User:Thefourdotelipsis/Anakin

"You were the Chosen One! It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them! Bring balance to the Force, not leave it in darkness!"

- Obi-Wan Kenobi to Darth Vader

Anakin Skywalker was a legendary male Human Jedi Knight in the waning days of the Jedi Order, and was famed as the Chosen One of Jedi legend. During his training, he was slowly swayed to the dark side of the Force by his many emotions and, most influentially, by the Sith Lord Darth Sidious. He eventually took on the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith, thus becoming Darth Vader shortly before the formation of the Galactic Empire.

He was the son of Shmi Skywalker and the husband of Senator Padmé Amidala, as well as the father of Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa Solo. He was also the grandfather of Ben Skywalker, Anakin, and the twins Jaina and Jacen Solo.

After Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn discovered nine-year-old Anakin on Tatooine, he took him away from the planet to be trained in the ways of the Force, believing the boy to be the Chosen One of Jedi prophecy. Young Anakin was apprenticed to Obi-Wan Kenobi upon Qui-Gon's death.

Before becoming Vader, Skywalker served as a General (originally Commander) in the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars. As Vader, he was appointed to the role of Military Executor of Palpatine's New Order, and gained infamy as one of the galaxy's greatest mass murderers. He also headed the Great Jedi Purge&mdash;a hunt for the remaining Jedi after Order 66.

In 4 ABY, at the Battle of Endor, he was redeemed by his son, and renounced the ways of the Sith, becoming Anakin Skywalker once again, moments before his death.