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Given the fact that every soldier looks exactly the same, I think it's going to be rather difficult to hide the fact that they are clones.

Durran Korr wrote:Maybe this was anticipated by Palpatine, and he's going to use this fact to label the Jedi as the warmongers who worked behind the scenes to manufacture the war.

The more I learn about the Sith Plan, the more beautiful it is.

According to the history of the Sith, they tried to take down the Jedi and conquer the republic several times. But when they went after the Republic, the Jedi beat them down, and when they went after the Jedi the Republic beat them down. Since one side supports the other, and they stop you before you can get big enough to take them both at once, what's the plan?

Turn one against the other.

And that's exactly what they do. Over the course of 1000 years, the Sith built up wealth and hid themselves, only to work at taking down the Republic from the inside. The dark side is just makes it easier, since complete mind control is right up their ally, and that just expidites things. Then there is blackmail, the creation of false scandels, etc. And eventually, all this backstabbing and trickery gets Palpatine on the top of the heap.

Now comes Phase 2. His apprentice triggers a war with himself as the head of the other faction. Now they get to play both sides towards the middle. Since the Chancellor knows what the Jedi are doing (since they act with Republic authority and sanction), he knows exactly where they will strike next. He contacts his apprentice, and when the Jedi are making an attack, the Confederate forces are ready. When the Clones attack, the Confederate forces are again ready... ready to lose that is. This way the Jedi are being killed, and the clones are being the heros of the war. The number of dead doesn't matter, first because they are evil, and second because they want the Jedi dead, they just make more clones, and they just make more droids.

The use of droids is ingenius by the way. Sure they are cheap, easy to break, and can't shoot very well, but they are machines, so the Jedi can't detect them, can't use mind tricks, and are easily overwhelmed by shear volume of the things.

Now after the war, things are perfect. Tons of Jedi are dead. The Jedi are also blamed for the devestaton because A) they triggered the was with their attack on Genosis, and B) a force user (and incidently a former Jedi, though this could have worked with Maul just as well) was leading the rebels. And since the Clones win all the major battles, they are the war heros, not the Jedi. And the Jedi were never that trusted in the beginning (TPM indicates they were feared and disliked based on how Watto and the Federation people act). They have powers (making people both jealous and wary) and have isolated themselves from the rest of the galaxy. The EU indicates they are tainted for supporting an increasingly corrupt Republic. And stealing babies isn't going to do much for your popularity either. So the Jedi are reviled by the populace, the Sith Master commands a huge military force (leftover from the war), powerful Jedi have turned to the darkside, and their ally the Republic was completely subverted.

Declare them enemies of the Republic and war criminals, and let the purge begin.

Jim Raynor wrote:One thing I can't understand is how the Jedi rationalize the clones with their own philosophy. The Jedi at the end of AOTC seemed WAY too accepting of the clones. Clones have been shown in the EU to create disturbances in the Force.

Darth Yoshi wrote:It could also have something to do with the speed with which clones are grown.

Master of Ossus wrote:It does. That was stated in DFR. The ysalamiri allow clones to be grown in a matter of weeks or months, rather than years.

une wrote:Maybe that's part of Palpatine's plan. He pushes the creation o the clone army onto the Jedi to make it seem like they started the clone wars. this would lead to a legitimate reason for wiping them out.