Duel on Mustafar/Legends

"This is the end for you, my master."

- Darth Vader

The Duel on Mustafar was the event in the Great Jedi Purge in which Darth Vader was injured by Obi-Wan Kenobi and had to undergo reconstruction and surgery.

Prelude
"Let her go Anakin! Let. Her. Go!" "You turned her against me!" "You have done that yourself!" "You will not take her from me!" "Your anger and your lust for power have already done that. You have allowed this Dark Lord to twist your mind until now... until now you have become the very thing you swore to destroy". "Don't lecture me, Obi-Wan. I see through the lies of the Jedi. I do not fear the dark side, as you do. I have brought peace, freedom, justice and security to my new Empire". "Your new Empire?" "Don't make me kill you". "Anakin, my allegiance is to the Republic, to democracy!" "If you're not with me, then you're my enemy!" "Only a Sith deals in absolutes. I will do what I must". "You will try!"

- Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi

The duel occured in the aftermath of the Mission to Mustafar, in which Darth Vader slaughtered the Separatist Council and ended the Clone Wars. He met up with his wife, Padmé Amidala, during the aftermath of the massacre. Obi-Wan Kenobi, hiding in the cargohold of her Naboo Skiff, appeared to Vader, making it seem like it was a trap laid out by Padmé. In his rage, Vader strangled his wife to near death, knocking her unconscious. The former best friends were forced to confront each other in battle.

The duel
"Don't make me destroy you, Master. You're no match for the dark side". "I've heard that before, Anakin&hellip; but I never thought I'd hear it from you."

- Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi



The two battled each other on the landing platform and made their way through the hallways of Klegger Corp Mining Facility. In the conference room, Vader forced Kenobi's lightsaber handle into his throat, temporarily paralyzing him, and attempted to decapitate his former master. Kenobi managed to fling himself out of his former Padawan's grasp, and the two proceeded into the control room. The two forced each other into opposite ends of the room with a combined of Force push. Attempting to kill Kenobi, Vader jumped at the Jedi and missed, accidentally destroying the controls for the facility's shields, allowing heat and flying lava to weaken the bridge system outside the complex.

As the two dueled on the bridge outside, the lack of shielding proved too much for the superstructure, bringing it down. The magmatic river below dragged the bridge down a lavafall, and nearly killed Vader. However, both he and Kenobi managed to leap off the bridge, landing on a droid lava collector and a repulsorlift platform, respectively. "I have failed you, Anakin. I have failed you&hellip; " "I should have known the Jedi where plotting to take over!" "Anakin, Chancellor Palpatine is evil!" "From my point of view the Jedi are evil!" "Well then you are lost!"

- Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi

Fall of Vader
"It's over, Anakin! I have the high ground!" "You underestimate my power." "Don't try it!"

- Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader

As the two dueled their way to the shore, Obi-Wan jumped and gained the high ground. Vader foolishly risked his life and jumped after Obi-Wan, getting his three remaining organic limbs severed in the process. He tumbled down to the shoreline, ignited, and had his flesh burned off. Kenobi despaired at seeing how far his former apprentice had fallen, and told him that he had loved Anakin like a brother. Vader responded by crying out his eternal hatred of his former master. Kenobi grabbed Anakin's blue lightsaber, then left him to die in agony.

Aftermath
"Lord Vader, can you hear me?" "Yes, Master. Where is Padmé? Is she safe? Is she all right?" "It seems in your anger, you killed her."

- Darth Sidious and Darth Vader



Palpatine, sensing that his new apprentice was in grave danger, left Coruscant and, accompanied by a squad of shock troopers, journeyed to Mustafar in a Theta shuttle. They landed in the Klegger Corp Mining Facility and recovered the dying Sith apprentice. Darth Vader's maimed, crippled and burned body was taken Coruscant and to the Emperor Palpatine Surgical Reconstruction Center for treatment in order to save his life. There, he was transformed into a cyborg. Darth Vader would wear a respirator and full body suit for the rest of his life.

Padmé Amidala was not so lucky&mdash;her injuries on Mustafar, as well as the horror of seeing her husband consumed by the dark side, led to her death in childbirth&mdash;giving birth to Luke and Leia&mdash;on Polis Massa.

Kenobi went into exile after helping to deliver Anakin's children on Polis Massa. He and Anakin's infant son Luke went to Tatooine to be raised by Anakin's stepbrother and his wife, while his twin sister Leia went to Alderaan to be raised by Bail Organa and Queen Breha. Kenobi hid on Tatooine, waiting for the day Luke would be trained as a Jedi.

Behind the Scenes

 * While Anakin and Obi-Wan duel on the fallen arm, the lava actually flows backwards. This can be seen by looking at the lava "waterfall" off to the right hand side.

Appearances



 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith novelization
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith comics
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith game
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game
 * Dark Nest III: The Swarm War