Order 66 Was Even Smarter Than You Thought: How Palpatine Tricked The Jedi Into Training Their Own Killers

In more ways than one, Palpatine manipulated events so that the Jedi themselves trained their own killers in the Star Wars canon. As seen in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Palpatine enacted Order 66, a protocol that saw the Grand Army of the Republic turning against their Jedi generals and commanders, brutally ending the Jedi Order which had stood for thousands of years. However, a few key elements leading up to Revenge of the Sith show how Palpatine essentially tricked the Jedi into training the clones to one day overpower them.