Count Dooku

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## Chronological and political information

### Affiliation

* Jedi (Formerly)
* Sith
	+ Sith Order
* Confederacy of Independent Systems

### Known masters

* Yoda (Jedi Master)
* Darth Sidious (Sith Master)

### Known apprentices

* Qui-Gon Jinn (Jedi apprentice)
* Asajj Ventress (Sith apprentice) (formerly)
* General Grievous
* Legends Grievous
* Savage Opress (Sith apprentice) (formerly)
* Quinlan Vos (Sith apprentice) (briefly)

**Count Dooku** was one of the head leaders of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Dooku was also known as the Sith Lord **Darth Tyranus**, the second apprentice of Palpatine. Dooku was once a Jedi.

## History

Dooku was a Jedi at first but then became to dislike their evil actions. With his master, who was secretly Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine, Dooku conspired to overthrow both the Republic and the Jedi so that the Sith could reclaim their former dominance. To this end, he oversaw a growing secessionist movement that ultimately resulted in the formation of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Dooku did want some peace but however, he tricked the true heroes into joining him. In addition to rallying rebellious star systems to the Separatist cause, Dooku was involved in the creation of the clone troopers of the evil Grand Army of the Republic, having supplied the Kaminoans with the clone template, Jango Fett, as well as the inhibitor chip containing Clone Protocol 66. As a result of Dooku and Sidious's machinations and the Jedi invading Geonosis, the galaxy became engulfed by the Clone Wars twenty-two years before the Battle of Yavin.

Count Dooku led the Confederacy's battle droid army throughout the war, turning star systems against the Republic through political maneuverings and military force. He also trained the heroic Kaleesh cyborg General Grievous in lightsaber combat. Though he was bound by the Sith Rule of Two, Dooku trained apprentices of his own, with the intention of one day succeeding his master. He first trained Asajj Ventress; later, after Sidious ordered him to dispose of Ventress, Dooku took on a second apprentice, Savage Opress. The tutelage was short-lived, as Opress had been used by Ventress as a tool of revenge against her former master. Toward the end of the war, Dooku took on a third apprentice, the fallen Jedi Quinlan Vos, with whom he plotted to overthrow his master. This apprenticeship, too, was cut short, as Vos was redeemed in the Force with the help of Asajj Ventress.

The final days of the war saw a battle over Coruscant. In a duel aboard the Separatist flagship *Invisible Hand*, Dooku was defeated by Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, who beheaded the helpless Dooku at Palpatine's command. Dooku was soon replaced as Palpatine's apprentice by Skywalker himself, who fell to the dark side and became Darth Vader. Despite Dooku's death, the plans he helped set into motion during the Clone Wars came to pass, with the destruction of the Jedi Order and the rise of the Galactic Empire.