About Me
Species:
Human
Gender:
Male
Height:
2.02 meters (in armor)
Weapon:
Lightsaber
Vehicle:
TIE Advanced x1, Executor
Affiliation:
Empire, Sith
Dark Lord of the Sith, I am the scourge of the Jedi, a master of the dark side of the Force, and one of the Emperor's most trusted servants. I wasn't always a fearsome enforcer, however.
I began life as Anakin Skywalker, a young slave from Tatooine skilled in piloting and strong in the Force. Eventualy discovered by maverick Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn, I was taken before the Jedi Council to be trained. There was some controversy on the subject -- despite Jinn's adamant assurances that I was the chosen one spoken of in an ancient Jedi prophecy, the council was hesitant to allow my training at the age of nine. They where right to think that way
Finally, the council agreed that I should be trained, and I was assigned to Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi. Kenobi recklessly thought that I could be as skillful a master as Yoda. His mistakes had dire consequences for the galaxy
I was seduced by the dark side of the Force. Fueled by rage and discontent with the pace of Obi-Wan's training, I challenged my master to a duel. Despite newfound power bestowed by the dark side of the Force, which added to my already formidable abilities, I was grievously wounded in the fight. My burning anger kept Me alive, and I was forever scarred not only by My wounds but also by betrayal. I abandoned my former identity. When metal coupled with flesh in the form of cyborg implants and enhancements required to sustain me, My transformation was complete. I was no longer Anakin. I was now Darth Vader.
At the time of my transformation, I never knew I was due to be the father of twins. Obi-Wan Kenobi hid the children from Me and my master, Emperor Palpatine. I later discovered that he had a son, Luke Skywalker, but never suspected I had a daughter, Leia, who was secretly taken to be raised by Bail Organa, Viceroy and First Chairman of Alderaan.
In the chaos that accompanied Palpatine's rise to power, I became one of the Emperor's most loyal servants. The Emperor entrusted me with the elimination of the Jedi Knights. During these dark times, me and his agents destroyed the Jedi order.
When the Galactic Civil War raged across the Empire, I was tasked with discovering the location of the Rebel Alliance's secret base. I captured Rebel operative Princess Leia Organa and had her tortured to reveal the location of the hidden fortress. I also sought technical plans stolen by the Rebels. These plans carried the complete schematics of the Empire's most powerful weapon, the Death Star battle station. When a rescue team successfully liberated the princess, I found myself face to face with my former master, Obi-Wan Kenobi. I defeated the aged Jedi Knight in a lightsaber duel.
Using the stolen plans to pinpoint the Death Star's weakness, Rebel forces launched a starfighter attack on the station. Entering the battle, I piloted my own specially modified fighter. I managed to destroy the most Rebel pilots in the battle, but was forced out of the conflict when my own vessel was crippled by the Millennium Falcon.
Three years after the destruction of the Death Star, I led an elite squadron of Star Destroyers headed by my flagship, the Super Star Destroyer Executor. I was to seek out and capture the Rebels responsible for the Death Star's demise. Eventually, I tracked the Rebels down to the ice-world of Hoth. There, I launched a ground attack destroying the base. My quarry, the Millennium Falcon, escaped.
During the Hoth campaign, the Emperor commanded Vme to track down the "son of Skywalker," and have me turn him to the dark side of the Force. I planned to use Skywalker's friends as bait to lure him into a trap. I hired a motley gang of bounty hunters to track down the Falcon, and drew Luke to Bespin's Cloud City. Me and Luke clashed in a lightsaber duel that I won by ruthlessly severing Luke's sword-hand. I then revealed to the broken young Jedi that I was his father, and that we would rule the galaxy as father and son. Luke refused to succumb to the dark side, and escaped me. I was left empty-handed.
After these incidents, Palpatine reassigned me from the Imperial fleet, and instead put me in charge of overseeing the new Death Star operation. The Emperor began to distrust his once loyal servant. Vader's contact with my son sparked something within me, something the Emperor did not like.
Palpatine was scheduled to arrive at the second Death Star. The Emperor foresaw that Skywalker would come before the us, and then we would seduce young Luke to the dark side, just as I had been drawn to its power decades earlier.
When Luke surrendered, and was taken before the Emperor, Palpatine pitted father and son in a lightsaber duel. Skywalker refused to fight and give into the temptation of the dark side. While I was probing his mind I learned of my daughter, Leia Organa. I threatened to turn her to the dark side. At this threat, Luke gave into his hatred and attacked me. In the ferocious assault that followed, young Skywalker nearly killed me. Horrified by what he had become, Luke abandoned his new found dark side rage, and refused Palpatine's offers of power. "I am a Jedi, like my father before me," Skywalker proudly claimed.
Palpatine unleashed a deadly barrage of dark side energy on the young Jedi. Lightning bolts spawned from pure evil tore into Luke's body with searing pain. I stood helplessly, watching my son writhe in agony from torture delivered by his master. Unable to watch anymore, Vader turned against his master. I grabbed a surprised Palpatine from behind, hoisted him above my head, and tossed my evil master down a bottomless reactor shaft. I was bombarded by the Emperor's Force lightning, mortally wounding me.
As I lay dying, I ceased to be. Anakin Skywalker returned. I asked my son to remove my cumbersome, fearsome mask that had concealed my face for decades. My mask and life support removed, I looked upon Luke for the first and last time. I then died, my body disappeared into the light side of the Force. Luke burned the dark armor that had encased my crippled body in a quiet funeral pyre on the forest moon of Endor that night.
I will forever live
