Anakin Skywalker

Anakin Skywalker was a male human jedi active during the Clone Wars and later a sith lord known as Darth Vader active during the Galactic Civil War, where he was one of the highest leaders in the empire and the apprentice of The Emperor. He was born fatherless to furfill a prophecy to destroy the sith once and for all which later turned out to be true after killing his master and himself in the process.

## History

### Pre-32 BBY

Anakin was born as a slave in Mos Eisley on Tatooine around 43 BBY from his mother Shmi Skywalker without an explanation as Shmi claims that there never was a father. As Anakin grew older he started to show an interest in building and later started to build a protocol droid that he named C-3PO. He also had an interest in podracing which his mother wasn't fond of as she saw it as too dangerous of an interest for Anakin. He also started to work for his slave-master Watto in his workshop.

### 32 BBY

In 32 BBY, when Anakin was about 9 years old, he got a visit in Wattos workshop from jedi master Qui-Gon Jinn and Senator Padmé Amidala along with a few others who needed new parts for their ship to travel further. Anakin was quickly fashinated by Padmé and asked her if she was an angel; creatures of which he had heard of earlier in his life but who did not apply to Amidala. Qui-Gon started to grow fashinated by Anakin as well, suspecting that Anakin is strong in the force, and a test had showed that the midi-chlorian count of Anakin was over 20 000 which was a number so high that even jedi grand master Yoda, who was a great member in the jedi council, didn't possess it. Qui-Gon believed that Anakin might be the chosen one of which an old jedi-prophecy had spoken of, referring to the one who would bring balance to the force, and he grew interested in taking Anakin with him to Coruscant as soon as he would have the chance. He started to negotiate with Watto to free Anakin and his mother from the slavery but Watto refused to let both of them go and only Anakin was the one chosen to go with Qui-Gon. To get the money needed to continue the travels with their spaceship, Anakin participated in a podrace which he later won, with his rival Sebulba coming in second place. After this Anakin made ready to leave his mother and C-3PO to go with Qui-Gon and the others to Coruscant, and after a hard breakup between him and his mother this was later done.

Going back to the ship he and his new friends was attacked by a mysterious warrior, who was in fact the first sith lord to show himself in a thousand years: Darth Maul. Anakin escaped into the ship while Maul and Qui-Gon had a short fight on the ground but soon Qui-Gon jumped onto the ship himself and escaped with the others to Coruscant as Maul watched. In the ship Anakin was introduced to the apprentice of Qui-Gon: Obi-Wan Kenobi.

On Coruscant Anakin was brought in front of the jedi council, and there he was dismissed as being to old to begin training. Qui-Gon still was convinced that the boy had to be trained, and took him with him to Naboo, who was under occupation by separatist forces who had betrayed the Galactic Republic. Anakin was told to wait in a Naboo-ship there as Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan and the others went for other dangerous business, but he was soon assaulted by droidekas and used the ship to eliminate them and sending himself off too space into the battle that was going on there. There he was able to destroy the Trade Federation ship in control of the separatist battle-droids down on the planet, shutting them all off, thus saving Naboo from the separatists along with his friends on the ground.

After coming down from space again, he would soon learn that Maul, who was working with the separatists along with his master, had tracked down Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan and that both Qui-Gon and Maul was killed during the second fight between them. As he watched the funeral of Qui-Gon he asked Obi-Wan what was going to happen to himself now, in which he learnt that Obi-Wan had promised Qui-Gon to train Anakin, which was later finally accepted by the jedi council. After that a fiest was held on Naboo, celebrating the win over the separatists.

### 22 BBY

In 22 BBY Anakin had been the apprentice of Obi-Wan for 10 years, and while the two often argued with eachother, they were still fairly close and had been through several things together. Anakin was now a jedi but still an apprentice.

After an assassin attempt on senator Amidala, Obi-Wan and Anakin was given the job to protect her from then on, and Anakin was nervous to meet her for the first time in 10 years. While they were guarding her as she was sleeping, another assassin attempt was made by sending a robot to one of her windows and sending two poisonous insects into her room. Anakin and Obi-Wan sensed this however and came in time to rescue her. Anakin killed the insects while Obi-Wan jumped out from the window and grabbed on to the robot as it was trying to leave the scene, taking Obi-Wan with it.

Anakin went to get a flying car to save Obi-Wan, and did so in time. They soon found the one sending the robot to kill Amidala and they followed her, with Anakin thinking it was a he. This was an assassin named Zam Wesell, and they followed her ship going through multiple obstacles til she landed the ship at a bar to try and hide in there. The two jedi ran after her into the bar and then split up to find her, and soon Anakin succeeded in doing so. They took her outside, and before she could give enough information about who she was, she was killed by a mysterious man with a poisonous arrow that later fled the scene with the help of his jetpack.

After these events, Obi-Wan was off to try to find out who this mysterious man was, while Anakin stayed with Padmé to continue the protection on Naboo, also accompanied by Padmés droid: R2-D2. On Naboo Anakin and Padmé became much closer, going on dinner and playing around in the garden outside Padmés house, and they soon fell in love with eachother. Padmé was afraid of starting a relationship though, as it was forbidden for jedi to have these kind of relations with others as this would be dangerous for themselves. Anakin was more optimistic about this however, but nothing was fully decided as of yet.

On Naboo Anakin had really bad dreams about his mother, hearing and seeing her in pain, and he felt that he had to return to his home-planet Tatooine to seek her up and see her for the first time in 10 years, checking that everything was okay. He told this to Padmé and she and R2 prepared to follow him there.

After arriving on Tatooine, the company went to see Watto again in Mos Eisley, and there Anakin learned that he had sold his mother to a farm out in the desert. Anakin received the location and soon arrived to the farm. There lived his mothers husband: Cleigg Lars and his son Owen Lars, making Owen Anakins step-brother. Also on the farm lived C-3PO, now fully built with silver plates, and they were happy to see eachother again. Anakin soon learned that Shmi had been kidnapped by tusken raiders a long while prior to Anakins arrival, and so Anakin went out to seek for her on a speeder while everybody else stayed behind.

After receving help from jawas of the location of the tusken raiders, he soon arrived in their camp at night. In one of their tents he sneaked in, and found his mother dying inside. She spoke to him and was very happy to see Anakin for the first time in a decade, but soon died in his arms. Anakins sadness and anger rose, and he went outside the tent to slaughter everybody living in the village, with the force-ghost of Obi-Wan's old master trying to contact him but failing. Yoda could sense all the way to Coruscant that Anakin was in great pain.

Soon Anakin came back to the farm with his mothers body. A funeral was held and Anakin told Padmé of how he killed all the tusken raiders, including the women and children. He also opened up his anger about Obi-Wan and how unfair he thinks his master treats him. Although soon Anakin and Padmé found out that Obi-Wan is in danger via a holographic message, and that he is stationed at the planet Geonosis. So Anakin and Padmé left the farm with their ship and brought R2 and C-3PO with them to Geonosis to save Anakins master.

On Geonosis Obi-Wan was nowhere to be found, and while exploring some tunnels located around the place he got captured, they were attacked by geonosians that were now working with the Separatists against the Republic. Although Anakin and Padmé killed them fairly easily, and were led to a factory where many battle droids were being built for the separatists. Certain unprepared complications occured in the factory and Anakin and the others had fallen into the factory-machinery with C-3PO's head being replaced with a battle-droid head and his body being replaced with a battle droid-body and Padmé almost getting killed by lava. R2 and 3PO were left in there while Anakin and Padmé finally escaped, but they were soon captured by battle-droids and the mysterious man on Coruscant, who was in fact a bounty hunter called Jango Fett who was working with the separatists, and who Obi-Wan had followed to the planet.

Anakin, Padmé and Obi-Wan was sentenced to execution in the genonosian arena, that was arranged by the sith lord Count Dooku, who was a former jedi until he became the second apprentice of the unknown sith master. There they were planned to be slaughtered by three creatures of different kinds, but were soon saved by a team of more than a hundred jedi who had hid themselves in the arena to wait for their move. Anakin, Obi-Wan and Padmé managed to escape the creatures and join the other jedi, but they were ambushed by an army of battle droids that entered the arena afterwards. A big fight then broke out between the jedi and the droid army, leading to many casualties, including Jango Fett and many jedi. C-3PO also entered the arena with one part of him having a droid head and another haveing a droid body but he was soon repaired again by R2-D2.

After fighting for a while the jedi were surrounded but were soon rescued themselves by Yoda who had gathered a clone army on Kamino, an army who would aid the Republic for a long time after. They picked the jedi up in several Republic Gunships and transported them away from the arena, and let them down on a big field not very far away. Although Anakin, Obi-Wan and Padmé continued to follow Count Dooku who were trying to escape the scene, but soon Padmé fell off the ship together with one of the clone troopers in the shaking off the battle down on the ground. Anakin wanted to go back for her but was denied by Obi-Wan who thought that the best course was to continue following the sith lord. They were led to a hangar where they were picked off and met Dooku face to face inside. Anakin was anticipated to attack Dooku which only led to him being electrified by Dooku's force lightning, wounding Anakin on the floor. He laid there as Obi-Wan continued to fight Dooku alone but soon Obi-Wan was wounded as well and gave his lightsaber to Anakin who were strong enough to get up and fight Dooku again. Soon Dooku managed to cut Anakin's arm off and once again leaving him wounded on the ground, but to his surprise Yoda also entered the hangar to aid the two jedi that were too hurt to continue the fight. Therefore Yoda and Dooku fought alone, but soon Dooku managed to escape in his ship and leave the planet while Yoda took care of Anakin and Obi-Wan. Padmé, who turned out to be okay, soon joined the scene as well.

After being brought back to safety, Anakins arm was replaced by a cyborg arm, and after falling in love with Padmé and getting his love answered back, they soon married on Naboo in the company of a priest, R2-D2 and C-3PO. The battle on Geonosis was only the first battle in the Clone Wars, a war that would shake the galaxy for several years to come.

### 19 BBY

3 years after the beginning of the clone wars Anakin was no longer a padawan but his own jedi knight, and he had become more friendly towards his master Obi-Wan as their respect for eachother had grown in this time.

During this time Coruscant was under attack by a separatist fleet led by General Grievous, and they had captured Chancellor Palpatine from the republic to be held hostage in Grievous flagship above Coruscant, where a big battle had broken out between the Republic and the Separatists. Anakin and Obi-Wan were sent to get the chancellor back and during the mission to Grievous ship they were attacked by buzz-droids who they later defeated, losing Obi-Wans astromech droid R4-P17 in the process. They soon managed to enter the flagship where they first killed many security battle droids in the hangar and in other places of the ship, and after also having several problems with the elevator onboard they managed to get to the big room whom the chancellor were held to a chair. They were soon joined by Count Dooku and the two jedi and him started another lightsaber fight. Obi-Wan was force-chocked by the sith lord and thrown into a wall leaving Anakin to fight Dooku alone. At last Anakin managed to cut Dooku's hands off with his blade and as Dooku fell to his knees in chock Anakin put his and his masters lightsabers around Dooku's neck. Palpatine ordered Anakin to kill him much to Anakins despise as it was not the jedi way to do such a thing to someone with small chance of fighting back but he soon listened to Palpatine and beheaded Dooku on the spot. Palpatine wanted Anakin to leave Obi-Wan where he was but Anakin still picked his master up and he joined them to go back. Although they were soon surrounded by too many droids for them to handle who were able to capture them.

They were brought to General Grievous in the pilot bay who took their lightsabers to add to his collection but the jedi managed to free themselves, get their lightsabers back and taking down several enemies. Grievous escaped leaving two of his Magna Guards to fight the jedi but they managed to eliminate them both while Grievous escaped away from the battle in his ship. The ship was going down because of too much damage and the two jedi managed to take control of the ship and landing it more or less safely on Coruscant without injuries. The chancellor had been brought back to safety.

After the incident Anakin met his wife Padmé again who informed Anakin that she is pregnant much to Anakins happiness. Although they were worried the jedi council would find out as relationships as a jedi was forbidden in the jedi code that the council followed as it could be a path to the dark side of the force. Anakin was later brought in front of the jedi council after his heroic deeds in the battle and got his own seat in the council, being the only member there who did not get the rank of master, much to Anakins despise.

During this time Anakin would have nightmares about Padmé dying during childbirth and went to Yoda for guidance, but not telling Yoda about the exact matter so that he would not be discovered as having a relationship with one of the senators. Although the guidance didn't help Anakin enough.

After some time the republic managed to track down Grievous on the planet Utapau and Obi-Wan would be sent there to deal with him. Anakin and Obi-Wan said farewell before Obi-Wan took off with his 212th Clone Battalion. Anakin also got a mission himself from the jedi council about the chancellor. The council had suspected chancellor Palpatine of acting a bit strange so they sent Anakin to spy on him, an offer that Anakin accepted.

During the spionage of Palpatine he would tell Anakin things about the dark side, mainly about how the dark side could be used to save others life, bringing up an old sith legend about a sith named Darth Plagueis who presumably had this power. Anakin was interested in what Palpatine had to say but it didn't take long until Anakin found out that Palpatine was trying to manipulate him, and that Palpatine was in fact the sith master that the council had been looking for since the invasion of Naboo 13 years prior. Anakin went to inform jedi master Mace Windu about the matter, and Windu brought three other jedi with him to bring Palpatine to justice, leaving Anakin alone.

Anakin would soon have thoughts about what Palpatine had said to him, and that Palpatine might in fact teach him how to save Padmés life from what he had seen in his dreams. He went to Palpatines office where he saw Palpatine laying in a corner with Windu's lightsaber pointed at him. A lightsaber fight had broke out between the jedi and Palpatine leaving the three other jedi dead. Palpatine tried to use his force lightning against Windu but Windu blocked the lightning with his lightsaber back to Palpatines face, turning his face pale, wrinkly and with yellow eyes. Palpatine couldn't hold it any longer and begged Anakin for help and Windu was only focused on whether he should kill Palpatine or not. Anakin tried to talk Windu out of it, explaining that he need Palpatine alive. Windu didn't listen to Anakin, and as he lifted his lightsaber to strike Palpatine to death, Anakin employed his lightsaber and cut Windus hand off, and as Windu was screaming in pain Palpatine used his force lightning a second time, electrifying Windu and throwing him out the broken window in the office to his death. Anakin was in grief afterwards but Palpatine was proud of him, and there Anakin would become the third apprentice of Palpatine, with Palpatine dubbing Anakin into Darth Vader. Vader hoped that Palpatine, who was also the sith master Darth Sidious, could help him save his wifes life.

After killing Windu and the other jedi, which was the beginning of the jedi purge, Sidious and Vader prepared what to do next. Sidious was focused on eliminaing every jedi in the galaxy so he sent Vader and a legion of clone troopers called the 501st Legion to go to the jedi temple and kill every jedi there. After that Palpatine wanted Vader to go to the Mustafar system and eliminate the separatist leaders and deactivate every battle droid in the galaxy. Palpatine also activated order 66, an order that meant that every clone trooper would turn against their jedi generals.

Vader and the 501st marched to the jedi temple where the slaughter of many jedi began, with Vader also killing younglings which was caught on tape for Obi-Wan and Yoda to discover later. The temple was in ruins after the attack and afterwards Vader prepared to go to the lava-planet Mustafar and deal with the remaining separatist leaders.

He arrived on Mustafar with R2-D2 in his new jedi starfighter and entered the hidden base where the separatists dwelt. They thought Vader would be friendly at first because of their previous alliance with Sidious, but to their surprise Vader closed the doors so they could not escape and eliminated every separatist leader inside along with a few battle droids guarding them, saving viceroy Nute Gunray for last whom he later killed as well. This marked the end of the Clone Wars.

Later Padmé had tracked down Vader and also arrived on Mustafar, and wanted Vader to stop what he was doing. Little did Vader know that Obi-Wan, who had previously killed Grievous and then found out what his former apprentice had done, was also hiding in Padmés ship. Padmé tried to talk with Vader in sorrow and this ended in Vader force-choking her when he saw Obi-Wan come out of the ship as well, with Vader thinking that Padmé had brought Obi-Wan to betray him. Obi-Wan commanded Vader to release her from the force grip, which Vader later did resulting in Padmé falling to the ground unconscious. Obi-Wan and Vader then confronted eachother, with Vader giving his old master and oppurtunity to join him. Obi-Wan was in sorrow to see his apprentice so changed, and refused to join him, resulting in a lightsaber fight between Vader and his old master. The fight went on for long, with them using both the force and dueling with their sabers, and they passed the room where Vader previously had killed the separatist leaders, and also passed many dangerous places on the lava-planet without hurting eachother, until they were to be face to face on two different grounds. Obi-Wan warned Vader not to try to attack him again, but Anakin tried anyways, resulting in Obi-Wan cutting both Vaders legs off and also one of his arms. Vader fell to the ground close to the lava-pool beneath them, being put on fire which deformed him. Obi-Wan talked to Vader in sorrow, telling Vader that he was like a brother to him and that Vader was supposed to destroy the sith and not join them as the old prophecy had said. Obi-Wan picked up Vaders lightsaber and had to leave the place, leaving Vader to burn as Obi-Wan did not have it in him to kill his former apprentice himself.

Soon Sidious could sense his apprentice in danger and took a ship to Mustafar where he found Vader unconscious and almost dead. Sidious and his clones hurried to rescue Vader and took him to a facility where Vader was given a life-sustaining suit that Vader would have to use for the rest of his life. Vader was in pain as the suit and cyborg parts was operated on to him and when the work was done Sidious spoke to him, making sure that Vader was okay. Vader asked his master where Padmé is, and he was informed that he had killed her in his anger, resulting in Vader destroying many machines in the facility with the force and later crying out in grief of his wifes death.

After the scene Sidious and Vader was onboard one of the first imperial star destroyers, as Sidious had turned the Galactic Republic into the Galactic Empire. They were overlooking the construction of the Death Star; the battle station that in time would become the empires first super-weapon.

### 0 BBY

19 years after Vader had become a sith lord, the clone troopers had been changed into stormtroopers, and a rebellion who had formed earlier to bring democracy back to the galaxy had become much stronger, strong enough to be a big threat to the empire. On Mustafar Vader had also been given his own castle where he resided from time to time.

The rebels had sent out a team who called themselves Rogue One to steal the plans to the Death Star and give it to Leia Organa, who was one of the highest leaders in the rebellion. These plans would uncover the secret on how to destroy the Death Star. General Krennic, a high general in the empire, had the mission of trying to stop the rebels from taking the plans. Vader would sometimes speak to Krennic about the matter, and was mostly dissapointed in Krennics achievements to solve the matter. At once he even force-choked Krennic telling him not to choke on his own aspirations. Although Rogue One later managed to defeat and kill Krennic during the battle on Scarif. Rogue One was soon also terminated but still succeeded to send the plans in time to the rebel ship connected to Leia's ship Tantive IV. Vader decided to deal with the matter himself and as the rebels were getting the plans inside the rebel ship connected to Tantive IV, Vader went there and slaughtered many of the rebels in the hallway who tried to stand their ground. Although they were no match to the sith lord. Despite this the rebels managed to get the plans inside Tantive IV and the ship released itself and escaped fast from the empire with the plans. Vader and his crew followed them in an imperial star destroyer to get the plans back.

After following and shooting at Tantive IV for a while in their imperial star destroyer, Vader and the rest of his crew managed to pull in the ship and land upon it, sending himself and several stormtroopers into the rebel ship. First a battle broke out between stormtroopers and rebels in one of the corridors there and after the stormtroopers managed to take down all the rebels Vader entered as well, soon catching rebel captain Antilles and force-choking him to get the information on where in the ship the plans are located. Antilles didn't give any useful information leading to Vader killing him on the spot, and ordering his troops to search the ship.

After searching for a while they did not find the plans but they captured Leia who refused to give them the location of the plans to Vader. Vader ordered that Leia would be sent to jail on the Death Star where she would later be quesioned further.

On the Death Star Vader met up with the stations overseer Grand Moff Tarkin, who had been part of the empire since it's estasblishment. They soon joined a meeting with other imperial officers in the conference room in the Death Star discussing the Death Star and the stolen plans. Tarkin told the others that he had just received word that Sidious, now known as The Emperor, had demolished the imperial council permanently, destroying the last remnants of the Galactic Republic. General Motti, a member in the meeting, talked proudly about their new superweapon and suggested that they would use it. Vader pointed out that the ability to destroy planets is insignificant next to the power of the force which led to Motti taunting Vader. This led Vader into force-choking Motti, telling Motti that he finds Motti's lack of faith disturbing, but Vader released when Tarkin requested them to stop the rough arguing.

Soon Leia was taken from her cell by Vader, who had previously tried to get information out of her with other means, to try once again to get the information they need to get the Death Star plans back. The Death Star had travelled into orbit around the planet Alderaan, Leias home planet, whom they threatened to destroy if Leia didn't give them the information they need. In the end Leia told them that the plans are on Dantooine, but despite her giving this information to Tarkin and Vader the grand moff still proceeded with the operation, blowing up Alderaan with the Death Star-laser, which also was the ceremony that made the station fully operational. After this they put Leia back into her cell.

After some time a myserious ship that was catched by the Death Stars pull would show up and come aboard the Death Star, and Vader sent in stormtroopers to inspect the ship. Although Vader didn't know that the ones onboard the ship would hide in a shaft inside and then beat down the stormtroopers, disguising themselves in their armor and come out without anyone else knowing anything. Vader didn't think much of it, until he sensed a presence that he had not sensed in a long time. Soon his old master Obi-Wan, who was onboard the ship, showed up in front of Vader in a corridor looking much older than last time they saw eachother on Mustafar. Obi-Wan had been away from the others in the ships crew to shut down the Death Stars pull so that they could escape and had then decided to confront his old apprentice. Vader and Obi-Wan taunted eachother and both employed their lightsabers, starting a smooth lightsaber fight not lasting for long, until the others in Obi-Wans crew showed up after freeing Leia from her cell and to go back to their ship. Obi-Wan told Vader that if Vader would strike him down he would become more powerful than Vader could ever imagine, and so Obi-Wan put his ligthsaber right in front him, letting Vader kill him, and so Vader killed Obi-Wan, with Obi-Wans body mysteriously dissappearing in front of Vader, leaving his old masters cloak on the ground. The jedi masters crew was in pain to see him die and so one of them shot down many imperials in anger after escaping back into the ship and leaving the station while Vader left the scene.

What Vader and the rest of the Empire didn't know, was that the ship that landed inside the Death Star and then escaped, was named the Millenium Falcon and those within it was in possession of the Death Star plans that the empire had been looking for for some time now after Leia had given the plans to R2-D2 on Tantive IV and then sent the droid to Tatooine. They had planned to go to Alderaan with the plans only to find it in many pieces after being destroyed by the Death Star. They were led to the moon Yavin IV by Leia where they would prepare an attack to destroy the Death Star once and for all.

After some time the assault on the Death Star began. Many rebel ships consisting of X-Wings and Y-Wings were sent there to destroy it with missiles that would be employed into a hole in the Death Star, that was put there intentionally by a man by the name of Galen Erso. This would be able to destroy the station from the inside. Many imperial TIE-fighters were sent to deal with the rebel ships and Vader himself soon joined with his TIE Advanced together with two TIE Fighters to have his back. Vader shot down several of the X-Wings that were on their way to the Death Star's hole and one of the rebel pilots was in fact the same person that shot several imperials on the Death Star before escaping in the Millenium Falcon. This person was named Luke and Vader could sense that he was strong in the force. As Vader was about to take Luke down the Millenium Falcon itself joined the fight and shot Vader's ship as well as the two TIE fighters accompanying him. Vader flew off into space after the shot and Luke managed to get to the hole and emply two of his missiles inside and then escaping with the other rebels. This led to the explosion of the Death Star resulting in the death of everybody onboard, including Grand Moff Tarkin. Vader managed to take control of his ship and flee the scene.

### 3 ABY

3 years after the destruction of the Death Star and the death of his closest ally, Vader had grown more aggressive, killing several of his crew members for the smallest mistakes, which made him very feared by everyone else in the empire. Meanwhile the rebels had built a new base on the snow-planet Hoth, and the empire started the search for this base and later found it with the help of imperial probe droids. The rebels destroyed the droid that had found their base which wouldn't help much as the Empire had already received the location. So began the assault on Hoth, and Vader was eager to find Luke who had destroyed the Death Star years earlier. Once the base had been overtaken, he and several snowtroopers entered the rebel base and there he saw The Millenium Falcon leaving, and it was able to escape from him just in time.

Afterwards, once Vader had returned to his Super Star Destroyer, he was contacted by The Emperor who informed Vader that the one who destroyed the Death Star years earlier was no doubt the offspring of Anakin Skywalker, the son of Vader's long dead wife who was born before his wife died because of what was said to be a broken heart. Vader proposed that perhaps his son could be turned to the dark side to join the sith, which was an idea that pleased his master.

Afterwards Vader had called for several bounty hunters to track down the Millenium Falcon, with one of the bounty hunters being Boba Fett, son and clone of the bounty hunter that was killed on Geonosis many years earlier. Vader reminded Boba that he did not want any disintegrations this time, which Boba agreed to follow.

After finding out that the Falcon is on it's way to Cloud City in Bespin, Boba reported this to Vader who prepared to invade Cloud City by making a deal with the keeper of the city, who was a man with the name Lando Calrissian. So Vader, Boba and many stormtroopers dwelt in the city and waited for the moment to capture the ones inside the Falcon once it arrives. The ones in the Falcon, who was in fact R2-D2, C-3PO, Leia, a smuggler named Han Solo and his friend Chewbacca got invited to dinner once they had arrived, and by surprise they saw Vader and Boba in the dinner-room waiting for them. Han tried to shoot Vader who force-deflected Han's shots with his hands and soon Han and his company were surrounded by Stormtroopers as well. Luke wasn't in the group who had been captured but Vader would use his friends as bait for Luke to come to Vader. Therefore Vader tortured Han so that Luke would feel the suffering of his friends so that he would come to rescue them. Han was also worth something to Boba who needed Han to be taken to Jabba the Hutt to pay for his unfinished debts with him, and so began the operation of freezing Han into carbonite.

After the operation Vader could sense that Luke had indeed arrived at the city as planned to save his friends, and Luke soon confronted Vader who used the force to sense the location of Luke. A lightsaber battle broke out between them, with Vader mostly playing around with Luke with his superior lightsaber skills. Although Luke got a few hits, but the fight ended when Vader was able to cut Luke's hand off as Luke was going closer and closer to the edge of a ledge. Luke crawled away even more from Vader with a round deep underneath them and Vader started to talk about Luke's father. Luke told Vader that he had been told that Vader killed his father, but there Vader told Luke that the story Luke had heard is false and that he himself is Luke's father. Luke was shocked to hear this and was also in denial, screaming out in pain. Vader tried to convince his son to join him, and that they together can overthrow the Emperor who had foreseen this and rule the galaxy as father and son. He also told Luke that there is no other way but Luke still decided to deny his fathers offer and jumped down into the deep.

Meanwhile Lando had saved Luke's remaining friends from the imprisonment and warned the people of Cloud City to evacuate it because of how the deal between him and Vader was untrustful and so they escaped in the Falcon with Vader's troopers trying to take them down. Vader later found out that Luke is still alive as they sent a couple of words to eachother via the force. Luke had been picked up by his friends in the Falcon and left the planet, with Vader failing to make his son join him.

### 4 ABY

The Empire had began the construction of another Death Star and this was one was designed to be much bigger than the first one. Even though it wasn't completed, many troops were stationed there and the laser of the station was capable of destroying big starships in one shot.

1 year after the battle on Hoth, Vader went to the new battle station to overlook the construction and mentioned when talking to imperial officer Tiaan Jerjerrod onboard that they are not working fast enough, with Tiaan implying that they need more men to work faster. Vader informed him that The Emperor will soon arrive to overlook the contruction himself, much to the fear of the officer. Tiaan assured Vader that they will double their efforts, with Vader telling him that it's for the best as the Emperor is not as forgiving as himself.

After some time the rebels would begin a mission to the forest-moon Endor where they would deactivate the new Death Star shield that was activated from there. To get there they had to steal an imperial shuttle to blend in as they passed the imperial fleet and Vader could feel Luke onboard. The Emperor arrived to the Death Star where he went to his throne-room on the station and Vader assured to go to and get Luke and bring him to the Emperor. Vader took an imperial shuttle and landed on Endor where he waited for Luke who soon turned himself in as he knew that facing Vader again was something he would have to do. Luke talked to Vader in provate before he was brought to the Emperor and Luke tried to convince Vader that there is good in him, and reminding Vader of his real name Anakin Skywalker much to Vader's despise, telling Luke that that name means nothing to him anymore.

Afterwards Luke was brought to the Death Star as planned and met the Emperor face to face for the first time. There the operation of bringing Luke to the dark side would begin with the Emperor telling his Royal Guard's to leave the room so he, Vader and Luke could talk in private, and after mocking Luke and telling him that the rebels had no chance of success the Emperor told Luke to use his anger and strike him down. Vader told Luke that it would be useless to resist and soon Luke got provoked enough to try to kill the Emperor with his lightsaber with Vader stopping him in time. That's how another lightsaber battle broke out between Vader and his son, and through reading Luke's mind while trying to manipulate him Vader found out that Luke had a twin sister, and that perhaps she could be turned to the dark side if Luke would refuse. This made Luke even angrier attacking Vader with much more strength, succeeding in cutting Vader's hand off which ended the fight. Vader lay in pain and raised his hand up in the air signaling that he was begging Luke to stop, with Luke looking at his own replaced cyborg-hand and feeling remorse for his father. The Emperor laughed at the situation and was proud of what Luke had achieved with attacking Vader with such anger as he did, and then telling him to kill Vader and complete his turn to the dark side. Luke refused and told the Emperor that he's a jedi like his father before him, and that's when the Emperor understood that this was Luke's final choice. So the Emperor grew angry and started his operation to kill Luke with force lightning. Vader stood up again watching his son screaming in pain as he was electrified and begging his father to help him. Vader couldn't take it anymore and soon he turned to the Emperor, picking him up in the air and throwing the sith master down a reactor shaft which ended in a sort of explosion as the Emperor died. Vader was in pain after this as he was electrified by his masters force-lightning while saving his son, and so Luke told Vader that he wanted Vader to follow him back to Luke's friends on Endor. Although Vader told Luke that it is too late and that he's too hurt to continue. The breath generated by Vader's armor had been damaged by the force-lightning resulting in much weaker breath-sounds as Vader was breathing and Vader asked Luke to take Vader's helmet off so that he might see Luke with his own eyes. Luke told Vader that if he were to do that Vader would die but Vader told Luke that nothing can stop that now. So Luke took off his father's helmet, so that Vader could see his son normally for the first time. As Vader became weaker he told Luke to go and tell his sister that Luke was right about his father, and so Vader died in Luke's arms.

## Legacy

After Vader's death, he had furfilled the prophecy as expected by killing the Emperor and himself in the process which ended the sith once and for all. His body was taken by Luke to Endor where his body was burnt by his son, and soon Vader would join Obi-Wan and Yoda as a ghost of the force, with his ghost being formed as Anakin looked like just before his turn to Vader in 19 BBY.

After the death of Vader and the Empire it was celebrated all over the galaxy, as the people was now freed from the harsh rule of the Empire, and Vader was most likely remembered in a very bad way by the inhabitants of the galaxy.

After the Empire was defeated, the First Order was formed from the ashes of it, and one of the highest leaders there would be the grandson of Vader, who was a man named Kylo Ren. He admired his dead grandfather alot and kept Vader's burnt mask that he required some time after the burning of Vader's body, talking to it in hard times to comfort himself.

30 years after the death of Vader, his breathing-sound generated from his life-supporting suit could be heard in a force-vision triggered by a girl named Rey on the planet Takodana.

## Personality

Anakin, as most kids, was energetic and much happier as a child, but after joining the jedi order it started to go downhill. He would often complain about how he was treated by Obi-Wan, and was fairly whiny in general but his personality changed alot after the death of his wife, becoming more of a terrifying figure and more aggressive. Although Vader's real breaking point was after the destruction of the Death Star and death of Grand Moff Tarkin, and he would be so aggressive at times that he killed members of his own staff for the simplest mistakes. Vader was also very cold both in young age and as Vader, showing traits of psychopathy and killing without hesitation. Although he could care about others as he betrayed his master and sacrificed himself in the process to save his son when the time came and also showing grief at certain moments. He was very feared by his personnel as Darth Vader.

## Notes

* It's unknown how Vader had learned the ability to become a force-ghost, with the best explanation being that he was so strong in the force that he didn't need training to become one after his death.
* Despite his non-caring and treatment of others, Vader at least seemed very respectful towards the elderly of his allies.
* Vader is the only known member of the sith to have returned to the light.
* Vader, as Anakin, might have been the youngest jedi to become part of the jedi council.

## Appearances in chronological order

* *Episode I - The Phantom Menace*
* *Episode II - Attack of the Clones*
* *Episode III - Revenge of the Sith*
* *Rogue One*
* *Episode IV - A New Hope*
* *Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back*
* *Episode VI - Return of the Jedi*

### Indirect appearances

* *Episode VII - The Force Awakens (mentioned), (heard in force vision)*