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Shmi Skywalker and her baby, Anakin Skywalker.

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Anakin Skywalker spoke to Padmé Naberrie.

Anakin Skywalker was a legendary Force-sensitive human male who was a Jedi Knight of the Galactic Republic and the prophesied Chosen One of the Jedi Order, destined to bring balance to the Force. Also known as "Ani" during his childhood, Skywalker earned the moniker "Hero With No Fear" from his accomplishments in the Clone Wars. His alter ego, Darth Vader, the Dark Lord of the Sith, was created when Skywalker turned to the dark side of the Force, pledging his allegiance to the Sith Lord Darth Sidious at the end of the Republic Era.

A vergence in the Force, Skywalker was born on the desert planet of Tatooine in the Outer Rim Territories in 41 BBY. He was the son of Shmi Skywalker, a slave who conceived a child without a father. His blood contained over twenty-thousand midi-chlorians, surpassing that of Grand Master Yoda and all other Jedi in the galaxy. Qui-Gon Jinn, the Jedi Master who discovered Skywalker during the Invasion of Naboo in 32 BBY, theorised that Skywalker was conceived by the midi-chlorians. Following Jinn's death during the Battle of Naboo, the Jedi High Council admitted Skywalker into the Order as the Padawan of Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi despite feeling that he was too old and emotional to adhere to the Jedi Code. During the early days of the Clone Wars, Skywalker served as a Jedi General in the Grand Army of the Republic, commanding the clone troopers of the elite 501st Legion against the Confederacy of Independent Systems. He also oversaw the Jedi training of his own apprentice, Ahsoka Tano, after receiving his knighthood. Although Jedi doctrine prohibited personal relationships, Skywalker had a secret wife, Senator Padmé Amidala of Naboo.

After Skywalker's faith in the Jedi High Council was shaken when Tano left the Jedi Order in 19 BBY, Skywalker learned that Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine was Darth Sidious, the elusive Dark Lord of the Sith who orchestrated the war in order to take over the galaxy. Manipulated into believing that the Jedi had failed him and coupled with his fear of losing Amidala in childbirth, Skywalker betrayed and turned against the Jedi Order, believing Sidious had the knowledge to cheat death. Consumed by the persona of Darth Vader, the fallen Jedi Knight marched his legion on the Jedi Temple of Coruscant where they executed its inhabitants, including Jedi younglings, as part of Order 66 and the Great Jedi Purge. Vader was then sent to Mustafar to exterminatethe Separatist Council at the behest of his Sith Master, who became the self-proclaimed Galactic Emperor. Vader subsequently sustained severe injuries in his duel with Kenobi, and was rebuilt as an armoured cyborg while his wife died of a broken heart, though not before giving birth to the twins Luke Skywalker and Leia Skywalker-Organa who were hidden from their father and the Emperor as the Galactic Empire rose to power.

Being the Emperor's Fist, Vader enforced the rule of the New Order as the Emperor's Sith apprentice throughout most of the Imperial Era. In the aftermath of killing Kenobi in their third rematch and the Battle of Yavin in 0 BBY, he discovered the existence of his son and was determined to turn Luke to the dark side. Luke sought to become a Jedi, like his father before him, and believed that Vader had the potential to turn back to the light side of the Force. Vader was defeated by Luke during the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY, but the young Jedi refused to strike down his father in anger, causing the Emperor to torture Luke with Force lightning. The pain inflicted on his son awakened the part of Vader that was still Anakin, resulting in a redeemed Skywalker killing Sidious at the cost of his own life. Having destroyed the Sith and fulfilled his destiny as the Chosen One, Skywalker made peace with his son and became one with the Force.

Believed to have been conceived by the midi-chlorians, Anakin Skywalker was bornto the slave Shmi Skywalker. Although Skywalker was listed as born on the desert planet of Tatooine, a holographic log stated that Shmi and he moved to the planet when Skywalker was at a very young age. Regardless, Tatooine was Skywalker's homeworld. Skywalker and his mother were originally owned by Gardulla the Hutt until she lost them to the Toydarian Watto in a podracing bet when Skywalker was around age three. During his youth, Skywalker worked in his master's shop, located in Mos Espa.

Even at a young age, Skywalker exhibited exceptional piloting skills, and rebuilt the protocol droid C-3PO, whom he specially modified to withstand Tatooine's sand and heat for his mother. Before he had even turned nine, Skywalker's work had ensured 3PO was operational. He was close friends with fellow slaves Kitster Banai and Wald, as well as the elderly Jira. He also built his own podracer, which he would use on at least one occasion where he participated in a podrace against a Dug named Sebulba, which Sebulba ultimately won.

In 32 BBY, Watto ordered Skywalker 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 watched over 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. Unknown to Skywalker, Padmé Naberrie was in fact Padmé Amidala, the Monarch of Naboo, who had switched places with one of her Royal Handmaidens, to visit Tatooine. During Skywalker's conversation with Naberrie, the Gungan—Jar Jar Binks—activated a DUM-series pit droid that began to wreak havoc in the shop. As Skywalker and Naberrie witnessed the ensuing chaos, Skywalker told Binks to hit the droid on the nose to deactivate it. 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 Gungan had disrupted the racer's meal. Breaking up the fight, Skywalker taunted the Dug who ultimately left after claiming that he would have attacked the boy had he not been a slave to Watto. Skywalker then greeted Jinn and the rest of his group when they arrived to see what was happening, and he convinced the group to follow him to Jira's fruit stand nearby. Once they arrived, Skywalker purchased four pallies. As he gave one of the pallies to Jinn, the boy was astonished to see a lightsaber on the man's waist when his poncho opened. Jira then advised Skywalker to return home as a sandstorm was coming. Skywalker insisted that the unprepared group come with him to his house, as he believed they would not be able to return to their ship in time.

When they reached his house, he introduced the group to his mother, before pulling Naberrie into his room to show her his project. Naberrie was impressed by Skywalker's work on C-3PO, prompting him to turn the droid on. Skywalker then told her about the podracer he was constructing. Skywalker and Naberrie then watched as C-3PO walked around the room and met R2-D2. The group stayed at the Skywalker home as the sandstorm continued to rage. During dinner, Skywalker and his mother began to explain slavery, and the use of transmitter chips. Skywalker soon brought up the subject of podracing. Jinn stated that it was popular on Malastare, but that it was a very fast and dangerous sport. Skywalker then expressed his belief that he was the only human capable of podracing, to which Jinn responded that he must have the reflexes of a Jedi if he was capable of podracing. Mustering his courage, Skywalker asked Jinn if he was a Jedi Knight as he had seen his lightsaber. Skywalker then revealed that he had once had a dream where he was a Jedi, and had returned to Tatooine to free every slave on the planet. After Skywalker asked why the group were on Tatooine, Jinn and Naberrie revealed that they were on a mission to Coruscant, but were stranded as their Nubian starship had received significant damage. Skywalker volunteered to race in the Boonta Eve Classic podrace so that Jinn could get the prize money to purchase the parts required to repair the ship. When his mother objected, Anakin reminded Shmi of her own belief that people needed to help one another, convincing her to allow Anakin to race for Jinn.

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. When Watto asked how Jinn intended to sponsor the boy, Jinn proposed that that his ship would cover the entry fee. Watto initially suggested they split the winnings fifty-fifty, when Jinn proposed that Watto front the cash for the entry. If Skywalker won, Watto would be allowed to keep all of the winnings minus the cost of the parts required to fix the ship. If Skywalker lost, Watto would allowed to keep their Nubian starship. Watto accepted the deal, and Skywalker was dismissed immediately with instructions to check out Jinn's podracer. As Skywalker worked, his friends Banai and Wald among them, arrived, but Wald and the others were skeptical of Skywalker's chances and left to go play elsewhere, except for Banai. 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.

That afternoon, Skywalker sustained a cut on his arm. Later that night, Jinn tended to it and took a sample of his blood. Shmi called out to Anakin from inside the house to let him know that it was his bedtime. Skywalker asked Jinn what he was doing with his blood, to which Jinn responded that he was checking his blood for infections. In reality, Jinn suspected that Skywalker was Force-sensitive, and therefore Jinn wanted to test Skywalker's midi-chlorian count. After Skywalker left, Jinn transmitted the sample to his Padawan, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and asked him to run an analysis on it. Kenobi discovered that Skywalker exhibited an incredibly high midi-chlorian count, more than 20,000, higher than that of even esteemed Jedi Grandmaster Yoda.

With the two eopies Banai brought to help, Naberrie, Banai, Skywalker, his mother, 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. Unbeknownst to Skywalker, Jinn had just placed a bet to free the boy from slavery. Skywalker was soon approached by Banai, who unintentionally revealed to Naberrie that Skywalker had never actually finished a race, causing Naberrie to lose hope in the boy's chances. 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 podracer. After Sebulba broke off a part of Skywalker's podracer. Jinn helped him into the podracer cockpit. To Skywalker's dismay, when the starting light turned green, the pod's engines stalled immediately thanks to Sebulba's sabotage, leaving him stuck at the starting line with only Ben Quadinaros and his stalled racer as the rest of the competitors flew off. Realising that he had left out one step to start the pod, 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.

Skywalker soon caught up to the other racers, passing two before they even noticed him. As the race progressed, he prepared to pass 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 swiftly. Teemto Pagalies attempted to push Skywalker into the rock, but Skywalker was able to pass him with a twist. Sebulba tossed a piece of debris behind him and into Mars Guo's left engine intake, clogging the motors inside. The engine intake stopped working before the entire engine combusted. With Guo crashing into the desert sands, Skywalker was free to move ahead, going neck and neck with Sebulba as they passed the grid line into the third lap.

Going into the third lap, Sebulba still held the lead, as narrow as it was. With Skywalker close behind, out of surprise tricks, Sebulba resorted to sheer brutality in order to either keep Skywalker behind him or batter the podracer enough to destroy it. Sebulba rammed Skywalker off course, forcing him onto a steep service ramp. Boosting, Skywalker sped up the ramp at an exhilarating speed, propelling himself into the sky. The boy was quick to act and adjusted his pod accordingly, leveling his podracer's nosedive as he headed back for the ground. Not only did he save himself from an explosive wreck, but his jump off of the ramp put him directly in front of a surprised Sebulba. Skywalker continued to hold the lead until they ran into a series of archways. Suddenly Skywalker's left engine bucked and began to give off a stream of dense smoke. Sebulba's earlier sabotage was beginning to take effect as Skywalker pushed his podracer to its limit. Skywalker managed to resolve his engine difficulties and quickly regained his ground, eventually flew parallel with Sebulba as they headed for the final stretch of the course.

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 attempts—only for the two racers' 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, winning the Boonta Eve Classic. As Skywalker came to a halt, the crowd swarmed his racer. Jinn hoisted Skywalker onto his shoulders in celebration. In the hangar, Skywalker met up with his family and friends.

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. The duo returned to Watto's shop, where they signed formal documents ensuring Skywalker's freedom, as well as the deactivation of his explosive transmitter, which would be surgically removed at a later date. After some insisting with Jinn, the boy made his way to Jira's fruit stand, bidding the woman farewell and finally leaving 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.

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 dark-robed figure shot overhead on a speeder. The man leapt at Jinn, drawing a red-bladed 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 Olié 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.