Vad var Dookus plan för slaget vid Coruscant?

Nedan finns utdrag från romanen. Dooku ser fram emot fångenskap och tjänar i det nya riket:

"It will be," he said slowly, meditatively, as though he spoke only to himself, "an embarrassment to be captured by him." The voice that answered him was so familiar that sometimes his very thoughts spoke in it, instead of in his own. "An embarrassment you can survive, Lord Tyranus. After all, he is the greatest Jedi alive, is he not? And have we not ensured that all the galaxy shares this opinion?" "Quite so, my Master. Quite so." Again, Dooku sighed. Today he felt every hour of his eighty-three years. "It is ... fatiguing, to play the villain for so long, Master. I find myself looking forward to an honorable captivity."

A captivity that would allow him to sit out the rest of the war in comfort; a captivity that would allow him to forswear his former allegiances-when he would conveniently appear to finally discover the true extent of the Separatists' crimes against civilization-and bind himself to the new government with his reputation for integrity and idealism fully intact. The new government ... This had been their star of destiny for lo, these many years. A government clean, pure, direct: none of the messy scramble for the favor of ignorant rabble and subhuman creatures that made up the Republic he so despised. The government he would serve would be Authority personified. Human authority. It was no accident that the primary powers of the Confederacy of Independent Systems were Neimoidian, Skakoan, Quarren and Aqualish, Muun and Gossam, Sy Myrthian and Koorivar and Geonosian. At war's end the aliens would be crushed, stripped of all they possessed, and their systems and their wealth would be given into the hands of the only beings who could be trusted with them. Human beings. Dooku would serve an Empire of Man. And he would serve it as only he could. As he was born to. He would smash the Jedi Order to create it anew: not shackled by the corrupt, narcissistic, shabby little beings who called themselves politicians, but free to bring true authority and true peace to a galaxy that so badly needed both. An Order that would not negotiate. Would not mediate. An Order that would enforce. The survivors of the Jedi Order would become the Sith Army. The Fist of the Empire.

Sidious förklarar planen att döda Obi-Wan till Dooku:

"Kenobi must die. Today. At your hand. His death may be the code key of the final lock that will seal Skywalker to us forever."

Dooku understood: not only would the death of his mentor tip Skywalker's already unstable emotional balance down the darkest of slopes, but it would also remove the greatest obstacle to Skywalker's successful conversion. As long as Kenobi was alive, Skywalker would never be securely in the camp of the Sith; Kenobi's unshakable faith in the values of the Jedi would keep the Jedi blindfold on Skywalker's eyes and the Jedi shackles on the young man's true power.

Still, though, Dooku had some reservations. This had all come about too quickly; had Sidious thought through all the implications of this operation? "But I must ask, my Master: is Skywalker truly the man we want?"

"He is powerful. Potentially more powerful than even myself."

"Which is precisely," Dooku said meditatively, "why it might be best if I were to kill him, instead."

Dooku ser planen som en väg till Sith Masterhood:

Improving upon his Master's plan was near to impossible; his own idea, of substituting Kenobi for Skywalker, he had to admit was only the product of a certain misplaced sentimentality. Skywalker was almost certainly the man for the job. He should be; Darth Sidious had spent a considerable number of years making him so. Today's test would remove the almost. He had no doubt that Skywalker would fall. Dooku understood that this was more than a test for Skywalker; though Sidious had never said so directly, Dooku was certain that he himself was being tested as well. Success today would show his Master that he was worthy of the mantle of Mastery himself: by the end of the coming battle, he would have initiated Skywalker into the manifold glories of the dark side, just as Sidious had initiated him.

Mer av planen med Anakin och förstörelsen av Jedi Order:

With his heroic capture of Count Dooku, Anakin Skywalker will become the ultimate hero: the greatest hero in the history of he Republic, perhaps of the Jedi Order itself. The loss of his beloved partner will add just exactly the correct spice of tragedy to give melancholy weight to his every word, when he gives his HoloNet interviews denouncing the Senate's corruption as impeding the war effort, when he delicately-oh, so delicately, not to mention reluctantly-insinuates that corruption in the Jedi Order prolonged the war as well. When he announces the creation of a new order of Force-using warriors. He will be the perfect commanding general for the Sith Army.

Dooku could only shake his head in awe. And to think that only days earlier, the Jedi had seemed so close to uncovering, even destroying, all he and his Master had worked for. But he should never have feared. His Master never lost. He would never lose. He was the definition of unbeatable. How can one defeat an enemy one thinks is a friend? And now, with a single brilliant stroke, his Master would turn the Jedi Order back upon itself like an Ethrani ourobouros devouring its own tail. This was the day. The hour. The death of Obi-Wan Kenobi would be the death of the Republic. Today would see the birth of the Empire.

"Tyranus? Are you well?"

"Am I . . ." Dooku realized that his eyes had misted. "Yes, my Master. I am beyond well. Today, the climax-the grand finale the culmination of all your decades of work ... I find myself somewhat overcome."

"Compose yourself, Tyranus. Kenobi and Skywalker are nearly at the door. Play your part, my apprentice, and the galaxy is ours."

Enligt Wookipedia-artikeln om Dooku och Sidious , planen var att locka Anakin till den mörka sidan, men han var omedveten om att han skulle förlora sitt liv i processen.

Sidious's plan, as Tyranus understood it, was that the Count would kill Kenobi, provoking Skywalker into enough of a rage that the Jedi would tap into the dark side. At this point, Sidious would reveal himself to Skywalker, promptly converting him to the Sith cause. Dooku would then be "arrested," and defect to the Republic in captivity, re-emerging to aid Sidious in establishing a Sith Empire.

När det gäller sin egen plan, ser det ut som om Dooku fortfarande hade synpunkter på Obi-Wan, det faktum att han sparar sitt liv (om avsiktligt) kan vara en del av det.

Speaking to Sidious, Darth Tyranus requested that Kenobi be given one more chance to turn to the dark side, citing that a Jedi of Kenobi's integrity would lend support to the planned New Order. Sidious disagreed, claiming that Kenobi was too indoctrinated by the Jedi to turn, and he insisted Tyranus kill the Jedi Master.

För en eller annan anledning trodde han antagligen att Obi-Wan var en bättre Jedi än Anakin. Hans plan kan ha varit något liknande, olycka Obi-Wan, döda Anakin och använda Obi-Wans raseri för att omvandla honom till Dark-Side och eliminera Sidius med hans hjälp.

Men allt detta förblir okänt, den oväntade förräderiet av hans herre gjorde föråldrade planer som han kanske har förberett.

Expecting his Master to intervene and save his life as Sidious had promised to do in the case of defeat, Tyranus instead was shocked to see the Dark Lord goad Skywalker to deliver the deathblow, and it was then that Dooku came to realize the second deception: Sidious never intended for the Count to survive; he was simply being used to create the Confederacy and make Sidious' plan truly possible.

Jag kan se ett par möjligheter själv. Att vara en Sith kunde mycket väl ha varit Dookus plan att ta sin herres plats och försöka att göra ObiWan eller Anakin till hans lärling. Det skulle inte vara första gången han hade försökt slå ObiWan. Han kände också sin herres intresse för Anakin och kunde också se Anakin som ett hot och se det som ett idealiskt tillfälle att döda Anakin utan att det skulle se ut som att han gick ut ur hans sätt att göra det och riskera sin mästares vrede.

Han kanske också bara ser det som en chans att eliminera två av de starkaste Jedi i ordern. Att veta hur nära Anakin var till kanslaren och att också veta att Anakin och ObiWan hade utvecklat ett rykte för att ta på sig sådana typer av uppdrag, de var de mest sannolika kandidaterna för att göra ett räddningsuppdrag.

Dooku trodde troligen att hans herre skulle hjälpa honom att avsluta Jedi eller att han skulle kunna döda dem själv.

Även min gissning skulle vara att Palpatine hade någon form av kontroll över Dooku, för i den ursprungliga trilogin gör han samma sak för Vader att försöka rekrytera Luke.

Jag skulle gissa att Dooku var medveten om Order 66 och planerade att det skulle åberopas och fånga jedi omedvetna. Han antog antagligen att Anakin skulle stanna på Jedi-sidan och vägra att döda en obearbetad fångenskap som ber om barmhärtighet. Den Anakin skulle då vända på kejsaren och fångas av vakterna som försöker döda Republikens rättmätiga ledare. Det skulle motivera ordning 66. Han kanske har hoppats att Anakin faktiskt skulle döda Sideous så att Dooku kunde ta sin plats.

Dooku var då Palpatines lärling, som handlade under hans order. Nästan allt som du ser i Episode II hände enligt Palpatines design genom Dooku; Dooku var en uppenbar ledare för separatisterna, och en av drivkrafterna bakom inbördeskriget, som Palpatine hade planerat för att få makt i Republiken.

Min tolkning av händelserna från OP är således: Dooku visste att Jedi skulle göra allt försök att komma till honom för att rädda kansler Palpatine (som hade "kidnappats" av separatisterna under striden) och skulle sannolikt skicka deras bästa par Obi-Wan och Anakin. Hans misstag trodde först att han kunde slå dem två igen, som han hade gjort innan Yoda gick in i Ep II och för det andra att tro att, om han skulle förlora och fångas, skulle Palpatine skydda honom, den betrodda lärlingen.

Dookus tänkande var ett misstag eftersom det inte är den mörka sidan och aldrig har varit; Palpatine dödade sin egen mästare (en hemlärds hemliga ambition när de inser att de inte kan vara lika med sin herre medan mästaren lever) och offrade flera lärlingar till sina mönster (det var så småningom hans odöd i RotJ). Palpatine handlade helt enkelt upp; han hade uppfattat rädslan och stoltheten i Anakin (tillsammans med sin exceptionella kraft) och hade bestämt sig för att locka honom till den mörka sidan; Att ha två lärlingar är både överflödig och farlig när du vet att de båda vill döda dig och kanske bara bestämmer sig för att gå ihop kort för att göra det.