In the aftermath of the Battle of Naboo, the Sith Lord Darth Sidious was in need of a new Sith apprentice after the death of Darth Maul. However, he simply did not have the time to train a brand-new apprentice from scratch as he had done with Maul, and his ultimate target, Anakin Skywalker, was not ready yet for conversion to the dark side of the Force. So, he turned to former Jedi Master and current political firebrand Count Dooku of Seronna. Dooku, like many fallen Jedi before him, had the three delusions that (1) to fully harness their Force-using potential, Jedi needed to study both the dark and light sides of the Force, (2) that the dark side of the Force could be controlled or somehow tamed, and (3) that he was the being to do it. In his early ex-Jedi years, Dooku tiptoed precariously on the balance, but after encountering and joining forces with Darth Sidious he tipped over completely to the dark side of the Force, became Sidious’ apprentice, and took the name of Darth Tyranus, Dark Lord of the Sith. Where Maul had been a vicious predator with no particular aptitude for diplomacy or covert manipulation, Tyranus was a man much in the mould of his new master, and Sidious was able to make use of him to further his long-range plans in all sorts of elaborate ways. Tyranus was responsible for finding the perfect template for the army of clone troopers that his former Jedi colleague Sifo-Dyas ordered from Kamino on behalf of the Supreme Chancellor, and Tyranus eventually slew Sifo-Dyas to cover up the order. He deleted all mention of Kamino from the Jedi Archives. In his public persona as Dooku he rallied a number of organizations and systems to rebel against the Republic, forming the Confederacy of Independent Systems and building a droid army to wage war against its Republic foe. Tyranus had the bounty hunter Jango Fett make a number of attempts on the life of Padmé Amidala, by then Senator of Naboo. When the Jedi sent a large force of Jedi Knights to Geonosis to rescue Obi-Wan Kenobi, Tyranus set his droid army against them, and feigned surprise and shock when the clone army he had helped arrange for arrived, under Yoda’s command, to do battle with the Confederacy, launching the Clone Wars. Tyranus was responsible for holding the Confederacy together and seeing to the training and cyborg modification of famed warrior General Grievous. His last mission was to launch a daring attack on Coruscant itself to seize Supreme Chancellor Palpatine (his master Sidious) captive, which would allow Palpatine to adopt even more executive power and consolidate his grip on the Galaxy. General Grievous commanded the fleet, while Tyranus set a trap for the Jedi who would be bound to attempt a rescue – Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker. However, Skywalker had improved considerably since Geonosis, and he bested Tyranus. The way of the Sith is treachery, as Palpatine proved when he bade Skywalker kill Tyranus, furthering the young man’s walk towards the dark side of the Force.