Dooku (free-edit)

Dooku was Palpatine's second apprentice. He led the Confederation of Independent Systems and fought during the Clone Wars. He was killed by Anakin Skywalker during the Second Battle of Coruscant.

Youth
Dooku was, like most other Jedi of his age, discovered to be Force-sensitive and taken to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant for training. He excelled as a youngling, overpowering anyone of his age, or even beyond. The Council quickly recognized his raw talent in the Force, and decided to take a closer look on him.

At the age of 13, he was apprenticed to Grand Master Yoda and Master Thame Cerulian. Being two of the most experienced of all living Jedi, the Jedi Council had no doubt that Yoda and Thame would be good Masters for him. During the course of his training, Dooku disagreed with his masters on many things, most notably on lightsabre styles and techniques. However, they respected each other's opinions and did not argue against each other when it was unnecessary.

He wasn't even twenty-five when the title of Jedi Knight was bestowed upon him. No Padawan of Yoda's or Cerulian's had ever achieved the title sooner than Dooku. There have been talks within the Jedi Council that Dooku might be the Chosen One.

Jedi Knight
As a Jedi Knight, Dooku's personality had a sudden change. He gradually became disillusioned by the strict disciple of the Jedi Code and did not hesitate to break one of its tenets to achieve his goals. He tried to keep these occasions a secret, thus the Council has always recognized him as a loyal and obedient Jedi.

Accompaning a former Master
Dooku and Qui-Gon were on Coruscant when Dooku was contacted by his former master Thame Cerulian. Cerulian told Dooku how he and his apprentice Seth Khaleb had gone hunting for the Sith Lord Darth Sharka on the orders of the Council and how Sharka had defeated Cerulian and killed his apprentice. Cerulian also told Dooku that he had tracked Sharka to Neimodia and needed Dooku's help to defeat him. Dooku agreed, and he and his apprentice Qui-Gon Jinn went with a team of Jedi to Neimodia to kill Sharka.

However, things went badly for the Jedi, as Sharak used his force powers to take down many of them. Qui-Gon was quickly disabled by Sharka's Force Lightning and Dooku rushed to defend his fallen Padawan. However, in his haste Dooku was outmaneuvered by the Sith Lord, who sent a chunk of masonry down on him, knocking him out. Dooku never saw the rest of the fight and blammed himself for the deaths of Cerulian and the other Jedi. However, at Cerulian's funeral he made friends with Desdemon Charel, who had also fought on the mission.

One final Mission
Shortly after the mission to Neimodia Neimodia, Dooku and Qui-gon were contacted by Senator Valorum. A cult had risen up on his home world of Eriadu, a cult that worshipped the Sith.

Dooku and Qui-Gon headed to Eriadu and contacted smuggler Siras Feltz, looking for information. However, they were confronted by Disciple Darth Merik and while pursuing him they space pirate Mera Dan, who was in league with the Disciples. They were held by the pirates at the Xeros Asteroids for nearly two years, tortured by the Sith, namely Darth Galepius and his apprentices Sisidou and Verona before they escaped. They killed Verona and escaped back into Republic space. Teaming up with Mera, who had been betrayed by the Sith, they attacked the Sith base on Eriadu.

They clashed with the Sith at the Battle of Eriadu and defeated them. Dooku and Qui-Gon returned to Coruscant with the only Sith survivor Darth Clous. Dooku chastised him for this but said that he was ready for his trials. Qui-Gon passed and they went their separate ways. However, they did retain a very close relationship, and both voiced their concerns about the corruption in the Republic to each other.

Sith Apprentice
Dooku was teaching Jedi on Coruscant when news came from Naboo that his apprentice Qui-Gon Jinn had been killed by the Sith. Haunted by the voices of his dead apprentice and the unknown Sith Lord Dooku left the Order.

Heading to his home planet of Serenno, Dooku assumed his birth right as Count. Returning to Coruscant he tracked down the Sith Lord to his hideout and attempted to kill him. The Sith lord defeated him easily but instead of killing Dooku he revealed his plans and recruited the Count into his service.

Now serving the Sith, Dooku went on many missions for his dark master, including the murder of his old friend Sifo-Dyas, and enlisting the aid of Jango Fett as template for his clone army. During this time he gathered together an alliance of Separatists to wage war on the Republic.

Dooku and Aanor
After the death of Darth Maul, Dooku became Sidious's new minion. However, also in contention was the Merraxen Aanor. Dooku was seen as more powerful, but Sidious allowed Aanor to serve him as a Sith minion.

Dooku and Aanor underwent a long rivalry which Sidious played off of. He tested both warriors' powers and skills.

Dooku vs Syrim Kahn
As well as his ongoing feud with Aanor, Dooku had a long and bitter rivalry with Syrim Kahn, another of Sidious's chief servants. It first came about when Syrim disrupted one of Dooku's schemes to bring Eriadu into his Confederacy. Dooku then killed Syrim's agent and cousin Byra while he was on a mission into Wild Space.

In retaliation Syrim unleashed several battledroids on Dooku while he was in a meeting with Nute Gunray. Dooku easily destroyed the battledroids before storming into Syrim's quarters and blasted him with Force lightning. It was the only the intervention by Darth Sidious that saved Syrim's life. Their feud would continue long into the Clone Wars.

Mission to Korriban
Towards the end of the Clone Wars, Sidious sent Dooku to Kooriban in order to find some Sith artefacts that would aid them in their takeover of the galaxy. To Dooku's annoyance, Sidious sent Syrim Kahn with them to the planet. Dooku was escorted by a fleet commanded by General Grevious to the planet before he landed with Doriana, Asajj Ventress and another of his dark acolytes Sabyrne Fen.

They arrived on the planet and entered the tombs and began to search for the artefacts. Ventress discovered a secret tomb which contained the tombs of Darth Bane's Order. Then Dooku discovered something that scared him more then Darth Sidious, there was an image of Yoda in the tomb. He fled, taking the others with him, but when they emerged from the tomb they discovered that the planet was under attack by Republic forces. They fled to Ventress's shuttle, but a battalion of clone troopers had arrived and landed between them and the shuttle. Kahn tried to flee, but Dooku sent Fen to hunt him down. Dooku and Ventress easily defeated the clones and boarded the shuttle where they were joined by Fen, who told them that Kahn was dead. Dooku smiled, his long feud with Kahn was over.

As they were about to leave, a Republic shuttle arrived and Yoda emerged and approached Dooku's ship. Dooku got out to meet him and confronted him about his discovery. Then Yoda told him everything, how he had once joined the Sith in an attempt to destroy them. He killed his Sith Master, and it was only then that he realised that his master was only an apprentice, and so the Sith Order survived. Yoda could not find the Sith again, he had failed in his mission. Dooku then attempted to kill his old master but Yoda drives him off and he flees into his ship, which leaves the planet.

The Separatists flee Kooriban, and Dooku heads to Coruscant and tells Sidious of Kahn's death, which Sidious actually seems saddened by. However, Dooku doesn't tell his master of Yoda once being a Sith Lord, he will allow his master to find that out for himself.

Death
In the Second Battle of Coruscant, Dooku and Grevious commanded the Separatist attack and laid a trap for the two Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker.

However, on heading towards the observation platform, Dooku and his guard were attacked by Republic soldier Dan Eardornn, who destroyed many of his guards.

Dooku escaped up the lift to find the two Jedi had already reached Palpatine. Dooku confronted them and they attacked. The Sith lord easily deflected all the Jedi's attacks, taunting them as they went.

He force pushed Kenobi away and duelled Skywalker alone. But Kenobi headed up the steps to attack Dooku from behind, cutting down Dooku's superbattledroids on the way. Dooku outmanoeuvred Kenobi and threw him against the wall, knocking him out and then trapping him under the walkway.

However, Anakin attacked him, driving him over the balcony and driving him back. Then Dan Eardornn arrived, and stunned Anakin, trying to make the kill himself. Dooku quickly defeated Eardornn but then Skywalker got up again and drove Dooku back to fight in front of Palpatine.

Skywalker finally severed Dooku's hands and drove the defeated Count to his knees. Then at Dooku's surprise, Palpatine urged Skywalker to kill Dooku, which he did, removing the helpless Count's head from his neck.

Resurrection
Dooku's body was recovered a few minutes after his death by General Grievous' droids. Although the Count was long dead, they jettisoned the body and Grievous' troops later cloned him. He and a clone of Asajj Ventress hid out on Muunilinst until the Legion of the 378th came and destroyed the fortress they were hiding in. The clones were killed, with Ventress shot several times through the torso and Dooku through the head.

However, not even the destruction of his head could stop the former Jedi. The droids rebuilt it with a special mechanized cage to hold his Force form so his mind survived. He was cut in half by Vader at the Battle of Yavin 8.