Since the Battle of Naboo, the Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic Sheev Palpatine,
had observed the Jedi Anakin Skywalker with a fastidious obsession. The secret Sith lord,
knew that Anakin was immensely gifted in the Force, and prayed upon Anakin’s frustrations
with his master Obi-Wan Kenobi and the Jedi Council. The Chancellor continued to be a
mentor to the Jedi knight throughout his years of training, and as the clone war that he
had started reached its apex, he used his influence on the Jedi knight. Aboard the flagship
of the cyborg General Grievous, the Sith Lord had staged his own capture, and testing the
Jedi’s abilities to become his future apprentice, Anakin managed to disarm the famed duellist
Dooku. The Jedi felt conflicted between his teachings and the words of Palpatine, but
the Chancellor had exerted enough of his influence, to get Anakin to kill the Sith apprentice.
The death of Dooku escalated another of decisions by the Jedi council, that played perfectly
into Palpatine’s hands, as they do not grant Anakin the grant of master, despite being
presented with a seat on the Council, as Palpatine’s representative. This does not help Anakin’s
loyalty to the Jedi, with his nightmares about his wife Padme Amidala dying in childbirth,
at the forefront of his mind. After being given the mission to spy on his friend, Anakin
is invited to the Galaxies Opera House, in the Entertainment district of Coruscant’s
Galactic City, and as they watched a Mon Calamari Ballet Performance, Palpatine begins to tell
the Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise. Rather than being a Sith legend, it was his actually
his own memories of killing Plagueis, but Anakin was too engrossed in the story, to
realise that his friend was the Sith. Palpatine then remarked that it was ironic that Plagueis
could save others and not himself, as Anakin sought to learn the powers to save others
from death, namely Padme. But what if Palpatine had not refer to the Tragedy as ironic? How
would it influence Anakin? As you are going to see, one word could have changed the landscape
of the galaxy… As Anakin absorbed every word of his mentor,
the thoughts of the Jedi knight turned to his nightmares of Padme. From what Palpatine
was telling him, this Plagueis could be the answer to save Padme, but he had been disappointed
to hear that he had been killed by his apprentice. The Jedi knight asked Palpatine if the apprentice
still lived, as he had learned all the abilities from Plagueis, and the Chancellor told him
that he was not aware that he had died. The Jedi knight left the Opera House with more
questions, and he entered the Council chamber looking visibly distracted. Obi-Wan is nominated
by the Council to find Grievous, but Anakin is only focused on saving Padme, and his conflict
is detected by his master. Obi-Wan orders Anakin to stay patient, and wait for him to
complete his mission on Utapau, and the Jedi knight bowed to his master before they parted
ways. Anakin thought about the tale of Plagueis, and ran off to the Jedi archives in a bid
to search for the mysterious apprentice, but as Palpatine had told him, it was not something
the Jedi would teach. Anakin trudged out of the Temple, when he received a transmission
from Padme, asking him to return to her apartment. The Jedi flew into his speeder, and at Padme’s
insistence, he told her what had happened at the Galaxies Opera House. Padme looked
at the skyline of Coruscant, scarcely believing what she was hearing, then accused the Chancellor
of trying to manipulate Anakin. The Jedi knight could not believe what he was hearing, and
after arguing over Palpatine, R2-D2 slid to the balcony, and stunned Anakin. Padme realised
that Anakin would be furious when he awoke, and as she was worried about leaving him unguarded,
she asked her guards to take him to the closest cell they could find. Padme took the speeder
that Anakin had left behind, and the senator flew into the Temple hangar, as the master
of the Order Mace Windu had arrived. Padme revealed what Anakin had told her, the Jedi
master requested for the cell to be guarded by the clones, as he gathered a select group
of masters to arrest the Chancellor. As Padme returned to her apartment to talk to senator
Organa, Windu, Agen Kolar, Kit Fisto and Saesee Tiin entered into a Republic gunship, and
landed outside of the Chancellor’s office. Palpatine turned around in his seat to the
sound of his doors opening, and he knew that the Jedi had figured out his secret. To his
concern, he could not sense Anakin, and igniting his blade, he threw it backwards at the window,
then jumped. The Jedi try to find him in the night of Coruscant, but he had taken possession
of a civilian speeder, before landing on the surface of the planet. In a maze of narrow
streets, Palpatine executed Order 66, then instructed the clones to look for Anakin,
as he then watched the chaos unfold. In the Chancellor’s office, the four Jedi masters
continued to look for Palpatine, when they felt something dangerous in the Force. The
rapid wave of footsteps was followed by the clones pointing their blasters, and they ordered
the Jedi that they needed to die, as an enemy of the Republic. Windu raised an eyebrow in
disapproval, and blasted them all into the walls of the area, then guided the masters
to the ground below, before trying to reach Padme. The senator told them that she had
not heard from her security Force, since Order 66 had commenced, and they all knew that Palpatine
had left to find Anakin. That is it for part 1 of what if Palpatine
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