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Asajj Ventress

Asajj Ventress is a fictional character from the Star Wars Expanded Universe. She is Anakin Skywalker's arch nemesis during the first season. She is named after the character Asaji from Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood. Ventress is a Dark Jedi, and one of Count Dooku's Force-attuned apprentices and assassins. She is a powerful warrior with exceptional combat abilities, and desires most of all to join the Sith order and destroy the Jedi. She has many distinctive Sith tattoos and wields dual curved red lightsabers. Her lightsabers can attach together at the hilt, forming a double bladed weapon with a curve in the middle.









She hails from the planet of Dathomir. She was sold by the nightsisters to criminals and spends her early years in Rattatak. She would have likely been killed in a pirate raid if not for the Jedi Ky Narec, who had crashed on Rattatak. Narec sensed the potential of Ventress, and so he trained her in the ways of the Jedi. However, the warlords of the planet become concerned by the duo's prowess and under the leadership of Osika Kirske they kill Narec before Ventress can become a full-fledged Jedi. She develops an implacable hatred of the other Jedi who had abandoned her master and ignored the bloodshed on her planet.

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