r/StarWars • u/Robo-Piluke • 6h ago
How come Count Dooku is (was) so wealthy? General Discussion
Wasn't he a Jedi most of his life? As a Jedi he should have renounced to all earthly possessions. Isn't it? Plus, he was trained since a infant/toddler (as most jedi) and he didn't quit the order too long before his death to amass such wealth (as seen in The Bad Batch) . So...was it his family's inheritance or something?
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u/AmenoFPS 5h ago
Comes from a wealthy family on Serenno (hence the count title). He gave it up when he joined the Jedi order but returned and reclaimed it after leaving
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u/ididshave Imperial 3h ago
So, you made me realize, we don’t know his full name still. He reclaimed his title as count but before then, Master Dooku?
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u/myklclark 2h ago
I’m pretty sure his given name is Dooku. I believe he is Dooku of Serenno. That’s my head canon anyway.
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u/Robo-Piluke 5h ago
So he gave up the wealth. He must have been grown up when he went to the order then.
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u/Se7enStepsForward 5h ago edited 5h ago
No, he was a child and his father had disowned and abandoned him after they discovered he was force sensitive, the Jedi soon found him and took him in (I believe he was 2 years old)
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u/Sleepinwolf 3h ago
To add context, Dooku's father hated all force users due to their family and planet's history with them. Serenno was brutally subjugated by the Sith Empire hundreds of years before the events of the movies, and when they begged for aid from the Jedi, they were refused. Dooku's ancestors were able to lead a successful rebellion to drive off the Sith oppressors without Jedi intervention, but they always held a grudge against both the Jedi and the Sith after that.
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u/Darth-Joao-Jonas 5h ago edited 5h ago
His father actually gave him to the Jedi when he was a baby.
Dooku found out when he was a youngling during a visit to Serenno that his father literally got rid of him as soon as he could (Dooku also met some of his familiy, siblings included)
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u/Darth-Joao-Jonas 6h ago edited 5h ago
He came from a rich family (the richest in the planet), and after he left the order he was the only heir, so he went back as the Count of Serenno
Edit: There is actually lot more other than that, and there is a book/audiodrama that goes into the details about Dooku's life, going from being a youngling all the way to the moment he leaves the order. If you are interested in learning more about him, check out Dooku: Jedi Lost by Cavan Scott
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u/eepos96 5h ago
His family owned a planet. Even in star wars that is impressive wealth.
When he lead the confederacy all of his needs were met.
Interestingly enough the sith order itself had managed to harness a substantial wealth during their 1000 years of hiding. Darth Plagueis was a banker but he also had access to the sith treasury.
Dart Sidious/Palpatine was able to fund trade federation during the naboo crisis. He used the sith wealth to do so and it was not even hard for him.
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u/Improvedandconfused 5h ago
He sold Tupperware as a side hustle.
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u/NotAnotherPornAccout 5h ago
The personal family wealth he inherited after leaving the order, the wealth of the confederacy which he plundered back to his home planet, then finally 1000 year old sith hedge fund baby money that was accumulating interest.
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u/Combat_Wombat23 Sith Anakin 5h ago
The dark side is a path to wealth many consider…unnatural
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u/NotAnotherPornAccout 4h ago
Seriously look up I think bad batch season 2 ep 1 where they raid Dookus palace to pay off a debt. You see three massive ships carrying hundreds of cargo containers. Just 1 cargo container is enough to pay off their debts and make each one of them unimaginably wealthy in their own rights. Then you hear that those aren’t all the ships, those are just the last 3. Dooku had a galaxy’s worth of wealth. (Ok technically a quarter I think?)
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u/Greenfieldfox 5h ago
He was a Count. You ever met a poor Count? You ever met a Count? Yeah, me neither.
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u/B_Burns 5h ago
102 BBY, Dooku was born and abandoned by his family after discovering he was Force sensitive. He was taken in by the Jedi Order the same year.
86 BBY Dooku (age 16) becomes Yoda's padawan.
82 BBY Dooku (age 20) is allowed to return to Serenno and attend his mother's funeral. He also has an angry confrontation with his father, The Count.
42 BBY Dooku (age 60) leaves the Jedi Order and becomes Count of Serenno.
Source: Star Wars Timelines
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u/ChrisRevocateur 5h ago
He a count, a.k.a. he's nobility, and he reclaimed that title after he left the order.
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u/ComprehensiveAct3463 5h ago
He inherited his family’s fortune and once he became a Separatist he took over systems or systems would join his cause and he taxed the systems (I think, I watched the bad batch and tech was explaining to Omega how Count Dooku was so wealthy. Please correct me if I am wrong!).
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u/Fire_Mission 3h ago
Well, he's a Count. But also, Jedi mind trick! "You will open your vaults, now." "Yes, I will open my vaults now."
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u/Navien833 3h ago
His family. He left the order after years of issues with the order he was able to get his inherentence and became the Count of Serrano
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u/chipperland4471 5h ago
I assume it’s because he was a count/from a rich family so when he left the order he could just get a bunch of money back
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u/WillBEAR11385016212 5h ago
Bad Batch said he also took riches from the planets under Separatist control I'm pretty sure
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u/veryblocky The Asset 5h ago
He was Count of Serrano, effectively ruled the planet. An inherited position
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u/BaronNeutron Rebel 4h ago
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
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u/johnnycabb_ 4h ago
he got in early on the internet domains. sold usedcars dot com as well as 247locksmith dot com
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u/BlueWizardoftheWest 4h ago
Great question! There’s a whole book on him! But he was the heir to the county of serrocco. When he left the Jedi Order, he reclaimed his inheritance.
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u/Ambitious_Calendar29 4h ago
He was noble by birth after leaving the jedi order he returned to his birth planet and rejoined his family
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u/Mercuryo 4h ago edited 4h ago
Canon it's that his family was scared of the force. He left the order and became the Count of Sereno at some point between TPM and AoTC
Legends, his fathers were proud of his powers, they let the jedi to train him because they already have another son. And after TPM he became kinda dissillisioned with the Order and left, reclaiming his birhtright
It's funny how in legends pre Rise of The Empire the Jedi and the force it's seen as a gift. The thing with Dooku it's similar to Ki Adi Mundi where in Legends he has several children.
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u/DerekYeeter4307 3h ago
His family were the rulers of Serenno, his homeworld. Until the Clone Wars, he was one of only twenty Jedi that had left the Jedi Order peacefully and on their own terms. He did so to reclaim his heritage and lead Serenno after he overthrew and killed his corrupt brother.
He thought that Serenno and his family needed him, because they had recently discovered a huge deposit of a new metal that would be very valuable.
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u/Turbo950 3h ago
You cast Christopher Lee as a character you are legally contractually obligated to have him be dapper and fancy and high society, I don’t make the rules it’s just how it is
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u/Porn_Extra 1h ago
Because only the wealthy are allowed to become powerful, no matter which galaxy you're in.
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u/Robo-Piluke 1h ago
Thanks for the answers! So, he was like a secretly rich monk with a tragic past and kind of corrupt (either made by other or himself)
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u/EndlessTheorys_19 36m ago
…cause he’s a count. Obviously. Inherited the money at the same time he got the title
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u/pinata1138 K-2SO 1h ago
He’s from a noble/royal family. They’re always loaded. Better question: Why does his lightsaber have Peyronie’s disease?
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u/oreo_boy_01 Count Dooku 5h ago
He inherited a massive fortune from his family on his home world of serreno. His family ruled over the planet for centuries of not millennia