"Oh, we've imbued him with plenty of power in the Force!"

Plagueis would probably be interested in how they could do that... no, he's pretty sure Plagueis knows how to transfer midi-chlorians, it's producing them that seems nigh-impossible. Anyway, they are not working together and if Plagueis wants knowledge Dooku will sell it to him.

"Yes. Well, that's certainly very important, but I'm not sure if he's quite-"

"Oh! I know what you want!"

Do tell.

"I know the Nightbrothers don't always have the greatest affinity for the Force... but there is a Nightsister whose powers exceed that of your typical Jedi, even before any enhancement! And she has more than just strength! Agile, quick, ruthless, and beautiful, alluring... I present to you, Asajj Ventress!"

This Asajj Ventress will also emerge from the unidentifiably located shadows. Instead of growling, she will give Dooku a flirty wink and jut out her not entirely covered chest.

"So... first, I have not been your age for at least six decades, and second, that was not what I was asking about. I suppose agile, quick, and ruthless are important qualities... but do you have any specialties beyond, ah..." He gestures towards her outfit.

Why isn't this working? Oh, should Savage take off his shirt, would that work better? That's probably not it. But what is Dooku looking for? Maybe just other skills? "She's dabbled as a bounty hunter," says Talzin. "She's competent in flying various spacecraft, and decent with various weapons, from lightsabers to pistols to rifles to various explosive devices."

"I suppose all of those are valuable skills," acknowledges Dooku. "I will grant that both this Opress and this Ventress are very talented in their own forms of combat."

"Then what sort of fighters are you looking for?!"

"You wouldn't happen to have anyone who's exceedingly intelligent?"

What.

"We... can probably check their scores in school? But most of our classes are in combat training, and both of them have performed very well in those."

"Well, it doesn't have to be school! Has anyone, say, developed new theories of the Force, discovered intricacies that help showcase their creativity?"

Blank stares.

"Or... has anyone shown a desire to... improve things? Looking at the ways society is structured, and trying to determine how to improve on them?"

Blank stares.

"I will accept finding interesting uses for weapons if that's the best you have."

Savage Opress will use a large club as a weight, which he will lift with one finger to demonstrate how BUFF he is. Asajj Ventress will twirl around a spear and press it to her lips to demonstrate how SEXY she is.

This is at least the third most ridiculous thing he has seen in his life and what is wrong with these people.

"Fine. I suppose I'll take Ventress. And the ranc- the, Savage."

And he'll need to work harder at recruiting Kina Skywalker, because everyone else in this galaxy is an idiot.

If there is one flaw Kina Skywalker has, it is that she has never properly learned how to stop thinking about what could go wrong, what is wrong, how she could be wrong; it is a survival strategy, on Tatooine, that is so deeply encouraged as to have become deeply engrained in her psyche.

This, too, is not strictly adaptive.

For instance, upon detecting the stream of hypernet traffic associated with Dooku make transit to one of the Suspicious Deleted Spots she's differentiated out from the galactic maps ca. the time the Jedi noticed theirs had been tampered with, she imagines quite a few possibilities for what he could be doing there, from the banal-but-still-mildly-concerning "recruiting apprentices, like he's been saying he planned to do for a while now" to the "and if this is true, we're probably kriffed" of "visiting the Super Duper Extra Secret Superweapon Project that Palpatine hypothetically started and stashed in one of those blind spots where the Order oughtn't have noticed it", and plays 'but-if-he-knows-she-knows' with her model of Dooku...which is frustratingly open-ended, because she truly doesn't know him well enough to predict him with high enough fidelity, not even after all this -

She knows he is arrogant.  She knows there is some sort of secret project somewhere in the galaxy that was Palpatine's get.  She knows Palpatine was/is a cruel, cruel man.  She knows that Dooku would not hesitate to be cruel, if he thought it was the correct thing to do, and would consider himself capable of turning even Palpatine's schemes to better ends than were intended by their designer.

(She doesn't think he's totally wrong...but she thinks he will be too used to it to assess the risks correctly.)

She knows there's probably other Darkside Force users out there.

She's going to need to train more, in the Force, in the blaster, in mechanisms and code modules, and of course in the lightsaber, if she wants to have a chance at surviving the turbulent times to come - because even in the scenarios where Dooku only found apprentices...well.  The apprentice betrays the master, time after time.  That is simply what Sith do.

She really hopes Dooku can teach them how to not be one.