Dooku

### Apprentices or underlings

Asajj Ventress; General Grievous; General Oro Dassyne; Head Techno Union scientist (on occasions); Emir Wat Tambor (on occasions); Senator Lott Dod (on occasions); Viceroy Nute Gunray (on occasions); Durge (on occasions); Senator Gume Saam (on occasions); Senator Nix Card; Senator Rush Clovis; Senator Mak Plain (on occasions); Chairman San Hill

### Affiliation

Jedi Order (formerly); Sith Order; Confederacy of Independent Systems

**Dooku** was a male human from Serenno, born into an influential family. He was once a member of the Jedi Order and apprentice to Jedi Grand Master Yoda. He was the Jedi Master of Qui Gon Jinn and shortly after his death, horrified of the corruption in the Order's ally the Republic that dared command them, left the Order. He was approached by the Republic's Supreme Chancellor, Palpatine, who revealed himself as a Dark Lord of the Sith by the name of Darth Sidious and told him that everything that is happening is a result of his machinations and that both the Jedi and the Republic shall fall and an Empire will rise, an Empire ruled by the Sith Order. Dooku accepted his offer of joining him and became Sidious's new apprentice, as Darth Maul had apparently died. At Sidious's behest, Dooku united the unhappy commerce guilds, systems, bussiness conglomerates and planets into the Confederacy of Independent Systems, which declared war to the Republic. While Dooku took the title of Head of State, he knew he was just Sidious's puppet that did his bidding by offcially leading the Separatists, while the Dark Lord was the true mastermind, but accepted his new role and fate. At the request of help from InterGalactic Banking Clan Chairman San Hill, Dooku hired the Sith allied Gen'Dai bounty hunter known only as Durge to help the IGBC leaders during the Battle of Muunilinst if needed, while he went to Rattatak in his Punworcca 116-class interstellar sloop, specifically to the Gladiatorial arena known as the Cauldron. He had been sent by Master Sidious, to find them an assassin and Dooku hoped to find a gladiator worthy of being used by the Sith Order against the Jedi. He met with the arena's master on a landing platform and the man guided him inside a room from where they could watch the fierce gladiators fight each other. The Cauldron's master was soon silently killed by a cloaked figure, to which Dooku responded by demanding the individual to prove himself. The cloaked figure entered the arena and revealed herself as Asajj Ventress, before proceeding to kill every gladiator, which impressed the Count. She then openly declared herself to be Sith, to which Count Dooku replied that she was a bold-claimed and that she had something that the Sith need to lack: fear. Ventress angered, told the Count that he knew nothing of the Dark Side, after which Dooku electrocuted her with a wave of Force-lightning. When she woke up, Count Dooku ambushed and dueled her until he won. A mechno-chair with the hologram of Darth Sidious revealed itself and Sidious said that he had watched the duel and that he is impressed with her skill, telling him that he had found a ''promising disciple''. Sidious and Dooku later sent their new assassin to track and kill Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker. After Ventress apparently died during her duel with Skywalker on Yavin 4, Dooku took cyborg General Grievous as his apprentice and second-in-command in the Confederacy. At some point shortly before the Battle of Coruscant, Dooku was training his apprentice, Grievous, forms of lightsber combat and after their exercise had ended, told him that he needed not only brute force and power to wield a lightsaber, but also the element of surprise. Sidious's hologram appeared and asked the two about the upcoming Battle of Coruscant, before telling Grievous that he needed to capture Chancellor Palpatine, Sidious official personna. While Grievous did not know about Sidious's true plan and other identity, Dooku knew. Sidious wanted to lure Skywalker and his Jedi Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, into a trap by faking his own kidnapping.