Asajj Ventress

Asajj Ventress is a female character who features in Star Wars.

Biography

Asajj Ventress was a Force-sensitive female inhabitant of the planet Dathomir born a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

Ventress pledged herself to Dooku at his palace on Serenno, agreeing to serve at his side in exchange for teachings in the ways of the dark side of the Force. He was impressed with her strength in the Force and educated her in new and brutal lightsaber combat methods. She adopted the use of twin red-bladed lightsabers, for which she became renowned. An additional responsibility of her apprenticeship to the Sith Lord was to serve as a commander in the newly established Confederacy of Independent Systems, Dooku's anti-Republic separatist rebellion movement. During her time under Dooku, Ventress also held the title of Dark Acolyte.

Shortly into the war, the Confederacy moved to seize control of major hyperspace routes to separate the Republic's Core Worlds from the bulk of its forces in the Outer Rim Territories. Dooku and Sidious, eager to exploit their advantage and weaken the Jedi's position, hatched a plot to turn Jabba the Hutt, leader of the Grand Hutt Council and the crime families of the Hutt Clan, against the Jedi and the Republic. The first objective of the scheme was to ensure the Jedi were embroiled in long, drawn-out campaigns in the Outer Rim and unable to combat the ostensibly everyday injustices that were once their focus. Ventress led one such effort on Christophsis, a resource-rich crystalline planet allied with the Republic. With Separatist military leaders General Whorm Loathsom and Admiral Trench at her side, she led her battle droid forces in an invasion of the world, attacking the local population and laying waste to a major city. The humanitarian crisis prompted the Republic's Senator Bail Organa to launch relief effort for Christophsis' people, but he too came under assault from the Confederacy.

Trench's blockade of Christophsis was eventually broken by a fleet led by Generals Kenobi and Skywalker, who launched a counter-campaign on the surface to beat back the Separatist armies. To confound their efforts, Ventress bribed the clone trooper Sergeant Slick, promising him wealth and freedom from servitude in exchange for divulging Republic movements and strategy on the planet. His information was fruitful and resulted in many losses for the Jedi-led task force. The existence of a security breach was realized by the generals and their lieutenants after finding classified intelligence in the memory of the captured T-series tactical droid TJ-55. Slick learned of their discovery and informed Ventress that the Jedi were heading behind enemy lines to search for information on the breach; he meanwhile went into hiding at the Republic base while arranging to sabotage its munitions depot.

Ventress ordered her forces to stand down and allow the Jedi to infiltrate the Confederate headquarters, which occupied a large tower in the central city. To distract the Jedi while Slick sabotaged their base and a massive army of droid reinforcements landed on Christophsis, she confronted Kenobi and Skywalker in the upper floors of the tower and engaged them in an aggressive lightsaber duel. She taunted the two about the existence of her informant before fleeing into an adjacent room where she used the Force to hurl numerous books and rubble at her opponents. The Jedi telekinetically turned the attack against her, pelting Ventress with the projectiles and apparently forcing a surrender. Confident that her forces were in position and that Slick had done his duty, she deactivated her weapons and sat on the floor. As Kenobi and Skywalker approached, she reactivated her blades into the floor, opening a hole that Skywalker and Kenobi fell into. She mocked the two before bursting out of a window and fleeing through to perch atop an octuptarra tri-droid that was scaling the tower. Before her, numerous C-9979 landing craft were delivering her invasion force into the city. The pursuing Jedi were shocked by the Separatist reinforcements but still managed to escape after severing the legs of Ventress' octuptarra droid.

Overview

Powers and abilities

As a Force-sensitive, she had the the ability to take into the power of the Force. In time, she came to be a Dark Jedi and used the Dark Side of the Force.

In combat, she came to wield dual lightsabers that had curved handles and were attached together where it could form a double bladed weapon with a curve in the middle.

Notes

• Asajj Ventress was created by Genndy Tartakovsky and George Lucas where she made her first appearance in Star Wars: Clone Wars – "Chapter 6" (2003).

Alternate Versions

• In Star Wars Legends, an alternate version of Asajj Ventress appeared in the setting of the former Star Wars Expanded Universe. Originally, she was said to be from the planet Rattatak before it was revealed that she had been abducted from Dathomir.

In other media

Video games

• In Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron, Asajj Ventress appeared as a playable character in the setting of the third-person shooter video game.

Appearances

• Star Wars: Clone Wars:
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars:

External Links

• Wookieepedia Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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