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Count Dooku, also known as Darth Tyranus, is a major antagonist in the Star Wars franchise. Once a Jedi Master, being the former Padawan of Yoda and Master of Qui-Gon Jinn, Dooku became dissatisfied with the Order and the corruption in the Galactic Republic, and later fell to the dark side of the Force. After the death of Qui-Gon at the hands of Maul, Dooku became Darth Tyranus, the second apprentice of Palpatine, the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious. During the Clone Wars, Dooku served as the Count of Serenno and head of State of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, leading a pan-galactic secessionist movement against the Republic and the Jedi Order. As a ruthless Sith Lord, Dooku secretly plotted to kill and overthrow his master, unaware that Sidious had his own plans to replace him with Anakin Skywalker. As such, when the right time came, Palpatine had orchestrated a lightsaber duel between Dooku and Anakin, who defeated and subsequently beheaded Dooku at Palpatine's urgings.
The twenty-first century was on the brink of nuclear confrontation when the three-hundred-kilometer-long Stone flashed out of nothingness and into Earth's orbit. NASA, NATO, and the UN sent explorers to the asteroid's surface... and discovered marvels and mysteries to drive researchers mad. For the Stone was from space - but perhaps not our space; it came from the future - but perhaps not our future; and within the hollowed asteroid was Thistledown. The remains of a vanished civilization. A human - English-, Russian-, and Chinese-speaking - civilization. Seven vast chambers containing forests, lakes, rivers, hanging cities... And museums describing the Death; the catastrophic war that was about to occur; the horror and the long winter that would follow. But while scientists and politicians bickered about how to use the information to stop the Death, the Stone yielded a secret that made even Earth's survival pale in significance.
