Despite having nearly all of the pieces needed to discover the true identity of the elusive
Sith Lord known as Darth Sidious, Yoda and the Jedi Council were never able to put the
pieces together until it was too late.
There were however people who were able to put the pieces together and discover Palpatine’s
true plans for Order 66…
These included Clone Trooper Fives who was killed trying to reveal the truth, Clone Trooper
Kix who was captured by Dooku after learning the Truth and frozen for 50 Years, and even
Thrawn himself.
So, lets break down how Thrawn Tried to Warn Anakin about Order 66 and the impending doom…
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Very late in the Clone Wars, one of Padme’s good friends and handmaidens name Duja came
across a nefarious separatist operation on the outer rim world of Batuu, where the Current
Duke of Serenno, Solha was using a local cantine there as a transport point for equipment and
materials.
And Batuu is also the location of Galaxy’s edge for those of you who have been.
What Duja discovered was that the separatists, including Count Dooku along with his fellow
Serennian Solha were using the Cantina on Batuu to transport those materials to the
planet Mokivj, where a brand new and devastating battle droid design was being tested…
This battle droid model would easily sway the tide of the war to the separatis if it
were to be mass produced...
When attempting to report the information back to Padme so it could be relayed to the
Republic, Duja was tragically killed by the Separatists, after they discovered her presence…
Luckily a small message was able to reach Padme informing her of the operation.
After hearing of the Separatist dealings on the planet, Padme decided that she needed
to visit herself and attempt to find her lost handmaiden.
As a result she raced to the outer rim in her H-type Nubian yacht, which as you can
guess attracted quite a lot of local attention.
After making up a cover story to mask her true intentions while visiting the planet,
she was directed to the cantina in question and horribly found that her handmaiden had
been laid in a funeral pyre outside, ready to be cremated and of ready to have all evidence
destroyed.
After managing to keep her emotions under control, she returned to her handmaiden's
ship and found that Duka had uncovered something massive.
The existence of an entire separatist factory on Mokivj which could devastate the Republic’s
clone army....
After learning this she hopped back into her ship and raced to Mokivj, not caring about
the consequences and not telling anybody where she had gone…
This included Anakin, who began to get very worried after not hearing from her for a very
long time…
As a result, with Padme seemingly having disappeared, Anakin rushed over to Batuu to investigate…
Anakin was panicked and worried about his missing wife but he would do anything he could
to locate her and punish those responsible for taking her.
After arriving into orbin of Batuu to being the search, Anakin came across another starship,
piloted by a strange but imposing Blue man from the Chiss Ascendancy.
His name was Thrawn.
After talking about the situation for a small amount of time, Thrawn decided that he would
join Anakin’s noble mission to find Padme....
Soon after they travelled down onto the surface of the planet and came across Padme’s starship.
After a quick search of the vessel, the pair were directed to the black spire output, which
again you would be familiar with if you’ve been to galaxy edge, and immediately found
the Separatist connected cantina.
The Chiss and the Jedi then walked into the bar and questioned the owner about Padme and
Duja’s disappearance, but the owner claimed he knew nothing about it, denying having ever
seen them…
Moments later however the mugs placed on the bar exploded and toxic gas was immediately
released into the cantina, causing Anakin and thrawn to gasp out for air.
Only seconds after this four armed separatis who had just followed the two into the cantina
popped out and attacked them, but Anakin and Thrawn were quickly able to get their bearings
and obliterate the pathetic separatists…
AFter doing this, Anakin put the uniform of thrawn on the dead body of one of the separatists,
to use as a decoy as they escaped.
Definitely a possible war crime, but we wont mention.
Soon after they found out about the separatist factory on mokivj and immediately set off
to rescue Padme.
Once the pair touched down at the factories on the Mokivj and entered the main battle
droid prodution area, they were confronted by a group of b-2 super battle droids… although
there was something off about these units…
As Anakin attempted to slice the droids in half just like he had done many times in the
past, his lightsaber completely failed on him, refusing to cut through and even shorted
out.
Anakin was stunned by this but waited until his blade could turn back on, this time trying
a new strategy.
He started deflecting blaster bolts back onto the droids, but shockingly found that when
the bolts hit the mysterious battle droids, they didn’t do any damage… they instead
shimmered and dissolved into their plating…
At this point, Anakin and thrawn were completely floored as they had never seen anything like
this from a separatist droid, but continued on anyway, taking cover and trying to figure
out how to take them down.
Being his usual self, Anakin decided that the best approach to take down these droids
was the most aggressive one.
He wanted to focus on the photoreceptors or eyes of the droid and poke them out with his
lightsaber, believing that these spots wouldn’t be covered in whatever substance is protecting
these units…
Anakin then swiftly took down the droids by lunging his lightsaber straight through their
eyes, but they couldn’t let such a unique and mysterious droid go unexplained…
Thrawn then led the search for more information, before coming across a bin of fibrous, metallic
material in the assembly wing of the factory.
Anakin, yet again being himself placed his lightsaber straight into the bin of fibers
to see what would happen and instantly, his lightsaber shorted out, just like it had against
the battle droids not long ago.
Having seen this, Thrawn knew exactly what the material was.
The material was made of the famed cortosis which terrified the Jedi Order for many years.
The pair then figures out that it was this material that was being woven and mixed into
with the armor plating of the b-2 battle droids, creating a brand new variant, known as the
C-B3 cortosis battle droid.
Thrawn then went on to explain that the extremely high energy absorption and electric flow of
the material allowed it to both absorb the energy of lightsabers and blaster bolts, as
well as short out the circuitry of a Jedi’s saber, similar to what happened to Darth Vader
when he confronted an Order 66 survivor.
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What shocked Thrawn however was that the separatists figured out a way to weave the cortosis fibers
into the armor of the battle droids, making them pretty much invincible against both the
Jedi generals with their lightsabers and the clone troopers with their blasters…
The rich cortosis deposits on Mokivj the perfect location to set up this secret factory, ready
to spring on the republic and turn the tide of the war.
Now after this, instead of doing what most Jedi would do, which is destroy the factory
and prevent the mining of cortosis, Anakin and thrawn thought a little bit more long
term.
They instead wanted to sabotage the cortosis threads on the production line, before they
were woven into the battle droid’s plating, meaning they would be ineffective on the battle
field.
Doing it this way, meant that the Separatists wouldn’t notice the issue before it was
far too late.
On top of that, they might also carry extreme confidence going into a battle, believing
their droids were invisible when really they were not.
This plan however was very quickly shattered when Thrawn and Anakin found something chilling…
They discovered a small section of the factory dedicated not to the production of battle
droids, but to Clone Trooper armor… and not just any clone trooper armor.
Cortosis infused Phase 2 armor.
Upon seeing this, the two were shocked and bewildered, wondering what on Kamino would
the separatists need with Clone Trooper armor that was resistant to lightsabers.
Anakin then floated the idea that maybe Dooku and the separatists were planning a massive
infiltration of the Clone Army where they would sneak past defences by pretending to
be clone troopers.
And as for the cortosis-infused part, he b relieved they might try to infiltrate the
Jedi temple, where of course they would face huge amounts of lightsabers.
Moments later Anakin sensed the lost Padme and finally knew they were in the right place.
He jetted off to rescue her, but Thrawn couldn’t shake the eerie feeling that something wasn’t
right.
He had been a very careful observer of the tactics of both sides during the war and didn’t
think this made any sense.
Thrawn was so troubled by this discovery that he implored Anakin to slow down and deeply
think about this.
It really was a matter of life or death for the Republic.
Anakin though, was not very receptive.
Having seen this cortosis-infused clone trooper armor and not wanting to risk the infiltration
of the Jedi Temple, Anakin changed his mind about simply sabotaging it and instead destroyed
the entire factory and all of its production.
And by the way, this destruction went horribly wrong, because Anakin failed to account for
the cortosis deposits around the planet, causing an explosive cataclysm across the planet,
shredding it to its core..
So yeah, Anakin literally destroyed an an entire planet.
Some time after this, a sense of relief washes over Anakin as he successfully rescues Padme,
and Thrawn is also very pleased that things went well…
As Anakin and Thrawn are about to leave and go otheir separate ways however, the issue
of the Clone Trooper armor is still racing in his mind and he simply can’t let it go.
Because of this, he tells both Anakin and Padme that from all his military experience,
infiltration attacks pretty much never work.
Thrawn went on to state that the purpose of that armor was likely much, much more ominous
and likely involved the Jedi Order directly…
Padme herself even became very concerned with Thrawn’s honest and sincere warning, but
Anakin simply brushed it off and was happy to have Padme back safely.
The three then went their separate ways, but thrawn never let his findings that day go…
Many years later, Darth Vader and Thrawn were forced to team up again and did actually return
to the planet Mokivj where they had their troubling adventure all those years ago.
On the planet, Darth Vader reveals to Thrawn that he was infact right to be so troubled
by the cortosis weave clone armor.
The factory was actually part of Palpatine’s plan to ensure Order 66 could not fail, by
equipping clones with armor that could not be slashed or cut.
Unfortunately for Palpatine, Anakin screwed that up for him, but Order 66 went very well
anyway.
If Anakin had managed to put Five’s warning together with Thrawn’s concerns, it’s
likely he would have figured out Order 66 before Palpatine could turn him to the Dark
side and possibly prevented Order 66…
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