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[Star Wars] What if Anakin left the order to be with Padme?

Lets say the Jedi Order found out about Anakin and Padme sooner and wouldn't allow it so he decided to leave the order and be with Padme. How will this affect things?
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Palpatine loses his primary pawn.  Depending on *when* Anakin leaves, he either continues with Dooku as his apprentice or he's forced to find and train a new one.  If he needs to find a new apprentice, he probably needs to stretch out the war.  

One way to do this is to have the Seperatists pull back and consolidate what they have gained.  General Grevious takes a back seat while Dooku orchestrates a Cold War.  This, plus some actions by "unreconstructed elements of the old way of thinking" on both sides keep hostility ticking along nicely so Palpatine keeps his position.  

However, Palpatine is forced to scramble.  He can't keep the Republic on a war footing indefinitely - neither the economy nor the people will stand it - so his new apprentice is not nearly as powerful as Darth Vader would have been.  

Once Darth Newguy is appropriately trained, Palpatine reheats the war and things proceed more or less as they would have...except...

Kenobi never goes to Tatooine.  No point.  No one to guard.  He and the remnants of the Jedi order flee and go into hiding, a mere handful of the order's best and sharpest: Obi Wan, Master Yoda, Mace Windu and a couple of others.  The Empire rises and the Death Star is built.  The Rebellion begins, until the Death Star is completed.  The events of Rogue One play out minus Vader.  

As it becomes apparent how much doo doo the Galaxy is in, Obi Wan Kenobi emerges from hiding and seeks out Anakin Skywalker.  He finds his old friend, his wife and children, living very quietly on a small estate.  Naboo has been kind to the Skywalker family, so kind that Anakin has put aside his Jedi ways entirely and dedicated himself to being a good husband and father.  Obi Wan eventually persuades him to aid the Rebellion.  

It's a desperate play.  The plans of the Death Star fell back into Imperial hands and the Rebellion doesn't have any idea of how to destroy the station.  General Kenobi leads an attempt to gain technical data on the station from inside the station itself.  To do this, he assembles a team he can trust made up of some Jedi (Mace Windu has survived, older and embittered) and the underworld figures he hid himself among while he was being hunted by the Empire.  

They successfully breach the Death Star and discover the flaw in the reactor.  On the way out, Mace confronts Palpatine's apprentice.  Darth Newguy proves to be no match for the more experienced Jedi, and is left maimed.  The escape is a close run thing, and worse still, the Death Star tracks the fleeing rebels to Yavin 4.  

The Battle of Yavin 4 is a slaughter.  The Rebels have not had time to analyse the Death Star's capabilities sufficiently and the pilots of Redf, Blue, Green and Gold squadrons are under prepared.  They do their best.  

In the end, it's Anakin Skywalker who manages to get through the enemy guns and TIE fighters.  Obi Wan, running the show from the base on Yavin 4, helps Anakin reconnect with the Force just in time to land the fateful torpedo hit and the Rebellion is saved.  

Palpatine's fury knows no bounds and his first action is to send an invasion force to Naboo.  This is a curb stomp battle that Naboo loses.  Anakin returns just in time to collect his family and flee, but by the time he finds the rebels on Hoth the Empire are on his heels.  Hoth is evacuated, barely, and the Rebel fleet heads off in search of a new home.  

Anakin's concern for his family leads him to flee back to Tatooine, but Palpatine confronts him there.  The Emperor notes that Anakin's feelings for his family have been his undoing.  He offers Anakin the chance to save his family by choosing to stand at the Emperor's side.  The alternative is that Anakin and Padme will die and Palpatine will take their children as new apprentices.  In a chilling prediction, he explains how he will turn the siblings against one another so that one will slay the other - as is Sith tradition - to become his sole heir.  

To save his family, Anakin accepts.  He becomes Darth Vader, the Emperor's right hand.  Palpatine puts him in charge of constructing the new Death Star.  

Learning of this, the Rebellion  believes it has won an intelligence victory against the Empire and begins an operation to destroy the station before it is completed.  However, this turns out to be a trap set by Vader to entice in the remaining Jedi.  The team that arrive to take the station out includes Kenobi and Windu.  Yoda, now too old and infirm to help, remains behind.  

Darth Vader springs his trap, but Obi Wan and Mace Windu suspected their progress had been too simple.  The assault on the shield generator on Endor was just a ruse to focus Vader and the Emperor's attention on one place.  A rebel team has inflitrated the location where Padme, Luke and Leia were being held.  Vader, furious and believing that Kenobi plans to use his family against him as Palpatine has, goes rogue.  It takes the combined efforts of Mace Windu and Obi Wan to sight him to a standstill.  

As the Emperor goads Vader on, Kenobi appeals to Vader as the friend and brother he once was.  Kenobi promises Vader that no matter the outcome of the fight, Anakin Skywalker's wife and children are safe.  

Something of this reaches Anakin, but he's unable to stop fighting while Palpatine lives.  He knocks Mace Windu into the air and sends the Jedi Master apparently to his doom.  Vader and Kenobi clash in a duel that showcases the sheer brutal power of Darth Vader and the calm, masterful technique of Kenobi.  During a particularly tense clash of blades, Kenobi tells his old friend that this is a fight he, Kenobi, cannot afford to win.  Anakin understands immediately what his old friend is planning to do, but does not understand why.  Kenobi sacrifices himself.  As Darth Vader stands triumphant, Palpatine joins him to crow over the final defeat of the Jedi Order.

And is beheaded by Mace Windu.

Mace reveals that Yoda has also sacrificed himself, using the last of his power to hide Mace from Palpatine for a few vital minutes.  

The Empire is left in disarray as the second Death Star is destroyed by a largely intact rebel fleet.