SomethingStarWarsRelated said:

OK, so I'm still thinking about AOTC and here's my question:

What do the seperatists want?!! Dooku says: "The republic will agree to any demands we make." Are they just gonna sit around and come up with random demands? "I demand that...um...Palpatine...should...dance a jig on top of the Senate building...holding...a...duck!"

That was my attempt at some humor. I'm sorry.

But seriously, I'm trying to make Dooku a rogue Jedi here and I need to be able to explain his (and the seperatists) motivations. Maybe we could add a line or two by Nute in the meeting Obi-wan overhears...we've already talked about redubbing him anyway.

Thoughts?

I think I brought up some ideas for this earlier in the thread.

It would have to be addressed in Episode 1, though. Basically the retitled "Galactic Federation" (replacing anything to do with trade or taxation) separatist army seeks to dominate the galaxy just as the Empire seeks to do in the original. Why? Well, why does the Empire seek to dominate the galaxy? Exactly - it's not important. They're the badguys and they want to rule the galaxy. If it was good enough for the original trilogy, it's certainly good enough for the prequels.

Oh, and by the time TPM opens the opening crawl would reveal that the Republic is already in conflict with them - but that things have only gotten worse now that they've invaded Naboo Alderaan. If Dooku is a rogue Jedi, it could simply be that he believes a galaxy under the control of the Galactic Federation would ultimately suffer less than a galaxy under the control of the Sith - which is convenient, because he seems pretty sincere in his appeal for Obi-Wan to join him. Perhaps Dooku made a deal with the devil and simply joined this coalition of warlords, hoping to limit their tyranny whilst also fighting the Sith?