Anakin Skywalker (Divergent Universe)

"Hey, I'm a Jedi. Patience and I are old friends from way back."

- Anakin Skywalker, to the clone of Kathe Naad

Anakin Tan Skywalker was a Force-sensitive Human male who served the Galactic Empire first as a Jedi Knight, then later as the Sith Lord Darth Vader. Born into poverty on the Outer Rim world of Taris, Skywalker was taken by his mother Nellith to the desert planet of Tatooine while still in infancy, where he lived the remainder of his childhood with her, his stepfather Mir, and half-sister Beru as a moisture farmer. In the later years of the Clone Wars, he was apprenticed to Obi-Wan Kenobi and met Nashira DuQuesne, his future wife and mother of his two children, Luke and Leia.

Towards the end of the Third Clone War, Skywalker and Kenobi became stranded on the dying world Xuthltan, where they encountered the vengeful spirit of Nykres Eikhan, a Sith priestess of the Sith Empire who had died in the years following the Great Hyperspace War and Great Sith Purge. Attacked by the ghost, Skywalker was shown disturbing visions of the past and the future -- visions which destroyed his faith in the ways of the Jedi and spurred him to seek out the spirits of the long-dead Lords of the Sith interred on the Sith mausoleum world of Korriban.

Appointed Lord of the Sith by his spectral predecessors, Skywalker was put to the task of restoring the Sith Brotherhood. For the next seventeen years he searched the Known Regions of the Galaxy, seeking out remnants, descendants, and relics of the Old Sith, collecting them and bringing them to the remote rain-drenched world of Vjun, which he made the baseworld for his Resurrected Brotherhood of the Sith.

Eventually, in the year leading up to Dantius Palpatine's ascension of the Imperial throne, the Sith were discovered on Vjun by agents of the Empire. In a mission led by the Coruscanti Jedi master Mace Windu, the Empire annihilated the Sith base, killing every last known Sith -- man, woman, and child -- alive on the planet. With everything he had known taken from him, Skywalker was induced to side with Palpatine; pledging his allegiance to the supreme chancellor, he was made one of his dark side adepts and enforcers. Stationed on the volcanic world of Sullust with his last surviving follower, Kenobi's own adopted son and former apprentice Darth Vader, Skywalker encountered his old Jedi teacher. Engaging him in a fierce duel, Skywalker and Vader came close to defeating Kenobi, but at the last moment Vader turned against his Sith master, striking off Skywalker's right hand and saving his father's life. Calling one of Vader's two lightsabers to his remaining hand, Skywalker engaged Vader in battle, driving them both to the edge of a magma-filled canyon, where they were both consumed in a volcanic eruption.

Skywalker survived the experience, but not unscathed; not only had he lost most of his lower body and received irrepairable damage to his lungs, but he has suffered severe brain trauma, leaving him with almost total amnesia. Found by the chancellor's agents, the Lord of the Sith was taken back to Coruscant and the chancellor, who rebuilt him using advanced cybernetics and his own skills in the dark side, remolding the Sith's ravaged body and mind, transforming him into the ebon-armoured Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader.