Ten years after helping to save his planet, he is a delegate to the Galactic Senate and as such plays a role in bringing his old friends Obi-Wan and Anakin ( Hayden Christensen ) back to Coruscant, where he greets them with enthusiasm.

Yoda to Exile "), a cue simply titled " Revenge of the Sith " plays as Anakin and Obi-Wan exchange blows on a river of lava.

He calls for them to come over, and to pass the time, Luke plays a holorecording that R2-D2 took when Anakin Skywalker, now Darth Vader, had carried out Order 66 in the Jedi Temple.

Solo, Anakin, and the thousands of people they saved head to Dubrillion, where the first major clash between the biological Vong and the mechanical New Republic occurs.

It also saw the deaths of many of the major characters, including, but not limited to, Chewbacca, Anakin Solo, and Admiral Ackbar, as well as 365 trillion sentient beings.

Anakin and his siblings, Jacen Solo and Jaina Solo, play central roles in other novels such as The Crystal Star, The New Rebellion, and The Corellian Trilogy.

Vader was once Anakin Skywalker, a famous Jedi turned to the Dark Side.

He also sends Dark Jedi Asajj Ventress ( Grey DeLisle ) on a mission to kill Anakin Skywalker — Sidious ' ploy to test the young Jedi's worth as an apprentice — and trains General Grievous in lightsaber combat.

In addition Anakin Skywalker, having turned away from the Dark Side and from Darth Vader, assassinated Palpatine, thus bringing balance to the Force.

After some debate, Anakin decided that Lomi Plo and Welk should join them, although Zekk predicted that they would be double-crossed by the Dark Jedi.

Anakin Solo debuts in Tom Veitch's Dark Empire II book miniseries.

Anakin Skywalker, the " Chosen One " of Jedi prophecy, finds out that Palpatine is actually Darth Sidious, the Dark Lord of the Sith for whom the Jedi have been searching for more than a decade.

The piece " Battle of the Heroes " that was played in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, during the battle sequence between the Jedi Master Yoda, and Emperor Palpatine, the Dark Lord of the Sith, in the senate chamber on Coruscant, and the simultaneous battle between Anakin Skywalker ( Darth Vader ) and Obi-Wan Kenobi on Mustafar, was inspired by Duel of the Fates but rewritten in a tragic mode.

Meanwhile, Separatist leader Count Dooku takes in the Dark Jedi Asajj Ventress as his apprentice and sends her off to assassinate Anakin.

When Anakin returns to the Jedi Temple, Yoda and Mace Windu tell him and Obi-Wan of the Dark Reaper, an ancient Sith weapon built during the Great Sith War that was so powerful that none could withstand it.

While the other Jedi battle the Separatist forces outside the Sith Temple, Anakin enters the temple and destroys the Dark Reaper.

It is also worthy to note that though a Dark Jedi may believe himself to be acting for a " greater good ," the dark side of the Force is a path that ultimately leads to self-destruction ( as was the case when Ulic Qel-Droma, Revan, and Anakin Skywalker fell to the dark side ), regardless of the motives or misguided morals of those who walk it.

With the release of the prequels and the revelation that Anakin Skywalker was destined to bring balance to the Force by destroying the Sith, Dark Empire has been criticized for contradicting the prophecy of the Chosen One and Anakin's killing of Palpatine.

There, Anakin chases and defeats a Dark Jedi named Trenox, and uncovers Count Dooku's plot to destroy the Jedi Archives.

Alema tells Luke to leave the Dark Nest alone, and in return, they will release new footage of Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala from R2-D2's memory files every week.

After writing the second and third drafts of Empire Strikes Back in which the point was introduced, Lucas reviewed the new backstory he had created: Anakin Skywalker had been Obi-Wan Kenobi's brilliant student and had a child named Luke, but was swayed to the dark side by Emperor Palpatine ( who became a Sith and not simply a politician ).

Michael Kaminski, in The Secret History of Star Wars, offers evidence that issues in Anakin's fall to the dark side prompted Lucas to make massive story changes, first revising the opening sequence of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith to have Palpatine kidnapped and his apprentice, Count Dooku, murdered by Anakin as the first act in the latter's turn towards the dark side.

In escaping the blockade, the ship is damaged and makes an unscheduled landing on Tatooine, where Qui-Gon meets Anakin Skywalker ( Jake Lloyd ), a young slave who shows such tremendous potential in the Force that Qui-Gon believes him to be the " Chosen One " of Jedi prophecy, destined to bring balance to the Force by destroying the Sith.

When Anakin and Padmé arrive on Geonosis to rescue Obi-Wan, they are themselves captured, and all three are sentenced to death by the Geonosians.

Dooku and Anakin fight a short duel, and Dooku cuts off Anakin's right lower arm ( which is later replaced by a robotic prosthetic ).

Obi-Wan is rendered unconscious by Dooku, but Anakin defeats the Sith Lord by cutting off both his hands.

Meanwhile, Anakin is angry at the Jedi Council for refusing him the rank of Master, and is also troubled by visions of Padmé, whom he married in the previous film, dying in childbirth.

Obi-Wan wishes to fight Sidious to avoid having to kill his best friend, but Yoda insists that Obi-Wan is not strong enough to fight the new Emperor of the galaxy, and would have to accept that the Anakin he knows no longer exists, having been " consumed by Darth Vader.

Among other notable storylines, he is kidnapped and tortured by Dooku's minion Asajj Ventress before being rescued by Anakin (" Hate & Fear "), and apprehends corrupted Jedi Master Quinlan Vos (" The Dreadnaughts of Rendili ").

In Revenge of the Sith, Dooku is killed by Anakin Skywalker, who eventually replaces him as Darth Sidious ' third apprentice, Darth Vader.

Later, Qui-Gon, voiced by Fred Tatasciore, makes a full cameo appearance in a dream sequence, in which he tells a circa Episode I Anakin to enter a mysterious cave, where the boy will see a vision of his future.

Palpatine eventually finds them, but is wounded by Solo and destroyed when Empatojayos Brand sacrifices himself to save the latter's son Anakin.

Anakin intervenes on Palpatine's behalf by cutting off Windu's hand, allowing Palpatine to send Windu plunging to his death with a blast of Force lightning.

There, Gunray finally gets his chance at revenge when Padmé and the teenaged Anakin Skywalker ( Hayden Christensen ) are captured by the Geonosians while trying to rescue the captive Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Gunray welcomes Vader — only to realize that the Sith Lord is in fact Anakin Skywalker, and has come to tie up Sidious ' loose ends by killing them all.

In the novel Labyrinth of Evil, Gunray returns to his home on Cato Neimoidia to plunder what wealth he can, while being pursued by Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi.

A Jedi strike force, led by Anakin, is to infiltrate a Yuuzhan Vong cloning facility where the invaders craft deadly Jedi-hunting beasts called Voxyn.

* A popular depiction of a leather glove in fiction is the use of such a glove by Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars movies.

The Jedi remaining in the Temple on Coruscant were eliminated by a detachment of elite clone stormtroopers led by Darth Vader, once having been Anakin Skywalker, who single-handedly cut down many Jedi himself — including many children studying as Padawans there.

Shmi informs Qui-Gon that Anakin had no father, leading Qui-Gon to deduce that Anakin was conceived by the midi-chlorians, an example of a miraculous birth.

Ten years later, following the attempted assassination of now-Senator Padmé Amidala, the investigation by Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi and his apprentice Anakin Skywalker puts them on the trail of Jango Fett, an interstellar bounty hunter.