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BruceWayneJr posted...

Or Sidious would scoop him up and train him in secret.

This, probably.

Palpatine did take an interest in Anakin once he heard that he'd single-handedly destroyed that Trade Fed warship. You can see that interest at the closing minutes of TPM, he tells him something like 'we should expect great things from you' or something.

If Anakin got rejected like that, his soul would be crushed. And Obi-wan is too much of a goody-goody to go against the Council and train him regardless. A dejected, disappointed, possibly angry Anakin would be the perfect kind of apprentice a Sith Lord would swoop in and take under his tutelage. Sidious would possibly intervene before Anakin was even sent back to Tatooine, simulating mock outrage that a boy is about to be sent back to slavery and that as Supreme Chancellor he could not possibly allow that.

After that it gets iffy. Possibly Anakin would be hidden in plain sight like Palpatine was, maybe as his errand boy, growing up to become one of the Chancellor's most trusted political aides. He'd be trained well in hiding his Dark side of the Force from the outside, so the Jedi would still think nothing of him, merely believing his continued presence on Coruscant as an act of charity from Palps. Since his identity is hidden, the subplot of Anakin approaching Padme with romance in mind could proceed as well 10 years later. Padme might possibly have doubts about Anakin since he's been influenced by the Sith for a long time by then, but she never really suspected Palpatine as more than an ambitious, power-hungry politician to the end, it's likely she won't see more from Dark!Anakin either. Possibly Palpatine would pick up Dooku as a placeholder apprentice since he might be required to spark off the Clone Wars, but only as a placeholder, nothing more. Though he'd live longer since he won't have a fatal confrontation against Anakin until the latter was fully trained and prepared, whereupon Dooku would probably be easily cut down from an unexpected attack.

The elimination of the Jedi is a more tricky issue. Without Jedi!Anakin to reveal Palpatine's identity to Windu, it's doubtful that the Jedi would attempt a pre-emptive strike first on their side, which means Palpatine would have no valid pretext to execute Order 66 in the first place. Most likely Palpatine would have tried to stretch the Clone Wars on as long as possible to thin the ranks of the Jedi, which were already quite depleted at the start of the PT in the first place(only a mere ten thousand in the entire galaxy, IIRC). Which would mean the eventual extinction of the Jedi and the formation of the Galactic Empire would take much, much longer than the sudden denouement that occurred canon-wise in RotS.

Extrapolating further from this point into the OT and beyond is difficult since there's now possibly many years of difference with canon lore, plus there are many possibilities as to how the Anakin-Padme subplot might proceed. There would possibly be a Rebellion, sure. But with the possibility of having no Luke nor Leia to aid them(and consequently no Han/Chewie either, likely), the first Death Star might just blast them to bits in the new ANH. The End.
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