The Clone Wars. In my opinion the coolest era of Star Wars but to be fair that is greatly
influenced by my notalgia towards the Prequels and the Clone Wars show. The conflict spanned
three years and ended with the Republic turning into the Empire and winning the war. Now we
all know that the entire war was actually rigged by the leading powers of both the Republic
and Separatists and the outcome was planned for a long time. But what if that was changed?
What if Dooku decided to betray Palpatine and actually fight the war?
Our story starts with Dooku contemplating his loyalty to Palpatine. Dooku would realise
that it was only a matter of time until he was replaced like so many sith apprentices
before him. Most apprentices in his position would just overthrow their master but Palpatine
was a completely different story. Palpatine was far more powerful and skilled than Dooku
so killing him was not an option. Dooku would have to come at this problem from a different
angle so he would look to Palpatine’s opposition in the senate. There were many in the senate
who wanted more than anything for the war to be over and felt that Palpatine was too
eager to let it roar on so Dooku would anonymously send evidence to them that proved Palpatine
was a sith lord who orchestrated the entire Clone Wars. Palpatine would catch wind of
this development and try to stop the information from surfacing but he would ultimately fail.
The senate would vote for the removal of Palpatine and the senator who I believe would take his
place is Bail Organa. Bail would try to keep order as much as possible but with the revelation
that their former leader was a secret sith lord, distrust, speculation and chaos would
spread throughout the Republic. Dooku, ever the opportunist would take advantage of this.
General Grievous would be sent to remove strategically important planets from Republic control so
that once the chaos settled, the Republic would be at an extreme disadvantage. Along
with this, many Republic worlds would lose faith in their leadership completely and willingly
switch sides in the war. Because of these two things the Separatists would grow extremely
powerful. Now, Dooku would have successfully messed
with Palpatine’s plans but he in no way would be home free. Palpatine would immediately
look to bring a swift end to his traitrouse former apprentice but Dooku would assume that
this would be Palpatine’s next move and he would be prepared. Dooku would never leave
his palace and he would have hundreds of magna guards patrolling around the clock. This wouldn’t
be anywhere near enough. To increase his chances of survival, Dooku would seek the aid of yet
another enemy of Palpatine. The witches of Dathomir were powerful dark side force users
who, lucky for Dooku, had a major and longstanding vendetta against Palpatine. The witches of
Dathomir would be really important allies for Dooku because they were one of the few
enemies in the galaxy that Palpatine considered an actual threat.
Dooku would send a message to Mother Talzin and explain the situation to her. Talzin would
immediately recognise that Dooku's situation could benefit them both greatly. Mother Talzin
would agree to travel to Dooku’s palace with some of her best warriors. Once they
arrived, Mother Talzin and her warriors would cloak themselves with dark side magick that
would restrict Palpatine from sensing their presence. With their trap set all they would
have to do is wait. They wouldn’t have to wait for long though
since Palpatine would be furious and in desperate need to dish out some swift revenge. Just
as expected Palpatine would walk right through the hundreds of magna guards with minimal
effort. Palpatine would enter the palace without any knowledge of the trap he was about to
walk into. Mother Talzin would immediately begin using Magick to stun Palpatine and restrict
his ability to fight back while Dooku and the warriors began going in for the kill.
The fight would be brutal but it would end with the far more prepared Dooku, Mother Talzin
and nightsister warriors victorious. With Mother Talzin content with her revenge on
Palpatine she would head back to Dathomir. Now, with Dooku’s former master out of the
way, he was free to win the Clone Wars. With the Republic slowly regaining order and
preparing to defend what little they had left, the Separatists would begin pushing straight
for the core worlds. The separatists would have blockaded all routes from Kamino meaning
that with their near infinite number of droids it was only a matter of time until Republic
forces were overrun. With the Republic’s war effort crumbling they would decide to
try to make peace but with the Separatists being mere months from total control of the
galaxy they would be in no position to accept anything less than becoming the sole governing
body of the galaxy and with how the war would be going it would only take the Republic a
few more weeks of brutal loss to give in. With that Dooku would be victorious. The Separatists
would be the governing body of the galaxy completely replacing the Republic.
Over the next few months the core worlds would transition to Sepratist rule and many things
would change. All clone forces would be turned into a massive workforce to increase industrialization
in the mid and outer rim worlds and their military and police presence would be replaced
by hundreds of thousands of droids. When it comes to politics, the Separatists main goals
of removing unfair taxes to the outer rim worlds would be the first thing they did.
Other than that, many laws surrounding business would be altered in many positive but also
many negative ways as well. Cruel but efficient practices like slavery would be made legal
and many lives accross the galaxy would turn for the worst because of it. Many worlds would
prosper more than ever at the expense of others forming an autocratic hierarchy throughout
the galaxy. When it comes to the former peacekeepers of
the Republic, many Jedi would go into hiding, many would fight back to the bitter end and
some would give in and let Separatist rule take over.
With the Galaxy under Separatist control, there would be some good in the form of the
better representation and fairer taxes of the outer rim worlds as I mentioned earlier
but many problems come with a purely business oriented government and in less than a year,
the Separatist governing method would begin to show some cracks.
Like I said, many worlds would suffer for the sake of others prosperity and this is
where the first problems would arise. Just like how many outer rim worlds united to form
the Speratist movement to combat the Republic in the first place, many suffering worlds
would unite to fight for the rights of their people against the massive corporate entities
that dominated the Separatist government. Since these planets would be very poor, their
uprising would be far less funded and organised but this wouldn’t affect them. They wouldn't
be interested in toppling the Separatists as a whole, they would only be trying to push
their oppressors off their homeworlds. With lots of hard working freedom fighters many
of these movements would succeed. This would cause many members of the Separatist council
to push for military aid in recapturing their valuable assets. Thousands of droids would
be sent to silence these freedom fighters but these brutal acts of cruelty across the
galaxy would be the final straw for many worlds. One by one worlds from extremely varying levels
of prosperity would renounce Seperatsist rule and either shut down or take control of the
droids on their planet. Civil war would breakout across the galaxy with more and more planets
breaking away from the Separatist’s rule and forming many independently governed factions.
Dooku was losing control and there was nothing he could do.
With more and more planets jumping on the bandwagon of forming independent factions
the Separatist government would grow weaker every day. The Separatists would begin to
try retaking control through force and many factions would begin declaring war on eachother
sparking galaxy wide conflict once again. The Separatist’s effort to regain control
through force would fail, causing many of the council members who were just in it for
personal gain to leave and join or start their own independent faction. All that were left
in the Separatist movement were Dooku and those who believed they could make the galaxy
a better place. (Chapter 5: The Reborn Separatist Movement)
Although it may look like the Separatist movement would be on its final leg, the filtering out
of it’s selfish and business oriented council members would be one of the best things that
could ever happen. You see Dooku wasn’t actually a terrible person. Dooku left the
Jedi Order because he rightfully saw that there were many problems with it that he couldn’t
stand by anymore. Almost all of the horrible things he did were just orders from Palpatine
that he could not disobey under any circumstance. I think that on his own he would actually
be a pretty good leader with his only flaws being that he would be willing to use drastic
measures to get what he thought was right. This is why I think he was willing to side
with Palpatine originally and why he would turn a blind eye towards the wrongdoings of
his own Separatist council members. Now that he and the Sepratist council were all about
the greater good of the galaxy they could get to work in an effective manner. They would
begin prioritizing the well being of their citizens on the few planets they had left
and after many months word of peaceful life under Separatist rule would spread to many
of the war torn worlds of the galaxy. Once they had control of their own planets they
began eyeing up their neighbors. They would first try to sell their government to the
other worlds which would actually work since most of the planets in the galaxy would be
in dire shape from constant war. The Separatists would begin to grow again which would catch
the eye of many who didn’t like what they were seeing. War would begin to reach the
Separatists. The Separatist would fare quite well against attackers since their united
forces would outnumber any independent faction. Although, this would change when the factions
began working together to take down a common enemy. Things began to start looking dire
until an unlikely ally came to the aid of the Separatists.
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the story. This will definitely be a shock to a lot of
you but I think that the Jedi would come to aid in the Separatist’s war effort at this
point. Since in this scenario order 66 didn’t happen, most of the thousands of Jedi would
still be alive and the order would be more or less intact. Just in hiding. Aiding Dooku
wouldn’t be unanimously agreed upon but Yoda and many other council members would
see the change in the Separatist’s morals and decide that they were a government they
could agree with. The Jedi Council would make contact with Dooku to discuss them joining
their war efforts. Dooku would be extremely happy to see his old comrades come fight with
him so he would agree extremely quickly. With the Jedi now fighting beside the Separatists
not only would they be far more effective in battle, but seeing the peacekeepers of
the galaxy join the Separatists would be enough to sway the opinions of many planets. The
Separatists would begin to start making larger and larger strides towards galactic peace.
The morale of the opposing planets would begin to dwindle and soon the final planet would
give in. The Separatists would begin spreading their ideals of doing everything for the greater
good of all to their new planets and enforcing new fair laws for all. These new Separatists
would be the perfect mix of idealism from the Republic and fair governing and taxing
from the Separatists. The official Jedi order would be reformed and many of Dooku’s criticisms
would be taken into consideration to fix the many problems with the Jedi order from before.
Dooku would make Coruscant the new capital of the Separatist government and step down
from leadership to allow the galaxy to democratically select their new leader. Dooku’s new government
would be so well regarded that he would immediately be voted back into leadership. Dooku would
lead the galaxy for a few years until he would step down for real. The galaxy would enter
a new state of peace that would last many years to come. The Separatist government would
be the most fair the galaxy had seen in a long time. Although it took a lot to get there,
it was all worth it in the end. So that’s what I think would happen if the
Separatists won the Clone Wars. In conclusion I believe that despite the Separatist government
being quite corrupt their morals were pretty honourable so after a very brutal transitioning
phase I think they would form a government even better than the Republic. As Ki Adi Mundi
said about Count Dooku. “He is a political idealist, not a murderer.” I know I’ll
probably get debated in the comments about this but I think that almost all of Dooku’s
evil traits came from Palpatine so removing him from the picture would make Dooku seek
much more honourable and righteous causes. But that’s just me, what do you think would
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