Welcome back to the finale of what if Anakin never lost his arm. Thank you to all of you
who watched the first two parts of this video! To recap what happened in those episodes,
in the event you haven’t seen them, Anakin and his arms had captured Dooku, until the
Sith could escape to his home planet. After investigating the person who had helped Dooku
to escape, the trail had led to Chancellor Palpatine, much to the anger of Anakin. Now
the Jedi return from a detour to Mandalore, after Senator Amidala had gathered evidence
against the Supreme Chancellor… The coldness that Anakin and Obi-Wan had felt
upon the departure of Mandalore, continued all the way through to their journey back
to Coruscant, and landing back by the Jedi Temple, the scene is one of utter chaos. Palpatine
had somehow managed to escape, having sensed the Jedi closing in on him, and Yoda and Mace
Windu were organising for a way to capture him. But as they approach the Republic military
base, to gather the clones from their barracks, the echoes of Palpatine’s voice executing
Order 66, reverberate across the Galactic City. The Jedi are unaware of what the Order
meant, but it could only mean trouble, and igniting their blades, they are quickly forced
back to their Temple. As if the clones were insufficient for Palpatine, the dreadnought
of General Grievous suddenly cast a shadow over the city, and from it, several droid
landing crafts emerged, along side the starfighters of Grievous and Ventress. Yoda stepped out
of the Temple entrance, and stretching out one of his wizened hands, he moved two of
the Separatist crafts into each other, then confronted the two assassins. Yoda was not
concerned about the presence of Ventress, but had heard gruesome stories about Grievous,
so manipulating Ventress’ movements with the Force, Grievous looked bemused, until
he found two red lightsabers through his torso. The cyborg had been blinded his power, and
Yoda merely pushed the body of the fallen Jedi killer with the other droids, allowing
Ventress to make an escape. But despite this small victory, the Jedi were rapidly depleting
in their number, and Anakin and Obi-Wan knew that they had to eliminate Palpatine to stop
the massacre. Yoda agreed with two Jedi, and with Mace Windu they travel to Mandalore,
where they had previously felt the ominous presence in the Force, leaving Plo Koon and
Saesee Tinn to stop the reinforcements in the skies. On their journey, Obi-Wan receives
confirmation that Satine was in danger, as the Duchess desperately pleaded for the Jedi
to stop the massacre that Palpatine was causing to her people. Upon their arrival to the planet,
the Separatists had made their presence felt by dominating its airspace, clearly wanting
for Mandalore to be one of their new territories, but the Jedi had other ideas. Going straight
for the biggest dreadnought, Anakin managed to call off the attack, in time to avoid the
giant pulse generated by the powerful ion cannon, before they saw another ship sneaking
from behind them. To the surprise of Anakin, it is Padme piloting one of the new prototype
stealth ships, and the Jedi order for her to drop down to the ground, before she was
destroyed into a thousand pieces. Despite the protests of Anakin, he is forced by the
Jedi masters to go and use the stealth ship to try and hunt down Dooku, whilst Windu and
Obi-Wan go to find Palpatine. Windu secretly knew that Anakin would be too conflicted in
a battle against his old friend, and entering the throne room before Palpatine could kill
Satine, he sneered at the presence of the two Jedi. Igniting his two lightsabers, he
targeted Obi-Wan with a fearsome attack, but the Jedi master somehow managed to deflect
the barrage of strikes, until Windu took over. The master of the Order used the Sith Lord’s
hate against him, and pinning Palpatine to the wall, he disarmed him. Pointing his lightsaber
at Palpatine, he arched his arm over his head and slashed the Sith Lord, as Anakin arrived
from his own Sith slaying. The clones around them quickly stopped their attack on the Jedi,
leaving just the droids which were either being moved aboard the droid control ship,
or on the secret Separatist base on Mustafar. Leaving his master to once again help to clean
the destruction on Mandalore, Anakin joined Padme and Windu on their return to Coruscant,
and the Jedi master soon revealed that Anakin would be expelled for breaking the Jedi code
with Padme. Anakin was unmoved by his temporary expulsion, and arriving on Coruscant, the
politicians formed a guard of honour all the way to the footsteps of the senate building.
Windu realised at this point, that his decision to expel Anakin, would be look upon unfavourably
by the rest of the galaxy, so returning to the Council chamber, Anakin is shocked to
hear that he was being offered a seat on the Council, replacing the recently deceased Even
Piell. Like Obi-Wan the Council decided to ignore Anakin’s marriage to Senator Amidala,
as it had not altered Anakin’s path of a Jedi, but they were still forced to rebuild
after their purge, and Anakin would pass on what he had learned.
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