Anakin Skywalker

## Anakin SkywalkerDarth Vader

**Anakin Skywalker** (called **Skyguy** by his padawan), born only **Anakin**, later **Darth Vader**, known in propaganda as the **Hero With No Fear** and the **Chosen One**, was a legendary Force-sensitive Human male who was a Jedi Knight of the Jedi Order and later a Sith Lord of the Banite line. Skywalker was born into slavery in 22 BEF, to a woman named Shmi, and named after the legendary figure Anakin. At an early age, Anakin moved to Tatooine and became the slave of Gardulla Besadii the Elder, and later a slave to the Toydarian Watto after Gardulla lost him and his mother in a bet. While Gardulla's slave, the young Anakin was named Skywalker by the traveling Maz Kanata, who foresaw a great future in him.

Later in life Anakin was discovered and freed by the Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn, and trained by Jinn's former padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi following Jinn's death. Anakin's mother died nearly ten years later due to Tusken Raiders, in the village where she died Anakin massacred the Tuskens. Afterwards, against the Jedi Code, Skywalker married Padmé Amidala, the Senator of Naboo in a private ceremony on Amidala's homeworld.

During the Clone Wars, Skywalker trained Ahsoka Tano until she left the Jedi Order, fighting as a General in the Grand Army of the Republic. Skywalker would later be seduced to the dark side of the Force by his friend and mentor Sheev Palpatine, the Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic. Palpatine was actually the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious, and used Skywalker to gain his revenge on the Jedi.

Amidala, Tano, and Kenobi all escaped Sidious' grasp but Skywalker became his new apprentice, Darth Vader, after the deaths of the Jedi High Council. After the Galactic Empire, Sidious' new regime, took control, Vader was in charge of hunting down the remaining Jedi. However, it was not long before Skywalker resisted the mental compulsions placed on him by Sidious, and with the help of Bant Eerin and Maz Kanata, made himself a free man and returned to Tatooine. There, he began the Great Outer Rim Revolution with the Tatooinian Revolution, vowing to free the slaves as he had promised years prior.

## Biography

### Origins

The birth of Anakin Skywalker was highly unusual, as his mother, Shmi, was not impregnated by traditional Human means. Instead, the Celestial known as the Father of Mortis impregnated her by using midi-chlorians and his knowledge of the Force, as a mirage to prevent Darth Plagueis' dabblings in the idea from continuing, as he viewed Plagueis' desires as a perversion of the Force. The Father believed it was the Force's will to create a Chosen One, this being Anakin.

Due to the unusual nature of the pregnancy, his mother would simply tell anyone who asked that there "was no father."

### Early life

"*Fifteenth day of Zashanga’mool, which would be... twenty-nine ten, in your calendar. Republic calendar? Yes? I always remember a date.*"
―Elli, recalling Skywalker's birth[src]
Anakin was born a male of the Human species on the twenty-ninth day of the tenth month in the Republic Standard Dating system, in 978 RR, later known as 22 BEF. In the Hutt calendar, under which he grew up, his birth date was the fifteenth day of Zashanga'mool. He was born into slavery, in the slave quarters of Voggha, a city on the Hutt Space planet of Sleheyron. The midwife Elli oversaw his birth.

As he was born a slave, Anakin's early life was wrought with movement, from Sleheyron, to Nal Hutta, and finally to Tatooine, where he and his mother were slaves to Gardulla Besadii the Elder, a Hutt, and worked at her palace outside of the city of Mos Espa.

### Life on Tatooine

#### Under Gardulla

"*And your boy will one day fly among the clouds and walk the skies. Do you have a surname?*"
"*No...*"
"*Skywalker. You are Skywalker.*"
―Maz Kanata and Shmi Skywalker[src]
Shortly after arriving as her slaves, they met a Force-sensitive woman named Maz Kanata, who believed that Anakin had a great destiny ahead of him, so she gave the mother-son duo the last name of "Skywalker." Shmi worked as a cook under Gardulla's employ, and Anakin helped out where he could.

#### Under Watto

At some point, Gardulla gambled away the Skywalkers, and they became the property of the Toydarian junk dealer Watto, who owned a junk shop in Mos Espa. Under Watto, Skywalker would witness the slave chip in a Togruta slave detonate in Mos Espa's city square, the blood from the event he would remember for years after.

## Appearances

* "Conception" (Indirect mention only)
* "Conception II"
* "Origins of a Name"
* "Bound by Blood" (Mentioned only)
* "Gift for Mama"
* *Celestial Blood*
* *A Fleeting Tempest*
* "Water"
* *The Quest for Anakin Skywalker's Birthday*
* *The Rite of the Crystal* (Mentioned only)
* *Reticence* (Mentioned only)
* "Memory of a Name" (Mentioned only)
* *Missing Moments*: Safe
* "The Liberator, Chained"
* *Secrets Revealed* Chapter I — *Trial and Sacrifice* (Vision to Yoda)
* *Secrets Revealed* Chapter II — *Decisions*
* *Secrets Revealed* Chapter III — *Darkness Falls*
* "Disillusionment" (Mentioned only)
* *Secrets Revealed* Chapter IV — *Plans*
* *Secrets Revealed* Chapter V — *Sith*
* *Secrets Revealed* Epilogue
* *Survivors* 1: *Secura* (Mentioned only)
* "Dawnbreaking" (Mentioned only)
* "Colors Reprieve" (Mentioned only)
* *Secrets of Salekelahn* (Mentioned only)
* *Soul Searching* Obi-Wan I — *Rebellion's Beginnings* (Appears in dream)
* *Soul Searching* Obi-Wan II — *Dawn* (Mentioned only)
* *Soul Searching* Ahsoka I — *Voices* (Mentioned only)
* *Soul Searching* Ahsoka II — *Old Friends* (Mentioned only)
* *Soul Searching* Obi-Wan III — *Interrupted Moments* (Mentioned only)
* *Soul Searching* Darth Vader — *Freeing the Mind*
* "The Sith Wheel" (Mentioned only)
* *The Deep*
* *Soul Searching* The Liberator — *Freeing the Body*
* *Soul Searching* Anakin III — *How A Revolution Begins*
* *Burning Galaxies* I — *The First Signs of Storm*
* *Burning Galaxies* II — *Family Matters*

## Notes and references

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Conception II"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 *The Skywalker Saga Supplement*
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 *The Quest for Anakin Skywalker's Birthday*
4. ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 *Secrets Revealed* Chapter I — *Trial and Sacrifice*
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 *Secrets Revealed* Chapter V — *Sith*
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Conception"
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "Origins of a Name"
8. ↑ *Secrets Revealed* Chapter III — *Darkness Falls*
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Colors Reprieve"
10. ↑ *Soul Searching* Anakin III — *How A Revolution Begins*
11. ↑ *Soul Searching* Darth Vader — *Freeing the Mind*
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 *A Fleeting Tempest*