After his planet was blockaded and his father was horribly killed on board an unarmed transport by
who he believed was Anakin Skywalker, a young separatist royal named Tofen Vane,
joined the Separatist army and vowed to ge Revenge on Skywalker taking away his father’s
life in a horrible war crime. The only problem was that Anakin claimed that he never took the
shot which killed the young separatist’s father. So who killed him and committed this war crime?
I’m going to breakdown Part 2, of the time Anakin was punished for War Crimes by the Jedi council.
If you haven’t seen part 1, this story is not going to make much sense, so make sure
you pause this video and check out part 1 for the story of how Anakin was framed for a war crime.
So to begin the story we arrived at the Valahari shipworks plant, where the daily transport has
just come in to deliver materials and electronic components. If you remember from Part 1,
Valahari produces the absolute best Starfighter engines in the galaxy, and the ships that they
are producing are absolutely obliteration Republic forces. If they are allowed to
continue this production, the war will very soon t urn against the Jedi and Republic.
As the transport comes int to dock, one mysterious, cloaked figure who
managed to stowaway on board slips away into the darkness, before climbing the Vane family tower,
and sneak in on Lady Elodore Vane as she is in her residence. It’s of course, Obi-Wan kenobi.
Obi-Wan apologizes for entering unannounced,
and lady vane is absolutely furious, because she believes that Obi-Wan and Anakin were
the ones who blew up the transport carrying her husband, which was completely unarmed.
obi-Wan apologies for the death, and adds that the Viscount of Valahari was a great man,
but Lady Vane is having none of it, telling Obi-Wan to save it
and threatening to have him executed on the spot for murder her husband.
Obi-Wan then tells Lady vane to search her feelings, and to realize that Anakin,
the Republic and himself had absolutely nothing to do with the killings. Obi-Wan tells the
grieving lady that she has proof of this, but she immediately slaps him down and says “your proof is
worthless if it comes from the Republic. As far as I am concerned, Skywalker is responsible”.
Because of their past relationship, when Master qui-Gon and Kenobi were assigned to Valahari
many years ago, she agrees to okeep his presence here a secret, but warns him that he must leave
immediately. Obi-Wan is of course never one to push things too far, and agree to leave without
causing any more trouble. Immediately as Obi-Wan leaves, a furious count dooku storms into Lady
Vane’s room and asks if she is alright, having felt a tremor in the force. Lady Vane covers
for obi-Wan telling Dooku that perhaps it was just her pain for having lost a loving husband.
She then asks how her son is doing, fighting in the clone wars for the separatists, to which
dooku tells her he hasn’t heard too much, but he has heard one thing. The clone navy has attempted
to blockade many neutral systems throughout the galaxy because of Palpatine’s orders from earlier,
but Tofen’s raiders have managed to smash through any resistance the Clone Navy can put up.
Many brave Jedi have stepped up to stop
the unstoppable separatiast pilot, but all have failed.
The stories of Tofen Vane’s incredible success against the Republic have been spreading across
the Confederacy, to many separatist planets, inspiring hope that they may
actually iwn the war. Tofen is becoming a legend to the separatist populations.
This frightens his mother, to which she reveals that the Jedi knew that he was
specieal and tried to take him away when he was a child, because he was force sensitive.
Strangely, Count dooku himself personally erased the records of him being force sensitive,
allowing him to remain unfound by the Jedi.
As Tofen Vane returns from his heroic battles, he is hailed by the people of Valahari,
and around every separatist planet as a war hero, inspiring hope for billions of beings. Lady Vane
however is not happy with this, unable to bear the dread of possibly losing her son to the war,
just like her husband. Especially since he has a son of his own on the way.
Tofen’s mother worries about what her son may become but Dooku reassures her that he now
belongs to a larger cause, and has chosen to fight for the countless people of the
confederacy who are sick of the corruption and mistreatment of their planets by the Republic.
On top of this, he also asks to personally take Lady Vane’s hand in a union. Dooku making moves.
After this, we cut straight back to Anakin, where he of course has been reassigned, away from
Valahari after being punished by the Jedi council for his war crimes. As he is repairing his ship,
Ahsoka sighs and is frustrated that she is also getting punished by the council for
Anakin’s war crimes. As the two are arguing, the Jedi council contacts Anakin and informs
him that Tofen Vane has been wreaking absolute havoc around the Galaxy at Republic blockades,
and has shot down some of the Jedi order’s best pilots. On top of this, he is almost
unstoppable because his starfighter is vastly superior to anything the Republic has access to.
Palpatine is also worried that his incredible victories across the battlefields of the galaxy
are becoming a propaganda tool for the Separatists, and that he is now
a hero of the confederacy. Mace Windu then orders Anakin stop Tofen Vane at all costs,
but they don’t exactly know where he is.
As anakin sets off in search of the war hero, Toffen Vane, Obi-Wan remains on Valahari and
mind tricks a guard in his tower to take a walk around the perimeter. This allows Obi-Wan to hack
into the security holograms of the transport ship that Tofen Vane’s father was aboard,
where he makes a shocking discovery. Anakin was actually telling the truth, and it was not him
that took the shot. Instead it was Asajj Ventress, who planted blast charges around the vessel.
Following this, Obi-Wan rushes back to Vane’s mother to clear Anakin’s name,
but this time he is not greeted by his old friend, and instead, Ventress herself. Obi-Wan confronts
her about sabotaging Lord Vane’s ship and says that she’s starting to get sloppy,
before she ignites her two curved lightsabers, engaging in a ferocious fight with Obi-Wan.
Following this, Dooku travels to the dangerous and chaotic Veil nebula,
keep in the outer rim, where he makes contact with his master,
Darth Sidious, who is of course orchestrating the whole situation because he wants to reduce
the power of the noble families in the galaxy, having them waste resources on the war. Sidious
then tells Dooku off for getting too close with Lady Vane, but the royal arrives just in time,
worried that their new relationship will look bad to the other royal houses.
Dooku then hugs Lady vane and offers to keep their relationship a secret for as long as necessary.
Following this, Tofen Vane arrives at the Veil Nebula and is extremely excited to see her mother.
His mother then asks him if he’s been sleeping well after fighting so many battles, but anger
washes over his face and he says “there is little time for sleep. WE must crush Republic evil where
it rises. Immediately following this, Lady Vane announces that she is going to marry Count Dooku,
and Tofen is happy for her, looking up to Dooku as a Father figure and a mentor.
After this, Dooku and Tofen Vane travel deep below, into an underground,
secret starfighter factory where they have begun production of a highly advanced starfighter,
that will tear any clone pilot to shreds. Dooku then offers to move production of the
top secret fighters to the Techno union factories because they can pump them out much faster,
but Vane angrily disagrees and says that he and his people will be the only ones
to fly and produce these ships. Dooku is worries by this, and Tofen Vane is furious
because Skywalker has returned to the sector and has been put in command of a republic blockade,
still holding tremendous anger, believing that Anakin killed his father.
All the way out in the Hexus system, Anakin is preparing to lead the defence against the
separatist blockade runners, and Obi-Wan calls him to tell him about the proof that
will clear his name, and saying that Vane is a good man, but misguided. Unfortunately Anakin
is interrupted and says “I’ll have to call you back master, your “good man” is here to kill me.
As the monstrous blockade run begins, Anakin directly targets Tofen Vane’s starfighter,
circling around them and even admitting that his ship is fast. Anakin then contacts vane
but he quickly tells him that those will be his last words.
Anakin tries to tell Vane that he didn’t kill his father, but Vane is having none of it,
shotting Anakin down, leading him to crash land on the icy planet beelow.
Vane very quickly fly his ship down to Anakin, trying to eliminate him once and for all,
but Anakin pulls out his lightsaber and blocks every shot from his incredible starfighter.
Tofen Vane then also crashlands into the ice below, absolutely furious at Skywalker,
and firing missiles from his ship directly at him.
Anakin is able to deflect one, but the other impacts,
sending him flying through the air and leaving him bloody.
Anakin tries to reason with Tofen Vane, but Vane is having none of it,
holding a blaster towards his head and tells him that he is trying to
end the corruption of the Republic and the horrible way it treats its citizens.
And to end the story, Anakin plainly tells him that Dooku was the one who
had his father murdered, but Tofen Vane does not care. He is no w so deep into this war,
that he will not stop until the republic has fallen.
Once he makes contact with his cruiser,
Ahsoka then teases Anakin for getting shot down once again, but Anakin isn’t worried,
as he knows where Vane has travelled to and how to find him for their final showdown.
So make sure you stay tuned for part 3 coming soon. Thanks so much for watching,
really hope you enjoyed it. Cheers guys, hope to see you in the next one.