Mission to Mustafar

In the final year of the Clone Wars, Darth Sidious — the Dark Lord of the Sith who was publicly known as Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine of the Galactic Republic — sent his new apprentice Darth Vader and first Grand Inquisitor Barriss Offee on a mission to the Outer Rim planet of Mustafar to eliminate the Separatist Council, the wealthy and influential backers of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Sidious, who secretly controlled the Separatist Alliance as part of his plot to take over the galaxy, had sent the Separatist Council to Mustafar under the guise of protecting them, where their power collapsed after the defeat of General Grievous during the Battle of Utapau. When Vader and Offeee arrived, however they assassinated each member of the Separatist Council in order to bring an end to the Separatist Alliance. As Vader arrived on Mustafar, Chancellor Palpatine publicly declared himself as the galaxy's Galactic Emperor and transformed the Republic into the first Galactic Empire.
Vader contacted his Master after the Separatist Council members were killed, and the Dark Lord instructed him to inform the Trade Federation the Separatist leadership was dead and to shut down the Separatist Droid Army. In doing so, the Clone Wars came to an end. Senator Padmé Amidala of Naboo, Vader's wife, soon arrived on Mustafar in an attempt to bring Vader, who had been the Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, back to the light. She failed, and Vader engaged in a lightsaber duel with his Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, while Offee fought against Kenobi’s apprentice Jarik Shan, a fight that left Vader brutally scarred and in need of a life-supporting suit of armor for the rest of his life, while Offee gave her life to save Shan after he redeemed her when the Separatist’s headquarters collapsed. In the years that followed, some holdouts of the Confederacy continued to operate throughout the galaxy despite the end of the War. The Imperial Military tracked these holdouts down to destroy them and absorb their technology into the Imperial regime.
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Category:Imperial Era