Palpatine has only one goal in the entire film: start the Clone Wars. Palpatine only needed Dooku until Anakin was old enough to be turned to the dark side. Too bad for him that his fate was already sealed once he became the apprentice of Sidious. The death of his apprentice, combined with a lack of faith in the Jedi Order and the ongoing corruption in the Senate convinced Dooku to join the dark side.ĭooku has every intention of ruling the galaxy with an iron fist along his master. Tyranus was once a Jedi, none other than the master of Qui-Gon Jinn. While the deeper implications of how the Sith Grand Plan is enacted are talked about in Star Wars: Darth Plagueis, we know that Sidious has taken at this point a new apprentice, Count Dooku, or known now as the Sith Lord Darth Tyranus. Palpatine, now having been Chancellor of the Republic for a decade, has every intention of furthering his quest for total and unlimited power. It's drawn significantly closer to the inevitable events that will spell doom to several of our heroes.
The film takes place ten years after the events of Phantom Menace.
