What Happened the Last Time Ventress Died?
Faking it is, in fact, what Ventress did in the EU, too. In Dark Horse’s old Republic comics, Ventress seemingly perishes during the battle of Boz Pity, where she is first cut down on Dooku’s orders after he abandons her to save a wounded Grievous, and then mortally wounded by Anakin when she attacked Obi-Wan in her rage at being left behind.
Although Ventress purportedly died in Obi-Wan’s arms, after her body was placed on a Republic medical ship after the battle it’s revealed that she used Sith techniques to slow her heart rate down and enter a healing trance that simply looked like death, taking over control of the ship to escape, as she says in some of her final words in the series, “far from the Jedi, from this war, from Count Dooku.” It’s like poetry, it rhymes and all that.
