the only thing is that this would look much more akin to a andor-esque political/military thriller and have little to do with the force, so we could have an actual vader replacement show up as muscle for thrawn and pit them against ben or even luke, and perhaps even have some character...
also lowkey you could just make the "secret apprentice" just thrawn. he's already set to return in canon with the ahsoka show. in legends, he pulled a ton of imperial remenants together (in legends, instead of disappearing to the unknown regions, the empire fractured into a bunch of warlord...
np np
also the palpatine "secret apprentice" thing isnt actually that far fetched. there's a whole side plot in the canon doctor aphra comics where palpatine pits a bunch of new replacements of vader against him, my favourite being general grievous ofc vader wins but goes to show palpatine did...
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