

Source: Republic Commando: True ColorsĚttribution: Karen Traviss Sufficiently buried among the other one hundred forty-nine orders so as to almost escape notice, Contingency Order 66 specifically dealt with the effect on the chain of command were issues to arise involving the Jedi. Many dealt with contingencies specifically involving the GAR Supreme Commander - in this case, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine - and the effect on the chain of command were he ever to become incapacitated or declared unfit to issue orders.

Some of these orders concerned contingencies any armed force could conceivably face. Order 66 could be found in the document entitled Contingency Orders for the Grand Army of the Republic: Order Initiation, Orders 1 through 150, GAR Document CO(CL) 56-95, a document containing a series of special contingency orders that covered any and all emergency situations, which the clones that comprised the GAR were prepared to execute, immediately and without question, and only in specific cases of extreme necessity. The dark side of the Force surrounds the Chancellor." There are few Jedi that can long hold their ground against a hundred attackers all firing at once. "Statement: Overwhelming odds is also a good tactic, master. The Jedi Order survived through acts of Jedi, such as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda teaching Luke Skywalker the ways of the Force.
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Its issuing by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine marked the formal beginning of the Great Jedi Purge, the rise of the Galactic Empire and was chief among the atrocities that led to the Galactic Civil War.Īlmost all of the Jedi were killed by Order 66, and most of the survivors were killed in the Great Jedi Purge that followed. The order branded the Jedi as traitors of the Republic and called for their immediate execution without question. Order 66 was one of a series of contingency orders that the clone troopers of the Grand Army of the Republic were trained to prepare for during their growth. Write the first paragraph of your article here.
