' Execute Order 66.' ― to numerous clone commanders — Order 66, also known as Clone Protocol 66, was one of a series of that the of the were trained to obey without hesitation. The order branded members of the as traitors to the and called for their immediate execution without question. The issuing of the order by marked the formal beginning of the, and signified the rise of the. It was chief among the atrocities that led to the.Almost all of the were by Order 66, and most of the survivors were killed in the Great Jedi Purge that followed. The Jedi Order survived through the acts of surviving Jedi, such as and, teaching the ways of. ' I sense a plot to destroy the Jedi.

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The dark side of the Force surrounds the Chancellor.' ―Order 66 could be found in the document entitled, a document containing a series of special contingency orders that covered any and all emergency situations, which the that comprised the (GAR) were prepared to execute, immediately and without question, and only in specific cases of extreme necessity. It was originally designed as a fail-safe by Jedi Master against rogue Jedi. Some of these orders concerned contingencies any armed force could conceivably face. Many dealt with contingencies specifically involving the GAR —in this case, —and the effect on the chain of command were he ever to become incapacitated or declared unfit to issue orders. In particular, dealt with the detention and possible execution of the Supreme Chancellor by the if he became unfit for office, further hiding the true intention of Order 66. Sufficiently buried among the other one hundred forty-nine orders so as to almost escape notice, Contingency Order 66 specifically dealt with the effect on the chain of command were issues to arise involving the.

The text of the order ran:Source:Attribution:Order 66: In the event of Jedi officers acting against the interests of the Republic, and after receiving specific orders verified as coming directly from the Supreme Commander (Chancellor), GAR commanders will remove those officers by lethal force, and command of the GAR will revert to the Supreme Commander (Chancellor) until a new command structure is established.This work is. The individual who uploaded this work asserts that this qualifies as of the material under United States copyright law.Under close examination, the text of Order 66 exposed several distinctions that set it apart from the other contingency orders. First, the majority of the other known contingency orders took into account other sources of command authority—the, the, the, the —while Order 66 could only be issued by the GAR Supreme Commander—in this case, Palpatine. Second, it was not required that the Security Council or a Senate majority declare that the Jedi were acting against Republic interests; Palpatine alone had the power to make that determination.

Third, GAR commanders were not required to authenticate the order, or even to report it to any other command authority. If the order came directly from Palpatine, using specific command phrasing and over specific communications channels pre-approved by him for this express purpose, that was all the authentication the clone commanders appear to have needed. Fourth, there was no apparent mechanism for rescinding the order. Once given, it had to be followed.Finally, there was no proviso—as there was in other known contingency orders—that the Jedi were to be detained and that lethal force should be used if necessary; the order explicitly specified that they were to be removed by lethal force. Though the true purpose of this specific command was to satisfy Darth Sidious's wish to eliminate the Jedi as a threat to his power, the insistence on lethal force could have been rationalized on general—that is, non-—grounds: it could be argued that any attempt to detain a Jedi who did not wish to be detained would fail, except in the event that said Jedi was faced with overwhelming GAR numbers, and even then, such an attempt would likely result in numerous unnecessary GAR casualties. ' It will be done, my Lord.'

―Commander complies with Order 66At 2100 hours local time, on the one-thousand-eighty-ninth day of the Clone Wars, Palpatine retired to his private office in the, activated his comm unit and issued Order 66. He employed a channel that made the authenticity of the order unquestionable, but ironically, the signal was encrypted using a code—one of the rare clues that he was, in fact, the hidden hand behind both sides of the war.Palpatine sent word via the office of the Chancellor to all of the in the army. The commanders displayed a variety of reactions to the surprising order, but since it came from the Chancellor himself, almost every one of them carried it out without question or hesitation. On countless planets, Jedi were cut down by their troopers. The Jedi, who had been spread throughout across disparate battlefields, were almost all caught totally unaware and easily gunned down. Three years of non-stop galactic warfare polluted the Force with the dark side, clouding Jedi perception even further.

Because the clones harbored no malice nor hatred, but were merely following a legal order, they had no ill intent in their heart, which might have given some warning to the Jedi via the Force.feels the of Order 66 in the Force.Although it was impossible for Palpatine to have issued the order to every single commander individually, he did take the time to contact several personally before the Order was relayed throughout the army as a whole. Within the first minutes of the Order, several members of the Jedi Council had been killed, including on, shot down by; on, at the hands of Commander and; on fell to Commander and members of the; and on, who managed to deflect a few shots before being overwhelmed by Commander and the.

On, Obi-Wan Kenobi was riding a named when Commander executed the Order, ordering an to fire upon him, but Kenobi managed to survive and escape the planet. He soon reunited with Yoda, who had also escaped a sneak attack by Commander and a second clone trooper on, beheading both clone commander and trooper in the process.Although Order 66 was only issued to the Grand Army of the Republic, a on Utapau implied upon being reactivated that a similar order to destroy all Jedi was implemented for at least that droid.Not all clone troopers obeyed the Order, however. On, and were rescued from Order 66 by members of. Led by, they initially questioned the validity of the order, and even upon confirmation, refused to side with the government over those who had fought alongside them, having developed an affinity for the Jedi., and did not even hesitate to disobey the order, though all of them feigned compliance to avoid suspicion, as they had already formed doubts about Palpatine and his new clones. Captain, as well, did not execute. In all other recorded instances, and obeyed it. Raid on the Jedi Temple.

Main article:On, announced a state of martial law over the, and declared the under military lockdown. Order 66 authorized the newly christened Darth Vader and the to attack the Jedi Temple; however, deciding to take a more surprise-attack approach, a mission named was devised where the 501st attacked any Jedi they found in the Temple—Masters, even. They also massacred non-Jedi staff, including administrators, trainers, and guards. No Jedi within the building were spared, but some escaped, including, and.Aftermath. ' Would it have been too much to ask for the order to have come through before I gave him back the bloody lightsaber?' ―Commander Cody, speaking of Obi-Wan Kenobi, after receiving Order 66Although Order 66 greatly depleted the Jedi Order's ranks, with an estimated less than 100 Jedi surviving it, it was only the beginning of the, which stretched on for years and claimed the lives of many of the survivors of the initial onslaught. Nearly all the surviving Jedi Knights were hunted down and killed by Darth Vader, while Order 66 remained in effect indefinitely among the ranks of the newly christened.

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Masters Kenobi and Yoda, like many others, chose to go into exile, on and respectively. There they eluded Imperial forces for many years, a feat few of their contemporaries could claim.Documented victims. ' Every single Jedi, including your friend, Obi-Wan Kenobi, is now an enemy of the Republic.' ―Darth Sidious to Darth Vaderabout to be killed during Order 66The majority of the Jedi across the galaxy fell victim to Order 66. Specifically targeted were the leaders of the Order: the Jedi Council.