Count Dooku may have been Palpatine's Sith apprentice, but Star Wars doesn't seem able to decide whether he knew about Order 66 at all...
Amusingly, it increasingly seems as though Star Wars simply can't decide whether Count Dooku knew about Order 66. In canon, the clone army was commissioned by Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas, a Jedi who possessed a unique predilection toward visions of the future. The Jedi Council generally distrusted these visions, with Yoda considering any attempt to prepare for a glimpsed future to be of the dark side; Jedi are supposed to obey the will of the Force, not try to control it, he argued.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT There is a tragic irony in the fact Sifo-Dyas’ plan to save the Jedi became the very tools the Sith used to destroy them. Palpatine had already seduced Sifo-Dyas’ good friend Count Dooku to the dark side, and Dooku engineered Sifo-Dyas’ death, before subverting the entire clone program. Inhibitor chips were installed in the clones that would allow the Sith to turn them into mindless killers when Palpatine issued Order 66.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars portrayed Dooku as Palpatine’s willing co-conspirator, clearly well aware the clones could be turned against the Jedi. Although he tells the Kaminoans this is just a contingency, his comments to Darth Sidious confirm he expected Order 66 to be given. He planned for the Jedi to be wiped out.
This portrayal is even more striking given Tales of the Jedi stresses that Dooku has come straight from Kamino, having conducted Palpatine’s business and instructed the Kaminoans to install the inhibitor chip in their nascent clone army. Here, Dooku is simply Palpatine’s patsy, manipulated with ease by someone whose plans are a decade ahead of everyone else.
It's possible to resolve this narrative, perhaps by suggesting Palpatine told Dooku the truth about Order 66 years later, when he was convinced Dooku was committed to the Sith. That’s a simple fix, but it doesn’t change the fundamental reason behind these two different portrayals of Dooku; the fact Star Wars can’t quite decide what role he had in the saga.
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