them. Skywalker's pursuit of a relationship with her
was in violation of Jedi tradition, which held that although Jedi were not required to
be celibate, they were to avoid attachment to all but the Force itself.[11]
Return to Tatooine
"Why'd she have to die? Why couldn't I save her? I know I could have!"
"Sometimes there are things no one can fix. You're not all powerful, Ani."
"Well I should be! Someday I will be. I will be the most powerful Jedi ever! I promise
you. I will even learn to stop people from dying!"
"Anakin"
"It's all Obi-Wan's fault! He's jealous! He's holding me back!"
Anakin Skywalker and Amidala[src]
Anakin Vengeance
Skywalker attacks the Tusken Raiders in revenge for killing his mother.
Skywalker had been suffering from recurring nightmares about his mother, Shmi, for
several months prior to meeting Amidala again; and, because of them, went against
the spirit of his orders to protect Amidala by bringing her to Tatooine to find Shmi.
Upon landing on Tatooine, Skywalker made his way straight for Watto's shop, where
he discovered that a moisture farmer named Cliegg Lars had freed and married his
mother.[11]
While speaking with Lars, he learned, to his horror, that Shmi had been abducted by
Tusken Raiders. He immediately set out in pursuit of her on Owen Lars' swoop bike.
That night, the young Jedi discovered the Tusken village beyond the B'Thazoshe
Bridge, and slipped into the tent that contained his mother, most likely locating her
with his Jedi senses. He freed her from her bonds, but it was too late. Battered,
sleep-deprived, and dehydrated, Shmi Skywalker died in his arms, but not before
seeing him for the last time.[11]
Skywalker allowed the shock of her death to catalyze an explosion of his longnursed anger and selfishness. He flew into a berserk rage, slaughtering all present
in the camp without mercyeven, as he confessed to Amidala later, the women and
children. A number of Jedi, including Yoda and the deceased Qui-Gon Jinn, sensed
the shock of this massacre as well as Skywalker's powerful Force presence, which
bordered on closer to the dark side of the Force.[11]
When Skywalker told Amidala that he had killed the tribe, he justified his actions at
first. Amidala was clearly troubled by what Skywalker had done, but had invested
herself too much in him to be truly repulsed. She tried to soothe him with sympathy

and told no one of Skywalker's hideous act. In his anger and sorrow, he rashly
claimed that one day he would have the power to stop people from dying, he
claimed that Obi-Wan was jealous of his power and was holding him back. He then
expressed his hate for the Sand People before remembering that he was a Jedi and
broke down in remorse for killing the Sand People. Amidala told him that his
emotions made him human, but Skywalker responded that he was a Jedi and he was
supposed to be better than this and be above revenge.[11]
Battle of Geonosis
"I was beginning to wonder if you had gotten my message."
"I retransmitted it just as you had requested, Master; then we decided to come and
rescue you."
"Good job."
Anakin and Obi-Wan in the Geonisian execution arena.[src]
While still on Tatooine, Skywalker discovered that Kenobi had been taken hostage by
the Geonosian-engineered Confederacy of Independent Systems's droid forces. He
initially decided to honor Mace Windu's order to protect Amidala at all costs and to
stay on Tatooine, the episode with his mother having caused him to lose confidence
in himself. However, Amidala convinced him that rescuing his mentor was the right
thing to do and they traveled to Geonosis. Once on the planet, Skywalker and
Amidala infiltrated the droid foundries, but they were attacked by Geonosians and
Skywalker's lightsaber was caught in machinery and was destroyed. The two were
captured as well and sentenced to die in a gladiatorial execution arena. Faced with
their impending fate, they finally confessed their love to one another and kissed for
what they thought was the last time. Skywalker, Amidala, and Kenobi each faced
ferocious arena beasts, but were able to escape them. Skywalker tamed the Reek
set to attack him but they were surrounded by droidekas. However, a team of Jedi
led by Mace Windu attacked the droids gathering in the arena and the three
escaped. Skywalker took up a green lightsaber and founght the droids alongside
Amidala. The Jedi remaining were herded into the center of the arena, having taken
huge casualties despite killing Jango Fett. However, the newly discovered Clone
Army arrived to rescue the Jedi, and the trio were airlifted out of the arena. The
clone troopers allowed all three of them to escape and fight in the ensuing battle.
[11]
Duel in the Geonosian Hangar
Skywalker fights Count Dooku on Geonosis.
Skywalker and Kenobi pursued Count Dooku, the mastermind of the Confederacy
and, unbeknownst to them, a Sith Lord. They gave chase across the vast Geonosian
sands, where he led them to a CIS-owned hangar. Once they caught up with Dooku,
Skywalker, against the better advice of his Master, foolishly charged the Sith with a
headstrong attitude. It was the Padawan's undoing: Dooku unleashed a powerful
barrage of Force lightning on Skywalker, knocking the youth unconscious and

leaving Kenobi to face Dooku alone. Kenobi put up a valiant fight, however, his skills
proved no match for the more powerful and experienced Dooku, and he was soon
incapacitated. As Skywalker recovered from the Force lightning, he witnessed Dooku
raising his lightsaber to deliver the final blow against the fallen Kenobi.[11]
No arm annie
Skywalker loses his right arm to Dooku's blade.
Skywalker, calling upon the Force, leaped into the path of Dooku's lightsaber,
blocking it with his own, saving his Master's life in the process. Taking up his fallen
master's weapon, Skywalker unleashed a flurry of attacks, which caught Dooku off
guard at first. However, despite the tactical advantage the second blade granted, it
was short-lived. Without more than basic training in Jar'Kai, Skywalker's use of two
blades simply wasn't good enough to pass through Dooku's guard, and the Sith
eventually managed to destroy the green blade, leaving Skywalker with only his
blue. At that point, Dooku's greater practice and experience with Makashi allowed
him to regain the upper hand, and, despite holding his own for much of the duel,
Skywalker lost the battleand his arm to Dooku. After being rescued by Yoda,
Skywalker, Amidala, and Kenobi were transported back to the Jedi Temple for
healing.[11]
Marriage to Padm Amidala
APwedding
Skywalker marries Senator Amidala.
"One day they'd get some lovesick Jedi doing something crazy, whatever the
training was supposed to knock out of them, and it wouldn't end well."
RC-1136, speaking of Jedi and love[src]
After Skywalker's forearm was replaced with a mechno-arm[11] crafted by the Chief
Healer Vokara Che, he remained in the Halls of Healing as he grew accustomed to
the replacement. Meanwhile, Kenobi was sent by Master Yoda to force Amidala to
end her relationship with the Chosen One. Lying, she agreed, yet asked to do it
herself. She suggested having Skywalker escort her back to Naboo and that is when
she would end it.
However, the escort was a ploy, and Skywalker married Amidala, even though that
meant breaking the Jedi Code; but he had gone past caring, and set the marriage at
Varykino on Naboo in a secret ceremony performed by a Naboo holyman. C-3PO and
his counterpart, R2-D2, were the only witnesses. The newly-married couple would
later struggle to keep this illicit relationship secret.[11]
The Clone Wars
Early battles
CWAV1-FC

Skywalker and Kenobi during the start of the Clone Wars.

"You are strong and wise, Anakin, and I am very proud of you. I have trained you
since you were a small boy. I have taught you everything I know, and you have
become a far greater Jedi than I could ever hope to be."
Obi-Wan Kenobi[src]
With the onset of the Clone Wars, Anakin Skywalker started on his way to become a
legendary hero. He was an unparalleled starfighter pilot, flying missions over
several worlds, including Kamino, Balamak, and Virujansi, solidifying his reputation.
He even earned the seldom-heard title of Tan in recognition of his exceptional
piloting skills. He custom-modified his Delta-7 Aethersprite starfighternaming it
Azure Angel as a tribute to his wifeinto a unique and deadly vessel that time and
time again outperformed any ship on the battlefield. He also proved his worth
outside the cockpit, destroying the ancient Sith weapon known as the Dark
Reaper[49] and helping to drive back a Separatist invasion of Coruscant that even
breached the Jedi Temple itself.[50] Skywalker also captured more than half of the
prisoners of the Ghost Prison during the War.[51]
Dubbed the "Hero With No Fear", war molded Skywalker into a man and honed his
combat ability, but it continued to nourish his ego. It was also a lie. Skywalker had
no fear for his own life, but he was terrified for the lives of his Master, Supreme
Chancellor Palpatine, his Padawan Ahsoka Tano, the troops under his authority, and
even R2-D2, who accompanied Skywalker whenever he could. It was difficult to rein
in Skywalker as he increasingly had trouble following the strict doctrine governed by
the Jedi Code, especially when the Order itself was complicit in ambiguous moral
acts by waging a full-scale war. But, above all else, Skywalker feared for his beloved
Padm Amidala. He wrote to her whenever he could, and also tried to meet with her
on several occasions, but because of their duties they saw each other very rarely.
And the few times they did, Amidala was usually in danger, which fueled his
protectiveness for her and his fear.[source?]
The Dark Reaper
One month after the start of the Clone Wars, Skywalker and Kenobi were involved in
an operation to stop Count Dooku from obtaining the Dark Reaper, a powerful
superweapon of mass destruction constructed during the Great Sith War and lost
after its conclusion. Skywalker and Kenobi helped to evacuate the Republic outpost
on Rhen Var and then went to Raxus Prime where Dooku had found the Force
Harvestera major part of the Dark Reaper. After his encounter with Dooku on
Raxus Prime, Skywalker was captured and sent to Alaris Prime, to be executed by
the Force Harvester, an ancient Sith weapon that drains the Force from all living
things within its range. He escaped and traveled to Rhen Var. On Rhen Var,
Skywalker fought his way to the tomb of Ulic Qel-Droma for information on how to
withstand the effects of the Dark Reaper and the Harvester. Shortly after the Dark
Reaper was revived on Thule, Skywalker led an attack on the capital city of Kessia
and destroyed the Reaper using his TX-130S fighter tank. Although Skywalker did
manage to destroy the Reaper, the knowledge he gained from Qel-Droma caused

him to act more arrogantly toward Kenobi, and indirectly led him to take a step
toward the path to the dark side of the Force.[49]
Battle of Ohma-D'un
When the planet Naboo lost contact with a Gungan colony on one of Naboo's
moons, Ohma-D'un, Skywalker was sent along with a squad of four Jedi to
investigate. They quickly found what had become of the Gungan colony. Every
single Gungan had died of a mysterious chemical weapon. The Jedi were infected by
the poison, but luckily its effects took longer to work on non-Gungans. They soon
encountered Ohma-D'un super battle droids, B2 super battle droids and the bounty
hunter Durge, and attacked them. Skywalker defeated many droids during the
battle and helped to save the prisoners located in the nearby camp. It was the first
time Skywalker encountered Asajj Ventress, who would be his nemesis throughout
the whole war.[52]
Battle of Muunilinst and Duel on Yavin 4
"I'm going to make you pay for what you've done."
"Come, Padawan. Your fall will be my ascension to the Sith."
Anakin Skywalker and Asajj Ventress Gnome-speakernotesListen (file info)[src]
HeKnowsHeKnows
Skywalker battling above Muunilinst
At the request of the Supreme Chancellor, Anakin was made a commander and was
charged with leading the Republic's space forces against the Separatist fleet in orbit
above Muunilinst, homeworld of the InterGalactic Banking Clan, a pivotal member of
the Confederacy of Independent Systems, during the Republic's attack on the
planet. His piloting talents and leadership of a group of clone pilots led to a victory.
[53]
A mysterious vessel caught his eye that wiped out Blue Squadron during the fray,
[53] and he was drawn from the battle after determining that the Force was with the
pilot, despite Obi-Wan Kenobi's admonition and suspicions that the fighter was
leading him into a trap. He followed the enigmatic Fanblade starfighter through an
intense chase through the streets of Muunilinst's capital city, back to space[54] and
through hyperspace to Yavin 4. Beneath the jungle canopy and amongst the
remains of ancient Massassi temples, a mysterious assassin slew all the clones sent
by Kenobi to follow Skywalker and destroyed the Azure Angel II. Skywalker came
face to face with the fanblade pilot, the Dark Jedi Asajj Ventress, and dueled with
her. As they fought,[55][56] the battle progressed into and onto the temples of
Yavin 4.
Anakin vs Asajj Yavin4
Skywalker battling Asajj Ventress on Yavin 4

In the end, Skywalker was disarmed by Asajj, but was able to defeat her by taking
one of her curved-hilt lightsabers, and repeatedly striking her, having brief visions
of Jinn, Kenobi, and Yoda deeply troubled by what he was doing. His strikes caused
the temple stone beneath her to crumble, and she fell through the ledge into a
chasm apparently to her death; but she would later escape. As he stood victorious,
Skywalker gave a loud yell of rage, knowing that he had won. This had only been
accomplished, though, by tapping into his dark side.[57]
Anakin vs asajj
Anakin and Asajj in combat
Skywalker and Kenobi then participated in Mission to Nivek, where they destroyed
an entire droid construction facility,[58] and Battle of Terra Sool which was won
thanks to Skywalker's skills.[59]
Battle on Skye
Kenobi temporarily took Halagad Ventor as a Padawan in addition to Skywalker,
following the demise of Ventor's former master. He and Skywalker soon became
friends and as a sign of their trust, they engaged in the Concordance of Fealty, a
Jedi tradition where they temporarily swapped lightsabers as a sign of trust. They
traveled to the planet of Skye, where they fought against an Unidentified genetic
terrorist. They foiled the terrorist's plot that threatened the planet with total
destruction. Following the battle, Skywalker discovered the 13 year old S'kytri
Kharys, who proved to be strong in the Force. He wished to take her back with them
for training, but Kenobi and Ventor believed she was too old to start on the path of a
Jedi and refused to take her. However, Skywalker promised Kharys that he would
return one day to train her.[60]
Rise of the Cortosis Battle Droids
Ten months after the Battle of Geonosis,[source?] a report reached the Jedi Council
that a new type of battle droid was being deployed on Tatooine. Skywalker was sent
to investigate and contact the Republic spy Raala Ponchar. However, he was
captured by Aurra Sing and one of Dooku's Dark Acolytes, Saato, and imprisoned in
Jabba's palace. He managed to escape, rescue Ponchar and kill Saato before
learning that Count Dooku had infiltrated Coruscant with a small force on a mission
to destroy the Jedi Archives in the Jedi Temple. Skywalker returned to Coruscant,
killed another Dark Acolyte Trenox, but was delayed long enough for Dooku to steal
at least one Holocron and escape. Skywalker then traveled to Metalorn to stop
production of the Cortosis battle droids. There he single-handedly defeated bounty
hunter Vandalor, Dark Acolytes Karoc, Vinoc and even a Doppelgnger of Dooku,
captured Techno Union Foreman Wat Tambor and destroyed the facility.[50]
Battle of Jabiim
Jabiim2
Skywalker fighting on the rain-soaked world of Jabiim

On the rain-drenched world of Jabiim, during the battle that took place there,
Skywalker came into his own. As Kenobi was thought to have been killed by a
Separatist attack, Skywalker led a cadre of similarly "orphaned" Padawans. The loss
of his Master and the horrors on the battlefield of Jabiim would have lasting effect
on his life; and because of it he became even more fiercely independent and more
frustrated by his failings. However, in the thick of the battle he received an urgent
transmission from Palpatine to personally evacuate the planet. This ploy may have
been made to save Skywalker from being killed on the battlefront.[source?]
Respecting the Chancellor's power and friendship, Skywalker had to comply with his
wishes, though it was hard for him to desert his friends on the final front. Before
leaving, the thirteen-year old Padawan Aubrie Wyn gave Skywalker her Master's
holocron to return to the temple. Sadly, in the following five days as Skywalker left
the front, all of the members of the Padawan Pack were killed in action. When the
transports arrived, only a few had made it through the storms. Skywalker was faced
with a hard and painful decisionas the last surviving Jedi on Jabiim, he ordered the
evacuation of the planet. Enraged, Captain Orliss Gillmunn pulled a blaster on
Skywalker, who reacted instinctively with Force choke, strangling the officer. Such
horrific acts were becoming far too natural for him; it was the first time he had used
the Force in this manner but it would certainly not be the last. Gillmunn, leader of
the disenchanted Jabiimi loyalists, swore to never forget this betrayal as the Loyalist
Jabiimi was left to their fate. Once again, Skywalker had failed and the battle for
Jabiim was lost. His actions during the battle would later spark the subjugation of
Jabiim nearly twenty years later, where his children were captured by rogue rebels.
[source?]
Two days after the evacuation, the wounded were taken to New Holstice, where
Skywalker would first meet A'Sharad Hett, the Tusken Jedi, and his apprentice, Bhat
Jul, who practiced as healers.[source?]
One of the wounded was Master Sora Mobari, who was injured in an explosion by
Ithorian terrorists and who was not responding to treatments. Skywalker, unable to
accept even one more Jedi lost, tried a different methodhe used the same Force
technique that he used to crushed Gillmunn's windpipe, and used it to massage
Mobari's heart. Hett was horrified, so he tried to reason with Skywalker, saying that
she was suffering needlessly. Skywalker insisted she would live, but in spite of his
efforts she succumbed to her injuries. Skywalker was unable to accept that he could
not save people from death; this experience would reinforce his desire to save the
people he loved from dying.[source?]
Hett later showed Skywalker a memorial created for all the Jedi killed since the birth
of the Republic. It was composed of supposedly immortal memory moths that
whispered the names of the Jedi over and over again. Skywalker released a few
months for all members of the Padawan PackKass Tod, Mak Lotor, Tae Diath, Elora
Sund, Vaabesh, Windo Nend, Zule Xiss, and Aubrie Wynand his own master, ObiWan Kenobi. As Hett released one for Sora Morbari, he reassured Skywalker that she
was severed from the Living Force days ago and nothing could have stopped her

from dying. Because of his Master's apparent death, Skywalker came under the
tutelage of Ki-Adi-Mundi as a campaign began on the world of Aargonar.[source?]
Battle of Aargonar
On the desert world of Aargonar, an unimportant world, the Republic and
Confederacy fought; the lines were drawn. During one of the skirmishes, Skywalker,
Hett, and his apprentice, Jhul, were lost behind enemy lines.[source?]
BathDead
Skywalker attempting to heal Jhul with the Force
Jhul had been seriously injured from a crash, and as he lay dying, Skywalker tried to
use the Force to heal him, but it was to no avail; Jhul died from the fatal wounds.
Skywalker, frustrated with the Nikto's death, chastised Hett, saying that had they
been with him, they might have been able to save him. Hett replied that he had felt
Jhul become one with the Force, arguing that Jhul had known that he was there with
him in the Force, and that his physical presence would have made no difference.
[source?]
As Skywalker and Hett began to work their way back to their army, Skywalker's
prejudice against the Tuskens for killing his mother was beginning to demonstrate
itself against the Tusken Jedi. He was insulted and angered when Hett spoke of the
similarities between them: coming to Coruscant later in their lives, being raised on a
desert planet, and having known only one parent. Skywalker's fury was intensified
when Hett commented that Skywalker would have made a good Tusken.[source?]
When they reached a Separatist station, they began working on transport to return
to their own base. So they could hijack a transport, Hett gave Skywalker the power
cells from his and the Tusken Jedi's father's lightsaber to get the transport moving.
That completed, they started the search for weapons to arm themselves. As the
hours rolled by, Skywalker began to relive the memories surrounding his mother's
death. When Separatist guards located the Padawan, who was slipping toward the
dark side, he mistook them for Tuskens, and, in a fit of rage, slaughtered them all. In
a blood haze, Skywalker turned on Hett, but the Tusken Jedi managed to disarm him
and talk some sense into him.[source?]
Hett told Skywalker that, as a Tusken, he understood the vehement desire to take
revenge, but because of his training as a Jedi he had learned that vengeance was
not theirs to take. The Tusken Jedi also knew the lure of the dark side, knowing it
needed to be avoided. After recounting to Hett his painful memories of his mother's
death, Skywalker remembered that his mother's death and the slaughter that had
followed it was something he had never told his old master, Kenobi.[source?]
Seeing the turmoil the boy was in, Hett concluded that if they were to survive and
get along together, Skywalker must see him as a Jedi, and not a Tusken Raider. Hett
removed his mask, surprising Skywalker, who saw that he was totally Human. He
insisted that he was Tusken at heart, but also wholly a Jedi. Skywalker apologized to

him, finally seeing Hett as an ally instead of an old foe. The two survived the trip
back to the Republic lines.[source?]
Hett, contemplating the episode, decided to have people see him first as a Jedi,
then as a Tusken. He also never told anyone else of Skywalker's secret, insisting that
it was his burden and that Skywalker would have to face the repercussions of what
he had done, believing that Skywalker would tell his master about the massacre,
himself. Skywalker never did.[source?]
Not long afterward, Skywalker discovered that his master was indeed alive and had
only been captured by Asajj, and was soon joyfully reunited with Kenobi, who had
escaped from captivity.[source?]
Battle of Zaadja
The Battle of Zaadja was one of many emotional milestones for Anakin Skywalker,
who increasingly encountered difficulties with the sacrifices he witnessed. Acting as
a diversion, Kenobi and Skywalker led the Third Systems Army onto the field of
battle to draw the Separatist forces away from the droid factory on Zaadja;
concurrently, the young Jedi Tohno was tasked to infiltrate the droid factory and
destroy it using military-grade explosives. After she planted all explosives, Tohno
was ambushed by Geonosians. When Skywalker rushed to help her, Tohno realized
that she would not survive her mission. She was able to convince him that if he
came after her, it would cause needless casualties among the troopers of the Third
System Army. Though he was reluctant to accept it, Skywalker agreed with Tohno's
decision to end the Zaadja mission with as little loss of life as possible. Nonetheless,
Skywalker would continue to struggle with the need for so many young, even
promising, Jedi to sacrifice themselves throughout the course of the war.[61]
KnightingCeremony-CW21
Skywalker's Knighting
Knight of the Republic
"Step forward, Padawan. Anakin Skywalker, by the right of the Council, by the will of
the Force, dub thee I do Jedi Knight of the Republic."
Yoda[src]
After his heroic actions at the Battle of Praesitlyn and upon returning from the
Mission to Vjun,[62] Skywalker was endowed with the title of Jedi Knight, despite the
fact that he never went through the traditional Jedi Trials before being Knighted. It
was a controversial decision; Kit Fisto and Ki-Adi-Mundi openly and zealously
supported him, while Oppo Rancisis and Adi Gallia questioned whether Skywalker
was mature enough. But in the end, the decision fell to Yoda, who decided to have
him Knighted in a secret ceremony. Skywalker later sent his Padawan braid, which
had been ritualistically severed by Yoda, to Amidala as a late devotion gift.[63]
Battle of Rendili and aftermath

Shortly after his knighthood, Skywalker participated in the Battle of Rendili. His idea
was to use his starfighter to place concussion charges on critical weak points of the
Rendili Dreadnaught-class cruisers. Although Jedi Master Saesee Tiin objected to it,
Skywalker's pride could not let him pass up any chance for a victory. Without
permission, he proceeded to carry out his plan during the battle. It was a success,
and helped achieve a Republic victory, fueling his ego and self-importance. After the
battle, Skywalker returned to Coruscant, where he testified before the council
regarding Quinlan Vos's involvement in the battle, helping the former Jedi regain his
position in the order.[source?]
Immediately afterward, Skywalker journeyed to the Senate Building to meet
Amidala, but as she wasn't there, he gratefully received a holographic message
from one of her handmaidens. Traveling to the Galactic City's industrial sector to
listen to the recording privately, he was ambushed by the Dooku-trained Asajj
Ventress.[source?]
Asajj eavesdropped on Skywalker as he listened to the secret holodisc recording,
thus discovering his relationship with Amidala. She destroyed the holodisc, and
taunted Skywalker with threats to kill Amidala, after which the two engaged in a
vicious lightsaber duel. It was during this battle that Skywalker received a vertical
scar which ran above and below his right eye, and two small scars on his left cheek,
from her lightsaber.[64]
Anakin maimed
Skywalker is scarred over his right eye by Dark Jedi Asajj Ventress.
Despite being painfully blemished, Skywalker persevered. Ventress had made the
mistake of underestimating the young Jedi Knight's fierce desire to protect the ones
he loved from harm, and, during the battle, Skywalker used the Force to entangle
her in electrical cables and send her plummeting to the depths of Coruscant. As on
Yavin IV, she survived the fall, but was too weak to pursue Skywalker.[source?]
Sometime after becoming a Knight, Skywalker and Kenobi were confronted by
bounty hunters on an unknown planet. The two managed to escape on a swoop
thanks to Skywalker's piloting and ingenuity, as he used the lightsaber's battery to
give the swoop more speed.[65]
Skywalker also rescued fellow Jedi Serra Keto from the Separatist droids on a space
station somewhere in the Outer Rim, after he received a distress call from her.[66]
On a heavily forested planet, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker were confronted
by a battle droid fleeing from something. Instead of fighting, the droid
recommended that the Jedi flee, as well. They soon discovered that the whole
planet was full of dangerous monsters, which attacked them. However, Kenobi and
Skywalker managed to survive.[67]
Mission to Christophsis
AnakinStealthShip

Anakin Skywalker pilots the stealth ship against Admiral Trench.

When Senator Bail Organa's relief force became trapped on Christophsis, Skywalker,
Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Admiral Wullf Yularen were sent to break the Separatist
blockade and free Organa. Leading the initial assault, Skywalker was quickly
repelled by the Separatists' new and devious tactics and rendezvoused with Kenobi
behind one of Christophsis' moons to regroup. His former Master lent him use of one
of the Republic's newest weapons, a stealth ship to sneak behind enemy lines.
Before leaving for the mission, Skywalker was approached by Yularen, who
volunteered himself for the mission, citing past experience with their dangerous foe,
Admiral Trench. Zipping past Trench's flagship, Skywalker unleashed a torrent of
missiles, which were quickly absorbed by the admiral's shields. Trench sent back a
volley of his own shots, which were rendered inefficient as Skywalker disappeared
under his ship's capabilities of remaining undetectable. At an efficient stalemate,
Trench contacted Skywalker through a general hail, attempting to goad the Jedi into
attacking. When the admiral revealed that he had dealt with stealth ships
previously, Skywalker guessed that he had defeated the ship through use of a
magnetic signature. Using the same knowledge against Trench, Skywalker allowed
the Separatist to send out homing missiles, then skimmed along the bridge of his
ship, sending the missiles slamming into the Separatist flagship and knocking
Trench out of commission. With the blockade broken, Republic aid was able to reach
Organa, and a lasting bond between Skywalker and the stalwart Yularen was forged.
[68]
Battle on Christophsis
Menage a trois
Skywalker and Kenobi engage Asajj Ventress in a duel.
"This way is clear!"
"How did you get over here?"
"I improvised."
Skywalker and Kenobi, as Skywalker enters the room to help him against
Separatist forces Gnome-speakernotesListen (file info)[src]
When Christophsis was invaded by the Separatists, they put out a call for help to
the Republic, and Skywalker and Kenobi were quickly dispatched to aid the planet,
along with Commander Cody and Captain Rex. They set up defense in two towers
and prepared as the droid forces advanced, seemingly unaware of the Jedi's
presence. However, the droid army suddenly split up, and before Kenobi knew what
was happening, droids arrived in his tower and started to attack. Skywalker called
Hawk for an evacuation, and he and Rex proceeded to aid Kenobi. They managed to
escape, and also managed to steal a tactical droid's head.[69]
However, the tactical droid did nothing but confirm that the Separatists knew of the
Jedi's location. Kenobi suspected that someone in their squad had turned suit and
betrayed the Republic. Kenobi and Skywalker instructed Cody and Rex to find the

traitor while they went on a secret mission behind enemy lines. On the way, they
discovered that an increasing number of droids were watching them but not
attempting to fire, and Skywalker concluded that they were being led into a trap.
Upon arrival, they encountered Asajj Ventress, and the three engaged in a duel. The
Jedi managed to knock Ventress down, but she merely used her lightsabers to cut
through the floor, pushing the Jedi a floor down. Ventress taunted them before
leading them to see a complete army of droids preparing to attack the city. The Jedi
escaped on STAPs, and Ventress ordered General Whorm Loathsom to march on the
city before leaving.[69]
Upon returning to the Republic base, Skywalker and Kenobi discovered that Rex and
Cody had found Slick to be the traitor. Skywalker questioned why Slick would betray
his brothers, and Slick replied that it was the Jedi who kept his brothers enslaved.
Cody and Rex, however, said that if he loved his brothers, he wouldn't put them at
risk, and Slick was taken away to lockup.[69]
Skywalker and Kenobi managed to fend off the first wave of droids, and sent their
shuttle back for reinforcements. A second wave of droids soon advanced, and while
Kenobi and Cody drew the droids' attention, Skywalker, Rex and Torrent Company
took out the advancing tri-droids. This, along with the Republic's use of heavy
cannons, forced Loathsom to retreat.[70]
Anakin's apprentice
"Ahsoka, a very wise Jedi once said, "Nothing happens by accident." It is the will of
the Force that you are at my side. I just want to keep you there in one piece."
Anakin reassuring his Padawan[src]
Ahsoka nonCGI
Skywalker met his Padawan, Ahsoka Tano, for the first time on Christophsis.
After the Confederacy's retreat, a shuttle arrived with a young Togruta Jedi named
Ahsoka Tano. She had a message from the Jedi Council to get back to Coruscant
immediately, and had also been assigned as Skywalker's new Padawan, much to
Skywalker's shock and dismay. After unsuccessfully trying to get the message from
Yoda, Skywalker went to check on Rex at the lookout post, taking his new Padawan
with him.[70]
Unfortunately for the Republic forces, Loathsom had activated an expanding
deflector shield with his armies advancing behind it. Skywalker and Tano managed
to sneak behind the shield by hiding beneath a box. After Tano bumped into a
droideka and alerted retail droids, the two still managed to destroy the shield
generator, allowing Republic artillery to finish off the droids. The Separatists on
Christophsis surrendered to Kenobi, and Skywalker finally accepted his new
Padawan.[70]
Rescuing a Hutt
Tano: "You've got that "we're in trouble" look."

Skywalker: "There's a look?"

Tano: "You can't miss it."
Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano aboard the Twilight[src]
Skywalker and Tano were reassigned on another vital mission - to rescue Jabba the
Hutt's son, Rotta, from the planet Teth. On Teth pursuant of their objective, along
with Captain Rex and Torrent Company, Skywalker scaled a high mesa under
Separatist fire to reach a clifftop monastery. After destroying the droids in the
courtyard, Skywalker and his men secured and searched the monastery for the
huttlett. Skywalker and his Padawan found the Huttlet on the detention level.
Discovering that Rotta was severely ill, they put the Huttlet in a backpack. After
contacting his former master, Skywalker and his men were then attacked by droid
reinforcements under Dooku's assassin, Asajj Ventress who kidnapped and had been
holding the Huttlet captive. After closing the door, Anakin was convinced by his
Padawan to find another way out of the monastery. After R2-D2 found a backdoor
landing platform, the pair escaped from Ventress. The two Jedi then took a beat-up
spice freighter, the Twilight, and tried to dock on the Spirit of the Republic. However,
when its hangar was destroyed by Separatist fire, they were forced to take the
Twilight all the way to Tatooine. Fortunately, Rotta was saved from near death by
some medicine on board the Twilight.[70]
The Twilight was shot down over Tatooine by two IG-100 MagnaGuards in Rogueclass starfighters and forced to crash-land. The Jedi split up, with Skywalker acting
as a decoy for his young apprentice. Dooku, who had been negotiating with Jabba,
intercepted Skywalker and sent MagnaGuards to intercept Tano so that they would
not reach the Hutt and reveal Dooku's Sith deceptions.[70]
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Skywalker duels Dooku once again on his homeworld of Tatooine.
After a fierce duel on the Dune Sea, Skywalker stole Dooku's speeder and flew to
Jabba's palace to save Tano from his wrath. While Jabba was pleased to see his son
returned, he still ordered both Skywalker and Tano to be executed. Fortunately, the
intervention of Senator Amidala, who had found that Dooku had been working with
Jabba's uncle Ziro, saved the negotiations. Furious that Dooku had deceived him,
Jabba permitted the Republic to use Hutt hyperspace routes into the Outer Rim, and
asked the Jedi to bring Dooku to justice for his crimes against the hutts.[70]
Slaves of the Republic
"He was raised as a slave, Ahsoka.[]Ever since I've known Skywalker, he's
struggled to put that part of his life behind him. He must get past it eventually.
Perhaps now is the time."
Obi-Wan Kenobi[src]
Skywalker, Kenobi and Tano later traveled to Kiros, a Togruta colony world under the
control of the Separatists, where they learned that the whole city was full of thermal

bombs. While Kenobi, "negotiated" with Commander Xerius Ugg, Skywalker and
Tano disabled all the bombs around the city, except the one near Ugg's escape ship.
Afterward, they discovered that the entire planet's population had disappeared.
Meanwhile, Ugg's computers indicated that he was talking to someone in the
Zygerrian system, a system of slave traders.[71]
Skywalker and Kenobi then contacted Yoda, who informed them that according to
the Separatists, all of Kiros's inhabitants had been killed. He also told them about
the nature of the Zygerrians. Remembering his past as a slave, Skywalker ordered
his men to set the course for the Zygerrian system immediately, but Kenobi
proposed another plan. In order to get the exact information about slaves, they hid
in the remains of the former homeworld of Shi'kar until a Zygerrian slave vessel
arrived. Posing as the slave traders, Skywalker, Kenobi, Tano and a group of clones
infiltrated it, but because of Skywalker's "aggressive negotiations" a firefight
ensued, during which Tano was separated from the rest of the group and captured
by the Zygerrians, while Skywalker, Kenobi and the clones along with a group of
captured slave traders were sealed from her on the Twilight. Zygerrians tried to
smash the Jedi's ship in the asteroids, but Skywalker managed to disable their
engines. Tano soon contacted her master and told that it was a part of her plan, but
the Zygerrian commander Onyx intercepted her transmission and proposed the Jedi
to trade Tano for his people being held on the Twilight. Using the space suits and
rocket jets, Skywalker, Kenobi and their men flew into the open space, but were
attacked by a creature that Onyx had released. Meanwhile, Tano with the help of the
Force opened the rear airlock. Skywalker and Kenobi killed the beast and breached
the ship, capturing Onyx, who revealed them that the queen of Zygerria was going
to have a grand auction, that would change the slave trade in the galaxy forever.
[72]
Soon, posing as slave traders, Skywalker, Kenobi, Tano and Captain CT-7567
nicknamed "Rex"infiltrated the auction and tried to rescue the Togrutas[73]
However, they ended up being caught by the Zygerrians and becoming slaves
themselves.[74]
Skywalker was left in service of Queen Scintel, Tano was imprisoned on Zygerria,
and Kenobi and Rex were transferred along with the Togrutas to the Zygerrian Labor
Processing Hub on the planet Kadavo. Skywalker and his Padawan, however,
escaped from the Zygerrians and headed for Kadavo to rescue Kenobi, CT-7567, and
the Togrutas, who had been transferred to the Zygerrian Labor Processing Hub on
the planet. Fearing that the liberation of the slaves could prove him a liaras he
had spread word that the Jedi had eradicated Kiros's populationthe Confederate
leader Count Dooku sent his assassin, Asajj Ventress, alongside General Grievous, to
kill everyone at the Kadavo facility.[75]
After both the Republic and the Confederate forces arrived at Kadavo, a battle
ensued on and above the planet. While Grievous's fleet battled the Republic
Venator-class Star Destroyers, Ventress led a squadron of Hyena-class bombers to
destroy the Labor Processing Hub. Hoping that the Separatists would spare him if he
killed the Togrutas himself, the facility headthe Keepertried to dump the slaves

into the lava but was prevented from doing so by Kenobi and CT-7567. Soon,
Republic reinforcements arrived, forcing the Confederate fleet to retreat. Ventress,
however, chose to continue the fight alone and made a last ditch attempt to kill the
Jedi with her starship, the Trident, but was repelled by the Republic V-19 Torrent
starfighters. Having won the battle, the Republic returned the people of Kiros back
to their home.[76]
The Malevolence Crisis
"Ever since I've known you, you've been playing with droids."
"I used to put them together. Now, I only take them apart."
Skywalker and Amidala aboard the Malevolence[src]
Later, Skywalker and Tano were with their taskforce in the Bith system protecting
the staging area there. Skywalker was then contacted by Master Plo Koon who had
tracked the Separatist mystery weapon in the Abregado system. Master Koon asked
Anakin for reinforcement, but Anakin had to ask the Jedi Council for approval.
Skywalker then lost contact with Master Koon. Skywalker and Tano then briefed the
council on Master Koon's last known location, but surmised that Koon's fleet was
destroyed like the others. Though Skywalker was preparing a rescue mission, the
council wanted to reassign his taskforce to protect their supply lines. Despite this
Skywalker and his padawan went to rescue Plo Koon, when he got stranded in an
escape pod in the Abregado system with a small group of clone troopers. Only
Tano's ability to sense Master Koon through the Force kept Skywalker from giving up
on him after an unsuccessful search, as well as the fact that she grabbed the
controls of the Twilight and began piloting it herself. She found Master Koon and his
clones and rescued them. Koon informed them that the "secret weapon" that the
Separatists were using was an ion cannon that rendered their ships defenseless. At
that point the ship passed by, forcing them to shut down all systems before it could
detect them. They, however, forgot to shut off the medical droid, which was
detected by the Malevolence, which responded by firing the ion cannon. The Twilight
managed to escape the ion wave by jumping into hyperspace, taking knowledge of
the Separatist weapon with them.[77]
Shortly after, Skywalker created a plan to utilize Y-wing bombers in a daring attack
on the Malevolence, primarily seeking to take out General Grievous and ensure a
speedier resolution to the war. The Republic plotted the course of the Separatist
super weapon to the Kaliida Shoals Medical Center, and in an attempt to arrive
there before it, the strike force made its way through the Balmorra Run; however,
the small force had not reckoned on being confronted by Neebray mantas. After
barely escaping with their lives, the strike team engaged in battle with the
Malevolence, taking several casualties. When it became apparent that the original
plan would fail, Tano, acting as her Master's gunner, suggested a change in tactics.
With this in mind Master Koon devised a plan that sought to cause the Separatist
warship's ion cannons to overload; this tactic proved successful and shortly after
destroying the ion cannons, Master Kenobi arrived in system with three Republic
ships that began pursuit of the fleeing Malevolence.[78]

Skywalker, Kenobi, Tano and Master Plo Koon began the final attack on the
Malevolence when they received an incoming transmission from Amidala and
Threepio, who were being pulled onboard the Confederate heavy cruiser via a
tractor beam. Skywalker, Kenobi and Artoo piloted the Twilight and entered the
superweapon through an airlock. Separating, Skywalker found Amidala and the two
went to the ship's bridge, where Skywalker rigged the navicomputer and
programmed the ship to crash into a nearby moon. The two then met with Kenobi,
Threepio and Artoo, and the five escaped in the Twilight. With the Malevolence
destroyed, they returned to the Republic fleet.[79]
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Skywalker and Amidala aboard the Malevolence
Some weeks later, while searching for General Grievous and his fleet, Kenobi and
Skywalker were forced to come to the aid of Commander Cody, Captain Rex, and
squad of shinies after the clones engaged Separatist forces on the Rishi moon. The
Jedi's fleet arrived just in time to force Grievous' ships out of the system, foiling the
cyborg's plot to launch a surprise attack on Kamino.[80]
Attack on the Separatist shipyards
The Republic decided to attack the shipyards at Gwori, but the droids had
developed a machine where only droids could pass through harmlessly, not to
mention a whole blockade of Munificent-class star frigates. Skywalker thus proposed
that they freeze themselves in carbonite in order to bypass the Separatist blockade.
Once there, Skywalker, his Padawan Ahsoka Tano, and Obi-Wan Kenobi delivered the
shipyard coordinates to Jedi Masters Plo Koon and Saesee Tiin.
In order to bypass the Separatist blockade, the two Jedi masters and the Republic
bombers had to perform a precision hyperspace jump. In the meantime, Skywalker,
Kenobi, Tano, and Rex were captured, but escaped with the help of R2-D2. Once the
bombers arrived, the Jedi decided to escape on a Separatist frigate. However, the
bombs took out their shields. Moments after Skywalker led the stolen frigate away
from the shipyards, Tiin was about to blast it, but Kenobi contacted him and stopped
him. Plo Koon then ordered the bombers to strike the construction supports, and
once they were done, the shipyards collapsed. Out in space, they were almost killed
by the Separatist's radiation beam, until Plo Koon and Saesee Tiin destroyed the
beam.
Podracing battle
The Jedi High Council dispatched Jedi Master Ki-Adi-Mundi to investigate a corrupt
senator, who recently smuggled a data disk, which contained Republic strategic
battle plans. Unbeknownst to the Jedi, the senator pledged his allegiance to
Confederate Head of State Count Dooku. Dooku's Dark Acolyte, Asajj Ventress,
landed on Coruscant to collect the disk. However, Mundi and his squad of clone
troopers attacked Ventress, but after she killed the senator, Ventress escaped to the
planet of Mon Gazza. After discussing the matter with Chancellor Palpatine, Mundi

and Grand Master Yoda contacted Skywalker and his Padawan, Tano, on Queel to
give them their assignment to Mon Gazza.
On Mon Gazza Skywalker, Tano, and Rex went undercover to find the stolen
datadisk. The datadisk was stolen by the deceased senator's aide, Messo, who soon
was killed by Skywalker. While the disk was not with the aide, the Jedi Knight
concluded that the disk was with another Confederate spy on Mon Gazza. The group
noticed a Twi'lek podracer, named Kidd Kareen, won a podrace. Kareen and his
closest friend, San Maxus, became Skywalker's suspects. Telling Tano to become
friends with Kareen, Skywalker soon began to snoop around Kareen's pit inside a
podrace hangar. Soon after, the first Mon Gazza podrace began. Skywalker entered
Tano into the race, however she crashed her pod. After Kareen gave the Togruta a
spare pod, Skywalker and Rex followed Maxus to a cantina, where they found him
contacting Dooku.
The following day, Tano was racing in the Mon Gazza Maze with Kareen and Maxus.
Skywalker and Rex watched her progress when they noticed Maxus had the data
disk. Maxus soon began to bump into Tano's pod, threatening to kill the revealed
Jedi. However, Kareen saved Tano by allowing her to jump onto his pod. Confronting
the racers, Ventress jumped onto Maxus's pod and engaged Tano in a duel.
Skywalker left Rex to save his Padawan on a speeder bike. Ventress soon grabbed
the data disk, though it was soon Force crushed by Skywalker. As Ventress escaped
the scene; Skywalker, Tano and Kareen met up with Rex near the hangar. After
leaving Kareen, the group departed Mon Gazza. Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi
contacted Skywalker via hologram and discussed about Skywalker's successful
mission.[81]
Mission to Taloraan
The Republic forces traveled to Kothlis to negotiate with the Bothans, but were
confronted by a Confederate fleet upon arrival. After a brief battle, however, the
Separatist forces retreated. Jedi Grand Master Yoda, Kenobi, Skywalker and Tano
then entered negotiations with the Bothans' first secretary Desark Fey'lya, who
thanked the Jedi for their efforts in repelling the Separatist attack. Tano, however,
sensed that the secretary had probably invited the Separatists himself and
expressed her concerns to the rest of the Jedi. Fey'lya felt insulted by Tano's words
and declared that the Bothans and their Spynet would be open to both sides of the
conflict.
Kenobi, Skywalker and Tano traveled to the planet of Taloraan to secure the
shipment of tibanna with the Galactic Republic. They were unaware that the
magister of Taloraan City, Orlin Denache secretly signed a treaty with Count Dooku,
who was interested in making Taloraan a member of the Confederacy of
Independent Systems. A Munificent-class star frigate under the command of Captain
Canteval was sent to the planet and local CIS supporters led by Rynert began to
smuggle B1 battle droids and droidekas into the city.
Denache realized that the Jedi would detect his lies with the Force, so he pretended
to became ill and his emissary Sech Govlinder was sent to negotiate in his place.

After the first round of negotiations Ahsoka Tano went into the city and accidentally
discovered battle droids stocked within a guarded warehouse. Canteval ordered the
droids to attack her and the other Jedi, revealing the Confederate presence within
the city. Kenobi and Skywalker accused Govlinder of treachery and tried to reach
their Nu-class shuttle, but were incapacitated when the shuttle was blown up and
taken into custody.
Meanwhile, Ahsoka Tano managed to leave the city of Denfrandi and persuade a
tribe of Wind Raiders to join combat against Separatist forces. Govlinder himself felt
manipulated by Denache and remained loyal to the Republic. Once he had the
chance, he immediately freed both Jedi and returned to them their lightsabers.
Afterward he led them to the city's central communication tower, where the Jedi
were able to patch a message to their Star Destroyer, Resolute. Without the
element of surprise Canteval's Munificent was unable to overpower the Venator on
its own. With its shield weakening, the Munificent took several direct hits into its
engines and, unable to maintain altitude, was sucked into the gas giant's core.
Meanwhile, the Resolute had sent several LAAT/i with clone reinforcements to help
the loyalists regain control of the city. Rynert and his followers tried to hold, but
against the combined strength of the Jedi, clone troopers, Denfrandi loyalists and
the Wind Raiders they were outmatched and soon defeated. Facing a dead-end,
magister Denache committed suicide by stepping off the edge of the city and falling
into the care of the gas giant. Temporarily taking the rule of the city, Govlinder
continued negotiations with the Jedi and acknowledged the support of the Wind
Raiders, who also played a small part in the skirmish.
Battle of JanFathal
Skywalker agreed to let Tano to travel with Rex in a mission to the Leveler, a ship
commanded by Gilad Pellaeon. Tano, Rex and a group of clones would go to
JanFathal to rescue Hallena Devis. Skywalker rescued the group with a CR-20 troop
carrier.
A missing friend
"Hey! We'd like to buy a droid. You sellin'?"
Skywalker aboard the Vulture's Claw Gnome-speakernotesListen (file info)[src]
After Republic forces were bested at Falleen, Grievous' fleet headed to attack the
Both system. Skywalker and Tano prepared to defend the strategic system. Grievous
headed through the asteroid belt, and Skywalker led a fleet of V-19s in his
starfighter with R2-D2. As the Separatist fleet started to attack the cruisers, it
seemed that the Republic had been beaten, but Skywalker unveiled his "surprise"
for Grievous: pre-dispatched All Terrain Tactical Enforcers in the asteroid field. The
AT-TEs attacked the Separatist frigates from behind, and the Venator-class cruisers
attacked from the front. Beaten, Grievous boarded his fighter and fled the battle.
Skywalker pursued him in his starfighter, but flying debris from the disintegrating
frigates caused damage to his ship. Fortunately, Rex was able to rescue him, but
after recovering he learned that Artoo had gone missing.[82]

With Artoo missing, Skywalker was given a replacement astromech droid, R3-S6, but
was convinced that Artoo could never be replaced. In an attempt to find his friend,
Skywalker went with Tano onboard the Twilight to search the battlefield. Finding his
damaged ship without Artoo, Skywalker then proceeded to dock to a nearby
scavenging ship, unaware of the fact that Trandoshan Gha Nachkt had already
promised the droid to Grievous.[82]
After returning to his cruiser, Skywalker reported to Kenobi that he wasn't able to
find Artoo. Kenobi then instructed Skywalker to find the Separatist listening post
that was apparently listening in on them, explaining the Separatists' intel on their
strategies. Skywalker went to scout ahead with R3, but the astromech activated his
starfighter's tracking beacon, alerting Grievous to his position. Skywalker managed
to evade an attack by Vulture droids, and Tano and Rex came to his rescue aboard
the Twilight. After chastising R3 for nearly getting killed, Skywalker held onto the
belief that Artoo was still somewhere out there.[82]
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Skywalker and Tano free falling toward Skytop Station
Mission to Skytop Station
"You have something that belongs to me."
Skywalker, rescuing R2 from MagnaGuards Gnome-speakernotesListen (file
info)[src]
After receiving a message from Artoo, Skywalker managed to track his droid to
Skytop Station, the listening post they had been looking for. Skywalker sent Tano
and the clones to destroy the station while he went to search for Artoo. Skywalker
found Artoo being carried away by Grievous's MagnaGuards, and successfully
dispatched the droids. Skywalker then went with Artoo to the south hangar to
escape with his team, but upon meeting up with Rex and Denal, he discovered that
Tano had engaged Grievous alone and sent the two to complete the mission. As the
group started to leave the hangar, they were locked in by R3, who revealed himself
to be a spy for Grievous. R3 also activated three Vulture droids. Super battle droids
appeared, and a fight broke out. After Tano returned, Skywalker reproved her for
engaging Grievous alone, and he sent Artoo to find the controls on the outer
platform to open the hangar. The group managed to dispatch the rest of the droids,
and after Artoo opened the hangar door and also destroyed R3, Skywalker went out
in his fighter to retrieve him. After conferring with an exasperated Kenobi, Skywalker
told Tano that Artoo was more than a droid: he was a friend.[83]
Capture of Gunray
"I need you to depart for Rodia immediately."
"Rodia?"
"You are to oversee the transfer of Nute Gunray."
Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano[src]

After Trade Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray was captured during a mission to Rodia
by Senator Amidala, Skywalker, fearing for her safety, sent Tano to help Master
Luminara Unduli escort Gunray to Coruscant for trial.[84] However, Gunray
managed to escape with the help of Ventress and a traitorous Senate Commando
Captain Faro Argyus. Skywalker then met up with Tano at a rendezvous point.[85]
Skywalker Ohnaka Kenobi
Skywalker and Kenobi were captured by Hondo Ohnaka
Capturing Dooku
Skywalker: "You should be more patient, Master. After all, the Count is an elderly
gentlemen, and doesn't move like he used to."
Kenobi: "I suppose you're right."
Dooku: "I would kill you both right now if I did not have to drag your bodies."
Skywalker and Kenobi mock Dooku as the three attempt to escape Listen
(helpinfo)[src]
Kenobi and Skywalker managed to track Dooku aboard a Separatist frigate, and
Skywalker devised a plan to get onboard. Once onboard, he allowed himself to be
captured[86], and Kenobi came aboard to rescue him. After freeing Skywalker, the
two Jedi confronted Dooku as the Resolute attacked the frigate, but Dooku managed
to escape in his solar sailer, and the Jedi gave pursuit. Unfortunately, both ships
sustained damage and crash-landed on Vanqor. Dooku trapped the two Jedi in a
cave and stole Skywalker's lightsaber, but as he was taken to nearby Florrum by
pirates, he was captured himself. After confronting a Gundark and poison gas,
Kenobi and Skywalker were rescued by Tano, who was not pleased to find that her
master had let Dooku escape.[87]
Hondo Ohnaka contacted the Republic, seeking to turn over Dooku for one million
credits. Skywalker and Kenobi were sent to Florrum to confirm that Dooku was in the
captivity of the pirates,[87] but after reporting back, they were captured
themselves[88], discovering that the pirates were seeking to triple their pay. The
two Jedi were forced to strike an uneasy alliance with Dooku to escape from the
stronghold, but after multiple attempts the two Jedi were tortured. Fortunately, Jar
Jar Binks, sent with Senator Kharrus to deliver the ransom, accidentally destroyed
the power lines, and Skywalker and Kenobi managed to escape. The two retrieved
their lightsabers, but left on even terms with Ohnaka. Dooku, however, had
managed to escape separately.[89]
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Tano and Aayla Secura help an injured Skywalker.
Battle of Quell
"Take care of that clanker! I'll be aboard Aayla's cruiser."

Skywalker to Tano[src]
When Jedi General Aayla Secura was attacked by the Separatists, the Resolute was
sent to help her. Arriving above Quell, Skywalker and Tano went on gunships to land
on the cruiser, but Skywalker used a rocket droid to land on the cruiser. Skywalker
called a frigate for an evacuation of the cruiser, and met up with Secura and Bly
with Tano. However, increasing Separatist fire caused a raging inferno to run
through the cruiser, and Skywalker sacrificed himself to save the others, severely
injuring himself in the process. Secura and Tano managed to get him onboard the
frigate, but as they prepared to dock with the Resolute to give Skywalker medical
attention, an assault by several Vulture droids caused the hyperdrive to accidentally
activate, and they were forced to detach from the cruiser.[90]
Tano piloted the frigate to narrowly avoid hitting a star, but the ship was forced to
crash-land on the remote world of Maridun. Leaving Rex to watch over Skywalker,
Secura, Tano and the rest of the clones went in search of the planet's inhabitants for
medical support for Skywalker. Rex was attacked by a Mastiff phalone, but managed
to fend it off. Just as a second group of the creatures attacked Skywalker and Rex,
Tano arrived with Bly and Wag Too, who was a healer belonging to the pacifist
Lurmen colony. They managed to fend off the creatures and brought Skywalker to
the Lurmen village.[90]
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Skywalker, Tano, Secura, Rex and Bly defend the Lurmen village on Maridun.
Battle of Maridun
"AhsokaStop. If the Lurmen want to remain neutral, we won't force them into war."
Skywalker to Tano in the Lurmen Village on Maridun[src]
When Separatists arrived on Maridun, Tee Watt Kaa, leader of the Lurmen, accused
the Jedi of bringing the war to their planet. Skywalker, Tano, Rex and Bly left the
village so that the Lurmen would not pay the consequence of their presence. After
discovering that the Separatists were planning on testing a new weapon on the
Lurmen, the group took a shuttle back to the Lurmen village to defend them. The
group set up shields and managed to survive a blast from the weapon, as well as
the first wave of droids. However, the second wave of droids managed to penetrate
the shield and destroyed it. As the Separatists prepared to use the Defoliator again,
Skywalker arrived and managed to destroy it, along with capturing General Lok
Durd. As the Jedi prepared to leave, a fleet of three Venator-class cruisers arrived on
the planet: Admiral Yularen was apparently able to find them on his own.[91]
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Skywalker, dressed for Orto Plutonia's cold climate
Battle on Orto Plutonia
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"I thought this planet was uninhabited and therefore it's not aligned."
Skywalker to Chairman Cho[src]
After losing contact with a Republic base on Orto Plutonia, Kenobi and Skywalker
were sent to investigate with a squad of cold assault troopers under the command
of Clone trooper Captain Rex. Arriving on the severely cold planet, the Jedi
discovered that the planet was inhabited by Talz, contrary to previous belief.
However, Chairman Chi Cho of the nearby moon of Pantora was insulted by the Talz
occupancy of the planet, and declared war, despite the Jedi's efforts to bring forth
peace. However, Senator Riyo Chuchi convened with the Pantoran Assembly and
called Cho out of order, and she was able to bring forth peace between the two
worlds at the cost of the Cho's life.[92]
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Skywalker comes to the aid of Amidala after she is electrocuted.
Blue Shadow Virus scare
"Padm may be lost, Anakin. Don't risk the mission trying to rescue her."
[]
"I know what's at stake here."
Kenobi and Skywalker, as they prepare to attack Vindi's laboratory[src]
Kenobi, Skywalker and Tano arrived on Naboo when there was evidence of a secret
Separatist lab there. When Skywalker learned that Amidala had left without waiting
for them, he immediately became worried and sent Tano to find them. Captain
Typho reported that they had lost contact with her and Binks, but they had
discovered that Separatist-allied Dr. Nuvo Vindi was planning on releasing the Blue
Shadow Virus back into the galaxy. He noted that Amidala had managed to transmit
the coordinates of the secret lab before contact was lost. When Tano reported back,
Kenobi instructed her to lead an attack on the south entrance, while Skywalker and
Kenobi plan to enter the lab through the hatches. Kenobi attempted to convince
Skywalker to not risk the mission just to save her, and Skywalker replied that he
"knew what was at stake".[93]
Arriving over the lab, the gunships dropped bombs over the hatches, and Skywalker
entered the lab with his squad. He found that Tano's distraction was working, and
proceeded to break into the main room. Vindi started to electrocute Amidala and
Binks, and forced the group to lay down their weapons to save them. Skywalker
complied without hesitation. Vindi gave Skywalker a choice: capture him or save his
friends, and turned the electrocution back on and escaped. Skywalker retrieved his
lightsaber, but instead of going after Vindi, he proceeded to free Amidala and Binks.
Vindi activated the virus bombs, and Skywalker and Kenobi found him escaping in
the landing bay. Vindi threw down virus capsules, forcing Kenobi to stop attacking
and retrieve them. However, with some help from Peppi Bow, Skywalker succeeded
in stopping the mad doctor.[93]

Vindi taunts Anakin and Obi-Wan

A captured Nuvo Vindi taunts Skywalker and Kenobi.
Mission to Iego
"The virus is liberated. You are doomed, young Jedi, along with the rest of the
planet."
Vindi to Skywalker and Kenobi as the Blue Shadow Virus is released[src]
Skywalker and Kenobi prepared to escort Nuvo Vindi to Theed for trial, but far down
below, an alarm began to sound. Skywalker contacted Tano and found that Vindi's
servant droid LEP-86C8 had succeeded in liberating the Blue Shadow Virus, and he
contacted Amidala to make sure she was all right. Amidala stated that she would
stop any remaining droids from escaping and setting the virus free, and Skywalker
told her to be careful. Skywalker forcefully interrogated Vindi for the antidote, but
Vindi taunted him. Kenobi convinced Skywalker that the quickest way to save his
friends was to go back to Theed and find an actual cure, and Skywalker crossly
complied.[94]
Arriving back at Theed, Skywalker and Kenobi handed Vindi over, and Typho
informed Kenobi and Skywalker that he had found a possible cure: Reeksa root,
found only on Iego. He mentioned that would be suicide trying to go there.
Skywalker, however, decided to go there anyway, and he and Kenobi boarded the
Twilight. Upon arriving on Iego, they passed through a graveyard of ships in Iego's
orbit, and when they landed they were greeted by strangely disfigured droids.
Skywalker proceeded to eliminate them, but Kenobi alerted him to the fact that they
weren't attempting to defend themselves. They met Jaybo Hood, who
reprogrammed the droids once the Separatists left the planet, and told them that
"Drol", the phantom ruler of Iego, was preventing the inhabitants from leaving the
planet.[94]
Drol
The Twilight encounters Drol, "god" of Iego.
Skywalker and Kenobi obtained the root after being attacked by the plant itself, but
as they tried to leave the planet, a laser web activated, and Kenobi concluded that
the Separatists planted it when they left. After learning that the Separatists had
stolen Millius Prime, home to the Angels, when they attacked, Skywalker concluded
that it must be where the laser emitter was. Jaybo gave R2-D2 remote control of
four Vulture droids, and Artoo attempted to fly them into the laser emitter, but all
were destroyed. Kenobi then managed to shoot the generator, destroying the laser
field and liberating the inhabitants of Iego. Skywalker and Kenobi then returned to
Naboo, where they arrived in time to save their friends.[94]
Battle of Ryloth
Battle over the planet
Skywalker: "It was a trap, Snips. It wasn't your fault."

Tano: "I lost so many of my pilots."

Skywalker: "Take heart, little one. That's the reality of command."
Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano[src]
After Techno Union Foreman Wat Tambor seized control of the planet Ryloth and its
inhabitants, the Jedi Council devised a plan to invade and liberate the planet, and
dispatched Skywalker and Tano to destroy the Separatist blockade and clear the
way for the invasion forces to land. The Resolute arrived out of hyperspace over
Ryloth, along with the Defender and Redeemer, just in front of the blockade. Tano
led a squadron for the first time, leading Blue Squadron, and managed to cut away
through the advancing Vulture droids. However, after Separatist reinforcements
arrived out of hyperspace, Admiral Yularen and Skywalker ordered Tano back to the
Resolute, but she disobeyed, thinking that she could still complete her mission. The
Vulture droids began suicidal runs on the Resolute, and one droid hit its bridge,
severely injuring Admiral Yularen. Tano finally returned to the Resolute, but lost half
her battle group along the way. The Resolute and Defender retreated to hyperspace,
but the Redeemer was too damaged to follow.[95]
Anakin Ahsoka Storm Over Ryloth
Skywalker tries to bolster Tano's confidence.
After ordering a head count to find how many men they lost, Skywalker reprimanded
his Padawan for disobeying a direct order. She argued that he himself disobeyed
orders all the time, but took full responsibility for her actions, if rather severely.
Skywalker attempted to console her, stating that loss was the reality of command,
before leaving to give a report on their progress to Generals Mace Windu and ObiWan Kenobi. After he reported their losses, Kenobi recommended that Skywalker
give his Padawan some time to recover, but stated that he would need her to
complete his mission. Despite only half his forces remaining, Skywalker was given
one planetary rotation to destroy the blockade. He sent Rex to find Tano, and she
met him while he was repairing her starfighter with the help of R2-D2. After stating
that they had to finish their mission without reinforcements, Tano started to panic
and questioned his readiness. Skywalker ordered her back to her quarters to "cool
off."[95]
Later, Tano joined him in the hangar bay of the Resolute and discovered that he had
devised a plan to pilot the Defender alone and destroy the lead battleship to take
out the commander and thereby leave only outmaneuverable droids in command of
the blockade. Tano attempted to change his mind, but he left for the Defender with
R2-D2, leaving her in charge of the Resolute, and responsible for both his life and
destroying the rest of the blockade. After arriving out of hyperspace, Skywalker
proceeded to contact the commander of the lead ship, Captain Mar Tuuk, who had
already learned much about him from the archives. Skywalker stated that he had
been ordered to surrender himself, his crew and his vessel in exchange for safe
passage to deliver supplies to Ryloth. However, a scan of the Defender revealed his
deception to Tuuk, and Skywalker proceeded to gun the engines of the Defender

and head it straight for the ship. Tuuk fled the battlefield, and the Resolute arrived
out of hyperspace. Tano's plan to angle the hull of the Resolute toward the blockade
to act as a screen so that the fighters could launch went off without a hitch, and
Tano led a team of fighters on a successful attack on the blockade. The invasion
force arrived out of hyperspace with Generals Kenobi and Windu aboard, and Tano
dispatched a shuttle to retrieve her master.[95]
Retaking the capital city
Tano: "That was close, Master!"
Skywalker: "Isn't it always, Snips?"
Ahsoka Tano and Anakin Skywalker, after defeating the bombers GnomespeakernotesListen (file info)[src]
Anakin fighter ryloth
Anakin shooting down the bombers.
After Kenobi and his men were able to take out the proton cannons and allow the
transports to land,[96] Windu headed for the capital with his forces. During a
holographic conference with Palpatine, Yoda, Admiral Yularen, Senator Orn Free Taa
and Windu, Skywalker reported that his forces had secured the space around Ryloth,
and that the Separatist cruisers were on the run. However, Wat Tambor soon
deployed Hyena-class bombers to destroy the nearby villages and Skywalker
engaged them in his fighter, accompanied by Tano. Tambor's tactical droid TA-175
and his shuttle left without him, but Count Dooku still ordered the bombers to
destroy Lessu, despite the fact that Tambor was still there. However, before the
bombers could destroy the Republic forces and the Twi'lek inhabitants, Skywalker
and Tano shot them down. Tambor was captured, and the Republic was victorious:
Ryloth was finally free once more.[97]
Following the liberation of Lessu, Skywalker and Tano were left in command of the
operations against the remaining Confederate holdouts on the planet. The two Jedi
led their 501st Legion clone troopers through the ruined city of Resdin, gradually
clearing out the droid forces that were encamped there. During the conflict, Captain
Rex and Clone Sergeant Boomer were captured by the bounty hunter Cad Bane,
who was on the run after stealing the Gravitic Core, a part of Separatist scientist Kul
Teska's newly developed superweapon. The clones were eventually rescued by
Skywalker and Tano, but while trying to escape from Resdin, they and Bane were
attacked by Teska himself, who planned to steal the Gravitic Core from them. When
the Skakoan attempted to seize the Core with a grappling hook, Skywalker used the
Force to throw it into Bane's ship.[98]
Tano pinned Bane beneath a metal slab, preventing him from running off with his
ship. An enraged Teska engaged the Jedi, charging at them using the enhanced
abilities of his modified pressure suit and firing volleys of missiles from launchers
mounted on his back. After Skywalker repeatedly used the Force to redirect his
missiles back at him, Teska encased the two Jedi within an energy bubble,

incapacitating them. However, before Teska could escape in Bane's ship, Rex and
Boomer arrived and confronted Teska until the Skakoan was eventually forced to
issue and ultimatum: either save their Jedi commanders or kill Teska. As the energy
bubble began to close in on Skywalker and Tano, the clones decided to chose to
rescue the Jedi. While the clones deactivated the bubble, Teska boarded The Sleight
of Hand and escaped with his weapon. Cad Bane also escaped, fleeing Ryloth and
the Republic forces.[98]
Skywalker and Tano contacted Jedi Grand Master Yoda and Generals Windu, Kenobi,
Plo Koon, and Kit Fisto on Juma 9. The group was joined by the Jedi Aayla Secura and
Luminara Unduli, who had encountered Separatist forces on the world of Alzoc III,
where Bane had stolen the Core from Teska. During the holographic transmission,
the Jedi received a distress signal from Senator Padm Amidala of Naboo, who was
investigating Confederate activity on Behpour, a planet in the Naboo system.
Amidala reported that she had been spotted before her connection was severed.
The Jedi prepared to lay siege to Teska's facility on Behpour, from which the
Skakoan had harnessed his gravitic beam to collapse the Naboo sun, with the
objective of rescuing the Senator and destroying the Confederate superweapon.[98]
Battle of Behpour
Commander Cody and Captain Rex created a diversion while Skywalker and Kenobi
snuck into the droid facility and destroyed the shield generator, allowing the main
body of troops, commanded by Windu and Tano, to destroy the main building.
Inside, Skywalker and Tano faced Teska, while Rex, Cody, and Ponds brought the
Twilight to the rendezvous point while trying to escape Dooku, who was trying to
impeded their advance. By the time Masters Kenobi and Windu arrived, the Count
was already close to destroying the freighter. After a short duel, Windu and Kenobi
defeated Dooku, while the clones escaped. Before they could capture him, however,
Dark Acolyte Asajj Ventress appeared and took her injured master to a hidden
Sheathipede-class transport shuttle, in which they escaped. Meanwhile, Skywalker
and his Padawan had already diffused the bomb, defeated Teska and saved the
Senator. In the end, the Jedi escaped with the Senator Amidala, leaving Teska and
his experiments to die in the burning wreckage of the laboratory.[98]
Felucia
"Move it trooper! Come on, double time!"
Anakin, to an unknown clone trooper
Skywalker, Tano, Kenobi and Master Plo Koon were sent to counter General
Grievous's attack on Felucia. The Republic forces engaged the Confederate Navy
above the planet and began to break-up their advancement; however, waves of
Vulture droids caused problems for the Republic group. Few clone trooper transports
made it to the planet surface to aid Generals Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker.
As battle droids continued to fire on the struggling clone troopers, General Koon
cleared the skies of Vulture droids, inside his starfighter. Meanwhile, a Vulture droid
fragment fell from the sky and landed on one of the Republic's AT-TE walkers. Seeing

that the Republic forces had lost much of its reinforcements, Kenobi signaled for an
immediate retreat; however, both Kenobi and Skywalker noticed that Tano has been
missing. Contacting her through his comlink, Tano revealed that she has engaged
another group of battle droids. The Jedi Master told her that the Republic forces are
retreating and she needed to return, although the Togruta Padawan denied and told
him that she has broke through the Separatists' defense. However, Skywalker and
Kenobi landed their LAAT/i gunships infront of Tano's Juggernaut Turbo Tank, which
caused her to shout at Skywalker in dismay. After Skywalker forced her to enter his
gunship, she complied and entered it. As the Republic forcesonboard the LAAT/i
gunshipslifted above the ground, the forces within them witnessed the destruction
of Tano's Turbo Tank and its reinforcements.
The stolen holocron
After leaving Felucia, the Republic forces returned to Coruscant. Inside the Jedi
Temple council chamber, Skywalker and Tano stood before Jedi Masters Mace Windu
and Yoda. Kenobi had given the Council information on what the Padawan had done
on Felucia. After, Windu informed the Padawan if she agrees with Kenobi's claims.
Tano agreed, and told the Jedi Master that she is regretful of her actions and only
was "caught in the moment." Skywalker defended his Padawan by taking the blame;
however, Windu dismissed his claim. The Jedi Master then announced that Tano
would take time off from the battlefield and become a Jedi Archives guard, under
the assistance of Jedi librarian Jocasta Nu. Skywalker and Tano soon left the council
chamber and headed for the Archives room. Along the way, Tano reflected on her
actions and apologized to her master; however, Skywalker told her that he was once
a struggling Jedi Padawan not too long ago. The Jedi Knight soon greeted Nu, who
was near her desk outside the main Archives hall. Skywalker introduced Tano to Nu,
and told the Jedi Librarian that Tano was to be her new guard officer.
Felucia-Skywalker
Skywalker fights during the First Battle of Felucia.
Later, Cad Bane would sneak in the Jedi Temple to steal a holocron. Skywalker, Tano
and Kenobi captured Bane's ally, Cato Parasitti. However, Bane managed to escape.
Windu told the Jedi that Bane wanted the Kyber memory crystal which could only be
read by holocrons and contained information about every known Force-sensitive
child in the galaxy, the future of the Jedi Order. Windu also told them that Jedi
Master Bolla Ropal was the keeper of the crystal. Skywalker and Tano would then go
to the Devaron system to capture Bane.
Holocron chase
"I don't have the holocron memory and I seem to have misplaced my Padawan."
Anakin Skywalker[src]
Skywalker and Tano attacked Cad Bane's fleet over Devaron. After disabling his ship,
Skywalker, Tano, Artoo and a team of clone troopers entered Bane's ship using AT-TE
walkers. The Republic team then entered the bridge and destroyed its crew.

However, Bane had escaped through a chute. After clearing the main bridge, the
Jedi found a hologram recording of Bane's conversation with Gunray, which
confirmed that he was in possession of the kyber crystal. To prevent Bane from
escaping the ship, Rex and his squad destroyed the ship's supply of escape pods.
Admiral Yularen witnessed an explosion in the ship's aft section, but Skywalker still
pressed on to find Ropal.
The Jedi and clones searched the ship for Ropal, and Tano found his body in a prison
cell. Skywalker ordered a few clones to bring Ropal's body to the Resolute. They had
no other options than to find Bane and retrieve the crystal. Bane had deactivated
the ship's lights using his wrist-com, and so the clones were forced to use night
vision. Bane was spotted, and the Jedi pursued. He led them to the ship's gunnery
deck, where he reactivated the lights to reveal an army of droids awaiting. The
droids opened fire, and in the midst of the firefight, Bane used his wrist-com to
deactivate the ship's artificial gravity wells, turning the ship into a zero gravity
environment. The clones were trained for this type of situation, and were equipped
with magnetic boots, as were the droids. To make matters worse, the gunnery deck
was full of ammunition canisters, which meant stray fire could cause the entire
gunnery deck to explode.
Ahsoka and anakin
Skywalker and Tano before the Jedi Council on Coruscant.
Bane and Skywalker fought. Skywalker kicked Bane in the face, which caused him to
float away in a spinning motion, causing the holocron to fall out of Bane's duster.
Just as Skywalker was about to grab it, R2-D2 reactivated the gravity, sending him,
Bane, and the holocron falling to the floor. As Skywalker was dazed, Bane snatched
the holocron and fled. Skywalker pursued, but Bane distracted him by causing a
clone attached to the ceiling with his magnetized boots to fall. While Skywalker was
distracted saving the clone, Tano gave chase. Bane used his wrist-com to close the
blast door, separating Tano from her master. When Skywalker attempted to cut
through the door, a droid accidentally shot an ammo canister, causing the ceiling to
collapse, trapping Skywalker in the rubble.
As Bane reached a dead end in the hallway, he took a shot at Tano, which she easily
deflected back to his left arm. Bane managed to disarm Tano, but she still managed
to flip the bounty hunter onto the floor. She thought she had beaten him, but the
bounty hunter grabbed her ankle and delivered a massive stun charge through her
body, incapacitating her. Skywalker sensed this, and in his rage broke through the
rubble that surrounded him. When he received the order from Admiral Yularen to
abandon the mission because the ship was about to explode, he in turn ordered
Yularen to move the Resolute a safe distance from the ship and moved on to save
his Padawan.
Skywalker found Tano trapped in an energy field, right in front of an airlock. Bane
threatened to open the airlock unless Skywalker opened the holocron. Skywalker
accepted and dropped his lightsaber. He then opened the holocron. But then,
Skywalker grabbed his lightsaber and Tano's and attacked Bane. However, Bane

opened the airlock and escaped. Skywalker rescued Tano and the two went to the
hangar. The team would later return to the Resolute. Although Bane was presumed
dead, Skywalker still felt his presence.[99]
Rescuing the children
Bane captured
Skywalker captures Cad Bane on Naboo.
Skywalker and Tano returned from their failed mission to recapture the holocron
captured by Cad Bane whom they believed to be dead land on the Resolute orbiting
the Devaron System. Tano followed the clone trooper who supposedly killed Cad
Bane constantly asking questions with no answers from the clone. Skywalker, in the
meantime, investigated green Duros blood residing inside the ship and was alerted
to the danger. He warned Tano, but it was too late. She was kneed in the midsection
by Cad Bane disguised as the clone trooper, who ran to another ship to get away.
Anakin attempted to stop him by jumping onto the ship, but Bane moved the ship
and Anakin fell off. Anakin then helplessly contacted Admiral Yularen and told him to
deactivate the hyperspace rings, but he, too, was too late, and Cad Bane escaped.
Back on Coruscant, Skywalker and Tano reported to the Jedi Council of the
unfortunate turn of events. With Bane having access to all Force-sensitive children
in the holocron and that the information was in Separatist hands, it could be
disastrous for the Order. Their only hope was to search through the Force to watch
for any kidnappings.
Yoda, Kenobi, Mace Windu and Skywalker meditated, trying to detect any children
through the Force, as many were being overshadowed by the dark side. Skywalker
and Tano then headed to Naboo to secure a Gungan child.
They arrived on Naboo and secured the child, Roo-Roo Page. Bane was captured
later that night, but refused to reveal the locations of the other captured children,
and his ship's navigation logs had been wiped. Therefore, Skywalker, Windu and
Kenobi simultaneously used the Force to make him talk, with the risk of destroying
his mind. The experience was hard on Bane and he cooperated.
With Bane as their guide, Kenobi and Windu prepared to go find the children. Windu
pointed out that they had to report to the Chancellor about this, but Kenobi insisted
that this is a Jedi affair; Skywalker advocated contacting Palpatine.
On Coruscant, Skywalker reported to Palpatine about the plot. He expressed his
belief that Dooku wasn't behind it, but he didn't know who was. Palpatine told him
to have patience.
Back on the Resolute, Skywalker and Tano checked Bane's fighter for any clues.
Tano found volcanic ash on its hull, while Skywalker looked through its fueling log,
determining that Bane had dropped his hostages on Mustafar. They then headed out
in the Twilight. However, the facility was set to sink in the lava as Master-Padawan
team entered it, drawn by Wee's cries. The droids inside used the children as shields
when fighting the Jedi, while the facility tore itself apart. Nonetheless, the Jedi

managed to snatch the children away from the droids and escape before the entire
facility fell into the lava.
When they returned to Coruscant, Skywalker admitted to the Council that they were
unable to find out who was behind the kidnappings, and the Jedi Masters revealed to
Skywalker and Tano that Bane had escaped.[100]
Defense on Felucia
Monkey toss
Skywalker tosses Hondo Ohnaka's pet Kowakian monkey-lizard on Felucia.
While on a mission to check up on a medical station above Felucia, Skywalker, ObiWan Kenobi, and Ahsoka Tano were attacked by Separatist droid starfighters, which
obliterated their ship and forced them to evacuate and crash-land into the planet
below. Although all three Jedi survived the crash with minimal injuries, they were left
with no means of escaping Felucia or getting into contact with a Republic-allied
planet. Stumbling into a seemingly abandoned Felucian village, Skywalker, Kenobi,
and Tano split up, hoping to find some inhabitants or some means of escape. They
were soon able to find a starship sitting in a hangar and, when they finally
discovered the hiding place of the villagers, were challenged by a squad of bounty
hunters led by Sugi. When it became apparent that the Jedi could help the bounty
hunters defend the village against another group of marauders, Kenobi initially
disagreed, citing the fact that if any of the opposition were able to catch a glimpse
of the Jedi and had communication off-world, Separatist forces could be brought
down onto the planet. That worry is immediately compounded when the Jedi come
face-to-face with the marauding leader: none other than their old captor, Hondo
Ohnaka. With the realization that Ohnaka could turn them over at any moment,
Kenobi agrees to let the Jedi help. Skywalker, along with the enigmatic Embo,
worked on training the villagers for combat. When Ohnaka finally rallied his forces
to attack the village, Skywalker led the defenses, utilizing the Force to leap atop a
cliffside and engage Ohnaka and his Kowakian monkey-lizard Pilf Mukmuk himself.
Despite besting Ohnaka in combat, Skywalker offered the pirate a helping hand
when the Weequay found himself dangling treacherously off a cliff. Once on sturdy
ground again, Ohnaka pushed Skywalker into the trajectory of his Mukmukcontrolled cannon, forcing Skywalker to jump to safety and allow Ohnaka and his
monkey-lizard to make a clean escape with his surviving pirates. As an offer of
thanks, Sugi offered to transport the Jedi off of Felucia.[101]
The Zillo Beast
AnakinRidingArtoo
Anakin Skywalker escapes the zillo beast on R2-D2
Later in the war, Skywalker oversaw the Battle of Malastare with Mace Windu,
supervising the drop of the Republic's new electro-proton bomb to destroy the droid
armies. Unbeknownst to either Jedi, the bomb awoke a creature thought to be long
dead, the Zillo Beast. When Windu, venturing into the bomb-created pit to examine

things himself, found the beast altogether overwhelming, he contacted Skywalker,

who abandoned his talks with Doge Nakha Urus to pilot his starfighter into the fray
with R2-D2. Despite his extraordinary piloting skills, Skywalker soon found himself
swatted aside by the beast, narrowly escaping being crushed altogether by the
creature's large hand. While defending himself against the zillo beast, Skywalker
made the important discovery that the beast's scales were impervious to
lightsabers. Using R2-D2 to fly him up and out of the pit, he later led the conference
with Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, acting as a middleman between Urus, who
wanted to destroy the beast immediately, and Windu, who adamantly supported the
Jedi belief that all life-forms should be preserved whenever possible. Although
Skywalker suggested that the beast should be subdued and transferred to a planet
in the Outer Rim, Urus ridiculed the idea, stating that zillo beasts had been the
enemies of the Dugs for centuries and that it was their sworn duty to destroy it.
When Dr. Sionver Boll proposed that the beast's scales might be used as a new
technology for armor, Palpatine ordered that intense stun rays be used to render the
beast comatose, fooling the Dugs into believing it dead and transporting it off-world
for further examination. Although a fierce argument broke out between Windu and
Urus, the matter was decided when Urus' method of pouring toxins into the pit
caused the beast to climb up out of it, forcing the Jedi to use their stun rays to
incapacitate it and, under Palpatine's orders, transport it to Coruscant.[102]
Dismayed with the resulting inhumane experiments performed on the beast, Windu
informed Obi-Wan Kenobi of the matter, who in turn persuaded Skywalker's wife
Padm Amidala to convince him to take the matter to Palpatine. While meeting with
the Supreme Chancellor, the enraged zillo beast escaped its confinements, intent on
pursuing a vendetta after overhearing Palpatine order its termination in the name of
winning the war and science. After Amidala spotted the beast making its way
towards the Senate buildings, Palpatine ordered the evacuation of his office, taking
Skywalker, Amidala, and the droids C-3PO and R2-D2 down to his private shuttle,
where they were snatched out of the air soon after take-off by the zillo beast's
massive claws. Skywalker was able to slice the shuttle in half using his lightsaber,
allowing a hatch for the occupants to escape onto the Senate building's roof.
Skywalker saved Amidala from falling off of the sloped building using the Force, and
with the help of Yoda and Aayla Secura protected the escape group from fatal toxin
bombs that eventually led to the beast's demise.[103]
Spy in the Galactic Senate
Skywalker discreetly returned to Coruscant to his wife Padm's apartment, and they
prepared for a long-awaited romantic evening together, when Skywalker was
signaled by the Council to return to the Temple, forcing him to cut his evening short.
He told Amidala that duty comes first, especially in times of war.
Before the Council, he was told that they needed a spy in the Senate to spy on
Senator Rush Clovis, who was suspected of being a Separatist supporter. However,
they couldn't afford to have Jedi taking official action in this, thus they needed to
convince Amidala to join their cause, as she was close to Clovis. Though Skywalker
did not believe that she would be right for the job, the Masters insisted on him

appointing her, because she trusted him; Yoda had attempted to enlist her but was
rebuffed.
AnakinNabooPilot-TCWs2BR1
Skywalker disguised as Amidala's pilot
The next day, at the Senate, Skywalker located his wife, who was obviously
resentful of him leaving her the previous night. He asked her about Clovis, and she
said she already told Yoda she didn't want to spy on him, as he was a colleague and
an old friend. She thought Skywalker was trying to persuade her into doing this
mission, but he was merely gathering information for whomever else would end up
doing it. However, when Amidala learned that Clovis was collaborating with the
Separatists, she immediately agreed to do it. Skywalker tried to convince her not to,
considering that it may be dangerous, but she reminded him that duty comes first.
They both went before the Jedi Council, where Amidala admitted that she hadn't
seen Clovis for a long time. They were close in the past, but she wanted to maintain
a professional relationship, which he took very hard. The Masters encouraged her to
regain his trust in finding out his treachery.
Amidala and Clovis met at a bar, where he explained that he was planning on going
to Cato Neimoidia to negotiate with the Trade Federation; he offered her to come
along, for political and personal reasons. As they were preparing to depart,
Skywalker, being the pilot for Amidala's ship, became jealous when Clovis kissed her
on both cheeks. He assisted them with getting seated on the ship, preparing a seat
for Amidala, and breaking the one next to it, so that it couldn't get fastened. On
takeoff, he jerked the ship around to prevent Clovis from kissing Amidala again.
As soon as they arrived on Cato Neimoidia, they were greeted by Neimoidian
Senator Lott Dod. Amidala was shown to her quarters, while Dod and Clovis
discussed "business" with Poggle the Lesser. Dod and Poggle realized that Amidala
was Clovis' weakness and planned on poisoning her to force him to cooperate.
While Skywalker and R2-D2 waited outside for Amidala's signal, she got into an
elegant dress for dinner with the other Senators. Dod tricked her into sharing his
drink after smearing the rim with poison. Once dinner was finished, Clovis took
Amidala on a tour of the palace, both unaware of the symptoms of the poison,
including thirst and head throbbing. While Clovis went to fetch a drink, Amidala
attempted to access the palace's files, but was barred by the computer's demand
for a passcode. She soon figured out that it is her name, and saw the diagram from
Dooku's new droid foundry. She then signaled Skywalker, who snuck into her
quarters. As soon as she took the disc plans, she hid them from Clovis, who had
entered the room. When he asked to hold her hand, she spontaneously embraced
him to hide the disc. She noticed Skywalker in the shadows, his face bursting with
anger and jealousy, but she calmed him down by brandishing the disc. She
discreetly gave it to him, but as he slipped away, Amidala passed out. Clovis
reported this to Dod, but was informed that Amidala was a spy. At first he refused to
believe it, but was convinced when he found the disc missing. He angrily confronted

her for betraying him, but then Skywalker entered, demanding that he step away
from her. Clovis ultimately offered to get the antidote in exchange for the disc, but
Skywalker threatened him with dealing with Dod instead. If Dod were told that
Clovis lost the disc, he would kill him. Clovis realized that he loved Amidala enough
to save her, and agreed to help them back to the ship before Dod found anything
out.
As they carried her back to the ship, they ran into Dod and his aides. Clovis
attempted to bluff his way out, but Dod refused to let them leave, so Clovis pulled
out a blaster. Dod was forced to give up the antidote, and the three ran away.
However, Skywalker purposely left Clovis on the planet, as he himself injected
Amidala with the antidote.[104]
Second Battle of Geonosis
Returning to the galactic capital of Coruscant, Skywalker and Amidala reported their
findings to the Jedi Council. Afterward, Generals Plo Koon and Skywalker and the
latter's Padawan, Commander Ahsoka Tano, were assigned to reinforce the planet
Dorin, which had been attacked by a Separatist fleet led by Confederate General
Grievous in an effort to keep the Jedi's attention away from Geonosis. The Republic
defeated the Separatists, with Tano achieving 55 kills, while Skywalker achieved 76.
[105]
They joined together with the Republic fleet in orbit of Geonosis and prepared
strategically for the attack on Poggle's droid foundries on the planet. High Jedi
Generals Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ki-Adi-Mundi with Jedi General Skywalker would lead
the Grand Army's attack on the primary droid foundry.
When the Republic's capital ships descended upon Geonosis, Skywalker's assault
forceincluding Captain Rex and Commander Tanodeparted after Kenobi's.
Skywalker's gunship was one of the first to be shot down, but the Jedi's team
managed to break free from the wreckage and used the fallen craft as cover from
the nearby Geonosian gunners and blaster cannons.
Left on their own, Skywalker, Tano, Rex, and their men traveled on foot to reach the
enemy cannons. They arrived at the massive gun emplacement fortress and were
forced to take cover from the assailing B1 battle droids and B2 super battle droids
high above. With the large amounts of laser barrages from above, Skywalker and
Tano each took a backpack filled with thermal detonators and ran toward the
adjacent cliff, using grappling hooks to scale the face in order to set their charges to
topple the wall. Captain Rex joined the two Jedi on the top of the barrier, helping
them to defeat a pair droidekas that were soon deployed from hatches. After
Skywalker and Tano had tossed their primed detonator-filled backpacks into the
hatches, they and Rex jumped off the wall shortly before it exploded. The Jedi used
the Force to slow their fall and hold back the rubble. With the wall destroyed,
Skywalker, Tano, and their forces pressed toward Kenobi's position.
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Skywalker and Mundi lead their forces.

Joining forces with Mundi, Skywalker contacted Admiral Yularen to request air
support. Having reallocated resources since Commander Jet's previous request,
Yularen dispatched a free Y-wing squadron to the rendezvous point, where Kenobi
and Cody's forces were suffering numerous casualties at the hands of the
Geonosians initiating flying attacks from the sky and attack runs on the ground. As
the Jedi Master prepared to take up arms alongside his men in what he believed
would be a final stand against the Geonosians, the Y-wing bombers arrived,
dropping their munitions on the advancing Separatist tanks. With the rest of his
troops pressing on, Kenobi was greeted by the arrival of Skywalker, Tano, Mundi,
and the rest of the forces.
The Jedi and their clone officers convened on the task still at hand: the destruction
of the shield generator. Skywalker would lead a small squad into the shield and jam
the Geonosians' scanners, rendering them unable to target the incoming AT-TE
walkers. Once the walkers had taken out the shield, Mundi would then bring the rest
of the troops in with the gunships. After all of the Republic forces were in position,
Skywalker and Tano initiated their attack and charged through the shield with their
men. Exchanging fire with the Geonosians, the Jedi and troopers took cover and
threw EMP grenades at the proton and LR1K cannons, temporarily disabling the
Separatist guns. Unopposed by heavy fire, the AT-TE walkers marched through the
shield and blasted the artillery stations and shield generator. As the shield was
deactivated, Mundi and his gunships landed with additional reinforcements, and all
of the Geonosians in the area were forced to surrender.
While they were recuperating, Skywalker and Tano tallied their kills: Skywalker got
55 and Tano got 60. However, Skywalker said that since he called in the air strike, it
was a tie. The injured Generals Kenobi and Mundi were being taken to the gunships
with Skywalker's expectations to see both of them back in action by the time the
main droid foundry had been destroyed. Mundi then stated that his kills were 65,
asking what he won. Skywalker answered "My everlasting respect", to which Kenobi
explained that respect was a rare gift for Skywalker to bestow.[106]
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Skywalker finishing Tano's sentences during her briefing.
Skywalker's forces combined with Ki-Adi-Mundi's remaining troops and formed a
staging area across from Poggle the Lesser's primary foundry, which was nearing
completion.[107] The Republic's forces were separated from the foundry by a thin
bridge that spanned a deep canyon. In anticipation of stiff resistance from the
foundry's defenders, Skywalker called in reinforcements from General Luminara
Unduli and her Padawan, Barriss Offee. While Tano was briefing her clone squad on
the battle plan, Skywalker kept finishing her sentences. Once the briefing was over,
she demanded of him why he was interrupting her, which made her believe he
didn't trust her. Skywalker defended himself by saying that he just wanted to get
the job done right, but this only strengthened Tano's irritation. They were arguing
just as Unduli and Offee arrived to discuss the plan of attack. Although General
Skywalker had been preparing for a direct assault via the bridge, General Unduli
offered an alternative: the infiltration of the catacombs that ran beneath the

foundry. By using these complex passageways, the Jedi could reach the foundry's
control room and plant explosives on the main reactor, destroying the facility from
within. It was decided that the mission to destroy the reactor would be undertaken
by Tano and Barriss Offee, the latter of who had memorized all two hundred
junctions between the catacomb's tunnels in preparation. Skywalker was uncertain
if Tano was ready for this, but she insisted she was. While the Padawans were
infiltrating the catacombs, Generals Skywalker and Unduli would lead their forces in
a forward assault on the foundry's main entrance as a distraction.
The four Jedi set their plan into motion, with Tano and Offee descending the canyon
wall to reach the catacomb's entry point as the two generals marched their forces
onto the bridge parade-style, followed closely by AT-TEs. Unduli asked Skywalker
why he didn't want Tano participating, to which he didn't answer. Skywalker and
Unduli's men were met by a large force of battle droids marching forth from the
foundry, followed by Geonosian warriors launching surprise attacks from the spires
behind the Republic force. Afterward, they were assaulted by several squads of
droidekas that were quickly destroyed by rockets and AT-TEs. In response, Poggle
the Lesser authorized the use of experimental super tanks at the urging of his
tactical droid, TX-21. Twenty of the tanks left the foundry, approached the Republic
forces, and were immediately fired upon by AV-7 Antivehicle Cannons. The ray
shielded tanks were unaffected by the cannon fire and opened fire themselves,
destroying the AV-7s, decimating the Republic's infantry, and forcing Skywalker and
Unduli to fall back.
Unduli and Skywalker then devised a plan to defeat the tanks on the bridge. The two
climbed onto the underbelly of the bridge and planted explosives along its length.
Upon reaching the opposite side of the bridge, they triggered the explosives,
causing the bridge to collapse and take the tanks with it into the canyon.
Evacuation ships arrived shortly afterward in anticipation of the explosion that
would destroy the foundry. Later than expected, the Padawans contacted them,
saying their explosives had been taken away and their only hope was to use a super
tank they had acquired to destroy the foundry reactor and burying themselves in
the process. Skywalker fervently ordered them not to do it, but they turned off the
comlink. Moments later, a massive chain of explosions issued, leveling the foundry.
When the smoke cleared, Skywalker and Unduli were standing on the edge of a vast
crater filled with debris that had once been the foundry. After failing to reach Tano
on her communicator, a determined General Skywalker ordered that the rubble be
moved. As LAAT carriers began to lift the wreckage, General Unduli argued that
Skywalker should simply accept his student's fate. Deep below the surface, in the
cockpit of the super tank, Tano and Offee struggled to stay conscious. In an effort to
contact her master, Tano fashioned a communicator out of a power cell from the
tank, something she had learned from Skywalker. Receiving the signal, Skywalker
deduced where it came from and rushed over to a pile of debris. With the aid of
Unduli, he lifted it with the Force to reveal the tank. The two Padawans crawled out,
finally reuniting with their masters. Unduli admitted to Tano that her master never
lost faith in her.[108]

Tano and Bariss left the battlefield to recuperate, while Unduli set out on a speeder
to find Poggle the Lesser. She and her clone companion Buzz followed Poggle's trail,
as they braved through a sandstorm. They tracked Poggle to the Progate Temple.
Unduli then holographically called Kenobi, Ki-Adi-Mundi and Skywalker in one of the
Republic Acclamator ships, reporting that she had found what seemed to be a
munitions container. She was advised by Kenobi via hologram to wait for support,
but moments later Buzz's scream was heard and contact was lost. Skywalker
eagerly wanted to go help, but the other Masters advised to wait until the storm
was over.
After the storm, Skywalker and Kenobi brought a squad to the temple. Cody found
Buzz's body and Kenobi found Unduli's lightsaber. They then saw a statue of what
seemed to be a Geonosian queen's head above the archway of a dark tunnel. They
went through the archway, entering a strange maze. Shortly after, Unduli contacted
Kenobi, telling them not to enter the temple, before she was subdued. Then, Kenobi
and Skywalker were attacked by undead Geonosians, who were able to move even if
shot or hacked; there was also something worm-like moving through their face
openings. Kenobi, Skywalker and the squad managed to save themselves by going
down a tunnel. Kenobi remembered rumors of a hive mind able to control
Geonosians, even after they are dead. Because they were too deep underground to
contact Mundi, Kenobi sent two clones to head back to the surface and call for help.
Unfortunately, they were killed by the zombies before they could do so. Kenobi thus
suggested that the rest of them should stick together.
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Skywalker and Unduli fight Karina's undead Geonosian warriors.
They eventually found Unduli, held in energy bonds before the Geonosian Queen.
Skywalker prepared to charge in, but Kenobi had a different strategy. He told Cody
to have his men surround the place, before blinding the zombies and burying them.
The Jedi approached the queen, her thralls letting them pass. Kenobi diplomatically
told her to surrender, but the queen refused, intending on controlling the Jedi with
her brain worms. Skywalker activated his lightsaber, but Kenobi gestured for him to
stay put. One of the zombies approached Unduli with a worm, but before it could
snake its way up her nose, Kenobi gave the signal, and Cody and his men surprise
the Geonosians. They saved Unduli and took Poggle prisoner. Unduli asked why they
had come despite her telling them not to. Kenobi said he followed Skywalker's
example for once, and disobeyed orders.
Kenobi intended to study the worm that was going to be used on Unduli, but
Skywalker squished it with his boot, saying they should get out. They attempted to
escape the collapsing temple, with the zombies after them. As they made their way
up the hole that led to the surface, a few zombies followed them. Then, a rush of
dust pushed them up. They escaped before the entire temple caved in, probably
burying the queen.[109]
Brain worm skirmish

With Poggle under custody, the Jedi prepared to leave Geonosis. However, they
received news that the Ord Cestus medical station needed supplies. While the Jedi
delivered Poggle to Coruscant, Skywalker suggested Tano and Offee to be in a
supply ship to the station.
The Padawans set off, but the ship did not check in as schedule reported. Skywalker
began to worry, but they eventually managed to establish contact with the ship.
Tano informed them that the ship's crew had been taken over by Geonosian brain
worms.
Skywalker interrogated Poggle, but the latter refused to say how the worms could be
defeated. Enraged, Skywalker briefly tapped into the dark side and began choking
Poggle with the Force. Eventually, Poggle confessed that the worms could be
defeated with cold temperature.
Skywalker managed to contact Tano to relay the information. Later, he found Tano
recovering from a fight with Offee, who had been infected by the worms for a short
period of time. Kit Fisto arrived and told the Jedi Knight and his Padawan that the
brain worms in the ship had been contained. After Fisto left, Skywalker
congratulated Tano for saving the crew. However, Tano revealed to her Master that
Offee wanted Tano to kill her during their fight. Skywalker consoled his Padawan,
telling her that Offee would have done anything to save the crew from the worms,
even sacrificing her own life in the process.[110]
Conflict on Valahari
Skywalker and Kenobi were sent to the planet Valahari for negotiations. Although it
had declared neutrality in the Clone Wars, Valahari was supplying the Separatists
with newer, more advanced ships. While Kenobi negotiated with Harko Vane, the
Viscount of Valahari, Skywalker podraced with Tofen, Harko's son. Eventually, Harko
declined Kenobi's offer to join the Republic and the Republic forces blockaded
Valahari. Vane tried to break the blockade, however, the Valiant, Vane's ship, was
suddenly destroyed by Asajj Ventress in an effort to blame the Republic. Valahari
joined the Separatists and Skywalker was exiled to a remote outpost in Ryloth.[111]
However, Skywalker returned to active duty when a squadron of Valahari ships
called Tofen's Raiders was destroying Republic fleets. The Republic forces faced the
Valahari's squadron in the Hexus system. There, Skywalker discovered that Tofen
was the squadron's leader. Tofen shot Skywalker down, but before he could kill him,
reinforcements arrived and drove Valahari's forces off. However, Skywalker
managed to place a homing beacon in Tofen's ship.[112]
Skywalker received a prototype of the Eta-2 Actis-class light interceptor, the best
starfighter created by Kuat Systems Engineering. The Republic found Tofen's base,
Harko Station, in the Veil Nebula. The Republic assaulted the station, but the
Valahari activated a signal that led the local neebrays to attack the Republic forces.
However, Shadow Squadron managed to destroy the station and thus disable the
signal. Skywalker then engaged Tofen in a dogfight. During their battle, Anakin tried
to reason with Tofen, revealing to him that it was Count Dooku who killed his father,

not the Republic. But Tofen refused to listen and he kept fighting. Suddenly, Tofen's
engines were critically hit, setting his fighter aflame. Anakin towed Tofen's fighter to
a Republic ship. However, Tofen's burns were fatal and he died in Anakin's arms, but
not before asking him for justice for his father's death. Elodore Vane, Tofen's
mother, then exiled Count Dooku from Valahari, stopped their engagement and
announced that Valahari would stop supporting both sides of the conflict.[113]
Hunt for Grievous
When Master Eeth Koth was captured by Grievous in a battle near the Arda system,
Grievous sent a holotransmission to the Jedi Council in which he had one of his
MagnaGuards torture Koth. In the message, Grievous expressed his desire to see all
of the Jedi dead, but Plo Koon noticed a coded message in Koth's hand gestures
within the message, and the decoded message revealed Grievous to be in the
Saleucami system. Adi Gallia, Skywalker, and Kenobi were dispatched with a fleet to
rescue Koth, and they came up with a battle plan: Admiral Yularen and Kenobi would
engage Grievous's forces over Saleucami, and Kenobi would allow his light ccruiser
to be boarded by Grievous to distract him. When Grievous fell for the bait,
Skywalker, Gallia, Rex, and a group of clone troopers would execute a hyperspace
jump into the system in their shuttle that would bring them right alongside
Grievous's destroyer, allowing them to rescue Koth.[114]
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Skywalker and Gallia aboard Grievous's destroyer
When Grievous boarded Kenobi's cruiser as planned, Skywalker piloted their shuttle
through the ongoing space battle and through the hollow hull plates of Grievous's
destroyer, landing the ship on the destroyer's underbelly, where Skywalker carved a
hole in the destroyer's hull with his lightsaber for the Jedi and troopers to use to
access the warship. Boarding the destroyer, Skywalker and Gallia ordered Rex and
his men to guard their shuttle while they headed to the bridge to rescue Koth.
Cutting through the battle droid patrols that they encountered as they moved
through the ship, Skywalker and Gallia reached the bridge to find the tactical droid
TV-94 and a squad of droid commandos guarding Koth, as Grievous had anticipated
the rescue attempt. When TV-94 attempted to kill Koth through electrocution,
Skywalker pulled the droid towards him with the Force and severed the arm that had
the controls to the machinery torturing Koth.[114]
In the ensuing melee, the commando droids attacked Gallia and Skywalker as TV-94
struggled to reclaim his arm and kill Koth, but the two Jedi were able to destroy the
droids and free Koth before the tactical droid succeeded. Making their way back to
the shuttle, the three were contacted Kenobi, who informed them that Grievous had
escaped and was returning to his ship, so Gallia departed to intercept the general
before he escaped Kenobi's cruiser while Skywalker took Koth to the shuttle. Kenobi
and Gallia's attempts to capture Grievous with the help of Commander Cody
ultimately failed when the Separatist destroyer began to fire on Kenobi's cruiser,
and the three escaped Grievous's destroyer aboard Skywalker's shuttle as Grievous
fled his damaged warship to Saleucami's surface.[114]

While Kenobi led the hunt for Grievous on the planet's surface, Skywalker assumed
command of the naval battle, deploying all of his starfighters in an effort to elimate
Grievous's destroyer. Despite opposition from the remaining Separatist forces and
reinforcements in the form of three additional Munificent-class frigates, Skywalker's
fighters were able to destroy most of the enemy droid starfighters, and the arrival of
four Republic Venator-class Star Destroyers ensured that the Republic emerged
victorious.[114]
Later, Skywalker and his padawan went on a mission in the Coruscant underlevels
to capture Car Affaan Weequay arms dealer who sold Republic weapons to the
Separatists. Skywalker apprehended the criminal in a bar, but Tano had her
lightsaber stolen while waiting outside. However, she managed to recover it,
without telling her master.[115]
Coronet plot
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Skywalker faces off against an assassin probe on the Coronet.
Following speculation that Mandalore had left the Republic for the Separatists, ObiWan Kenobi was sent to the planet to speak to his friend and ruler of the planet,
Duchess Satine Kryze. Several attempts were made both on the lives of Kenobi and
Kryze, the Duchess decided to make a voyage to Coruscant, where she would plead
Mandalore's cause in-person in front of the Galactic Senate. Skywalker,
accompanied by Captain Rex and Commander Cody, led the starship Coronet to
Mandalore to escort Kryze. During the voyage, Rex voiced his concerns from the
cargo hold, citing the disappearance of two troopers and the increased jitters of R2D2. Skywalker volunteered to investigate matters himself, and discovered a large
cargo hold of assassin probe droids lurking in the darkness. Although he, Rex, Cody,
and R2-D2 were able to hold back most of them, one escaped up into the turbolift,
to the direct threat of Kryze and her entourage. With the droid in his grasp, Kenobi
used the probe's attacking programming to discover the assassin, Senator Tal
Merrik, although the politician quickly unleashed a blaster pistol and pressed it to
Kryze's head, holding the Duchess hostage. Racing up from the cargo hold,
Skywalker discovered Merrik's reinforcements, shiploads full of super battle droids
intent on taking the Coronet and Kryze for the Mandalorian opposition leader Pre
Vizsla. Dispatching the droids with relative ease, Skywalker was able to sneak up
behind Merrik while the would-be assassin was in the midst of a stalemate with
Kenobi and Kryze and stabbed him in the back, ending the ship's imminent danger
and allowing Kryze to travel the remainder of the voyage to Coruscant in peace.
[116]
Sometime after these events, Skywalker and Capt. Rex later dropped off Tano, at the
behest of Duchess Kryze and the Jedi Council, on Mandalore to instruct cadets at the
Royal Academy of Government. Due to the Jedi's limited resources, Skywalker was
not able to join his Padawan. Before leaving to join up with Master Fisto, Skywalker
took his Padawan's lightsaber to respect Mandalore's laws. After Tano exposed Prime
Minster Almec's black market, Skywalker returned his Padawan's lightsaber to her

and congratulated her on a job well done.[117] When Skywalker and Tano returned
to the Jedi Temple, the Jedi Council ordered Skywalker to command the Third Legion
on Balith to give assistance in their civil war. The council, however, wanted Tano to
stay behind so she could give the council her full report. Despite pleas from Tano to
let her come along, Skywalker told her that she should use this time in the library to
prove him wrong about the council's decision. Skywalker then left with Capt. Rex to
Balith. When Tano returned after foiling Aurra Sing's assassination attempt on
Senator Amidala's life at her refugee conference, Skywalker welcomed his wife and
his Padawan back, but wondered who paid Sing to kill Amidala. After Tano uses her
improved precognitive abilities to find out who is behind the assassination attempt,
Amidala realizes who it is. Skywalker and his Padawan then went to the Republic
Judiciary Central Detention Center to question Ziro the Hutt. Skywalker's padawan
was able to trick Ziro into confessing that he did hire Sing for the job. After Ziro's
confession, Skywalker and his Padawan then left Ziro to his misery.[118]
Trap on Vanqor
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Skywalker approaches Jango Fett's helmet, laden with explosives.
Skywalker, along with Master Windu took a brief respite aboard the Jedi Cruiser
Endurance. The starship was later sabotaged by Boba Fett, who wanted to exact
revenge on Mace Windu for killing his father. His sabotage attempt put many young
clones at risk, but they were rescued by Skywalker and Windu.[119]
Windu and Skywalker then transferred the survivors to a Republic medical ship,
before heading down to the planet to look for survivors. Skywalker pointed out upon
coming across the ship that, whilst it was in a terrible shape, the bridge appeared to
be in one piece. The two Jedi set down behind the ship, at which point R2-D2
beeped that he had a "bad feeling about this place", and Windu chastised Skywalker
for encouraging individuality in his droid. Windu, Skywalker, R2 and R8-B7
proceeded to the ship, unaware of gundarks following them.[120]
Once inside, the Jedi came across clone troopers killed not by the crash but by
execution; Windu theorized that those who tried to assassinate him may have come
down looking for his body and killed the survivors. The droids were sent to search
for survivors whilst the Jedi head to the bridge. In the process of their search, R2
and R8 were attacked by a pair of gundarks: R8 was ripped apart and R2 was
knocked across the floor.[120]
Meanwhile, Anakin then spotted a Mandalorian helmet. Mace then realized that the
saboteur was none other than the clone template Jango Fett's son, Boba. Luckily,
the Jedi Master was able to save Anakin from the full blast. R2, realizing that
Skywalker and Windu were in danger, returned to the bridge and saw Windu
unconscious and Skywalker wounded, both buried under rubble. Skywalker told R2
to get a message to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, and R2 delivered it to Plo Koon
and Ahsoka Tano, who rescued the two Jedi.[120]

After spending time in a bacta tank at the Temple, Anakin urged Windu to track
Boba Fett down and bring him to justice. Mace did not agree to do this until Koon
and Tano showed them a message from Fett and Aurra Sing, which showed that the
pair took hostages. After seeing Commander Ponds killed in cold blood by Sing,
Windu decided to go. Koon, however, said that he will go, along with Tano, since
both Windu and Skywalker were still recovering from their injuries.[121]
Third Battle of Kamino
Forewarned by the destruction of Rishi Station and an intercepted transmission
between Asajj Ventress and General Grievous, Anakin and Obi-Wan traveled to
Kamino to warn Shaak Ti and Lama Su of an upcoming Separatist attack, with clone
troopers Captain Rex, Commander Cody, Broadside, Echo, and Fives in their
company, with the rest of the 501st.
Shortly, Grievous's Separatist fleet arrived and a space battle ensued. Anakin led
the Republic space forces against the attackers, scoring several serious hits against
the enemy - or so it seemed. Suspicious, Obi-Wan traveled underwater, where he
discovered that the pieces of debris falling into the Kaminoan ocean were actually
components for assault craft being assembled by Aqua droids.
The finished attack ship assaulted Tipoca City, depositing several battle droids led
by Grievous and Ventress. Grievous attacked the barracks to destroy all the clones
he could find there, while Ventress headed for the main DNA storage to secure the
prime DNA sample of the clones' template, Jango Fett. Obi-Wan returned to the city
and recalled Anakin and the two engaged Grievous and Ventress. With the help of a
clone trooper platoon, Anakin managed to recover the DNA sample, but Ventress
escaped.[122]
Senate hostage crisis
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Padme in her office
Padm and Anakin share their feelings
Following a failed assassination attempt on Senator Amidala employing the services
of bounty hunter Aurra Sing, Ziro the Hutt was interrogated by Anakin and his
padawan Ahsoka Tano in his prison cell, during which he confessed his involvement
in the matter. This effectively extended his prison sentence[118]; however, because
of sensitive information in his possession, Jabba the Hutt and the Hutt Grand Council
hired the renowned bounty hunter Cad Bane to break him out of the detention
center.[123]
Visiting his wife, Padm Amidala, in her office at the Republic Executive Building,
Skywalker asked her to sneak away with him on a meditative retreat. Amidala

denied this request, stating she had a bill to present before the Galactic Senate.
They discussed their marriage, though Amidala thought Skywalker was just teasing
her. After stating "There's nothing more important than the way I feel about you," he
gave her his lightsaber as a sign of trust. The two shared a kiss, then were
interrupted by C-3PO's and Senator Organa's voices. Skywalker hid under Amidala's
desk, not being able to retrieve his lightsaber. Amidala was forced to hide it while
she met with other senators about the Enhanced Privacy Invasion Bill. Meanwhile,
Cad Bane's posse arrived at the Senate Building, and killed the Senate Commandos
guarding the landing platform.[124]
Robonino shocking Skywalker
Robonino shocks Skywalker.
The bounty hunters then captured the senators, including Padm Amidala, Riyo
Chuchi, and Bail Organa. Robonino shut off the building's power, catching
Skywalker's attention. Skywalker located the hostages, but got spotted by Bane. He
found and hot-wired a terminal with his comlink and contacted Palpatine, who
advised him to get to the central power core and turn off the security seals.
Skywalker hid as Bane's menan IG-86 sentinel droid and Shahan Alamacame by,
the latter of whom Skywalker used a mind trick on, making them both go check the
other floors. Skywalker then went searching around the building, ran into the IG-86
sentinel droid, and beat it to destruction with his bare hands. He eventually found
the power core, but before he could reach it, Alama engaged him in a short battle.
Skywalker managed to steal his blaster, but it was soon shot out of his hands by
Aurra Sing. Robonino was then able to knock Skywalker unconscious. The bounty
hunters brought him to Bane, who then had them put explosive lasers around the
senators and the Jedi Knight. After Skywalker regained consciousness, Amidala
handed him his lightsaber, which he then used to cut a hole in the floor in order to
get the senators to safety.[124]
Political chaos
Farther into the war, Skywalker trained Tano to fight with a shoto along with her
original lightsaber. Despite the Republic's numerous victories, the clone army was
suffering higher casualties as the battles escalated. The Galactic Senate called an
emergency session in the wake of this issue, which Skywalker and Tano watched
from the Grand Concourse. After the session, Padm pleaded with her husband to
convince the High Council to discuss the ending of the war campaign with the
Chancellor, but Skywalker denies to be involved with the situation. However, Tano
disagreed, which caused Skywalker to request that Amidala teach his Padawan
about politics. However, the two women crossed the boundaries by illegally
travelling to Raxus, the capital planet of the Separatists. After their return to
Coruscant, Skywalker briefly spoke with fellow Jedi Eekar Oki before scolding his
Padawan for her actions.
Skywalker often entrusted Tano to resolving political intrigue; for example, he
encouraged Tano in helping to resolve political intrigue surrounding the kidnapping
of Baron N. Papanoida of Orto Plutonia's daughters Chi Eekway and Che Amanwe.

Her resourcefulness led the Council to appoint her to an undercover assignment on

Mandalore following the uncovering of a net of corrupt politicians, which her master
both escorted her to, and then took her away, after she had completed her mission.
Hunting Savage Opress
After the Battle of Sullust, Skywalker assumed that Ventress was killed. After,
Masters Yoda and Windu had shown Kenobi footage of a massacre on Devaron,
Anakin accompanied Obi-wan on his search for this monster presumably a kin of
Darth Maul, so they headed for the Sith Lord's homeworld. During their brief battle
with the warriors of the village, Skywalker was able to take Brother Viscus as a
hostage, who told them that Mother Talzin should know of this monster's
whereabouts. Though Talzin had initially tried to avoid giving them direct answer,
she eventually showed and told them the monster's name and whereabouts. The
two Jedi then headed to Toydaria where they had a confrontation with Savage, but
failed to stop him from killing King Katuunko. After Savage had destroyed their ship,
they borrowed the king's ship. In space above Toydaria, Skywaker and Kenobi
caught up with Opress on Dooku's Separtist flagship, however he managed to
overpower them and escaped. Skywalker and Obi-Wan then retreated and left the
ship.
Revelation on Mortis
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Skywalker forces the Son and Daughter to kneel before him
When the Jedi Council received a 2,000 year old distress signal from the
Chrelythiumn system, Skywalker, along with Obi-Wan Kenobi and Tano, were sent to
investigate. Fearing a Separatist trap, they were supposed to meet up with Captain
Rex and an armed cruiser at the coordinates. Though they both reached the
location, neither Skywalker nor Rex could see each other. All of a sudden a crystal
shaped structure appeared and pulled the Jedi's ship towards itself. The crew passed
out and when they regained consciousness, they found themselves on a strange
world that was radiant with the Force. Skywalker was then approached by the
Daughter who asked if he was the One, then told them to follow her. On the way, a
rock slide separated Kenobi and Tano from Daughter and Skywalker. Despite
Daughter's warning to wait there, Skywalker tried to follow her. However, he lost
her, and had to find shelter in a cave from a storm before he spotted a monastery's
beacon. As soon as the storms let up Skywalker hastened to the monastery where
he met the Father, who gave him shelter.
Later, Skywalker was visited by an apparition of his mother. Skywalker, knowing that
she was dead, could not believe that was her. She told Anakin that she knew that he
defined his guilt by what he had done: massacring the Tusken Raiders and his secret
marriage to Padm Amidala. When Skywalker tried to confront her, she changed
into a monster, revealing that she was actually the Son. Skywalker confronted the
Father, pointing a lightsaber at him, under the assumption that he was a Sith Lord.
The Father replied to this by stating he was neither Sith nor Jedi. He told Skywalker

that he and his children were Force-wielders, beings so strong in the ways of the
Force that they could not dwell in the material world anymore; as a result, they had
retreated to this planet to contain their powers by attaining balance within and
cutting off any influences from the outside world .
The Father asked Skywalker about the Chosen One, which he believed to be merely
a myth. After hearing Skywalker's reply, the Father gave him an offer. If Skywalker
would pass a test, he and his friends were free to leave. The following morning he
had to face an impossible choiceSon and Daughter had kidnapped Tano and
Kenobi as they went looking for him, and Skywalker had to choose which one to
save. Kenobi reminded him that the planet was actually the Force itself. Skywalker,
using the Force, was then able to tame both the Children, who changed back into
their human form. The old man told Skywalker that while he had passed the test, he
still had to learn about the true nature within himself. He revealed that he had been
dying, and asked Skywalker to take his place as the balancing element between his
children, or otherwise endanger the galaxy with his selfishness if he left. Skywalker
chose to leave, although he was strangely hesitant to do so.
However, before the Jedi's ship could exit the planet's atmosphere, Son abducted
Tano, correctly assuming that the Jedi would not leave her behind. After a lengthy
pursuit, Skywalker lost track of Son and almost crashed into a giant tower. After a
none-too-elegant landing, Skywalker decided to go and rescue his Padawan, despite
Kenobi's concern about disturbing the balance of the Force in their own universe as
well.
When Skywalker finally managed to climb up to the garden of the tower, he found
Tano, brainwashed by the Son's influence, her eyes bearing the yellow hue of the
dark side's taint. There she told him Son's message: if Skywalker refused to join
him, he would kill Tano, and if Skywalker tried to stop Son, he would be forced to kill
the girl himself. Then the two engaged in a duel, with Skywalker continuously
retreating, unwilling to hurt his student. Soon, Kenobi arrived to join forces with his
former Padawan while Son and Daughter started their own combat inside the
tower's throne room.
When it became obvious that the conflict could not go on any further without injury,
Kenobi suggested killing the Son with a dagger in order to cut Tano free of is control.
However, before they act on this plan, Father arrived and interrupted both fights.
However, he had grown too weak to fend off Son's Force lightning. Kenobiin hope
of defeating Sonthrew the dagger to Skywalker. However, Tano was quicker to
catch it and took it over to Son, who then seemingly killed her with a touch to her
forehead. Then he attempted to murder his father with the dagger. To his great
dismay, his sister took the blow, and he fled, raging. Skywalker asked Father to help
Tano, but he answered that without Light, there was no hope for her either.
Skywalker replied, crying, that there was always hope. Hearing his pain, Daughter
asked the help of her father, to give her remaining life-energy to Tano. Not wishing
to deny the dying wish of his child, Father showed Skywalker how to transfer
Daughter's life into his Padawan. After a few frightening seconds, Tano came back to
life while the glowing of Daughter's body faded away. Seeing Tano alive, Skywalker

knelt to his Padawan and hugged her. He asked her if she was okay, but she seemed
to forget what happened. After this, Father ordered the Jedi to leave immediately, so
Son wouldn't be able to leave Mortis with their ship.
However, the ship had been damaged when Anakin had crash landed it, so the Jedi
were stranded. Skywalker, not convinced that the Son could be easily contained on
the planet, returned on a speeder to see the Father, offering his help in killing the
Son. The Father directed him toward the Well of the Dark Side with the warning not
to underestimate the Son. On the way, Skywalker encountered an apparition of QuiGon Jinn. Skywalker confided his doubts to the apparition about what he should do
with the Son. The Force spirit told him to trust his instincts and that he would find a
way.
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Skywalker having a Force vision on Mortis
When he arrived at the "well," he confronted the Son only to have his lightsaber
pulled out of his hand. The Son then offered to show him the future. Skywalker tried
to resist, but could not keep out the visions that assaulted his mind. He saw himself
killing younglings, choking Amidala as she begged for mercy, the true face of
Sidious, fighting Kenobi, destroying Alderaan, and his transformation into the Sith
Lord, Darth Vader. He eventually fell to his knees while the smoke behind him
formed the shape of the face of Darth Vader. Skywalker collapsed, close to tears and
horrified at the revelation of the monster he would become, knowing he would go
on to do terrible things. The Son agreed, but offered a way to change the future he
saw, asking again for Skywalker to join him. Skywalker hesitated, but then
submitted at the promise of peace.
Shortly afterward, Kenobi arrived, having gone looking for Skywalker. He found him
poisoned by the Dark Side. Skywalker said that there had been "a change of plan."
He telekinetically pushed the speeder he had arrived on into the surrounding lava.
Skywalker told Kenobi that he could not understand, and he would try to stop him
doing what he had to do. The Son then blasted Kenobi with lightning. Skywalker told
him that the Jedi would get in the way of peace. Skywalker left on Kenobi's speeder,
trapping him.
The corrupted Skywalker approached the shuttle that Tano had recently repaired,
but Tano had received warning from Kenobi to stop both the Son and Skywalker from
leaving the planet by sabotaging the ship. As he entered, she escaped with a vital
part of the ship.
When the Son joined Skywalker, the Jedi told him that no one would be able to hear
the distress signal he was sending. The Son told him that the Father still had control
over the planet, but that he would soon be able to control it himself. Skywalker said
that Kenobi and Tano would probably call the Father for help and that their
combined powers could be enough to defeat them. The Son agreed and told
Skywalker to wait while he went to find the Dagger of Mortis, which the Father had
buried with the Daughter.

After the Son withdrew, Skywalker was confronted by the Father who demanded to
know why he had joined with his Son. Skywalker said that he did not want what he
had seen to come true, but the Father said that his destiny was not written in stone
and his son had broken the laws of time by showing Skywalker his future. He then
erased the visions from Skywalker's mind, rendering the Jedi unconscious. When he
awoke, he was back at the monastery with no memory of his visions and brief fall to
the dark side. They were then joined by Kenobi and Tano, who asked if he was
alright. He told them he was fine, but that they needed to stop the Son.
At that moment, the son arrived holding the Mortis Dagger. The Father pleaded with
him to renounce the dark side, but the Son simply sneered. The Jedi attacked, but
the Son easily overpowered them. The Father suddenly summoned the Mortis
Dagger to his hands. To the Son's surprise, the Father killed himself instead of the
Son. As he lay dying, the Father revealed to the Son that their power was
connected, and that with his death his power was broken. The Son refused to
believe he was dying, saying that he loved his Father and it did not have to be this
way. The Father told the Son that he had always believed there was good in him,
and embraced him. Skywalker than ran the Son through with his lightsaber. The Son
died, followed shortly by the Father whose last words were that now Skywalker had
restored balance to Mortis, he had to do so to the entire galaxy, but also warned
him to beware his feelings, as they might lead to his downfall. The Father then
faded into the Force.
With all the Force-wielders dead, the planet began to break apart. A blinding white
light enveloped the Jedi, and they found themselves back in the shuttle, seemingly
moments before they had disappeared. Captain Rex contacted them, saying that
they had disappeared of their scopes for a moment. Skywalker told him
incredulously that they had been gone for more than a moment. Rex said that he
didn't understand, but Skywalker told him that even if he told him the truth, Rex
would not believe him.
Rescuing Master Piell
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Anakin puts Captain Tarkin in his place
"It's when things do not go as planned that concerns me. What then?"
"It's when things don't go as planned that we Jedi are at our best. Trust me."
"I reserve my trust for those who take action, General Skywalker."
"Then let me remind you, we rescued you back there. And I reserve my trust for
those who understand gratitude, Captain Tarkin"
Captain Tarkin and Skywalker verbally spar about the escape plan[src]
After Master Even Piell was captured due to his knowledge of the Nexus Route,
Skywalker, along with Master Kenobi, Captain Rex, Commander Cody, ARC Troopers
Echo and Fives and three other clone troopers, was sent to rescue Master Piell from

the "impenetrable" Separatist prison, the Citadel. Skywalker forbade his Padawan
from coming on the mission, saying it would be too dangerous for her. When the
rescue party reached the hangar of the Citadel, Skywalker devised a way to get past
their scanners by being frozen in carbonite, thus stifling their life-readings. After the
team was frozen, they were loaded up onto the transport ship by R2-D2's battle
droid squadron. The shuttle was able to get through thanks to Skywalker's strategy.
When Skywalker was thawed out, he found, to his surprise, that Tano had disobeyed
orders and followed him. The team reluctantly took her along.
When they reached the Citadel, the team was successful in rescuing Master Piell
just before he would have lost his good eye to an interrogator droid. Skywalker
asked if Piell found the Nexus Route. Piell told him that he memorized half the
information while his captain, Wilhuff Tarkin, memorized the other half as a
precaution in case he cracked under the interrogation. Skywalker and the rest of the
team went to free Tarkin. On their way, they were ambushed by commando droids.
The team was successful in defeating the first of commando droids, but when the
second squad of commando droids came, Osi Sobeck activated magnets in the
ceiling, ripping the team's weapons away and trapping Skywalker by attracting his
prosthetic arm. As the rest of the team scrambled to defeat the droids with
telekinesis and their bare hands, Skywalker, despite being brutally electrocuted by
Sobeck, was able to get his lightsaber and disable the magnet.
After the team defeated the commando droids, they rescued Tarkin and the rest of
the officers. Skywalker and Kenobi then decided to split up to prevent the enemy
from getting either half of the information. Kenobi took Piell and a couple of his
officers with his group and Skywalker took Captain Tarkin and a couple of officer
with him. Skywalker was then able to cut into a old tunnel. Skywalker was glad that
things were going according to plan, though Tarkin expressed some skepticism
about this plan and didn't seem grateful for rescuing him. Skywalker told Tarkin that
he reserved his trust to those who understood the meaning of Gratitude.[125] As
Skywalker and his team made their way through the tunnels, Skywalker watched
their rear, leaving his apprentice leading the team. When they reached a dead end,
Skywalker destroyed a Recon Droid and then fought against Superbattle droids and
commando droids armed with shields. Skywalker, Tano and the team were able to
destroy the commando droids and blast the dead end open. Skywalker and his team
then went into a fuel line. Along the way, Skywalker found that he and Tarkin
believed that the Jedi didn't take the initiative and did whatever it took. When they
reached the exit of the fuel line they were ambushed by battle droids and Crab
droids. Luckily, Skywalker was able to destroy them by throwing a grenade into the
fuel line. Skywalker and his team then moved to Plan B, to meet up with Kenobi's
team trying to reach the shuttle at the airfield. After the shuttle was destroyed, both
teams fell back to some caves.[126]
After Master Piell contacted the Jedi Temple, Skywalker, Kenobi and the rest of team
moved onto to the rendezvous point. When Skywalker's and Kenobi's team reached
the lava lake, they were attacked by a large battle droid force. While R2's droid
team held off the enemy, Skywalker went down a cliff with the rest of the team
down to the lake's shore and escapes into a set of gullies. As they move on,

Skywalker warned Tarkin not to upset Master Piell if he wanted to keep his career.
Tarkin stated that the Supreme Chancellor would support him, to which Anakin
stated that he too knew the Chancellor well.
When Tano asked Skywalker why Piell would share half the information with Tarkin.
Skywalker told Tano that Tarkin felt that the Jedi shouldn't be running the war, to
which he replied that the Jedi were keepers of the peace, not soldiers. As Skywalker
and Kenobi discussed Tarkin's haughty attitude towards the Jedi, they noticed the
anooba trailing them, along with a squad of STAPs. Skywalker, Kenobi and R2 lured
the creatures into an ambush, but the rest of the team itself was ambushed by crab
droids and another group of STAPs. When Skywalker and Kenobi rejoined the team,
Padawan Tano arrived carrying Master Piell's body, and told them that she had his
half of the information. Skywalker, Kenobi and the rest of the team then took a brief
moment to consign his body to the lava before moving on. When they reached the
island, Skywalker and cody fired extension cables, but were then ambushed by
Sobeck and his commando droids on STAPs. After Sobeck's death, Master Koon
arrived and picked them up. When they returned to the Temple, Skywalker shook
hands with Tarkin before he left. Skywalker then told Kenobi that they could use
more men like him to help them win the war.[127]
Return to Felucia
"When I was out there, alone, all I had was your training and the lessons you taught
me. And because of you, I did survive. And not only that, I was able to lead others to
survive as well."
Tano thanking her master for his training.[src]
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Skywalker continues his search for his missing Padawan at the Jedi Temple.
Skywalker, along with Padawan Tano, Master Plo Koon, and their clone officers
Captain Rex and Commander Wolffe, traveled to Felucia to tend to reinforcements
dispatched by General Grievous to an outpost to secure his hold on Felucia. Koon
and Wolffe jumped in from one of the sides of outpost while Tano attacked from the
rear. Skywalker and Rex, aided by Felucian scouts, would stage a ambush at the
front of the outpost. When the outpost came under fire from the AT-TEs and Turbo
Tanks, the droids were ambushed by Skywalker's men and the outpost was taken.
When Skywalker asked one of Tano's men where she was, he was told that she was
missing. Skywalker then proceeded to look for Tano, but Koon told Skywalker that he
must return to Coruscant. At the Jedi Temple, Skywalker kept searching for her.[128]
Eventually, Tano found her own way back and Skywalker apologised to her for
bringing her on the mission and not being to careful, but Tano thanked him for
because of him training her she survived.[129]
The Starcrusher trap
"I've defied the Chancellor's orders. It's that rebellious streak of mine you keep
cautioning me about, I'm afraid."

" Bless that rebellious streak! For once, you're right where I want you!"
Skywalker and Kenobi[src]
During the war, Kenobi and Skywalker infiltrated a Separatist munitions factory on
an asteroid. Skywalker joked that he had forgotten the explosives as Kenobi used his
lightsaber to cut into the factory. Once inside they were surrounded by battle droids,
but the two Jedi destroyed them and ventured deeper into the factory. Skywalker
threw the explosives into the station's reactor, and the resulting explosion brought
down the shields.[130]
Three Republic Venator-class star destroyers led by Captain Trask moved into
position to destroy the factory, but the Separatist battleship Starcrusher ambushed
the destroyers. The two Jedi were unaware of the destruction of the Republic fleet,
and Skywalker called for extraction. The Jedi Knight Jyl Somtay, piloting a T-6
shuttle, arrived to pick them up. The three Jedi were able to fly past the Starcrusher
and return to Coruscant, where the Jedi Council decided to send a team to hunt
down the dangerous Separatist vessel, which included Kenobi, Somtay, Master
Windu, Master Mundi, and Skywalker's Padawan. Chancellor Palpatine contacted
Grand Master Yoda, and asked for the services of Skywalker.[130]
Skywalker met the Chancellor in his private office, where Palpatine presented a
collection of seeds for Skywalker to take to the Daltarri inhabitants as a gesture of
goodwill. Skywalker took R2 and his starfighter to the planet Daltarri and met the
inhabitants, who agreed to aid the Republic. During his mission, Skywalker received
a premonition of danger, and cut short his mission to Daltarri by two days.[130]
The Jedi assault team had gotten trapped on a decoy Starcrusher and were on the
verge of crashing into a star when Skywalker arrived. At that time, the real
Starcrusher arrived. Kenobi came up with a plan, and had Skyalker fly his fighter
into the battleship's main hold, where he caused damage to the inside of the vessel.
Skywalker proceeded to the vessel's power generator and destroyed it. Kenobi's
plan involved magnetizing the hull of the decoy to cause the real Starcrusher to
crash into it. The team then escaped using spacesuits, and Skywalker used a tow
cable to pick up the team as the Separatist vessels disentigrated in the sun.[130]
The strike team then returned to Coruscant, and Skywalker met with Palpatine, who
was not upset that he had cut his mission to Daltarri short. Upon his return to the
Jedi Temple, he saw Tano and Somtay, who were going for caf and to discuss
Skywalker.[130]
Civil war on Mon Calamari
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Anakin fighting during the 2nd Battle of Mon Calamari
After the assassination of Mon Calamari's King Yos Kolina, Skywalker, acting as
bodyguard to Republic Senator Padm Amidala, were sent at the behest of Kolina's
chief military adviser, Capt. Gial Ackbar, to help steer the troubled planet away from
an inevitable civil war between the Quarren and Mon Calamari. After the failure of

the peace talks between the Quarren and the Mon Calamari, Skywalker, Amidala,
and Captain. Ackbar contacted the Jedi Council. Skywalker informed them of how
the Separatist ambassador, commander Riff Tamson, stirred up the Quarren against
accepting Kolina's son, prince Lee-Char as their next leader. Master Mace Windu told
Skywalker and Ackbar to prepare for an assault and that they were sending a
company of Clone SCUBA troopers under Kit Fisto and Ahsoka Tano to reinforce
them. When the Quarren, backed by Tamson and his Aqua droids, attacked
Skywalker urged Ackbar to get the prince to safety. When the prince refused to do
this, Skywalker fought alongside the Mon Calamari troops. Skywalker, along with
Amidala, accompanied the prince as he tried to get troops behind the Quarren and
droids but failed to do so. When Padm asked for help in getting Mon Calamari
senator Meena Tills to safety, Skywalker was attacked by a couple of Quarren who
grabbed him and removed his helmet. Skywalker was able to get rid of the Quarren,
but couldn't get to his helmet and was slowly drowning. Fortunately, Republic
reinforcements and Ahsoka arrived just in time to save her master from drowning.
When Tano gave Skywalker his helmet back, he told her that he had it under control.
Skywalker then told her to get to prince Lee-Char and keep him safe. When the
Quarren and the droids retreated, Skywalker regrouped with the Mon Calamari
soldiers and Republic leaders. Unfortunately, Tamson brought in reinforcements in
the form of Hydroid Medusas. Though he kept fighting against them, Skywalker told
his Padawan to find a way out to retreat. Skywalker, along with Lee-Char, Tano, Tills,
Amidala, Kit Fisto, and what remained of their army retreated through the Hydroid
Medusa to caves on the seafloor.[131]
After Fisto contacted Masters Yoda and Mace Windu, Skywalker advised the prince
that they should try reaching Amidala's and his ship. Though the prince wanted to
stay for his people, was able to convince him to make a run for the ship. After Fisto
distracted the Quarren, Skywalker and Tano took a couple of mini subs with the
Prince, the senators, and Capt. Ackbar. Unfortunately Tamson anticipated this move,
and he blew up their ship. After their ship's destruction, Skywalker and the rest of
the group grabbed onto the debris. Skywalker and Ackbar agreed that they should
split up in order to protect the prince. So Skywalker took Senators Amidala, Tills and
Capt. Ackbar with him while Fisto took the prince, Tano, and Commander Monnk.
Skywalker and his group then went to the Mon Calamari central planetary scanner
mast. Once there, Skywalker used the power of the Force to tear apart the building.
Skywalker and his group were then surrounded by the Quarren and Tamson's forces.
Fortunately, the Gungan Grand Army was sent to them as the Republic's
reinforcements. At first the tide was turning in their favor, but Tamson, using
Dooku's reinforcements created whirlpools in which they subdued the Gungans, Mon
Calamari, and Skywalker's team. Ackbar then helped Skywalker make his way
through the whirlpool to disable one of the Trident ship's legs to stop it. Skywalker
was successful in this effort, but Skywalker, along with his team, the Gungans and
Mon Calamari, were taken as prisoners.[132]
Skywalker, Fisto, Amidala, and Binks were taken to Tamson, where he put Skywalker
and Fisto into Eel cages. Tamson started to interrogate them on the whereabouts of
Prince Lee-Char, torturing them. When Tamson couldn't get a answer out of them,

Tamson cracked Amidala's helmet to make it slowly leak. Though it convinced

Tamson that Skywalker and the others knew nothing of the prince, the Prince was
found and Tamson left, leaving Amidala's helmet leaking. Skywalker and Fisto used
the Force to create a air bubble around her helmet. When Skywalker was bitten by
one of the eels, he thought of Amidala, but luckily Binks used Gungan water sealant
to seal her helmet. Skywalker and the others were then taken to the execution of
the Prince. Skywalker was reunited with his Padawan shortly later, the two discussed
the plan to rescue the Prince, though Tano told him that unfortunately the situation
is out of there hands, with Skywalker stating that he was not sure he likes the plan
after all. With the Prince about to be killed, the Quarren betrayed Tamson and then
gave the Jedi and the captured Mon Calamari back their weapons and joined them
in winning the battle. After winning the battle, Skywalker and the others then
attended Lee-Char's coronation and installation as the 83rd King of Mon Calamari.
[133]
Skirmish on Naboo
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Anakin after his Encounter with Count Dooku
When the Naboo heard rumors that the Gungans and their army were going to
march on them with the Separatists, Skywalker went with Senator Amidala to help
Representative Jar Jar Binks in trying to figure out why Boss Lyonie was rallying his
people to rise up against the Naboo. After witnessing a rally, they arranged for a
private meeting with Lyonie, and found out he was kept under hypnotic control
through a strange necklace. Lyonie said that the necklace had been given to him by
a Gungan mystic, Minister Rish Loo, who actually was an agent of Count Dooku.
When they confronted Rish Loo, Skywalker sensed that Rish Loo was trying to
hypnotize Lyonie again. Skywalker and Amidala went in to arrest him, but Rish Loo
revealed Commando Droids and battle erupted. Skywalker quickly dispatched the
commando droids, however Rish Loo managed to escape after stabbing Lyonie.
Skywalker pursued him till Rish Loo got to a Gungan transport and made a run to
the surface.[134]
After taking Lyonie to medical facility in Otoh Gunga, Skywalker and Amidala tried to
figure out a way to convince the Gungan army not to ally with the Separatists.
Skywalker and Amidala then saw that there was an eerie resemblance between JarJar Binks and Lyonie once the former donned the latter ceremonial apparel. Thus
Skywalker took Binks (posing as Lyonie) to the army and got him to convince the
army to stand down and to arrest Rish Loo. Rish Loo escaped again,
commandeering a speeder bike, and Skywalker gave chase on a kaadu. Skywalker
kept on his tail but his mount was then shot down by two recon droids. Anakin
destroyed them and then continued on foot following Rish Loo's trail to an old,
abandoned temple from which Count Dooku was overseeing the operation in
person.[134]
Skywalker entered the temple, and witnessed Dooku executing his Gungan agent for
failure. Skywalker and Dooku then engaged each other in lightsaber combat. Anakin

initially took the advantage, forcing Dooku to break off the bout by telekinetically
barraging Skywalker with lamp droids. Dooku then revealed his trump card, four
MagnaGuards, ordering them to capture Skywalker. The MagnaGuards joined the
fray, and gave Dooku the upper hand when he managed to disarm Skywalker. The
Magnaguards then pinned Skywalker to the ground, but calling upon his anger, he
managed to knock them away with a Force Repulse. Dooku ultimately managed to
subdue him using a combination of Force choke and Sith lightning. Anakin was then
latched to a rack, and Dooku contacted Amidala, proposing a prisoner exchange. If
Amidala gave General Grievous up, Skywalker would be spared and released. Dooku
gave her one hour to respond. Thus Amidala gave Grievous up for Skywalker and
the droid army left Naboo.[134]
Battle of Umbara
After the Umbaran sided with the Separatists after the death of Senator Mee Deechi,
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Skywalker lead the 501st Legion into battle against the local Umbaran militia forces.
the Republic launched a massive campaign to retake Umbara. Sending Skywalker,
Pong Krell, and two high Jedi Council members, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Saesee Tiin to
lead the clone troopers to retake the planet. After smashing through the Separatist
blockade that guarded the planet, Skywalker and his 501st Legion troopers prepared
to land on the shadowy world after just attending a mission briefing. Shortly
thereafter, Skywalker and his troops entered the planet's atmosphere and engaged
the local Umbaran militia forces.
After defeating the Umbara resistance for a short while Skywalker and Rex waited
for the rest of their men, hoping to move out soon and reinforce General Kenobi's
battalion and push for the Umbaran capital. Dogma headed over and reported that
all platoons have reported in. Skywalker told him to get some rest, but Dogma
replied that he was fine. Rex stepped into the conversation and told Dogma that
General Skywalker gave him a direct order. Dogma did as he was asked. Rex told
Skywalker that Dogma was wound tight but loyal and Skywalker made a joke that he
reminded him of Rex. Rex, not thinking so, replied that was him in the old days.
Shortly after this, the Umbarans executed an ambush on Skywalker and his troops.
Fortunately an airstrike by Master Pong Krell and Oddball saved them in the nick of
time. After the quick save, Krell approached Skywalker with a disconcerting
message: Skywalker is to return to Coruscant and meet Supreme Chancellor
Palpatine, for reasons unknown. Reluctant to leave his troops in the midst of battle,
Skywalker nevertheless was forced to relinquish command over his troops to Master
Krell and make the journey back to the Coruscant.[135]
Battle of Kiros
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Skywalker and his troops leads BARC speeders into battle against battle droids on
Kiros

Ten rotations of Yoda's last contact with the Togruta colonists on Kiros, Skywalker,
his Padawan, Captain Rex, and Kenobi went to this world to liberate it from the
Separatists. After their landing, Skywalker, with Tano as his gunner took a squad of
BARC speeder to break through the city. After Skywalker and the squad took out the
commando droids on Flitknot speeders and the AATs, Skywalker's and Kenobi's
forces then surrounded the Governor's tower, where the Separatist Headquarters
were at. Commander Cody then told that the enemy commander, Darts D'Nar,
wished to discuss terms of surrender. Skywalker then took D'nar's message out of
Cody's hand and called D'nar Zygerrian slaver scum. Though Skywalker wanted to
negotiate with D'nar, Kenobi told him to wait while he negotiated. Skywalker then
contacted Admiral Yularen to conduct a bio scan to find the missing colonists.
Skywalker then overheard Kenobi's negotiations on his comlink. Skywalker and Tano
were surprised when D'Nar refused to surrender. When D'Nar said that he had
planted bombs in the city, Skywalker and Tano did not believe it at first until D'Nar
blew up one of the buildings. Skywalker and Tano then rode on a couple of AT-RTs to
defuse the bombs while Kenobi continued his Negotiations. Skywalker and Tano
diffused the bombs quickly. When Skywalker and Tano got to the last bombs, they
came under fire from Sniper droidekas. Fortunately they were able to destroy the
snipers and diffuse the last bombs. After that, Skywalker and Tano then took their
AT-RTs back to the tower. When Kenobi informed them that D'Nar was escaping,
They took their AT-RTs and jumped onto D'Nar's ship, the Tecora.
Skywalker and Tano then disabled D'Nar's ship. The ship's doors then opened and
they boarded. Unfortunately, D'Nar unleashed one of his "pets", the Blixus, upon
them. Skywalker and Tano then fought, but Skywalker then told Tano to stabilize the
ship. Just as the Blixus was about to eat him, Skywalker then killed the blixus and
escaped it's grasp as it fell off the ship. Skywalker then went to the control where
his apprentice had just captured D'Nar. Skywalker then started to question D'Nar,
threatening to kill D'Nar with a lightsaber up his throat. D'Nar told Skywalker that
his queen would have a auction to make Zygerria powerful once again. When
Skywalker, Kenobi, Yularen, and Tano told the Jedi Council of this, Skywalker told
them that they must not let this happen.[136]
Infiltrating Zygerria
AnakinSavesMiraj-SotR
"Lars Quell" saved Queen Miraj Scintel from assassination attempt by a slave.
Skywalker, along with Kenobi, Tano, and Rex took D'Nar's ship, the Tecora, to
Zygerria. There Skywalker, posing as a brigand named Lars Quell, with Tano posing
as his slave would keep the Zygerrian queen busy and distracted while Kenobi and
Rex look for the missing colonists. Skywalker and his fellow Jedi then gave R2-D2
their lightsabers and then went their separate ways. As Skywalker and Tano made
there way through the streets, they then ran into the Zygerrian Prime Minister, Atai
Molec. At first, Molec refused to allow "Quell" to see the queen until Skywalker told
that he had news concerning Bruno Denturri.

Skywalker and Tano were then taken to Queen Miraj Scintel's Palace. Skywalker told
the queen how he killed Denturi and took one of Denturi's "slaves" as
compensation. The queen was impressed by "Quell"'s skills as a warrior. When the
queen asked about how much "Quell"'s slave was, Skywalker openly flirted with the
queen. Skywalker and his apprentice were then taken to the Queen's private
chambers. There, as Skywalker and the queen were about to drink, one of the
queen's slaves tried to kill her. Skywalker was able to stop the slave, but the slave
then took her own life. When the queen offered to buy his "slave", Skywalker
presented his slave as a gift to the queen, thus earning the queen's praises.
Skywalker and Tano were then invited to attend the Royal Slave Auction. When
Governor Roshti was presented, Skywalker asked where she got nearly 50,000
slaves. Just then Molec told the queen of his capture of the Jedi, Obi-Wan Kenobi.
When Kenobi was brought forward to show her customers how her people can even
enslave the Jedi, Skywalker was ordered to whip Kenobi. As Skywalker move to whip
Kenobi, he gave a signal to Artoo and Rex. Skywalker, Kenobi and Tano then got
their lightsabers and tried to fight their way out, to no avail. The queen and her
guards were able to subdue Skywalker and his friends. The queen admired
Skywalker's strength, thus she decided to make Skywalker her bodyguard.
When Skywalker came about in the queen's chamber, Skywalker tried to Forcechoke the queen into telling him where his friends are. However the queen tells him
that if he continues to misbehave, his friends would die. Thus Skywalker submitted
himself to being the queen's bodyguard.[137] Skywalker escorted the queen around
her palace until Dooku arrived, unbeknownst to the queen. Skywalker was then
ordered to stay put, without his lightsaber. Two guards watched until Artoo arrived
and then he vanished. After Skywalker lost the guards, he then went to rescue his
apprentice, who was in a cage. Skywalker then told Tano to get the ship ready, while
he would get the location of Kenobi and Rex from the queen. As Skywalker entered
the queen's quarter, Dooku had just Force-choked the queen. Skywalker then fought
Dooku with a whip. Then the guards, believing that Skywalker had murdered their
queen, tried to kill him. Skywalker then took and escaped with the dying queen to
the Tecora. Onboard the ship, the queen told Skywalker that he was right and where
Kenobi and Rex were.[138]
Battle of Kadavo
Skywalker and Tano took the Tecora to Kadavo, to the Zygerrian Labor Processing
Hub where Kenobi and Rex were held. After their ship landed, Skywalker and Tano
made their way to the front door. Just as they were cutting through the door, Kenobi
warned him that Keeper Agruss will kill the slaves if he does not stop and that's he
outnumbered. Fortunately, Skywalker contacted Master Plo Koon, the Wolfpack and
Admiral Coburn for help. While Master Koon kept the Zygerrian defenses busy,
Skywalker and Tano made their way through the facility. Skywalker then helped
Master Koon to destroy the defense turrets while his apprentice helped the colonists
get to the rescue ship. Skywalker, Kenobi and Rex then joined each other and
evacuated the facility as Master Koon's fighters destroyed the facility.[138]
Plot to kidnap the Chancellor

After a meeting of the Jedi Council, Kenobi was "shot" by Rako Hardeena bounty
hunter and marksman from the planet Concord Dawnwhile walking through the
streets of Coruscant at night with Skywalker and Tano. Hardeen was hired by an
anonymous client to "kill" Kenobi with a sniper rifle.
After shooting the Jedi in the chest and completing the job, Hardeen was pursued by
Skywalker, but escaped on a speeder bike and with the aid of smoke grenades. Tano
and Skywalker attend Kenobi's funeral, believing him dead, and Skywalker swears to
bring the perpetrator to justice.
SW and AT at a bar
Skywalker and Ahsoka storming into a bar to apprehend "Rako Hardeen".
After celebrating his high-profile kill at Trueping's cantina, his employer called him
to a back room for payment. To his surprise, a very much alive Master Kenobi
having assumed Hardeen's appearanceand Master Windu arrest and incapacitate
Hardeen for secret transport.
Meanwhile, during their investigation of the presumed killer, Skywalker and Ahsoka
find a presumably drunk "Rako Hardeen" at Trueping's, not knowing that it was
really Kenobi in disguise. Skywalker and Tano arrest him and have him transported
to the Republic Judiciary Central Detention Center, where the Jedi Council had been
planning to insert Kenobi undercover in order to uncover a plot involving Moralo
Eval to kidnap Supreme Chancellor Palpatine.[139]
During his investigation, Kenobi discovered the involvement of Cad Bane in the plot
and continued to assume his disguise to learn more. With difficulty in convincing
Bane of his credibility, and to follow the enemy plot to its source, Kenobi assisted
Bane and Eval in their escape from the detention center.
When Skywalker expressed his desire to track down the killer and return him to
custody, Windu denied the request to pursue the fugitives. Not happy with the
decision, Skywalker visited the Chancellor, who told him that the fugitives were on
Nal Hutta. There, Skywalker and Tano harshly interrogated locals for information,
which led them to Orondia, the fugitives last known location.[140]
Skywalker and Tano had a brief skirmish with Cad Bane as well as the disguised
Hardeen, but as the criminals fled the scene after incapacitating Skywalker, he
informed Tano that Kenobi was indeed alive as Hardeen, acting as an undercover
agent. Yoda later confirmed this when he summoned Skywalker to his quarters.
Sometime after that the Jedi Council planned the security for the Chancellor on
Naboo. When Skywalker, Tano and Windu arrived in Theed with the Chancellor and
Mas Amedda, Skywalker was greeted by his secret wife, Senator Amidala. At the
festival itself, the attempt to abduct the Chancellor struck with Cad Bane and
Moralo Eval ferrying Palpatine away while Skywalker and Windu captured Embo and
Twazzi.
Windu and Skywalker saved Palpatine with the aid of Kenobi, apprehending Eval and
Bane. While walking down a corridor with Palpatine, the two were greeted by Count

Dooku, who wished to finish what he started. The duel commenced, with his guards
defeated leaving him the chance to engage Dooku. With Kenobi's assistance, Dooku
fled and Palpatine was saved once again.
Onderon Rebels
On Onderon, which was Separatist-controlled, a group of rebels had arisen to take
back the planet. Skywalker, Kenobi, and Tano went with Rex and some 501st men to
aid the rebels and give them guidance. They taught the rebels sharpshooting, how
to disable a droideka, and more tricks. A group of droids and AATs arrived to squash
the rebels but were defeated, serving as the first test for the group. After this,
Skywalker, Kenobi, and Rex with the 501st left for the war, but Tano stayed behind
to lead the rebels, getting some guidance herself from Skywalker and Kenobi. Tano
and the rebels, led by Saw and Steela Gerra, eventually achieved victory with rocket
launchers sent by Hondo Ohnaka and ordered by Skywalker. Tano returned to
Coruscant following the funeral of Steela, who had perished during the battle.
The Twilight
Obi-Wan Kenobi: "I was wondering if I might borrow that old freighter of yours."
Anakin Skywalker: "The Twilight? Sure. Though you should know -"
Obi-Wan Kenobi: "Is she spaceworthy these days?"
Anakin Skywalker: "The engines need tuning, and she's pitching more than I'd like,
and there's a list of other little problems. If you give me and R2 an hour -"
Obi-Wan Kenobi: "As long as she'll fly - and land. I'm not planning on making the
Kessel Run, or trying my hand at the five Fire Rings of Fornax."
Anakin Skywalker: "She's all yours then."
Obi-Wan Kenobi requests the Twilight from Skywalker.[src]
When Obi-Wan Kenobi decided to travel to Mandalore on a secret mission he came
to Skywalker requesting the Twilight. Skywalker gave the ship to him, even though
the battered freighter had a lot of problems with it. Kenobi said that as long as it
was flyable, he would take it. However, after a minor blaze occurred on the ship
after landing on Mandalore, Kenobi vowed not to borrow another ship from
Skywalker.
Caridia Incident
Around 20 BBY, Anakin Skywalker allowed the newly formed droid squadron, DSquad, to conduct missions for the Galactic Republic under direct Jedi supervision,
loaning R2-D2 over to the unit.[141] Eventually, Skywalker attended the Republic
strategy conference on the Valor at the Caridia system. As a result, he and several
other Republic military staff were nearly killed when the Venator-class Star
Destroyer Renown, having been laced with Rhydonium canisters and on a collision
course with the station, hyperspaced out of the system. After learning that R2 didn't

make it out of the ship before blowing it up, Anakin had several soldiers search for
any sign of R2 among the wreckage.[142]
Clearing Tano's name
During the defense of Cato Neimoidia, Anakin Skywalker ended up being forced to
withdraw from the battle after his Eta-2 Actic-class light interceptor fell victim to a
Buzz Droid attack, as well as due to news of a bombing at the Jedi Temple's hangar
requiring his instant return to Coruscant. Tano and Skywalker then proceeded to
investigate the reasons behind the bombing, with Skywalker remarking that "one
can become the other" relating to it most likely being a staffer of the temple. They
eventually deduce that Jackar Bowmani is responsible for the bombing, although
they find out he was an unknowing accomplice, having been fed nanobots by his
wife, Letta Turmond. They then proceeded to arrest her and bring her over to the
Jedi Temple.[143] Turmond was later relocated to a Republic-owned military outpost.
However, this ultimately turned for the worse, as Tano herself ended up framed with
Turmond's death when she apparently killed Turmond while questioning her on her
motives behind the attack. Skywalker did not bail her out of prison, as, although he
personally believed her innocence, he realized that bailing her out of prison would
result in her being viewed as being even more guilty than before. He eventually told
this to Tano when she broke out of the prison, just prior to her escaping from a
water pipe.[144] Skywalker later participated in the manhunt for Tano.[145]
As Skywalker searched, he briefly saw his Padawan with Ventress, giving him great
concern. Later Tano was found with the nano droids that were used in the bombing
of the Temple and she was arrested. Skywalker tried to find her innocence so he
tracked down Ventress who said that Barriss was the only person besides her to
know where Ahsoka was heading. Skywalker visited Offee and questioned her, to
test her he attacked her with her own lightsaber, upon which she reacted with the
use of Ventress' lightsabers. The two fought as Barriss attempted to flee the Jedi
Knight. Anakin continued to fight her until he defeated her with the witness of the
Temple Guards to her guilt.
BarrissVsAnakin-TWJ
Skywalker and Offee's duel.
Offee was captured and forced to tell the court that Tano was innocent. Tano was
given a place back into the Jedi Order as a Jedi Knight but refused as she could not
trust the Council. Skywalker and Tano said their goodbyes and he said that there
were times that he wanted to leave the Jedi Order and Tano stated "I know" and she
walked away from the Temple.
Ringo Vinda campaign
Skywalker then led the 501st at Ringo Vinda alongside fellow Jedi Generals Tiplar
and Tiplee against Admiral Trench's forces. The battle was in their favor until one of
Skywalker's troopers, "Tup", murdered Gen. Tiplar in trance-like state. Tup was to be
sent back to Kamino but was captured. Skywalker, Rex, and Fives went to rescue

him.[146] After the rescue, he was taken to Kamino. Skywalker and Rex left for the
war, but Fives stayed.[147]
Tup died during treatment[147], but Fives found a biochip in every clone
trooper[148] and was thus taken to see Chancellor Palpatine. After being accused of
attempting to murder Palpatine, Fives was on the run and, through Jesse, asked to
talk with Rex and Skywalker secretly. When the two arrived, Fives activated a ray
shield out of fear. As he attempted to inform them about a plot involving the
Chancellor and the Jedi, Commander Fox and the Coruscant Guard arrived and Fives
was shot.[149]
Corruption in the Clan
Later, Skywalker traveled to Scipio to bail Padme Amidala out of jail. She said that
there was corruption in the Banking Clan and that Rush Clovis was helping her
expose it. Although he still didn't like Clovis, he took her to his private residence
anyway. As the bounty hunter Embo shot at them, he protected them with his
lightsaber. As they attempted to take off, Embo shot their speeder down, and a sled
chase throught the snow and ice ensued. They lost the bounty hunter eventually,
though, and escaped to Coruscant.[150]
Padme was assigned to help Clovis uncover the corruption, and since that meant
working closely together, Skywalker decided to go after them. He found Clovis about
to kiss Amidala and beat him up. Amidala's Security arrived, and Clovis covered for
Skywalker. Amidala then said that they shouldn't see each other for a while.[151]
Later, Clovis exposed the corruption and became the Clan's new head.[151] When
Clovis appeared to have joined the Separatists, and Amidala's clone garrison had
been destroyed, Skywalker led the attack fleet to retake Scipio. He went down to
Clovis' office, where Amidala was at gunpoint. A crashed Vulture droid made the
tower with the office unstable, Skywalker kept his footing but the other two fell.
Skywalker grabbed one of each of their hands, and since Padme was slipping, Clovis
let go and fell to his death. Afterward, control of the banks was given to Palpatine.
[152]
Shadows of Sifo-Dyas
Soon after, Plo Koon found traces of the dead Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas and his shuttle.
Skywalker and Kenobi traced the information to the Pyke homeworld. They found a
former Chancellor's aide in the dungeon, and when they questioned them about the
Jedi, he said that someone wanted to be Sifo-Dyas. When they asked him for a
name, he was Force-choked to death. They turned to find Count Dooku and engaged
in a vicious duel with him. As the Pykes attacked Dooku, their leader addressed him
as "Tyranus." Dooku escaped, but Kenobi reported to the Council that Dooku was
Tyranus[153], who Jango Fett said to have hired him for the creation of the Clone
Army.[11]
Hunting Ventress

Skywalker helped Kenobi during his hunt for Asajj Ventress, on what Skywalker
considered to be a wild bantha chase since he believed himself to have killed
Ventress. However after following several clues that pointed to her survival,
Skywalker became less and less sure of this conviction. After defeating and
destroying Durge in the Karthakk system,[154] the two were then found by the
Intervention that was on a survey mission. Skywalker, Kenobi, Senator Bail Organa
and the other jedi then went to Boz Pity. Skywalker then piloted the ship to make
sure it would exit between Separatist blockade and the planet. Unfortunately, the
Intervention was brought too close to the planet's gravitational pull. After the
Intervention's crash landing, Skywalker and Kenobi found Ventress on Boz Pity in a
bacta tank. Ventress attacked the two when she came out of her trance but was
once again defeated after Skywalker struck her down after she tried to kill Kenobi
with a piece of metal. She was then abandoned by Dooku. Finally Ventress let go of
her anger and rage and put herself in a trance that made her appear dead. She was
taken aboard a medical ship (along with Alpha 17), awoke shortly after, and ordered
the pilot to take her far away from the war, Dooku, and the Jedi. Kenobi and
Skywalker were left believing that she was truly dead [155] The two later
participated in Mission to Ruhe in an effort to lay siege to Dooku's citadel. That
mission, however, was a trap. Their LAAT/i gunship was shot down and hundreds of
battle droids remained waiting for them. It was only thanks to the clone troopers
who repaired the gunship that Skywalker and Kenobi escaped alive.[156]
Cato Neimoidia
During the Outer Rim Sieges, Anakin and Obi-Wan were deployed on Cato Neimoidia
to capture Viceroy Gunray from his redoubt. It was the closest Obi-Wan and him had
been to Coruscant in almost four standard months. He saved Obi-Wan's life by
cutting a battle droid that almost killed Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan would later say that this
was not one of the times Anakin had saved his life.
"Ghost Hand"
VaderVision
Skywalker encounters a vision of his future self.
During the Outer Rim Sieges, Kenobi and Skywalker were only occasionally removed
from one another, being dispatched as a team to various battlefronts, commanding
the Open Circle Fleet. Shortly before the Battle of Coruscant, Kenobi and Anakin
were sent to the icy planet of Nelvaan to seek out Grievous. The Nelvaanians hailed
Skywalker as "Ghost Hand", and the shaman of Rokrul village sent him on a quest to
save their people from a threat that had vanquished all their champions. Skywalker
agreed, and entered a cave where he experienced visions of a great hunter, who
lost his arm in battle. However, he fought back, and continued to slay monsters with
a new black, spiky arm. As he slew the monsters, his power grew until it was out of
control, the spiky black arm turning into a spiky black labyrinth that encompassed
and destroyed everything the warrior held dear.[157]

Amidala's voice was screaming as the sinister black labyrinth of evil that had once
been the great warrior's arm turned back upon the source and morphed what
remained of the great hunter into an eerie facethe face of Darth Vader, whom
Skywalker would soon become.[157]
When Skywalker recovered from this vision, he happened upon a Techno Union
laboratory where scientists were experimenting on the Nelvaanian warriors,
developing them into brutish drones with cybernetic blaster cannons in their arms.
With the help of a Nelvaanian who was not yet completely transformed, he
convinced the drones to assist him in destroying the factory, an act that cost him
his robotic arm. Many of the scientists tried to escape, but Skywalker caught up with
and killed them in rage. In a display of support, the Nelvaanian men tore off their
artificial arms as well.[158]
Final days of war
Rescuing the Chancellor
Fighters in formation
Skywalker and Kenobi pilot their Jedi starfighters over Coruscant.
"Soon I will have a new apprentice one far younger and more powerful."
Darth Sidious[src]
Shortly before the war's end, the Battle of Cato Neimoidia handed Skywalker and
Kenobi a valuable clue to the identity of the mysterious Darth Sidious: Nute
Gunray's mechno-chair. This device carried a unique holotranceiver that bore
intelligence capable of leading the Republic forces to their ultimate quarry, the everelusive Sidious. Mace Windu took up the lead on Coruscant, while Skywalker and
Kenobi tracked the lead in the Outer Rim Territories. Adventures for both teams
waited as the trail in the Outer Rim led back to the Works on Coruscant, just in time
for an attack on Coruscant by the Confederacy, causing Skywalker and Kenobi to
rush back to Coruscant after their visit to Tythe. Back on Coruscant, just as the
identity of Darth Sidious loomed ever closer, the battle overhead delayed and
dissolved the investigation. Windu joined the battle, clashing with General Grievous.
Grievous escaped, although he was injured, his gut sack crushed by Windu, and
captured Chancellor Palpatine, taking him to his flagship, the Invisible Hand.[159]
Before the Separatist armada was able to flee Coruscant, however, Skywalker and
Kenobi finally returned from the Outer Rim in an attempt to rescue the "captive"
Chancellor. Moving into the thick of the battle, they stormed the Confederacy's
flagship in their Eta-2 Actis-class interceptors. The two Jedi fought their way through
the ship until they reached the General's Quarters atop the command tower, where
Palpatine was being held hostage. As the two Jedi attempted to free him, Count
Dooku entered the room escorted by two super battle droids to confront the two
Jedi.[10]
DeathOfTyranus

Skywalker stands over the decapitated body of Count Dooku.

Unlike their first encounter with Dooku on Geonosis three years prior, Skywalker and
Kenobi fought together against him in a coordinated duel, until the Sith Lord used
the Force to choke Kenobi. He then simultaneously back-kicked Skywalker and used
the Force to throw Kenobi across the room, rendering the Jedi Master unconscious
and pinning him with a piece of a walkway dislodged by the Force. Skywalker fought
on, eventually losing control of his emotions as Dooku taunted him. He began to
unleash all his fear, anger and hatred, beating away at Dooku's Makashi with his
own Djem So mastery. The short duel ended abruptly when Skywalker sliced off
Dooku's hands, rendering the Sith Lord helpless; an act of vengeance from their first
duel when Skywalker lost his right arm to Dooku.[10]
Pleased with the outcome, Palpatine urged Skywalker to kill Dooku. After hesitating
to give in to the Chancellor's wishes, Skywalker, who had two lightsabers (his own
and Dooku's) crossed at the Sith's neck, cut off his head, killing him instantly.
Skywalker did not know at the time that Palpatine was Darth Sidious, nor did he
know that the Dark Lord had chosen him to be his apprentice, and was merely using
Dooku as a placeholder until he could be turned. Nonetheless, Skywalker
immediately regretted his un-Jedi-like action, citing that the murder of a defenseless
foe was not the Jedi way. Palpatine, however, eased Skywalker's conscience by
claiming that such an action of violence was "only natural" in such a situation
Skywalker vowed revenge on Dooku for taking his arm three years agoand that, as
Skywalker himself had confided to him, the young Jedi already was familiar with
murder from his encounter with the Sand People that killed his mother, Shmi.[10]
FirstDate-ROTS
Skywalker meets General Grievous for the first time
Skywalker then freed Palpatine from his bonds and escaped the Quarters, carrying
an unconscious Kenobi on his back, ignoring the Chancellor's orders to leave the
Jedi Master behind in order to avoid carrying the extra weight. Their escape was
short lived, however, as they were soon captured and brought before General
Grievous on the bridge of the vessel, where Skywalker and the General met face to
face at last, after having clashed indirectly many times during the war. Grievous
commented that he found Skywalker to be too young for a man of his reputation, to
which the Jedi smugly responded that the General was "shorter than [Skywalker]
expected." Then, at Skywalker's command R2-D2 created a distraction, giving the
two Jedi enough time to regain their lightsabers, cut off their binders and attack the
general's bodyguards and droids. Grievous eventually managed to escape the Jedi
and deploy all the escape pods as his flagship began to plummet to the galactic
capital below, drawn by the planet's gravity. Skywalker managed to pilot what was
left of the ship to a crash landing on a platform in an abandoned industrial area on
Coruscant.[10]
Fall to the dark side
"Skywalker was one of the Jedi Order's most skilled generals."

"What happened to him?"

"I killed him."
Darth Vader, and Laurita Tohm[src]
Upon his return to Coruscant, Skywalker was reunited with his wife. After a brief
greeting and mentioning of Anakin's potential death, Padm informed him of her
pregnancy, which he was overjoyed to hear. They decided to keep it a secret from
the Jedi Council as well as the Senate for both of their sakes. Later on, he was
troubled by visions of Amidala dying in childbirth. To save his wife, Skywalker
desired to look upon and research holocrons of learned Masters, holocrons that were
restricted by all but the Jedi Masters. When Palpatine made Skywalker his
representative on the Jedi Council, he naturally assumed that made him a Master,
thus giving him access to the restricted holocrons. However, the other Jedi on the
Council reluctantly accepted Skywalker's placement, and they denied him the rank
of Jedi Master, infuriating and frustrating him. After the session with the other
masters, a tense Skywalker expressed his incensed opinion to Kenobi on the matter,
working around the fact he needed to be a Master to save Amidala.[10]
Tragedy
Palpatine tells Skywalker the Story of Darth Plagueis.
Further severing his trust in them, the Council urged Skywalker to keep tabs on
Palpatine, although Kenobi was against this decision. Realizing that this was the only
reason why the Council accepted Palpatine's placement, Skywalker began to slowly
lose his respect for the members of the governing body, a mistrust and plaguing
uncertainty that he revealed to his wife. Skywalker sought Yoda's counsel about his
intense, prophetic visions that someone close to him would die, though he did not
reveal the identity of the person in question. Yoda, unaware of the intensity of
Skywalker's love for Amidala, told him to "train yourself to let go of everything you
fear to lose." Skywalker was unsatisfied with this response.[10]
In another meeting with the Council, the masters were informed by Skywalker that
Palpatine received a lead that Grievous was in the Utapau system. After being
declined by the rest of the Council to go to Utapau to encounter Grievous,
Skywalker sat back and listened as it was decided that Kenobi would be the chosen
Jedi to go on this adventure. Just prior to Kenobi's departure for Utapau to capture
and/or kill General Grievous, Skywalker attempted to come along, feeling Kenobi
needed him to come along. Agreeing that he would need Skywalker's help, Kenobi
declined Skywalker's request, as he didn't want to take the risk that the lead was a
"Wild Bantha chase." Skywalker also promptly apologized for his earlier behavior to
Kenobi, as he was grateful for him being his mentor, but just had frustrations.
Unbeknownst to either of them at that time, this was the last time Skywalker and
Kenobi would converse with each other as friends or at least as fellow Jedi. Anakin
also began suspecting due to visions showing Kenobi being near Amidala at the
time of her apparent death that Amidala may have been having an extramarital
affair with Kenobi. Either that, or Anakin was starting to think that Kenobi was

beginning to realize about the secret marriage between him and Amidala, as well as
their soon-to-be child.[10]
As he continued to meet with Palpatine, the Chancellor slowly began to plant the
seeds of the dark side in Skywalker. Playing to his fear of Amidala's death, he told
Skywalker the story of a Sith Lord, Darth Plagueis, who was powerful enough to stop
others from dying. Knowing this would interest Skywalker with the current situation
that he was in, Palpatine continued to inform Skywalker of the secret dark power
that Jedi were not capable of teaching him. As Anakin was letting off steam that he
had revolving around the Council and their decisions, he met with Palpatine and
began to share with him his frustrations. Feeling like this was the correct time,
Palpatine revealed his true self, and offered Skywalker the chance to learn the ways
of the dark side from him and use the power he had to save Amidala. Having his
lightsaber drawn, Skywalker, out of instinct, contemplated killing Palpatine on the
spot as soon as he learned his true identity, but decided against it after Palpatine
implied that killing him would result in Skywalker turning to the dark side and ruin
his chances of saving Amidala. Skywalker instead fled to Mace Windu and promptly
reported to him Palpatine's identity, though he regretted his choice as Palpatine's
words tortured his mind. Windu, after instructing Skywalker to remain at the Jedi
Temple, went, with three other JediAgen Kolar, Saesee Tiin, and Kit Fistoto arrest
the Chancellor. Sidious fought with the Jedi, slaying three of them almost
immediately and leaving only Windu. He and Sidious continued to fight until the Jedi
Master gained the advantage. Back at the Jedi Temple, meanwhile, Skywalker
brooded over an overwhelming thought: with Sidious' death, he would lose the
chance to save his wife from the fate in his dreams. This torturing time was what
allowed Anakin to decide on leaving the Council chambers and going to the scene of
the arrest.[10]
A fateful choice
"Twisted by the dark side, young Skywalker has become. The boy you trained, gone
he is consumed by Darth Vader."
Yoda to Obi-Wan Kenobi[src]
PalpatineAnakin-JvS
Skywalker becomes Darth Vader, Sidious's new Sith apprentice.
Tormented by thoughts of Amidala dying without the benefit of Sidious' knowledge,
Skywalker rushed out of the Temple, grabbing an airspeeder and hurrying to the
Chancellor's office. Uncertain of what was going to happen, Skywalker made his way
to the sanctuary of Palpatine, where he was supposed to be arrested.
Coincidentally, Skywalker arrived just in time to see Windu standing over the
disarmed Sidious, with his lightsaber held at the Chancellor's throat.[10]
Sidious, upon seeing Skywalker, claimed that the Jedi were indeed trying to take
over the Republic, and proceeded to attack Windu with Force lightning while
pleading with Skywalker for help, trying to sway him to save his life. Barely
managing to deflect Sidious' lightning, Windu shouted at Skywalker not to listen. As

Sidious' own lightning deflected back onto his face, the Sith Lord went through a
physical transformation as he struggled to intensify his dark side powers with his
own life force. His face became hideously deformed and his eyes turned yellow. The
true Sith that was in Sidious was now becoming more and more evident in
Palpatine. Windu managed to reflect the lightning that was being shot at him and
claimed that it was time to kill Sidious and end the Sith once and for all. However,
Skywalker confronted him, stating that Palpatine must stand trial, and that to
execute him was not the way of the Jedi. Windu, stating that despite normal
procedures, Palpatine was far too dangerous to be left alive. With Sidious pleading
one last time, Windu ignored Skywalker and raised his lightsaber, preparing to kill
Sidious, but in haste and rashness, the panicked Skywalker drew his lightsaber and
severed Windu's right hand, leaving him defenseless and in agonizing pain. Before
Windu could respond, Sidious took this attack of opportunity to use his Force
lightning ability and send the Jedi Master through the shattered window, his
electrified body falling to the ground.[10]
Upon realizing the full significance of what he had just done, Skywalker was stricken
with guilt and remorse and questioned his actions, but was too emotionally drained
and dazed to resist Sidious, who stated that he was fulfilling his destiny. Knowing
that Skywalker was emotionally unstable, Sidious further encouraged Skywalker to
embrace the dark side and become his apprentice, allowing for Sidious to teach him
all that he knows. Anakin now realized Sidious had been manipulating himand the
galaxyall along. However, due to his role in killing Windu and his desire to keep
Amidala alive, there was no prospect of him returning to the Jedi Order. Overcome
by emotion and distress, Skywalker agreed to do anything Sidious desired; all he
wanted was to save Amidala's life and his help to do so. While saying that to cheat
death was a power that only one had achieved, Sidious promised Skywalker that,
together, they could find the secret, tacitly admitting that he did not have the ability
to hold back death, but Skywalker was too blind too see it. Anakin Skywalker then
bowed on one knee and pledged himself to the Sith Order, which queued Sidious to
endow him with his new Sith name: Darth Vader.[10]
Knightfall
"Do what must be done, Lord Vader. Do not hesitate, show no mercy."
Sidious to Vader[src]
Knightfall2
Darth Vader leads clone troopers of the 501st Legion to slaughter the Jedi in the Jedi
Temple.
Palpatine assured Vader that every Jedi was an enemy of the state, including
Kenobi, and it would be endless civil war unless the Jedi were destroyed. Vader was
ordered by the Sith Master that if he wanted to gain enough power in the dark side
to save Amidala, he was to lead the 501st Legion into the Jedi Temple and kill every
Jedi inside as to catch them off balance and begin the purge that was to come.
Vader did this without question, slaughtering venerable Jedi and younglings alike.

His personal motives, however, were because he felt the Jedi Order would never
understand his reasons for his involvement in Mace Windu's death, feeling he had
gone too far and would never be accepted back. Vader even killed some Jedi
Masters such as Cin Drallig. Some of the Jedi children even approached him,
unaware that he was to be their destroyer. The attack resulted in smoke rising from
the pillars of the Jedi Temple, easily visible from the Senate building. This worried
Amidala and struck her with fear, not knowing whether or not Anakin was okay. After
coming back to his home to assure his wife that things would be okay and that all
he had to do was destroy the remaining Separatist leaders on Mustafar, Anakin
finished his first mission of wiping out the Jedi at the temple. This would be the start
of the Great Jedi Purge. He also secretly planned to overthrow Sidious shortly
thereafter to bring order back to the Galaxy.[10]
Battle between brothers
"You turned her against me!"
"You have done that yourself!"
"YOU WILL NOT TAKE HER FROM ME!"
"Your anger and your lust for power have already done that! You have allowed this
Dark Lord to twist your mind until now until now, you have become the very thing
you swore to destroy!''"
Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi[src]
Vader yelloweyes
Darth Vader, deeply immersed in the dark side of the Force
Soon after the completion of Vader's assault on the Jedi Temple, Vader returned to
Amidala to console and inform her of the current situation with the Republic and the
Jedi. Leaving her distraught and confused, Vader continued his mission by flying to
Mustafar, where he was to kill the Separatist Council.[10]
Vader traveled to Mustafar and used Sidious' codes to pass through the Separatists'
security. Vader left R2-D2 with his fighter so that his actions were neither witnessed
nor recorded. He entered the room in which the Separatist leaders were and closed
all of the doors, preventing any council member from escaping. At first, several of
the leaders warmly welcomed him, before they recognized his overly publicized
face. In their surprise, the corrupted Vader then began his massacre of the
Separatist Council.[10]
After murdering all the members, along with their aides and guards in cold blood, he
turned to the last one leftNute Gunray, Sidious' former ally who had invaded and
occupied Naboo before being defeated by Skywalker thirteen years before, and who
had tried to murder his wife on several occasions during the Clone Wars. Before he
died, Gunray pleaded with Vader, claiming that Lord Sidious had promised they
would be left in peace. Despite Gunray's pleas, Vader proceeded to kill him. His

mission accomplished, the Sith Lord silently exited the room, awaiting further
instruction.[10]
Outside, overlooking the turbulent volcanic terrain, Vader contemplated his
transformation and convinced himself that all he had done was for the benefit of the
Republic, although he was still guilt-ridden for his actions, shedding tears of
remorse. Meanwhile, he remembered his Master's order to communicate with him
as soon as the enemy was defeated. During this transmission, he thought of how
soon he planned for their positions to be changed, and how soon he would kill the
Dark Lordjust as soon as he discovered a way to preserve Amidala's life. Darth
Sidious ordered Vader to send a message to the Trade Federation ships that the
entire Separatist droid army be shut down immediately before cutting off
communication. Seeing his wife's ship arrive, he left the bunker to meet her.[10]
Anakinchoke
Vader employs a Force choke on Padm.
Upon reuniting with Amidala, Vader discovered that Kenobi had revealed Vader's
dark deeds in the Jedi Temple to her. Though he did not deny the accusation, Vader
maintained that Kenobi was only attempting to turn her against him. Amidala tried
to reason with him, convince him to retire from public service with her to raise their
child, but Vader countered with his plan to overthrow Palpatine and set the both of
them up in his place. Shocked and horrified, Amidala refused, stating that he had
changed and was going down a path she could not follow. She pleaded with him to
come back, promising she still loved him. However, unknown to Amidala, Kenobi
had stowed away on her ship to find Vader, and at that moment he appeared on the
ship's ramp.[10]
Upon seeing his former master, Vader incorrectly assumed Amidala had betrayed
him and brought Kenobi to kill him. Overwhelmed by his anger and rage, he lashed
out with the Force, choking his wife into unconsciousness, ignoring her tearful pleas
of innocence. Kenobi also tried to reason with his former pupil, but Vader refused to
listen, too consumed by hate. After Kenobi resolved he had no choice but to fight,
Vader told him he would try, and leaped to attack his former Master and oldest
friend.[10]
Anakin vs Obiwan
Vader duels his former Master on Mustafar.
Vader and Kenobi fought an intense duel throughout the mining complex and down
the river of lava outside. The battle ended on the banks of a lava river, where
Kenobi leaped to safety in order to claim the high ground, pleading with Vader to
concede defeat and abandon the fight. Goaded on by his overwhelming pride and
seething rage, Vader ignored his fatal tactical disadvantage and attempted to make
the same jump, blade angled for the kill, only to be severely maimed and
immobilized by Kenobi's blade, which severed both of his legs and his left arm.[10]

Physically crippled, Vader tried to claw his way up the talus using only his remaining
prosthetic limb, but succeeded only in sliding closer to the lava river. As he did this,
Kenobi and Vader exchanged their parting words, Vader screaming his undying
hatred for Kenobi, while Kenobi, close to tears, expressed his regret and
disappointment that Anakin, the man he had loved like a brother, had so
spectacularly failed in his destiny to bring balance to the Force.[10]
HunkaBurninLove-ROTS
Vader suffers severe burns after his defeat on Mustafar.
Shortly after, the heat of the lava ignited Vader's clothing, burning his body
severely. He was nearly immolated as he slid down to the edge of the burning lava
riverbank. Kenobi retrieved Skywalker's lightsaber from nearby and left Vader for
dead. He would keep this lightsaber until 0 BBY. As the flames began to subside,
Vader kept himself alive with the Force, his unbreakable will, and sheer hatred;
clawing his way back up the bank with his still-intact mechanical arm, struggling
against his extreme injuries.[10]
Medical capsule
Vader being carried on a medical capsule from his defeat.
Darth Sidious, now the newly-declared Emperor of the Galactic Empire, soon arrived
and found his injured apprentice. He returned Vader to Coruscant via shuttle and
repaired the damage to his body through intensive cybernetic enhancements at the
Surgical Reconstruction Center. The Emperor ordered the medical droids to keep
him awake during the agonizing surgery so the pain would fuel his rage, and
therefore his power. His new robotic extremities were updated versions of the same
technology that transformed General Grievous into a cyborg.[10] Though he would
still remain extremely powerful, Sidious knew that Vader's injuries had robbed him
of much of his Force potential. In addition, both Vader and one of the medical
droids, DD-13/HK, speculated that Vader's reconstruction may have been
deliberately shoddy; a ploy by Sidious to prevent Vader from rebelling against him.
[160] Upon his revival as a cyborg, Vader questioned his Master about Amidala.
Sidious told him that he had killed his wife in his anger.[10] In addition, Vader's
former identity, Anakin Skywalker, was deleted from various databanks upon the
reconstruction being completed.[160]
A36xo
Darth Vader is encased within the shell that will hold him for the rest of his life.
Overwhelmed by his despair in the belief he had killed Amidala and their unborn
child, which fulfilled his prophetic dreams of her death, Vader destroyed the medical
droids and severely damaged the facility through the Force. He broke his bindings
on the operating table and struggled to walk under the sheer weight of his new
prostheses and armor. The only purpose that remained in Vader's life was his
service to the new Emperor.[10]

The personality of Darth Vader became even more distinctive from Anakin
Skywalker's due to the great physical and psychological damage that completely
changed both his appearance and his character. His armor limited his vision,
restrained his movement, and caused extreme frustration for Vader (in the early
years, at least), but he would eventually retool his entire fighting style to make up
for the lack of mobility that his armor imposed on him. As Darth Vader, Skywalker
became a powerful asset to the Empire, serving as an enforcer, Jedi hunter, and
Supreme Commander of the Imperial Fleet of Palpatine's New Order. To cover up for
Anakin Skywalker's involvement in the destruction of the Jedi Temple, rumors
circulated that Skywalker had died trying to protect the children from Vader and the
stormtroopers, which were widely accepted due to few people being aware that
Vader and Skywalker were the same person.[161]
Serving the Emperor
Moff Tarkin
Vader, Tarkin and the Emperor survey the Death Star.
"You don't know the power of the dark side. I must obey my Master."
Vader to his son[src]
Now in possession of a great amount of power, Vader began settling into his position
as Palpatine's enforcer. However, several members of the Empire viewed Vader as
being mad human wreckage.[162] Although in possession of great wealth, Vader
allowed himself few comforts. Among those were his personal retreat on Coruscant
and Bast Castle on Vjun. The 501st Legion, the stormtrooper division he led in the
extermination of the Jedi at the Jedi Temple, became his personal guard. The actions
they undertook in Vader's name over the course of the Civil War earned them the
nickname of "Vader's Fist". Vader piloted a black-hued Eta-2 Actis-class interceptor
during some of his early missions for Palpatine as the Great Jedi Purge continued,
sometimes flanked by Alpha-3 Nimbus-class V-wing starfighters. His personal
command ship during this time was the Imperator-class Star Destroyer Exactor.
One of his first missions following the end of the Clone Wars, Vader was sent to
Serenno where he summoned the heads of the great houses and their oldest sons to
a meeting. There Vader branded them as traitors for supporting the former Count
Dooku and the separatists, demanding that they must answer to their act. Despite
the protests of the heads of the houses, Vader gave them a choice; each heir to
each house would assume the title of the house by killing the current title holder or
they would all die. Vader believed that the houses of Serenno would be cleansed by
their blood. Vader watched as Rodas Borgin and the other heirs killed their fathers.
Vader then stood by as each new head swore fealty to the new head of House
Dooku- Count Adan Dooku.[163]
One of the most notable missions undertaken by Vader was to the planet Honoghr,
which had been devastated by the Separatist toxin Trihexalophine1138 during the
Clone Wars. He promised the native Noghri that the Empire would restore Honoghr's
ecosystem, in exchange for their service to the Empire as assassins.[164] Vader

would later use Honoghr as a final training ground for Galen Marek, Tao, and Ennix
Devian, the former two being his secret apprentices and the latter under the
Emperor's orders of refining the Imperial soldier.
At an unknown point, he also participated in the Reconquest of the Rim in one of the
conflicts at the Outer Rim.[165] At another unknown point, he also briefly reencountered C-3PO at the Emperor's Ball, although the latter, not recognizing his
former creator due to a memory wipe ordered by Bail Organa (and presumably not
being privy to the information that the towering, armored cyborg was Anakin even
without the memory wipe), initially mistook Vader for a new line of guard droid.
Despite this mistake, Vader did not destroy C-3PO, presumably because of lingering
memories of his past self, but instead sentenced him to a year of labor as a
preschool attendant at the Imperial Palace.[166][167]
Murkhana
Vader Officers
Darth Vader, around the time of the mission to Murkhana
One of Vader's earliest missions was to journey to Murkhana to deal with traitorous
Clone troopers who had facilitated the escape of their former Jedi commanders,
rather than comply with Order 66. Greeted by Clone Commander Salvo, Vader
wasted no time, confronting the traitorous Ion Team. Though they attempted to fight
back, the commandos were ultimately no match for Vader, and were forced to flee,
though Vader managed to kill two of them.[168]
However, immediately afterward, Vader was confronted by the Jedi Bol Chatak, who
had disguised herself as a former CIS mercenary and hid in the P.O.W. lines nearby.
Chatak wanted to repay the Ion team for saving her life by removing Vader from the
hunt, attacking the Sith Lord. Though she managed to inflict a wound on Vader's
forearm, he ultimately brought her down, cutting off her sword arm and then
decapitating her. However, defeating Chatak was fairly difficult for Vader, as he was
still adapting to his life-support armor. The armor's cumbersome weight left his
dueling abilities heavily impaired, his previously formidable technique reduced to a
stilted and crude shadow, consisting primarily of vertical power-blows and heavy
chops. In the end, he only brought down Chatak thanks to his superior height and
reach, as well as the increased stamina the suit afforded him. As he repaired his
damaged arm, he lamented that, before his transformation, only extremely adept
duelists like Ventress and Dooku had ever been able to wound him. Chatak was the
first Jedi Vader killed with his new Sith lightsaber, which had been constructed only
a few weeks prior.[168]
However, Chatak's comradesRoan Shryne and Olee Starstonewere still able to
escape. Remaining hidden in the P.O.W. lines while Chatak was killed, they managed
to break ranks after Vader departed, fleeing to the capital city of Murkhana and
meeting with one of Shryne's criminal contactsthe crime boss Cash Garrulan.
Unfortunately for them, Vader hadn't given up the hunt; confronting Garrulan, Vader

managed to deduce the location of the Jedi by following the opposite course of
action suggested by Garrulan.[168]
Pursuing the Jedi above Murkhana in his starfighter, he unluckily missed them when
their ship attached to a hyperspace ring left by Garrulan as he fled. Despite killing
one of the Jedi and exposing Garrulan as a traitor, Vader considered the mission a
failure.[168]
Kessel
Purge
Vader confronting the Jedi gathered on Kessel
"WHERE IS OBI-WAN KENOBI?!"
"Not here, Sith. His name baited your trap."
"The first one to tell me where to find him lives. The rest of you die."
Vader, to Shadday Potkin and the other Jedi on Kessel[src]
As the weeks passed, Vader became increasingly fixated on Kenobi, seeking
revenge for his defeat on Mustafar. Vader tortured the Jedi Dama Montalvo in hopes
of learning where Kenobi was hiding, but he became enraged when Montalvo
refused, and broke the Jedi's neck just as Palpatine entered the torture chamber.
Reprimanding his apprentice, Palpatine ordered Vader not to become obsessed with
the Jedi, but when the Emperor departed, one of Vader's troops reported that
surviving Jedi were gathering for a meeting on Kessel, and Kenobi was supposed to
be among them. However, Vader was walking into a trapMaster Shadday Potkin
was the source of Vader's information, and she had lured him there to kill him with
the help of her fellow Jedi.[169]
Pursuing his quarry into an abandoned spice mine, Vader burst into the chamber
where the Jedi awaited and demanded to know where Kenobi was, warning the Jedi
that the first to tell him Kenobi's location would live. Impaling the Jedi Sia-Lan Wezz
when she charged him, Vader, removed her hand with another lightsaber strike
before he sent Master Koffi Arana flying with the Force. Vader struck down the Nikto
Jedi Ma'kis'shaalas, but he was sent staggering when Jastus Farr's double-bladed
lightsaber sliced across the back of his armor, and he leapt out of the way as a
recovered Arana charged him from behind. Landing atop a nearby crane, Vader
crossed blades briefly with Tsui Choi as the diminutive Jedi Master leapt over him,
and Vader's saber was deactivated when he engaged Potkin and her cortosis blade.
[169]
However, Vader simply tossed aside his lightsaber and gripped Potkin with the
Force, pulling her into his grasp before breaking her neck and taking her cortosis
blade. Leaping down from the crane, the Sith Lord once again questioned the Jedi as
to Kenobi's location as he deactivated the blades of Roblio Dart, Farr, and Arana
but the nimble Choi soon sliced off Vader's hand and Bultar Swan delivered a strike
to his leg, sending him stumbling backwards, and the Sith offered to surrender.

Vader's offer drove Arana to kill Butlar Swan for her lightsaber when she refused to
allow him to commit murder, and Vader dispatched Arana with the cortosis blade in
his own severed hand by sending it flying into his chest with the Force.[169]
Summoning Arana's lightsaber to his hand, Vader once again demanded Kenobi's
location as he advanced upon the three remaining Jedi, who began to pelter him
with rocks and debris until he was forced to fall to his knees. Fortunately for the
Sith, Vader's troops arrived just then and opened fire on the Jedi, killing Farr before
the other two Jedi were able to shield themselves. Master Choi attempted to
sacrifice himself so Dart could escape, but Vader stopped Choi's Force leap with
telekinesis and pinned him in midair before Vader's troops, who eliminated both Jedi
but in his last moments, Choi sent his saber flying toward Vader and scored a hit
across the Sith Lord's visor. The troopers relayed the Emperor's request for Vader to
return to Coruscant, where he admitted his disobedience to his Sith Master but was
surprised to learn that the Emperor had spread the rumor that Vader had killed a
group of fifty Jedi on Kessel in order to drive the remaining Jedi underground and
spread fear. Acknowledging Palpatine's reminders that his fixation on Kenobi was a
weakness, Vader received repairs for his damaged armor and continued to serve the
fledgling Empire.[169]
New Plympto
Days later, after observing Palpatine's rule of the Empire (including the new
Emperor distancing himself from Senator Braxis from a local political dispute despite
promising aid, confirmation about the results of his purge, and his acquiescing
resources from the former Separatist worlds), he awaited a new assignment from
Emperor Palpatine. He also underwent a debriefing on the Cleansing of New
Plympto, which had the Emperor issue a detachment from Vader's 501st Legion to
the fighting to end it. In the aftermath of the 501st Legion's victory over the
Nosaurian resistance cell, and promised Commander Vill that he was certain the
Emperor had a plan for them when he questioned what will be their purpose after
the conflict. However, the Sith Lord grew despondent when Vill admitted that their
transport was redirected by the Emperor's orders and tasked with selling the
surviving Nosaurian women and children into the slave market on Orvax IV, due to
Vader's past as a former slave on Tatooine. He was disturbed to the extent that he
abruptly ended his participation in the debriefing and did not fall asleep. He later
informed Palpatine of what he had learned, to which Palpatine assured him that the
Imperial method was "different." Ultimately, unable to resist the power of the
Emperor despite his misgivings, Vader oversaw the slave trade on New Plympto,
with his troubled memories keeping him company.[170]
Underlevel duel and dealing with Otakon XII and Vaklin
Sometime afterwards, Vader was set by Palpatine to attack the Jedi survivor Sha
Koon, under the pretense of humoring her request of becoming Palpatine's Sith
apprentice, although both were not fooled. Vader then confronted her in the
underlevels of the former Jedi Temple. Upon arrival, he was attacked by creatures
controlled by Koon known as the Cthons, briefly being overwhelmed by an
electromagnetic net that crippled his armor, although he broke out of the trap. He

then engaged Koon in a short but intense duel after taking care of the Cthons, which
resulted in him killing the Kel Dor Jedi Master. Although he believed he had killed the
last Jedi, his victory nonetheless ended up hollow due to sensing that she had been
at peace at the time of her death, and reported as much to his master.
Unbeknownst to either of them, the reason she had been at peace was because she
foresaw Vader's redemption and the recreation of the Jedi Order.[171]
Nonetheless, Vader was later assigned to defend an AT-AT production facility on the
planet of Otavon XII from the Ovoni resistance during a battle there. Ultimately, the
battle had been a failure due to the Ovoni and their commanders, Order 66
survivors Hylon and Dendro, deliberately exposing their survival to Vader to lure him
away from the facility long enough for the Ovoni to completely destroy the plant.
Vader as a result was forced to remain on the planet to contemplate his failure by
the Emperor as his punishment.[172]
Some time afterwards, Vader ended up travelling to the planet Vaklin to deal with
the Vaklin insurgency, caused by pro-Jedi sympathizers due to the Jedi's connections
to the planet. Vader managed to kill a Jedi Master as well as have his apprentice
imprisoned for four days. However, the Imperials soon met some harassment from
the Vaklin's side, via the Jedi Cho'na Bene. After a bombing occurred at the base,
Vader, angered at this development, considered bombing the civilian centers as
revenge, although Palpatine declined, citing that the planet and its subjects were
too valuable to afford a bombardment. Vader instead orchestrated the destruction
of all pro-Jedi monuments, also insuring that Bene was publicly executed by clone
troopers when the Vaklin, due to Imperial propaganda-based schooling, refused to
aid Bene.[173]
Meeting on Alderaan
Sometime afterward, the Emperor sent Vader to Alderaan to retrieve dissident
senator Fang Zar, who had sought refuge with Bail Organa in the wake of the
Empire's formation. Accompanied by Sate Pestage, he confronted Organa before
searching the Senator's palace. Using his cybernetically augmented sight and
hearing to his advantage, Vader came upon Zar, who was being extracted from
Alderaan by a smuggler team, led by Roan Shryne.[168]
Since escaping Murkhana, Shryne and Olee Starstone had joined the smuggler crew
captained by Shryne's mother; Jula. Their new crew had since been hired by Fang
Zar to extract him before the Imperials did. Pursuing the Jedi and the smugglers
through the palace and out onto the grounds, Vader ultimately brought down Zar
just as he was boarding the smuggler's ship; the Drunk Dancer; by throwing his
lightsaber into the hapless senator.[168]
Zar succumbed to his injuries shortly afterward. As such, Vader viewed the mission
as a failure, as he had been tasked to retrieve Zar alive.[168]
Devastation of Kashyyyk
FirstBattleOfKashyyyk-EGTW

Darth Vader prepares to strike down Jedi during the devastation of Kashyyyk
Returning to Coruscant to hone his skills, Vader was given a dressing down by the
Emperor, who was displeased that Zar had been killed when Vader's task had been
to bring him in alive. When Vader grew angry with the Emperor's comments, Sidious
challenged Vader to kill him. He then threatened Vader with Force lightning, as the
Emperor evidently was well aware that Vader's suit was vulnerable to electrical
discharges. However, Vader retorted that he would not kill his Master until he had
learned everything Sidious knew, for he recognized that the Emperor's teachings
constituted "the path to power". Well pleased with this response, Sidious informed
Vader that the rogue Jedi he was hunting had been spotted heading to Kashyyyk.
Devoting himself to hunting these Jedi, Vader began dealings with his old ally
Wilhuff Tarkin, who had discovered a suspicious vessel traveling toward Kashyyyk.
The two deduced that the vessel was carrying the Jedi, but Tarkin convinced Vader
to allow it to reach Kashyyyk, so they could use the vessel's presence on the planet
as an excuse to attack and occupy the world. Tarkin's motivation was the
enslavement of the Wookiee race for use as manual laborers in the construction of
the Death Star, which had encountered unexpected delays in construction due to a
shortage of skilled laborers.[168]
Meeting with the various Imperial admirals who would command the invasion, Vader
overruled their wishes to bombard the planet from orbit, as the goal was the
capture of the Wookiees, not their destruction. However, his true motivation was to
allow himself to hunt the Jedi planetside. As the attack began, the Imperial forces
were initially crushed, due to the Wookiee's ingenious use of retrofitted civilian
vehicles and captured Separatist war material left over from the Clone Wars. As
Vader approached the city of Kachirho aboard his shuttle to attack the Jedi holed up
there, he was contacted by the admirals and informed of the rapidly deteriorating
situation. Not only were the Wookiess holding off the Imperial assault, but they were
evacuating their civilians deep into Kashyyyk's forests where they would be
extremely difficult to capture. On the advice of his Clone Commander Appo, he
begrudgingly ordered an orbital bombardment of all Wookiee cities, but with orders
to save Kachirho for last, as he would be on the ground there. Landing on a platform
high up in Kachirho, Vader and his cadre of Stormtroopers disembarked and began
fighting their way through the Wookiee warriors. Where before the Jedi and
Wookiees had been holding off the Imperial forces, Vader now began cutting the
Wookiee warriors down with impunity.[168]
In order to prevent further Wookiee casualties, the Jedi revealed themselves. Olee
Starstone had since broken off from Roan Shryne when he joined the crew of the
Drunk Dancer, and was now leading a ragtag group of surviving Jedi. Vader ordered
the Stormtroopers to continue attacking the Wookiees, leaving the Jedi to him.
Siadem Forte and Iwo Kulka quickly engaged Vader and attempted to unbalance him
by using radically different lightsaber forms. However, though he was not yet
completely healed, Vader's technique had improved drastically since his duel with
Bol Chatak. As observed by Olee Starstone, Vader's speed and agility were
considerably greater and, instead of the formless vertical power blows he had
utilized on Murkhana, his technique now borrowed elements from all lightsaber

styles. With his new form, Vader easily held the two Jedi off, utilizing precision
bladework and swift power attacks to put an end to their fancy twirling, disrupting
their momentum and sending them reeling. Vader decapitated the two Jedi, and
quickly disabled Jambe Lu, Nam Poorf and Klossi Anno.[168]
Olee Starstone was suddenly alone against the Sith Lord. Starstone attempted to
bring down Vader with a sudden offensive flurry, but realized that Vader was merely
allowing her to vent. Breaking off to reassess her strategy, she unwittingly allowed
Vader to seize the offensive. However, before he could finish Starstone, Vader's
Stormtroopers were suddenly gunned down by a smuggler vessel that just
appeared. Roan Shryne leaped off the Drunk Dancer, summoning Siadem Forte's
lightsaber to his hand and beheading Appo. Confronting Vader, Shryne provided
Starstone and the other surviving Jedi with a chance to escape, a chance Vader
informed them would be foolish to pass up.[168]
Vader TFU
Darth Vader in a fighting stance
As the two fought, Shryne managed to hold his own against Vader's relentless
assault, even scoring a few minor hits. However, their battle was interrupted by the
Imperial orbital bombardment. Though they both survived, Vader's shuttle was
destroyed by the flak. As Vader drove Shryne back with heavy power blows, Shryne
deduced that the chest-mounted control-panel on Vader's suit was a weak point and
as such, realized that Vader's style gave higher priority to protecting his center than
his limbs. With this knowledge, Shryne went on the offensive, scoring a superficial
hit on Vader's lower left leg which Shryne attributed as much to luck as to skill.
Afterwards, the two exchanged a small verbal back-and-forth until Vader
deactivated his weapon, surprising Shryne. Vader then began telekinetically ripping
apart the wooden ramps in the Wroshyr tree in which the two were fighting. Using
the Force, Vader flung the debris at the hapless Jedi in a continual barrage. Shryne
surrendered himself to the Force in an attempt to block the onslaught of Forcepropelled objects with his lightsaber, and for a short time was successful in doing
so. However, Vader incrementally ramped up the intensity of his assault, throwing
steadily larger chunks of wood at Shryne from all sides, faster than the Jedi could
stop them. Shryne was struck by numerous planks and sharp wooden pegs, and was
knocked from the suspension bridge on which the two were dueling.[168]
Fallen to a floor below, Shryne lay critically injured. Knowing Shryne would not
survive his injuries, Vader chose not to finish the Jedi. Instead, in answer to Shryne's
questions, he revealed that Palpatine was in fact a Sith Lord, and that he himself
had formerly been Anakin Skywalker. His bloodlust sated, he now simply hoped to
allow Shryne to die in misery, knowing that the Jedi Order had been betrayed by
one of it's own. Despite these revelations however, Shryne died at peace, having
foreseen the eventual restoration of balance to the Force before his death. The
defeat of Shryne firmed Vader's belief in the power of the dark side, greatly
increasing his confidence in his abilities and reducing his emotional difficulties with
his armor and prosthetic limbs. In addition, it also served to temper his hatred of the
Jedi Order. Whereas before killing Shryne he had obsessed over hunting down the

survivors of Order 66, afterwards he came to view them as neither different nor
more important than any other group that would oppose the New Order. The Empire
won the Battle of Kashyyyk, and Tarkin's plan to capture the Wookiees for use as
slave labor was successful. In the aftermath of the battle, Darth Vader's existence
and position as Palpatine's enforcer received public announcement, much to the
dismay of Obi-Wan Kenobi.[168]
Muur Talisman
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Vader battling Celeste Morne for possession of the Muur Talisman
Aware that he could not bring down Palpatine and become the new Sith Master on
his own, Vader began a covert search for an apprentice, or something that could
increase his own power. Eventually, he started trailing an ancient Sith artifact
known as the Muur Talisman. After interrogating a sentient named Janks, he learned
of a mysterious crate that Janks' ship, the Uhumele, was carrying. Vader contacted
Fane Peturri, a well known historian, and set a trap for the Uhumele's crew. Vader
ambushed the group on a remote moon and discovered the crate in their possession
was none other than Dreypa's Oubliette, an artifact believed to contain the Muur
Talisman and the Jedi who wore it.
Vader opened the oubliette, releasing Jedi Shadow Celeste Morne from her 4,000
year sleep. When Morne learned the Sith were in control of the galaxy, she
immediately attacked Vader. The Sith Lord easily held her off, and taunted her with
an offer of apprenticeship under him. She vehemently refused, and Vader began
considering the idea of taking the talisman to increase his own power. However, he
remained wary of the idea, concerned that even if he used it to destroy Sidious, he
would become enslaved to the artifact, ultimately just trading one master for
another.
However, before Vader could make a decision, Morne took action. Unwilling to let
the Sith Lord be possessed by the spirit of Karness Muur, Morne used the talisman
to turn all humans within the vicinity into rakghouls. Taken by surprise by the turn of
events, Vader retreated to his ship and departed. While he considered this
expedition a failure, he refused to give up his search for an apprentice.[174]
Bandomeer
Returning to Coruscant, Vader concealed the incident from Sidious, a reasonably
simple task, as there were almost no witnesses save Morne, who was stranded on
the moon, and the Uhumele crew, who were on the run. However, to his shock, he
learned that a Jedi named Dass Jennir was once part of the Uhumele's crew. Vader's
master assured him that he need not be concerned with the Jedi, who were
scattered and divided, for Sidious had a plan for them. The elder Sith Lord then sent
Vader to Bandomeer, where the mining crews were refusing to honor their contracts
with the Empire. Vader could only ponder why his master would not involve him in
his plan or if he was aware of Peturri's death. In addition, although assigned to the
Imperial conquest of Bandomeer, Vader harbored suspicions that Palpatine assigned

him to the battlefield in order to get him out of the way, as he felt he should be
hunting down Jedi.
After successfully subjugating the miners, Vader met with Commander Vill as the
clone gave a full report. Vader then asked Vill if, as nearly all the clones followed
Order 66, they would attack him if the Emperor commands it. Vill stated that if such
an order existed, he does not have the authority to divulge it. Seeing that as good
as confirmation, Vader Force-choked him and threw him off a cliff so he could not
report back to Sidious. He told an approaching clone that Vill slipped and fell.[175]
Pursuing Falco Sang
On the fourth month of Imperial rule, Vader arrived at Imperial Prison ISO-L8 to
interrogate Janks regarding Dass Jennir, ignoring the Emperor's orders. However,
before he could get the chance, an assassin named Falco Sang had interrogated and
murdered Janks, intending to assassinate Jennir due to his earlier involvement in
killing Dezono Qua. Despite the failure, as well as the Emperor's irritation at Vader's
obsession with hunting down Jedi, Vader nonetheless was tasked with locating Sang.
He eventually tracked down both Jennir and Sang to the desert world of Prine.
Although he had missed his main target of Jennir, he nonetheless managed to
apprehend Sang while also confiscating his ship, also locking him up in a training
facility on Coruscant to train him for the purpose of killing Jennir when they
eventually encounter each other.[176]
The search for Garoche Tarkin
"You and Captain Shale will take two battalions of the 501st Legion. Find Admiral
Tarkin and bring him home. Then we shall see"
Emperor Palpatine, tasking Darth Vader with rescuing Admiral Garoche Tarkin[src]
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Darth Vader and the 501st Legion during a mission to rescue Garoche Tarkin.
Although Darth Vader had renounced his former identity as Anakin Skywalker in
order to fully embrace the dark side of the Force, he did so only in appearance. The
sacrifices he made to ascend to a position of power, second only to the Emperor,
inflicted deep psychological scars that left Vader in a constant state of depression
and emotional turmoil. In secret, he grieved over the consequences of his actions
that led to the death of his wife and the near destruction of the Jedi Order. His guilt
caused him to dream about a life that he thought might have been his if he had
killed Darth Sidious, rather than saving him from Mace Windu. In his dreams of an
"alternate life," Anakin Skywalker struck down the last Dark Lord of the Sith. With
Sidious dead, Skywalker never became Darth Vader and the Republic was never
transformed into the Galactic Empire. Padm Amidala not only survived the birth of
their son Jinn Skywalker, but was also pregnant once again, around the time when
Skywalker ascended to the rank of Grand Master of the Jedi Order.[177]
Outside of his dreams, however, Vader tried to strengthen his severely weakened
body by focusing entirely on all of his rage and hatred, thereby fueling the dark side

within him. Nevertheless, a part of him still held onto the love that he had for
Amidala, causing him to think of her while enduring the excruciating pain of having
his prosthetic limbs reattached. In late 19 BBY, barely a few months after the end of
the Clone Wars, Emperor Palpatine summoned Vader to his throne room with Moff
Wilhuff Tarkin and Captain Shale at his side. The Dark Lord informed his apprentice
that Moff Tarkin's son, Admiral Garoche Tarkin had recently disappeared while on an
expedition to annihilate a group of insurgents in the Atoa system of the Ghost
Nebula. Though the two of them had developed a good working relationship, Moff
Tarkin lacked faith in Vader's abilities to retrieve his son alive, as Vader had a
tendency to ignore previously assigned objectives if an opportunity to pursue Jedi
survivors presented itself. As this mission was of great personal importance to Moff
Tarkin, he requested for Captain Shale to be assigned to the mission to help keep
Vader on track. As a friend of Garoche since their days at the Imperial Academy,
Shale reasoned that he could provide a great deal of insight into Garoche's behavior.
Vader had no desire to have Shale follow him around like a "shadow," but his
objection was overruled by the Emperor's final word on the matter. Hence, Vader
and Shale departed from Coruscant in an Imperial Star Destroyer; the Emperor
personally assigned two battalions of the 501st Legion to serve Vader during the
search for Tarkin's missing son.[177]
Skirmish on Atoa
"We must be prepared for a war. Crush any resistance, but leave the officers alive.
For interrogation."
Darth Vader, issuing instructions to stormtroopers of the 501st Legion[src]
Atoa attack
Darth Vader unleashes the 501st Legion on a settlement of Atoans.
After arriving in the Atoan system four days later, Darth Vader began his search for
Admiral Tarkin on the planet Atoa. Due to the Empire's lack of information on the
Atoan homeworld, Vader brought a company of stormtroopers onto Atoa to prepare
for battle against hostile natives. Once they discovered a city populated by the
Atoan civilians, Commander Voca reported that the city was also protected by an
armed force of Atoans; Vader promptly ordered the clones to kill the Atoan soldiers
without mercy.[177]
The stormtroopers obeyed the Sith Lord without question or hesitance. As they
unleashed a brutally efficient assault on the Atoans, Vader took to the front and led
a charge into the city until he was momentarily surprised by a lone sniper. Captain
Shale, escorted by a squad of Storm commandos, assisted Vader by using stealth to
sneak up on the sniper in order to render her unconscious. When the last of the
resistance fell, Vader ordered Commander Voca to round up the Atoan survivors and
to bring them to the bank of a freezing river just outside of the city. But his
interrogation of the prisoners failed to yield any useful information on Tarkin's
whereabouts. Thus, Vader ordered Voca to execute all of the city's inhabitants that

were old enough to wield a weapon before burning the entire city to the ground; the
prisoners were to be drowned in the river.[177]
However, before Voca could carry out the Sith Lord's command, a trio of Atoan
priests approached the Imperials by using a boat to cross the river. Before Voca or
Shale could open fire, Vader ordered them to stand down. A priestess then came
forward in peace and introduced herself as Lady Saro, the high priestess of Atoa.
She promised to help Vader find whatever he was looking for.[177]
The alliance with Lady Saro
"I agree to your terms. Once we find Admiral Tarkin, this system is yours. But you
will swear loyalty to the Emperor."
"Of course. I'll even build temples in your honor should you so desire, Lord Vader."
Darth Vader and Lady Saro[src]
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Darth Vader piloting his black Eta-2 Actis-class light interceptor while under attack
by Atoan insurgents.
However, Lady Saro's assistance was not for free. In return for her aid in the
Imperials' search for Admiral Tarkin, the Lady requested that Darth Vader support
her bid to become the sovereign of the Atoan system. Her request only served to
infuriate the Sith Lord, who was too used to receiving unconditional cooperation by
then. Yet he could not harm her as there were no other leads to Tarkin. Thus, he
resorted to his methods of persuasion through fear. After returning to his Star
Destroyer with Lady Saro as his "guest," Captain Shale escorted the priestess to the
vessel's medical chamber where Vader dissected the body of an Atoan prisoner. But
the more he tried to intimidate Lady Saro, the more she stood her ground, even to
the point where she risked execution after revealing how she learned to speak
Imperial Basicby swallowing the tongue of a stormtrooper, thus killing him in the
process.[178]
When it became clear that Lady Saro would not speak until Vader agreed to her
term, she was sent to Deck Sixteen and placed under guard while Vader returned to
dissecting the Atoan prisoner's body. Once Lady Saro was gone, Shale interceded
with Vader on the Lady's behalf. The captain reasoned that they were wasting time
by refusing her only condition and that the Emperor had made Moffs out of lesser
men. Hence, there was no real harm in denying her control of the Atoan system, so
long as she swore her allegiance to the Galactic Empire. Vader ignored Shale at first,
but then lost his temper and grabbed Shale by the neck through the Force,
reminding him that command of the mission rested in Vader's hands alone. Shale
rebuffed Vader's threat and countered with a warning of his ownMoff Tarkin would
personally ensure that Vader would never have another command again if he failed
to rescue Garoche Tarkin. Although clearly angered and tempted to kill the
outspoken Imperial officer, he released Shale from his grip and left to meditate in
private on Lady Saro's offer.[178]

Once again, he dreamed about his fantasy life where he was still Anakin Skywalker.
In his dream, "Skywalker" and his son Jinn were providing moral support to a
nervous Padm Amidala. She was originally convinced that the galaxy was fed up
with politicians; that the Senate needed a Jedi to lead the Galactic Republic after the
debacle with Palpatine and his failed attempt to secure unlimited power through the
Clone Wars. Most of all, however, Amidala was afraid that she would make the
wrong decisions as the new Supreme Chancellor. But Anakin and Jinn both assured
Amidala that they not only believed in her, but would also stand at her side as she
strove to ensure that her time as Chancellor would usher in a new golden age of
peace and prosperity for the Galactic Republic. But his "picture-perfect" dream and
the happiness of his "alternate-self" was far too much for Vader to handle
emotionally, thus waking him up with the same anguish and regret over his actions
that destroyed the life that could have been his.[178]
After recovering from the ordeal of his dreams, Darth Vader approached Lady Saro
with an answer to her one and only request in exchange for finding Admiral Tarkin.
In exchange for information on the Admiral's whereabouts, Vader grudgingly agreed
to allow Lady Saro to rule over the Atoan system so long as she acknowledged
Emperor Palpatine as her lord and sovereign. With Vader's agreement finally
secured, Lady Saro directed the Sith Lord in the direction to where Admiral Tarkin's
missing Star Destroyer was located. Upon reaching the vessel's destination, Vader
piloted his personal starfighter to gain a closer look at the remains of the immensely
damaged warship. He was accompanied by Shale and Voca, as well as a squadron of
V-wing starfighters.[178]
But just as Voca noted that the damage to the Star Destroyer indicated that it was
destroyed from within by sabotage, the Imperials were suddenly caught in a
surprise attack by Atoan starfighters. Yet even with the element of surprise, they
were unable to compete against the superior technological assets of the Empire.
Before concluding the skirmish in space, Vader captured an Atoan pilot, whom he
kept alive long enough for an interrogation. After Vader learned everything that he
wanted to know before the pilot's death, he contacted Emperor Palpatine via
hologram to provide his Master with an update report on the mission's status.
Palpatine confided in Vader that he personally cared nothing about Admiral Tarkin,
whom he saw as just another expendable asset that could be replaced at a
moment's notice. The only reason that the Emperor authorized a rescue mission
was because of Garoche's father, Moff Wilhuff Tarkin, who had proven himself to be
a valuable asset to the New Order.[178]
To gain his Master's approval, Vader suggested that he should kill Garoche Tarkin
instead of rescuing him. He believed that the younger Tarkin's death would push
Moff Tarkin ever further into darkness, thus enabling him to fully commit to the utter
destruction of the Empire's enemies. To ensure that the Moff did not suspect any
foul play in his son's demise, Vader stated that he would cover up his involvement
by placing the blame on the Atoan insurgents. Palpatine was well pleased with
Vader's proposal and secretly authorized his apprentice to proceed with the new
plan. Upon returning to the bridge, Vader ordered Commander Voca to assemble the
501st Legion and to prepare for a ground assault on the unknown world where

Garoche Tarkin was allegedly held prisoner. The assault, however, was merely a
diversion for Vader and Shale to launch a stealth attack on the insurgents with the
aid of the storm commandos.[178]
A botched "rescue" attempt
"Sink the city. Bring our forces back to the Star Destroyer. And then we will discuss
these charges against Admiral Tarkin. Your friend."
Darth Vader to Captain Shale, just after their failure to find Garoche Tarkin[src]
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Darth Vader and the 501st Legion fighting against Atoan insurgents.
The efforts of the Imperial assault force were hindered by the fact that the entire
planet was virtually covered in tar-pits that were dangerously hot and potentially
flammable. Added to their complications was the fact that their target, an Atoan
city, was built as a ship that could travel on the tar-pits. This made it difficult for the
considerably slow-moving Imperial AT-AT Walkers to get within range of the city to
inflict damage. Thus, several Walkers and clone squads were lost due to the
pressure of moving through the tar-pits while under enemy fire at the same time.
When the Atoans were convinced that they had escaped from the pursuing
Imperials, Vader and Shale executed their stealth mission by utilizing an Imperial
LAAT gunship to board the city. While Vader and his squad of storm commandos
infiltrated the city through one route, Captain Shale and Lady Saro followed a
different path to the prison block with their own commando escort unit.[179]
Both groups killed their fair share of Atoan guards without alerting the entire city.
Upon reaching what they thought was Tarkin's cell, however, Vader only found the
Admiral's protocol droid. The droid was commanded to present a "gift" to any
Imperial that came looking for him. But the "gift" turned out to be a bomb and
Vader, realizing the trap at the last possible moment, warned his troops and Lady
Saro to take cover. Although Vader was caught in the middle of the explosion, he
survived with almost no injury to himself, despite sustaining noticeable damage to
his armor. Enraged at such an unexpected turn of events, the Sith Lord disregarded
stealth for the direct approacha swift and open assault on the city's bridge.[179]
Thanks to the skills of Captain Shale and the storm commandos, the capture of the
bridge crew was easily achieved with little effort; Vader himself personally
apprehended the female Atoan captain. Yet his latest round of interrogation proved
to be just as ineffective as the last ones throughout the mission. Despite failing to
gain a clear understanding on why Admiral Tarkin had set a trap for his Imperial
rescuers or what his exact relationship was with the Atoans, Vader came to suspect
that the admiral was a traitor to the Empire. After several prisoners were mercilessly
executed at Vader's hand, the Imperials returned to the Star Destroyer. Shortly
afterward, Vader had another dream of his alternate life, only this time he
hallucinated that Padm was warning him to "wake up" because of the assassins
that were coming for him. At that moment, Vader awakened to find himself
surrounded by Shale's storm commandos, all of whom had their weapons trained on

him. He activated his lightsaber after suddenly realizing that Shale had betrayed the
Empire by somehow inciting the commandos into staging a mutiny against the Sith
Lord.[179]
The mutiny
"It's a mutiny, Lord Vader! They've executed all of the officers and locked down the
communications array."
"None of that matters now, Commander Voca. Gather your men and follow me."
Commander Voca and Darth Vader[src]
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Darth Vader strikes back against clone traitors.
The treacherous storm commandos wasted little time and opened fire on Darth
Vader, intending to kill their former master without hesitation. Vader responded by
unleashing his rage on the clones, all of whom were completely outmatched by the
vengeful Sith Lord. Before the last traitor died, he excused his actions and those of
his fellow conspirators by revealing that Shale had warned them about his suspicion
that Vader was planning on murdering Admiral Tarkin. Vader confirmed that Shale
was right before executing the clone for committing high treason.[180]
As Vader searched his warship for Shale and the other traitors, he found
Commander Voca and his men pinned down by blaster fire from storm commandos.
With Vader's assistance, Voca and the stormtroopers took their opportunity to kill
their attackers. But shortly after regrouping with his loyal soldiers, the Star
Destroyer was critically damaged by several explosions that took place all over the
Star Destroyer, thus mirroring the same form of sabotage that destroyed Admiral
Tarkin's vessel. Before heading to the hangar, Vader and Voca tried to retrieve Lady
Saro, only to discover that her guards were murdered and that she was likely
transported by Shale to the nearby unknown planet. With no other reason to remain
aboard the doomed Star Destroyer, Vader and his men hunted down the last storm
commandos that were trying to escape the ship; he killed them all by telekinetically
throwing a V-wing starfighter at the commandos. With only a little time left to make
it off of the Star Destroyer alive, Voca and the remaining stormtroopers boarded a
Nu-class attack shuttle while Vader operated as its pilot.[180]
Though they escaped from the final and largest explosion within the Star Destroyer,
the shuttle was nearly destroyed after crashing onto the unknown world where
Shale and Saro fled. Only Vader, Voca and eight stormtroopers emerged from the
shuttle as survivors of the crash. Then they pursued Shale on foot until they found
the last of the captain's storm commandos, all of whom had been executed. At that
moment, a large group of Atoan insurgents used the high ground to their advantage
and opened fire on the unsuspecting Imperials. Trapped in a hopeless position and
utterly outnumbered, Vader ordered the clones to retreat before they were all cut
down. He then faced the insurgents alone with his lightsaber in hand and introduced
himself as "Darth Vader, a Dark Lord of the Sith and 'death' itself."[180]

But while he was distracted by the insurgents' main force, the path to escape was
cut off to Commander Voca and his men by a group of armed Atoans, led by the
traitor Shale. Exhausted and no longer able to defend themselves, Voca and the
stormtroopers were executed by Shale's firing squad. Although many insurgents
perished by Vader's blade, he too was overwhelmed and severely injured by the
Atoans, who captured him alive in accordance with Lady Saro's orders. When Vader
awoke, he found that his helmet was removed and was replaced with a crude
breathing device to keep the Sith Lord alive. He was also restrained by energy
cables as Garoche Tarkin revealed himself. Tarkin explained that he joined with Lady
Saro's Atoan faction shortly after being assigned to wipe out the insurgents in the
Ghost Nebula. Vader deduced that Tarkin was clearly in love with Lady Saro, which
the former admiral confirmed when he stated his intention to rule the Atoan system
at Lady Saro's side. He also revealed how Vader was an unwitting pawn in their
scheme by killing all of the other major Atoan factions that posed a threat to Lady
Saro's plans. When Tarkin exited the tent, Vader was suddenly struck by a vision of
his wife, who bore the pregnant appearance that she had near the time of her
death.[180]
Showdown with Lady Saro, Garoche Tarkin and Shale
"Yes. I killed you. I killed you. I killed the child you carried. And I hate myself for all
that I have done."
Darth Vader confesses his self-hatred to the spirit of Padm Amidala[src]
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Darth Vader unleashes the power of the dark side on those who betrayed him.
In Vader's vision of his dead wife, Padm Amidala was heartbroken to see what her
once heroic Jedi husband had been reduced toa broken shadow of the man he
once was. Vader tried to excuse his fate by blaming his decisions on his Masters,
Darth Sidious and Obi-Wan Kenobi respectively. But Amidala was not moved by
Vader's feelings of self-pity and referred to him by his birth name. In that moment,
Darth Vader angrily rejected his former name and regarded it as something that no
longer possessed any meaning for him. He tried to rationalize his frustrations at
himself by declaring that Anakin Skywalker died with his wife. But in rejecting who
he once was, Vader caused Amidala to turn away since she had come for Anakin,
not Vader. The Sith Lord panicked at first, and then flew into a rage. Breaking free of
his bonds in desperation, he was all but trapped in a hysterical delusion as he
searched for his dead wife.[181]
His desperate search for Amidala turned into a rampage that brought him straight
to Lady Saro's Cathedral, where she, Garoche Tarkin and Shale were located. As
Vader killed the Atoan guards that stood in his path of destruction, Shale tried to
give Tarkin and Lady Saro enough time to escape from the deranged Sith Lord. He
tried to strike Vader down with the Sith Lord's own lightsaber, only to be quickly
disarmed, thus finding himself at the mercy of an enraged Darth Vader who
demanded to know where his wife was. Shale was utterly shocked by Vader's words

and honestly retorted that he had no idea what Vader was rambling about. But
Vader was far too lost in his anger towards those who betrayed him, as well as
himself for causing Amidala's death. At that moment, Shale confessed about how
the guilt he carried over the atrocities he had committed led him to deeply resent
Emperor Palpatine and the Galactic Empire. He swore to be a good soldier, but
instead became just another slave to a tyrant Emperor. Before he could be killed by
Vader, however, Shale activated several bombs that were hidden under his jacket,
intending to kill himself and Vader in the process. Vader narrowly avoided sharing in
Shale's fate by throwing the former officer far enough to avoid the resulting
explosion.[181]
As Vader descended deeper into the depths of the Cathedral, he encountered
another vision of Amidala, whose beauty was overtaken by the decaying effects of
death. She forced Vader to stop lying to himself and finally confront the truth
Amidala did not just "die," she was murdered in cold blood by her own husband.
Overwhelmed by the indescribable pain and sorrow that filled his entire being, Darth
Vader fell to his knees with tears of remorse in his eyes. He confessed to everything,
from killing his wife to destroying his life as Anakin Skywalker; he confessed his
belief that Amidala's unborn child died as a result of his actions as well. Ultimately,
what he hated most of all was himself for all of the evil that he committed as Darth
Vader. Amidala forgave her husband, whom she referred to by his Sith title, causing
Vader to shed a final tear for all that he had lost.[181]
When she vanished into thin air, Vader became hysterical once more. Lady Saro and
Garoche Tarkin revealed themselves, causing a shocked Vader to believe that the
priestess had somehow induced him with hallucinations. However, Lady Saro
explained that she possessed the ability to see in ways that most others could not,
an ability that she could share with anyone, thus enabling Vader to see the spirit of
his dead wife. Vader grabbed Tarkin by the throat through the Force and threatened
to kill the ex-admiral unless Saro brought Amidala's spirit back. But instead, Saro
desperately tried to redeem Darth Vader by begging him to put an end to his
persona as a murderer. She presented him with the chance of redemption, which he
could have by sparing Tarkin and Saro. In her last attempt to reach the side of Vader
that was still Anakin Skywalker, Saro revealed that she was carrying Garoche
Tarkin's unborn daughter. The revelation caused Vader to hesitate before releasing
Tarkin from his grip. Saro looked at the Sith Lord with hope, but Vader simply
couldn't go on living any longer. In a moment of clarity and a desire to atone for his
sins, he chose to leave his fate up to the will of the Force. Thus, Vader used his
power to bring the entire Cathedral down upon himself, Garoche Tarkin and Lady
Saro. As Tarkin and Saro embraced each other lovingly for the last time, Vader
closed his eyes in a moment of bliss as the entire building collapsed to the ground,
burying the three alive.[181]
Days later, Darth Vader awoke to find himself on Coruscant and in the presence of
Emperor Palpatine. As his repairs were nearly finished, Palpatine voiced his
satisfaction with the results of Vader's missionall of the traitors were dead, the
entire insurgency was destroyed, the Atoan system was conquered and Vader
survived after being buried alive for days. Vader credited the power of the dark side

as the source of his remarkable strength and ability to survive near-death scenarios.
Palpatine also explained how Moff Tarkin was under the impression that his son was
murdered by the Atoa's natives, thus fueling his hatred and making him ever more
vicious towards the Empire's many enemies. As such, the Emperor was quite
pleased to have a much more powerful servant in Wilhuff Tarkin, and thus he
thanked Vader for "failing" to rescue Garoche Tarkin. After Vader's repairs were
finished, he was dressed once more in his armor, which had been restored to its
previous condition. Falling on one knee before his Sith Master, Darth Vader awaited
his next assignment from Darth Sidious.[181]
The Gentis coup
"But when Lord Vader came to our aid in the courtyard, I realized that serving him
could earn an officer the only two things that matteredfear and respect."
Laurita Tohm, recounting his first impression of Darth Vader[src]
In the few months since the formation of the New Order, Darth Vader's reputation
had spread through the military ranks. Aside from crushing local insurrections,
tracking down missing Star Destroyers and hunting down wanted fugitives who
survived the Clone Wars, the Dark Lord of the Sith was also known for summarily
executing numerous Imperial officers under his commanda fact that made him a
dreaded figure among many within the chain of command. On Coruscant, Vader
stood at Emperor Palpatine's side as the two Sith Lords presided over an Imperial
Academy graduation ceremony, composed of cadets trained by Headmaster Gentis
at the military institute on Raithal.[182]
Hours after the event, Gentis and his students initiated a secret insurrection against
the Emperor's rule. Hundreds of strategically-placed explosives were suddenly
detonated across Imperial City, destroying key targets such as the officers' club, a
communications tower, the supply depot and several military garrisons. As fire
swept through much of the city, Darth Vader and a squadron of stormtroopers
defended the Imperial Plaza from a group of rebellious cadets. Frightened by the
Dark Lord's Force powers and combat skills, the students pulled back, though not
before a few were crushed by a large piece of rubble that Vader telekinetically threw
at them.[182] As the troopers secured the Plaza, Cadet Laurita Tohm discovered
that one of the dying insurrectionists was Shens, his friend and fellow student from
Raithal. Vader watched as Shens was executed for treason by Tohm, whom he
recognized to be the valedictorian from the graduation ceremony. After Tohm
declared his allegiance to the Emperor and the Dark Lord, Vader ordered the cadet
to accompany him to the Imperial Palace.[183]
Rescuing the Emperor
"We will do as you suggestand spirit the Emperor away before Gentis can find us.
But we will do so under my command."
Darth Vader, to Moff Trachta[src]

By the time Darth Vader and Laurita Tohm arrived at the Imperial Palace's front
entrance, a large explosion erupted in the higher levels of the building, followed by
the contamination of the entire residence by poisonous fumes known as Aorth-6.
Protected by his armor's respiratory system, Vader entered the palace,
accompanied by Tohm who equipped his own breathing device, while many Imperial
officers fell victim to the gas's lethal effects. Upon reaching the Emperor's private
chambers, the Sith Lord found his Master in a weak condition; Palpatine was
infected by the virus and his condition was criticalonly the Force could keep him
alive for a while until his condition could be treated. Another survivor that Vader
discovered was Moff Trachta, also unaffected by Aroth-6 because of his implanted
respiration system. Though initially resistant to the Moff's recommendation of
retreat, believing it to be a sign of weakness, Vader grudgingly complied when
Palpatine agreed that he needed to be removed to a safe location for the time
being.[183]
Together with Trachta and Tohm, Darth Vader brought the transferred Emperor
Palpatine to an advanced stealth transport that was hidden in a secret hangar
known as the "Crypt." With the Emperor's condition temporarily stabilized by the
starship's stasis chamber, Vader and Trachta debated on their next course of action,
between remaining on Coruscant or retreating to an off-world location. At the same
time, Trachta aimed his sidearm at Tohm, whom he did not trust because of the
cadet's former ties to Gentis. Darth Vader immediately disarmed the Moff and
agreed to take the Emperor away from the capital. Once Trachta acknowledged
Vader's greater authority, Tohm advised that any Imperial location was not safe.
Given the scale of Gentis's revolution, Tohm believed that the entire military wing
could not be trusted since they could not account for the exact number of those
who sided with the Headmaster's cause. Vader concurred with the cadet, but also
realized that there were other facilities that were classified by the Jedi High Council
secret places hidden from both Palpatine and Vader's former self, Anakin
Skywalker.[183]
Ruins of the Jedi Temple
"You fools! The Emperor was right about you all! You plotted and schemed against
us from the beginning! Traitors! This is a temple to betrayal. We will raze it when we
return to Coruscant."
Darth Vader, outraged by the Jedi Council's lack of trust in him[src]
While Gentis and his revolutionaries secured Coruscant under their control, Darth
Vader and Laurita Tohm journeyed to the fallen Jedi Temple. After a brief skirmish
with several automated training droids, the two reached the High Council Tower
where Vader activated a holographic recording of a discussion between Anakin
Skywalker and the members of the Jedi Council.[183] Throughout the Clone Wars,
Skywalker had apprehended a number of Force-sensitive war criminals that
mysteriously disappeared once transferred to the Council's authority. He demanded
to know their location, only to be reprimanded for his behavior by Jedi Master Mace
Windu, who also dismissed the young Jedi Knight's accusations of conspiracy and
secrecy.[51]

The recording also displayed the conference that took place after Skywalker left the
Chamber, in which the Council revealed the existence and location of the Prism, a
secret detention center that contained dangerous Force-wielders, all of whom were
overseen by a single Jedi warden. Darth Vader lost control of his anger upon
discovering that the Jedi Order had its own penitentiary facilitya secret that they
did not entrust to Anakin Skywalker. Enraged and bitter toward the holographic
representation of his former comrades, the Dark Lord used the Force to hurl the
Council seats out of the tower's window.[51]
The Ghost Prison
"How many?"
"Two hundred and eight, Lord Vader. But this can't be correct According to these
records, this manAnakin Skywalkerarrested more than half of these prisoners."
Darth Vader, and Laurita Tohm[src]
Afterward, Vader, Trachta and Tohm followed the Prism's coordinates to the Diab
system on the edge of the galaxy. Due to security precautions, the Prism was cut off
from all communications with the outside world. A female Jedi warden, unaware of
the Jedi Order's destruction per Order 66, sought to greet her visitor, believing Darth
Vader to be her replacement. When she was caught by surprise by the Dark Lord's
appearance, Vader used the distraction to impale her through the abdomen while
Trachta and Tohm destroyed the Jedi's security droids.[51]
The ailing Emperor Palpatine was immediately taken to the Prism's infirmary. Its
advanced medical technology stabilized the Emperor's condition, although he
required more time to regain his full health. During Palpatine's recovery, the prison's
inmate files were analyzed by Vader and Tohm, the latter of whom found it unlikely
that one JediAnakin Skywalkerwas responsible for the arrests of more than half
of the facility's prisoners. Vader confirmed the records' accuracy, and referred to his
former self as one of the Jedi Order's best generals during the Clone Wars. When
Tohm inquired about Skywalker's fate, the Dark Lord vaguely stated that he had
killed Skywalker. Not long after, Tohm approached Vader with a plan that revolved
around utilizing the Prism's prisoners as an army to recapture Coruscant from
Gentis's insurgents.[51]
Prison riot
Vader, however, came up with another plan: He arranged to have all 207 prisoners
fight amongst themselves in the Prison yard to find out which of them were worthy
enough to fight alongside Vader. Of the prisoners, only 33 of them survived in good
enough condition to join.[184]
Final battle
Afterwards, Darth Vader, alongside Tohm, Trachta, a newly recovered Palpatine, and
the 33 prisoners, returned to Coruscant to deal with Gentis and his traitorous
supporters. As they landed, Vader immediately exited the transport on which the
strike team was situated and was attacked by Gentis's soldiers. Utilizing a

glimmering Protection bubble to deflect their blaster bolts, Vader then unleashed a
massively powerful Force Wave, killing dozens of his attackers and clearing the area
so that the rest of the strike team could disembark. After the battle was won, Vader
wanted the prisoners killed to prevent them from later rebelling, but Trachta
disagreed, believing that their invaluable service to the Empire warranted more
than execution. As they argued, Tohm proposed an apparent compromise between
the two, suggesting that the prisoners be exiled in honor. In actuality, Vader and
Tohm had planned for them to be killed in the planned destruction of a transport
ship. Afterwards, shortly after Tohm's promotion to Admiral by Palpatine, Vader
pushed Tohm off the cityscape of Coruscant, in order to "not suffer from
rivals."[185]
Observing Falco Sang
In the aftermath of the Gentis coup, Vader arrived at the construction site for the
Imperial Palace, and learned from Gregg's report on Sang that he was being subject
to the obstacle course, but Sang had deduced they were using stinger blasters and
is neither evading nor shooting back, and that he had attempted to escape twice.
Vader then ordered Gregg to replace the weapons with live blasters alongside the
specific orders to wound Sang, intending to pay a visit to the training facility the
next day.[186]
Making good of his promise, he then visited the training center where Sang was
held up at. Sang then angrily confronted Vader while in a hoverchair regarding one
of the droids shooting his leg, injuring it. He then accused Vader of trying to kill him.
Vader then telekinetically lifted Sang up and told him that Sang wouldn't even be in
front of him had Vader intended to kill him, and also threatened that if Sang did not
improve with his training, and thus proved himself useful to him or the Empire, he
would make sure to kill him in person.[187] His obsession with hunting down Jennir
also led him to decline on supplying more manpower to Imperial Commander Teron
at Arkinnea for investigating mistreatment of refugees.[188]
Vader eventually learned of the divergence of the Venator-class Star Destroyer
Tenacious to Arkinnea from Gregg, and promptly scolded him for bringing it up,
since it didn't deal with any apparent immediate relation to hunting Jedi.[189]
At some point afterward, he got into a fight with Sang after he arranged for the
latter's ship to be delivered to the prison facility. After grabbing him by the neck,
Sang admitted that he was trying to impress Vader based on a suggestion made by
Lieutenant Gregg. Afterwards, Vader knocked him back and merely commented the
engines needed fixing before leaving Gregg and Sang to fix them.[190] Vader
eventually learned of a potential sighting of Dennir on the Colonies planet Kestavel
from Gregg and had the Hound prepped to depart within the hour. Unknown to him
was that Gregg had himself secretly learned this information from Emperor
Palpatine himself, and that Jennir was actually luring Vader into a trap.[191] He
eventually arrived on the Hound, albeit aboard Sang's ship instead of his own
shuttle, causing some initial confusion from the crew awaiting his arrival.[192] Upon
arriving at Kestavel, Vader personally led a detachment of clone troopers to The
Lucky Twi'lek hotel/cantina, stopping briefly only to disarm a booby-trapped archway

after sensing the danger. However, while he managed to sense the engine fuel flood
and jumped up a cliff, his detachment was not as fortunate as they ended up
drenched in the fuel and ignited by Jenner as part of an assassination attempt on
the Sith Lord.[193] Vader located Jedi Master Kai Huddora (the latter of whom he
sensed earlier), and proceeded to duel with him. Although successful in killing
Huddora and preventing him from detonating the building's reactors, he failed in
locating Jennir, as Huddora secretly arranged to have him spirited off the planet. He
instead found the ex-Jedi Master Beyghor Sahdett, who revealed his allegiance to
the Sith, Sidious more specifically, to handle the Jedi where Vader could not. Vader
in turn ended the life of the Verpine Sith by decapitating him. But as he did so, he
dropped the detonator, causing it to go off. Vader managed to survive the explosion
and was rescued by Sang, who was dispatched was Gregg to rescue him. Once
onboard, he informed the bounty hunter of Jennir's escape. Though Sang assumed
that their mission was a failure, Vader corrected that he at least got to kill two Jedi.
[194]
Hunting Olin
A year later, while recovering from his wounds, Vader was forced to return to the
Jedi Temple on Coruscant. He arrived to find Inquisitor Malorum having difficulties
with intruders. Vader ridiculed Malorum for having difficulty in capturing the
reported intruders, much to the chagrin of the Inquisitor, who had plans of replacing
Vader as the Emperor's crony. Vader even went as far as to suggest that Malorum
blow up the Temple to ensure the intruders' deaths, though he knew very well that
the Inquisitor would not even attempt to. The two also quarreled about Malorum's
lack of dealing with the secret resistance group, the Erased. When Malorum
mentioned to Vader his findings on Polis Massa, the Sith Lord held him in a Force
choke and his anger started to cave-in the walls of the room, exposing Ferus Olin, a
former rival of his, and his companion Trever Flume. As a result of Malorum's failure
to capture the intruders, Vader let the pair escape.[195]
A short time afterward, Vader was ordered by the Emperor to go to the planet
Samaria, where sabotage of the computer systems had caused the planet to go into
chaos. While searching for the saboteur, he again ran into Ferus Olin. This time,
however, Olin had the protection of the Emperor and could not be arrested. After
this meeting, though, Vader had much to ponder about Olin's apparent change of
sides. Some time later, Vader was assigned to the Imperial garrison on Bellassa.
However, after cutting down Roan Landsone of The Eleven resistance members
and once more exposing Olin's treachery, the Emperor intervened on Olin's behalf
and reassigned Vader to a troublesome garrison under construction in the Bellassan
mountains. However, Vader confronted Olin one more time in the Jedi Temple, and
engaged him in a Lightsaber duel. Olin eventually revealed that he knew of Vader's
marriage to Amidala, it had little effect on Vader, and the two dueled on, both using
the Dark Side regularly. Eventually, Olin retreated to the Reactor room of the
Temple, and threw a Sith Holocron he had received from Palpitine into the reactor.
While Olin was distracted Vader caught up with him and used the Force to throw him
against the wall. Vader then used the Force to almost strangle him and left him to
die. Afterwards he used the prototype Death Star to destroy the secret asteroid base

used by Olin to shelter survivors of Order 66, the coordinates of which had been
given to him by spy Eve Yarrow.[195]
Other survivors of Order 66 eliminated by Vader include Empatojayos Brand, who
was forced to live out the remainder of his life inside a pressure suit, and Halagad
Ventor, whom Vader interrogated for information on other Jedi survivors. Other
survivors found by Vader include Qu Rahn and Kento Marek.[196]
Operation: Twilight
Blue Glass Arrow Main article: Twilight (operation)
Darth Vader later participated in Twilight, a secret, large-scale operation conducted
by the Empire. Part of the operation dealt with creating a serum designed to wipe
away up to 50 years of a person's memory once injected. He personally participated
in the operation in part to eliminate his memories of Amidala, as the memories as
well as his guilt of killing her continued to haunt him. However, after he learned that
not only was any written data for the serum destroyed by a duo of Jedi, but the
head of the project, Jenna Zan Arbor, was injected with the serum, thus removing
any chance of recreating the serum, he executed Arbor for her failure. Nonetheless,
the project was also designed to track down and wipe out the leaders of an early
rebel movement in one fell swoop. He managed to accomplish this via a plant in
their ranks, and upon capturing them, had a Star Destroyer equipped with a
superlaser destroy the main Rebel hideout, along with most of the leadership.
The Heinsnake plot
Evading assassination attempts
Some time later, Vader ended up finding himself under the vengeful watch of a
wealthy industrialist, due to killing the industrialist's son when the latter tried to
disrupt an Empire-enforced business deal. As such, he killed eight assassins that
were hired by the industrialist to kill him, and eventually was tailed by a ninth.
During this time, Vader also participated in a battle on Utapau.[197]
Assassination attempts on the Emperor
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Vader, in an unorthodox manner, saves Palpatine from an assassination attempt.
Vader was eventually summoned by the Emperor himself. However, shortly after
arriving, he then unexpectedly Force Pushed the Emperor away and hurled the
throne out of the window. Vader's reason soon became clear when the throne
exploded due to a bomb being placed underneath. Vader then executed two of the
royal guards by hurling them out of the window, citing lack of time as his reason (as
they would normally have been punished by a slow and painful death for their
failure to protect the Emperor). He then berated the remaining five royal guards for
being incompetent or otherwise conspiring against both the Emperor and the
Empire. He then executed the two guards who failed to kneel in guilt, and spared
the remaining five when they accepted responsibility for the failure, and assigned

two of them to protect the Emperor, two of them to accompany Vader, and the
remaining one to cover up the attempted assassination, he then went to his
master's side. He eventually learned that the Heinsnake Cult was responsible after
an encounter with a cultist who blew himself up during their investigation. Upon
learning from his Master the history of the Heinsnake Cult, he then was dispatched
to wipe out the cult of dark side sorcerers, all while the ninth assassin stalked him.
[198]
Investigating the Heinsnake Cult's moon
While investigating the location of the Heinsnake Cult, he eventually found a
derelict Venator-class Star Destroyer over a moon. Despite protests by the
Emperor's Royal Guard to not investigate the derelict vessel due to dangers, Vader
opened up the shuttle's airlock and exited into the vaccuum of space to personally
investigate. He noted that the ship had apparently been taken out by a single blast,
yet there were surprisingly few corpses on board the vessel, indicating that most of
the crew had evacuated. Vader, during his search, then managed to find the ship's
datalogs, and after transferring the logs to the Royal Guards, requested for them to
pick him off where he had left. Vader and the Emperor's Royal Guards deduced the
point of origin of the energy beam that doomed the vessel: a nearby moon. They
also learned that the captain had encountered a saboteur with a homing device who
was apparently a member of the Heinsnake Cult. They then went to locate the area
that the surviving crew had evacuated to, in the hopes of finding the captain and
learning more about the cult's plot against the Emperor, although they only found
abandoned vessels at the evacuation site, with Vader speculating that the survivors
were most likely eaten by the wildlife. Vader then killed one of the monsters on the
planet, although not before the monster squashed one of the Royal Guards to death.
He and the surviving guard eventually located the suspected source of the beam:
several ancient ruins. However, Vader upon entering the temple started suspecting
that he was being stalked.[199]
Learning the Heinsnake Cult's motives
Vader eventually entered the temple, and was guided to the basis by an elderly
cultist. Upon being instructed by one of the cultists that it was only necessary to
look inside the basis, Vader did so, only for vines to encapsulate him, overwhelming
him to the extent that he was unable to breathe. Vader then knelt down with his
helmet and mask removed and watched as he, donning the mask and helmet once
again, dueled Kenobi before cutting him down. Vader then witnessed Emperor
Palpatine torturing him with Force lightning, only for Vader to gradually resist the
lightning and have Palpatine collapse. Vader then looked up and saw himself among
the stars, except instead of his chest box, he was adorned with the Heinsnake
insignia in its place. However, Vader refused to follow the Heinsnake Cult and wiped
them out, also taking the Basis's power source, an energy crystal, with him.[24]
Tying up loose ends
He later departed from the doomed moon, due to his earlier actions. Upon making it
back to the ship, he eventually fought against the Ninth Assassin when the latter

ambushed him, but he killed him effortlessly. He then made a trek over to the Ninth
Assassin's abode and located his associate, killing him and presumably learning who
hired the assassin from him. He then went to deliver the crystal to Tarkin to
complete the preparations of the Death Star. He then left for the industrialist's
home, although he discovered that the industrialist had already committed suicide.
He then met up with Palpatine, who admitted that he had actually orchestrated the
events that transpired, even the Heinsnake Cult's attempted assassination of him,
as a test for Darth Vader.[200]
The discovery of Galen Marek
"Come with me. More will be here soon."
Darth Vader, to Galen Marek[src]
Kentochoke
The Dark Lord of the Sith prevails against a fugitive Jedi in battle.
During the early years of the Galactic Empire, Darth Vader participated in another
invasion of Kashyyyk following a resurgent Wookiee uprising[16] after the first
attack.[168] Aside from a stormtrooper escort, Vader did not personally lead the
campaign as he pursued an objective of his ownthe hunt for a fugitive Jedi who
had taken refuge on the Wookiee homeworld. Despite his disappointment in the
overall strategy of his subordinate officer, whom he judged to be incompetent,
Vader allowed the Commander to live while he executed his own mission. The Dark
Lord of the Sith encountered numerous Wookiee warriors, all of whom fought with
fierce determination, though none were able to prevent Vader's path into their
village. Soon after reaching a large hut, decorated with banners bearing his target's
family crest, the Jedi Kento Marek confronted Darth Vader.[16]
The Sith Lord dueled the former Jedi Knight, but found his opponent's skills to be
significantly inferior to his own. Aside from a basic knowledge of Shii-Cho, Marek
combat repertoire contained only rudimentary knowledge of Makashi. As such,
Vader quickly overcame him using his refined form of Djem So.[16] The duel came
to an end when Marek was disarmed and Force pushed by Vader through the front
entrance of his hut.[196] As Vader entered the hut, he sensed the presence of a
being who was far more powerful in the Force than the Jedi he had just defeated.
Believing the presence to be Marek's Jedi Master, Vader seized him in the grip of a
Force choke and demanded to know where the other Jedi was hiding. When Marek
retorted that his master had fallen to Vader long ago, Vader prepared to kill his
adversary. At the last moment, however, his lightsaber was telekinetically pulled out
of his grasp. As the Dark Lord rounded on the culprit, he was astonished to see his
lightsaber in the hands of a small boy. He quickly deduced the boy to be both the
Jedi Knight's son and the other presence he felt upon entering the hut. When the
elder Marek urged his son to run away, Vader casually crushed his throat. Horrified
and in shock, the younger Marek stood still and pointed his stolen lightsaber at its
owner, who cautiously approached the child.[16]
Starkiller toylightsaber

Darth Vader discovers Galen Marek, a child with a powerful connection to the Force.
Before Darth Vader could communicate with the now orphaned Marek, the Imperial
Commander and a squad of stormtroopers entered the hut. As they approached the
two, the Commander signaled his soldiers to execute the boy under the assumption
that his Sith leader would approve. Instead, the Dark Lord telekinetically summoned
his lightsaber back to him, and promptly killed the Commander and his troopers in
front of Marek, thus ensuring that there would be no witnesses to his next move. He
then commanded the boy to come with him, warning that more soldiers would soon
arrive at their location. Unknown to Galen Marek at the time, he had been chosen as
Darth Vader's secret Sith apprentice, although Vader never verbally acknowledged
him as such until several years later.[16] In the aftermath of Kashyyyk's fall and
subjugation, Darth Vader spirited the young Galen Marek to a hidden location on the
Executor, a Super Star Destroyer that would serve as the Dark Lord's flagship upon
the completion of its construction.[201]
By 17 BBY, Vader had become renowned as a warrior, which eventually resulted in
Hock Malsuum, a clone trooper who had been left for dead in a battle during the
final few months of the Clone Wars, to desire to join him,[202] also doing several
battles to earn the Dark Lord's respect.[203] Eventually, Vader, having respected
Hock, brought him into the fold and was later dispatched to the planet Ostor to
participate in a mission to assimilate a Separatist holdout discovered on the Outer
Rim planet. However, the operation ended disastrously due to Vader staying behind
on his ship, not conducting reconnaissance beforehand, and giving direct command
to an armchair general named Rohn, resulting in Hock having to do something that
will risk his life,[204] also flying alongside Vader before ending up captured by the
Separatist forces.[205] Vader eventually managed to attack the Separatists due to
Hock sabotaging the Separatist forces from the inside, causing Hock to see the
ruthlessness of Vader in person.[206]
The secret apprentice
"You were weak when I found you. You should never have survived my training. But
now your anger has become your strength. At last, the dark side is your ally. Rise,
my apprentice."
Darth Vader acknowledges Starkiller as his Sith apprentice for the first time[src]
Starkiller kneeling
The secret apprentice kneels in the presence of his Master.
In the years that followed his abduction of Marek, Vader trained the boy in the ways
of the Sith, including dumping him unarmed onto Honoghr while sending a Noghri
Death Commando hunting party after him with the intention of having Marek
survive and defeat them as an ultimate test. At first, he controlled his student
through fear, but then taught him to embrace emotions such as anger and hatred.
In time, Marek forgot about his past; the memories of his childhood became
repressed and he came to assume that he was merely one of his Master's many

experiments. In addition, the boy had forgotten his birth name, but soon came to
know himself as "Starkiller," a codename provided to him by Darth Vader.[201]
Though Vader was prohibited[16] by the Rule of Two from training an apprentice
while still apprenticed to a Master of his own,[25] the Dark Lord discarded the
ancient tradition and became the mentor of a child whose potential in the Force
rivaled Darth Sidious.[196] An outwardly loyal servant of the Emperor, Vader
secretly harbored much anger and resentment for his Master, the Sith Lord who had
orchestrated Anakin Skywalker's fall to the dark side of the Force.[201] Vader
devoted years to personally molding Starkiller into a highly trained Sith assassin
with an array of Force powersincluding Force lightning, which Vader was unable to
harness due to his mostly machine conditionthat made the young apprentice a
formidable opponent and Sith in all but name.[16] As time passed, Starkiller grew
increasingly immersed in the dark side to his Master's approval, but also developed
a strong sense of loyalty to the Sith Lord,[196] whom he came to view as the closest
example he had to a father figure.[16] Starkiller's loyalty to Vader was rivaled only
by his desire to fulfill the purpose of his existence, as stated by his Master: the
assassination of Vader's own Master, Darth Sidious. The apprentice longed for years
to be a true Sith Lord, providing him with the motivation and desire to become a
greater Force-wielder in preparation for the day when he and his Master confronted
the Emperor.[201]
As a Sith Master, Darth Vader's training regimen was both physically and
psychologically agonizing to Starkiller. Despite Vader's emphasis on an equation,
obey and succeed versus fail and die, the apprentice detected no hint of malicious
cruelty in his Master's instructions. The Dark Lord only wanted his disciple to learn
as a Sith apprentice, or die as a failure. His callous treatment of the apprentice was
motivated by the goal of creating the ultimate Sith warrior, rather than a sadist's
desire to inflict pain on another for personal amusement.[16]
Among the few items that Vader gave to Starkiller was a prototype holodroid named
PROXY. Although Vader intended the droid to be a tool for helping the apprentice to
refine his lightsaber skills, the Sith Lord unwittingly provided Starkiller with the only
source of friendship he ever had throughout most of his short life. When Vader
decided that his apprentice was ready to be sent on assassination missions in the
galaxy, Starkiller was given the Rogue Shadow, an advanced starship equipped with
state-of-the-art stealth technology, which served as his personal transport. Despite
Starkiller's skills as a pilot, his Master preferred that he concentrate on his training
while in-between missions. Vader therefore assigned several hand-picked individuals
to serve as the pilot of his apprentice's ship. By 3 BBY, Vader had chosen a total of
seven pilots; some had died during the apprentice's more chaotic assignments,
while others were executed by Vader due to the perceived shortcomings in their
performance.[201]
The following section contains information from a Star Wars Tales 120 story that
was referenced in no other Star Wars Legends source. Lucasfilm considered all Tales
120 content that was not "completely outrageous or intentionally comic" to have
some level of canonicity within the Legends continuity. Editor discretion is advised.

Although Vader himself never visited Tatooine in 9 BBY, he did appear to his son
Luke Skywalker in two visions: One of his current state, and one when he was a
child. This vision interacted with Luke under the name "Annie" and noted the
coincidences about their both lacking known fathers, both being gifted pilots, and
both harboring a desire to leave Tatooine. This vision eventually vanished while both
Skywalkers were fighting a Krayt Dragon that Annie inadvertently lured to them
when trying to use a sabotaged R4 droid to allow a flare to be released signalling
where Luke and he were, although Luke was certain that "Annie" was not a dream.
[207]
Star Wars Tales 120 information ends here.
Genocide on Callos
"Strike the planetary reactor at the following coordinates, and strike it hard. Once
that is out of action, I will consider the mission complete."
"Thank you, Lord Vader."
"Your gratitude is wasted on me. Give me success, Captain. That is all."
Darth Vader, and Juno Eclipse[src]
Aside from teaching Starkiller the ways of the dark side, Darth Vader continued to
perform his duties as the Emperor's chief enforcerresponsibilities that included
the military enforcement of the New Order on rebellious worlds in the Galactic
Empire. As a commander, he demanded loyalty and competence from all of his
subordinates; the failure to achieve the latter resulted in the deaths of numerous
officers at the Dark Lord's hand. However, those who could pass his high
expectations were rewarded with elevation in rank. One such officer was Captain
Juno Eclipse, a young female Human who graduated at the top of her class as the
youngest cadet from the Imperial Academy on Corulag. Impressed by her record as
a highly-skilled TIE pilot, Vader promoted Eclipse as the leader of his Black Eight
Squadron.[201]
Darth Vader judged Captain Eclipse to be a capable officer and pilot, but her
concern for life convinced him that she lacked ruthlessness, a trait that Vader
expected in everyone who served under him.[201] During the Bombing of Callos, he
sensed Eclipse's hesitation when he ordered her to conduct a full-scale bombing run
that would have resulted in the genocide of the planet's defeated inhabitants.
Unconcerned with the Captain's disapproval, Vader redirected her to target the
planetary reactor. Eclipse complied with the order under the belief that single
precision strike was preferable to blanket bombing. However, she had been unaware
at the time that the damaged reactor would contaminate the world's atmosphere
with pollutants, which then resulted in the complete sterilization of all lifeforms on
Callos, as Vader intended when he altered his order.[16]
In the months that followed after the destruction of Callos, Vader removed Eclipse
as commander of the Black Eight Squadron and reassigned her to a top secret
mission. Having recently executed Starkiller's last pilot, Vader chose Eclipse as the

eighth pilot of the Rogue Shadow. The details of her new assignments were left
unclear; Vader only informed her of the ship's advanced design in stealth
technology, as well as its enigmatic owner who operated under the call sign
"Starkiller." After providing her with the coordinates to the stealth vessel's location
in a secret hangar on the Executor, Vader sternly warned Eclipse to keep her
mission a secret and that the consequence of betraying his trust was execution.[16]
The apprentice's final tests
"Your training is almost complete. It is time now to face your first true test."
Darth Vader, to Starkiller[src]
Juno Eclipse's reassignment coincided with Starkiller's progression through his trials
to the point where Darth Vader acknowledged him as a Sith apprentice for the first
time. In recognition of his apprentice's increasing power in the dark side of the
Force, Vader ordered Starkiller to kill his first Jedi targetMaster Rahm Kota, a Jedi
General who served in the Clone Wars, as well as a survivor of Order 66. According
to his informants, Kota and his private army were in the process of conducting a raid
on an important construction facility for TIE starfighters located above Nar Shaddaa.
He also commanded the apprentice to use the utmost discretion while in the field in
order to avoid detection by the Emperor's spies. Hence, the apprentice was
instructed to kill everyone he encountered in the facility, both Imperials and Kota's
insurgents alike. Shortly after his briefing, the apprentice met Juno Eclipse in the
hangar that contained the Rogue Shadow.[16] Given that none of his previous pilots
were female, Starkiller believed that Vader selected a woman as the ship's latest
pilot in order to test the apprentice, although Starkiller feared his Master too much
to voice his suspicion.[201]
Despite the destruction of the construction facility, Starkiller returned to the
Executor and reported to his Master. With Kota blind and left for dead since their last
encounter, the apprentice assumed that the Jedi Master would no longer be a threat
to the Empire. He was also disinclined to admit that he had not actually killed his
target, and merely confirmed what Vader wanted to hearthat Rahm Kota was
dead. Afterward, Vader dispatched Starkiller to hunt down Kazdan Paratus, a Jedi
outcast who lived in self-exile on Raxus Prime; and Jedi Master Shaak Ti, one of the
last members of the Jedi High Council whom Vader discovered to be hiding on
Felucia.[16]
At the same time, Vader believed that his apprentice required further training, and
thus sent him to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant with orders to participate in the Jedi
Trials, particularly the lessons regarding skill and insight. In addition to the
apprentice's completion of the tests on Coruscant,[196] Vader was also satisfied by
the deaths of Paratus and Ti, both of whom had been slain by Starkiller in single
combat.[16]
Crafting a new plot
"Save for PROXY, you must sever all ties to your past. No one must know that you
still serve me."

"Yes, my Master."
"Now go. And remember that the dark side is always with you."
Darth Vader and Starkiller, shortly before dispatching the apprentice to create the
Rebel Alliance[src]
WhereShouldIStart
Starkiller is given his new mission by Darth Vader.
With Shaak Ti's death, the last of Starkiller's trials had been completed. Darth Vader
recalled his apprentice back to Executor, where Vader assured Starkiller that they
would finally kill Emperor Palpatine and rule the galaxy together as Master and
Apprentice. But unknown to Starkiller, the Emperor's spies had been following him
since Raxus Prime, tracing him back to Vader's flagship. Vader, faced with certain
death for his "betrayal," in turn betrayed his shocked apprentice by impaling him
through the chest with his lightsaber. After a moment of pause, Vader threw
Starkiller into the vacuum of space by hurling him through the bridge window, at his
master's command. However, Vader made sure that Starkiller's body was retrieved
and brought to his science vessel, the Empirical. Upon the apprentice's full
recovery, Vader excused his betrayal as a necessary course of action, both to save
their lives and to fool Palpatine into believing that the secret apprentice was dead.
Starkiller, although clearly bitter over the betrayal and denied a chance to finally
become a true Sith Lord, nevertheless resigned himself to his fate and obediently
submitted once more to his master's will.[16]
With his every move under close observation, Darth Vader charged his apprentice to
create a distraction that would divert the Emperor's attention away from him. To
that end, Starkiller was ordered to create an alliance of rebels and dissidents. To
that end, he ordered the apprentice to take great care in maintaining the secrecy of
his mission, so as to not alert the Emperor of his survival, nor reveal his Sith identity
to his imminent rebel allies. Before cutting off his transmission through PROXY,
Darth Vader left the apprentice with one last reminderthe dark side would always
be with him.[16]
When Starkiller found a valuable ally in Bail Organa, Starkiller was told that he
needed a target to show that the Empire was vulnerable to those that silently
opposed it. Seeking his master's council, Vader suggested that the Star Destroyer
shipyard over Raxus Prime would be a perfect target, as the Empire's rule through
fear was embodied by the awesome might of the Star Destroyers. Although his
apprentice remained loyal, Vader could sense that Starkiller was developing feelings
for his supposed allies. He sternly reminded the apprentice of where his allegiance
truly belonged, a statement which Starkiller solemnly accepted.[16]
VadervsPROXY
PROXY attacks Vader on Corellia with his Obi-Wan Kenobi combat module.
Afterward, Vader informed the apprentice of the extent of his successful mission,
claiming that Palpatine was greatly displeased at the events on Raxus Prime.

Starkiller advised that he could not maintain communications with Vader for the
time being, mainly so that the Rebels would not suspect his identity or his past
under Vader, which could potentially undo all that he had accomplished in forming
the Rebellion. Although Vader initially intended to betray Palpatine with his
apprentice at his side,[208] for unknown reasons he later changed his mind and
made other plans. He swiftly captured the Rebel senators when they met and
signed the Corellian Treaty on Corellia. After revealing to the leaders of the
seemingly short-lived Alliance to Restore the Republic that Starkiller was the Sith
Lord's secret apprentice, Vader once again assaulted his pupil, only this time with
true lethal intent. Unable to bear a second betrayal, Starkiller bitterly lamented that
he had been played a fool once again, to which Vader informed him that he never
intended to destroy the Emperorat least, not with Starkiller at his side. It was then
that the apprentice realized the truth; credits, starships, Imperial lives, and even
Starkiller himself had no value to Vader outside of their use in fulfilling his plans.
Having lured the Rebel leaders into one place so they could be revealed and
arrested, Starkiller had outlived his usefulness. Just as he was on the verge of killing
his apprentice, PROXY, under the holographic guise of Vader's former master ObiWan Kenobi, distracted him in a short duel. Although Vader easily defeated the
holodroid, Starkiller was gone, having fallen off the cliff outside the rebel site.[16]
The master defeated by the apprentice
"I've trained you well, but you still have much to learn."
"You have nothing left to teach me!"
Darth Vader confronts his former apprentice on-board the Death Star.[src]
Vader brought the Rebel senators to the Death Star I, where they would be
interrogated through torture in order to reveal the location of their friends and allies,
only to be publicly executed by the Emperor in order to silence further opposition to
Sith domination. To everyone's surprise, Starkiller was still alive and had infiltrated
the incomplete battle station with the intention of rescuing the Alliance leaders, as
well as to seek revenge against his former master. As a sign of his bitterness toward
Vader's repeated betrayals, the apprentice dropped the code name and persona of
Starkiller, thus accepting his birth name Galen Marek as his new identity. At the
Emperor's order, Vader reluctantly went to confront his former apprentice. As they
came face to face, Vader taunted Marek that he still had much to learn. Vader then
let loose with an all-out offensive barrage, assured of his own superiority as a
duelist and believing he would quickly defeat Marek. However, much like Obi-Wan
had done decades prior, Marek adopted a defensive stance against Vader,
countering and dancing around his assault.[16]
For a time, neither combatant was able to gain any sort of advantage. During the
duel, Marek came to realize that he had much in common with his master; they
were both slaves to a Dark Lord, but while Marek possessed the strength to break
away from Vader, Vader could not do the same with Sidious. Marek then proceeded
to taunt Vader with this knowledge, hoping to break his concentration. In addition,
he informed Vader that with his new understanding of Vader's life circumstances

came pity, and that he intended to end Vader's life as an act of mercy. Marek's
taunts, particularly his professions of pity, enraged the already frustrated Sith Lord
and caused him to redoubled his attack. Close to being overwhelmed, Marek
surprised Vader with a sudden blast of Force lightning, breaking the momentum of
Vader's furious onslaught and forcing him onto his back foot. This move allowed
Marek to both catch his breath and seize the offensive.[16]
Ifindyourlackofskilldisturbing
Vader is unmasked in his duel with Marek on the Death Star.
Marek pressed his advantage, scoring two hits on Vader with his lightsaber before
telekinetically hurling objects at him from every direction. The final such missile was
an energy field generator, which detonated upon contact with Vader. Barely
surviving the explosion, his armor and life support systems critically damaged,
Vader was unable to continue fighting. However, as Marek moved in for the kill, he
saw Vader's face uncovered for the first time and was shocked into pausing. His
master, rather than the terrifying cybernetic monster he appeared to be, was a
pitifully deformed old man, exhausted and in agony.[16]
Darth Sidious was greatly pleased by the outcome of the duel. Shortly after his reign
began, Sidious gradually became as bitter and spiteful of his apprentice as Vader
was with him. He had spent more than a decade engineering Anakin Skywalker's fall
to the dark side, only to see his perfect apprentice crippled, with both his injuries
and emotional instability limiting his powers. After seeing Vader humbled and
beaten by a superior opponent, Sidious wasted no time in encouraging the young
apprentice to kill his weak and broken master, thus finally becoming a true Sith Lord
and taking his rightful place at the Emperor's side. Though sorely tempted by the
thought of revenge and the power he could have as a true Sith Lord, Marek chose to
follow the light side of the Force by confronting the Emperor. Catching him by
surprise, Marek quickly attacked the Emperor with a telekinetic blast. Far from
accepting defeat and, much less, death, Sidious goaded the apprentice one last
time to give in to the dark sideby slaying the Emperor himself in anger and
hatred. With General Kota's help, the apprentice resisted the dark side one last
time. Outraged, Sidious struck Kota with Force lightning, refusing to let the Jedi and
Rebels have someone as powerful as Marek on their side. However, Marek thrust
himself in the way to protect the Jedi and the former senators.[16]
The death of the secret apprentice
"He is dead."
"Then he is now more powerful than ever. He was meant to route out the Rebels. His
sacrifice will only inspire them."
Darth Vader and Sidious, after confirming the death of Galen Marek[src]
Starkiller dead
The injured Vader and Sidious stand over Galen Marek's body.

By this time Vader had recovered enough to muster a squadron of stormtroopers in

order to kill the Rebels and his former disciple. As the stormtroopers pursued Kota
and the senators, Vader could do nothing more but watch as his master and
apprentice locked with each other in a chain of Force lightning. Marek, knowing that
he could not survive against the full fury of the Emperor, sacrificed his life and with
one last defiant yell, he caused a massive Force explosion that killed all of the
stormtroopers in the room and incapacitated the Sith Lords long enough for the
Rebels to escape.[16]
After regaining his senses, a severely injured Darth Vader slowly approached the
body of Galen Marek, just as Sidious also recovered and looked down at Marek's
corpse with shock and disappointment. Darth Vader, his voice solemn, noted that
the secret apprentice was truly dead this time.[16]
Darth Sidious was displeased and frustrated at having suffered such an unusual
setback. Not only had he failed to kill the leaders of the newborn Rebel Alliance
when he had the chance, he also realized that Marek's selfless act of sacrifice would
inspire the Rebels and bolster their morale to the point where silent opposition
would be replaced by an all-out rebellion through force of arms. Vader swore that he
would hunt down and put an end to this new threat, and crushed Marek's lightsaber
under his boot heel. In addition, he feigned ignorance at his master's betrayal,
making it sound as if the Emperor had planned for the events surrounding the
formation of the Rebellion to occur as they had. Having failed to replace Darth Vader
with Galen Marek, the Emperor had no choice except to tolerate Vader's existence
for a while longer, at least until he could find a new apprentice of the same caliber
as Starkiller.[16]
The Galactic Civil War (2 BBY4 ABY)
Cloning a new apprentice
Dark Apprentice: "I have memories. Are they mine?"
Darth Vader: "You were cast from the mold of a dead man. You have inherited his
skills, but also his weaknesses."
The Dark Apprentice and Darth Vader[src]
Starkiller clones
A collection of the original Starkiller's clones.
In the aftermath of Galen Marek's death, Darth Vader salvaged the body of his
former apprentice and brought it to Kamino, where he stored it in a secret chamber
in the Timira City Cloning Facility.[209] With Marek's body serving as a genetic
template, the Sith Lord endeavored to create the perfect version of his fallen
disciplea clone that possessed all of Marek's power, but none of his weaknesses.
[210] Due to initial imperfections in the accelerated cloning process and the
inherent difficulty involved in cloning from a Force sensitive template, the first batch
of clones developed extreme mental and physical deformations. As time
progressed, the project began to generate superficially stable clones. However, it

was soon revealed that these subjects were haunted by various memories and
personality fragments of their template. Although many of these clones made it far
in their trials, none of them were able to develop stable personalities of their own.
The clones would ultimately go on to become fixated on one or two elements of the
original Marek's life, and eventually all of them descended into madness.[209]
Another failure
"They are the memories of a dead man. A side effect of the cloning process and the
memory flashes used to train you. They will fade."
Darth Vader[src]
Starkiller Kamino Training
Darth Vader utilizes several Sith Training Droids to test the strength of a clone of his
former apprentice.
As Vader's secret project continued to develop through trial and error, one clone in
particular showed a great deal of promise. The clone progressed far enough in his
training that Vader considered dispatching him to Cato Neimoidia to execute Rahm
Kota. Although he was impressed with the clone's progress, he knew that this
subject was just as troubled by Marek's memories as all of the other clones had
been. In order to see if the clone was truly strong enough to overcome his
template's emotions, Vader provided the clone with a challenge to destroy Sith
Training Droids that had taken on the holographic appearance of Rebel troopers.
Although the clone easily destroyed the troopers, sparing no feelings for the
organization that his progenitor helped to create, he was suddenly dumbfounded by
the droid that had taken on the image of a woman he recognized as Juno Eclipse.
When Vader commanded the clone to strike her down and demanded that he hate
that which Marek loved, the clone struggled to obey, but ultimately refused.[210]
His fears confirmed, Vader destroyed the training droid, causing the image of Juno
Eclipse to disappear. Disappointed with yet another failure, the Sith Lord revealed to
the confused clone the fact that he had tried many times before to create a perfect
version of his original apprentice,[210] only to fail when it came to purging them of
Marek's emotional imprints.[17] Despite the successful growth and progress of a
different clone of Marek, Vader lied to the clone, telling him that the accelerated
cloning process was still imperfect. Before Vader could rectify his mistake by killing
his latest failed experiment, the clone unleashed a blast of Force lightning at his
master after receiving a vision of Vader's first betrayal of the original Starkiller.
While Vader was momentarily dazed by the attack, the clone blasted a hole through
a wall and jumped outside in order to escape. In response, Vader alerted the cloning
facility's Imperial garrison and commanded them to kill the clone but none of the
troopers succeeded. With his forces having little to no success in killing or stalling
the clone, Vader moved to intercept him before he could escape. Vader was too late
however, and the clone stole his TIE fighter and escape from Kamino.[210] During
the clone's travels, he became known by Marek's codename Starkiller after refusing
to go by his progenitor's birth name.[17]

Hiring a bounty hunter

Boba Fett: "He has a healthy head start."
Darth Vader: "Find the woman and bring her to me. He will follow."
Boba Fett: "I'll need a squadron of stormtroopers. They won't be coming back."
Darth Vader: "The Empire will provide whatever you require."
Boba Fett and Darth Vader[src]
Shortly after the clone's escape, Darth Vader contacted Boba Fett, the bounty
hunter whose skills made him a reliable asset to the Sith Lord. When Fett arrived on
Kamino, he surveyed the damage to Timira City and concluded that it would take
some time to discover Starkiller's whereabouts. Knowing that the bounty hunter
would never be able to capture or defeat Starkiller directly, Vader commanded Fett
to abduct Juno Eclipse, the former Imperial captain who had joined the Alliance as
commanding officer of the Salvation. Since the clone had inherited his template's
emotional attachment to Eclipse, Vader anticipated that the clone would never be
able to resist returning to Kamino to save Eclipse.[210]
Despite his own talents, Boba Fett knew that he was not capable of single-handedly
assaulting a Rebel cruiser and abducting it's captain all on his own. To that end, he
requested that Vader provide him with enough stormtroopers to aid him in
completing his mission, though he lacked confidence in the troopers' ability to
survive. Vader's only concern was bringing the clone back to Kamino, regardless of
how many resources he had to use to achieve this goal. As such, Vader provided
Fett with a far greater and more capable force than he had requested, including
Terror Troopers, Terror Droids, Terror Biodroids, and a Terror Walker.[210]
The "perfect" clone of Starkiller
Darth Vader: "Do you understand what this is? What this means."
Dark Apprentice: "Yes, my Master."
Darth Vader: "Good. Very good. You have come far. You may yet survive."
Darth Vader and the Dark Apprentice[src]
Galen Marek's dead body
Darth Vader reveals the dead body of Galen Marek to the Dark Apprentice, the only
perfect clone of the original Starkiller
Around this time, Darth Vader was training another clone that showed a great deal
of potential. Unsurprisingly, this clone inherited the same disturbing memories and
emotions of his genetic template just like his brothers before him. Upon being
released from his cloning tank, the clone was confronted by Marek's memories of
Juno Eclipse, thus causing the clone to ask about her whereabouts. Vader simply
stated that Eclipse was irrelevant, and all that mattered was the training that lay
ahead for the clone.[209]

In the early phase of his training, the clone revealed to Vader that he possessed
memories, but could not tell if they actually belonged to him. Having dealt with
enough of Marek's clones suffering from an identity crisis, Vader knew all too well
what the clone was talking about. He simply explained that the clone was copied
from the cells of Marek's corpse, thus allowing him to inherit the original Starkiller's
strengths and weaknesses. Although the clone continued to survive in his trials,
Vader was not yet fully convinced that this was the one he sought to create,
recalling all of the other clones that made it far in their trainingonly to fail in the
end. Even though the clone was determined to not fail his Master, it didn't stop him
from becoming curious about the exact number of clones that came before him, or
from wondering about what his progenitor was like as a person before he died.
Vader dismissed the clone's questions as pointless curiosity. All that mattered to him
was if any more clones would be created if this one failed. With Marek dead and his
power surpassed by the clone, Vader felt that delving into the details of his original
apprentice's identity was irrelevant.[209]
To the amazement of both the lead cloning technician and Darth Vader, the clone
was gradually able to compartmentalize his template's memories while forming new
ones of his own. Thus, he succeeded in achieving what none of his brothers were
capable of doingholding Marek's memories as separate from his own experience.
By doing so, the clone had come to know for certain that he was a copy and that the
original Starkiller was truly dead. Vader greatly approved, and promised to prove
what the clone already knew to be true. That proof was revealed by Vader to be the
body of the late Galen Marek, stored within a cold chamber in Timira City. By seeing
Marek's corpse with his own eyes, the clone understood that he had succeeded
where all of the clones failed before him, and that he was well on his way to fulfilling
the purpose of his creationmuch to Vader's delight.[209]
Near the end of his training, the clone had apparently severed the last remnants of
the emotional imprints left behind by Galen Marek. After striking down a Sith
Training Droid disguised in the holographic image of Juno Eclipse, Vader asked the
clone how he felt. The clone replied that the emotions he felt were hate for his
template's weaknesses, disgust for his failings, and pride for rising above them.
With the conclusion of this test, Vader's goal had finally been accomplished. After a
long line of failures, a single successful clone had risen to become his Dark
Apprentice. When the Rebel Alliance launched an assault on Kamino's Imperial
defenses, Vader ordered the Dark Apprentice to not interfere unless he was needed,
and only then would his training finally be completed.[209] Shortly before the
battle, Starkiller, the renegade clone who escaped from Kamino, received a vision of
the imminent future. In this vision, he saw that the Dark Apprentice would kill him if
he tried to destroy Darth Vader, who had been disarmed and defeated in the vision.
[17]
The Battle of Kamino
Juno Eclipse: "Is that...?"
Darth Vader: "He is almost here."

Juno Eclipse and Darth Vader[src]

When Boba Fett returned to Timira City with Juno Eclipse as his prisoner, Darth
Vader greeted both of them in person. Although he was slightly tempted to
summarily execute Eclipse for treason, as well as the inconvenience that the
Alliance caused for him, the Sith Lord maintained his focus on using Eclipse as bait
to lure Marek's wayward clone back to Kamino. Fett wanted to leave the planet
before the battle commenced, as he believed his job to be finished and had no
desire to encounter the vengeful Starkiller. However, Vader commanded the bounty
hunter to remain planet-side until Starkiller was once again in Imperial custody, and
withheld Fett's payment to strong-arm him into doing so. Accompanied by a squad
of stormtroopers, Darth Vader and Juno Eclipse proceeded to a tower located at the
top of the cloning facility.[17]
When the battle began, Starkiller directed the Salvation on a collision course with
Timira City. While Eclipse and the stormtroopers became increasingly nervous,
Vader maintained a calm stance and awaited the clone's return. While the first half
of the ship crashed into the cloning facility, Starkiller destroyed the second solid
fragment so as to not inadvertently harm Eclipse. While the clone made his way to
the top of the facility, killing all Imperials in his way, Vader secured Eclipse in the
tower and moved to confront his former apprentice.[17]
The duel between master and apprentice
Starkiller: "Your training made me strong enough to escape you, not obey you."
Darth Vader: "Yet here you are. My most deadly creation."
Starkiller: "You lie! You never wanted this. You can't have. Once Juno has been
rescued, your facility will be destroyed. You with it, if there's any justice."
Darth Vader: "There is no justice. Only power."
Starkiller and Darth Vader[src]
StarkillerCloneVsVader
Master versus Apprentice.
Within the cloning facility, Darth Vader and Starkiller engaged in a lightsaber duel.
While Starkiller pressed his attack and demanded to know where Eclipse was, Vader
stood his ground against the clone. Having learned his lesson after nearly being
killed by Marek, Vader refrained from the same sort of reckless offense that he
utilized against Marek. He fought more defensively and cautiously, knowing that the
cloned Starkiller was not to be taken lightly. In order to stall and demoralize
Starkiller, Vader unleashed various imperfect clones of Marek and commanded them
to attack their renegade brother. Starkiller was shocked to see that there were other
clones of Marek besides himself, and realized that he was wrong in believing that
Vader had lied about creating other clones before him.[17] These clones however,
presented no real threat to Starkiller, and he easily dispatched them.[210]

After defeating the aberrant clones, Starkiller pursued Vader all the way to the
cloning tower where he found Juno Eclipse at Vader's mercy. The Sith Lord elevated
Eclipse off of the ground and began choking her through the Force. Vader gave the
clone a final chance to surrender, or watch as he killed Eclipse. Overwhelmed with
fear and concern for Eclipse's life, Starkiller dropped his lightsabers and obeyed,
promising to serve the Sith Lord once more as long as Eclipse remained unharmed.
Satisfied, Vader released Eclipse from his grip and commanded the clone to kill
General Kota. With nothing but silent compliance from the clone, Vader told
Starkiller that he would go on to become fully immersed in the dark side and that he
would execute the Alliance leaders; resistance or failure to meet any of Vader's
expectations would cost Juno Eclipse her life.[17]
However, Eclipse refused to be the catalyst for Starkiller's return to the dark side
and attempted to assassinate Darth Vader with one of the clone's lightsabers.
Warned by his senses at the last second, Vader narrowly dodged her strike, turing
her attempted death blow into a gash on his chest panel. In retaliation, Vader
blasted Eclipse out of the tower, causing her to fall on a landing platform before
losing consciousness.[210]
In a rage, Starkiller grabbed both of his sabers and attacked Vader, only to be
thrown out of the tower as well. Before he could get to Eclipse, Vader leapt out of
the tower and landed on the platform, purposely standing between the clone and
Eclipse.[210] Although initially Starkiller could not understand why Vader would risk
his life by damaging or even destroying the one tool he could use to control him, the
clone came to believe that Juno's death was what Vader had wanted all along. By
killing Eclipse, Vader intended to remove Starkiller's only reason for resisting his
purpose as a Sith, thus causing Starkiller to fall headlong back into the fold of the
dark side.[17]
Finishing the duel
"It is our destiny to destroy the Emperor. You and me, together."
Darth Vader to Starkiller[src]
As the two engaged in combat once more, Vader tried to convince the clone to rise
above his concern for Eclipse, stating that her life was meaningless and that her
death fueled his strength in the dark side. He reminded the clone that his feelings
for the woman were counterfeit, nothing more than the emotional imprints left
behind by a man who was no longer even alive.[210] Between trying to kill Vader
and get to Eclipse, Starkiller came to suspect that he and his master were more
alike than he first believed. He came to wonder how far the Emperor had gone in
creating Darth Vader, and how far Vader would go to destroy his master in order to
replace him. With these thoughts, the clone managed to calm himself to a degree,
and he tried to suggest that Vader work with the Alliance against the Emperor.
Vader ignored this statement and continued his attacks with increasing aggression,
making it perfectly clear that he wanted nothing to do with the Rebellion.

As the duel progressed, Starkiller came to the conclusion that, despite his memories
of having bested Vader as Marek, Vader's adjustments to his combat technique had
resulted in a situation where the best outcome Starkiller could hope to achieve in
their duel was a stalemate. This problem was further exacerbated by the fact that
Vader wished to keep Starkiller alive, and was fighting to disable rather than kill. As
such, Starkiller formulated a plan to feign surrender for the sole purpose of getting
Vader to drop his guard, hoping that Vader's desire to keep him alive would provide
him with an opening.[17]
StarkillerIsReallyAngry
Darth Vader is subdued by Force lightning.
The battle nearly ended when Vader managed to disarm Starkiller and destroy his
lightsabers. Vader taunted his weaponless opponent, telling him he had one last
chance to surrender, or he would die. Starkiller appeared to capitulate and Vader,
believing the fight was over, dropped his guard. What Vader didn't know however,
was that Starkiller had been waiting for just such an opportunity. As soon as Vader
lowered his guard, Starkiller absorbed a lightning bolt from a nearby lightning rod
and used it in conjunction with his own powers to unleash an extremely powerful
electrical blast at Vader. The blast hit Vader's chest panel, directly striking the gash
that Juno had carved into it with her earlier surprise attack. Vader's life support
systems were damaged by the lightning to the point where he could no longer
defend himself, and Starkiller used the opportunity to telekinetically pull Vader's
lightsaber from his hand. Vader fell to one knee as Starkiller swept Vader's own
lightsaber up at his throat.[17]
Before Starkiller could decide to kill the Sith Lord, Kota arrived with his squad and
urged the clone to spare Vader's life, but only so that the Alliance could take Vader
as its prisoner. Starkiller, torn between Kota's reasons and the desire to take
revenge, was conflicted over what to do at first. As he struggled with this internal
conflict, he also recalled his earlier vision of what might happen to him if he chose
to take revenge. While Kota implored Starkiller to think of the valuable information
that Vader could provide the Alliance with, Vader goaded the clone to embrace his
destiny and strike him down.[210]
Vader captured
Darth Vader is captured by the Rebel Alliance.
In the end, Starkiller spared Vader's life, turning away from the dark side. As such,
the Dark Apprentice stayed his hand as well, since Vader's life was no longer in
immediate jeopardy. Vader was subsequently arrested by Kota and heavily
restrained aboard the Rogue Shadow, while Starkiller tended to Eclipse, who had
barely survived the Sith Lord's attack on her.[210]
A prisoner of the Rebel Alliance
"As long as she lives, I will always control you."
Darth Vader to Starkiller[src]

After being secured in a harness that covered most of his body and completely
restricted his ability to move, Vader was placed inside the Rogue Shadow's
meditation chamber. There, Starkiller visited the captured Sith Lord shortly before
the Rebel fleet departed from Kamino. Although he nearly lost his confidence at the
sight of his former Master, Starkiller began mocking Vader by gloating on how he
chose to spare his life. Although he remained uncertain over his own origins, he
dismissed it as irrelevant, stating that he had succeeded in breaking Vader's hold
over him. Throughout Starkiller's short display of new-found confidence in himself,
Vader remained silent the entire time and did not indulge the clone with the
answers he sought. Seeing the pointlessness in his actions, Starkiller turned to
leave.[210]
But at that moment, Vader declared to the clone that he would never be free as
long as Juno Eclipse was alive. Refusing to give Vader the satisfaction of seeing the
uncertainty in his eyes, Starkiller exited the meditation chamber and left Vader in
the darkness of the room where he was confined. After the Rebel fleet left Kamino,
Starkiller and Eclipse took control of the Rogue Shadow and departed for Dantooine
with Vader onboard as their prisonerunaware that they were being followed by
Slave I, piloted by Boba Fett.[210]
At some point prior to the Battle of Yavin, Darth Vader escaped from captivity and
resumed his place at Emperor Palpatine's side. As Supreme Commander of the
Imperial Military, he continued to execute his mandate to destroy the Rebel Alliance
he unwittingly created through the original Starkiller's actions.
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status was never confirmed by Lucasfilm Ltd.
Encountering Tao
Ultimately giving up on recreating Starkiller, but still determined to gain an
apprentice so he could overthrow Sidious, Vader eventually travelled to the planet
of Shumari, already being subjugated by the Imperials, under the pretense of
completing the destruction of the planet's Jedi fugitives. The Sith Lord then engaged
several Jedi and took them down effortlessly, eventually saving their leader for last.
Although ultimately successful in defeating the Jedi, a surviving Jedi youngling
named Tao, enraged at the death of the Jedi leader, sees Vader and stares him down
in rage. Vader ultimately saw use in the boy, and made him his second secret
apprentice. He trained the boy in the ways of the Dark Side, and like Marek before
him, he also dropped him on Honoghr to survive and fight a Noghri Death
Commando party unarmed. Despite his potential, however, Vader wasn't able to get
the boy to become fully immersed in the Dark Side.
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Pre-Yavin
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Vader fighting An'ya Kuro, the Dark Woman

Shortly before the Battle of Yavin, the Emperor's hand Mara Jade discovered the
location of Jedi Master An'ya Kuro, also known as "the Dark Woman". Both Jade and
Vader wished to be the one to kill the Jedi, but Palpatine assigned the task to Vader.
Shortly thereafter, Vader arrived on Cophrigin V and made his way to the lush
sanctuary that was Kuro's home. After a short debate on the nature and capabilities
of the light and dark sides of the Force, the two engaged one another. Vader killed
his opponent, but she immediately re-appeared as a Force ghost, proclaiming that,
in death, she had proven the light side was greater than the dark. She then stated
that Vader still possessed the power to turn away from the dark side, but Vader
exclaimed that he did not seek emancipation and struck at the ghost with his blade.
Kuro then vanished, and Vader departed.[211] When this was done, Palpatine called
an end to the Great Jedi Purge, as he believed that the few Jedi who remained were
of so little importance that tracking them down would be a waste of time and
resources.
At some point during the early stages of the conflict, Darth Vader, after the Empire
suspected that the travel agency Star Tours was transporting rebel spies,
commanded a task force to commence a raid on Spaceport THX1138 located at the
Earth system, which had been composed of an entire fleet of Imperial-class Star
Destroyers to apprehend a Rebel agent that had stowed away aboard one of the
StarSpeeder 1000s, as well as hired Boba Fett to track the vessel and capture it in
the event that the vessel successfully escaped capture during the raid.[212]
Warning: The following section contains information from a Star Wars Legends
source that was released outside of the Lucas Licensing process, and its licensing
status was never confirmed by Lucasfilm Ltd.
After the shuttle the spy was located on was narrowed down as being Star Tours
Flight 1401, destined for Coruscant, Vader personally led a contingent of
Stormtroopers and Skytroopers onto the station, located the current route that
Flight 1401 was to depart from, blocked its path, and attempted to use the Force to
prevent it from leaving while riding on a Hover Platform. However, he was forced to
release it after R2-D2 (at the time onboard the ship) fired several laser cannons at
Vader, although not before sending a squad of four TIE/LN starfighters after it. The
ship ultimately managed to escape into hyperspace.[213]
Later, Vader oversaw the construction of the Death Star over Geonosis. After Flight
1401 had resurfaced and narrowly evaded Fett's Slave I, Vader, commanding a
squadron of TIE Fighters, ordered for the StarSpeeder 1000's capture, although it
evaded their pursuit by going into the inner workings of the then-under construction
battle station and entered hyperspace.[213]
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Vader and Palpatine were the targets of a group of treacherous Imperial officers led
by Grand Moff Trachta. Trachta saw the Sith as foolish and archaic, and believed that
the Empire should not be ruled by a two-man cult. They planned to use a batch of

altered stormtroopers loyal only to them to destroy the two Sith Lords. While the
Emperor was dealing with the conspirators, Vader set out on a mission of his own to
the planet Dargulli to locate a mysterious, powerful Jedi. But, instead of a Jedi
Knight, he was confronted by a cadre of bounty hunters who had come to the
conclusion that ganging up onand defeatingthe Sith Lord would bring them
fame and fortune. With the help of another bounty hunter, Boba Fett, Vader quickly
disposed of his attackers, only to be approached by a female darksider whom Vader
eliminated despite her offering to become his apprentice. Afterward, Vader returned
to find the conspirators' plot dismantled, due in large part to internal fighting
between the co-conspirators.
An old enemy
"What could you hate enough to destroy me?"
"Myself."
Darth Maul and Darth Vader[src]
Resurrection
A clone or dopplegnger of Darth Maul and Vader battle.
With the loss of the stolen Death Star plans during a prison break in 0 BBY, Vader
was charged by the Emperor himself with retrieving the missing schematics. When
word reached him of a possible Rebel Alliance courier en route to the volcanic Sith
moon of Kalakar Six with the plans in tow, the Dark Lord investigated, shadowed by
his Master. What greeted Vader was unthinkable: a splinter group of Sith fanatics
who had managed through their Sith alchemy to create a dopplegnger of Darth
Maul.[214]
It is unknown whether this Maul was created by cloning or through other means.
Whatever the case, the Zabrak was no longer a mere specter like the one Vader had
encountered as Anakin Skywalker, and thus Vader was pressed into combat with
Maul, who sought to supplant him as Palpatine's new apprentice. In the eyes of Maul
and the fanatics, Vader's time as a Jedi had "tainted" him, and only a pure Sith
should rule by Sidious's side. Both Sith Lords seemed to be equals in combat, until
Vader cut Darth Maul's lightsaber in two, followed by Maul switching to the Jar'Kai
style. Now armed with two weapons, Maul held off Vader's lightsaber with one of his
blades, and cut into his helmet with the other. Feeling assured of victory, Maul
prepared to deliver the final blow. However, Maul paid for his overconfidence with
his life, as Vader took his lightsaber and stabbed it through his own body and into
Maul's.[214]
As Vader met up once more with a suspiciously unsurprised Palpatine, the badly
damaged Dark Lord could not help but suspect that the encounter was yet another
test. The distrust between mentor and student, fed by years of such trials, grew.
[214]
Searching for the Death Star plans

"Several transmissions were beamed to this ship by Rebel spies. I want to know
what happened to the plans they sent you."
"I don't know what you're talking about. I'm a member of the Imperial Senate on a
diplomatic mission to Alderaan."
"You are a part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor! Take her away!!"
Darth Vader and Leia Organa[src]
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Vader questions Princess Leia on theTantive IV
With the Kalakar VI mission deemed a wild bantha chase, Vader returned to his
twofold priority of both locating the Death Star plans as well as the hidden Rebel
base. After the 501st Legion's failed attempt to recover the Death Star plans on
Polis Massa, Imperials were able to track where they were sentTantive IV, a
corvette belonging to Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan. Vader chased after the
corvette personally. Organa was able to load the Death Star plans aboard R2-D2 and
send the droid to Tatooine. Vader once more lost the plans, but gained a partial
victory in capturing the Princess. However, he was personally displeased that he
captured her near Tatooine, due to harboring painful memories of his last encounter
with his mother.[162] Taking the Alderaanian senator to the Death Star, Vader
utilized an IT-O interrogation droid to question Organa about the location of the
secret Alliance base, not realizing he was torturing his own daughter. At the same
time, Vader ordered the execution of Owen and Beru Lars after the couple refused
to give any details about the missing droids.[215]
Afterwards, Vader participated in a meeting aboard the Death Star regarding its
operability and the current status of the missing plans. Vader commented that they
were currently working on retrieving the plans, but warned one of the staff at the
meeting, Admiral Motti, that the battle station's capabilities are still inferior
compared to the Force. He then demonstrated the validity of his claim when he
attempted to Force choke Motti after the latter insubordinately retorted, only
stopping when Grand Moff Tarkin verbally intervened.
When Organa refused to surrender the location of the Alliance's base, even under
torture, Vader brought her to the Death Star's command bridge. There, Grand Moff
Wilhuff Tarkin gave her an ultimatum; either she would reveal the location of the
Rebel base, or she would watch as the Death Star obliterated her homeworld. With
no way out, Organa attempted to deceive Tarkin by falsely claiming that the Rebel
base was on Dantooine. Though Tarkin accepted the lie without pause, he ordered
the destruction of Alderaan regardless, as he believed Dantooine was too remote to
serve as an effective demonstration of the Death Star's power. Vader stood silently
behind his daughter and watched as the Death Star destroyed Alderaan, killing
Senator Bail Prestor Organa and nearly two billion others.
Showdown on the Death Star

"I've been waiting for you, Obi-Wan. We meet again at last. The circle is now
complete. When I left you, I was but the learnernow I am the Master."
"Only a master of evil, Darth."
Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi[src]
Vaderstrike
Vader strikes down his former master.
When the ship carrying Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Chewbacca and Obi-Wan Kenobi
was seized by a tractor beam and brought aboard the Death Star, Vader sensed the
presence of his former master for the first time since being left to die on Mustafar.
Quietly stalking him through the hallways of the battlestation, he finally confronted
Kenobi just outside the hangar. Challenging him to a second lightsaber duel, the two
engaged one another. Ignoring Obi-Wan's vague warning that killing him would
make him "more powerful than [Vader] can possibly imagine", Vader viciously struck
him down. However, instead of dying, Kenobi became a spirit in the Force who
continued to guide Luke Skywalker.[12]
Despite the curious disappearance of Kenobi's body, Vader felt he had finally killed
the man that had been the focus for most of his rage for almost two decades. In
addition, Vader got a brief glimpse of Skywalker, although he was unable to pursue
him due to Luke shooting out controls, sealing Darth Vader inside. Before leaving
the hanger doorway, he retrieved his former master's lightsaber as a keepsake.
Battle of Yavin
"I'll take them myself. Cover me."
Darth Vader at the Battle of Yavin Gnome-speakernotesListen (file info)[src]
To determine the location of the Rebel base, Vader allowed Luke and Han Solo to
rescue Princess Leia and escape with the technical readouts of the Death Star.
During the Battle of Yavin, he learned about the progress of the battle from
lieutenant Tanbris. Realizing that the station's point defense systems were not tight
enough to effectively counter the Rebel's snubfighters, he also learned of Tarkin's
refusal to launch any of the station's fighter squadrons. Understanding that the
Rebel fighters posed a real threat to the station, Vader judged Tarkin's decision to be
foolhardy and immediately scrambled his personal TIE Fighter squadron, Black
Squadron. While leading Black Squadron, he piloted a distinctive TIE Advanced x1
fighter. During this time, he also discovered an unauthorized deployment of a
Lambda-class shuttle from the station. He then attempted to shoot it down,
although he later learned that a pilot had managed to go to the trench, forcing him
to let the shuttle escape. Vader sensed that the young pilot in his sights was Forcesensitive, putting into motion a series of future events that culminated in the death
of the Empire. In addition, he also anticipated that one of the X-wing pilots, X2,
would attempt to save Luke, and ordered for the turbolasers to specifically target X2
to draw him away. Just before he could destroy his quarry, the Millennium Falcon
suddenly appeared and shot down one of his two support craft. Seeing this, his

other wingman panicked and veered into Vader's fighter, sending him spinning
away from the battle station just before it exploded.
Crash landing on Vaal
Vaal
Darth Vader in his damaged TIE Advanced x1, before crashing on Vaal.
Vader limped to Vaal, where he abandoned his wrecked TIE Advanced. During his
journey to the Imperial communications outpost there, he was attacked by a pack of
hyenax. He killed several of the attacking predators, including their leader, earning
the creatures' respect. Without understanding or intending to to do so, he assumed
the fallen leader's position in the pack hierarchy and the creatures followed him.
Along with the pack, he continued his travel to the relay station. There, he boarded
a Lambda-class shuttle without a word to the shocked crew, leaving them to be
slaughtered by the hyenax. He soon arrived at Coruscant, where he expected to
dispatch a team to recover the TIE and to re-staff the outpost.[216] Instead, Sate
Pestage ordered Vader to join Captain Sodarra in retrieving the fighter.[217]
Aftermath
Vader's team recovered the fighter, and during this time, the Imperial spy Rogor
contacted Vader and informed him that the Rebels on Yavin 4 were more vulnerable
than ever. He launched a surprise attack on the moon, but found it deserted, save
for the now-outed spy. Rogor received the brunt of Vader's anger for the waste of
time.[218] Little did Vader know that the Alliance had only evacuated most of its
heavy equipment. The base's command and support staff were trapped by the
Imperial blockade overseen from Jovan Station. They returned to the Massassi
Temples, but not before Vader and his forces left the Yavin System.
But Vader did not make it out of the Bright Jewel Oversector. The system was ruled
by Governor-General Nox Vellam, one of Vader's many rivals in the Empire, and the
leader of one of the blockades that impeded the Rebel evacuation. Vellam nearly
destroyed the Sith Lord, but Captain Sodarra rescued the remains of the fighter and
Vader's comatose body. He fled the system in a corvette, planning to take Vader to
an Imperial base on Shador. Their flight was interrupted when Vellam's flagship
caught up with them. Sodarra's ship was destroyed, but he and Vader were rescued
by a most unlikely personHan Solo, who was chasing Alfreda Goot, a bounty
hunter who was holding Leia Organa captive on Tatooine. Vader's life was placed in
jeopardy once again when Han and Chewbacca decided to place a bomb on the
crate, but after Solo discovered that Goot was one of Vader's agents, he had no
choice but to travel to Tatooine and exchange Vader's life for Leia's.[217]
Suspicion
After the exchange, Vader decided not to immediately return to Coruscant, instead
making reports to Palpatine via hologram. The Emperor would be furious, but Vader
wanted to track down the Force-sensitive pilot who had destroyed the Death Star
first. Vader had sensed a strong Force ability in the pilot, one unmatched by any

living person in the galaxy save for himself and his Master. If such a being was
serving the Rebel Alliance, the balance could tip in their favor, and so this pilot had
to be hunted down and destroyed.
And yet, after his duel with Kenobi on the Death Star, Vader had spotted a young
man among those who escaped, one who had been distraught at the death of the
old Jedi Master. And the ship on which they had arrived had come from Tatooine. All
circumstantial evidence, certainly, but it was enough to give Vader an inkling of the
pilot's possible heritage.
Uncovering the identity of the Rebel pilot before the Emperor's agents could do so
became Vader's top priority. His second would be the ousting of the Imperials who
would act against him, as Vellam had done. There were many ambitious men in the
Empire who wished to take Vader's place at the Emperor's side, and the recent
incident with Vellam may have convinced Vader that these power-hungry beings
could be a direct threat to him. The Sith Lord began formulating a plan that would
eliminate them, starting with the Fleet Admirals of the Imperial Navy. Eventually,
Vader planned to finish dealing with the more powerful Tagge family and the crime
lord Prince Xizor.
Vader also had a command role in the Blockade of Kashyyyk, intending to root out
the Rebels directly responsible for the destruction of the Death Star, as the
Imperials knew that Han Solo was a friend of Chewbacca, a Wookiee from Kashyyyk
and thus would spend time with the Wookiees for Life Day. Ultimately, the operation
failed due to quick thinking by Chewbacca's relatives.[219]
Construction of the Executor
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Vader with ignited lightsaber
However, Vader's plan would require time to come to fruition. In the meantime, the
Rebels on Yavin could not be ignored. Darth Vader knew now that he would have to
deal with the Rebels carefully. He didn't want them to escape or pull a victory out of
the void, as they had at the Battle of Yavin. Vader thought that perhaps the key to
defeating the Rebels would be Executor, which was under construction at the
shipyards of Fondor. With this in mind, he ordered a blockade of the Gordian Reach,
the sector containing the Yavin system. This would keep the Rebels in place until
Vader could return to deal with them. In the meantime, Vader resumed his search
for the pilot.
The fleet was assigned to the command of General Ulric Tagge, who would maintain
the blockade, while Vader charged Captain Bzorn with the task of persecuting Rebel
worlds. Now free to search for the Rebel pilot, Vader took Devastator to the Ultaar,
where the Sith Lord had learned of a Rebel information retrieval outpost. He hoped
to interrogate the Rebels there and learn the identity of that elusive X-wing pilot.
En route to Ultaar, Vader detected the passing presence of a Force-sensitive. This
new lead was fortunate, for Vader discovered that the retrieval team on Ultaar had

been wiped out by a bounty hunter named Beilert Valance, who was seeking
information on a boy with two droidsapparently the pilot Vader was also hunting.
Far from being distressed, Vader found the concept of a rival interesting.
On Devastator, Captain Wermis and his crew discovered the Force-sensitive's
destination: the Wheel. Devastator raced to the system, where Vader found his prey
escaping the station in a yacht. The Sith Lord directed his attention toward
capturing the vessel, only to be attacked from behind by a familiar smuggling ship
the same ship that had ruined his defense of the Death Star. Vader gave orders for
the ship to be destroyed at once, but his firing command was interrupted by a flash
of pain emanating from the Force user on the yacht. The pain itself passed quickly,
but the surprise gave both ships time to escape into hyperspace.
Although his quarry had eluded him for the time being, Vader had gained valuable
information. He knew that the Rebel pilot was part of a group aiding Princess Leia
Organa, a group that included the smugglers who had attacked him at the Death
Star.
The next lead turned up when a Rebel spy was discovered, a spy who knew the
name of another Rebel, one who had been at Yavin just before the battle, and who
in turn knew the name of the elusive pilot. Vader tortured a name and location out
of the Rebel: Tyler Lucian, hiding at Rubyflame Lake, a former resort on the planet
Centares. Vader rushed to the location, only to find that his rival Valance had arrived
first. The bounty hunter had apparently had a change of heart after wiping out the
Rebels at Ultaar. Valance was now convinced that the boy Vader pursued was the
galaxy's only hope for a better tomorrow. The bounty hunter perished after a short
battle, but not before convincing Tyler Lucian to commit suicide. The pilot's identity
remained a mystery.
Later, the forces of General Ulric Tagge's blockade engaged a Rebel fleet in battle in
the Feriae system. Tagge's flagship was destroyed during the skirmish, as was a
House of Tagge mining explorer containing family members Silas and Baron Orman
Tagge. General Tagge escaped the destruction of his ship, and with the apparent
death of his older siblings, the title of Baron fell to him. The new Baron claimed that
the battle arose as part of a standard blockade action, but Darth Vader's spies
informed him that it was something more. The spies also rescued Silas and Orman
Tagge from the wreckage around Junction. Both were barely alive, but Darth Vader
ordered Devastator's medical droids to begin restoring the life functions of the
Tagge brothers. The Sith Lord saw this as his opportunity to end the Tagge family's
constant scheming against him.
Vader also wished to continue hunting for the Rebel pilot, but after a fruitless month
of searching, he had no choice but to return to Coruscant and face the Emperor.
Leaving Devastator, the Sith Lord commandeered a Carrack-class cruiser for his
voyage to Coruscant, taking with him the salvaged fighter.
Punishment
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Darth Vader
Vader found the Emperor in a bacta tank, recovering from an adventure on Korriban.
Lord Sidious assigned Vader the task of recovering Admiral Termo, who had gone
missing in the Yavin system months before. The Admiral, who had sent a distress
signal from the planet Malagarr, had in his possession data tapes detailing a final
plan of Grand Moff Tarkin's. Vader retrieved the tapes, killed the Admiral, and
returned to Coruscant.
Vader presented the data tapes to the Emperor. Palpatine was not pleased with
Vader's failure at the Battle of Yavin, however. Darth Vader was apparently punished
for this failure by losing his already mechanical hand, though the information on this
incident came from a strictly secondary source.
Vader was then instructed to head to Fondor to oversee the construction of Executor
while the task of developing Tarkin's project was assigned to others. After a member
of that team was imprisoned, Vader had to hire a bounty hunter for a rescue
mission, and then a Rebel droid destroyed the project headquarters on Malagarr. En
route to Fondor, Vader contacted the Emperor to inform him of these new
developments.
The project underway at Fondor was the Empire's largest undertaking since the
Death Star. The Imperial military objected to this concentration of resources,
claiming that it was little better than the Death Star. They also suspected that the
Sith Lord was using his position with the Emperor to increase his own personal
power, though few fully grasped the relationship between the two. Vader cared little
for the thoughts of Admirals, but he resumed command of Devastator and
conducted a fleet test near Fondor to settle the issue in his own mind.
Once the test was completed, Vader moved on to Jovan Station, headquarters of the
Imperial blockade. He informed the admirals gathered there that he had decided the
course that would be taken against the Rebels, and that the Fondor project would go
through. He also staged a confrontation between himself and Admiral Griff, hoping
to draw out those who would act against him.
Griff convinced the admirals to allow for a Rebel spy to infiltrate the construction
yards of Fondor to sabotage Vader's project.
Vader returned to Fondor, where he was informed by Admiral Griff that the Rebel
spy had arrived. Griff escalated the plans of the traitorous Admirals, arranging for
them to meet with the Rebel spy in the tunnels below Fondor's surface. The
Admirals were unwilling to risk more involvement with the spy with Vader present,
but Griff told them that Vader was leaving temporarily. In fact, Vader slipped off
Devastator before its departure, and joined Griff in the tunnels to trap the traitors.
But as Vader prepared to strike, he sensed something unexpectedthe Rebel spy
was Force-sensitive. Not only that, but Vader could clearly sense that this boy was a
disciple of Kenobi. Incidents since the Death Star's destruction had caused Vader to
suspect that there was such a man serving the Rebelsthe mind-touch near Ultaar,

the flash of pain at the Wheel, and certain comments made by Valance on Centares
but now he was sure of it. He was getting closer to discovering the pilot's identity.
But the Rebel could sense Vader as well. He warned the Admirals, who scattered.
Vader was unconcerned, however. He ordered Griff to forget the traitors and find the
spy, but it was too late. The Rebel succeeded in escaping the system.
While Vader failed to capture the Rebel, Griff's men managed to round up the
traitorous Imperials. And although the spy could have gained valuable information
on the systems of Executor, what Vader learned was far more valuable. He had been
unprepared for the Rebel's interference, but no more. The pilot may have been a
student of Kenobi's, but Vader was sure that his own power was stronger.
Admiral Griff soon departed Fondor to return to his duties as system blockade
commander, while Vader stayed behind to oversee the Fondor project.
Before long, Griff contacted Vader, informing him that the Rebels were gathering
allies, such as the Freeholders pirates, to their base at Yavin. The Admiral deemed
the Interdictors ineffective; the pirate fleet had managed to slip past their blockade.
Griff pleaded with Vader to launch a full scale attack, but Vader wouldn't hear of it.
He would not authorize an attack on the Rebel base until Executor was ready, and
certain other events put in motion.
Confronting the past
Vader eventually ended up having to return to Jabiim to oversee an invasion of the
planet, despite earlier vowing that he'd never return to the planet because of his
mistake back during the Clone Wars at that time. Ironically, at the same battle, the
Jabiimi people nearly executed the Rebel pilot he was looking for, Luke Skywalker,
due to the actions that Anakin committed years ago. Eventually, he ordered for the
entire planet to be bombarded. His official reason was to deprive the Rebels of a
valuable ally, but in truth, it was because he was unable to bear remembering the
mistake he made 21 years prior.[220] He also tortured Jorin Sol, a Rebel
mathematician who was left behind during the battle, and proceeded to torture and
then reprogram him into a sleeper agent before the Rebels rescued him.[221]
The son of Skywalker
"The son of Skywalker must not become a Jedi"
"If he could be turned, he would become a powerful ally"
Palpatine and Darth Vader[src]
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Darth Vader extracts his son's name from a Rebel.
Vader's spies had learned of a Rebel pilot who had returned to his homeworld of
Centares bringing with him a firsthand account of the Battle of Yavin. Vader hired a
team of bounty hunters and Ban Papeega to bring the man in. On Centares, the
Rebel finally revealed the last name of the pilot who had destroyed the Death Star

Skywalker. This was the same name Vader had found on Anchorhead municipal
records for a T-16 skyhopper owned by a nineteen year old human boy who had
resided at the Lars farm. It was also, according to a Mos Eisley based Kubaz spy
called Garindan, the name found on a Spaceport Speeders sales record for a
landspeeder purchased from a young man who had left Tatooine on the freighter
Millennium Falcon.[222]
Vader had gone for months without knowing the name of the one he had sought,
but he now suspected that Amidala had given birth before she died. Vader did in
fact have a son, in contrast to what Palpatine had told him. This knowledge
succeeded in touching a side of Vader that had long lain dormant.
The Sith Lord quickly dismissed these emotions, however. Kenobi had gotten to the
boy first, and he was serving the enemy now. Skywalker would have to be turned, or
he would have to be destroyed. With his son at his side, Vader would have no need
of Sidious.
But for his plan to succeed, Vader knew his Master could not discover his true
intentions. He quickly set about slaughtering the bounty hunters who had captured
the Rebel. While the Sith Lord was busy executing mercenaries and bounty hunters,
the Rebel pilot who had betrayed the name to him was killed by Mala Mala,
preventing Vader from discovering anything more.
Vader Sees Luke
Darth Vader sees Luke Skywalker for the first time as the latter surrenders to the
Empire on Jazbina.
In the Emperor's throne room at Imperial City, Darth Vader came before Palpatine in
person for the first time after the destruction of the first Death Star. The Emperor
inquired after Vader's apparent loss at Fondor, as well as the destruction of Tarkin's
project. Vader made no reference to Skywalker, stating instead that he pursued the
pilot who destroyed the Death Star for revenge. After his meeting with the Emperor,
Vader received notice that Skywalker had been given a diplomatic assignment on
Jazbina, and set out immediately to capture his son.
Vader ordered the ruler of Jazbina, Prepredenko, to hold Skywalker until he arrived.
The young man managed to escape custody, but Vader cornered him before he
could leave the planet. The Sith Lord came face to face with his son for the first
time. Skywalker was protected by the Rebels of Jazbina, but surrendered himself
when Vader threatened to have his Interdictor bomb the cities of the planet. It
seemed that Vader's quest had come to an end.
But a single Rebel pilot, Jal Te Gniev, managed to destroy the Interdictor in a suicide
run, and a crowd of angry Jazbinans neutralized Vader's stormtroopers. Skywalker
had managed to sway the entire planet to the Rebel cause. Faced with the prospect
of having to battle the massive populace protecting his son on his own, Vader
returned to Coruscant without his prize. When he visited Palpatine to inform him of
his failure to capture the pilot, he was addressed to by the Emperor, who in fact
knew of the Rebel's identity as well, as "Skywalker."

Now that Skywalker was known to his Master, Vader would have to work quickly. He
departed Coruscant in the Devastator, searching for Rebel bases. The Sith Lord's
forces decimated a Rebel refueling station, where the torture of a Rebel officer
revealed Skywalker's full nameLuke Skywalker.[223]
Warning: The following section contains information from a Star Wars Legends
source that was released outside of the Lucas Licensing process, and its licensing
status was never confirmed by Lucasfilm Ltd.
Damaged Darth Vader
Darth Vader, damaged by a Tusken Raider, holds Tao's dead body.
Upon discovering this information, Vader let his apprentice, Tao, go free. Tao had
been unable to display the anger and hatred necessary to embrace the dark side
anyway, and Vader planned to train his newly-found son in his place. It was only
then that Tao displayed his anger toward Vader but, upon leaving, was captured by
the Emperor himself. While Palpatine officially conferred upon Vader the newlychristened Executor, he also brought Tao before Vader and ordered him to strike Tao
down to prove his loyalty. Though he did not want to, Vader was unable to control
his body and soon slashed his lightsaber through Tao's torso.
Vader, distraught at what he had been forced to do, took the near-dead Tao to his
home planet of Shumari to die where he had been born. While there, Vader was
attacked by KkH'Oar'Rrhr, who had been tracking him ever since Vader had
destroyed his village and killed his family. Hoar quickly gained an advantage over
Vader, damaging his armor and revealing the lightsabers which he had built into his
gaderfii. Just as the Tusken was about to strike Vader down, Tao rose from the brink
of death and struck it down, saving Vader's life. Just before he died, Tao pleaded
with Vader to let go of his hatred and not let the Emperor control him; Tao still
sensed some good within his master. After carving a small monument to Tao, Vader
returned to his former home on Tatooine briefly to contemplate the fact that he now
had a son.
Unlicensed information ends here.
Subjugation of the Tagge family
Now Vader moved to bring the Tagge family to heel. Vader confronted the new
Baron, using the Force to extract a confession: Tagge revealed that he and his
brothers had planned to destroy the Rebels at Junction with a new invention, in an
attempt to win the favor of the Emperor from Vader. The General also disclosed the
fact that the Tagge family had known of Skywalker for weeks. Enraged, Vader
revealed to the General the survival of his older siblings, and threatened to bring
the entire family before Palpatine if Ulric continued to oppose him.
Monastery
"No more, Luke Skywalker! I've thoroughly tested youMade you perform in a
hostile environmentProbed your emotions by placing your friends in jeopardy. I
now know your limitsAnd your limitations."

Vader to Luke on Monastery[src]

Now satisfied that the House of Tagge was no longer a threat, Vader traveled to the
ringed world of Monastery, home of the Order of the Sacred Circle, to which the
youngest Tagge family member, Domina Tagge, belonged. Vader forced the young
woman into cooperating with him, promising power and prestige in the Order, as
well as revenge on Luke Skywalker, for Domina believed her brother dead. Domina
hated Vader, but she also despised Skywalker.
The Order had remained carefully neutral in the Galactic Civil War, but Vader, in
hopes of capturing Skywalker, made overtures on behalf of the Empire. The Order
wished to hear both sides, and Domina Tagge journeyed to Yavin, where she
convinced the Alliance to send Skywalker as their representative.
When Luke Skywalker arrived on Monastery, Vader confronted him once more,
insulting the Rebel and using every opportunity to diminish him in the eyes of the
Order's elders. Vader succeeded in goading Skywalker into a lightsaber duel, but
before their blades could cross, Domina intervened. She took advantage of the
situation, and now schemed to eliminate both the Rebel and the Sith Lord. Luke and
Vader were forced to take their duel to the deadly Crystal Valley.
Vader did not intend to engage Skywalker in combat just yet. First he wished to test
the young man's abilities. He had arranged for Orman Tagge to escape from the
Devastator, and when the former baron arrived, Vader took his vengeance upon
Tagge. He knew that, above all else, Tagge had valued the innocence of his younger
sister. Vader showed him that he had corrupted Domina, and then forced Tagge to
battle Luke Skywalker, disguising him with the Force so that Orman appeared to
Luke as Vader, until the illusion was shattered by the death of Tagge.
At the Wheel, Fondor, and Jazbina, Luke and his abilities with the Force had been an
unknown factor, but now, after this thorough test, Vader knew the limitations of the
young Rebel. Vader intended to capture his son, but Luke escaped, and it would be
years before they would meet face-to-face again.
Incompetence and pursuit
Vader received word from Sebastian Parnell that his son had been captured on Tol
Ado, and was being held for the Sith Lord. Skywalker managed to escape, however,
and Vader executed Parnell for his incompetence.
Luke managed to disappear after these events, and Vader's many spies could not
locate the boy. Vader chose to travel throughout the galaxy, setting hundreds of
traps on planets Skywalker might visit. One of these worlds was Dantooine.
Dantooine was once home to a Rebel base, and, centuries before, the Jedi Enclave.
Also on Dantooine, Vader was surprised by an ancient trap in the Jedi ruins. The trap
killed his escort of stormtroopers, but Vader survived with only a small wound.
Vader chose to investigate further, but the discovery of a Rebel outpost by one of
the Devastator's scout ships forced him to change his plans. He departed the ruins,
leaving only his shed blood behind.

Revision of methods
Vader Roof
Darth Vader, Supreme Commander of the Imperial Fleet
Vader decided to adopt a hands-off approach to capturing Skywalker. He was sure
that the Force would lead Skywalker to his destiny eventually. Moreover, the man he
had charged with hunting Rebels, Captain Bzorn, had been killed over Kessel. Vader
began to take care of Rebel bases himself, such as the outpost discovered earlier.
Vader ordered the Emperor's Hand Blackhole to infiltrate the Rebel headquarters to
learn the latest of the Alliance's plans.
When the Sith Lord received word of a new Alliance base operating near the Panna
system, he decided to utilize Boba Fett to locate the base. Fett befriended Luke
Skywalker on Panna, and nearly got the location of the new Rebel base out of him,
but he was forced to retreat, and failed even to capture the young Jedi.
While in battle with an Alliance space fleet, Vader learned from Blackhole that the
Alliance's new plan was to fail in all direct confrontations with the Empire, while
their main efforts would be in gathering new allies, such as the pirates Griff had
spotted near Yavin, to the Rebel cause. Vader instructed Blackhole to capture those
Rebels. Blackhole attempted to kidnap Luke and Leia on Vorzyd V, but he and his
stormtroopers failed.
Phelarion
Still later, while investigating the disappearance of valuable megonite near
Phelarion, Devastator's scouts encountered a Rebel shuttle, which they shot down
over Phelarion, home to an Imperial labor camp run by Lady Tarkin, the widow of
Grand Moff Tarkin. Vader's men managed to back track a message sent from the
planet's surface, and pinpointed the location of the Rebel from the shuttle. Darth
Vader crashed the Thirteenth Imperial Diplomatic Conclave being held at Port Tarkin,
where he found that the Rebel was none other than Leia Organa herself. Vader's
stormtroopers trapped her on a landing pad, but she was rescued by the Millennium
Falcon. Vader held Lady Tarkin personally responsible for Leia's escape and the
missing megonite.
Deception and ambush
Having failed to capture Rebels at Phelarion, Vader prepared a trap for the Alliance.
Upon hearing that a school on Harix had been using illegal material for its
curriculum, Vader ordered that the teacher and her students be captured. He
transmitted his plan to execute them galaxywide, hoping to draw out the Rebels.
Skywalker himself led the mission to rescue the children, and beyond all odds, he
succeeded. The Star Destroyers waiting at Harix were tricked by a faux fleet, while
the real Rebel rescue force whisked the teacher and the students away.
Before the Harix incident, Vader had chosen to allow others to deal with Skywalker.
On Harix, as on Panna, Tol Ardo and Vorzyd, Skywalker had continually foiled his
plans to deal with the Rebellion at large, while eluding capture from even the most

skilled of operatives. Vader now decided that it was time to give his personal
attention to Luke Skywalker.
Soon after, Vader learned from one of his spies that six flights of Rebel X-wings were
planetside for re-work on Arda-2. Following up this new lead, Vader discovered that
Skywalker was among the pilots. When the Devastator arrived, its TIE fighters were
attacked by a mere six snubfighters. Before the battle could truly begin, two ships
rammed Devastator in a suicide run, leaving the Star Destroyer vulnerable. Vader
chose to retreat, promising that he would find Luke Skywalker another day.
Hired bait
And find him he would. Tiring of chasing Skywalker from planet to planet, Vader had
already set a plan in motion that would be sure to lure the boy into his grasp. The
Sith Lord hired a skilled actor, and had Imperial surgeons alter his appearance to
become the spitting image of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Lord Vader himself trained the
doppelgnger to imitate his old master, and cutting-edge technology allowed the
impersonator to appear to call upon the Force.
Obi-Wan Impersonator2
Vader communicating with the imposter.
The actor traveled to Aridus, where he drew the attention of Luke Skywalker, who
soon came to Aridus in search of his trainer. The actor succeeded in fooling the
young Jedi, and under Vader's orders, lured Skywalker to the Iron Tower. Vader was
already waiting inside the tower when the actor and the youth arrived. But the
scheme failed; the Sith Lord never even saw his son at Aridus. The old actor had
become so enamored with the role of a Jedi Master that he activated an overload
spiral in the upper levels of the Iron Tower, a move designed to kill Vader and save
Luke. Skywalker escaped once again, and the actor was killed in the explosion.
Vader survived, but he was seriously injured in the explosion. The last thing he saw
before passing out was Skywalker fleeing the planet in his ship.
Bargain and recovery
When Vader awoke, he found himself in a ship headed for Coruscant. The pilot was
Wrenga Jixton, a former Imperial agent who had been involved with Vader's
experiments on Falleen years before. Jixton had been sentenced to Kessel after the
Falleen debacle, but he had escaped to Aridus, where he had befriended the
natives. Jixton struck a deal with the Sith Lord: if the Empire would leave Aridus
alone, Jixton would serve Vader.
The Sith Lord spent the next several months recovering on Coruscant. He received
word from an informant that Lexhannen Torlock, governor of Corulag, was planning
to defect to the Rebel Alliance. Vader sent his new agent Jixton to assassinate the
traitorous governor, and to implicate the Alliance in the deed. Jixton uncovered the
true traitor on Corulag: Admiral Droon, who had forced Torlock to leave the planet.
Jixton dragged Droon back to Coruscant, where the admiral was dispatched by
Vader's lightsaber.

Xizor
After leaving Coruscant once more, Vader had to contend with the machinations of
Prince Xizor. Although the Sith Lord had eliminated Baron Tagge and the hubris
admirals of the fleet, Xizor retained the Emperor's favor, and Vader could not attack
him directly. In a conference on Coruscant (which Vader attended via hologram from
the Devastator), the Dark Prince proposed a scheme that would shatter the
powerful Bounty Hunters' Guild, leaving only the strongest bounty hunters for the
Empire to use against the Rebellion. Vader strongly opposed this plan, but Palpatine
gave his blessing. The Emperor also assigned Mara Jade to the task of monitoring
Vader.
Completion of the Executor
"I am going to destroy their base at Yavin.... and nothing they have can stop me!"
Vader[src]
At Fondor, the Executor was finally completed, and ready for a shakedown cruise.
Darth Vader ordered that the ship be taken to the nearest Rebel installationa
depot on Laakteen, where Vader officially christened his new ship by obliterating the
depot.[224]
Now Vader's long wait had paid off, and the Executor traveled to Yavin to smash the
Rebel command, eliminating several small Alliance strike forces on the way. Finally
the Rebels seemed to have given up all hope of stopping Executor, but Vader knew
better. Sure enough, one last ship, a tiny attack craft, assaulted his Star
Dreadnought just outside of the Yavin system.[224]
And this was no ordinary ship. The craft carried a power gem, a rare mineral
formation that could shatter any energy shield. Vader also sensed that someone on
board the tiny ship was sensitive to the Force. He suspected that Luke Skywalker,
hero of the Death Star battle, had been sent to stop Executor. The Imperial battle
plan did not account for detours, but Vader was determined to capture Skywalker
who had evaded him enough times already, and so the massive ship swung around
to pursue the Rebel ship. Vader soon sensed through the Force that, somehow,
Skywalker had left the smaller vessel. As the Rebel ship turned around to attack the
Executor head on, all shielding on the Star Dreadnought was transferred forward,
smashing the small craft and negating the effects of the power gem.[224]
But the Executor was then attacked from behind by Skywalker on board the
Millennium Falcon. With no aft shields in place, the Rebel was able to damage
Executor's gyro-control systems. With the gyro systems disabled, the mammoth
Star Dreadnought was unable to maneuver, and Vader was forced to turn command
of the Imperial assault over to blockade commander Admiral Griff while repairs were
carried.[224]
Dodonna Captured
Vader and the captured Dodonna

Thanks to Griff's incompetence, Luke Skywalker, the Millennium Falcon, and the
Rebel fleet managed to flee the Yavin system, but Darth Vader chose not to pursue.
He had learned that General Jan Dodonna, the Rebel leader who had masterminded
the attack on the Death Star, had remained behind at the Rebel base, and was
leading a group of stranded Rebels against Imperial forces. Vader decided to take
revenge for the Death Star's destruction by capturing Dodonna, a traitor to the
Empire, and led a squad of stormtroopers against the Rebels. Vader and his troops
took out the anti-air turrets protecting the main Rebel base. This allowed a flight of
Griff's TIE bombers to attack the Massassi base directly. But Dodonna had rigged the
main base and the surrounding temples with explosives, which he used to wipe out
the Imperial ships.[225]
Dodonna's body was recovered from the wreckage by Vader's search teams. A quick
mind probe revealed a Rebel operation geared against the planet Reytha, but gave
no useful information on the whereabouts of the Rebel fleet.[225]
Griff's final failure
With the general captured, Vader waited for Executor to be repaired, allowing Griff
to continue directing the Imperial pursuit of the Rebel fleet, even after an attack by
the Mon Calamari on the blockade. Vader's inaction was a clever plot to capture
both the fleet and Skywalker. If Griff threatened the Rebels, Skywalker would use the
Force to aid them. Vader waited in his meditation pod, searching for any disturbance
in the Force. When at last Skywalker opened himself to the Force, Vader was able to
locate him, and brought the fleet under the guns of the Executor.
Vader underestimated the ambitious Admiral Griff, however. In a last-ditch attempt
to corner the Rebels before Vader, Griff attempted a blind hyperspace jump,
smashing his own Star Destroyer and two others into the Executor's shields. This
allowed the Rebels and Skywalker to escape, bound for parts unknown. Once again,
Vader was thwarted, but he knew that his inevitable encounter with Skywalker was
only delayed.
Afterwards, Vader ended up being relieved of his status as commander of the
primary Imperial fleet, and was reissued to overseeing the construction of the
second Death Star over Endor. The reason for this was largely because of his failure
to prevent the destruction of the first Death Star at the Battle of Yavin. During this
time, he also ended up constantly berated and insulted by the Emperor himself,
while his replacement, Colonel Bircher, frequently mocked him from light years
away.[226]
Culling the military
Vader, now aboard Admiral Quist's Star Destroyer Conqueror, began monitoring
reports from the abandoned Rebel base. When the Falcon returned to Yavin with
Skywalker aboard, the incompetent Quist failed to capture her, and soon joined the
ranks of late Imperial commanders. Not long after, while revisiting the abandoned
base on Dantooine, Luke fell into the trap Vader had set there. Using his agents, the
Fairfolk, Vader tempted Luke into using the dark side, and even projected a mental

image of himself to Dantooine for Luke to battle. Skywalker was saved when R2-D2
broke the trance, but Vader promised that next time Luke wouldn't be so lucky.
Vader then set about punishing Imperial officials, and locking down on Rebel
attempts to gain food and supplies. He followed up on the information stripped from
Dodonna's mind and led an Imperial effort to retake Reytha from the Rebellion. He
killed Moff Antes Belladar for allowing the Rebels to thrive on the planet and drove
the Alliance from Reytha. Vader also executed Overlord Ghorin for dealing with the
Alliance, and visited Kiva to put pressure on Borborygmus Gog to complete Project
Starscream.
Search for information
Vader-SWEMP19
Vader aboard Void Station about five months after Yavin
Hoping to uncover more information on the whereabouts of the Rebel fleet, Vader
visited Void Station, and demanded that Jib Kopatha gain information on Alliance
activities. Afterward, Vader was set upon by Falleen assassins seeking vengeance
for the devastation Vader had brought upon their world. After defeating them, Vader
returned to Coruscant, where he monitored possible Rebel activity in the Shelsha
sector and searched the Emperor's databases for more information about Luke
Skywalker. There, he again crossed paths with Mara Jade.
Not long after, Vader blockaded the Kashyyyk system in an attempt to capture a
Rebel group that included Skywalker and Organa, but they somehow managed to
slip in and out of the system while evading capture.
Sometime after that, Vader met the survivor of the Great Jedi Purge, Echuu ShenJon, thought to be dead but merely in self-imposed exile following his use of the
dark side to defeat Separatist General Sev'rance Tann during the early days of the
Clone Wars. Shen-Jon was defending Princess Leia while she was escaping to her
ship on Geddes. Echuu was also carrying the Vor'Na'Tu, an ancient Jedi artifact.
Vader killed him, but Leia managed to escape and Shen-Jon broke the Vor'Na'Tu into
pieces.
Mimban
When Governor Bin Essada learned that Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia were on
Mimban in 2 ABY searching for a powerful Force relic known as the Kaiburr crystal,
he contacted the Dark Lord. Vader traveled to the jungle world hoping both to
capture Skywalker and get hold of the powerful crystal. He tracked the Rebels to the
abandoned Temple of Pomojema deep in one of Mimban's jungles. Luke, Leia and
Halla, a Force-sensitive local Human with whom they had undertaken the search for
the crystal, had left C-3PO and R2-D2 outside the temple while they went in to look
for the crystal.[227]
Leia fighting Vader on Mimban EGF
Leia duels with Darth Vader on Mimban.

Vader coldly deactivated the droid he had created and the droid that had been his
faithful companion in the Clone Wars, apparently without even recognizing them. He
then entered the temple to face Skywalker and the Princess. Vader immobilized
Luke by dropping a ceiling stone at him with the Force, but the Kaiburr crystal's
proximity had intensified the Sith Lord's anger, and he was surprised at being
overcome with the desire to kill the two rebels.[222] Leia briefly dueled with Vader
using Luke's lightsaber, but the Dark Lord quickly subdued her and slashed her body
repeatedly with his blade as a form of torture. When Luke emerged from under the
stone, Leia threw him his lightsaber, and father and son crossed sabers for the first
time. In his uncontrolled rage, Vader attempted to kill his son with Kinetite[228] but
Luke's actions were guided by Obi-Wan Kenobi.[62] This guidance coupled with the
fact that Luke was in possession of the crystal, were enough to deflect the Kinetite
and slice Vader's arm off. However, this act drained Kenobi's spirit to the point that
he could no longer aid Luke, and Vader simply shrugged off the injury. As he
advanced on the two siblings, he caught sight of the lightsaber Luke was holding,
which looked just like his own old one, but toppled into a deep sacrificial well,
allowing the Rebels to escape. Vader was unconscious for over an hour at the
bottom of the pit, but the battle made him realize that Luke could help him
overthrow the Emperor.[222]
Request denied
Vader was also dispatched to quell Rebellion in the Zaloriis system, where the
governor boldly approached Vader and declared independence. Vader Force-choked
him to death, callously stating, "Request denied, governor." Vader then proceeded
to lead Imperial forces to destroy the ill-fated independence movement. He also
rescued then-Colonel Maximilian Veers from imprisonment. Veers then put his
knowledge to work and deployed the next generation of AT-AT walkers, which would
be used to great effect in the Battle of Hoth. It was on Zaloriis that Vader learned of
possible Rebel contacts on Elrood.
Hoth and aftermath
Admiral Ozzel: "Lord Vader, the fleet has moved out of light speed and we are
preparing to.... *gasps, begins to choke*"
Vader: "You have failed me for the last time, Admiral."
Vader executes Admiral Ozzel for his stupidity[src]
Vader-on-Hoth
Vader arrives on Hoth.
Now that the Alliance had escaped Yavin 4, Vader dispatched probe droids to remote
regions of the galaxy to locate the location of its new base. One such probe
eventually detected Echo Base on Hoth. Admiral Kendal Ozzel incurred Vader's
wrath and his death sentence when he ruined Death Squadron's stealth attack by
exiting hyperspace too close to the planet, allowing the Rebels to detect the attack
and project shields against planetary bombardment. Vader was forced to wage a

terrestrial campaign; its deployment giving some of the Rebel forces time to flee.
Vader himself entered Echo Base to locate Luke Skywalker. He eventually located
Han Solo and Leia Organa, although a combination of rebel troopers fighting him
and his stormtroopers as well as a cave-in delayed him in getting to them.[229] He
eventually reached a hangar just in time to see the Millennium Falcon escape. When
the Falcon's hyperdrive failed, Vader ordered pursuit and followed the Falcon and
her apparently unstable pilot into an equally unstable asteroid field. He would not
allow that ship to escape him again. Renegade Squadron was tasked to stall Vader
in a series of assaults, leading to a skirmish in orbit.[230]
While his fighters searched the asteroids for the Falcon, Vader, temporarily
abandoning the search upon being commanded by Palpatine (via Piett) to make
contact with him, received a new mission from the Emperorto capture Luke
Skywalker, his own son and the pilot who had destroyed the Death Star. As far as
Vader knew, Sidious was ignorant to Vader's realization that Luke was his son, and
his plot's progression, to do just that. To deceive the Emperor, and thus allow him to
continue making motions toward his own plan, Vader suggested that Luke could be
turned to the dark side of the Force. The Emperor agreed, noting that Luke would be
a "great asset."[230] Meanwhile, as was the pattern with Sith Lords, Sidious also
began planning to eliminate Vader in order to take Luke as his apprentice.
Vader continued pursuing the Falcon, and resorted to hiring bounty hunters to
complete the task. Ultimately, the Falcon appeared and then quickly disappeared by
hiding in a blind spot on the back of the bridge tower of Captain Lorth Needa's Star
Destroyer Avenger. Captain Needa paid for losing the vehicle with his life. Death
Squadron dispersed into hyperspace, each ship dumping its garbage before
jumping. The Falcon, released from its perch, floated away amid the debris and then
set a sub-light course to Bespin. Boba Fett, one of the bounty hunters hired by
Vader, deduced Solo's strategy, alerted Vader to his destination, and followed the
Falcon to Cloud City, a mining colony located on the gas giant.[230]
Among the bounty hunters summoned by Vader to hunt the Millennium Falcon was
Awarru Tark, a ruthless hunter with a "reputation for results". Tark, however, was
late for the bounty hunter meeting on the Executor, instead meeting with Vader
aboard the Avenger afterwards. Unimpressed with Tark's politeness upon arrival,
which he termed "posturing", Vader demanded that they commence with their
business. Tark agreed, and blocked the entrance to the observation suite where they
met with a handful of small detonators.[231]
Vaderfettcloudcity
Darth Vader with Boba Fett in Bespin's Cloud City.
Brandishing two forearm-mounted energy blades, Tark attacked. Vader managed to
hold off the mercenary's opening attacks with his lightsaber, but Tark over-leaped
the Sith Lord in a blink, scoring hits on Vader's back. Vader whirled to parry,
blocking the follow up attacks, but opening himself up for a lightning fast kick to the
head. Thrown against the wall, Vader narrowly avoided Tarks next volley, only
suffering a hit to the head, which was absorbed by his helmet. In desperation, Vader

Force pushed Tark against the ceiling of the chamber, telekinetically pinning him.
Tark responded by dropping another series of detonators on Vader, breaking the Sith
Lord's concentration and allowing Tark to leap down and attack again.[231]
Vader dropped his lightsaber and seized Tark by the wrists, bending the blades back
towards the mercenary's own head. Tark suddenly revealed his secret weapon; a
massive cybernetic augmentation. Tark's torso and hands split open, revealing a
flurry of claw-tipped mechanical tendrils that began chewing their way through
Vader's armor. As Vader began to succumb, he telepathically reached into Tark's
mind, learning of his identity and history as the soldier Stauz Czycz. The Sith Lord
learned of Czycz's loss of his home and family to the Empire, how he now held
Vader responsible, and how he devoted himself utterly towards revenge. Czycz fury
drove Vader from the soldier-turned-mercenary's mind, leaving them both
temporarily paralyzed. Vader recovered first, reclaiming his lightsaber and
decapitating Czycz.[231]
Vader's wounds from the battle consisted of little more than superficial damage to
his armor, which was easily repaired. However, Vader's encounter with Czycz left
the Sith Lord somewhat shaken, as he began reflecting on the similarities between
himself and the mercenary, and how he too had sacrificed his humanity in the name
of revenge. While recovering from the deadly encounter, Vader received a message
from Bespin.[231]
Conflict on Bespin and aftermath
"Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father."
"He told me enough! He told me you killed him."
"No. I am your father."
Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker[src]
Aggression TCG by Jake Murray
Vader battling his son on Bespin
Vader landed on Cloud City and threatened its Baron Administrator, Lando
Calrissian, a friend of Han's, into an agreement while waiting for the Falcon's arrival.
When the Falcon arrived, Vader captured, with Calrissian's cooperation, and tortured
Solo. In addition, shortly beforehand, upon seeing the remains of C-3PO after
Gamma Squad blasted him, the pain of his reminders of his past self drove him to
order them to recycle the droid parts, although his parts were ultimately intercepted
by Chewbacca, having witnessed C-3PO's destruction earlier. Vader eventually had a
change of heart and allowed Chewbacca, while imprisoned, to repair C-3PO. Luke,
training under Yoda on Dagobah, after seeing a vision of his friend's torture, rushed
to Cloud City to save his friends, despite the sternest warnings from both Yoda and
the dead Kenobi that by doing so, he would risk falling to the dark side. Meanwhile,
Vader froze Solo in carbonite as a test subject to see if the method would be viable
for the younger Skywalker, much to the chagrin of Boba Fett, who was already

seeking Solo for Jabba the Hutt. Luke arrived at Cloud City, just in time to take the
bait of the trap set for him by his father.[230]
When Luke found Vader, they fought, the boy not knowing his opponent's true
identity. Despite Luke's minimal training, he was able to hold his own for much of
the duel, without Kenobi's help as had happened on Mimban the previous year,
much to Vader's surprise. Ultimately, however, as Yoda and Kenobi had warned, the
inadequately trained Luke was no match for the powerful and experienced Vader,
who ultimately defeated him, and hacked off his right hand. It was now time for the
Sith Lord to close the lid of this trap.[230]
Vader's revelation
Vader imploring his son to join him.
Vader proceeded to beckon Luke to join him in the Dark Side. When Luke
vehemently refused, Vader deduced that Kenobi had hid from Luke the truth about
what happened to Luke's father, Anakin Skywalker, before revealing that Anakin and
Vader were the same entity. Vader asked Luke to join him so that they could destroy
the Emperor and rule the galaxy as father and son, harkening back to what he'd
hoped to have with Luke's mothercompanionship. He never wanted to rule the
galaxy alone. Profoundly shaken by the news that he was Vader's son, Luke refused
to join his father and plunged into the gas vents of Cloud City. Luke was able to
survive long enough to be rescued by Leia and Lando in the Millennium Falcon.
Vader, who had insured that the hyperdrive motivator on the Falcon would
malfunction, gave orders to the new Admiral, Piett, to capture the freighter. During
the pursuit, Vader also telepathically communicated with Luke, in an attempt to get
Luke to join the Dark Side, assuring him it was his son's destiny. However, they
didn't count on R2-D2, Vader's one-time friend and gift to him from his late wife,
would reverse the sabotage, allowing the Falcon to jump into hyperspace. While
Vader had previously killed two of his subordinates, he let Admiral Piett live even
though he failed to capture Luke in the Millennium Falcon.[230] In addition, despite
his failure in recruiting Luke, he nonetheless succeeded in retrieving Luke's severed
hand from Smelting Core D, alongside Luke's and Vader's former lightsaber. He then
had the hand and saber sent to the Mount Tantiss storehouse on Wayland under
direct orders from the Emperor, although Vader personally had different plans for
the saber and hand.
Afterwards, Vader continued tracking for signs of the Rebellion and, more
importantly, Luke Skywalker. He was then chastised for his failure at Bespin,
although he informed the Emperor thatwhile he may not have captured Lukehe
nonetheless managed to "plant the seeds of ambition" within Luke's mind. He also
reminded his master that converting Luke to the Dark Side was his idea when the
latter implied suspicions that Vader did not desire to turn Luke. Vader also informed
Palpatine that he received a lead on the Rebel's location and was planning to
intercept. Palpatine informed him that it would have to wait, as he needed Vader to
complete shipping arrangements. In actuality, the shipping arrangements were a
fools errand concocted by Palpatine to distract Vader while he had Luke
assassinated.[232]

In the following months, Lord Vader found himself in a complex game of strategy
against the scheming crime lord of Black Sun, Prince Xizor. The Falleen, who had
long hated Vader due to the planetary bombardment ordered by the Dark Lord on
his homeworld of Falleen, was attempting to discredit Vader in eyes of the Emperor.
Xizor had long been a rival of the Dark Lord. He sought to foil Vader's plan to
capture Luke Skywalker for the Emperor by having Luke assassinated before Vader
could find the Jedi. Vader discovered Xizor's plot and killed him in an assault high
over the Imperial Center.[233]
Redemption
Anakin: "Now, go, my son. Leave me."
Luke: "No, you're coming with me. I'll not leave you here, I've got to save you."
Anakin: "You already have, Luke. You were right you were right about me. Tell your
sister You were right"
Anakin and Luke Skywalker, just before the former dies[src]
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Darth Vader onboard the Death Star II
In 4 ABY, Vader was sent to the incomplete Death Star II to await the Emperor, who
was coming for an inspection tour. He also warned the person in charge of
completing the Death Star II's systems on schedule, Moff Tiaan Jerjerrod, that if he is
unable to complete it on schedule by doubling his efforts, he will end up facing
Palpatine for the failure upon his arrival, implying that the Emperor was "not as
forgiving as [Vader was]" regarding failure. After Darth Sidious's arrival, Vader was
sent to command the Imperial Fleet guarding the Death Star, keeping it on the far
side of Endor. Vader also supplied the Emperor with reports of a Rebel massing near
Sullust, although Palpatine dismissed the reports. It was here that he sensed the
arrival of his son along with the Rebel strike team coming to destroy the shield
generator that protected the Death Star. When he informed the Emperor of this,
although he expressed surprise that Vader could sense Luke while Sidious himself
could not, Sidious nonetheless advised him to go to Endor and await Luke.[4]
During his departure to Endor, it is said that he looked back on his life and had the
first dream he had in many years. This was following visions that he thought were
premonitions of the near future.[234]
Arriving on the eve of Luke's capture, Vader once again attempted to persuade Luke
to join the dark side, but this time Vader's interests were tinged by a desire to
protect his son. Vader, however, still maintained his belief that he was beyond
redemption, and remorsefully told Luke as much, causing Luke to state that
"[Anakin] truly was dead." When this failed, Vader took him to Darth Sidious himself
on the incomplete Death Star II. Vader also discovered Jedi Master Yoda's death
when Palpatine mind-probed Luke upon arrival, although he did not display any
emotion on the matter.[235] Luke reluctantly fought a lightsaber battle with Vader,
matching Vader's mastery of Form V with his own display of Form V blade work, all

the while attempting to persuade his father into renouncing the dark side of the
Force. In allowing this to happen, Luke Skywalker risked everything in order to
assure the victory of the Rebel Alliance and the redemption of his father to the light.
[4]
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Vader is defeated by his son.
Vader: "You cannot hide forever, Luke."
Luke: "I will not fight you!"
Vader: "Give yourself to the dark side. It is the only way you can save your friends.
Yes...your thoughts betray you. Your feelings for them are strong, especially
for...sister. So, you have a twin sister! Your feelings have now betrayed her, too. ObiWan was wise to hide her from me. Now, his failure is complete! If you will not turn
to the dark side, then perhaps she will."
Luke: "NEVER!!!"
Darth Vader to Luke Skywalker[src]
During this time, Sidious relentlessly attempted to lure Luke to the dark side,
tormenting him with thoughts of the defeat of the Rebel Alliance and the death of
his friends. However, Luke continued to attempt to restrain himself from fighting his
father. Vader, who had been probing Luke's thoughts, discovered that besides Luke
he also had a daughter: Leia Organa, Luke's twin sister. Vader, happy at this new
information he had acquired and thus, the final failure of Obi-Wan, decided to use
this knowledge against Luke, threatening to corrupt Leia. Luke, enraged, ignited his
lightsaber and viciously attacked Vader with anger and hatred. Finally, Luke sliced
off Vader's mechanical right hand, defeating the Dark Lord. Sidious, cackling with
triumph, urged Luke to fulfill his destiny, and take his father's place at the Dark
Lord's side.[4] Vader then realized that Sidious had betrayed him again, just as
Darth Tyranus had been betrayed twenty-three years before, and just as he had
been betrayed by Sidious for Galen Marek on the first Death Star.
Luke looked at his mechanical hand and his father's severed right hand, and
realized that he was about to become Vader's successor. Horrified at what he was
about to do, Luke used a combination of Kenobi's and Yoda's teachings and the light
side of the Force to calm himself down. Luke tossed his lightsaber away, refusing
the Emperor's offer to join him as his new apprentice. Instead, he declared himself a
Jedi, like his father had been. Enraged at the failure of his plans, the Emperor
unleashed a barrage of Force lightning attacks upon Luke.[4]
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Skywalker's armor is damaged by Palpatine's lightning.
As Vader watched Sidious savagely torture Luke, his love for his son--one of the few
parts of Anakin that was still left--finally bloomed in full after being reawakened four

years earlier. It was enough to finally break the dark side's hold over him. From that
moment on, Darth Vader was no more, and Anakin Skywalker was reborn.[4]
Refusing to watch his son die, Skywalker suddenly grabbed Sidious from behind and
hoisted him from his feet. Even as Sidious' lightning tore through his body,
Skywalker advanced towards the Death Star's reactor shaft with the struggling
Emperor. Staggering to his destination, he threw Darth Sidious down the shaft to his
death before collapsing. With his life support system shorted out, Anakin Skywalker
had paid for his act of defiance with his life. Yet this single act brought him back to
the light side and fulfilled his destiny as the Chosen One, bringing balance back to
the Force.[4]
Luke dragged his father to the hangar where his shuttle lay, in hopes of saving his
life. Anakin, knowing that he would die whether or not Luke managed to get him
onto a ship, stopped his son.[4]
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Skywalker in his final moments
Nearing death, Skywalker asked Luke to help him remove his mask, so that he could
see his son with his own eyes, not through the lens filters of his mask. His last words
behind the mask of Vader were especially telling in response to Luke's protest that
he would die without the mask, Skywalker responded, "Nothing can stop that now.
Just for once, let me look on you with my own eyes." These words constituted a final
rejection of the lying promises of the dark side, and a full embrace of the light once
again. Luke helped disconnect the helmet and mask and saw his father's face for
the first time. Beneath, Anakin was bald, his hair follicles having been incinerated in
Mustafar's flames 23 years earlier. The wounds from Mustafar's heat had never
actually healed. However, his eyes were no longer the burning crimson-rimmed
amber of a Sith Lord, but the shining blue of his former self. Skywalker told Luke to
leave him behind. Luke protested that he had intended to save his father and did
not intend to leave him behind, before Skywalker told him that Luke already had
saved him by redeeming him. Skywalker then told Luke that he was right about him,
there was good still in him; and to tell his sister, Leia, the same. With these last
words, Anakin Skywalker died and became one with the Force.[4]
Luke narrowly escaped the exploding Death Star in a shuttle along with his father's
armor and artificial remains, and reached the forest moon of Endor where Darth
Vader's armor was cremated in the manner of a Jedi, since Skywalker's body had
passed into the light.[4][236] During the celebration, Luke saw a vision of a
redeemed Anakin in the robes of a Jedi Master--whole, and without the artificial body
of Vader. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda were next to him. His destiny fulfilled, Anakin
Skywalker had passed on into the embrace of the light side of the Force.[4]
Post mortem (4 ABY and beyond)
Righting wrongs

"Maybe Vader had died heroically, but ten minutes of contrition did not make up for
years of atrocities."
Leia Organa to the spirit of her father[src]
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Luke Skywalker gives his father a Jedi funeral on Endor.
When Vader re-embraced the light side of the Force, his organic body
dematerialized and became one with the Force; Luke cremated only his father's
armor with its prosthetics. Though Skywalker did not know about Qui-Gon Jinn's
secret of joining the Force, and was surprised when Kenobi's body vanished right
before he killed him, he was still able to retain his personality when joining the
Force. Jinn had been outspoken in life about the Living Force, and taught Yoda on
Dagobah that the secret to eternal life via the Force, was with love. Thus, according
to Jinn, a Sith could never truly attain it. As he passed from life, Skywalker's love for
his son consumed him completely, transforming him into a spirit like his Master had
before him.
Anakin Skywalker's specter would continue to appear throughout the years. Shortly
after the Battle of Endor, Skywalker visited his son once more. He pleaded for Luke
to redeem and undo the damage that Vader had done to the young man known as
Flint, as he was now unable to do it himself.
During the same period, Skywalker appeared before his daughter, Leia Organa, in
Salis D'aar, the capital of Bakura. There, he begged his daughter to forgive him.
However, Leia had only recently learned of her parentage and was unable to ignore
that he had committed gross crimes, including the destruction of Alderaan and her
own torture aboard the first Death Star, while serving Emperor Palpatine.[237]
Skywalker agreed to leave his daughter be but vowed to be there when she needed
him and soon disappeared. However, in 8 ABY, upon discovering her grandmother's
diary, Leia realized that her father wasn't the evil monster that she thought he was
and learned to forgive him. In 10.5 ABY, Leia Organa Solo named her youngest child
Anakin in remembrance of her father's redemption.
AnakinSkywalkerghost
The redeemed spirit of Anakin Skywalker
Shortly afterward, in 5 ABY, when Qu Rahn was killed by Jerec, Rahn beheld the
Force spirits of Anakin Skywalker and Halagad Ventor in his final moments and
realized that there was not a single person who was incapable of redemption.
Skywalker, along with Kenobi, would appear before his son again in order to warn
him of the dark side prophet Kadann.
Twenty-two years later, after the first year of the Yuuzhan Vong War, Anakin
Skywalker would tell his grandson, Jacen Solo to "stand firm," something that helped
Jacen defeat the Yuuzhan Vong Warmaster Tsavong Lah in combat and turn the tide
of the war. Three years after that, near the end of this war, Anakin would give this

advice to Jacen again before the latter defeated Onimi, the true ruler of the Vong,
and ended that conflict by achieving oneness with the Force.
Revelations of the past
"The Chosen One. The Betrayer. And the biggest reason I can think of for anyone
named Skywalker to avoid being a Jedi."
Cade Skywalker[src]
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Cade Skywalker fights Vader in a vision.
In 35 ABY, while Luke Skywalker was fixing R2-D2, the Jedi Master encountered a
hologram of Anakin Skywalker and Padm Amidala in which Skywalker said to his
wife that he had a dream of her, dying in childbirth.
A year later, Luke also viewed a hologram of Skywalker slaughtering Jedi in the Jedi
Temple, yet another hologram recorded by the astromech droid. Not long after,
during the Swarm War, the shocking revelation behind the death of Luke and Leia's
mother, Padm, was revealed when Luke witnessed his father Force-choking her in
another hologram projected by R2-D2.
At some point after Luke had died, in 137 ABY Skywalker appeared in a Force vision
to Cade Skywalker, one of his descendants. In that vision, he appeared as he had
when he turned to the dark side, then turned into Darth Vader and dueled Cade.
After defeating Cade, Vader took off his helmet, showing his burnt face, and warned
Cade about the dangers of the dark side. Rather than giving a simple warning about
the dark side, Skywalker warned his descendant that he had to control his power
and his anger, lest it turn against him as Skywalker's did when dueling Obi-Wan
Kenobi on Mustafar.
Legacy
" A special destiny is not always something joyous, or easy to bear. My father had
a special destiny, and see where it took him."
Luke Skywalker[src]
Anakin Skywalker, being the Chosen One of Jedi prophecy, left behind a great
legacy. Since he married and started a family, Skywalker openly defied the Jedi Code
to follow his heart. His love for his family turned out to be a double-edged sword:
Darth Sidious, by preying upon the young Jedi's fear of losing his beloved wife,
managed to seduce him over to the dark side. However, in the end, it was
Skywalker's love for his son, Luke, which redeemed his soul. Even though Skywalker
was the Chosen One, Luke served indirectly as the catalyst that allowed Skywalker
to fulfill the Jedi prophecy, and slay Emperor Palpatinean act which fractured the
Galactic Empire. During Skywalker's tenure as Darth Vader, he helped Palpatine
nearly eradicate the entire Jedi Order. However, this action, in turn, allowed the Jedi
Order to be rebuilt by Anakin's son, Luke Skywalker.

AnakinPadme-NECj
Anakin and his wife
Luke was able to take the little training he received from Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi
and carry on the Jedi legacy. In the years following the Battle of Endor, Luke
Skywalker established the New Jedi Order. In the following years, it would go on to
be a major player in galactic affairs, and would serve the New Republic for many
years to come. Skywalker's daughter, Leia Organa Solo, would go on to be a key
figure in the Rebel Alliance, and ultimately serve as the Chief of State of the New
Republic from 11 ABY17 ABY. Leia named one of her sons with Han Solo Anakin Solo
after her father. After 28 ABY, the Order served to help defend the New Republic and
the Galactic Alliance during the Yuuzhan Vong War, and later the Swarm War and
the Second Galactic Civil War.
However, after his death, the Empire refused to believe Vader murdered Palpatine.
They claimed that Luke killed both Sith Lords, and Vader had died heroically
defending his master. After Emperor Palpatine's resurrection, the details became
clear, and the Imperials saw Vader as a symbol of ultimate treachery. On the rare
occasion that his name was spoken by those loyal to the Emperor, "Darth Vader"
was said with disgust. In Bast Castle on Vjun, a statue once stood of Vader,[238]
which the reborn Palpatine ordered to be destroyed, indicative of Vader's reputation
after his death. Prior to Palpatine's return, there was one source that indicated that
Vader had killed Palpatine, the holofilm Luke Skywalker and the Jedi's Revenge,
although he was killed via his son in that rendition to avenge the fallen Emperor. In
this source, Vader and Anakin Skywalker were treated as separate individuals.
However, Vader's name was still occasionally used by the Galactic Federation of
Free Alliances, the Imperial Remnant, and even by some of the New Republic's New
Jedi Order to symbolize power and to strike fear. Notably, the Empire of the Hand
maintained the moniker "Vader's Fist" for its remaining 501st Stormtrooper Legion
soldiers.[source?] Even Vader's grandchildren, on his daughter's side, sometimes
invoked that legacy during the Yuuzhan Vong War.
While Darth Vader may have been redeemed, he still left a dark legacy in the form
of Dark Lady Lumiya. Upon his death and the death of Palpatine, Lumiya assumed
the title of Dark Lady of the Sith and eventually contacted Vader's grandson, Jacen
Solo, in an effort to corrupt him to the dark side. Later, Jacen flow-walked back to
the Raid on the Jedi Temple, witnessing the events that occurred fifty-nine years
before, to see his grandfather's reasoning for becoming a Sith Lord. He came to the
decision that Anakin's logic was faulty, and that his own reasons for joining the Sith
were superior: while Skywalker did it out of love, Jacen was trying to save the galaxy
from a great evil. Jacen later climbed to the status of Sith Lord himself, as Anakin
had, taking on the name of Darth Caedus.
Little did Vader know, that on Tatooine, A'Sharad Hett had too survived the Purge
and was banished from the planet by Kenobi after being defeated by Kenobi. Hett at
first regretted that he kept the secret of Skywalker's Tusken slaughter, for that had
caused many Jedi slaughters as well. But later in life, he had learned of Luke, Leia,
and the rest of the family that was to appear. Hett traveled to Korriban, learned

teachings from the ancient Sith holocrons of XoXaan, Darths Andeddu, Nihilus,
Bane, and others to follow, thus creating the Rule of One. A'Sharad Hett was gone
and Darth Krayt was born, as Dark Lord of the new Sith Order.
In addition, his earlier refusal to embrace his original destiny as The Father's
successor also led to disastrous consequences in the near future, culminating in the
release of Abeloth due to a divergence in the timeline caused by Jacen Solo as well
as the destruction of Centerpoint Station.
Vader's history would be studied by the Sith Lord Darth Azard, who modeled his
command style and philosophy's after Vader's, possibly taking inspiration from the
late Sith. This included executing subordinates for failure.[239]
When Azlyn Rae was grievously injured during the Battle on Had Abbadon, Cade
handed her over to Nat Skywalker and Droo Rawk, his uncle and aunt. Droo said she
could only save Azlyn if she wanted to be saved, which Cade said she did. He tried
to help them, but Nat refused to allow it since his healing powers kept pushing him
toward the dark side. While Droo and Nat tried their best, Azlyn rejected their
attempts to heal her. Nat refused to give up, and decided on a desperate measure:
placing Azlyn in a life supporting suit for mortally wounded Kiffu guardians. Droo
didn't like the idea, thinking it would make Azlyn the next Darth Vader, as the suit
bore a similar disturbing point to Darth Vader's suit. Nat, however, said his ancestor
was evil, and the suit had nothing to do with it. They went through with the plan.
Personality and traits
"For Anakin, there is nothing more important than friendship. He is the most loyal
man I've ever metloyal beyond reason; in fact [] abstractions like peace don't
mean much to him. He's loyal to people, not to principles. And he expects loyalty in
return. He will stop at nothing to save me, for example, because he thinks I would
do the same for him because he knows I would do the same for him."
Obi-Wan Kenobi[src]
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Skywalker maintained a strong bond of friendship with his astromech droid, R2-D2.
As a young boy, Skywalker was thoughtful and intelligent. He was friendly and easily
got along with others despite his status as a slave. He also had a special place in his
heart for his mother, whom he constantly built inventions to sell or to use to lighten
her workload. At the coming of the Jedi, he was both helpful and generous; doing all
that he could to help them off-planet, risking his life at the podrace as well as giving
them the sizable reward money which he and his mother would have had use for.
Though lovable, he also was one to carry grudges and was vengeful, but he
commonly held these two traits in check. He also hated being treated unjustly or
being wrongly accused. He was fiercely loyal, doing anything to keep those he was
close to from harm, at any cost. His only price for this dedication was loyalty in
return.

His separation from his mother was the hardest thing he'd ever done, and it still
hurt him for years. Because of his fear of losing even more friends in such a
manner, he kept to himself, fiddling around with his only friends, the Temple droids.
During this, however, he grew especially close to Kenobi, considering him a father
and a role model. Due to his sudden escalation from slave to being known as the
"Chosen One" and the rising star of the Jedi Order, pride and arrogance set in. He
grew cocky, self-appreciating, and he grew to hate being reprimanded or lectured.
He was naturally honest and despised lying and deception, and especially hated
politics, correctly considering most politicians to be greedy and self-conceited.
Kenobi's continual self-consciousness when it came to Skywalker hurt the boy, who
at times wasn't sure whether Kenobi liked him, something his heart craved.
Therefore, he turned to a more complimenting, comforting source: Palpatine.
His yearning to be loved, as well as appreciated, came out in his devotion and
secret marriage to Amidala, one of the only three people he ever thought
appreciated or cared for him. As his fame grew, he became more and more
arrogant, and he knew that he was one of the best Jedi of the Order, believing that
he could easily best any Jedi blindfolded with his lightsaber tied behind his back.
This coupled with his frustration at his perceived injustice at being kept at the rank
of Jedi Knight made him more and more bitter and distrustful of the Jedi Council. His
belief in them was shattered more and more as Skywalker's closest friend,
Palpatine, swayed him from trusting them. Slowly, his bond with everyone except
the Chancellor was completely shaken and broken, even that of his wife when he
assumed her betrayal of him. Born out of this conflict was the Dark Lord of the Sith,
Darth Vader.[10]
"I'm not the Emperor. I don't kill for amusement, only when it serves my purposes."
Darth Vader[src]
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Darth Vader was a frightening figure to many.
After becoming Vader, Skywalker's personality changed completely. He was now a
rattled man, shaken by the perceived betrayal of his dearest friend, his former
comrades-in-arms, and his wife. Upon donning the armor that kept him alive, Vader
initially remained uncertain, but regained his self-confidence following his killing of
Roan Shryne on Kashyyyk. He also gained a firm belief that love was a weakness
and was utterly meaningless. This belief was especially prevalent during the
Galactic Civil War, when Vader attempted to persuade the clone of Galen Marek not
to hesitate in killing Juno Eclipse during a training session.[210] Vader had an
extremely low tolerance of failure, and did not get on well at all with many of the
higher-ups in the Imperial military, nearly choking Admiral Conan Antonio Motti to
death when he challenged the power of the Force, though Admiral Motti survived
due to the intervention of Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin. Both Admiral Kendal Ozzel and
Captain Lorth Needa were not so fortunate, as Vader telekinetically strangled both
men to death following blunders they had committed. For their part, many higher-

ranking Imperial officials despised the Dark Lord and his "sorcerer's ways." He also
retained his former identity's distaste for dishonesty and deception, having once
gone into a massive rage that resulted in the destruction of a large part of the Jedi
Council chamber upon learning that the Jedi Council, including Obi-Wan Kenobi, had
hid the location of the Ghost Prison from him as well as Palpatine. However, he did
develop a tendency to craft some falsehoods, or at the very least half-truths. This
was especially evident when he told Lieutenant Tohm that he actually killed Anakin
Skywalker, when he was in fact Anakin Skywalker (though he may have been
speaking ironically).[51]
Because of his former identity's status as a slave, Vader also had distress when the
concept of slavery is brought up, especially regarding the Empire continuing the
slave trade. This distressed nature on the topic once had him, during a debriefing
with Commander Vill of the 501st Legion regarding the Cleansing of New Plympto,
abruptly ending the debriefing without a word and walking off to the balcony of his
palace, apparently too distraught at the revelation of the Empire redirecting the
501st Legion to sell slaves to Orvax IV to fall asleep for the night, and still was
troubled by the discovery the next morning.[170]
Despite his rather rocky relationship with higher-ranking officers in the military,
Vader got along quite well with the clone troopers, once remarking, "I was rather
fond of Commander Appo," following the latter's death at the hands of Roan Shryne.
One reason Vader was popular with the troops that served under him was his
willingness to fight in the front line, and not expect of anyone anything he was not
willing to do himself. One officer who looked up to Vader because of this was Erv
Lekauf, who often spoke highly of Vader to his grandson Jori Lekauf. Another military
officer to be taken under Vader's wing was Firmus Piett, who succeeded Ozzel as
Admiral of Death Squadron, and notably survived being under the Sith Lord's
command having erred not once, but twice during his tenure under Vader. This was
due to the fact that both of these failures were caused by unforeseeable factors, not
errors in Piett's judgment. In addition, although he did execute officers when they
failed him, he occasionally promoted military, such as 501st Legion officer Daine Jir,
for traits he was personally impressed with. In Jir's case, it was his brutal honesty to
Vader. Similarly, he also promoted Birra Seah to temporary moffship for the
completion of the second Death Star when she backed up an admiral that Vader had
killed's assessments that there were flaws in the design of the ship.[240] He also
held some disgust towards individuals who were willing to betray their own worlds
for power, even when such actions were to the benefit of the Galactic Empire. This
was especially evident with his interactions with the Gecktl soldier Stafuv Rahz
during the seizure of Harix, where he made no effort to hide his opinion of Rahz due
to the latter's betrayal of the Gecktl to the Empire, and made it clear that should
they have to rescue him, the rescue transport would lead to his death.
Despite his actions, Vader apparently believed he was doing what was good for the
galaxy. He also appeared to have had a high sense of self-loathing as a result of his
actions, so much so that he nearly committed suicide during his mission to Atoa.
[181] His self-hate was strong enough to kill the doppelganger of Darth Maul.[214]
He expressed the belief that the Empire was the only way the galaxy could attain

peace, justifying his actions and those of the Empire as necessary to accomplish
this.[source?] In addition, he also makes it clear to Dengar at one point that, while
he did kill when he felt it needed to be done, he did not take amusement at it like
his Master.[241] In addition, by the time of the Battle of Endor, he also strongly
believed that he was irredeemable, which he relayed to his son with some remorse
when capturing him at Endor, in response to his son's attempts to get Vader to free
himself from the grip of Palpatine. Shortly after sacrificing himself to save Luke from
the Emperor, he admitted that Luke was indeed right about his still having good in
him.[4]
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Skywalker's signature.
In the end of his life, Skywalker broke away from the dark side, becoming whole
once again. Redeemed by his son's love, father and son made peace before
Skywalker became one with the Force and was reunited with his loved ones.[4]
Relationships
Qui-Gon Jinn
Qui-Gon Jinn was the first Jedi that Skywalker had met. He deduced that Jinn was a
Jedi Knight from a brief glance of Jinn's lightsaber while the latter was talking with
Watto. He had a great degree of respect for the Jedi Master, having a lot of concern
for him when he barely escaped from Darth Maul during an ambush. He also was
not willing to disobey Jinn, at least in terms of the letter of the law. This was most
evident during the Naboo Space Battle, when he, in response to R2-D2 asking
whether he should return to Naboo, refused as Jinn had earlier told him to "stay in
the cockpit" (even though Jinn meant to keep hidden). Jinn's death had devastated
him, and also left him briefly wondering what he should do with his life.
Shmi Skywalker
Skywalker's life revolved mostly around two womenShmi, his mother, and
Amidala, his wife. Having a very close relationship with his mother, it broke his heart
to leave her on Tatooine while he went to Coruscant to chase his dreams, and he
admired her courage she showed throughout her harsh life as a slave, especially the
moment he decided to leave Tatooine.[9] Her early death when he was just a young
man shook him, and his slaughter of the Tusken Raiders brought him closer to the
dark side. He vowed never to let anyone he loved be harmed againnamely ObiWan Kenobi, his master, and Amidala, who became his wife soon after.[11]
Her death continued to affect Skywalker even after his transformation into the Sith
Lord, Darth Vader. His memories of her death gave him great discomfort when he
ended up capturing Princess Leia over Tatooine.[162]
Obi-Wan Kenobi
When Skywalker first met his future mentor, he was the second Jedi that he had
encountered but Kenobi, like the rest of the Jedi Council, didn't believe that

Skywalker should be trained. Despite this, he was willing to defy the Council's
decision to respect his dying master's last wish to train Skywalker as a Jedi.[9]
The first stage of their relationship was similar to that between a father and a son
and Kenobi was, along with Amidala and Shmi, one of those Skywalker loved the
most in the galaxy. Skywalker had great respect for his master and considered him
an equal in wisdom only to Master Yoda. However, his arrogant and prideful attitude
clashed with his master's more patient and peaceful ways. They would often
disagree and engage in verbal jousts about the Jedi Order and the politics of
Coruscant. However, their bond was strong enough that Skywalker was willing to
disobey the Council's orders and go to Geonosis to rescue him when he was Count
Dooku's prisoner.[11]
After the Battle of Geonosis, their relationship changed again from a father-son one
to one between two brothers. The antagonism that they would show, sometimes
rather violently, turned into playful bickering. During the Clone Wars, Skywalker
saved Kenobi's life at least ten times and the latter apparently did the same for him
on some occasions. However, their relationship turned darker due to Skywalker's
opposition to the Council's decisions and their refusal to trust the Chancellor. Kenobi
also secretly suspected of Skywalker and Amidala's relationship.[10]
When Skywalker fell to the dark side and became Darth Vader, Kenobi was
heartbroken and even begged Master Yoda to send him to kill Darth Sidious in his
stead as he couldn't kill his brother. When it appeared that Padm had led Kenobi to
him, he tried to kill them both. During their duel, Kenobi kept trying to find a trace
of his old apprentice in the monster he had become but it was in vain and he finally
accepted that Skywalker was gone. However, while the latter expressed eternal
hatred towards his old master, Kenobi wasn't able to finish Skywalker off and left
him to be consumed by the flames of Mustafar.[10]
After this duel, Vader became bent on revenge and spent months trying to locate
Kenobi. He was turned away from this goal by his new Master. Along with Yoda and
Bail Organa, Kenobi protected Vader's children by hiding them from their father.
When Kenobi and Skywalker met again on the Death Star, Kenobi sacrificed himself
to allow Luke to escape. His spirit kept leading him so that he could defeat Vader
and Sidious. When Skywalker fulfilled the prophecy and destroyed Sidious, dying
himself in the process, Kenobi, Yoda and Qui-Gon Jinn, who had learned how to
become one with the Force, led his spirit to join the Force, completing his
redemption.
Ahsoka Tano
Skywalker initially had a shaky relationship with his Padawan Ahsoka Tano. Although
he expressed annoyance when Tano referred to him as "Skyguy" after he told Rex of
his intentions to not train her, and in retaliation calling her "Snips" and "youngling",
he did open himself up after the Christophisis incident,[70] going as far to spare
Dooku and torture Poggle with the sole intention of saving her by doing so.
Skywalker would also not give up on saving Tano after she got caught in an
explosion of a droid foundry that she destroyed with a tank, having no other

method. Greatly relieved that Tano was still alive, he told her that he hadn't doubted
her, after she told him that she knew he would save her. Skywalkers desire to keep
his Padawan safe went beyond the battlefield into his teachings to her. Though she
was skilled in the classic Shien, Skywalker began teaching her Ataru and Djem So,
two aggressive forms he was greatly skilled in, being mastered in the latter.
Wanting Tano to be prepared for any opponent, he also trained her to protect herself
against enemies wielding a double-bladed lightsaber, such as Asajj Ventress, whom
shed faced before. There is also much evidence to support that Skywalkers
attachment of Tano was as great as his attachment to his mother and his wife.
Before his mission to Lanteeb, during battle against General Grievous fleet,
immersing himself in the Force, He was Shmi and Padm and Ahsoka. In the
aftermath of that battle, when Kenobi told him it was Tano who had saved the day,
Skywalker felt a rush of pride and boasted that she was his apprentice. That pride
was evident in his trust in her to command in his stead, such as during the Battle of
Ryloth. Though Skywalker was usually reckless and did not think about the
consequences of his actions, Tanos presence seemed to soften these tendencies.
The Battle of Ryloth seemed to be a milestone for Master and Padawan, for he took
her words to heart when she told him that his actions often put others at risk, which
resulted in him evacuating the cruiser, leaving only him with an escape pod so the
cruiser would crash into the battleship.
Nearing the end of the war, Skywalker also held a great degree of trust in her, being
one of the few people to strongly believe that Tano had actually been framed.
However, he also realized that he could not help her directly as it would have made
her seem even more guilty than she was already suspected to be by everyone else.
He also managed to track down the actual guilty party, Barriss Offee, and expose
her after defeating her in a lightsaber duel, although his efforts were for naught as
Tano resigned from the Jedi Order.
Padm Amidala
VadersRemorse
Skywalker, even as Darth Vader, continued to love Amidala for many years after her
death.
Skywalker had met the disguised Queen Amidala in his home of Mos Espa, where
she passed off as a commoner named Padme Naberrie. When he first met her, he
initially asked her if she was an Angel. However, he also ended up distraught when
discovering that she was actually the Queen, which he admitted to Obi-Wan while
participating in Qui-Gon Jinn's funeral. After parting ways after the Battle of Theed,
he continually thought of her, and his fascination grew for his bold and beautiful
friend, who was four years his senior. They met again ten years later, and his
fascination blossomed into love. After a hair-raising series of adventures together,
she began to return his affection, and the two married as the Clone Wars begun.
Although they saw each other rarely and had to work hard to keep their marriage a
secret, Skywalker was deeply in love and vowed to protect Amidala from the fate he
could not save his mother from. In the end, his fear for Amidala, whom he believed

would die in childbirth, ultimately turned him to the dark side, and after he
incapacitated her on Mustafar, she lost the will to live but still believed that he could
be redeemed, which her memory in Luke helped do.
With Amidala, Skywalker had twin children, although he did not know of their
existence until at least 19 years after they were born. Both were born at the secret
base of Polis Massa, and their mother, Amidala, died shortly after their birth. Luke,
the eldest of the two, was raised on the harsh desert planet of Tatooine (which,
coincidentally, was also the home of Anakin Skywalker) by his father's stepbrother,
Owen Lars, and his wife Beru. He was to follow in his father's footsteps and become
a respected Jedi. Leia was raised by the Royal Family of Alderaan in its capital,
Aldera. She was given the name Leia Organa, which later changed to Leia Organa
Solo when she married. She would follow a similar path to her mother's, becoming a
respected young Senator serving the galaxy, but also a leading member of the
Rebel Alliance, which her mother helped to create. The two children were hidden
from the Empire, the Emperor, their father and each other, not knowing of each
other's existence until they were in their early twenties, and finding out they were
related much later. In the end, both of them played a key role in defeating the Sith
and the Empire, but it was Luke who ultimately defeated Darth Vader and redeemed
Anakin Skywalker.[4]
Luke Skywalker
Vader did in fact love his son and after learning of Luke Skywalker's existence, Vader
immediately sought him. He originally wished for Skywalker to give into the dark
side and join him so they could defeat the Emperor and rule the galaxy together as
father and son. When Vader first revealed to Skywalker that he was his father,
Skywalker refused to believe him and fled from him. Although Skywalker would
eventually come to accept that Vader was his father and tried to redeem him rather
than destroy him. When Skywalker was being tortured by Palpatine, in an act of love
Vader killed Palpatine to save his son. Through his love for Luke, Vader was
redeemed as Anakin Skywalker.[4]
Leia Organa Solo
Before Vader was aware of the fact that Leia Organa was his daughter, he treated
her as an enemy to the Empire and severely tortured her aboard the Death Star.[12]
Organa saw Vader as an evil person and monster that was willing to destroy the
weak. Vader later learned of his relationship with Organa when he probed
Skywalker's mind by using the Force.[4] After his death, Vader, now as a redeemed
Anakin Skywalker, confronted Organa as a Force ghost and tried to seek
forgiveness, but was turned away. He promised Organa that he would be there for
her when she needed him. Organa eventually forgave her father after she read her
grandmother's diary and learned that Vader was not the monster she thought he
was. Organa even named her second son Anakin in honor of her father.
Palpatine

While undergoing his training as a Padawan, Anakin Skywalker looked up to

Palpatine as a father figure, due to his feeling isolated by the Jedi Order. When
Skywalker learned that Palpatine was in fact the Sith Lord, Darth Sidious, he deeply
considered killing Sidious to maintain his duty to the Jedi Order, but Sidious'
promises to save Padm Amidala, as well as Sidious' insinuation that killing him
would be a further fall to the dark side of the Force, caused him to relent, although
he nonetheless reported Palpatine and Sidious' connection to Mace Windu.
Ultimately, he ended up saving Sidious, which he later regretted when Sidious killed
Windu in return. Afterwards, Skywalker, or rather, Vader, considered betraying
Sidious after wiping out the Jedi Order,[10] largely because he realized Sidious
didn't actually have the power to save Padm, although his injuries at Mustafar
forced him to reconsider. After Padm's death and his duel on Mustafar, Vader's
relationship with the Emperor became an unusual and complicated one. Vader
resented Sidious for essentially creating him and mentioned on numerous occasions
that he intended to kill the Dark Lord and take his place. On the other hand
however, Vader passed up numerous opportunities over the years to either kill
Sidious or allow him to die. Lumiya, one of Vader's apprentices, would later describe
Sidious as Vader's "only link to the world of the living" after Padm's death.[242]
This essentially implied that, while part of Vader hated his Master, he was also the
closest thing Vader had to a friend during his tenure as a Sith Lord.
After the Clone Wars, Vader served as the executor of Sidious' will, exterminating
much of the Jedi Order and suppressing various anti-Imperial rebellions. Ultimately,
the redeemed Anakin Skywalker would end up killing Sidious when the latter was
attempting to kill the former's son Luke. This action would result in Anakin bringing
balance to the Force.[4]
Powers and abilities
Lightsaber training
Skywalker Kenobi Lucasarts
Skywalker in a lightsaber stance, beside his master
Jedi Knight
"If you had spent as much time practicing your saber techniques as you do your wit,
you would rival Master Yoda as a swordsman."
"I thought I already did."
"Only in your mind, my very young apprentice."
Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker[src]
Anakin Skywalker was trained by the Order's most promising Jedi Knight, Obi-Wan
Kenobi. Through him, Skywalker would inherit a rich tradition of lightsaber training.
Skywalker's style featured elements of many masters, making him outstandingly
talented, even at a very young age.[243]

Both Form V variants became the favored fighting styles of Anakin Skywalker, as
their aggressive and strength-oriented fighting methods fit well with his arrogant,
confrontational personality type. Due to his natural talent for lightsaber combat, he
advanced quickly, an achievement which fed his ego, and he came to consider
himself a match for Yoda. His specialty in the Shien form stood him in good stead
during heated engagements with blaster-wielding foes, such as the Battle of
Geonosis, and he became a formidable lightsaber duelist.[11][243] Skywalker also
studied Form VI to develop his skills with dual-blades, though he commented that
he was working on this mostly as an exercise in control, and was doubtful that he
would ever need to apply it.[228] Skywalker's assumption was proven wrong when
he wielded dual lightsabers against Dooku during the First Battle of Geonosis[11]
and several other times during the Clone Wars.
However, Skywalker eventually realized how much he still had to learn when he
confronted Count Dooku. Initially utilizing a dual-bladed variant of Ataru against the
Count, Skywalker was forced to revert to his standard Form V practices when Dooku
destroyed the extra blade.[11] His skill was enough for Anakin to stand toe-to-toe
with Dooku even longer than his Master did, actually impressing the masterful
Count with his skills, but he was forced to draw heavily on his Force-abilities to
match Dooku's speed and precision, tiring quickly. Dooku's far more energy efficient
Makashi style won the day, and Skywalker lost his arm when he opened himself up.
[48]
Makashi
Anakin Skywalker utilizing Djem So against Dooku.
As the Clone Wars progressed, Skywalker spent the following years of the conflict
developing his skills in its many pitched battles. He began studying the Djem So
variant of Form V and used brute strength to overwhelm his opponents, and was
also known to attack his opponents by lunging at them.[244] Evidence of his
prowess included confrontations with the Dooku-trained Asajj Ventress or Grievous'
IG-100 MagnaGuards, as well as numerous sparring matches with Obi-Wan Kenobi.
[245] Relying on both strength and agility, Skywalker proved able to adequately
fend off or evade enemy attacks while immediately offering counters.[246] By the
time of the Battle of Teth, Skywalker was able to effectively hold his own against
Dooku, as shown by their confrontation on Tatooine.[70] He occasionally applied
Ataru-styled acrobatics during combat, but he preferred to rely on pure Djem So
during lightsaber duels. The aggressive Form V encouraged practitioners to actively
attempt to dominate their foes, and as the war progressed, Skywalker drew on his
anger and rage with mounting frequency, sliding ever closer to the dark side of the
Force.[245] When confronting Dooku for the last time, Skywalker relied heavily on
these emotions to fuel his offense, demonstrating both overwhelming strength and
bewildering speed as he bashed through Dooku's precision defense and sliced off
both of the Count's hands before brutally executing him.[10] Before his death,
Dooku acknowledged Skywalker as the finest Djem So stylist that he had ever seen.
[245]
It also proved to Sidious that Skywalker was ready to become his apprentice.[245]

Sith Lord
"one can do some interesting things with a saber, you know. I'll do my best to
show them all to you if you'll cooperate by not passing out."
Darth Vader[src]
Kenobi Vader Mustafar
Vader's Djem So faces off against Kenobi's Soresu.
When Anakin Skywalker at long last embraced the dark side and was rechristened
Darth Vader, he maintained his Form V mastery, but utilized it in an even more
brutal fashion, becoming a frightening opponent. However, his aggression became
his fatal flaw, as he would become so controlled by it that it would give way to his
rage. Though young, strong, athletic, and a master swordsman gifted with more raw
Force power than any other Force adept, he lacked the experience, calm, and focus
that his former master possessed. Though Vader could, and would call on the dark
side to overpower his opponents, his mounting emotions distracted him, clouding
his judgment and preventing him from executing his form as well as Kenobi
executed his. Whereas Vader's strength lay in his offensive barrage, Kenobi's
strength resided in his staunch defense.[245]
Kenobi was regarded as the greatest master of the passive style Soresu in the Jedi
Order, and his absolute dedication to it would prove vital to his victory. Vader,
frustrated by his inability to break through this defense, began making mistakes and
leaving openings that he otherwise would have avoided had he remained focused
and patient. Kenobi, similar to his final duel with General Grievous, would utilize his
"wait them out" philosophy, relying entirely on the defensive and energyconservative moves until the opponent became frustrated or fatigued, causing them
to leave sloppy openings in their offense that Kenobi could then exploit. Vader's
frustration and arrogance eventually caused him to make a tactically fatal decision,
and resulted in his defeat and severe mutilation.[245]
Initially after gaining the suit, Vader was forced to rely on his newly enhanced
strength and reach, utilizing a clumsy method that was comprised of little more
than stiffly executed vertical strikes that served to wear down his opponent. This
initial method was seen to elements of Soresu and Ataru bladework in conjunction
with his clumsy Djem So strikes, as witnessed by Jedi Master Roan Shryne when
Vader engaged Bol Chatak.[168]
Kento vs Vader
Vader battling Kento Marek.
However, Vader was able to overcome this limitation fairly quickly, developing a
refined version of Djem So that continued to include Ataru and Soresu elements, but
also added Makashi[16] and Juyo[247] to the mix. In fact, by the time of his first
visit to Kashyyyk, Vader had incorporated aspects of all combat forms into his
fighting style - even the highest and most dangerous ones. Rather than attempting
to fight through the bulky and heavy armor, Vader fought with it, utilizing the

armor's weight and his powerful prosthetics to provide his blows with incredible
force, while relying on the main articulation points at the elbows and wrists for
precision.[168] With this new form, Vader regained some of his old agility, and his
bladework became brutally effective. He never utilized anything less than a killing
blow, and his swordplay demonstrated extraordinary precision, unpredictability, and
speed, notwithstanding the two-handed grip he typically favored. Even his most
simplistic moves contained enough strength to nearly disarm his opponents.[16]
[168] The additional weight and bulk of Vader's cybernetics and armor made
engaging in Ataru-esque acrobatics considerably more difficult than it had been,
and he typically refrained from making use of such maneuvers. He was however,
still fully capable of performing such acrobatics when pressed.[168]
Vader proved able to apply this personalized variant in many ways, sometimes
opting to fight one-handed, relying on precision and economy of movement, but
thanks to the added strength his prosthetics afforded him, he maintained a great
deal of power. He demonstrated this method against the likes of Olee Starstone and
Luke Skywalker.[168][230] When forced onto the defensive, Vader would fight with a
two-handed grip, elbows pressed tightly to his sides with the blade held straight out
in front of him, manipulating it deftly with his wrists only. This method proved
effective for protecting his vulnerable chest mounted control panel, but, at least in
his early applications of it, it was not as effective at protecting his limbs. Vader
applied this defensive style against Roan Shryne during the subjugation of Kashyyyk
and Obi-Wan Kenobi during their final duel on board the first Death Star.[12][168]
While he utilized his customized style to great effect, even against multiple
opponents, Vader occasionally eschewed precision and refinement for strength
oriented offensive barrages, as demonstrated during his duel against Luke
Skywalker on Bespin and against Shryne on Kashyyyk[230][168] Vader apparently
learned his lesson from his duel with Kenobi, learning how to control his emotions
when in combat and finding a way to call upon calculated bursts of the dark side
while not being blinded by emotions running amok, fighting with determination and
relentlessness rather than rage.[17] Vader also trained frequently with combat
droids to keep his skills sharp, using ASP-19s by 3.5 ABY. Based on the ASP-series
droid, the ASP-19s were lightsaber combat droids programmed with the knowledge
of a hundred swordmasters and a dozen fighting styles, faster and stronger than an
ordinary man. Vader defeated them time and again, and thus ordered new,
improved batches of them. As his finesse and skill improved, Vader found that they
became too easy to defeat, so much so that he took to battling them in two-on-one
matches.[233] Despite his reduced mobility, Vader had little difficulty defending
himself from duelists utilizing fast-paced styles like Ataru, as he demonstrated
against both Starkiller and Jedi Master An'ya Kuro.[17][211]
LukeVSVaderB
Vader utilizing his personalized style against Luke Skywalker
However, despite his skill, Vader's method was not perfect. Particularly during
situations where he believed himself to be facing an inferior opponent, Vader could
be taken off-guard or frustrated, causing lapses in his usually staunch defense. For

example, during his duel with Galen Marek on the first Death Star, Vader began the
duel with an all-out offense, believing he would quickly overwhelm his opponent.
Marek however, initially took a defensive stance against Vader, blocking or dancing
around Vader's attacks while expending as little energy as possible. Additionally,
Marek's taunts concerning Vader's inability to free himself from Sidious' control
interfered with his focus. Ultimately, Vader expended most of his energy in an
unsuccessful attempt to batter Marek into submission and was brought down when
Marek suddenly counter-attacked with Force lightning, breaking Vader's momentum
and causing the duel to shift decisively in Marek's favor.[16] However, Vader quickly
learned from his mistake, as he demonstrated during his duel with Starkiller on
Kamino a few months later. During this battle, he utilized a more defensive set of
tactics against Starkiller and maintained a more controlled, less prideful mindset. As
a result, Starkiller, who was both more powerful than and a more effective duelist
than his template, ultimately came to the conclusion that the best he could possibly
hope for in a duel against Vader was a stalemate. As such, Starkiller was forced to
resort to trickery to defeat Vader, banking on the hope that his former Master's
desire to keep him alive would provide him with an opening if he offered to
surrender.[17]
Another duelist who proved able to stand against Vader was his own son, Luke
Skywalker. In their initial engagements, Vader proved superior, though it still took
some effort to defeat Skywalker, who displayed a great deal of skill despite his
minimal level of training. However, onboard the second Death Star, Luke managed
to defeat Vader. Mirroring Darth Vader's own Form V technique, Skywalker
responded with his own furious demonstration of the style's raw power, and his
marked increase in skill enabled him to meet Vader strength-to-strength. Luke
ultimately managed to best Vader by drawing on the power of the dark side,
boosting his physical prowess with the use of his rage. This sudden display of
aggression and power toward the end of their bout caught Vader off guard, allowing
Luke to drive back and overwhelm the experienced Sith Lord.[243]
Force powers
Jedi Knight
The fact that Skywalker was born with the highest known midi-chlorian count in
galactic history and was considered to be the Chosen One leads to various
conclusions about his Force potential and power. Although extremely young and
having less than perfect training (due to his late age joining the Order), Skywalker
was one of the most powerful living Jedi. However, Anakin's focus was given more
towards improving his lightsaber skills than his Force abilities. As such, while
Anakin's raw power was immense, his knowledge of the Force was limited to fairly
straightforward techniques.
Skywalker's unprecedented midi-chlorian count made him one of the most powerful
members of the Jedi Order; however, it also made Skywalker arrogant.[11] When he
came to the Jedi Temple at the age of nine, he began to develop at a much faster
and accelerated pace than his fellow Padawans, further feeding his pride and selfimportance.

Anakin JediTrial
Skywalker possessed the potential to become the most powerful Jedi in the history
of the galaxy.
Skywalker was skilled in the use of telekinesis able to lift heavy objects with minimal
effort. During his duel with Asajj Ventress on Yavin 4, he easily deflected a large
pillar back at Ventress when she hurled it at him and immediately afterwards he
used the Force to block her Force Push without even slowing down. He was also
skilled at Force Jump, and was able to leap massive distances. Skywalker was also
capable of a powerful Force Push;[56] however, it should be noted that despite
having a stronger connection to the Force than Obi-Wan Kenobi, his Force Push was
unable to overcome Kenobi's during their duel on Mustafar.[10] He was also skilled
at Jedi Mind Tricks.[248] However, Skywalker also developed a habit of using the
Force Choke power, a sign of who and what he would later become. Skywalker was
also proficient in the use of Force speed, able to use it to increase the efficiency of
his lightsaber skills.[91] Anakin also had an affinity for the use of Force visions, such
as when he predicted the deaths of his mother and wife.[10][11] He also possessed
a keen Force sense, such as when he sensed the assassination attempt on his future
wife. During the Zillo Beast incident, Anakin was able to conjure a Force barrier with
the assistance of Yoda and Aayla Secura. During the Battle of Mon Calamari, Anakin
was able to use the Force to rip apart the support bindings of the planetary scanner,
toppling the building over.
During the Battle of Geonosis, Skywalker displayed some skill in Animal friendship,
allowing him to ride the reek that was present in the arena.[11]
Sith Lord
"you are so far less now than what you were, you are more than half machine, you
are like a painter gone blind, a composer gone deaf, you remember where the
power was but the power you can touch is only a memory"
Anakin's thoughts after the revelation of his wife's death[src]
SWEMP19-FC
Vader emerges in his dark armor.
Because his body had been severely burned on Mustafar, Darth Vader was thought
to have lost much of his Force potential, although he nonetheless retained an
incredibly high midi-chlorian count.[162] As Darth Vader, Skywalker was believed to
have had roughly eight-tenths of the strength of the Emperor. Nevertheless Vader
wielded tremendous power and skill, enough to use the Force to overpower almost
any opponent he could not defeat with his lightsaber. Had none of the events on
Mustafar taken place, Darth Vader would have been far more powerful than the
Emperor. As it was, the Jedi Knight Jax Pavan acknowledged that he had never
encountered a Force-user as powerful as Vader, and that it would be foolish for the
Emperor not to fear him.[249]

The Emperor, having gone out of his way to keep Vader alive, took an alternative
viewpoint. Though it was true to say that he had not bargained for an apprentice
that was "more machine than man", Palpatine was of the opinion that most of the
limitations on Vader's potential power were not physical but psychological, as was
often the case with emotionally disturbed Force-sensitives like Darth Bane or Rahm
Kota. He believed that, were Vader to fully confront his choices and completely
shake himself out of his despair, he would have been able to reawaken the
incredible power of the Chosen One within him. Palpatine's theory was lent further
credence by comments made by Darth Plagueis that cyberization, even in extreme
cases, did not ultimately limit one's ability to use the Force.[25] Once Vader got
used to his armor and re-tooled his fighting style, he regained some of his
confidence and became one of the most powerful Sith Lords in galactic history.
However, he would always be haunted to varying degrees by the choices he had
made, even to the point of what amounted to temporary insanity during his mission
to Atoa.[181] Thus, while Vader made progress in that regard, he was never fully
able to accept who and what he had become, and therefore never fulfilled his
potential. Sidious would ultimately come to realize that Vader would never be the
apprentice he longed for. He would try to replace him on at least two occasions with
more powerful Force-sensitives, Galen Marek and Luke Skywalker. The Prophets of
the Dark Side also saw Vader as too much of a Jedi to truly embrace the dark side.
[214]
Darth Vader made extensive use of both the Force Choke and Force Crush abilities,
as he demonstrated numerous times throughout his life. On a similar note, he was
also capable of using the Force to telekinetically destroy a target's internal organs.
[233] The Dark Lord also possessed skill in the use of Tutaminis, such as when he
absorbed several blaster bolts from Han Solo's blaster on Bespin.[250] He was also
capable of using Force deflection to redirect blaster bolts, sometimes even at
whomever fired them.[251] He also had proficiency in the use of Kinetite, which he
used on Mimban in the presence of the Kaiburr crystal with the intent of killing Luke
Skywalker.[222][228] Vader also used a power similar to Force Destruction when
facing Galen Marek on the first Death Star. In this instance, he surrounded himself
several times with a red energy field which he would subsequently unleash at
Marek. On a similar note, the aforementioned energy field also functioned as a
barrier that Marek could not penetrate with either the Force or his lightsaber. Thus it
would appear that Vader retained his skill at creating Force barriers.[252] In
addition, he utilized either a semi-visible Force barrier or a protection bubble several
times during the Gentis coup to fend off the attacks of Gentis's traitorous soldiers.
Vader also knew how to utilize the Force cloak technique, having both applied it as
Anakin and taught it to the Dark Apprentice.[253][17]
The Dark Lord could also use telepathy, such as when he communicated with his
son shortly after their duel on Bespin.[230] Vader demonstrated the ability to drain
knowledge from his victims opponents, such as when he discovered that Luke had a
twin sister.[4] Vader was also adept at saber throw, which he would often utilize in
combat to make up for his relative lack of mobility.[252]

After Vader's injuries, his natural strength was vastly augmented by the addition of
his cybernetic enhancements. In addition, Vader retained the ability to increase his
physical abilities by using the Force. In fact, despite the cumbersome weight of his
armor and prosthetics, Vader was still capable of moving faster than the human eye
could perceive by using short bursts of the Force speed technique.[17] He
showcased on multiple occasions the ability to both lift and hold a grown man off
the ground at arm's length with no apparent effort. As he demonstrated on Captain
Raymus Antilles[12] and Shadday Potkin among others, he also had the ability to
crush a human throat bare-handed. Vader also demonstrated remarkable physical
durability and resistance to pain throughout his time as a Sith. On at least two
occasions, he was stabbed straight through the chest with both a lightsaber and a
vibroblade, and hardly reacted in either case.[214][254] Additionally, his prosthetics
and armor allowed him to survive deadly environmental hazards such as explosions,
toxins, diseases, and even the vacuum of space. It also provided Vader with a
constant supply of pain suppressing drugs to help him function with his wounds.
However, the suit was only moderately insulated, and thus its life-support systems
were relatively vulnerable to electrical discharges.
While Vader was usually dependent on the respirator systems of the suit to breath,
he was capable of using the dark side to temporarily heal his lung damage during
his meditations. However, the relief he experienced during these sessions was very
transient, lasting only minutes at best. He speculated that the momentary
happiness he experienced as a result of healing himself disrupted his concentration,
and robbed him of the hate that was necessary to maintain the dark side-based
healing power.[233] During his mission to Atoa however, his deranged state of mind
and immense rage apparently allowed him to use this healing technique to a far
greater degree. In this instance, he was seen to operate in standard atmospheric
conditions for a considerable length of time without his helmet, even while
physically exerting himself.[181]
Besides the life support it provided his ravaged body, Vader's Sith armor also
offered limited protection against the blades of lightsabers. In a climactic duel with
his son in the depths of Cloud City, a quick blow from Luke's lightsaber appeared to
cut the armor only shallowly, although this was enough to draw a surprised cry from
the Dark Lord. However, most of the armor was purposely made out of nonlightsaber resistant material, as Vader worried that he might grow sloppy if he relied
too much on his armor to protect him in duels.[230]
Force Choke TCG
Vader using Force choke on Admiral Motti
It should be noted that Darth Vader, despite being a powerful Sith Lord, was rarely
seen generating Force lightning. This was due to the extensive presence of
cybernetic augmentations in his body as well as the presence of the electronic lifesupport system in his suit. Any attempt by Vader to generate Force lightning carried
the great risk of causing these systems to short-circuit, possibly to deadly effect.
There are however, a few circumstances where he has been recorded using it, most
notably when he was in close proximity to the Force-enhancing Kaiburr crystal. In

this case, he was seen to generate "Force energized lightning" in the form of
Kinetite, which he used against his son.[228] The crystal however, was also seen to
erode Vader's self control to the point that he was actively trying to kill Luke during
their duel, despite the fact that he very much wanted only to capture him. Thus, it is
not known whether the crystal shielded Vader from the potentially fatal effects of
generating Force lightning, or eroded his self control to the point that he simply
disregarded the risks.[222] On one occasion, he also demonstrated the ability to redirect already existing electricity. During his battle with Starkiller on Kamino, he was
able to gather residual electricity from the lightning rods surrounding the
battleground and blast it at his opponent.[210] Vader also demonstrated the ability
to both block and redirect Force lightning with the Force, as he demonstrated during
his duel with Galen Marek on board the first Death Star. He could also use his
lightsaber to ground extremely high-intensity blasts of Force lightning with little
effort.[210]
In combat, Vader was extremely adept at utilizing telekinetic attacks, and often
made liberal use of his telekinetic abilities during duels. He was capable of
performing incredibly powerful Force Pushes and Grips, and was capable of breaking
through the telekinetic defenses of Force-sensitives of Galen Marek and the cloned
Starkiller's caliber. He was also very proficient in the application of Force Repulse
and Force Wave, and was able to generate enough power with both attacks to easily
kill Force-insensitive assailants. In particular, he was capable of using Force Waves
to kill dozens of opponents simultaneously.[185] One of Vader's favorite tactics
during duels was his use of Force Throw to pull apart objects in his environment and
fling them at his opponents. This served as both an effective practical attack and a
way of demoralizing his opponents.[230] Darth Vader first utilized this technique
during his duel on Mustafar with Obi-Wan Kenobi, slicing shards of metal from the
walls and shooting them at his opponent. However, Kenobi's mastery of Soresu
allowed him to deflect the shards.[10] After gaining his armor, Darth Vader used this
tactic to bring down Roan Shryne on Kashyyyk, ripping apart the wooden platforms
in their battleground and flinging waves of debris at the Jedi from all sides.[168] His
most arguably famous usage of this ability was against Luke Skywalker during their
duel on Bespin, when he used it to batter Skywalker with everything and anything
that happened to be in the room they were in.[230] His effectiveness with this
technique was further bolstered by the fact that he was capable of telekinetically
griping and hurling objects without the need to utilize the "throwing" motion that
nearly all Force sensitives were seen to use. This was most evident during his fight
with Luke on Bespin, where he was able to surprise his son by telekinetically
throwing a metal box at his head while maintaining a two-handed bladelock.[230]
Additionally, when applying this technique against Roan Shryne, Vader simply stood
in one place with his arms folded across his chest.[168]
Languages Known
Skywalker was fluent in Galactic Basic Standard[4][9][10][11][12][230],
Huttese[255], and understood to a certain degree the verbal form of the droid
language Binary. He was also fluent in the Sith[255] as Darth Vader.

Other abilities
"I can fix anything."
Anakin Skywalker[src]
Anakin Skywalker was a man of many talents. He was well known for his exceptional
piloting skills, skills that earned him a name as a Jedi ace and a Tan; having such a
piloting reputation that some would go so far as to argue he was the best star pilot
in the galaxy. During Skywalker's tenure as a slave, he made a name for himself by
being a podracer. He was one of the few Humans and the youngest one with the
reflexes to actually pilot a podracer, thanks to his Force sensitivity. Skywalker even
won the Boonta Eve Classic race at the age of nine, an act that won him his
freedom. Young Skywalker also attracted the attention of many in the Republic:
during the Battle of Naboo, he piloted a Naboo starfighter and destroyed a Droid
Control Ship. His efforts no doubt single-handedly helped win the battle, but it was
only a foreshadowing of his skills to come.[9] During the Clone Wars, Skywalker was
one of the Republic's best and most famous star pilots. He perfected an assortment
of strategies; most notable was his skill at opening fire just before passing through
enemy formations, leaving little time for evasion. He also displayed relentless
tenacity in chasing down his targets as well as shaking off target locks. The latter
ability would later be displayed by his son, Luke Skywalker. His abilities garnered the
attention of both Chancellor Palpatine and his peers. At the Battle of Coruscant,
Skywalker was able to safely land the huge cruiser Invisible Hand, despite the fact
that he was only flying half a ship, and it was not even built to be able to land, as
well as implying the possibility that he might not know how to fly the ship.[10]
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Skywalker in his starfighter during the Battle of Coruscant
Skywalker was also known to be an exceptional mechanic. He could fix anything
from a damaged droid motivator to a malfunctioning repulsorlift. The young
Skywalker quickly understood how things worked, and his strong knowledge of
mechanical systems coupled with his closeness to the Force allowed him to pilot
most vehicles and starfighters. He used his droid hydrospanner wrench to
reassemble his Otoga 222 and built welding goggles with many settings from
scratch to use for precise work and to diagnose mechanical problems. At the age of
nine he created, even with limited resources, the protocol droid C-3PO to aid his
mother.
For the Boonta Eve Classic race, Skywalker entered his custom-built podracer made
from parts found in Watto's junk shop. As testament to Anakin Skywalker's
engineering brilliance, his Podracer featured a number of amazing innovations built
into its compact frame. Skywalker salvaged a pair of Radon-Ulzer 620C racing
engines that Watto deemed too burned out to be of any use. Less crafty pilots often
invested in larger engines in the hopes of getting greater performance. The trouble
with that route is that the larger the engine, the heavier the racer. Skywalker sidestepped that dilemma by developing a new fuel atomizer and distribution system

that sent more fuel into the Radon-Ulzer's combustion chambers, radically
increasing their thrust and his racer's top speed to almost 950 kilometers per hour.
Skywalker capped each Radon-Ulzer with a trio of bright yellow air scoops that
provided additional control when braking and cornering. When meeting up with his
former slave owner, Skywalker proved his identity to the Toydarian by fixing a
machine Watto was tinkering with.
During the Clone Wars, Skywalker extensively modified a Delta-7 Aethersprite
starfighter into a fully customized starship known as Azure Angel; modifications that
would pave the way for the Eta-2 Actis interceptor. Skywalker also often tinkered
with his prosthetic arm as he did his starfighter. The TIE Advanced x1 starfighter
was designed to Vader's specifications, having larger angular wings, a considerably
longer rear engine, and thicker support struts than the standard TIE. In addition,
Skywalker was fluent in understanding the electronic language of Binary, the
information-dense, low redundancy electronic language of most pit crew and simple
droids, thus, allowing him to interface with them.
Darth Vader was a brilliant strategist and was still, despite his lessened Force
potential, one of the greatest pilots in the galaxy. His armor did not dull the
precognition ability he possessed since childhood and he was able to predict the
movements of his targets during dogfights with pinpoint precision. He still
possessed his former persona's amazing engineering skills, having personally
overseen the design of both his TIE Advanced x1 fighter and the second Death
Star's construction. In addition, he also possessed his former persona's exceptional
piloting skillsDuring a TIE training exercise, Vader, after allowing himself into the
training exercise, managed to shoot down everyone despite his targeting and
navigation computers being disabled prior to launch; saving Colonel Vindoo Barvel,
widely considered to be the best pilot in the galaxy, for last. He then proceeded to
toy with Barvel; did various maneuvers that TIEs would not have been capable of
doing; matched his every move; before shooting him down despite Barvel's best
efforts in escaping. A TIE pilot involved in the exercise, Villian Dance, would later
recall his abilities during this event and considered suicide by overloading his TIE's
engines in the event that he got on Vader's bad side and was pursued by him.[256]
Skywalker carried a number of different lightsabers throughout his life; up until 28
BBY, he utilized a training lightsaber, but during a pilgrimage to Ilum, he
constructed his own lightsaber in a trance state. During the trance, Skywalker
fought a vision of Darth Maul, who tossed him the lightsaber that Skywalker was
unknowingly building, though it had a red blade. Skywalker refused to use the
weapon in battle and used his training lightsaber, but when it broke, Skywalker
banished the vision and awoke to find the completed blade in his lap. For the
weapon, Skywalker used three crystals that seemed to speak to him, and they
produced a blue blade.[35] Skywalker used that weapon up until the Battle of
Geonosis, where it was destroyed on a droid factory assembly line. He briefly used a
fallen Jedi's weapon to battle Dooku,[11] but soon constructed a second blue-bladed
weapon that was similar to his first but was specifically designed for Form V
lightsaber combat, as was Skywalker's specialty.[257] Skywalker used this weapon
up until his duel with Kenobi on Mustafar, where Kenobi took the weapon after the

now-Sith Lord's defeat;[10] Kenobi eventually gave the weapon to Skywalker's own
son Luke.[12] Vader constructed a new weapon, one that was intended to be a
novel design but turned out to be essentially a black-alloy version of his original
weapon with a red blade, and he used this weapon up until his death.[257] Like
General Grievous, Vader also kept a collection of lightsabers that he had claimed
from Jedi killed during the Jedi Purge.[258]
Skywalker was also proficient in hand-to-hand combat, showcased during his envyspurred brawl with Rush Clovis in Padme Amidala's apartment, being able to bruise
the man easily.[259]
Behind the scenes
"Anakin, as Skywalker, as a human being, was going to be extremely powerful, he
says. But he ended up losing his legs and an arm and became partly a robot. So a
lot of his ability to use the Force, a lot of his powers, are curbed at this point,
because, as a living form, theres not that much of him left. So his ability to be twice
as good as the Emperor disappeared, and now hes maybe 20 percent less than
him. So that isnt what the Emperor had in mind. He wanted this really super guy,
but that got derailed by Obi-Wan. So he finds that, with Luke, he can get a more
primo version if he can turn Luke to the Dark Side. Youll see, as this goes on, Luke
is faced with the same issues and practically the same scenes that Anakin is faced
with. Anakin says yes and Luke says no."
George Lucas[src]
Anakin Skywalker Episode 1 Concept Art
Concept art of Anakin Skywalker
There have been claims that George Lucas took the name "Anakin" from his friend
and fellow film director Ken Annakin. However, Lucas denied this via his publicist
following Annakin's death in 2009.[260] In the original scripts for A New Hope, the
name "Darth Vader" was given to a normal Imperial general.
On both the 2005 DVD cover of Revenge of the Sith and the film's poster, the scar
on the right side of Skywalker's face is absent.
The character of Darth Vader was not originally planned to be a suited cyborg. This
was created when the concept artist drew the opening scene where Tantive IV was
being boarded. It was initially imagined that Darth Vader would fly through space to
enter the ship, necessitating a suit and breathing mask. This suit was later made
permanent and incorporated in the story. Vader's usage of an all black uniform,
alongside his devotion to Emperor Palpatine, was also intended to be an analogy to
the Schutzstaffel (SS) in Nazi Germany.[261]
MCQ-deakvader
Concept art of Darth Vader fighting the character that would become Luke
Skywalker.

In order to keep the "big secret" of The Empire Strikes Back under wraps from
potential film spies, George Lucas actually used a diversion technique: actor Dave
Prowse was instructed to say, "Obi-Wan killed your father" during filming. Later,
James Earl Jones's voice was dubbed in, revealing the actual truth of Vader's
progeny in the famous line, "I am your father." The only ones who knew this big
secret were the writers, Mark Hamill (who was told in secret only moments before
shooting the scene), and James Earl Jones.
Vader's leitmotif is "The Imperial March."
In Italy, France and Iceland, Darth Vader's name was changed to "Dart Fener", "Dark
Vador" and "Svarthfi" (meaning Black-head), respectively. However, in Quebec,
Canada, he keeps his original name, but it is pronounced differently. During 2004,
Italian fans were asked to vote a poll regarding the choice to use Darth Vader's
original name instead of "Dart Fener" in the film Revenge of the Sith. "Dart Fener"
was approved by roughly 55% of the voters.
In a Sunday Star Wars comic strip from 1979, Luke is mistakenly referred to by a
computer as the son of "Tan Skywalker." This was later retconned to mean that
Skywalker was an exceptional pilot.
Skywalker is one of the only four characters (the other three being Kenobi, R2, and
3PO) who appear in all six films.
In the evolutions three-pack released by Hasbro, Anakin is shown as a Padawan, a
Jedi Knight, and finally as Darth Vader.
Non-canon appearances
Warning: The following section is non-canon within the Star Wars Legends
continuity. It contains information explicitly released under the Infinities brand
and/or confirmed to be non-canon by the author or Lucasfilm. Information exclusive
to this section did not happen in the "proper" Star Wars Legends continuity.
Pursuing the Tantive IV
The first time he captured what he thought to be Tantive IV, it turned out instead to
be a ruse set up by Abso Bar Binks. Abso, in order to buy time for the Princess to
escape, let himself be captured aboard Tantive V and even fought against Vader
himself. Though Vader was able to easily defeat Abso, the Gungan was able to save
his life by mentioning his father. Vader ordered that Tantive V be left adrift in space.
An hour later, he captured the real Tantive IV with Leia Organa aboard.[262]
Non-canon information ends here.
Anakin also makes an appearance in the special LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan
Menace, as both Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader. Anakin is seen fighting with
General Grievous aboard a capital class ship, and Darth Vader makes subsequent
appearances throughout the special, where he is herded off screen by George Lucas
and told he is not in the special. In Menace of the Sith, set during the prequel era,

Anakin is forced to serve as the substitute teacher for a group of Padawans and
ends up becoming a hero when he destroys the Malevolence.[263]
The Darth Vader and Son series of books by Jeffrey Brown depict Darth Vader of the
Imperial era as a loving father to Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa, buying them ice
cream, playing tea party and even reading bedtime stories.[264]
Darth Vader as a cultural figure
DarthVader-CotF
Vader's image has joined other mythic and historical figures as a symbol for evil.
Due to his central role in the films, Vader has entered the public consciousness as
the quintessential frightening villain; the American Film Institute's list of the
greatest movie villains placed him third, after Hannibal Lecter and Norman Bates.
Lord Vader's powerful, basso profondo voice coupled with his heavy, eerie breathing
is easily recognizable to moviegoersit is symbolic of his transformation from a
man of the light to an evil cyborg. He has been parodied by such figures as "Dark
Helmet" from Spaceballs and countless other parodies from cartoons, such as "Duck
Vader" from Tiny Toon Adventures and "Darth Koopa" from Super Mario Bros. (TV).
He was also imitated; one example would be "Death's Hand" from the video game
Jade Empirewho was similarly imprisoned in a suit of armor, including a masked
helmet, although using magic rather than cybernetics. Another example is the
primary antagonist of Final Fantasy IV, Golbez, whom Takashi Tokita stated was
based on Darth Vader. Similar to Vader, Golbez had been turned to evil by an
outside influence due to traumatic experiences, primarily wore dark armor after his
fall, and was a relative of the main protagonist (his brother, in this case).[265] Also,
Darth Vader's name has become a synonym for frightening evil. During the later
phase of its construction, Washington National Cathedral held a competition for
children to design new Grotesques for the west towers. One winner was a design
featuring Darth Vader.
Lucas himself once mentioned in an interview that he based Darth Vader on the
android villain Hakaider from the 1972-73 live action Japanese television series Jinzo
Ningen Kikaider, which he watched while visiting Japan in the early 1970s.[source?]
The book Star Wars: The Complete Vader explored the cultural impact of the Vader
character in detail.
Darth Vader, or at the very least his likeness, had also appeared in two Volkswagen
commercials during the Super Bowl. In the first ad, "The Force," which aired in 2011,
a child was dressed up in Darth Vader's armor and attempted to pull the car over to
him with the Force, only to run away when the car starts sounding its car alarm,
with the parents watching from their window. The second one, airing in 2012, and
after the main commercial, has Darth Vader strangling Doctor Cornelius Evazan
before leaving. The latter commercial also directly references the former, with
Evazan commenting mockingly that the current commercial was more moving than
the one from the previous year (resulting in the aforementioned Force-choking from
Darth Vader).[266]

Portrayal
"Finding the right voice for Darth Vader was another challenge. Lucas never
intended to use the onset vocal performance of David Prowse."
Narrator Robert Clotworthy[src]
Skywalker was played in the films by Jake Lloyd as a child; Hayden Christensen as a
young adult and as the suited Darth Vader in Episode III; David Prowse as the suited
Vader in the original trilogy; and Sebastian Shaw as a dying, elderly, and redeemed
man. In addition, for all of Skywalker's film appearances as the cyborg Vader, the
character's voice was dubbed by James Earl Jones. In addition, David Prowse was
originally intended to talk in Vader's armor, although Prowse's West Country accent
made Vader seem too silly, so his voice was quickly replaced. James Earl Jones
decided to do the voice work, as the description needed for Vader to sound
intimidating matched his own voice.[267] However, James Earl Jones would not be
credited until Episode V, as he felt he didn't deserve the credit due to only supplying
his voice for Vader.
Episode I casting director Robin Gurland looked at three thousand different actors to
play Skywalker in the film before settling on Lloyd.[268]
Skywalker's young age EU illustrations, are usually morphing compositions of the
faces of Lloyd and Christensen, as exemplified in the cover of Jedi Quest: Path to
Truth.
In Revenge of the Sith, Hayden Christensen wore the Darth Vader suit, which was
specifically designed to fit his body. His stand-in double for the UK shoot was
Christian J Simpson, who also played alongside the young Skywalker in Episode I as
Bravo Six, Lt. Gavyn Sykes. The few lines of the suited Vader speaking are of James
Earl Jones, but at one time, there was some debate over this. Some fans believed
that Jones didn't participate at all, since his name doesn't appear in the official
credits of Revenge of the Sith, and the voice heard in the first trailer for the movie
was that of Christensen's, albeit altered digitally. The false claim was settled with
the Summer 2005 issue of Starlog, in which producer Rick McCallum stated they
had James Earl Jones for a partial day of work on Episode III.
David Prowse portrayed Vader in Episodes IV, V, and VI, with the exception of the
fight scenes in V and VI, in which swordsman Bob Anderson wore the suit. In new
footage shot for the Special Edition of the original trilogy, actor and former
Industrial Light & Magic visual effects artist C. Andrew Nelson played the infamous
Dark Lord.
In the radio drama adaptations, Brock Peters performed as Vader, with David Birney
performing as Skywalker on the final episode of the Return of the Jedi radio drama.
In the Clone Wars cartoon, Skywalker was voiced by Frankie Ryan Manriquez as a
child and Mat Lucas as an adult. In The Clone Wars CGI series and its feature film
the character is voiced by Matt Lanter. For many of the Star Wars video games,
including Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, Star Wars: Force Commander, and Star
Wars: TIE Fighter, Vader was voiced by Scott Lawrence; in more recently released

titles, such as Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and Star Wars: Empire at War,
Matthew Sloan, who provides the voice of Vader in the Chad Vader: Day Shift
Manager shorts, provides Vader's voice.
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Hayden Christensen (left) as the "new" spirit of Anakin Skywalker (canon)
Spirits copy1
Sebastian Shaw (left) as the "old" spirit of Anakin Skywalker (non-canon)
In the original Return of the Jedi, the appearance of Skywalker's redeemed Force
ghost was a robust, middle-aged man with graying brown hair and a kindly face, but
upon release of the Special Edition DVD version of Return of the Jedi, Skywalker is in
his twenties just before his fall to the dark side. George Lucas stated that redeemed
Jedi would revert as a Force ghost in their pre-fall form. In the latest Blu-ray release
of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Darth Vader was edited so that he would say "no"
twice: once while witnessing Luke's electrocution and another directly before lifting
the Emperor, and yelling.
Anakin, along with certain actions of his, have been represented by numerous
musical motifs during the film scores. These include "Anakin's Theme", "Anakin's
Betrayal", "Anakin's Dark Deeds", "Across the Stars" (his love with Padm), and "The
Imperial March" (as Darth Vader).
In the Japanese localizations, Daisuke Namikawa acts as the voice of Anakin as an
adult, while as young Anakin, Akiko Yajima provides his voice in The Clone Wars.
As Darth Vader, the voice is instead provided by Tru hira in most incarnations,
save for Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds (where he is voiced by Ryzabur
tomo), and a number of other substitute voices in the original films. hira also by
proxy, reprises his role in the Japanese version of SoulCalibur IV.
Alternate endings
Several comics and video games have offered alternate storylines that fall under
the non-canon Infinities label:
In the Revenge of the Sith video game, an alternate ending depicts Vader
successfully leaping at Kenobi during their duel on Mustafar, impaling the Jedi from
behind. The Sith Lord then greets Darth Sidious upon his arrival at the mining
facility and receives a new lightsaber from his master, inspecting it briefly before
running Sidious through with the blade. As the Emperor falls to the floor, Vader
declares the galaxy to be his, and the stormtrooper guards lower their weapons in
acceptance.[269]
In The Force Unleashed, Galen Marek is presented with the choice of either
confronting Palpatine or killing the injured Darth Vader. In the non-canonical option
of killing Vader, Marek uses the Force to slam his former Master into various walls
before using his blade and Vader's own lightsaber to impale the Sith Lord through
the chest. With Vader's death, Marek replaces him as the Emperor's new apprentice

and takes on the title of Lord Starkiller. Starkiller later reveals Vader's identity to
Luke Skywalker during the Battle of Hoth.[252]
WhiteVader
The redeemed Anakin Skywalker.
In Star Wars Infinities: Return of the Jedi, both the Emperor and Vader sense Yoda's
death on Dagobah, and Vader is dispatched to Dagobah to learn what happened.
Luke surrenders himself to Palpatine's forces and is brought before Vader and the
Emperor, who also captured Leia, and Vader is ordered to kill Leia by his master.
When Luke defends his sister and engages the Sith Lord in a lightsaber duel, Vader
refuses to accept Luke's request for peace, forcing Luke to reveal that he and Leia
are Vader's children. Stunned, Vader loses an arm to Luke's blade, and Vader turns
away from the dark side and begs forgiveness from his children. The Emperor
disappears in the chaos that results from the Rebel Alliance's successful attack on
the station, and the Skywalker children escape the station with their wounded
father, who abandons his Sith title and dons an all-white version of his armor.
Declaring his loyalty to his children and the Alliance, Skywalker intends to hunt
down the Emperor.[270]
In the non-canon ending to The Force Unleashed II, the clone Starkiller is killed by
the Dark Apprentice before he can kill Vader on Kamino, and Vader reveals that he
had succeeded in perfecting the cloning process. Vader then charges the Dark
Apprentice with hunting down and executing the last of the Alliance leaders. In 4
ABY of the resultant alternate timeline, Vader and the Emperor oversee the Battle of
Endor from the Death Star, and he dispatches the Dark Apprentice to protect the
shield-generator bunker on the forest moon, but commands him to kill everyone in
his path in order to preserve the secret of his existence. However, Palpatine reveals
that he is aware of the clone's existence, striking down Vader with Force lightning
and forcing him to kneel as the Emperor sent his forces to destroy the clone.[271]
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Magazine 7 presents a Clone Wars Infinities storyline in
which the Father never saved Skywalker from the dark side on Mortis, allowing the
Son to kill the Father and plunge Mortis into darkness. Embracing the dark side,
Skywalker defeated and abandoned Kenobi in the fiery depths of Mortis before
killing Ahsoka, and he and the Son then departed Mortis in their now-repaired ship.
Arriving on Coruscant, Skywalker was confronted by both Yoda and Darth Sidious,
though he was able to defeat the two unlikely allies and struck them down and
became even more powerful in the process. Entering the Senate chamber,
Skywalker cast down dozens of Senatorial platforms before levitating himself onto
the central dais, declaring himself Emperor Skywalker of the new Galactic Empire.
[272]
Appearances
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 25: Vector, Part 1 (Vision to Q'Anilia)
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Darth Plagueis
The Life and Legend of Obi-Wan Kenobi
Jedi Apprentice Special Edition: Deceptions
Jedi Apprentice Special Edition: The Followers
Secrets of the Jedi
The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader
Duel of the Fates
Episode I Adventures 5: The Ghostling Children
Star Wars Adventures 7: The Ghostling Children
Episode I Adventures 6: The Hunt for Anakin Skywalker
Star Wars Adventures 8: The Hunt for Anakin Skywalker
Episode I Adventures 7: Capture Arawynne
Star Wars Adventures 9: Capture Arawynne
Episode I Adventures 8: Trouble on Tatooine
Star Wars Adventures 10: Trouble on Tatooine
Star Wars Math: Jabba's Game Galaxy (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Episode I Racer
Star Wars Racer Arcade
Racer Rush
Star Wars: Obi-Wan
"Urchins"Star Wars Tales 14
Anakin's Fate
Podracing Tales
Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace novel
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace junior novelization
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace video game
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace script facsimile
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace PhotoComic
Star Wars Episode I Journal: Darth Maul

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Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Star Wars Episode I Journal: Anakin Skywalker
Episode I Adventures 14: Podrace to Freedom
Star Wars Adventures 12: Podrace to Freedom
Star Wars Episode I: Anakin's Race for Freedom
Jar Jar's Mistake
Anakin's Pit Droid
Podrace!
Ready, Set, Podrace!
Star Wars: Starfighter
Star Wars: Episode I: Battle for Naboo
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace 3
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
Star Wars: Early Learning Activity Center
"End Game" (Mentioned only)
Anakin to the Rescue
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace 4
Episode I Adventures 15: The Final Battle
Episode I: Obi-Wan Kenobi (Appears in flashback(s))
Star Wars: Republic 11: Outlander, Part 5 (Indirect mention only)
Star Wars: Republic 13: Emissaries to Malastare, Part 1
Rogue Planet
Jedi Quest: Path to Truth
Jedi Quest comics
Jedi Quest: The Way of the Apprentice

Outbound Flight
Jedi Quest: The Trail of the Jedi
Jedi Quest: The Dangerous Games
Star Wars: Zam Wesell
Star Wars: Poison Moon
Jedi Quest: The Master of Disguise
Jedi Quest: The School of Fear
Jedi Quest: The Shadow Trap
Jedi Quest: The Moment of Truth
Jedi Quest: The Changing of the Guard
Jedi Quest: The False Peace
"A Jedi's Weapon"Star Wars Tales 12
Star Wars: Racer Revenge
Star Wars: Republic: Honor and Duty
Jedi Quest: The Final Showdown
Full of Surprises (Mentioned only)
Star Wars Adventures 1: Hunt the Sun Runner
Star Wars Adventures 2: The Cavern of Screaming Skulls
Star Wars Adventures 3: The Hostage Princess
Practice Makes Perfect
Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter
The Approaching Storm
Anakin: Apprentice
Anakin Skywalker: A Jedi's Journal
I Am a Jedi Apprentice
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones novel
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones comic
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones video game
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones junior novelization

Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones PhotoComic

HyperspaceIconPrecipice on Hyperspace (article) (content removed from
StarWars.com; new link on Suvudu) (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars video game
HNNsmall Jedi Settle Ansion DisputeHoloNet News Vol. 531 54 (content now
unavailable; backup links 1 2 on Archive.org) (Picture only)
Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds: Clone Campaigns
Star Wars: Battlefront II
Machines of War
Most Precious Weapon (Appears in flashback(s))
Boba Fett: The Fight to Survive
Boba Fett: Crossfire (Mentioned only)
"The Lesson"Star Wars Tales 14
CloneWarsLogoMini Star Wars: Clone Wars "Chapter 7" (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Republic 50: The Defense of Kamino
Star Wars: Republic: The New Face of War
Star Wars: Republic 53: Blast Radius
Storm Fleet Warnings
Star Wars: The New Droid Army
CloneWarsLogoMini Star Wars: Clone Wars "Chapter 1"
CloneWarsLogoMini Star Wars: Clone Wars "Chapter 2"
CloneWarsLogoMini Star Wars: Clone Wars "Chapter 4"
CloneWarsLogoMini Star Wars: Clone Wars "Chapter 10"
CloneWarsLogoMini Star Wars: Clone Wars "Chapter 11"
CloneWarsLogoMini Star Wars: Clone Wars "Chapter 17"
CloneWarsLogoMini Star Wars: Clone Wars "Chapter 18"
CloneWarsLogoMini Star Wars: Clone Wars "Chapter 19"
CloneWarsLogoMini Star Wars: Clone Wars "Chapter 20"
Star Wars: Clone Wars PhotoComic
CWACite Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures Volume 1 "Blind Force"

CWACite Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures Volume 2 "Skywalkers"

CWACite Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures Volume 10 "Thunder Road"
Star Wars: Republic: The Battle of Jabiim
Star Wars: Republic 59: Enemy Lines
Star Wars: Republic 61: Dead Ends
Shatterpoint (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Republic 62: No Man's Land
Jedi: Yoda (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Republic 67: Forever Young
Republic HoloNet News Core Edition 14:2:12
The Cestus Deception
The Hive (Mentioned only)
Republic HoloNet News Core Edition 15:01:03
CIS Shadowfeed Dispatch 15:01:15 Edition (Mentioned only)
Changing Seasons
Jedi Trial
CloneWarsLogoMini Star Wars: Clone Wars "Chapter 21"
CloneWarsLogoMini Star Wars: Clone Wars "Chapter 22"
Star Wars: Clone Wars: Planetary Forces
Yoda: Dark Rendezvous
Star Wars: Republic: The Dreadnaughts of Rendili
CWACite Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures Volume 4 "The Brink"
CWACite Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures Volume 7 "Creature Comfort"
The Clone Wars: Decide Your Destiny: Crisis on Coruscant
The Clone Wars: Decide Your Destiny: Dooku's Secret Army
TCWA Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures "Starfighter"
The Clone Wars: Shadowed
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Cat and Mouse"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "The Hidden Enemy"
Star Wars: The Clone Wars film

Star Wars: The Clone Wars novel

Star Wars: The Clone Wars junior novelization
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Official Movie Storybook
The Clone Wars: The New Padawan
The Clone Wars: Operation: Huttlet
The Clone Wars: Anakin in Action!
The Clone Wars: Battle at Teth
The Clone Wars: The Battle Begins
The Clone Wars: Decide Your Destiny: Tethan Battle Adventure
The Clone Wars: Decide Your Destiny: The Way of the Jedi
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Clone Cadets" (newsreel)
The Clone Wars: Covetous
The Clone Wars: Prelude (cover)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Shipyards of Doom
The Clone Wars: Shakedown
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Rising Malevolence"
The Clone Wars: Meet Ahsoka Tano
The Clone Wars: Procedure
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Shadow of Malevolence"
The Clone Wars: Agenda (Mentioned only)
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Destroy Malevolence"
The Clone Wars: Destroy Malevolence
The Clone Wars: Secret Missions 1: Breakout Squad (Mentioned only)
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Rookies"
The Clone Wars: Wild Space
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Downfall of a Droid"
The Clone Wars: Downfall of a Droid
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Duel of the Droids"
The Clone Wars: No Prisoners
"Inside Job"Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.1

"Keep the Faith!"Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.2

"In Triplicate"Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.3
"Terror on the Twilight"Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.5
"Milk Run to Maarka!"Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.6
"A Trooper's Tale"Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.8 (Mentioned only)
"A Little Help on Hakara"Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.9
"Suited"Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.10
"Prize Contender"Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.11
"The Professional!"Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.12
"Hunted"Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.16
"Burn the Behemoth!"Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.17
"Outgunned"Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.20
"Fashion"Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.23
"Runaway Starfighter"Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.24
"Younglings"Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.25
"Night Moves!"Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.27
"Blind Jedi's Bluff"Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.29 (Appears in hologram)
"Out"Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.30
"Deadly Droid"Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.31
"The Fear Architects"Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.32 (Vision)
"Sabotage"Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.38
"Mask of Iron"Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.44
"Power Down"Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.45
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Bombad Jedi" (Appears in flashback(s))
The Clone Wars: Transfer
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Cloak of Darkness" (Appears in
hologram)
The Clone Wars: Bait
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Dooku Captured"
The Clone Wars: Switch

TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "The Gungan General"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Jedi Crash"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Defenders of Peace"
Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth
Clone Wars Gambit: Siege
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Trespass"
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Crash Course
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Jedi Alliance
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Blue Shadow Virus"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Mystery of a Thousand Moons"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Storm Over Ryloth"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Innocents of Ryloth" (Appears in
flashback(s))
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Liberty on Ryloth"
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Holocron Heist"
The Clone Wars: The Holocron Heist
The Clone Wars: Act on Instinct
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Cargo of Doom"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Children of the Force"
The Clone Wars: Children of the Force
The Clone Wars: The Valsedian Operation
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Bounty Hunters"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "The Zillo Beast"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "The Zillo Beast Strikes Back"
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Hero of the Confederacy
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Senate Spy"
TCWA Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures "Geonosis Saga"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Landing at Point Rain"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Weapons Factory"

TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Legacy of Terror"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Brain Invaders"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Grievous Intrigue"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "The Deserter" (Appears in flashback(s))
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Lightsaber Lost"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "The Mandalore Plot"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Voyage of Temptation"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Duchess of Mandalore"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Death Trap"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "R2 Come Home"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Lethal Trackdown"
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Wind Raiders of Taloraan
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "The Academy"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Assassin"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "ARC Troopers"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Sphere of Influence"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Evil Plans"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Hostage Crisis"
The Clone Wars: Hunting the Hunters, Part III
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Hunt for Ziro" (Appears in flashback(s))
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Heroes on Both Sides"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Nightsisters"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Witches of the Mist"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Overlords"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Altar of Mortis"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Ghosts of Mortis"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "The Citadel"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Counterattack"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Citadel Rescue"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Padawan Lost"

TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Wookiee Hunt"
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Starcrusher Trap
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Sharpshooter
TCWA Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures "Mission on Iceberg Three"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Water War"
TCWA Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures "Aquatic Assault"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Gungan Attack"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Prisoners"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Shadow Warrior"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Nomad Droids" (Mentioned only)
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Darkness on Umbara"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "The General" (Appears in flashback(s))
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Plan of Dissent" (Mentioned only)
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Carnage of Krell" (Appears in
flashback(s))
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Kidnapped"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Slaves of the Republic"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Escape from Kadavo"
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Slaves of the Republic
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "A Friend in Need"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Deception"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Friends and Enemies"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "The Box"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Crisis on Naboo"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Brothers"
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Sith Hunters
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "A War on Two Fronts"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Front Runners"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "The Soft War"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Tipping Points"

TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "The Gathering" (Appears in
flashback(s))
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Secret Weapons"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Point of No Return"
The Clone Wars: Darth Maul: Shadow Conspiracy
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Revival"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "The Lawless" (Mentioned only)
SWInsider small "MedStar: Intermezzo"Star Wars Insider 83 (Mentioned only)
MedStar II: Jedi Healer (Mentioned only)
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Sabotage"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "The Jedi Who Knew Too Much"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "To Catch a Jedi"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "The Wrong Jedi"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "The Unknown"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Conspiracy" (Appears in flashback(s))
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Orders"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "An Old Friend"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "The Rise of Clovis"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Crisis at the Heart"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "The Lost One"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Voices"
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Destiny" (Vision to Yoda)
TCW mini logo Star Wars: The Clone Wars "Sacrifice" (Vision to Yoda)
Boba Fett: A New Threat
Boba Fett: Pursuit
Star Wars: Obsession
Star Wars: Battle for the Republic
Wat Tambor and the Quest for the Sacred Eye of the Albino Cyclops (Vision)
Brothers in Arms
Sithisis

Reversal of Fortune
Labyrinth of Evil
CloneWarsLogoMini Star Wars: Clone Wars "Chapter 23"
CloneWarsLogoMini Star Wars: Clone Wars "Chapter 24"
CloneWarsLogoMini Star Wars: Clone Wars "Chapter 25"
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith novel
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith comic
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith video game
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith junior novelization
Star Wars: Republic: The Hidden Enemy (Mentioned only)
SWAJsmall "Mist Encounter"Star Wars Adventure Journal 7 (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Republic 78: Loyalties
Evasive Action: Recruitment (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Kenobi (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Purge
Star Wars: Purge: Seconds to Die
Star Wars: Purge: The Hidden Blade
Star Wars: Purge: The Tyrant's Fist
Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Lost Command
Star Wars: Dark Times: The Path to Nowhere
Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
Imperial Commando: 501st
Star Wars: Dark Times 7: Parallels, Part 2 (Appears in flashback(s))
The Last One Standing (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Dark Times: Vector
Coruscant Nights I: Jedi Twilight
Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison
"The Duty"Star Wars Tales 12
Star Wars: Dark Times 13: Blue Harvest, Part 1

Star Wars: Dark Times 14: Blue Harvest, Part 2

Star Wars: Dark Times 15: Blue Harvest, Part 3
Star Wars: Dark Times: Out of the Wilderness
Star Wars: Dark Times: Fire Carrier
The Last of the Jedi: The Desperate Mission (Mentioned only)
The Last of the Jedi: Dark Warning (Vision)
The Last of the Jedi: Underworld
The Last of the Jedi: Death on Naboo (Mentioned only)
The Last of the Jedi: A Tangled Web
The Last of the Jedi: Return of the Dark Side
The Last of the Jedi: Secret Weapon
The Last of the Jedi: Against the Empire
The Last of the Jedi: Master of Deception
The Last of the Jedi: Reckoning
Coruscant Nights II: Street of Shadows
Evasive Action: Prey
Evasive Action: End Game
Coruscant Nights III: Patterns of Force
Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Ninth Assassin
In His Image (Mentioned only)
The Last Jedi
SWInsider small "A Two-Edged Sword"Star Wars Insider 85
The Eye (Mentioned only)
A New Hope: The Life of Luke Skywalker (Mentioned only)
GalaxyCite "Dark Vendetta" Star Wars Galaxy 8
"Falling Star"Star Wars Tales 4 (Indirect mention only)
"Sandstorm"Star Wars Tales 15
WEG icon2 "The Lesser Evil"Shadows of the Empire Sourcebook
The Hutt Gambit
Boba Fett: Enemy of the Empire

"First Impressions"Star Wars Tales 15

The Lost City of Tatooine (Indirect mention only)
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed video game
The Force Unleashed novel
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed comic
Star Wars: Agent of the EmpireIron Eclipse, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Agent of the EmpireHard Targets, Part 2
Death Star
A Hunter's Fate: Greedo's Tale webstrip
A Hunter's Fate: Greedo's Tale
Rebel Dawn (Mentioned only)
Han Solo at Stars' End comic
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II comic
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II novel
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
"Extinction"Star Wars Tales 1
Star Wars: Empire: Betrayal
Death Troopers (Mentioned only)
The Farlander Papers (Mentioned only)
"Resurrection"Star Wars Tales 9
Jedi Dawn (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Empire 5: Princess... Warrior, Part 1
Star Wars: Empire at War
Star Wars: Rebellion
Star Wars: X-Wing
Star Wars: Blood Ties: Boba Fett is Dead 3
Star Wars: Blood Ties: Boba Fett is Dead 4
Star Wars: Lethal Alliance
Star Wars: Rebel Assault
Star Wars NES game

Star Wars: Dark Forces

Interlude at Darkknell (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption
Star Wars Journal: The Fight for Justice (Mentioned only)
Star Wars Journal: Captive to Evil (Mentioned only)
Luke's Fate (Indirect mention only)
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope novel (First appearance)
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope junior novelization
Star Wars radio drama
Star Wars: A New Hope - The Special Edition
Star Wars: Trench Run
Star Wars Trilogy: Apprentice of the Force
Star Wars: The Arcade Game (Voice only)
Super Star Wars
Onslaught at Arda I (Mentioned only)
Star Wars 1
Trooper
Star Wars 2: Six Against the Galaxy
Star Wars 3: Death Star!
Star Wars 4: In Battle with Darth Vader
Star Wars 5: Lo, The Moons of Yavin!
Star Wars 6: Is This the Final Chapter?
Star Wars: Empire 15: Darklighter, Part 4 (Appears in flashback(s))
Darth Vader's Mission: The Search for the Secret Plans
Star Wars Mighty Chronicles
R2-D2's Mission: A Little Hero's Journey (Mentioned only)
Star Wars Droids 6: Star Wars According to the Droids, Book I
Star Wars Droids 7: Star Wars According to the Droids, Book II
Star Wars Droids 8: Star Wars According to the Droids, Book III

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SWAJsmall "Changing the Odds: The Adventures of Dannen Lifehold"Star Wars
Adventure Journal 3 (Mentioned only)
The Day after the Death Star! (Vision to Luke Skywalker)
The Keeper's World (Mentioned only)
Star Wars Missions 17: Darth Vader's Return
Star Wars Missions 18: Rogue Squadron to the Rescue
Star Wars Missions 19: Bounty on Bonadan
Star Wars Missions 20: Total Destruction
Rebel Force: Target (Mentioned only)
Rebel Force: Hostage (Mentioned only)
Rebel Force: Renegade (Mentioned only)
Rebel Force: Firefight (Indirect mention only)
Rebel Force: Trapped
Rebel Force: Uprising
Star Wars 7: New Planets, New Perils! (Mentioned only)
Scoundrels (Mentioned only)
Star Wars 8: Eight for Aduba-3 (Appears in flashback(s))
Star Wars 9: Showdown on a Wasteland World! (Mentioned only)
Star Wars 11: Star Search! (Mentioned only)
Star Wars 12: Doomworld! (Appears in flashback(s))
Star Wars 13: Day of the Dragon Lords (Mentioned only)
Star Wars 17: Crucible (Appears in flashback(s))
Star Wars 21: Shadow of a Dark Lord
Star Wars 22: To the Last Gladiator
Star Wars 23: Flight Into Fury
Star Wars 25: Siege at Yavin (Mentioned only)
Star Wars 26: Doom Mission (Mentioned only)
Star Wars 27: Return of the Hunter (Mentioned only)

Star Wars 28: What Ever Happened to Jabba the Hut? (Appears in flashback(s))
Star Wars 29: Dark Encounter
Star Wars 30: A Princess Alone (Mentioned only)
Star Wars 31: Return to Tatooine (Mentioned only)
Star Wars 32: The Jawa Express (Mentioned only)
Star Wars 33: Saber Clash (Mentioned only)
Star Wars 34: Thunder in the Stars (Mentioned only)
Jedi's Honor
Star Wars Missions 9: Revolt of the Battle Droids (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: In the Shadow of Yavin
Star Wars 7
Darth Vader Strikes
The Serpent Masters (Mentioned only)
Traitor's Gambit (Mentioned only)
The Night Beast (Mentioned only)
The Return of Ben Kenobi
Vader's Quest
Star Wars Annual 1: The Long Hunt (Mentioned only)
Tilotny Throws a Shape (Mentioned only)
Star Wars 35: Dark Lord's Gambit
Star Wars 36: Red Queen Rising
Star Wars 37: In Mortal Combat
Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron
Dark Lord's Conscience
Dark Knight's Devilry
Gambler's World
Princess Leia, Imperial Servant
Bring Me the Children
As Long As We Live...
The Frozen World of Ota (Mentioned only)

Planet of Kadril (Mentioned only)

Graveyard of Alderaan
The Power Gem
Shadow Stalker
Revenge of the Jedi
Doom Mission
Race for Survival
The Paradise Detour (Illusion)
Showdown
The Final Trap
Star Wars: Empire 19: Target: Vader
Imperial Spy
Allegiance
Galaxy of Fear: Eaten Alive
Galaxy of Fear: City of the Dead (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Empire 20: A Little Piece of Home, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
River of Chaos 1 (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Empire 24: Idiot's Array, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Empire 25: Idiot's Array, Part 2
Galaxy of Fear: Ghost of the Jedi
Star Wars: Empire 27: "General" Skywalker, Part 2 (Appears in flashback(s))
Galaxy of Fear: Army of Terror
HyperspaceIconDeath in the Slave Pits of Lorrd: A Hyperspace Exclusive on
Hyperspace (article) (content removed from StarWars.com and unavailable)
(Mentioned only)
Choices of One (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Empire 29: In the Shadows of Their Fathers, Part 1 (Appears in
flashback(s))
Star Wars: Empire 30: In the Shadows of Their Fathers, Part 2 (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Empire 31: The Price of Power
Star Wars: Empire 32: In the Shadows of Their Fathers, Part 3 (Mentioned only)

Star Wars: Empire 33: In the Shadows of Their Fathers, Part 4

Star Wars: Empire 34: In the Shadows of Their Fathers, Part 5
Star Wars: Empire 35: A Model Officer
Star Wars: Empire 36: The Wrong Side of the War, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Empire 37: The Wrong Side of the War, Part 2 (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Empire 39: The Wrong Side of the War, Part 4 (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Empire 40: The Wrong Side of the War, Part 5 (Mentioned only)
Galaxy of Fear: The Brain Spiders (Mentioned only)
Galaxy of Fear: The Swarm (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Rebellion 0: Crossroads
Star Wars: Rebellion 1: My Brother, My Enemy, Part 1
Star Wars: Rebellion 3: My Brother, My Enemy, Part 3 (Vision to Jorin Sol)
Star Wars: Rebellion 4: My Brother, My Enemy, Part 4
Star Wars: Rebellion 5: My Brother, My Enemy, Part 5
Star Wars: Rebellion: The Ahakista Gambit
Star Wars: Rebellion 11: Small Victories, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Rebellion: Vector
Galaxy of Fear: Spore (Mentioned only)
"Sand Blasted"Star Wars Tales 4
Galaxy of Fear: The Doomsday Ship (Mentioned only)
Galaxy of Fear: Clones
Galaxy of Fear: The Hunger
The Star Wars Holiday Special
Rookies: Rendezvous (Mentioned only)
Rookies: No Turning Back (Appears in hologram)
"Walking the Path That's Given"Star Wars Tales 21
Gal-icon Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided
Star Wars Galaxies: The Ruins of Dantooine
Star Wars Missions 15: Voyage to the Underworld (Appears in hologram)
Splinter of the Mind's Eye

Splinter of the Mind's Eye comic

SWAJsmall "Small Favors"Star Wars Adventure Journal 12
SWAJsmall "The Draw"Star Wars Adventure Journal 15 (Mentioned only)
WEG icon2 "One Step Ahead"Galaxy Guide 3: The Empire Strikes Back, Second
Edition
Planet of the Mists
"The Hidden"Star Wars Tales 6 (Mentioned only)
Side Trip
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back novel
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back junior novelization
The Empire Strikes Back radio drama
The Empire Strikes Back Mighty Chronicles
The Empire Strikes Back arcade game
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back NES game
Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back Mobile
Murder on the Executor (Mentioned only)
Star Wars 39: The Empire Strikes Back: Beginning
Star Wars 40: The Empire Strikes Back: Battleground Hoth
Entrenched
Star Wars 41: The Empire Strikes Back: Imperial Pursuit
Star Wars 42: The Empire Strikes Back: To Be a Jedi
Star Wars Adventures: Luke Skywalker and the Treasure of the Dragonsnakes (Vision
to Luke Skywalker)
"Moment of Doubt"Star Wars Tales 4
Star Wars 43: The Empire Strikes Back: Betrayal at Bespin
"Thank the Maker"Star Wars Tales 6
WEG icon2 "Up the Intelligence Ladder"Shadows of the Empire Sourcebook
Star Wars 44: The Empire Strikes Back: Duel a Dark Lord

WEG icon2 "Temporary Reassignment"Shadows of the Empire Sourcebook

WEG icon2 "A Grand Admiral Returns"Heir to the Empire Sourcebook (Mentioned
only)
Star Wars: TIE Fighter
GalaxyCite "The Emperor's Trophy" Star Wars Galaxy 11
GalaxyCite "No Disintegrations, Please" Star Wars Galaxy 11 (Mentioned only)
Star Wars Adventures: The Will of Darth Vader
The Empire Strikes Back Monthly 149: Death Masque (Vision to Luke Skywalker)
Star Wars 45: Death Probe (Appears in flashback(s))
Star Wars 46: The Dreams of Cody Sunn-Childe(Mentioned only)
Star Wars 47: Droid World (Mentioned only)
Star Wars 48: The Third Law
Rust Never Sleeps (Mentioned only)
Star Wars 50: The Crimson Forever (Vision to Luke Skywalker)
Star Wars 51: Resurrection of Evil
Star Wars 52: To Take The Tarkin
SWInsider small "Vader Adrift"Star Wars Insider Special Edition 2012 (Mentioned
only)
Star Wars 53: The Last Gift From Alderaan! (Appears in flashback(s))
Star Wars 54: Starfire Rising (Mentioned only)
Star Wars 56: Coffin in the Clouds (Mentioned only)
Star Wars 57: Hello, Bespin, Good-bye! (Mentioned only)
Star Wars 58: Sundown!
Star Wars 60: Shira's Story (Mentioned only)
Star Wars 62: Pariah! (Appears in hologram)
Star Wars 63: The Mind Spider
Star Wars 65: Golrath Never Forgets (Mentioned only)
The Stele Chronicles
GalaxyCite "Hunting the Hunters" Star Wars Galaxy 6 (Mentioned only)
Star Wars 68: The Search Begins (Mentioned only)

Star Wars 69: Death in the City of Bone (Appears in hologram)

Shadows of the Empire comic
Shadows of the Empire novel
Shadows of the Empire junior novelization
Shadows of the Empire video game
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire Galoob minicomic
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire Ertl minicomic
WEG icon2 "An Invitation to Defect"Shadows of the Empire Planets Guide (Portrait)
WEG icon2 "The Backup Plan"Shadows of the Empire Sourcebook
WEG icon2 "Will the Last Person Leaving Vergesso Turn Off the Lights?"Shadows of
the Empire Planets Guide (Mentioned only)
Star Wars 74: The Iskalon Effect (Appears in flashback(s))
Star Wars 75: Tidal (Appears in hologram)
Star Wars 76: Artoo-Detoo to the Rescue
Star Wars 79: The Big Con (Mentioned only)
Star Wars 80: Ellie (Appears in hologram)
Star Wars Annual 3: The Apprentice
Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance
Star Wars: Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire
Star Wars: Imperial Ace
That's Entertainment: The Tale of Salacious Crumb (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Masters of Ters Ksi
Star Wars: Demolition
Star Wars: Ewoks - Shadows of Endor (Vision to Charal)
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi novel
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi junior novelization
Return of the Jedi radio drama
Return of the Jedi Mighty Chronicles
Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi arcade game (Voice only)

Star Wars Trilogy Arcade
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi 1: In the Hands of Jabba the Hutt
Sleight of Hand: The Tale of Mara Jade (Mentioned only)
Out of the Closet: The Assassin's Tale (Mentioned only)
Star Wars Journal: Hero for Hire (Mentioned only)
The Great God Quay: The Tale of Barada and the Weequays (Mentioned only)
Old Friends: Ephant Mon's Tale (Mentioned only)
Mara Jade: By the Emperor's Hand 1 (Mentioned only)
A Barve Like That: The Tale of Boba Fett (Mentioned only)
Mara Jade: By the Emperor's Hand 2 (Vision to Mara Jade)
The Mandalorian Armor (Appears in flashback(s)) (Via transmission)
Slave Ship (Appears in flashback(s)) (Appears in hologram)
Hard Merchandise (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi 2: The Emperor Commands
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi 3: Mission to Endor
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi 4: The Final Duel
The Ewoks Join the Fight
Star Wars -PhantasmagoriaOne Last Night in the Mos Eisley Cantina: The Tale of the Wolfman and the Lamproid
(Indirect mention only)
The Truce at Bakura (Mentioned only)
Star Wars 82: Diplomacy (Mentioned only)
Star Wars 87: Still Active After All These Years (Indirect mention only)
Star Wars 90: The Choice (Vision)
Star Wars 89: I'll See You in the Throne Room (Mentioned only)
Star Wars 98: Supply and Demand (Mentioned only)
Star Wars 92: The Dream (Dream)
Star Wars 93: Catspaw (Indirect mention only)
Star Wars 96: Duel With a Dark Lady (Mentioned only)

Star Wars 107: All Together Now (Mentioned only)

The Vandelhelm Mission (Mentioned only)
GalaxyCite "Lumiya: Dark Star of the Empire" Star Wars Galaxy 3 (Mentioned
only)
"Mara Jade: A Night on the Town"Star Wars Tales 1 (Mentioned only)
SWGsmall "A Credit for Your Thoughts"Star Wars Gamer 2 (Mentioned only)
"A Day in the Life"Star Wars Tales 12 (Mentioned only)
X-Wing: Rogue Leader 1 (Mentioned only)
X-Wing: Rogue Leader 3(Mentioned only)
Star Wars: X-WingRogue Squadron Special (Appears in flashback(s))
Shadows of the Empire: Evolution 1 (Appears in flashback(s))
Shadows of the Empire: Evolution 4 (Appears in flashback(s))
Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron 16: The Warrior Princess, Part 4 (Appears in
flashback(s))
Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron 22: In the Empire's Service, Part 2 (Mentioned
only)
Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron 25: The Making of Baron Fel (Appears in
flashback(s))
SWAJsmall "Easy Credits"Star Wars Adventure Journal 9 (Mentioned only)
The Glove of Darth Vader (Mentioned only)
The Lost City of the Jedi (Mentioned only)
Zorba the Hutt's Revenge (Mentioned only)
Mission from Mount Yoda (Mentioned only)
Queen of the Empire (Mentioned only)
Prophets of the Dark Side (Mentioned only)
"Free Memory"Star Wars Tales 10 (Mentioned only)
"Collapsing New Empires"Star Wars Tales 19 (Indirect mention only)
Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor (Mentioned only)
SWGsmall "Handoff"Star Wars Gamer 10 (Mentioned only)
SWAJsmall "Starter's Tale"Star Wars Adventure Journal 4 (Mentioned only)
X-Wing: Rogue Squadron (Mentioned only)

X-Wing: Wedge's Gamble (Mentioned only)

X-Wing: The Krytos Trap (Mentioned only)
X-Wing: The Bacta War (Mentioned only)
X-Wing: Wraith Squadron (Mentioned only)
X-Wing: Iron Fist (Mentioned only)
X-Wing: Solo Command (Mentioned only)
The Courtship of Princess Leia (Mentioned only)
Tatooine Ghost (Appears in flashback(s))
SWAJsmall "Shadows of Darkness"Star Wars Adventure Journal 4 (Mentioned only)
Heir to the Empire (Mentioned only)
Heir to the Empire 1 (Appears in flashback(s))
Heir to the Empire 5 (Mentioned only)
Dark Force Rising (Mentioned only)
Dark Force Rising 1 (Mentioned only)
Dark Force Rising 2 (Mentioned only)
Dark Force Rising 3 (Mentioned only)/(Appears in flashback(s))
Dark Force Rising 4 (Mentioned only)
Dark Force Rising 5 (Mentioned only)
The Last Command (Mentioned only)
The Last Command 2 (Mentioned only)/(Appears in flashback(s))
The Last Command 3 (Mentioned only)/(Appears in flashback(s))
The Last Command 4 (Mentioned only)
The Last Command 5 (Mentioned only)
X-Wing: Isard's Revenge (Mentioned only)
Dark Empire (Mentioned only)/(Vision)
Dark Empire audio drama (Vision)
Dark Empire II 6: Hand of Darkness (Mentioned only)
Empire's End (Mentioned only)
Crimson Empire 0 (Appears in flashback(s))
Crimson Empire 1 (Appears in flashback(s))

Crimson Empire 2 (Appears in flashback(s))

Crimson Empire 6 (Mentioned only)
Crimson Empire II: Council of Blood 4 (Appears in hologram)
I, Jedi (Mentioned only)
Jedi Search (Mentioned only)
SWAJsmall "Firestorm"Star Wars Adventure Journal 15 (Indirect mention only)
Dark Apprentice (Exar Kun's spirit in disguise)
Champions of the Force (Mentioned only)
"The Other"Star Wars Tales 16 (Mentioned only)
Children of the Jedi (Vision to Leia Organa Solo)
Simple Tricks (Mentioned only)
Darksaber (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (Mentioned only)
X-Wing: Starfighters of Adumar (Mentioned only)
Planet of Twilight (Mentioned only)
Jedi Academy: Leviathan 1 (Appears in flashback(s))
Crimson Empire III: Empire Lost 2 (Appears in flashback(s))
Crimson Empire III: Empire Lost 3 (Mentioned only)
Crimson Empire III: Empire Lost 6 (Mentioned only)
The Crystal Star (Mentioned only)
"Tall Tales"Star Wars Tales 11 (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (Mentioned only)
Before the Storm (Mentioned only)
Shield of Lies (Mentioned only)
Tyrant's Test (Mentioned only)
The New Rebellion (Mentioned only)
Ambush at Corellia (Mentioned only)
Assault at Selonia (Mentioned only)
Specter of the Past (Mentioned only)
Vision of the Future (Mentioned only)

Star Wars: Union 1 (Mentioned only)

Star Wars: Union 2 (Vision to Luke Skywalker)
Star Wars: Union 3 (Vision to Mara Jade)
Junior Jedi Knights: The Golden Globe (Mentioned only)
Junior Jedi Knights: Lyric's World (Mentioned only)
Junior Jedi Knights: Promises (Mentioned only)
Junior Jedi Knights: Anakin's Quest (Mentioned only)
Junior Jedi Knights: Vader's Fortress (Mentioned only)
Junior Jedi Knights: Kenobi's Blade (Mentioned only)
Young Jedi Knights: Heirs of the Force (Mentioned only)
Young Jedi Knights: Shadow Academy (Appears in hologram)
Young Jedi Knights: The Lost Ones (Mentioned only)
Young Jedi Knights: Lightsabers (Mentioned only)
Young Jedi Knights: Jedi Under Siege (Mentioned only)
Survivor's Quest (Mentioned only)
Young Jedi Knights: Shards of Alderaan (Mentioned only)
Young Jedi Knights: Delusions of Grandeur (Mentioned only)
Young Jedi Knights: Return to Ord Mantell (Mentioned only)
"Apocalypse Endor"Star Wars Tales 14 (Mentioned only)
The New Jedi Order: Vector Prime (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Invasion: Refugees 2 (Indirect mention only)
The New Jedi Order: Dark Tide I: Onslaught (Mentioned only)
The New Jedi Order: Dark Tide II: Ruin (Mentioned only)
The New Jedi Order: Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial (Indirect mention only)
The New Jedi Order: Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse (Mentioned only)
The New Jedi Order: Balance Point (Appears as a ghost or a spirit)
The New Jedi Order: Recovery (Mentioned only)
The New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory I: Conquest (Mentioned only)
The New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory II: Rebirth (Mentioned only)
The New Jedi Order: Star by Star (Mentioned only)

The New Jedi Order: Dark Journey (Mentioned only)

The New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream (Mentioned only)
The New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand (Mentioned only)
The New Jedi Order: Traitor (Mentioned only)
The New Jedi Order: Destiny's Way (Mentioned only)
The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic I: Remnant (Mentioned only)
The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic II: Refugee (Mentioned only)
SWInsider small "Or Die Trying"Star Wars Insider 75 (Mentioned only)
The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic III: Reunion (Mentioned only)
The New Jedi Order: The Final Prophecy (Indirect mention only)
The New Jedi Order: The Unifying Force (Appears as a ghost or a spirit)
Dark Nest I: The Joiner King (Appears in hologram)
Dark Nest II: The Unseen Queen (Appears in hologram)
Dark Nest III: The Swarm War (Appears in hologram)
"The Lost Lightsaber"Star Wars Tales 19 (Appears in flashback(s))
Legacy of the Force: Betrayal (Mentioned only)
Legacy of the Force: Bloodlines (Flow-walk)
Legacy of the Force: Tempest (Mentioned only)
Legacy of the Force: Exile (Mentioned only)
Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice (Mentioned only)
Legacy of the Force: Fury (Mentioned only)
Legacy of the Force: Revelation (Mentioned only)
Legacy of the Force: Invincible (Mentioned only)
Millennium Falcon
Fate of the Jedi: Outcast (Mentioned only)
Fate of the Jedi: Omen (Mentioned only)
Fate of the Jedi: Backlash (on holodisplay record)
Fate of the Jedi: Allies (Appears in hologram)
Fate of the Jedi: Ascension (Indirect mention only)
Fate of the Jedi: Apocalypse (Mentioned only)

Crucible (Mentioned only)

Star Wars: Legacy 3: Broken, Part 3 (Indirect mention only)
Star Wars: Legacy 11: Ghosts, Part 1 (Vision)
Star Wars: Legacy 16: Claws of the Dragon, Part 3 (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Legacy 19: Claws of the Dragon, Part 6 (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Legacy 28: Vector, Part 9 (Appears in flashback(s))
Star Wars: Legacy 34: Storms, Part 1 (Mentioned only)
Star Wars: Legacy Volume 2 6 (Mentioned only)
Non-canon appearances
LEGOVADER
Darth Vader as a LEGO minifigure.
Vader soulcaliber4
Darth Vader's non-canon appearance in Soul Calibur IV.
"Nobody's Perfect"Star Wars Tales 20
Path of the Jedi
Star Wars: Anakin's Speedway
Star Wars: Jar Jar's Journey
Star Wars Episode I: I Am a Pilot
LEGO Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
LEGO Star Wars: Darth Maul's Mission
LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars
LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles video game
LEGO Star Wars: Microfighters video game (Picture only)
LEGO Star Wars: The Padawan Menace
LEGO Star Wars: Revenge of the Brick
LEGO Star Wars: Anakin: Space Pilot
Republic Commando: Order 66
Tag & Bink: Revenge of the Clone Menace

Old Wounds (Appears in flashback(s))

Soulcalibur IV (Guest character, crossover appearance)
Star Wars: Visions of the Blade
"Skippy the Jedi Droid"Star Wars Tales 1 (Vision to R5-D4)
"A Death Star Is Born"Star Wars Tales 4
Star Wars Manga
Star Wars Infinities: A New Hope
LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
"The Long, Bad Day"Star Wars Tales 16
Tag & Bink Are Dead
Gal-icon Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided (Depicted in paintings)
"The Rebel Four"Star Wars Tales 9
"The Rebel Club"Star Wars Tales 19
"The Emperor's Court"Star Wars Tales 14
SWAJsmall "Spare Parts"Star Wars Adventure Journal 11 (Mentioned only)
"Junkheap Hero"Star Wars Tales 6
"Lunch Break"Star Wars Tales 16
>"Who's Your Daddy"Star Wars Tales 20
Star Wars: Yoda's Challenge Activity Center (Picture only)
Star Wars: Yoda Stories
Star Wars Infinities: The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Ewok
Star Wars Infinities: Return of the Jedi
Vader vs. Artoo & Threepio
The Return of Tag & Bink: Special Edition
Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith
"Prey"Star Wars Tales 11
"The Secret Tales of Luke's Hand!"Star Wars Tales 8 (Appears in flashback(s))
(Hand only)
"Storyteller"Star Wars Tales 19 (Mentioned only)

LEGO Star Wars: The Han Solo Affair

The Great Golden C-3PO Hunt
Club Penguin Star Wars Takeover (as Darth Herbert)
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