"Tell your sister you were right." The last words of Anakin "Darth Vader" Skywalker.
Anakin Skywalker was born on Tatooine. He grows up as a slave, along with his mother Shmi. Anakin is of use as a slave because he can fix, or build basically anything. In fact Anakin is the creator of C-3PO. He is also an amazing pilot, with almost perfect reflexes. Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn finds Anakin on his home planet and is convinced that he is the "chosen one." He is convinced of this beacuse the prophecy told Qui-Gon that Anakin was the one who was going to bring balance back to the force. The Jedi Master finds out that Anakin has the highest measure of force-aptitude. He is even more convinced that the young Skywalker is the "chosen one." Master Jinn takes Anakin back to the council to ask if he can train Anakin to beocme a Jedi Master. Upon first request the council does not permit the young boy to be trained, they believe that his fright clouds his future. But Anakin helps fight in the battle against the villianous Trade Foundation. Qui-Gon is killed by the sith Darth Maul, but before he dies he tells Obi-Wan to trade Anakin. Eventually, the council (master Yoda) agrees. The Republic's new Supreme Chancellor, Palpatine, is very intrested in Anakin, and wants to watch his progress.
At the age of twenty he is Obi-Wan's padawan. Becuase of his great talent he has become quite arogant. When he was younger he accompanied Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon as they make sure that senator Padme is safe. His first solo mission given to him by the council is to return to Naboo, Padme's home planet, and protect her from anything that may harm her. This mission is not hard because it is his first alone, it is difficult becuase he has had romantic feelings for Padme since they met ten years ago. While he is guarding Padme, he senses that his mother, Shmi, is in danger. They both go back to Anakin's home planet of Tatooine to find his mother. He finds that his mother is on the verge of death, and that she has been tortured. He kills all of the Tuscan Raiders, including all of the women and children. Soon after Obi-Wan and Anakin engage in a battle against Count Dooku. Obi-Wan is injured, so Anakin fights on his own. But Anakin is defeated by the older, wiser Count Dooku. Dooku severs Skywalker's right arm in the battle. His arm is replaced with a mechanical arm. After He and Padme secetly get married. The only people in attendance to the wedding are Padme, Anakin, and the droids C-3PO and R2-D2 (who act as the witnesses).
Obi-Wan and Anakin go to rescue Palpatine. Tracking the captive Chancellor to the observation deck, they encounter Count Dooku. Obi-Wan is injured and Anakin is forced to defeat Dooku by himself, and he comes through. He has Palpatine at his mercy, and Palpatine tells Anakin to decapitate Dooku. Anakin does not want to kill him, but he eventually does decapitate Dooku, regreting it immediatly (Killing a defensless prisoner is not the Jedi way). When Anakin returns home to be greeting by his wife, Padme. She tells him that she is pregnant, and he could not be happier...until he begins having dreams of Padme dying while giving birth. He fears that the dream will come true, because he had the same type of dreams right before his mother died. Palpatine is now basically a dictator in the Senate. He makes Anakin part of the Jedi Council. The Council accept Anakin, but with suspicion and do not let him have the rank of Jedi Master. What The Council asks him to do is spy on Palpatine, because they have a feeling something is not right. Anakin is upset that The Council does not see him as an equal, and he begins to lose all faith in The Republic. Anakin does as The Council asks, and spies on Paplatine. He soon finds out that Palpatine is actually the Sith Lord Darth Sidious. Palpatine (Darth Sidious) offers to teach Anakin the ways of the dark side, telling him that if he goes to the dark side he will be able to save his wife's life. But Anakin reports his findings to Mace Windu. Mace Windu goes into The Chancellor's office and when Anakin comes in he finds that Windu is about to kill Palpatine (who has no weapon). Palpatine tries to use Force Lightning to get Windu away, but Windu (being the Jedi Master that he is) deflects the lightning and it goes back and hits Palpatine in the face, scarring him permanantly. Palpatine becomes very weak and Anakin now begs Windu not to kill him, but Windu tells Anakin that he is too dangerous to keep alive. Anakin rememberes what the Sith Lord told him, and realizes (or thinks) that in order to save his wife he needs Palpatine. Anakin takes Windu's arm off, making it easier for Paplatine to jump up and use the lightning to push him out of the window, killing him. It is after this incident that Anakin Skywalker converts to the Dark Side and becomes Darth Vader. Padme dies after giving birth to Luke , and Leia Skywalker. Since Padme dies, they are both given to different homes and seperated.
Years later, after Luke and Leia are grown Darth Vader is charged with recovering the stolen plans of the Death Star (His headquarters). He has taken Princess Leia and tortured her and then made her watch the Death Star commander blow up her home planet of Alderaan. Soon after Darth Vader duels Obi-Wan, who is at the Death Star to rescue Leia, Darth Vader defeats him turning him into a spirit of the force. Vader then encounters Luke in a battle for the Death Star. Vader senses that the force is incredibly strong with Luke. He is about to kill Luke when the Millenium Falcon, piloted by Han Solo, sends Vader spinning into space.
Vader, (as usual) is not defeated completely. He captures Han, Chewbacca, Leia, and C3PO. He captures them in order to lure Luke to the Death Star. He makes a deal with Cloud City, more specifficaly Lando, to give Han Solo to Boba Fett. He freezes Han Solo in carbonite. Luke, who is now partially trained by Master Yoda gets into a battle with Vader but loses the battle, and also loses his arm to Vader's lightsaber. This is when Vader admits to being his father, and offers Luke the chance to overthrow the Empire with him as father and son. Luke refuses, and he is then fitted for a robotic arm (just as his father had).
Luke has now mostly completed his Jedi training. In the last episode Luke becomes dangerously close to turning over to the Dark Side as his father did. But in a battle with him, after cutting off his hand and looking at him he realizes that he will always be a Jedi, and will not have the same fate of his father.
