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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.
Personality[]
The sinister Count Dooku meditating
Dooku was a sinister person. He was once a Jedi but came to dislike their evil actions and teamed up with Darth Sidious becoming a Sith, which meant he was just as evil as the Jedi he hated. Dooku was ruthless as he didn't care for others and manipulated his heroic student, General Grievous. Dooku was also power-hungry much like the Jedi, and wanted his apprentice Asajj Ventress to overthrow Sidious but that was soon thwarted. He later trained Savage Opress to go against Ventress but that failed as well. Despite all of these evil traits, it was unknown what Dooku's true goals were as sometimes he seemed genuinely supportive of the heroic acts of the Confederacy of Independent Systems while other times, he manipulated them. Dooku was also very calm and good at talking as he usually dealt with negotiations unlike Grievous Hero, who hated politics.
Dooku was a trash-talker and loved toying with his enemies making them mad. He had a rivalry with the evil Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker as they clashed several times during the war.
History[]
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. 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.
