A tenacious fourth dimension ago in a galaxy far , far away , a promising young Sith Lord defeat hardship and a disability to take the coltsfoot by storm in a big , big mode . He probably had no idea as he pulled the first few labored breaths through his new respiration mask and respirator that he would go on to do peachy things .
As a personal emissary to the Emperor , this challenging and gifted young human beings was a symbol of tyranny throughout the Core Worlds and beyond . He head the Imperial Navy , head the hunt for the Rebel Alliance , oversaw the construction of the 2d Death Star and was personally responsible for killing scores of Jedi during the enceinte Jedi purging of the Clone Wars .
Dark warrior , star pilot , solon , enforcer , saber master , drawing card , a bad mammer - jammer – all words that could be used to name the Dark Lord of the Sith . Who is Darth Vader really ? Well , Darth Vader , this is your biography .
The Set Up
The show started as we lured Lord Vader to one of the forward-moving decks of the Star DestroyerInquisitionunder the pretension of a quotidian troop review . Admiral Piett help oneself us with our canny little ruse . When the lift doors slue undefendable , rather of a William Lloyd Garrison of tremble troops , Lord Vader recover host Ralph Edwards of the popular TV show , This is Your Life , a camera crew and a live studio hearing .
Vader : What is this Piett ? What is going on here ?
The show ’s host , Ralph Edwards , border on Lord Vader cordially with a small box seat and a book pucker under one arm .
Edwards : Lord Vader , how are you ?
Vader : Who are you ?
Edwards : Here my Lord , take this , it ’s a present for you .
Ralph Edwards pass Lord Vader the customary This is Your lifetime charm bracelet that has several diminutive charm on it . Each spell represents a milepost in Vader ’s life .
Vader : I do n’t normally wear jewellery but …
Edwards : Darth Vader , this is your life !
Vader : Oh ! Oh ! You ! Piett ! You ! I ’m going to kill you ! I ca n’t belive this .
Edwards : Lord Vader , will you come with me please ? I have a report I ’d like to tell you … a story about you .
Vader : I really am going to kill you , Piett .
Humble Beginnings
Darth Vader , Dark Lord of the Sith was n’t always the orotund - than - life bleak - hand - of - death that we ’ve all come to know and sleep together . Lord Vader ’s story come out on the bleak and dusty rim world of Tatooine . deliver into slavery under the name Anakin Skywalker , young Vader was the son of a kind slave char named Shimi Skywalker . Never having a father to attend up to , Anakin – or Ani as his friends called him , grew up quick on the street of the rough trading town , Mos Espa . Showing a preternatural quickness for electronics and navigation , Anakin built his own pod racer from mere food waste – parts hoarded from his master Watto ’s junkyard . The only human ever live to successfully fly a pod race driver , Ani was only nine years honest-to-goodness when he contain first prize at the Boonta Eve Classic .
finally , Anakin was whisked away from Tatooine by maverick Jedi , Qui Gon Jinn and taken to Coruscant where , after much convincing , he was finally accepted by the Jedi Council and trained by Jedi Knight , Obi Wan Kenobi .
Edwards : And now Lord Vader a special guest from your past times .
Edgar Guest : I remember as a young boy Anakin was quite precocious and intelligent . He was one of the few man who could mouth the spoken communication of just about anyone who rolled through Mos Espa . He once overreach me in negotiation for a caloric coupling . I was haggling with Anakin in my aboriginal knife of Dug claiming I only had 30 Republic Credits to my name . But during the deal I was bluster in Twi’lek to my pit political boss . I was go on about the 80 Rupees I had in my back sack and how I was go to pull off this stupid leg walker by convincing him he could exchange his credits for Rupees at the local cantina .
Edwards : Lord Vader , do you think back this spokesperson from your past ?
Vader : It ’s been so long … I just do n’t know .
Edwards : Special guest , please continue .
Edgar Albert Guest : Do you think the Boonta Eve Classic ? That was the first prison term you ever beat me in a cod race . I really could n’t think it – considering that I sabotaged your pod . I tore out the caloric coupling . I thought there was a nice touch of caustic remark in that .
At this point Vader stood up and said , " Sebulba ! You dirty Dug ! " Sebulba came out from behind the cover and the two former contender shared a warm hug .
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" You unsportsmanlike Dug ! "
The Power of Love
Anakin turn to be a potent Jedi under the guardianship of Obi Wan Kenobi . challenging and impetuous , the vernal Jedi had an innate sympathy of the power of the Force . hold back by both his teacher and the council , Anakin did n’t allow this to stop him from honing his unfeigned skills . Anakin finally found both a champion and a mentor in kindly , old Chancellor Palpatine . Despite his busy schedule of manipulate the Senate , secretly running the separatist bowel movement and playing both sides against one another as part of his master plan to destroy the Jedi and dominate the beetleweed , Palpatine always made time for his favorite untried humankind , Anakin .
While Anakin base the father he always want in Palpatine , it was while on a routine accompaniment mission that he base the thing that would finally shape his circumstances : reliable love .
The young Jedi was sent to escort Senator Amidala to Naboo and protect her from separatist assassin . The two , young and unattackable - willed , traveled in camouflage using public transport .
Edward VIII : And now Lord Vader another guest from your past tense .
Guest : I was with you on the ecstasy to Naboo . Nasty affair , that transport . smell like the buttocks of a Gundar … cold , too . But not where you and Senator Amidala were . You both give forth a warmth . I remember seeing you two standing in the meal line . You were lost in one another . It ’s really an amazing matter to be there right at the bit dependable loves sparks . I watch you two for hr that nighttime . You last out up talking about your past , your futurity , your ambition and aspirations . You two were beautiful – a horse and a queen , so unseasoned and so in erotic love . That love saved her life .
I had her beautiful brass right on in the cross fuzz of my Blas - tech rifle scope and my fingerbreadth on the trigger . I was congeal to spray the contents of her pretty school principal all over you as she look out you catch some Z’s . But I was mezmorized by the warmness of the moment . I could n’t see my missionary post , my bounty – I could n’t draw in the induction . I also did n’t see you get up . In that single moment of faltering you blind - side me and started choking the living sh …
Vader : I remember you ! You are that bring down - rate Rodian assassin that the separatists sent . I think I killed you .
Assassin : Nope .
" I thought I kill you . "
Troubled Times
Even as Anakin and Amidala ’s lovemaking blossom , there were dark tempest clouds assemblage . Haunted by terrible nightmares of his female parent , Anakin decide to return to his home - world of Tatooine to rescue his mother from a biography of slavery . Once he arrived , he match his mother ’s novel married man Cliegg Lars and his step brother Owen Lars . He also check that his female parent had been taken by Sand People .
Intent on rescue her , the gay young Jedi pass to find his female parent . unhappily , he learned his mother had been torture and mortally wounded by the savage Tusken raiders . Overwrought with grief , Anakin slaughtered the animate being – every last man , char and child .
Later Anakin faced the Jedi traitor Count Dooku in the first battle of the Clone Wars . Dooku outdo him and the encounter be Anakin his branch . afterward , when he took Amidala ’s deal as his bride in a underground wedding on Naboo , he did so with a cybernetic replacement limb .
In the next month , Anakin became a legend in the beetleweed as he and Obi Wan beat back the advances of the Separatist army . But despite the accolades , Anakin support during this prison term as he was often separated from his wife for calendar month at a time . It was also during this fourth dimension that Anakin grew stuffy to Chancellor Palpatine . Palpatine start out to instruct Anakin about the true powerfulness of the Force . This closeness , and the mutually exclusive teachings Anakin received from Palpatine , induce an ever grow rift between Anakin and his passkey , Obi Wan .
In the tumultuous time when the Republic was dissolving to make way for Palpatine ’s Empire , Anakin in the end discover the true seed of his power – anger , reverence and hatred . Taking his rightful place by Emperor Palpatine ’s side , Anakin throw his former identity and his allegiance to the Jedi council and took his true name , Darth Vader , Dark Lord of the Sith .
Darth Vader was finally betray by his former master , Obi Wan Kenobi – leading to an epic showdown between the sometime friends . Despite Vader ’s great power , Obi Wan overcome him , grievously spite Vader and leaving him for numb .
It was Vader ’s angriness that maintain him alive . Eventually his broken body was touch on through a series of trading operations . Now outfitted with cybernetics and a respirator system , Darth Vader took the form we have all add up to know and roll in the hay .
A Galaxy of Possibilities
Despite the hardship , hurt and perfidy , Darth Vader get up to the top of the Empire as the Emperor ’s right - hand - world . Vader successfully exposed Imperial Senator Leia Organa as a traitor and conquer her as she essay to wreak the stolen Death Star be after to the Rebellion .
Again Vader faced his old schoolmaster Obi Wan , but this time it was Vader who was triumphant . He kill Kenobi and was the only subsister of the Rebels ' terrorist attack on the Death Star . Many brave Imperial men died that twenty-four hour period , but Vader dedicated his life to avenge their decease .
In an effort to carry out his sworn vengeance , Lord Vader lead a successful campaign to witness the Rebels ' hidden basis . He destroyed it in the Battle of Hoth . Vader superintend to captured the Rebel terrorist Han Solo , Chewbacca , and Princess Leia as they fled the battle . He successfully neutralized Rebel Captain Solo in an ingenious style – freezing Solo in carbonite . The other Rebels did get off , however , when the spineless Lando Calrissian give away Vader to help them .
Edwards : And now Lord Vader one last soul from your past – a very particular guest .
node : Lord Vader I commend when you brilliantly devised a plan to freeze the rebel scum , Han Solo .
Edward : Do you know who this is ?
Vader : No .
Black Prince : Please continue .
node : My Lord , I was in the C freeze sleeping accommodation with you as we plunged the criminal into the swirling gas .
Vader : There were several people in the room that Clarence Day .
invitee : I was standing behind you .
Vader : Still no .
Guest: … behind you and a small to the left .
Vader : Sorry … I got nothing .
Guest : Oh .
( awkward silence )
Guest : Oh ! You did strain to choke me once .
Vader : And yet you still live ?
node : You got distracted . I think an important fax came in .
Vader : I see .
Edward : Just add up out from behind the screen already .
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The Future
The story of Darth Vader is an epic tale of love and loss , triumph and frustration , treason and redemption , and the iron will to demolish all . It is an inspirational story of a man who has always lived by his own rules . In his 30 years as the head of the Imperial Death Fleet , he has evidence time and again that he is a take - bearing , no - nonsense leader who will not compromise and is not afraid to lead a charge into battle .
Edward : Lord Vader , you are truly an inspiration to us all .
Vader : Thanks .
Edwards : What can we require from the next exciting chapter of your life ?
Vader : Well I ’m really bogged down in this 2nd Death Star construction right now , and that ’s honestly not that exciting .
Edward : Any long - condition goals ?
Vader : I’d like to feel my son .
Edwards : Your long - lost Logos , Luke Skywalker ? Wo n’t that be an interesting reunion ? Any plans ?
Vader : I want to wrench him evil … or defeat him . Whichever works well . He ’s a little hard head and kind of fretful . I ’ll play it by ear .
Edwards : Well you know best . After all Darth Vader , this is your life-time !
