During the Clone Wars, Assajj Ventress wielded two red-bladed, curved lightsabers that could
join together to form an incredibly unique double bladed lightsaber.
As the Sith Assassin of Count Dooku, Ventress used them to bring pain and suffering to her
enemies.
So how did did Ventress obtain these incredibly unique red lightsabers and who did they belong
to before she took control of them?
I’m going to break down exactly how Assajj Ventress obtained her curved red blades, and
how they were connected to Count Dooku’s final Jedi apprentice.
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So the story of Ventress’ first pair of curved lightsabers goes all the way back to
the final Jedi apprentice of Count Dooku, Komari Vosa.
Komari Vosa was appointed as the apprentice to Jedi Master Dooku shortly after the Sevarcos
Dispute in 52BBY, after Dooku successfully resolved a major conflict on the planet.
And once you hear about Komari Vosa, let me know in the comments who you prefer out of
Dooku, Maul, Vosa or ventress - each playing a key role in Sidious’ plans.
While serving as a Jedi Padawan, Komari Vosa used a traditional, single bladed blue lightsaber,
which was a stark contrast to her Master’s Curved blue blade.
Dooku hoped that she would follow in his footsteps and begin to use a curved hilt saber like
himself, but unfortunately Komari Vosa was simply performing too well with her current
weapon.
With it, she was able to slaughter 20 incredibly fierce Mandalorian warriors at the battle
of Galidraan, displaying her immense natural talent.
Her killing of the Mandalorian warriors on Galidraan made her one of the fastest rising
Padawans in the Jedi Order at the time, with many in the Jedi Order believing that she
would be a future High council member.
Unfortunately, this fame within the Order was cut short once Master Dooku noticed that
his padawan was showing extreme anger and aggressiveness in her combat and general attitude.
Dooku believed that Vosa was embracing the dark side slowly, and because of this, did
not allow her to participate in the Jedi Trials.
The Jedi council agreed with Dooku’s decision and banned Vosa from the order, stripping
her of her Padawan rank.
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since he later fell to the dark side himself.
Komari Vosa became extremely enraged at this decision, immediately fleeing the Jedi temple
and destroying her old lightsabers.
Now this is where Assajj Ventress’ famous curved lightsabers come into the picture.
Vosa later joined up with a Jedi task force as a citizen, who were attempting to ambush
a dark side force cult known as the Bando Gora on the planet Baltizaar.
The mission was a complete and utter failure however, leaving the task force completely
decimated and the surviving members forced to retreat the Coruscant immediately.
Vosa was captured by the Bando Gora Force cult and was held as a prisoner on one of
the moons of Bogden, inside of a large stone brick prison cell, which was in a disgraceful
condition.
Komari Vosa was placed under dramatic and intensely painful torture and cruelty, eventually
diving deep into the dark side of the force to save her own life.
Vosa embraced her deepest and darkest rage, breaking free from her restraints and slaughtering
the cultists who captured her, taking their place as leader of the Bando Gora cult.
This action finally completed her descent into the dark side of the force, allowing
her to create two red bladed lighters with black bands surrounding their curved hilts.
She modelled her curved hilts after those of her former Master, as she still respected
him hugely, even after he and the council did not allow her to continue her Jedi Training.
Komari Vosa was completely deranged and crazy at this point, but she remained a significant
threat to the hidden Sith Lord, Darth Sidious, as a potential Rival.
For this reason, Sidious instructed his apprentice, Darth Tyranus, or count dooku, to have her
eliminated.
You’ll notice just how similar this story is to what happened to Dooku’s next Dark
Side apprentice, Asajj Ventress.
Just like Assajj Ventress later experienced, Sidious ordered the death of Komari Vosa because
he deemed her too much of a threat to his power.
Dooku and Sidious used this assasintion mission for two purposes however.
The first was obviously to eliminate the threat to their power that came from Vosa and her
dark side force cult, but the second was also to find a suitable candidate to become the
template for their new Clone Army, which they were about to begin production on, with the
Kaminoans.
Dooku then created a contest for all of the major bounty hunters in the galaxy to determine
who was the strongest and most suitable candidate to become the Clone Template.
The contest would take all of the major bounty hunters on a massive detective style investigation,
to discover the location of Komari Vosa and eventually kill her.
The detective portion of the trial took the bounty hunters all around the galaxy, searching
for hints, clues and leads on the location of Vosa.
The bounty hunter who eventually came out victorious was of course, Jango Fett, who
tracked Vosa all the way to one of the moons of Bogden, where she was hiding out.
Once he arrived in the lair of Komari Vosa though, he was about to experience something
worse than he could ever imagine.
The crazy and deranged dark Jedi ambushed Jango Fett as he travelled deeper into her
lair, tying him to a troture rack and putting him through brutal pain and suffering.
As this was going on however, good friend of Jango Fett, Zam Wessel, who you’ll remember
from Attack of the Clones, came to rescue him.
Vosa was not afraid at all of Wessel, and was excited that she was able to draw her
red blades from her curved hilts for the first time against a true opponent.
Vosa used her red lightsabers to deflect Zam Wessel’s blaster shots back at her, badly
injuring Wessel, but not before she managed to fire at the chains of Jango’s torture
rack, setting him free.
Jango then enters a fierce firefight with Vosa, but she uses her crimson blades to deflect
every single one of his shots away from her.
Then two then enter a massive fight, before Jango defeats her, leaving her on the floor,
just barely clinging to life.
Her former master then appears out of nowhere, to force choke Komari Vosa, finally ending
her deranged life.
Dooku rewarded Jango for being the only bounty hunter to make it to Vosa by recruiting him
to become the template for the Clone army.
Dooku also took his former apprentice’s iconic lightsabers and stored them in a safe
location.
Now we move straight back onto Asajj Ventress, we get to see exactly how the lightsabers
were passed down from Dooku, after he transferred them from his fallen apprentice, to his soon
to be new apprentice.
As Dooku was looking for a new Sith assassin to serve the purposes of both himself and
his master, Darth Sidious, he encountered Asajj Ventress.
After initially failing to convince Dooku to take her on as an apprentice, Dooku turns
the situation into another contest, just like he did with the bounty hunters in the search
for Komari Vosa.
Ventress throws herself into a gladiator pit, where the last remaining combatant would be
considered for the role of Dooku’s Sith acolyte.
Ventress quickly destroyed each of her opponents, proving herself to be a more than worthy assassin
for Dooku’s purposes.
Unfortunately, she took Dooku’s compliments a step too far, proclaiming herself as a true
Sith.
Dooku quickly refutes this claim, telling Ventress that she fights like a sith and acts
like a sith, but lacks one key feature that would make her a true sith.
He tells Ventress that Sith do not fear anything, and that he senses an enormous amount of fear
inside of her.
At this point, Ventress is still wielding blue and green bladed lightsabers from her
time in the Jedi order, and attempts to swiftly attack Dooku with them, but is abruptly stopped.
Dooku blasts Ventress with intense Sith lightning, hoping to teach her the pain and suffering
that truly makes someone a Sith.
He shocks her so intensely that she is knocked unconscious.
Ventress eventually wakes up in an unknown location, and rushes to retrieve her lightsabers
which have been placed inside of a bowl near where she was resting.
As she walks up to the lightsabers, Dooku appears out of nowhere, beginning a fierce
lightsaber duel with her and taunting her about not being a true Sith.
Ventress begins to slowly overpower Dooku, but this is rapidly stopped when he force
pulls both of her lightsabers out of her hands, cutting them in half and slamming Ventress
into the ground.
She is clearly defeated by Dooku at this point.
Despite her defeat, Dooku refuses to kill Ventress, revealing that his master, Darth
Sidious, had been watching the whole fight.
Sidious deemed Ventress to be a worthy Sith Assassin that would prove to be useful to
their cause, and agreed to recruit her for her services.
Ventress is then introduced to Darth Sidious, who she pledges her full and complete loyalty
to, asking to be given her first mission.
Sidious orders Ventress to hunt down the Jedi war hero, Anakin Skywalker and kill him.
Because of her hatred for the Jedi Order, Ventress agrees to the task.
Before she leaves to begin her work however, Dooku pulls out an exquisite metal box, containing
the lightsabers of Komari Vosa.
He hands ventress both curved lightsabers, replacing the two he destroyed only moments
earlier.
Ventress then ignites one of the red blades atop its curved hilt and sets off on her mission.
So that is the dark history behind Assajj Ventress’ first lightsabers with curved
hilts and deep red blades.
Let me know down below if you think that the lightsabers carry a lot more meaning now that
you know Dooku had passed these down from his former apprentice to his new one.
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