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SW Clone Wars Questions

David cgc said:
Steve Mollmann said:
Johnny Rico said:
In the Order 66 novel, does it say how Palpatine was able to enact Order 66, as it has to do with the cloning facility on Kamino?

Because that seemed to be the plan from the very start of the Clone Wars. To eventually defeat the Jedi via Order 66 and by taking over the Kamino facility to mass produce what we all know as Stormtroopers in the early days of the Empire. This is laid out in the first comic of the Clone Wars series. I mean the very first issue...not the TPB. It was actually on the last page of the comic.
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What do you mean? We know how Palpatine enacted Order 66... we saw it in Revenge of the Sith. He called up the clones and said, "Execute Order 66."
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He's asking how Palpatine could've set up 66 and the other contingency orders in the first place without the Jedi or anyone else either knowing or caring. I mean, one would think that if a Jedi caught wind of it, he might wonder what made whoever compiled the standing orders think there might ever be a reason to terminate all of the Jedi with extreme prejudice.
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It was one of a series of 150 contingency orders in which the clones were pre-trained. Order 65 was similar to Order 66, but directed against the Supreme Chancellor, rather than the Jedi.

Here are the known orders, transcribed from Wookiepedia:


  • Order 4: In the event of the Supreme Commander (Chancellor) being incapacitated, overall GAR command shall fall to the vice chair of the Senate until a successor is appointed or alternative authority identified as outlined in Section 6 (iv).
  • Order 5: In the event of the Supreme Commander (Chancellor) being declared unfit to issue orders, as defined in Section 6 (ii), the chief of the defense staff shall assume GAR command and form a strategic cell of senior officers (see page 1173) until a successor is appointed or alternative authority identified.
  • 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 65: In the event of either (i) a majority in the Senate declaring the Supreme Commander (Chancellor) to be unfit to issue orders, or (ii) the Security Council declaring him unfit to issue orders, and an authenticated order being received by the GAR, commanders shall be authorized to detain the Supreme Commander, with lethal force if necessary, and command of the GAR shall fall to the acting Chancellor until a successor is appointed or alternative authority identified as outlined in Section 6 (iv).
  • 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), GAR commanders will remove those officers by lethal force, and command of the GAR will revert to the Supreme Commander (Chancellor) until a new command structure is established.
 
^ Makes sense to me. Coupled with the others it seems like a standard regulation that would be in place.
 
RC novel #3 first transcribed Order 66 from the GAR contingency orders and revealed it was one of 150 orders that covered every conceivable contingency.

Order 66 features a line '...didn't you ever bother to read the contingency orders?' directed at Arlingen Zay a Jedi. with the implication that most Jedi hadn't.

Order 66 actually partly deals in where a lot of the clones come from and recanonises Spaarti cloning cylinders from Zahn's novels, by explaining Spaarti were a rival cloning company to Kamino and that Palps had Spaarti cloning troops at a secret facility on Centax II - one of Coruscant's moons - with these troops forming much of the 501st and the Coruscant defence troops seen in ROTS (guys in red armour at the senate) and that this secret force was the large part that was kicking Sep ass at Coruscant in the Battle Of...
 
The Spaarti cylinders had already been fit back into continuity by Zahn's short story "The Hero of Cartao."
 
I missed 6 of the first 9 episodes. Does anyone know if Cartoon Network runs marathons of these episodes or shows reruns? What day of the week and time?
 
ATimson said:
Cicero said:
^ Where did that appear?
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Star Wars Insider #68-70.
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Has any of the Insider material been reprinted elsewhere so far? I've heard of several possibly interesting stories having been published within it, but don't want to buy more than a couple of magazines which are easily-torn and difficult to store magazines (were the Insider published like the late 90s and early 2000s Star Trek: The Magazine, this would be a very different story).
 
Black Lodge said:
I missed 6 of the first 9 episodes. Does anyone know if Cartoon Network runs marathons of these episodes or shows reruns? What day of the week and time?
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All of the episodes are available on StarWars.Com and the CartoonNetwork website I believe.
 
Black Lodge said:
Does Captain Rex only appear in the Clone Wars? I don't remember seeing him anywhere else.
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I think that in the movie DVD commentary, the producers made note that Captain Rex was Captain Alpha from the Clone Wars comics and perhaps novels (I haven't read of those). They figured since Obiwan had Commander Cody as his trooper confidaunt, Anakin needed his own, and renamed Captain Alpha to Captain Rex for the series.
 
Rex doesn't appear in the RC novels. the only ARCs in those are the Nulls, Kal Skirata's boys, and Maze, Sull and Spar of the Alpha ARCs.
 
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