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[Star Wars] What if Palpatine died from an aneurism shortly after the Geonosis Campaign ended?

A thought I was having was what if Palpatine just died of natural causes maybe a day or two after the Geonosis Campaign ends? Say he goes to take a nap, happy that the war is beginning as he planned, but during this nap he has an aneurism and died. How would the war progress? How would the republic change? What would Count Dukoo do? How would the timeline be changed?
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Palpatine's goal was never for either side to win the war, just to drag it out to give himself more powers. Dooku wouldn't know that, so he'd be fighting the war to win. The Republic wouldn't have Palpatine's inside knowledge of the other side to help them out, so they'd be in real trouble. The separatists may have won the war.