After a day or two, Dooku and other Confederacy leaders have met with Chancellor Ilbis, who secured the votes of just barely a majority of the Senate in support of a rewritten treaty between the Republic and the Confederacy. Both sides have agreed that the other side isn't quite as bad as slavery, and a deal has been reached in which both of them will support a neutral galactic police force, which will be assigned to planets such as Tatooine regardless of what the Hutts think of it. There's a lot of resentment about combining portions of both militaries into one effort, but everyone hates the Hutts, so it hasn't been too hard to spin.

Both leaders have given similar speeches, in which this is described as a temporary measure to eliminate the remnants of the old era of corruption. In the future, both governments will offer different styles of life, and individual planets and citizens will be able to decide who they want to join. The speeches were both accompanied by undertones of and after seeing what both regimes are like, everyone will obviously support us, not them. But it seems the remaining animosity between the Republic and Confederacy will most likely play out in the form of let's prove we're better than them instead of let's kill them.

As for who benefits the most from all of this... well, that's not quite clear. On the one hand, Dooku was correct when he assumed that the Confederacy would have to pay for most of the police force; their army is already organized, and with the cloning program shutting down, the Republic doesn't have much to offer in the short term beyond a small number of Jedi and a few individual militias. But on the other hand, the charity work is bringing a much better reputation to the Confederacy. The initial Confederacy membership has already risen from 11% to 18%, and is still growing, as quite a few systems start to think the Confederacy might actually give them better opportunities than the Republic.

And the slavery thing. Dooku is fine with taking a bit of a political risk if he can end slavery. This is worth it.

Palpatine said the Confederacy would help the Hutts! Why are they not helping?

Normally he can solve all of his problems by feeding them to large monsters, but he doesn't have enough monsters.

All proceeds according to keikaku.

(And Palpatine's dead, Jabba, haven't you been watching the news?)

...Her work here is done, for the moment.  Now...she should be studying!

Unless there's some other thing the Force wants her eyes on ASAP, she supposes, but that's unlikely!

Not any more than usual!

She can keep studying.

And in a few months, she'll be ready to join in the raid on Jabba's palace!

Wait, the raid? What raid?!