The battle between the Galactic Republic and Confederacy of Independent Systems
was one that had been conducted by Chancellor Palpatine,
otherwise know as the secret Sith Lord Darth Sidious, and both sides were at his mercy.
In particular, the Separatist Council headed by his apprentice Count Dooku, falsely believed that
Sidious would protect them from all of the rigours of the war, but they were gravely mistaken.
Following the death of Count Dooku at the hands of Jedi knight Anakin Skywalker, the Separatist
Council were now under the leadership of the Commander of the Droid Army General Grievous,
and the cyborg directed them to the lava planet of Mustafar, where they would remain for the last
days of the war. The fall of Grievous created a chain of events that led to their demise,
as Sidious’ replacement apprentice Darth Vader was dispatched to destroy the Separatists after the
execution of Order 66, in which most of the Jedi had been wiped out by their own clone troopers.
The new Sith entered the war room in their mining complex, and the Council do not know what is
happening, and one by one they began to fall, still having delusions of the peace granted by
Sidious. But what if the Separatists had managed to evade the wrath of Vader, then eventually join
the Rebel Alliance? Would the two sides be able to cooperate to defeat the new Empire?
As you will see, the survival of the Separatists, would have made for a different outcome…
On the lava planet of Mustafar, the Separatist Council watched as the holographic figure of Lord
Sidious fading into darkness. Immediately uproar broke amongst the leaders, as it was obvious that
he had sentenced them to death through Vader. Worried that they would endure the same fate as
most of the Jedi order, the group take the master control signal, then leave the room and the mining
area, as the starfighter of Vader landed on a nearby platform, and they begin running to the old
Black Sun fortress. To their relief several ships still remained, and they vanished off of Mustafar
to safety for the moment. As Vader leapt from his ship, he was keen to add more onto his blade,
and he sprinted to the mining facility, but as he arrived, he was disgusted to find that it
was empty. Activating the central holoprojector, Sidious was equally displeased at their escape,
and their continued control over the droid army, but they would soon be purged by his new Empire.
Without the time spent killing the Separatists, Vader left the planet before Padme had arrived,
and the Senator of Naboo and the hidden Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi, were horrified to find
Anakin had departed, but from behind a cliff face, R2-D2 rose with his rocket boosters.
Padme asks the droid for the location of Anakin, but R2 only knows that Anakin had left the planet.
Obi-Wan quietly communicated with Bail Organa in one of the ship’s hidden compartments, and the
Senator instructed for a return to Coruscant, as Yoda was battling Sidious. Suddenly, the door to
his small hideaway slides open, and there stood a furious Padme. The Senator would have fired at
Obi-Wan had it not been for Organa asking for her to go back to Coruscant, and give birth in
the safety of his cruiser. Padme hastily goes back to the controls of the ship, and Obi-Wan meditated
for the journey, worried about Yoda. Just as they were about to arrive, the J-Type Naboo star skiff
received another transmission from Organa, redirecting them to his ship, as Yoda had
failed to defeat Palpatine. Aboard the Alderaanian Senator’s ship, Padme gave birth to Luke and Leia,
and demanded that the Jedi refrain from trying to kill Anakin, and orders them to bring her to
him. Yoda shook his head, as Anakin had fallen to the dark side, and from that there was no return,
and the Jedi would not risk the lives of the powerful Force sensitives Luke and Leia.
Padme was forced to accept that all hope for the Galactic Republic had fallen, and began to
construct the foundations of a new Rebel Alliance to counter the Empire, after faking her death on
her home planet of Naboo. In return, Luke and Leia are not split up as the Jedi had desired, but they
use Organa’s palace on Alderaan as their safehouse to begin their training in the Jedi arts.
Meanwhile, in the Colonies region of the galaxy, the remainder of the Separatists descended on
the planet of Cato Neimoidia, finding that the Republic were still battling the droid army.
As the Separatist had been presumed to be missing, the puppet leader Viceroy Findos
had been placed in charge, so the Neimoidian members go to collect their collection of
valuables and artefacts, hoping they could use them as bargaining power in the Empire.
However, as soon as they tried to leave, they were hit by gunfire from a Republic gunship,
and tumbled into a canyon below. Those on Alderaan soon receive word of the mysterious crash,
and the Jedi wonder if Kel’Dor Jedi master Plo Koon was still alive, in spite of what they had
felt in the Force. Although they had concerns over this being a trap for the survivors of Order 66,
the Jedi felt that it was worth the risk, so Yoda travelled alone, not knowing he
was in a race to capture the Separatists. That is it for part 1 what if the Separatists
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