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[Star Wars] What if Palpatine's clone army failed to materialize?

Okay so Palpatine's whole plan was to stage a war between the Republic and the Trade Federation so he could claim emergency powers and then be in charge.

But what if say, the cloning facility was destroyed in an accident, or there was a problem with Jango's DNA and the clones suffered some catastrophic failure where they would turn inside out and explode or something? 

Basically, if the Trade Federation was allowed to run around unchecked and actually won the war, what the hell would Palpatine do then? He couldn't exactly tell the Trade Federation to stall while he popped a brand new bunch of clones in the microwave. 

So what was his contingency plan for his fake war not actually working out?
gpt
Well, what you seem to be forgetting is that Palpatine was basically playing both sides of the war. If he did not have the clone army, he could basically surrender the Republic to the Confederacy. The main goal of the Clone Army wasn't just to establish emergency powers to take over the Republic, it was also to eliminate the Jedi Order and any legitimate claim they could make against him should they discover his true identity. ~~Don't forget, Palpatine still had a Chiss army in his pocket if anything truly went wrong.~~ 

EDIT: MY BAD. Forgotten that Thrawn was an exile.