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[Star Wars] What if when engaging Qui-Gon on Tatooine, Maul ran over Anakin with his weird floaty bike thing and murdered the rest of Team Good?

I'm sorry if the premise is implausible. I'm a Maul fanboy and I like to think about how things would have gone down if he had the chance to really excel as the Emperor's apprentice.
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Then Anakin either gets grabbed by Maul and brought to Palpatine, or gets left on Tatooine.

Either way, Maul can't serve as the public face for the Separatists like Dooku could, and Dooku was already being courted by Palpatine by that time anyway.

If Anakin goes with Palpatine, then Palpatine teaches him and raises him to become a Jedi killer just like he is in canon. But without Padme, there's nothing to turn Anakin back to the light except what little fragments of good there might be left after Palpatine is done with him. It's a much, much darker timeline.