All of you know about the painful and heartbreaking Republic Contingency protocol, known as Order
66, but did you know that there is actually an Order more horrific and disgraceful than
Order 66?
This Order was known as Order 37, and was so brutal that if Palpatine had used it during
his time as Supreme Chancellor, he would likely have been removed from office.
I’m going to break down exactly what Order 37 is and why it was only ever executed twice.
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The Grand Army of the Republic had 150 different contingency orders from both Legends and Canon,
which could be carried out after certain events or emergencies.
So far, Only 5 of these orders have actually been explained in Canon or Legends, with some
of them being more brutal than others.
An example of a very tame contingency order is Order 4, which simply states that “in
the event of the Supreme Chancellor being incapacitated, the command of the Grand Army
of the Republic shall be placed in the hands of the Vice chair of the senate’.
So if this order was activated, with Palpatine being either injured or killed, Vice Chair
of the Senate, Mas Amedda would then be granted full control of the Clone Army, placing him
as the highest ranking officer.
On the other hand, you have something more extreme, like Order 66, which stated “in
the event of Jedi military officers acting against the interests of the Republic, after
receiving specific orders from the Supreme chancellor, Clone Commanders shall remove
those Jedi officers by lethal force.”
Palpatine used this Order after being attacked by Mace Windu, to claim that the Jedi had
committed treason, wiping the Jedi Order from existence.
But despite this, there was an Order on the books that was even worse than Order 66.
This Order, called Order 37 gave authority to the Clone Commanders of the Republic to
perform a mass arrest of a population in order to detain a single wanted fugitive.
If a wanted fugitive escaped to a planet and hid among a community there, under Order 37,
the Grand Army of the Republic and later, the imperial navy, would have the authority
to arrest and execute the entire population of that community until they handed the fugitive
over to the army.
On top of this, Order 37 also gave concise instructions on how to dispose of the many
bodies left behind on a planet after the execution of Order 37, and how to jam all communications
on the planet, to prevent information from the scene escaping into the wider galaxy.
Let me know if you think Order 37 is worse than Order 66, because it is pretty horrific.
This Order was so brutal, that it instructed Clone Commanders to not release the bodies
of fallen victims of the order to their families.
Wow…
Just Wow…
All Holonet communications on the planet where Order 37 was executed must be shut down on
the morning of the order, and must remain offline for an entire month, so that the Supreme
Commander of the Republic Army would have direct control over all information coming
out of the planet.
No documentation or recordings of the event were allowed to leave the planet where the
Order took place, and proof of all the civilians killed during the event must be suppressed.
I’m honestly surprised this Order was even passed through the Republic senate.
That’s some crazy stuff right there.
So was Order 37 ever executed by Palpatine?
Unfortunately, yes.
About 1 year after the formation of the Galactic Empire, Palpatine used Order 37 to force the
population of the planet Bellassa to hand over surviving Jedi, Ferus Olin.
The Order was extremely effective, forcing Olin to come out of hiding and escape the
planet, eventually becoming a student of Emperor Palpatine.
The Order was also used one other time, on the planet Rosha, very shortly after the Empire
was created.
The emperor Executed Order 37 on the people of the planet, imprisoning a large chunk of
them and threatening to kill them.
The emperor did this to hunt down any remaining members of the local resistance on the planet,
who were strongly against the formation of the Empire.
So that is exactly what Order 37 was and how Palpatine used it to hunt down the Jedi survivors
and the fugitives of the Empire.
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