What If: The C.I.S won the Clone Wars/Dooku killed Anakin & Kenobi

The year is 19 BBY. High above Coruscant, Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker furiously duels Count Dooku, as Palpatine looks on. As the duel continues, Dooku eggs Anakin on, driving the young Jedi into a furious, overwhelming rage. His blows grow stronger. His Force powers heighten. His offensive grows faster. His blade-work grows...sloppy. Completely unbalanced by his rage, Anakin fails to meet the Counts attack properly. Taking advantage, Dooku runs the young man through, ending the life of the Hero with no fear. But how did events get to this point? Why didn't Anakin overcome the Count, as in canon? How else does this scenario differ? Lets see, shall we?

Three years earlier, Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala are captured on Geonosis while attempting to rescue Jedi Master Obi-wan Kenobi. The three are sentenced to public execution in a gladiator arena, all the three of them manage to survive the onslaught of the deadly arena beasts. However, as Padme is felled by a Destroy Droid (Much to Nute Gunray's delight) and the Jedi barely manage to survive the attacks of Jango Fett, Dooku realizes that his Masters plan has gone wrong: The Jedi have not shown up to rescue there own. Eventually, after the Jedi manage to subdue Jango and kill another wave of attackers, Dooku calls off the ceremony, keeping Master and Apprentice captive. Soon, the Count discovers the reason for the lack of rescue attempts: the Republic has officially declared war on the Separatist movement, using the Clone army as expected, but the Jedi have denounced the movement and refused to get involved: They will not serve as the Republics generals. Disappointed by the Orders decision, Palpatine is forced to hastily change his plans: Instead of manipulating the war from behind the scenes, slowly eroding the Jedi's morals and the Republic, he will instead have the Separatists win the war, forming a new Order out of whats left of the Galaxy after the war. Despite his confidence in his new plan, Palpatine is more than a little worried when Dooku takes to the new idea with much more enthusiasm than the Sith master would like. For Dooku's part, the Count immediately sends the droid army at the Republic in full force and, without there Jedi generals (Who have withdrawn to Tython to even further limit there involvement in the war) the Republic is quickly pushed onto its back foot. Meanwhile, Dooku finally manages to convince Kenobi to join his cause, although Anakin (Furious at the death of Padme) denounces both his Count and his Master and eventually escapes, joining the Republic military against the Jedi's wishes. For three long years, the Republic struggles to mount anything but a last ditch defense, until Dooku brings them to there knees: He allows DR. Nuvo Vindi to create a deadly new virus that only affects clones, almost completely wiping out the Republics army. With the entire C.I.S navy quickly approaching through Hyperspace, the panicked citizens on Coruscant are shocked at who arrives first: the Jedi. Remorseful at the countless lives loosed due to there inaction, the entire Jedi Order is finally throwing there lot in with the Republic, to defend the galactic capital. Also among there number is Obi-wan Kenobi: remorseful for his actions under Dooku, Kenobi arrives to warn the other Jedi of the sheer size of the approaching droid army and fleet, as well as to patch things up with Anakin. Less than an hour later, the droids arrive and the final battle of the Clone Wars begins. Rallying, the Jedi fight valiantly, despite being outnumbered a thousand to one. Although they sustain many casualties, the Jedi and whats left of the Republic's non-clone military manage to defend Coruscant for over twenty-four hours straight, cutting down wave after wave of attackers, albeit with heavy casualties. Unwilling to bombard the planets surface (Wanting to capture, not destroy, the capital world) Dooku instead turns to another strategy: he publicly unveils Palpatine as a Sith lord over the Holonet. Although Sidious is furious at Dooku's actions, the act still has the desired affect: All across the planets surfaces Jedi un-ignite there weapons, crestfallen at how much effort they put into defending there Orders worst enemy. Dooku has succeeded where hundreds of Sith have previously failed. Dooku has broken the will of the Jedi Order. The Count calmly allows the surviving Jedi to pass the Separatist blockade, while the Republic officially surrenders and Palpatine arrives aboard the Separatist flagship to congratulate Dooku on his success. However, not all the Jedi are willing to give up so easy: Anakin, seeking revenge, and Kenobi, seeking redemption, unite for one final mission: The two Jedi board the ship and confront Dooku and Palpatine, with the intention of ending the Sith threat. Permanently. Unfortunately, both Anakin and Kenobi have spent over a day fighting and are far to exhausted to defeat the Count. At one point, both Jedi could be sure they would survive the fight, as Palpatine wanted Anakin to survive, while Dooku would be unwilling to kill Kenobi. This time However, Dooku has other plans. When he is thrown into the wall, Kenobi's neck is snapped by the impact killing him. As detailed above, Dooku unbalances and slays Anakin as well. Palpatine is once again furious at the Count for disobeying his order and prepares to kill the erstwhile apprentice. Unfortunately for the Dark Lord, Dooku manages to make a hasty exit from the Generals quarters, before sealing off the room. As Palpatine rants at him, Dooku calmly denounces the entire Sith Order and explains his plans: With the Confederacy in command of the galaxy, he will finally be able to rebuild society according to his vision. And Dooku's vision has no room for Sith. Palpatine becomes weightless as the quarters depressurize and he is blow out into space. For a brief moment The Sith lord believes he will be able to use his powers to survive the vacuum, seconds before he is disintegrated by a Turbolaser blast. Dooku doesn't take chances.

With all possible threats finally destroyed, Dooku can finally begin shaping the Galactic society according to his will. The Confederacy takes up shop on Coruscant, establishing total rule over the entire Galaxy. The only exception is Hutt space, and that doesn't last long, as Dooku orders his forces to invade and capture it: Half a decade later they succeed and the Confederacy's rule if finally complete. On a smaller scale, Dooku allows trade to rapidly expand without restriction from the likes of the Trade Federation: Soon, Galactic citizens experience an amount of wealth and way of life unprecedentedly good...if you are a Human. Dooku may have been the leader of the Confederacy but his personal ideals and philosophy were much closer to that of the Empire. Especially his policy on race. Practically every high ranking Non-human is executed and discrimination rises like a tidal wave across the board. As time goes on, the Confederacy becomes more and more constricting, combining Dooku's ideal of total government control and the supposed freedom of his movement. On a personal level, Shortly after the battle of Coruscant when Grievous discovers a young Force sensitive Pau'an orphan, Dooku finally executes the general (Obstinately to keep the boys existence a secret) and begins training the Pau'an as his apprentice, despite Dooku claiming to no longer follow the ways of the Sith, or tolerate non-Humans for that matter. About this same time, Dooku uses his position of power to force whats left of the Jedi, as well as the Nightsisters, Baron Do and many other Force sensitive groups, to come directly under his personal command, forming a "New" Jedi Order. For the next ten years or so, Dooku's wonderful vision continues to expand, forcing countless world to his "benevolent" control. However, Dooku miscalculated when it came to his own servant, as most Dark Siders (And dictators for that matter) do. The Count is eventually killed by the young Dark Sider, who seizes power for himself and once again embraces the way of the Sith, Dubbing himself Darth Ural and taking a young woman known as Mara Jade as his Apprentice. Under Ural's command, the Confederacy begins to falter: Its relentless expansion stalls, its "senate" becomes controlled by bribery and black mail, the Jedi and Hutts gain a degree of freedom and so on. Even with a Pau'an now secretly pulling the strings of government, the pro Human stance remains, many alien species being persecuted into extinction. Ultimately, without Dooku to guide it into a gloriously imperialistic state, the government he established becomes exactly what the Count despised: decadent and corrupt, secretly controlled by the Sith. However, one must wonder what would happen in, say, twenty years, when this faltering, xenophobic government (That just happens to prefer the use of a droid army) is discovered by the Yuuzhan Vong. What indeed.