Asajj Ventress

Asajj Ventress, Dooku’s apprentice and favoured personal assassin, is a senior Separatist Commander and a skilled force-sensitive. Whether she is leading armies or fleets in her official title as “Supreme Leader”, or conducting highly sensitive missions with Separatist Intelligence to target the Republic’s most critical assets, her arrival on a battlefield always signifies much death and destruction for the Republic.

Being trained under a duelist as skilled as Count Dooku has its perks. Ventress carries two curved lightsabers and can hold her own against most Jedi. Interestingly, the lightsabers she carries belonged to Dooku’s last Padawan, who had turned to the darkside herself before being eliminated.

However, Ventress’ true prowess is as an assassin. Her ability to suddenly appear behind enemy lines, or on battlefields thought to be mostly secure, to then wreak havoc in the Republic’s backlines. Additionally, she is often seen being deployed in boarding parties in Space Battles, sometimes even taking a Drop Pod.

Unlike her master, Ventress has no issue with targeting just clones and fighting in a dishonorable way. While she has an interest in fighting and killing Jedi, whenever she is deployed, she lays a wake of bodies in her path.

Due to the fact that she has never been captured, has no history in any of the Republic’s institutions, and she works directly under Dooku rather than with the rest of the Separatist High Command, not much information is known about Ventress.

Ventress’ first appearance in the Clone Wars seems to be during the Separatist Invasion of Carida. In which she appeared without warning, cutting down squads of Clones and preventing Jedi from stopping the Droids from capturing key areas on the ground.

For the Republic, the rest of the invasion, the Republic Commanders on the ground had to plan all operations around the fact that a psychotic force-sensitive killer was on the ground. It is also believed that the presence of Ventress prompted the Jedi Order to send almost all of their combat trained Jedi to Carida. Which, while strategically questionable, could still have been considered by the Order as a reasonable response as the last time a Sith appeared, a skilled Jedi Master was killed.

However, what the Republic reinforcements and the Jedi did not expect was that Ventress would meet them in space. During the second space battle over Carida, Ventress boarded the Republic Venator “Invictus” and destroyed key reactors, forcing it to explode. During this boarding, she met and fought Jedi Master Mace Windu and managed to slice off his arm.

Ventress would then leave on a stolen Republic fighter, leaving no trace to her next location.

Ventress’ next appearance would be during the Separatist Invasion of Corellia. Once again appearing with a warning, she led her Droid forces to the Jedi Temple on Corellia. However, facing multiple Jedi on their home turf, she was pushed back and forced to retreat.

Ventress’ latest appearance in the Clone Wars would be during the Invasion of Christopsis. Asajj Ventress led a surprise attack on the Republic Fleet above Christopsis and boarded a Venator herself yet again. This time, however, the Jedi were prepared and quickly led a response to counter her. While she succeeded in taking out many Clones, she was pushed back and forced to retreat before she was able to take out the Venator.

While most Republic Commanders assume Ventress is currently on Ryloth, it is pointless to try to guess where this assassin will strike next.