After the call for Order 66 was given to Commander REX aboard Ahsoka’s Republic Cruiser, something
very interesting and unexpected happens.
Rex calls Palpatine Lord Sidious after receiving the order to kill Ahsoka and execute Maul.
So why did Rex call Palpatine Sidious?
I’m going to break down some incredibly interesting theories about why Rex called
Palpatine Lord Sidious and how he may have already known the truth about Palpatine’s
identity before Order 66.
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After Commander Rex receives the official communication to execute Order 66 on Ahsoka
and Maul, he immediately responds with the words “Yes, Lord Sidious.”
After this happened, Palptine even hesitated for a moment before the transmission ended,
confirming that it was a direct and personal communication for Rex.
The Reason that Rex likely receives one of the only personal communications, along with
Cody, Gree and some others is because he was under the command of two of the most powerful
and important enemies to Sidious’ plan.
Ahsoka Tano, the apprentice to Anakin Skywalker was one of the most valuable targets during
Order 66 because of her close connection to Anakin and the fact that she would be one
of the only people at time who could pull him back to the light side.
On top of this, former apprentice of Darth Sidious himself, Maul was on board the ship.
Maul knew a very significant part of Sidious' plan to destroy the Jedi and to create the
empire.
Having someone with so much knowledge about his true identity, left alive would be extremely
dangerous to Sidious.
As for how Rex knew the true identity of Darth Sidious, there are a few options.
The first is simply that the inhibitor chips placed in every Clone in the Grand Army of
the Republic contained the information and true identity of Palpatine.
This would make a lot of sense, as we hear almost every Clone who receives the order
say “Yes my lord” or “ it will be done my Lord”.
Lord is definitely not the proper military title for the leader of the Grand Army of
the Republic, so it is clear that once the inhibitor chips were activated, all of the
Clones knew the true identity of Sidious.
Despite this, it does seem like a pretty large risk to have implanted every Clone in the
Republic army with Palpatine’s true Sith identity and the plan to destroy the Jedi.
With Fives showing us how easy it is to remove the inhibitor chip from the head of a Clone,
it is definitely surprising that Palpatine would take such a risk.
He’s definitely not the type of Sith Lord to take any risks whatsoever, which you’ll
definitely know if you’ve read the Darth Plagueis book.
Let me know down in the comments below if you think the Darth Plagueis book should be
Canon.
Personally, it’s probably my favourite Star Wars book, so I really hope they do make it
Canon.
We also know that there was a Sith Shrine below the Jedi temple, which would have appeared
in an unfinished Clone Wars Episode where Ahsoka discovers it’s presence and attempts
to warn the Jedi Order.
Unfortunately however, she is unable to warn the Jedi about the ancient Sith shrine, leading
Sidious to use it to both cloud the Judgement and the foresight of the Jedi, which we learned
in Revenge of the Sith, and to also enhance his own visions of the future.
Because of Palaptine’s enhanced foresight at the time, maybe he was just so confident
in his plans that he did not feel that it was a risk to place this information inside
of inhibitor chips.
Another really interesting theory is that Rex actually figured out the true identity
of Darth Sidious just as Order 66 was called.
When the Order to kill the Jedi came through, its possible that Rex was able to use all
of his past experiences with Fives, Maul’s warning and Kenobi’s statement about Sidious
to connect all of the dots about his true identity.
In Clone Wars Season 7 Episode 12 and 11, Rex was present at the meeting between Obi-Wan
and Ahsokao through a hologram, where Ahsoka states that Maul mentioned the name Darth
Sidious.
Obi-Wan responds to Ahsoka, telling her that the council believes Sidious the Sith Lord,
who orchestrated the Clone Wars and played both sides of it.
Rex is right there listening to this explanation from Kenobi.
Kenobi then goes on to describe Sidious as a mystery, so it’s not surprising at all
that Rex would be concerned about this.
After this, Rex is also in the prison cell when Prime Minister Almec is killed by Gar
Saxon, where he implies that they are all part of a larger plan.
This would again be very concerning to Rex.
Following that, he is also present when Maul is captured and states’ You’re all going
to burn, We’re all going to die”.
Prior to the events of Clone Wars Season 7, Rex was already very suspicious of the inhibitor
chip after Fives made his investigation.
Rex even filed a report with the Jedi council that stated “There's a possibility that
the inhibitor chip that the Kaminons put inside of us have a purpose that we don't fully understand.”
He’s obviously been very worried about the possibility of the Clone Wars being fake and
controlled by a dark figure for a long time.
So with all of this knowledge building up over time, it’s possible that when Order
66 came through, he put everything together and called Lord Sidious by his name without
realising it.
This is also backed up by the small pause that Palpatine makes at the end, before ending
the transmission.
Palpatine was probably slightly surprised that Rex had figured out his identity, as
none of the other Clones who received the message used his name.
Although he may have been slightly worried, he probably did not think it was enough of
a problem to take action against Rex.
And that was one of the worst decisions of Palpatine’s life, because we know Rex went
on to play a massive role in the Rebellion and the downfall of the Empire at the battle
of Endor.
But let me know why you think Rex said Lord Sidious instead of Yes my Lord, like Commander
Cody did on Utapau.
I really think Rex was the only remaining Clone Trooper who figured out Chancellor Palaptine’s
true identity, even if it was unfortunately too late.
I hope we get to see a long conversation between Rex and Ahsoka about this in the upcoming
Rebels Sequel show.
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