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During the Separatist Crisis, the charismatic Jedi renunciate Count Dooku emerged as the political leader of the Republic’s secessionist movement. His former colleagues in the Jedi Order saw Dooku as misguided but a man of principles, and refused to believe he could be an advocate of violence and war.

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    • During the Separatist Crisis, the charismatic Jedi renunciate Count Dooku emerged as the political leader of the Republic’s secessionist movement. His former colleagues in the Jedi Order saw Dooku as misguided but a man of principles, and refused to believe he could be an advocate of violence and war.
    • They were wrong; Dooku had sworn allegiance to the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, taking the name Darth Tyranus. After Obi-Wan Kenobi’s capture on Geonosis, Dooku visited the younger Jedi – whose master, Qui-Gon Jinn, had been Dooku’s Padawan. Dooku told Obi-Wan the Republic was under the control of a Sith Lord named Darth Sidious. As he’d expected, this truth was too terrible for Obi-Wan and the Jedi to believe.
    • Dooku watched as the Geonosians prepared to execute Obi-Wan, Anakin Skywalker and Naboo Senator Padmé Amidala. The captives were rescued by a team of Jedi led by Dooku’s old friend Mace Windu, backed up by clone troopers brought from Geonosis by Yoda, Dooku’s former master.
    • As the skirmish in the Geonosian arena exploded into the first battle of the Clone Wars, Dooku retreated to a war room. There, Archduke Poggle the Lesser gave Dooku the Geonosian plans for a terrible weapon – a battle station built around a planet-killing superlaser.
    • With the Republic’s clones pushing the Separatist droids back, Dooku boarded a speeder bike and raced for the hidden hangar where he kept his solar sailer. There, he was intercepted by Obi-Wan and Anakin.
    • The count bested both Jedi in their duel, using the power of the dark side and taking advantage of young Skywalker’s impetuous nature. But before he could land a killing blow, Master Yoda entered the fray.
    • Not even Dooku’s Sith-enhanced powers were enough for him to defeat Yoda. He used the Force to hurl tons of rock at the helpless Anakin and Obi-Wan, fleeing when Yoda stopped to save his fellow Jedi.
    • Dooku returned to Coruscant, where he met with Darth Sidious. The Sith plot was going much as they’d hoped, with both sides of the war controlled by the same hand. Supreme Chancellor Palpatine (in reality Sidious himself) had been granted wartime powers; the Jedi had been pressed into an unaccustomed role as generals; and a clone army engineered by the Sith now defended the Republic.
    • Dooku’s most-trusted agent was his apprentice Asajj Ventress, a former Jedi turned dark-side assassin. With help from Ziro the Hutt, Dooku sent Ventress to kidnap Rotta the Huttlet, son of the crimelord Jabba the Hutt, and then framed the Jedi for the crime. The Separatists’ goal was to gain access to the Hutts’ network of secret hyperspace routes.
    • Anakin and his Padawan Ahsoka Tano rescued Rotta from Ventress and tried to return him to Jabba on Tatooine. Dooku intercepted Anakin in the desert and dueled with him, simultaneously impressed by how Skywalker had grown in power since Geonosis and contemptuous of his refusal to draw on his dark feelings for more power.
    • Dooku’s foremost battlefield commander was General Grievous, a ruthless cyborg warlord trained to use a lightsaber by the count. Dooku gave Grievous the latest Separatist weapons, such as the dreadnaught Malevolence with her twin ion cannons, but saw the cyborg as nothing more than a useful tool.
    • Dooku constantly tested and challenged Grievous and Asajj, just as Sidious in turn ruthlessly tested and challenged Dooku. Such was the way of the Sith: Order arose when the strong survived and prospered while the weak surrendered or were destroyed.
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