Vos did so and learned that his great-aunt had sacrificed his parents to the Anzati to seize power. Overcome by rage, Vos cut down his great-aunt and became submerged in the dark side of the Force.
As a reward Dooku gave Vos the power crystal of Darth Andeddu 's lightsaber. Tyranus with Darth Andeddu's holocron. As the years passed, Dooku immersed himself fully within the persona of Darth Tyranus. He sought out and collected ancient Sith artifacts, particularly holocrons. In a daring raid on Coruscant , he even breached the Jedi Temple itself.
While cortosis battle droids distracted the Jedi Council in the depths of Coruscant, [63] Dooku stole the Sith holocron he had studied as a young man from the Jedi Archives. The Jedi suspected their former comrade was indeed a true Sith, but could not discern the identity of the elusive second Dark Lord.
Vos thought Sora Bulq was the one they sought, but this was due to a deliberate deception on Dooku's part. While some of Dooku's acolytes, like Asajj Ventress, were aware of the existence of Darth Sidious, many were not. During the Clone Wars, Dooku posted a bounty on Jedi that members of a mining colony attempted to collect. Dooku shot down the fleeing Padawan and only paid the miners the bounty for the one Jedi they had killed.
While Dooku spent much of his time shepherding the Separatist Council and running the war, he occasionally completed missions for Sidious personally. The two Jedi had been diverted on a supposedly important mission by Palpatine. The mission they were given was meaningless, however, and served only to distract them from his apprentice's work.
Dooku continued to assist local Separatist leaders, sending droids to aid Alto Stratus in his struggle on Jabiim. Count Dooku and an aide in a Separatist propaganda broadcast. As the war continued, Dooku and Grievous planned to destroy an invading Republic army on Viidaav as well as the Separatist-allied inhabitants of the planet by rendering the surface uninhabitable.
Droids planted charges on the planet and prepared them for detonation. However, the Republic forces and the Viidaav colonists discovered the plot and fought through the droids to stop the detonation sequence.
The detonation charges did not go off, and the planet was saved. Despite taking no direct action in the Separatist invasion of the critical communications hub of Praesitlyn , Dooku and Ventress advised Admiral Pors Tonith. Tonith was tasked with capturing the planet and denying its use to the Republic. Skywalker in particular was being watched closely by Tyranus and Sidious, who wished to test his power and bring him closer to the dark side.
Once again manipulating the battles of the Clone Wars to suit the Sith schemes, Tyranus delayed reinforcements to the Separatists until the last moment, resulting in a defeat for Pors Tonith's forces and a victory for the Republic. After Ziro's agents delivered the young Huttlet to the planet Teth , Dooku contacted Ziro again to arrange for Asajj Ventress to take custody of Rotta.
Jabba had requested Jedi assistance to rescue his son, and the Count wished for Ventress to frame the crime on would-be rescuer Anakin Skywalker. In one of several audiences with the Hutt, Dooku displayed a partially forged recording of Skywalker and Rotta that Ventress had produced.
This recording enraged Jabba, who demanded that Rotta be rescued and Skywalker's head delivered to him. The Count agreed, and commanded Ventress to retrieve Rotta from Skywalker and return him alive to Jabba.
While the fighters were destroyed, they succeeded in disabling the vessel, which crashed in the desert. Tano and Skywalker split up after landing, with Tano carrying Rotta and Skywalker playing decoy. Dooku sent other MagnaGuards to lay in wait along the route to Jabba's Palace , but was delayed in seeking Skywalker by a message from Ziro the Hutt, who was concerned about their plot.
However, their discussion was interrupted by the discovery of Senator Amidala eavesdropping on Ziro. Dooku suggested that Ziro hand her over to Nute Gunray and collect the bounty, and left to confront Skywalker. Riding his speeder bike into the desert, the Count soon discovered Skywalker, who was waiting for him. They proceeded to duel, and the Count noted that Skywalker's swordplay had greatly improved since their previous encounter.
Dooku sliced Skywalker's backpack in the midst of the battle. As Skywalker was acting as Tano's decoy, the backpack contained only rocks and not Rotta.
Skywalker noted that he had delayed Dooku long enough for Tano to reach the palace. Dooku, not fooled, then displayed a hologram of Tano fighting MagnaGuards, telling Skywalker that the MagnaGuards would kill Rotta, but Tano would be delivered to Jabba alive to face his vengeance.
Anakin then managed to knock the Count down a sandy embankment, ending the duel in a draw. Sprinting to Dooku's speeder, Skywalker stole it and raced to Jabba's throne room to defend Tano from the Hutt's wrath. However, the young Togruta made it past Dooku's minions and delivered the infant Hutt to his father.
While enormously pleased at the return of Rotta, Jabba still demanded the deaths of the Jedi for other slights. However, a call from Senator Amidala delivering evidence of Ziro and Dooku's involvement in the kidnapping deflected Jabba's fury onto his uncle and the Separatists. The Sith Lord was somewhat disconcerted by his failure on Tatooine, though Sidious advised him that the tide of the war was still in their favor.
After escaping the desert planet, Dooku sought to bring various unaligned worlds into the Confederacy. He personally led a Separatist army that occupied the planet Kiros. When the governor of Kiros objected that he was putting Kiros's people into harm's way by bringing the war to them, the Count offered to evacuate the world and offer its population "sanctuary". After the people of Kiros gave themselves into his hands, he sold them to the Zygerians. He contacted Sidious to inform him of this, but Sidious told him that he already knew about the plot and that he believed it had little chance of success.
Dooku soon after learned that some Jedi had breached the perimeter security on Gwori and he contacted Overseer Juhm , who commanded the shipyards, to offer him extra security, although Juhm refused and claimed he didn't need it. The Sith Lord was very pleased by this news and decided to travel to Gwori, so that he could watch their execution.
He flew there in his solar sailer, with Asajj Ventress, but on arrival, he discovered that the Jedi had escaped and destroyed the shipyards. He had Ventress kill Juhm for his failure and contacted Sidious, who told him not to worry, as the shipyards would have eventually been destroyed anyway and that the incident had shown them just how powerful Kenobi and Skywalker were. Tyranus vowed that they would change that in the future. She and her forces fought with the Republic representative Yoda and his forces to determine which side Toydaria would join.
After Yoda won their contest, Dooku ordered Asajj to kill Katuunko. Yoda prevented her from doing so, and she was forced to make her escape, defeated. Dooku participated in a Separatist attack on the planet Falleen. During the battle, he infiltrated a temple and forced the King of Falleen to cede Falleen to the Confederacy.
Dooku had an agent who had infiltrated the Friends of the Republic , a group that provided intelligence for Organa. On Sidious's orders, Dooku had his agent give them information that the Sith were on the planet Zigoola.
Zigoola was the location of a Sith temple which contained dangerous artifacts and Kenobi and Organa were supposed to be lured to the planet, where the power of the temple would destroy them.
However, they escaped and Dooku's failure further undermined Sidious's confidence in him. Around this time, Dooku also attended a high profile Separatist convention on Chanosant , to try and gain the Confederacy more support.
Grievous's next move would be the command of the new battleship , the Malevolence , which carried a powerful ion cannon that could neutralize any ship, battling Republic warships over planets such Phu and Ryndellia , as well as the Kaliida Nebula.
After Jedi Master Plo Koon survived in the battle of Abregado , [89] the official description of the Malevolence was launched in the HoloNet news, making more scores to Grievous' actions. After a battle on the Ryndellia system, that end in success to the Confederacy, Dooku gave the Kaleesh general another opportunity, at attacking a Republic Medical base in the Kaliida Nebula, that by the time, was totally unprotected.
Grievous attacked the target, but after a skirmish in the space, the Malevolence ion cannons were totally damaged, and just in time, when Republic reinforcements arrived to protect the base, and destroy the ship. However, a Jedi invasion of the vessel forced Grievous to retreat and leave his command ship.
The Malevolence was totally destroyed, and the senator rescued. Tyranus said that he was already on the task, for he was sending Asajj Ventress to either free the Neimoidian or, should he talk, silence him.
Sidious was concerned about Ventress's past failures, but Tyranus gave him his word that the Dathomirian would complete her mission "to the letter. This time, he said, she must prove herself worthy of being his Sith apprentice. Ventress went to rescue the Viceroy on the Jedi prison, Tranquility , and signaled Captain Faro Argyus, who was convinced with a huge amount of money by Dooku, to liberate him, while she faced the Jedi securing the prison.
When Ventress killed the senatorial captain for boastfully discrediting her, Dooku showed no care for his life. Dooku directs the Jedi toward an " alternative prize. In light of Grievous's recent failures, the Count contacted Grievous telling that Lord Sidious demands more dramatic examples: more dead Jedi.
The Republic beacon broadcasted from inside the castle, and after discovering that Gunray wasn't there, they were greeted, in hologram form by Dooku, offering them another prize. Simultaneously, he ordered Grievous to destroy them. Afterwards, the Count learned that Grievous managed to kill the clones and young Jedi Vebb, which was expected. However, Grievous failed to kill Fisto and Dooku told him there was room for improvement, thus frustrating the General even more.
When Count Dooku moved his fortress to Vanqor, having captured the Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, he was ambushed by Republic forces, and forced into retreating. After a dogfight over the planet, his Solar Sailer was heavily damaged, and it crashed in the surface.
Dooku captured by Weequay pirates. Both Skywalker and his Master, Kenobi, were pursuing him and had landed on the the surface. The Sith Lord managed to escape from them by going into a nearby cave and hiding until the Jedi went looking for him. He blocked their exit by throwing rocks at them, and took Anakin's lightsaber. He ran out of the cave and he found a gang of pirates. He asked the leader of the pirates, Hondo Ohnaka to get him to a civilized planet, far from Vanqor and the Republic.
The pirates told him, that the planet they were going to was Florrum , but Dooku refused to travel to go, so he was secretly disarmed and captured by the pirates. Ohnaka contacted the Republic Supreme Chancellor, asking for a million credits in spice, in exchange for the Count. The Republic sent Skywalker and Kenobi who were still looking for him, but they were captured too by Ohnaka to gain more spice.
Dooku managed to escape with the Jedi three times, but they were recaptured and taken to the cell again. When the power went out due to representative Binks fight, the Sith Lord escaped one more time, killing the guard outside his cell, then Force choking Turk Falso and forcing him to shoot his compatriot Barb Mentir.
Dooku then took their ship , escaping the system. Later, Count Dooku authorized the Neimoidian general, Lok Durd , to build his new project, the Defoliator , a weapon that could destroy every living organic within a certain area, while leaving droids, which comprised the majority of the Separatist military, unharmed.
Dooku examined the general's treachery, and knew that he only planned to win his confidence, so he could be promoted. After the first test was successful, Dooku told the general to make a trial on the Lurmen inhabitants, so they could see the effectiveness of the weapon upon living creatures. Soon, Dooku was informed of the failed Durd's plan, and the Neimoidian's capture, but he didn't care at all. When Techno Union Emir , Wat Tambor, took control of the planet Ryloth, Dooku gave him orders to take extremely precautions against the Jedi moves on the system.
Although the Skakoan was in no contact with the count, his spies in the separatist army, informed him about the failed moves against the republic army, and the supposed death of Neimoidian blockade Captain Mar Tuuk , [94] and the T-series tactical droid TX Dooku demanded Tambor that he needed to take off the planet, and steal every available resource on the only separatist base at the city of Lessu.
Tambor's personal tactical droid, TA , communicated directly with Dooku, despite the foreman's orders, and insisted in Dooku's demands to the Skakoan Emir. Although Tambor didn't like Dooku's plan, he needed to obey him, when he was forced by clone forces and the Twi'lek freedom fighters , led by General Mace Windu and Cham Syndulla , he was betrayed by TA and Dooku, who planned to destroy by bombing the capital city, with the foreman in it, but after he was captured by Windu, and their space forces were definitely destroyed, retreated, and abandoned Tambor, under Dooku's orders.
Teska contacted Dooku at one stage and was forced by Dooku to hurry it up as they were running out of time. They attempted to shoot him but he swatted the bolts aside and used the Force to throw them in and then push the ship of the docking platform.
Kenobi and Windu confronted the count and forced him to surrender, but Dooku leapt away and sent his Magna Guards after them. Windu and Kenobi defeated them and then engaged Dooku himself. The count fought well, but the two powerful Jedi Masters proved too much for him. He fell off the docking platform, defeated but not killed. Dooku and Asajj Ventress attempted to escape Behpour, but were trapped in space when their ship broke down. The bounty hunter Cad Bane watched this from afar.
During the Clone Wars, Dooku and the Confederacy officially backed the Death Watch, a group of Mandalorian terrorists whose goal was to bring down the government of the pacifist New Mandalorians. Dooku urged the leader of the Death Watch, Governor Pre Vizsla of Concordia , to give the Galactic Republic a reason to send a military presence to Mandalore , which Dooku believed would inspire the inhabitants of Mandalore to start a revolution, spearheaded by the Death Watch movement. However, his plan fell through.
Duchess Satine Kryze of Mandalore presented her case to the Galactic Senate, urging them to hold off a military force, despite the attempts of a Death Watch assassin, sent by Dooku and Vizsla, to silence her. Dooku ordered Vizsla and his men to hold off the attack force, claiming he had further plans for them. They wanted Dooku to bring the war to Coruscant's doorstep. Dooku ordered General Grievous to send droids disguised as sanitary units to commit acts of sabotage on the capital.
Meanwhile, on Raxus , Dooku publicly supported a peace treaty from the Separatist Parliament to the Galactic Republic. Despite this, Dooku sought to continue the war. The attack set by Grievous worked and the de-regulation bill was passed in the Galactic Senate, continuing the war.
After bombing on Coruscant , Dooku sent a message to the Galactic Senate, accusing them of launching their own barbaric attack on the Separatists on their territory and murdering the sponsor of their peace treaty, Mina Bonteri. Dooku then formally withdrew the Separatist's peace treaty.
In actuality, Dooku's agents killed her, to disrupt any further attempts at a peaceful resolution to the war. Dooku also arranged a pair of bounty hunters to threaten Senators to vote for or abstain from appropriating funds for the creation of millions of more clone troopers and continuing the war. On his homeworld of Serenno, Tyranus was contacted by his master, Darth Sidious, who was concerned with his assassin Ventress' growing power in the dark side and that the Count was training his own apprentice to destroy him.
To prove Tyranus' loyalty, Lord Sidious ordered his apprentice to eliminate Ventress. Tyranus began to protest that Ventress was his most trusted subordinate, but as Sidious harshly repeated his demand, the Sith apprentice bowed and obeyed. Thus while Ventress commanded the Separatist forces at Battle of Sullust , Tyranus ordered her reinforcements back, dismissed her and left her to die.
Unknown to Tyranus, Ventress survived the count's attempt to eliminate her. Ventress made her way back to her homeworld of Dathomir , where she received help from her clan, the Nightsisters and Mother Talzin.
With their help, Ventress and two other Nightsisters fought Tyranus with Jedi lightsabers, but they could not beat him; even when disarmed, he unleashed a torrent of Force lightning on his assailants and threw them out the window.
The Count, blinded by a toxic dart, was under the impression that the Jedi were had attempted to capture him and began looking for a new acolyte. Mother Talzin saw this as an opportunity to give Dooku a new assassin to replace Ventress, one that would be controlled by Ventress and the Nightsisters to slay Dooku at their behest. After Talzin contacted Dooku, [98] the Count traveled to Dathomir, where he spoke to Talzin of a possible alliance between the Separatists and the Nightsisters.
Despite how the Count helped Talzin out of some manner of predicament, Talzin stated that their loyalty was to their own clan and that she hoped to never make contact with Dooku again once their business was done. Talzin then asked Dooku if he had heard of the Sith warrior Darth Maul. When the Count remembered the name of his predecessor, Talzin said that there were others of his bloodline who still lived and could be as powerful as Maul. With Ventress "dead" and the Jedi attacks increasing, Dooku accepted Talzin's offer for a new assassin.
After the Nightsister used their mystical powers on Opress, they deliver him to Dooku on Serenno. After slaughtering the Republic forces present there almost singlehandedly, including two Jedi, Savage returned to Serenno, where Tyranus promised that they would be more powerful than Lord Sidious and rule the galaxy together.
On Serenno, Tyranus trained Opress in lightsaber combat and in Sith skills. He was seen as a hard taskmaster, as he strives to stir Opress' anger and hatred in order to unlock the power of the dark side within him, torturing and agitating his disciple with demeaning criticism and Force lightning. After the first training has been completed, Dooku sent Opress on yet on another mission, this time to Toydaria: he was to capture King Katuunko and bring him to the Sith Lord alive.
Unfortunately, Opress inadvertently killed Katuunko while fending off Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, angering Tyranus upon his return to the Sith Lord's ship, who brutally punished Opress for his failure. To Tyranus's surprise, Ventress arrived and revealed Opress's true loyalty to her.
Tyranus, under attack from both his apprentices, proved more than a match for both of them; however, the derisive criticism of both his masters sent Opress into a berserk fury, and he used the Force to choke both of them into submission.
The arrival of Skywalker and Kenobi, looking to exact justice on Katuunko's murderer, put an end to the duel; Opress fought his way off the ship and fled back to Dathomir, where Talzin advised him to seek aid from his long lost kinsman. Tyranus and Ventress continued fighting in the bowels of the ship; Tyranus proved too strong for Ventress to kill alone, but she managed to escape Tyranus before he could execute his defeated apprentice.
Sidious told Tyranus that Grievous was still needed in their plans for the Clone Wars. Tyranus was told by Sidious that he must lay a trap for Anakin Skywalker and that he would exchange Skywalker for Grievous. Dooku then contacted Rish Loo and ordered him to leave a trail for Skywalker to follow. When Loo, followed by Skywalker, walked in, Dooku killed him for his stupidity.
When Anakin asked why Dooku would bring the war to Naboo, Dooku told him that the war was started there by the Sith since they, in Dooku's words, "control everything. He summoned MagnaGuards to help him. Dooku was able to subdue Skywalker with a combination of Force choke, Force lightning, and attacks from the MagnaGuard's electrostaffs.
Dooku then placed Skywalker in a containment field. Dooku, using Skywalker's communicator, contacted Amidala, offering her Skywalker in exchange for Grievous. Amidala was at first hesitant, but when Dooku ordered his MagnaGuards to torture Skywalker and gave her one hour to respond, Amidala agreed to Dooku's term and freed Grievous.
After Eval was freed by fellow bounty hunters Cad Bane and Obi-Wan Kenobi, disguised as Rako Hardeen , Dooku then held a "friendly" contest for 13 of the galaxy's best bounty hunters.
Dooku and Eval then took their weapons away and then sent them into the Box. While watching the bounty hunters performance, Dooku was very interested in Rako Hardeen. After the surviving bounty hunters finished the box, Dooku told them of his plan; that they would kidnap the Chancellor and that they would use to demand the freedom of Separatist prisoners.
He also promised that they would be paid with enough credits to never work again and that they would be famous for doing this task. Dooku and his bounty hunters then went to Naboo. After securing a hangar, Dooku and Bane laid the plan. After Dooku and Bane finished explaining the plan, he secretly planted a listening device on "Hardeen"'s rifle case, revealing that he knew who he was along. After Bane and Eval were failed in their kidnapping plot, Dooku and his MagnaGuards then went to capture the Chancellor themselves.
As Anakin escorted Palpatine to the palace dining room, Dooku and his Magnaguards were waiting. He taunted Anakin that with the Jedi being lulled into a false sense of security by Bane and Eval's attack, he would easily be able to defeat the young Jedi and capture the Chancellor.
Anakin quickly cut down the two Magnaguards in the room and rushed forward to duel with Dooku, ordering Palpatine to flee. Palpatine did so, but was confronted by a third Magnaguard, who held him and forced him to watch the fight, which was what he wanted to do anyway. Dooku used the Force to throw chairs and cutlery at Anakin, who easily batted them aside. He then used the Force to block Skywalker's blade, and was barely able to stop Anakin's lightsaber from piercing his skull.
As the Magnaguard took Palpatine to the waiting Separatist shuttle, Dooku continued to hold Anakin back. The Sith Lord chose to fight one handed, which almost cost him his life when Anakin kicked him down on a set of stairs, and was able to batter down Dooku's blade long enough to grab Dooku's throat.
As Palpatine watched in eager anticipation, Anakin began to choke the Sith Lord, who was just able to blast Anakin away with Force lightning, before he led the Chancellor to his shuttle. Obi-Wan was able to cut down the Magnaguard before freeing Palpatine and taking him off the shuttle. Dooku proceeded to push Anakin back onto the landing platform and faced the two Jedi. He congratulated Obi-Wan on his victory, but threw one last insult at Skywalker before the shuttle flew off.
As Dooku overlooked the battle in his palace on Serenno, he then felt great pain. He then realized that Talzin was using her Magic on him to kill him if he did not call off the attack. Dooku then contacted Grievous and told him to kill Talzin before she had a chance to kill him. Dooku advised Grievous to follow the green mist, which was her magic.
The general was able to stop Talzin from killing Dooku. At some point thereafter, Dooku consulted Grievous, informing him about Savage Opress' growing powers, which he could sense from afar, and cautioned about the threat he potentially posed to all who crossed his path, including themselves. Dooku then supported Sanjay Rash when he moved against Onderon's king, Ramsis Dendup and made himself king of Onderon. When the rebels stormed the city and defeated the droid armies, Dooku - via holo transmission - had Kalani shoot Rash dead for his repeated failures.
He then ordered a full droid retreat from the system. Via transmission, he spoke directly to Ohnaka and said that the invasion was in retaliation for Ohnaka holding him for ransom some time before. He told Grievous to arrest Hondo and to take all his possessions so to make them Dooku's property. The ensuing assault destroyed much of the pirate's base, however Hondo survived.
Dooku received word from Admiral Trench of a malfunctioning clone trooper that killed their Jedi General during the battle at Ringo Vinda.
In response, Tyranus informed his Master of this unforeseen development, knowing that it could compromise their future plans. Dooku then ordered Trench to kidnap the clone so they could examine him, though it failed at the end. They informed him of the clone trooper's malfunctioning inhibitor chip. He then ordered them to perform an autopsy and send him the inhibitor chip.
Though the clone trooper had no knowledge of the chip's true purpose, Dooku warned them that the Jedi must not find out about the true purpose of the chip. Yoda : Powerful you have become Dooku, the dark side I sense in you. Count Dooku : I have become more powerful than any Jedi. Even you. Yoda : Much to learn, you still have. Obi-Wan : I will never join you. Count Dooku : I have good news for you, my lord.
War has begun. Darth Sidious : Excellent. Everything is going as planned. Count Dooku : Brave, but, foolish, my old Jedi friend.
You are impossibly outnumbered. Mace Windu : I don't think so. Count Dooku : We'll see. Obi-Wan : I'm tracking a bounty hunter named Jango Fett. Do you know him? Count Dooku : There are no bounty hunters here that I am aware of. The Geonosians don't trust them.
Count Dooku : Master Windu, you have fought gallantly. Technically Dooku is a Darth as well, as the Emperor renamed him Darth Tyranus when he became his apprentice in Attack of the Clones, yet in a universe where Jedi and Sith usually claim similar titles like "Master" or "Darth," Dooku is a Count.
This topic of Dooku's interesting title was discussed on Quora. As Dooku spelled out in Attack of the Clones and the subsequent animated series , he was born into royalty on a planet called Serenno. Instead of growing up to inherit the throne, he had incredible Force-sensitivity, which scared his parents into sending him to the Jedi Order.
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