I thought that Anakin was going to about Luke's age in episode 4 in the episode I though. He would be a starfighter pilot for the republic. When the clone wars errupted Jedi Knights being the guardians of peace would help defend the Republic. During one fateful mission Obi-Wan Kenobi meets a really good pilot by the name of Anakin Skywalker. Obi-Wan recognizes the force potential in Anakin and begins training him through the war.
Anakin soaks up the training like a sponge. Obi-Wan is amazed at how quickly that Anakin is learning and yet is wary of his desire to learn. The good friend and pilot that Obi-Wan once knew becomes obsessed with learning about the Force. Feeling that Obi-Wan is keeping the true secrets of the force from him, Anakin goes in search (this is of course, after the clone wars have come to an end) of those supposed secrets.
Eventually he meets the Emperor. He wouldn't have been the emperor at that time, but I didn't think that he would have met the politician first. He would meet the the pre-emperor/darth sidious, and then learn of his true identity. After palp. seduces Anakin with the allure of the dark side, he reveals his true plan for the republic. Anakin is addicted to the power palp. has given him and cannot defy him.
Working basically as an assasin for Palp. he starts taking out Jedi and political figures. Obi-Wan and others begin to figure this out and eventually Obi-Wan tracks Anakin down. They have their tragic duel and the rest is history.
I didn't think about how Anakin would meet the mother of his children, or the political intricacies, but that was my basic plot summary. When the first two books of the Jedi Academy trilogy came out, I really got into the character of Kyp Durron. He was how I had imagined Anakin Skywalker was in the prequels. Even some of the circumstances were eerily similar.
What do you all think?