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In this episode I will be going over exactly what Order 66 was.
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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 pykes 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.
"You must known 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?!"
"On your right!"
"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 implanted 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 Grevious, 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.
"The Republic will be re-organized into the first Galactic Empire!"
And there you have it! How Order 66 came to be.
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