Star Wars: What Happened To Count Dooku BEFORE He Was A Sith

7. Before The Jedi Order

Born on the planet Serenno, Count Dooku was born to its rulers Count Gora and Countess Anya. As his Force sensitivity began to become apparent, his own father became scared and abandoned the child. Count Gora had a hatred and fear for those he would deem “freaks”.

His father contacted the Jedi Order to take the boy, but instead of waiting for someone to arrive, Dooku was cast outside the Serenno palace on the edge of the forest with no clothing or way of identification. With the threat of freezing to death due to a lack of clothing and the risk of spine-wolves eating him alive, Dooku was basically left for dead by his father.

However, luckily, Dooku was found by a Jedi seeker and brought to Coruscant, to the Jedi temple, to begin life as a youngling...