Hey everybody and welcome to Leia’s Lair.
In today’s video, we will be going over all the known contingency orders for the grand
army of the republic, as revealed in Star Wars Legends.
The Contingency Orders for the Grand Army of the Republic: Order Initiation, Orders
1 Through 150, and a secret Order 151, was a compilation of contingency orders that were
to be carried out under various circumstances by the Grand Army of the Republic.
Any Clones found in violation of any of these orders, especially Clone Commanders, would
be stripped of their rank and rendered subject to execution.
Here is a list of the known orders and what they said.
Order 4: In the event of the Supreme Commander (Chancellor) being incapacitated, overall
Grand Army of the Republic command shall fall to the vice chair of the Senate until a successor
is appointed or alternative authority identified.
Order 5: In the event of the Supreme Commander (Chancellor) being declared unfit to issue
orders, the Chief of the Defense Staff shall assume Grand Army of the Republic command
and form a strategic cell of senior officers until a successor is appointed or alternative
authority identified.
Order 6: It was an order to the clones from the Supreme Chancellor to throw their comlinks
away as soon as possible.
Order 37: Capture of a single wanted individual through the mass arrest and threatened execution
of a civilian population.
Follow-up directives include scenarios for body disposal of civilian casualties and suppression
of communications.
Order 64: Was one of the 150 contingency orders that the clone troopers of the Grand Army
of the Republic were trained to carry out during different emergency scenarios.
Sometime around 21 BBY, after killing the Jedi hunter Durge and disabling the Separatist
General Grievous in battle, a group of clone troopers—under the command of Jedi Commander
Ahsoka Tano—wondered what their next orders were going to be.
As the clones and Commander Tano were walking away from the now immobilized Grievous, one
of the clone troopers asked his squadmates whether they were up to either Order 64 or
Order 65.
Order 65: In the event of either, a majority in the Senate declaring the Supreme Commander
(Chancellor) to be unfit to issue orders, or the Security Council declaring him or her
to be unfit to issue orders, and an authenticated order being received by the Grand Army of
the Republic, commanders shall be authorized to detain the Supreme Commander, with lethal
force if necessary, and command of the Grand Army of the Republic shall fall to the acting
Chancellor until a successor is appointed or alternative authority identified.
Order 66: “Execute 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), Grand
Army of the Republic commanders will remove those officers by lethal force, and command
of the Grand Army of the Republic will revert to the Supreme Commander (Chancellor) until
a new command structure is established.
Order 99: Although technically not part of the Contingency Orders for the Grand Army
of the Republic due to it being used exclusively with the Separatists, a similarly named order
called Order 99 existed among its forces, which made the droids move to the opposing
side.
The order was developed as a test for the later Order 66 for the clone troopers to use
against the Jedi.
Order 151: In addition to the known orders, in the aftermath of the Galactic Empire's
rise to power, the newly christened Sith Lord Darth Vader came to suspect that his master,
the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, known to the galaxy as the newly crowned Emperor Palpatine,
had developed a new contingency order (Order 151) to eliminate him should the need arise.
And now for a Leia’s Lair Throwback video!
In this episode I will be going over exactly what Order 66 was.
To begin, Order 66 was a catastrophic event at the end of the Clone Wars.
“Execute Order 66.”
When it was activated, the Clone Troopers of the Grand Army of the Republic turned against
their Jedi commanders, subsequently terminating many Jedi and causing destruction to the Jedi
Order.
So that brings us to the question of, exactly what was Order 66 and why did all the Clone
Troopers turn against their former commanders?
Taking a step back, to even before the start of the Clone Wars, Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas had
foreseen the upcoming war.
Behind the back of the council and the Galactic Senate, he commissioned the creation of a
Clone army for the Republic on the planet Kamino.
“Please tell your Master, Sifo-Dyas, that his order will be met on time.”
Around the time of the Invasion of Naboo, Count Dooku, now known secretly as Darth Tyranus,
would order the death of Sifo-Dyas.
“Tyranus wanted Sifo-Dyas dead.
The pikes were well paid to shoot down his ship.”
He and Chancellor Palpatine would then take over the creation of the Clone Army, choosing
Jango Fett personally for the template of the clones.
“Then you must know master Sifo-Dyas?
Is he not the Jedi who hired you for this job?”
“Never heard of him.
I was recruited by a man called Tyranus on one of the moons of Bogden.”
Count Dooku, while still posing as a Jedi, would then provide the Kaminoans the bio-chip
to be implanted into clones during the early phase of their growth period.
The chip would contain the protocol 66 which, when activated, would ensure total obedience
and cause them to terminate the Jedi.
Order 66 was almost prematurely exposed when clone trooper, CT-5385, nicknamed Tup, had
a malfunction with his bio-chip, causing him to attack Jedi Master Tiplar.
“Jedi.
Good soldiers follow orders.”
“Hey Tup!
Tup!
No!”
It was claimed to be a virus that caused him to kill the Jedi Master.
But another clone, CT-5555, nicknamed Fives, not only discovered the chip itself, “It
is foreign to the body, someone planted it there.”
“An implant?
You mean this isn’t an accident?
Someone did this to Tup?” but also that it was inside all the other clones as well.
“I can’t believe it.
They all have one.”
After being framed “You don’t understand what I’m mixed up in.
It goes all the way to the top.”
he would then be pursued and killed before he could pass the information onto Anakin
or anyone else.
Even Yoda had discovered that Count Dooku was involved in the creation of the Clone
army.
“Know now we do, that guide the creation of the clones from the beginning, Dooku did.”
The Jedi Council chose not to reveal the information, “Cover up this discovery, we must.” as
a means to stop it from discrediting the Republic.
Yoda also saw a vision in which the Jedi would likely lose the Clone Wars, though he did
not know how exactly they would.
After the deaths of Count Dooku and General Grievous, Palpatine then revealed himself
to Anakin in an attempt to lure him to the dark side.
“You’re the Sith Lord.”
At first resisting, Anakin revealed Darth Sidious’ true identity to Mace Windu.
“I’ve just learned a terrible truth.
I think Chancellor Palpatine is a Sith Lord.”
But conflicted, Anakin would eventually succumb to the lure of the dark side, becoming the
infamous Darth Vader.
“You shall be known as Darth Vader.”
This is when Sidious would activate Order 66, which would cause all clone troopers to
attack the Jedi, wiping out thousands in the process.
At the same time, newly appointed Darth Vader, would be sent with clones to attack the Jedi
temple.
Order 66 would be the destruction of the Jedi Order, and the transition of the Republic
into the Empire.
And there you have it!
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