What if Thrawn and Dooku met?

What if Thrawn was around during the TCW and joined the CIS Navy? Would Dooku come to like Thrawn as an equal mind?

Oh absolutely. Frankly, I think a meeting between Dooku and Thrawn(ideally written by Zahn, Stover, or Luceno) could produce some of the single most intellectual dialogue in the mythos.

The only potential problem is that Thrawn would almost certainly find out about Dooku's relationship with Sidious... And once he deduced that Dooku was little more than a puppet(and perhaps that the Clone Wars itself was essentially just a red herring to hide larger machinations), Thrawn might opt to rethink his path as it were, and rejoin his people...

mmm

What's the deal with Thrawn recently?

So who would be more valuable to Dooku- Thrawn or Grievous?

I think these two would be two peas in a pod. Two of the most arrogant characters in Star Wars, and two of the coolest.

Originally posted by Mendax
So who would be more valuable to Dooku- Thrawn or Grievous?

Let's see:
Dooku mastered the art of lightsaber after years of intense discipline and training. I'm sure he didn't exactly consider Grievous a true duelist after outfitting him with a bunch of fancy cybernetics and a crash course in saber fighting so he could wave around his arms without any finesse.

Also, I can't find it myself, but it's said in both Labyrinth of Evil and Stover's Revenge of the Sith that Dooku loathed Grievous.

The hate isn't quite as intense in canon, but we know that in TCW Dooku was disappointed with Grievous's shoddy performance against the jedi and tested him by letting Fisto into his lair.

In legends, Dooku is a bit of a specist, so idk how that might play into his relationship with Thrawn. TBF though, Palpatine was also one, but I don't think he really let it become a factor with those as talented as Thrawn.

What if Thrawn met Spock?

I think Thrawn and Dooku would have a far more interesting dynamic as adversaries then as allies. As allies they would essentially just be sitting around sipping tea and jerking each other off intellectually. But as enemies, you could have a Most Dangerous Game scenario, with them hunting one another while simultaneously having philosophical verbal judo.

Dooku would be jealous of Thrawn

What if Thrawn never existed?

Originally posted by Kurk
The hate isn't quite as intense in canon, but we know that in TCW Dooku was disappointed with Grievous's shoddy performance against the jedi and tested him by letting Fisto into his lair.

Originally posted by Freedon Nadd
What if Thrawn never existed?

...Yes, Thrawn was that important to the Empire's survival and First Order's rise. 🙂

So, Palpatine is the Senate and Thrawn is the Empire. I see that now.

Originally posted by Galan007
[BThen Palpatine would've never had help mapping Hyperspace routes into the Unknown Regions. This means the Empire would've had nowhere to run/hide following the events of Aftermath, and would have been completely wiped out by the Rebellion/New Republic. This subsequently means the First Order itself wouldn't have had any Imperial foundations/remnants from which to rise in the Unknown Regions.[/B]

Originally posted by Mendax
I thought Snoke saved the Empire?

It was Thrawn's knowledge, however, that gave the Empire a proverbial escape route into the Unknown Regions in the first place:

For decades, these computers have been plotting a journey. Outside the known galaxy is an unexplored infinity, Palpatine explained, one closed off by a labyrinth of solar storms, rogue magnetospheres, black holes, gravity wells, and things far stranger. Any who tried to conquer that maze did not survive. The ships were obliterated, or returned to the galaxy devoid of travelers. Communications from those explorers were incomprehensible, either shot through with such static as to make the content useless, or filled with enough inane babble to serve as a perfectly clear sign that the explorer had gone utterly mad out there in isolation. But Palpatine had one in the navy who knew something of the Unknown Regions: Admiral Thrawn, an alien with ice-blue skin who came from beyond the borders of the known galaxy. Palpatine only kept that one around because of what he knew of traversing those deadly interstices. Much of what Thrawn knew went into the computations of this machine [...] Before Palpatine's demise at the hands of the Rebels, the computers finished their calculations, finally finding a way through the unknown.

-Aftermath: Empire's End

Without that knowledge, the Empire would have either been: a.) swiftly destroyed if they had blindly fled into the Unknown Regions and tried to navigate through it unaided, or b.) swiftly destroyed by the Rebellion/New Republic if they had stayed within galactic borders. In both scenarios, the First Order(if it formed at all) wouldn't have had any Imperial foundations from which to rise.

So as mentioned: Thrawn was ultimately detrimental to the Empire's survival and First Order's rise.

I hate to say it. But the Disney's SW writing is better than the EU's.

Originally posted by Galan007
Snoke saved the Imperial remnants once they were already in the Unknown Regions.

It was Thrawn's knowledge, however, that gave the Empire a proverbial escape route into the Unknown Regions in the first place:

Without that knowledge, the Empire would have either been: a.) swiftly destroyed if they had blindly fled into the Unknown Regions and tried to navigate through it unaided, or b.) swiftly destroyed by the Rebellion/New Republic if they had stayed within galactic borders. In both scenarios, the First Order(if it formed at all) wouldn't have had any Imperial foundations from which to rise.

So as mentioned: Thrawn was ultimately detrimental to the Empire's survival and First Order's rise.

So is it fair to say those "computers" mentioned in that text held all of Thrawns knowledge about the UR?

Originally posted by Freedon Nadd
I hate to say it. But the Disney's SW writing is better than the EU's.

Disney's writing is more consistent, but I think it's far more bland than the EU. And it relies so much on safer ideas, most of which WERE in the EU. I think it's cheap. We had an opportunity for something new.