Thank you for your comments Mrebo. Could you expand on how you feel the Sith are overdone? I am wary of keeping scenes or characters just because they are cool. For example one of the few things i did like in the P.T. was Vaders birth/construction scene, but it will have to go in order to preserve his identity.

I was also toying with the idea of Bounty Hunters being a symptom of decay in an increasingly lawless universe, hence more Boba Fett! But alas no, this creates too many problems.

My main difficulty with Maul so far is maintaining his mystique by keeping him almost monosyllabic.

I've always liked the idea of Sith Lords pitting there current apprentices against younger rivals. Anakin kills Maul in an epic duel in the presence of Palpatine completing his turn to the dark side.

This will give greater depth to Lukes temptation in R.O.T.J. Luke makes the opposite choice to his father but Vader also knows exactly what Palpatine is up to and so has more motivation to kill him and save his son and at last his own soul.

I need Maul as the Dark face of evil, dealing with and commanding the Seperatists/Trade Federation as I want to keep Palpatine's true intentions secret for as long as possible for the benefit of those new to the saga. Dooku is too old to be anyones apprentice. As cool as Christopher Lee is we don't want to share our main villain The Lord of The Rings and Hammer Horror as well. Qui-Gon has been removed for similar reasons.

Anakin is the only one who deals with Palpatine for most of the series, as soon as Obi-Wan encounters him he knows exactly who and what he is and later confronts Anakin about not telling him. By then it will be too late of course!

Any ideas on how to do multiple clone wars? Just two would be enough.