After the destruction of the Death Star, Darth Vader became obsessed with finding Luke Skywalker. He had dispatched probe droids across the galaxy, finally locating the Rebel base on the remote ice planet Hoth. Upon his arrival the Rebels had already escaped, but he pursued Luke's friends with relentless fervor.
The first Death Star was destroyed by Luke Skywalker, with the help of Han Solo, and the second Death Star was destroyed by Wedge Antilles and Lando Calrissian. Prior to the second Death Star being built, the Galactic Empire tested out a planetary superlaser for protecting its installations on the planet of Dubrillion.
Originally Answered: Where did Darth Vader go after the 1st Death Star was destroyed? According to the Expanded Universe Vader's Tie Advanced was heavily damaged after the destruction of the first Death Star. He managed to limp his way to a warm grassy planet called Vaal.
The short answer is yes, without a doubt, Vader regretted becoming a cybernetic monstrosity. First, there's the constant pain and discomfort from his suit. Worse, however, is the psychological pain. Vader destroyed everything he had ever known for a chance to save Padme.
Unable to see his son get killed, Vader steps in and throws Palpatine down the reactor shaft, to his apparent death. While this is happening though, Darth Vader gets fatally electrocuted. Luke, at his father's request, takes off his helmet so he can look at his son one last time, with his real face.
Having covertly turned Kylo Ren—Anakin's grandson and Luke's nephew—to the dark side, Palpatine orders Ren to find and kill Rey, the last remaining Jedi and Palpatine's paternal granddaughter. Palpatine is ultimately defeated and destroyed by Rey.
Mas Amedda – Grand Vizier of the Imperial Ruling Council and Vice-Chair of the Imperial Senate, later installed by Gallius Rax as puppet leader following Palpatine's death in Aftermath: Life Debt. Amedda formally surrenders the Galactic Empire to the New Republic in Aftermath: Empire's End.
Darth Vader : You have failed me for the last time, Admiral! Captain Piett? Captain Piett : Yes, my lord? Darth Vader : Make ready to land our troops beyond their energy field, and deploy the fleet, so that nothing gets off the system.
In Star Wars Legends and Canon, Galen Marek (Starkiller) is the only Jedi (other than Obi-Wan Kenobi) to put a beat down on Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker. Galen was secretly trained as a Sith Lord apprentice to Vader, but returned to the light side and the Jedi.
Yes he did. Vader followed Emperor Palpatine's advice on how to save his wife, betrayed everything he stood for, and lost everything he cared about including his wife.
Wedge leaves too damaged to continue. Luke would have died, had he not been saved by Han Solo and Chewbacca piloting the Millennium Falcon, and giving Luke time to deliver the shot that destroyed the Death Star. Luke Skywalker and Wedge Antilles are the only members of Red Squadron to survive the assault.
The planet was orbited by nine moons, the largest of which was known as the forest moon of Endor or "sanctuary moon". The ocean moon of Kef Bir was also one of these moons, and is the location where the second Death Star crashed after it exploded over Endor in Return of the Jedi.
It was significantly larger than its predecessor, measuring 160 kilometers in diameter, and was built after the destruction of the first Death Star at the Battle of Yavin.
The first Death Star was destroyed at the end of that film, due to the Rebel Alliance capitalizing on a structural weakness. It was replaced by a second Death Star, which was destroyed at the end of 1983's Return Of The Jedi after the Rebel Alliance capitalized on a structural weakness.
Anakin admits to Obi-Wan that he has been arrogant and unappreciative of his training, and apologizes to his master. Obi-Wan assures Anakin that he is proud of him, telling him that he has become a "far greater Jedi than I could ever hope to be."
The added risk Darth Vader takes in allowing children to live in a situation where he could have killed them proves that he regrets killing Younglings and will avoid harming any more children for the rest of his days, though intense intimidation is a dark strategy to avoid repeating his Youngling massacre.
His suffering meant he always expected the worst in people, but because of this, it caused his biggest flaw. This mentality stretched back to when Anakin was a Padawan, as seen in Part V of Obi-Wan Kenobi. As Anakin and his master train at the Jedi Temple, he's able to overwhelm Kenobi and disarm him.
Introduced in the first film in the original Star Wars trilogy, Governor Tarkin is the Grand Moff of the Galactic Empire and commander of the Death Star.
After all, SOMEBODY had to train Luke in order to defeat Darth Vader and the rest of the Empire. So how many Jedi died during the attack? Almost 10,000—meaning that only 0.2% of Jedi survived.
Darth Vader saved Luke at the end of 'The Return of the Jedi' because of the inner conflict that he never fully forswore. Darth Vader's torn persona finds its roots in the Jedi and the man he used to be – Anakin Skywalker.
A Sith Lord with the ability to prevent death and create life, Plagueis is the mentor of Sheev Palpatine/Darth Sidious, who, in accordance to the Sith's Rule of Two, eventually betrays Plagueis by murdering him in his sleep, taking his place as Sith Master.
With Bane dead, leadership of his Sith Order was transferred to Darth Zannah, the new Dark Lord of the Sith.
The Star Wars franchise's ultimate villain, Emperor Palpatine, has died no less than five times throughout the canon and Legends timelines.