Post Clone Wars Obi-Wan travels back in time to say.... 5 years pre-war. Scams a bunch of money betting on races he knows the outcome of because Anakin was obsessed with podracing, convinces the Lars-Skywalker family to relocate through a series of grandiose lies and maybe a little Jedi Mind Trickery and gets them settled on Lothal, a nice little agrarian world the Clone Wars never touched that sounds pretty in the Force.
Then, our man shaves, dyes his hair and swindles his way onto Hondo Ohnka's crew.
A year or so later, now filthy rich after convincing Hondo to pull a bunch of heists on horrible people who ruin a lot of good lives in the future, Obi-Wan bows out of his life of piracy, calls in a shit-ton of favors once owed to the deceased Qui-Gon Jinn, gets himself a fake identity and some fake credentials, pretends to be a marine biologist and cons his way onto Kamino by flattering the hell out of Lama Su and forking over an exorbitant fee for residency and signing a nondisclosure form he's fairly certain promises the kaminoans his cadaver in the fine print.
He thereafter settles into the campaign of seducing the mandalorian bounty hunter Jango Fett with his good looks, money and wit.
This takes some persistence.
Some of the trainers coincidentally start suffering from chronic diarrhea, hallucinations and allergic reactions to the point that, such a shame, they are incapable of doing their jobs/ abusing the cadets.
He spends the next couple of years subtly making sure the clones are better treated this time around.
Then, a year before the war, Obi-Wan, who has continued to make illegal bets on anything and everything he remembers the outcome of and raked in the rewards, hands Jango Fett a promissory note, gives him a kiss and says - should I fail to kill Chancellor Palpatine, do avenge me, and then swans off to Coruscant, where he undertakes another new identity as a high class cortesean and subtly flaunts, in amateurish fashion, his force sensitivity.
Chancellor Palpatine, of course, does circle around the bait.
Unfortunately this does also put Obi-Wan in the path of Anakin and Younger Obi-Wan, both of whom are somewhat mortified at the resemblance the paramour bears to the Jedi Master considering how he fawns over the Chancellor in public, dressed just shy of indecency.
Palpatine, weeks before the war, just weeks, finally invites Obi-Wan into private settings and Obi-Wan doesn’t even bother to hide his incandescent joy at the success, murmuring sweet nothings of power and kings into the Sith's ear right up until the moment he snaps his neck with his own two hands - he's always been strong, and his flirtations with a mandalorian supercommando had only made him more so - and he finishes the job with Palpatine's own lightsaber, vicious thing though it was.
The explosion thereafter was somewhat unexpected.
On the bright side, it does hide the fact that Obi-Wan murdered the Chancellor, as the explosion makes it seem like a terrorist attack. Obi-Wan being grievously wounded and weeping for his poor lover when he wakes up only confirms the story.
The "terrorist attack", however, does seem to have kicked off the war, but that's fine.
Obi-Wan the courtesan retreats from public to recover, grows out his beard, re-dyes his hair, pretends to be himself and is of course cordially welcomed by Count Dooku of Serrano, eager to temp his grandpadawan to join him.
Obi-Wan graciously accepts and is shortly thereafter given access to the inner workings of the Separatist army.
Imagine everyone's grand confusion when General Kenobi appears to be fighting on both sides of the war.
(This is the point at which Obi-Wan reveals to his grandmaster his inevitable betrayal, beats up an old man and, reaching out to his good friend Hondo Ohnaka, has him secretly detained elsewhere.)
Fearful of internal betrayal, both sides draw back warily, conflict grinds to a standstill, and General Kenobi, after a few weeks of this, cautiously invites the other General Kenobi to negotiate peace.
Unimaginable devastation is avoided.
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