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We don't know that at all. Not to mention Grand Moff Tarkin was a major ANH bad guy and we learn NOTHING about him. Seems like your have a slight double standard on this, in my opinion.
Tarkin is completely different because he was so straightforward. He was an evil imperial officer, thats all we needed to know:
Dooku is:
-a former Jedi master who left the order (why we don't know)
-He became a Count (of what we are not told, how or why are also a mystery)
-He is really a sith working for sidious (since when we are not sure, and whether he knows Sidious is Palpatine remains a mystery)
-He was qui-gon's master, but for some reason had never met Obi-wan (which makes zero sense given that they all live in the jedi temple)
-He was Yoda's padawan, but this is only mentioned in the eleventh hour of AOTC and nothing really comes of it
-He's older then Sidious (well at least CL is older then IM, which sort of seems out of place with the whole master/apprentice thing)
And he's introduced in the last third of AOTC where he fails to really make a decisive impression, with his...
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...death in the first 25min of Ep3...
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it seems unlikely we will learn anything more about him.
I have no problem with Dooku not being in the SW series for very long, but he should not have had such a complicated offscreen origin if that was the case.