It’s a bit of a joke among Star Wars fans that Order 66 implies there are at least 65 other orders, none of which have ever been elaborated on in canon. That’s why the cloners expected a Jedi to come when Obi-Wan Kenobi visits them in Attack of the Clones. He didn’t live to actually place this order, but Darth Sidious and Count Dooku secretly made sure it moved ahead. Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas had once contacted cloners about ordering the Clone Army because he saw a prophecy of what he thought was an upcoming threat the Republic needed to defend against.
In fact, they were thought to be the work of the Jedi. The creation of the clones couldn’t even be traced to him. This was how Order 66 was possible, whether the clones wanted to follow the order or not. His search eventually leads him right to Palpatine, where the clone guards killed him, never knowing they were serving the person who would one day be responsible for the fall of the Republic.Īs Fives discovered, every clone was implanted with a control chip that could override their free will whenever Palpatine ordered it. When his friend killed a Jedi commander for what seems to be no reason, clone trooper Fives investigates what’s going on. The “Clone Protocol 66” arc in The Clone Wars season 6 shows how an accidental early activation of Order 66 almost revealed the whole plan.
