Duel on Mustafar

"Don't make me kill you." "I will do what I must." "You will try."

- Anakin Skywalkwer and Obi-Wan Kenobi, before their duel began

The Duel on Mustafar was a lightsaber duel between Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and his former Padawan, Anakin Skywalker, on the volcanic planet of Mustafar. The duel followed the end of the Clone Wars and the execution of Order 66.

Prelude
During the Clone Wars, the Son lured Anakin Skywalker into the Well of the Dark Side and corrupted him with a premonition of the duel on Mustafar. The duel began after Darth Sidious, as the newly appointed Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine, tasked Darth Vader, his new apprentice, with the assassination of the leaders of the Confederacy of Independent Systems on the volcanic Outer Rim planet Mustafar, in order to bring an end to the Clone Wars. Skywalker was followed to Mustafar by his wife, Padmé Amidala, who he wounded after seeing Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi; Skywalker wrongly believed that Amidala had led Kenobi, his former master, to Mustafar in order to kill him.

The duel
The duel was a lengthy and brutal with neither of the combatants gaining the edge as neither of them wanted to win this fight. The duel took place across a Separatist installation on Mustafar, with the two combatants making their way through hallways, conference rooms, and command centers, the latter of which led to them inadvertently triggering a meltdown on the facility. As a result, the facility's shielding began to collapse under the heat and lava on the planet. The fight moved onto a lava river, before ending on an embankment where Skywalker's left arm and both legs were severed. Following an impassioned indictment by Kenobi of how Skywalker, believed to have been the Chosen One, was meant to destroy the Sith instead of joining them, Skywalker's body burst into flames from the lava and he was burned alive. Kenobi retrieved skywalker's lightsaber and remorsefully left him on the embankment presumably to die, before fleeing the planet with the dying Amidala.

Aftermath
Sidious sensed his apprentice's struggle from across the galaxy and personally travelled to Mustafar to retrieve him. Sidious then brought Vader back to Imperial Center, where he placed his badly-wounded apprentice into a cybernetic suit of armor that would keep him alive for the rest of his life. Kenobi, meanwhile, brought Amidala to Polis Massa, where she died shortly after giving birth to her and Anakin's twins, Luke and Leia Organa. Kenobi took Luke to Tatooine and went into exile, and would not meet Vader again for several years. Their final living encounter took place on the Death Star, where Vader killed his former master. Years later at the Battle of Endor, Anakin, inspired by his son, found redemption, killing Sidious and rejoining Kenobi in the Force.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
 * Lords of the Sith
 * Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
 * Star Wars: Darth Vader 1: Vader
 * Star Wars: Darth Vader 6: Vader, Part VI
 * Star Wars: Darth Vader 6: Vader, Part VI