After the defeat of Darth Sidious and the redemption of Anakin Skywalker on the Second
Death Star, Luke Skywalker travelled the galaxy in hopes of discovering ancient knowledge
about the Jedi Order so that he could teach his students about the Jedi of the past.
During his travels Luke Discovered a lot of information about the Jedi of the Republic
era and the Clone Wars.
I’m going to break down everything Luke Skywalker knew about Count Dooku, the former
apprentice of Darth Sidious and leader of the separatists.
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As you know with this series, I’m going to read to you a page out of the journal of
Luke Skywalker, which he wrote after he began his incredible journey to learn as much knowledge
as possible about the old Jedi Order.
The Following page in Luke’s journal is a note about the leader of the Separatist
council and fallen Jedi Master, Count Dooku.
The page details Dooku’s fall to the dark side of the force and how he saw through the
flaws of the Jedi Order.
The note was written by Luke so that the students of his new Jedi academy would learn to be
like Count Dooku, apart from falling to the dark side of course… but Luke Hoped to teach
his students to speak up when the teachings of the Order were moving away from what was
right.
So, here’s the page:
“Count Dooku was a former Jedi Master and a respected statesman in the Galactic Republic.
He also became Darth Sidious’ second apprentice after Darth Maul’s presumed demise.
A former Padawan of Master Yoda himself, Dooku had grown frustrated with the corruption he
saw spreading through the galaxy’s highest powers.
He took matters into his own hands, renouncing the Jedi Order and turning against the Republic.
As Darth Tyranus, he was instrumental in pulling the political strings that eventually led
to the Clone Wars.
Tyranus was executed in cold blood by my father, who would soon take Tyranus’ place as Darth
Sidious’ final apprentice.”
So right away, we learn that Luke discovered the history of Count Dooku, all the way back
to his time in the Jedi Order.
Luke knew that Dooku was the Padawan of Grandmaster Yoda himself, and was taught almost everything
he knew from him.
Luke also knew that Count Dooku was growing increasingly frustrated with both the Republic
and the Jedi Order as time went on, with the Republic becoming more corrupt than ever and
the Jedi becoming more entangled with the Republic than it had ever been before.
Dooku was disgusted at how corporations like the Trade Federation, Commerce Guild and Techno
Union were able to gain voting rights in the senate and take control of worlds that failed
to pay their debts.
He was also incredibly angered by the fact that the Jedi were allowing this to happen
because they were afraid to lose their position of power within the Republic.
Let me know down below how you think Luke discovered this information about Dooku’s
time in the Jedi Order.
By Luke’s time, there weren’t too many people that could have told him, and it’s
pretty likely that Palpatine wiped all records of the previous Jedi clean.
Luke also discovered that eventually, the Jedi order had become such a disgrace in the
eyes of Dooku, that he decided to leave the order.
Interestingly, Luke doesn’t seem to fully know that Dooku left the Jedi Order completely
peacefully and remained on good terms with his former master, Yoda, and the other members
of the Jedi council for some time.
Luke did realize however, that eventually, Dooku’s goodwill towards the Republic came
to and end, and he broke off to create the Confederacy of Independent systems, or the
Separatist alliance.
It’s also awesome to see that Luke did manage to discover Dooku’s true Sith Name, Darth
Tyranus.
He also knew that Tyranus was the one pulling the strings of the Separatist alliance, of
course himself being on a string by Palpatine, eventually leading to the Clone Wars.
After this comes the most awesome part of this page in Luke Skywalker’s journal.
We finally learn that Luke knows about the events that took place on the Invisible hand
when Obi-Wan and Anakin rescued the chancellor.
He knows that his father took Dooku’s red blade and crossed it with his own blue one,
to cleanly take his head off in cold blood, leading him to become Sidious’ final apprentice.
It’s really amazing to know that Luke discovered information about such an impactful event
in the fall of his father to the Dark Side.
But let me know how you think he discovered this information about the duel with Dooku.
So that is everything Luke Skywalker discovered about Count Dooku, Darth Tyranus in his journal,
from Luke’s point of view.
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