Why did Dooku follow Palpatine?

The reason Dooku joined the Separatists, he said, was that he learned a terrible truth: a Sith Lord called Darth Sidious controlled the Senate. With Obi-Wan at his side, they could destroy the Sith. In his bid to escape, Dooku rode a speeder to a nearby hangar but was followed by Obi-Wan and Anakin.

Did Count Dooku and Palpatine work together?

Darth Sidious and Count Dooku were always together. Sidious was the one pulling the strings behind the seperatist movement. The fear of the separatist movement led the republic to elect Palpatine as the Supreme Chancellor of the Republic. Hence Dooku had to play the part of the seperatist.

Did Palpatine and Count Dooku know each other was Sidious?

In the Star Wars prequel trilogy, Senator/Chancellor Palpatine rarely drops his act; when the villain is plotting with others he’s always in his Sidious guise, so it’s hard to definitively pin down which characters were aware of both personas. One of the most intriguing ‘did they know?’ examples is Christopher Lee’s Count Dooku.

How did Palpatine get the Galactic Empire?

In “Attack of the Clones”, Palpatine used the breakout of the civil war to force the Senate to give him extra-powers (eventually leading to the formation of the Galactic Empire). Without an ongoing war, he would have not been suitable to obtain such powers;

Did they know Count Dooku was a Sith?

One of the most intriguing ‘did they know?’ examples is Christopher Lee’s Count Dooku. Known by the Sith title of Darth Tyrannus, the villain acts as the Separatist leader in Attack of the Clones and is instrumental in provoking the Clone Wars at the behest of Sidious.

Is Palpatine the Master of Darth Sidious?

Hundreds of Senators are now under the influence of a Sith Lord called Darth Sidious. This is further confirmed directly in the Revenge of the Sith(ROTS) novelization by Matthew Stover, when it clearly shows (as a surprise to a reader) that Dooku’s Master, Darth Sidious, is none other than Supreme Chancellor of the Republic, Palpatine: