Operation : Knightfall Operation : Knightfall , which took place in 19 BBY immediately before the end of the Clone Wars , was one of the first conflicts of the Great Jedi Purge . After assisting in the death of Jedi Master Mace Windu and submitting to the tutelage of Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious — known to the galaxy as Palpatine , Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic — Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker fell to the dark side and was anointed Darth Vader . Just afterward , Vader was assigned a detachment of the 501st Legion ' s clone troopers and was tasked with storming the Jedi Temple on Coruscant alongside them . This massacre , as well as the mandate given to the clones instructing them to kill their Jedi officers in the field , marked the beginning of a galaxy - wide hunt for the Jedi . Most of the Jedi inside the Temple were executed by the invaders while the Temple burned , and within minutes of the Purge ' s inception , much of the Jedi Order was wiped out . During the fighting , Vader altered a beacon that alerted Jedi across the galaxy — the ones that had not already fallen to the clones in their ranks — that the Clone Wars were over and ordered them back to the Temple , where a garrison of clone troopers lay in wait to finish them off . All of the Jedi who complied with the beacon ' s mandate were killed by squads of clones , some of whom were disguised as Jedi themselves . To prevent deaths , two surviving Jedi Masters , Obi - Wan Kenobi and Yoda , infiltrated the Temple and switched the beacon , changing the message to ward away any surviving Jedi and instructing them to go into hiding . With the operation ' s completion , the bodies of the slain Jedi were publicly burned in a massive pyre in front of the Jedi Temple ' s public entrance . Prelude . Since their first encounter , Supreme Chancellor Palpatine — secretly the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious — had an interest in Anakin Skywalker , a boy intent on learning the Jedi ways . He positioned himself as a mentor and father figure to the boy in order to influence his decisions . Skywalker trusted Palpatine absolutely , confiding in him his greatest secrets , such as his slaughter of Tusken Raiders on Tatooine , his relationship with Senator Padmé Amidala , her pregnancy with his child , and his visions of her dying in childbirth . In 19 BBY , near the end of the Clone Wars , Palpatine invited Skywalker , who was now a Jedi Knight , to a performance of " Squid Lake " by the Mon Calamari Ballet in the Galaxies Opera House . There , he recited to Skywalker The Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise , telling him that there were Sith techniques that he could learn to save Amidala . Later , Palpatine admitted to Skywalker that he knew how to utilize the dark side of the Force , and Skywalker realized that he was actually a Sith Lord . The Knight was shocked by this revelation , and he fled to the Jedi Temple to inform Jedi Master Mace Windu , who immediately informed the Jedi at the Temple before taking a squad of Masters to apprehend the Sith . In his office on Coruscant , Sidious was confronted by Windu ' s group , and all but Windu were quickly killed by the Sith . Sidious and Windu continued fighting until Skywalker arrived . Deciding that Amidala ' s life was more important to him than his commitment to the Jedi , Skywalker cut off Windu ' s sword arm to save the Sith Lord , and Sidious threw Windu out of a window to his death . Skywalker then pledged himself to Sidious ' s Sith teachings , and was dubbed " Darth Vader . " Sidious took this moment to carefully admit that he did not actually know the secret to preserving life , much to Vader ' s chagrin , but assured his disciple that they would find it together . With that , Sidious declared the Jedi Order a threat to the Galactic Republic , assigning Vader the task of marching through the halls of the Jedi Temple and eliminating this growing " menace . " A large detachment of troopers from the 501st Legion was transferred to Coruscant from the war theater of Utapau to serve Lord Vader during the mission . However , Sidious did not know of Vader ' s true intentions for taking part in the raid on the Temple . Vader , realizing Sidious had been manipulating him all along after his admission that he could not save Amidala , intended to help destroy the Jedi because he knew they would never understand Windu ' s death in the context it would help save the one he loved against the will of the Order ' s tenets . He planned to assist Sidious in his plot to bring the galaxy under his supreme rule only to turn on his new Master once the Jedi were extinguished . Vader knew that the Order would object to the rule of a murderer once he took command , despite his intention of bringing stability to the galaxy ' s citizens through that means . He resolved that the actions he would take that night were necessary for his goal to come to fruition . While Vader prepared to begin his mission , Sidious enacted Order 66 , a mandate that Republic clone troopers across the galaxy had been conditioned to follow without question since before the Clone Wars had broken out . It commanded them to attack and kill their Jedi commanders in the name of the Republic . Within minutes , many Jedi were killed by their formerly loyal subordinates , though some survived the Order . Jocasta Nu , the Chief librarian of the Jedi Archives , sensed something suspicious that night . She dispatched her Padawan , Jin - Lo Rayce , to the lower levels of Coruscant with detailed maps of the planet ' s underbelly to protect him from what shortly became the raid , Operation : Knightfall . The raid . The 501st troopers were transported to Coruscant in several " Venator " - class Star Destroyers that stayed over the city throughout the operation . Marching silently to the gates of the Temple with the clones , Darth Vader was met by Jedi Gate Master Jurokk , whom Vader asked about the whereabouts of the Temple ' s current commander , Jedi Master Shaak Ti . After Jurokk told him that she was meditating in the Temple , Vader killed the Gate Master and led the clones inside . After entering the temple , Vader then demanded that one Jedi draw a lightsaber and become one with the Force , claiming that the Order ' s plot to " overthrow " Chancellor Palpatine had failed , to the Jedi ' s confusion . Vader killed the Jedi , then proceeded to stalk through the halls . He eliminated any Jedi he encountered while destroying any Marksman - H combat remote s he met that were guarding the Jedi Temple . As the troopers dispersed throughout the Temple ' s vaulted halls at Clone Commander CC - 1119 ' s direction , Vader took a small group of clones to capture the communication center via the Jedi Archives . There , a Jedi Knight named Sha Koon , weary from researching and tracking a Sith the Jedi suspected of manipulating the war , awoke to smoke and a battle raging in the Temple . Though surprised at clones in the halls surrounding the Archive , she felt their intent through the Force and blindly fled deep into the Temple . Upon approaching the library , one of the clone units reported in . It informed Vader they were on their way to regroup with him . Vader then engaged two Jedi who created a Force barrier around each other , ensuring Vader could not kill them as they attacked him . However , Vader held them off long enough that the clone unit arrived , killing them . Vader then ordered the commander to take his troops and destroy their ships to ensure none escaped . Vader entered the Temple ' s library with another contingent of clones and told Jocasta Nu to grant him access to the communication room under the Supreme Chancellor ' s orders . When she ignited her lightsaber to confront the Sith , citing that only the Jedi Council could authorize access , Vader used the Force to impale her with his own saber , killing her . After the clones had confirmed that all escaping ships had been destroyed , Vader posted clones at all exits to ensure that no Jedi could leave or enter to aid the Temple forces . Vader rooted out any remaining Jedi that were hidden in the library while the troops placed themselves . Sha Koon sensed Nu ' s death through the Force . In tandem , she also identified Skywalker as the perpetrator of this massacre and realized that he had turned from the light to become a Sith Lord . This heightened her will to survive , which she did by utilizing the same passageways Rayce did to escape , having learned of them from him earlier . Operation : Knightfall . The clones charged into the Temple foyer to meet with heavy resistance from Jedi and Temple Security Force personnel , eventually clearing the High Council Chamber of resistance . They were then ordered to pacify the library and defend holobook shelves from Jedi that were trying to destroy them until a content download could be performed to capture the confidential Jedi information and Sith secrets . After that information was taken , the clones fought to acquire a holocron detailing Sith and Jedi knowledge from the Archives , delivering the device to an awaiting Low Altitude Assault Transport for carriage away from the battle . On Vader ' s front , a Zabrak Jedi activated a ray shield defense system and hid in a shield - protected room during the carnage . Once Vader had disabled the shields and killed the alien , he and a group of clones were ambushed by a band of Jedi Sniper s in a hall . At a clone ' s suggestion , Vader toppled a large statue to crush the warriors and used a chunk to break his way into a study hall , where his party eliminated several Jedi students and a number of Jedi brute s . When Jedi interceptors were launched in an attempt to cut down the clone force , Vader commandeered an anti - aircraft gun to shoot them down , making his way to the communication center at the summit of the High Council Tower once he had finished off the last ship . He altered and broadcast a beacon ordering all Jedi to return to the Jedi Temple on the High Council ' s authority because the war was over , leading any who heeded the call to their death at the hands of the clones . Meanwhile , the Jedi Cin Drallig managed to penetrate upper - level defenses , and Vader elected to deal with him , ordering nearby clone assassin s to guard the beacon with their lives . Hunting the Masters and children . Before tracking down Drallig , Vader made his way through the First Knowledge Quarter to one of the many briefing rooms , where Drallig ' s former apprentice , Serra Keto , confronted Vader and engaged him in a duel . Jumping on a balcony that overlooked a training veranda in the Tower of First Knowledge , she cut into a pillar , but Vader toppled it , using it to crush her . As the remaining Jedi Masters realized that the Temple was lost , they began to send Knights and Padawans out through the Temple Precinct . Vader made his way to the base of the Temple , where he found Drallig guarding a group of fleeing younglings he had been instructing in lightsaber combat in the Room of a Thousand Fountains . After murdering two of Drallig ' s trainees , Bene and Whie Malreaux , the Sith entered a duel with Drallig alongside his remaining padawan . After some time dueling , Drallig ordered the padawan to retreat , beginning to duel Vader personally . Vader killed Drallig by slashing his shoulder . The squad of clones accompanying Vader then blasted at the other Padawans that Drallig was protecting , killing most of them . A Zabrak Jedi had also been assigned to protect a group of younglings . He was caught by Vader and , after a brief duel , was struck down . As the clones continued the attack , Darth Vader discovered Shaak Ti within her chambers . After dueling and disorienting the Sith Lord , she managed to lead a band of Padawans and their Masters out of the Temple and later secured a small number of her charges passage through the Undercity of Coruscant . Arligan Zey , the leader of the clone army ' s Special Operations Brigade , had gone to the Temple upon hearing of the death of General Grievous — a Jedi hunter and Supreme Commander of the Separatist Droid Army — on Utapau , only to be caught in the battle within the halls of his sanctuary . He made it out of the Temple and found his way back to his offices in Arca Barracks , where his aide , an Advanced Recon Commando Captain nicknamed " Maze " , helped him flee the planet . Among the other survivors were Jedi Kazdan Paratus , who ran away in fear ; Jax Pavan , a Jedi Knight ; and the last Curator of Records . The raid continues . Meanwhile , the 501st Legion secured all four Jedi Council chambers and fought the Temple Security Force in the main hall . Darth Vader then returned from his duel with Cin Drallig and collected a holocron from the corpse of a Jedi he had killed alongside his troops . As they focused the brunt of their attack on the hall , three Jedi Masters , who had taken somewhat of a military command over the remaining Jedi , led the last of the Jedi into the main hall in a final attempt to repel the 501st . The Jedi came out in a sudden charge against the clones , but despite their assault , the three were eventually killed along with their allies by the insurgents . Vader ascended the High Council Tower to search the Council Chamber for more survivors , and it was there that he found an entire Clan of younglings . A young boy , Sors Bandeam , approached Vader from where the other Younglings , including Shia Letap and Jeswi Ele , had hidden themselves . Bandeam , not realizing that Skywalker was now Vader and had defected to the Sith , asked him what the Jedi were going to do , and in answer , Vader executed the entire Clan . As the Temple burned , Bail Organa , the senator from Alderaan and a Jedi sympathizer , landed on the landing platform of one of the Tower hangars to investigate the fire . After being turned away by the clones guarding the hangar , the retreating Senator witnessed the execution of Zett Jukassa , a young Padawan . The clones started to fire on Bail Organa until Clone Sergeant Fox ordered them to stand down . Fox , with Jukassa ' s death , felt there had been enough killing that night . As the fighting began to die down , Darth Sidious arrived at the Temple to check on Vader ' s progress . Vader knelt before his Master and was congratulated by the Dark Lord . Sidious ordered Vader to travel to Mustafar to eliminate the leaders of the Confederacy of Independent Systems , a faction opposing the Republic that had seceded three years prior , assembled there by Sidious for talks to end the conflict . Aftermath . As the fires burned through the night , the citizens of Galactic City watched in shock as the symbol of the Jedi was engulfed in flames . A Senatorial body called the Senate Emergency Response declared martial law on Coruscant , locked down the Temple Precinct , and closed the surrounding skylanes , redirecting all traffic away from the district . Coruscant Rescue Ops were forbidden from extinguishing the fires cremating the Temple , and any ship attempting to approach the Temple was assumed to be doing so with treasonous intent . The Coruscant Security Force joined the clones in tracking down fleeing Jedi , and CSF officers assisted when the 501st engaged a group of Jedi trying to escape the Temple via the Shinarcan Bridge Extension . Leaving the Temple , Vader went to visit his wife in her apartment and explained the destruction of the Temple by telling her that the Jedi had betrayed the Republic . He told her where he was going and why while warning her to stay away from other members of the Senate , as he said there were traitors there , too . The entire affair was taped and recorded from afar by numerous outsiders , and the burning Temple was flashed across the HoloNet constantly . Such coverage continued into the days following Operation : Knightfall . These broadcasts , however , were vague , not relating any explanations while spouting speculation as to the statuses of various facets of the Order , leading to much confusion and rampant misinformation . The clones began to count the dead once the Temple was pacified . Jedi Yoland Fee and Master Ali - Alann had been killed by clone troopers . Jedi Knight Olana Chion was presumed to have died that night , though her body was never properly identified . In addition to the Jedi casualties , the entire security force of Jedi Knights had been killed , as well as most of the Temple Security Force and Temple Caretakers present during Operation : Knightfall . Before the fires had been doused , an emergency Galactic Senate meeting was called by Palpatine the day after the raid on the Temple . During the assembly , he informed the senators of the Jedi ' s attempt to usurp control of the galaxy and the night ' s events , producing secretly recorded audio footage from his arrest as evidence that the Jedi had tried to depose the Republic ' s Head of State without a warrant . He also told them of the Temple ' s pacification and the clones ' efforts across the galaxy to wipe out the organization in the wake of that realization . To fully sway his audience to his cause , Palpatine delivered a speech claiming the Jedi had orchestrated the entirety of the Clone Wars to weaken the Republic so that they could take over the galaxy . Palpatine announced that to prevent another such attempt , the Galactic Republic would be dissolved and then reformed as a unified body under his sole , absolute authority , the Galactic Empire . The Jedi incursion . Following the raid , two survivors of Order 66 , Yoda and Obi - Wan Kenobi , received the message ordering all Jedi to return to the Temple and immediately recognized it as the trap it was . Since the emergency Senate session diverted much of the clone garrison stationed at the Temple to the Senate Building , the two Jedi Masters returned to the Temple during the meeting to take advantage of the clones ' reassignment . They found the Temple in shambles , fires still burning , and bodies from both sides of the conflict strewn through the halls . Pillars were broken , walls were shattered , entire walkways had collapsed , and the library ' s bookshelves had been torn to pieces . The duo found that the Temple was still fully guarded by clones of a wide variety of clone classifications , including snipers , blaze troopers , and heavy gunners alongside the standard soldiers , some of whom were disguised as Jedi . After fighting his way through their former allies alongside Yoda , Kenobi was able to enter the beacon room . There , Kenobi discovered the group of assassins that Vader had left guarding the beacon and dispatched all of them before reconfiguring the beacon to ward Jedi away . They found a holocron that depicted Skywalker killing Cin Drallig and his Padawan charges before speaking with his Sith Master . Kenobi was shocked by the revelation that Skywalker , his former Padawan , had lead the massacre . He went to Amidala , who had watched the Jedi Temple burn from afar , and stowed away in secret on her ship when she went to confront her husband on Mustafar . This lead to a duel between the two Force users . The clones continued clean - up operations after the Masters had departed . Piling Jedi bodies and inventorying them with the Archive rosters , they burned the majority of the corpses on the steps of the Temple ' s public entrance . A crowd promptly gathered before the pyre , staring on , confused at the night ' s events . Several Jedi were among their number such as Dass Jennir , Shadday Potkin , and Koffi Arana , who came despite the message warding them away . Jedi Master Kai Hudorra and a Padawan he had traveled to Coruscant with , Noirah Na , had discarded their comlinks and came unaware of the retransmitted message warning them to stay away . One of the Jedi ' s dwindling number charged the Temple steps , calling for the other Jedi to join him , only to be swiftly killed by the clones . His death upset those there , and the procession quickly disbanded . Murkhana . The Jedi beacon ' s message reached the Outer Rim world Murkhana , where it was received by Jedi Master Roan Shryne . Master Bol Chatak , her Padawan Olee Starstone , and Shryne escaped their former compatriot clones after Order 66 came down , surviving the initial wave of killings . Intent on following their orders , they made their way to Murkhana City , where they found transport off - world . However , before they could secure a starship , the group received the second message from the Temple . The trio was flabbergasted by the contradictory transmission , but before they could think about it , a large force of clones took them into custody . Shryne and Starstone escaped capture and fled without Chatak , who had been decapitated by Vader . The pair eventually learned of what had happened in the last few days : that the first Galactic Empire had risen , while the Jedi Order was no more . The duo resolved to find the other Jedi that had survived so that they could band together and rebuild the Order from the ground up . Confusion . Rumors spread like wildfire in the wake of the Temple massacre . One such one was that , because it was not publicly known they were the same man , Anakin Skywalker had fought with the Jedi to protect the Temple from Vader and the 501st . Supposedly , Skywalker had outlived all other Jedi and had faced the Republic onslaught alone , eventually dying while defending a group of children . He would be considered the best of the entire Order by Nick Rostu , a man who served as an officer in the Republic army during the Clone Wars , as well as the greatest hero the galaxy had to offer by the public - at - large . Rostu felt that his death was the reason the Republic fell to Palpatine ' s dictatorship . Alternatively , people believed newly christened Galactic Emperor Palpatine when he claimed that the Jedi had attempted to dominate the galaxy . He used such remarks to justify the slaughter of the Jedi in the Temple and elsewhere as part of the Great Jedi Purge , asserting that the 501st had been dispatched to the Temple to reason with the Jedi over their attempt to arrest him . He hailed the clones for killing the traitors without any sort of hesitation when they refused to negotiate and attacked instead . Jedi Master Minos Fel ' Kona survived Order 66 and took shelter on the planet of Cularin like many other Jedi . He was disillusioned by Palpatine ' s claim that the Jedi Order was the galaxy ' s enemy and decided to write about it in a digital journal . The datapad detailed his feelings in the wake of the Empire ' s rise to power . Fel ' Kona ' s message was later found and uploaded to the Cularin HoloNet . In the Outer Rim Territories aboard the starship " Gray Pilgrim " , the Padawan Maris Brood and her master felt a disturbance in the Force following Operation : Knightfall and Order 66 . All their attempts to contact the Jedi Temple received no response , Brood ' s Master left her , in search of answers . Her master told her that the Jedi Order had been wiped out by Darth Vader , but he disappeared . Brood swore revenge on Vader for what he had done , but was found by Shaak Ti , who talked her down . The two settled on the planet of Felucia and lived together for a number of years . Nonetheless , Brood never let those vengeful feelings subside . Legacy . Sidious sent Vader to the Temple months after the massacre to retrieve some information on rumored Sith holocrons that had possibly been hidden somewhere in the library ' s vaults . Vader believed he recognized Sidious ' s true intent right away : his Master wished to remind him of what he had done , that he now served the Sith . Upon reflection , Vader believed that his actions were like any duty he had performed as a Jedi : he had completed it to the best of his ability and felt no remorse for any of those he killed . In fact , he felt that his mission was more righteous than anything he had done for his former allies . In reality , Sidious sent him to the Temple to accept what he had done there so he could move past it , becoming stronger , and so that he would become docile in his apprentice position . Sidious was confused when , instead , Vader returned to him more angry than before and feared that he had inadvertently made Vader more discontent with his position . Around that time , a new organization surfaced on Coruscant , a resistance against the totalitarian government known as the Whiplash . These people assisted some of the Temple workers that had survived Operation : Knightfall and rumors surfaced suggesting that Jedi Knights and Padawan learners were also in their care . These political undesirables , labeled " enemies of the state , " were transported along a system of safe houses and shelters known as the Underground Mag - Lev and were helped off - planet . Some of them even joined the organization . Following the battle , every official recording of the battle was erased and the Temple remained virtually untouched as a monument to Palpatine ' s power as well as a warning to his enemies , with the primary exception of the Jedi library . The room ' s contents were stripped bare , looted , or vandalized beyond any chance of retrieval as time passed after the Operation . The only official records of the battle came from printed sources , more specifically an article on the 501st Legion by Commander Mak Tennar , included in the " " military guidebook . Luke Skywalker , the son of Anakin Skywalker , would later note in the handbook that it and other printed statements are the only details of the battle he could find , and wished he could find out more about the event . No battle damage or vandalism was ever repaired . The only addition was a landing platform , made to replace the destroyed hangar , which jutted out of the side of the structure . Many pathways in the Temple were permanently sealed by debris , and the building was used to store lightsabers taken from many slain Jedi , among them Tru Veld ' s . Rumors about the Temple being used as a Jedi prison were spread by the Empire to lure any curious Jedi to the area so they could be captured ; Jedi Fy - Tor - Ana and former Padawan Ferus Olin both fell for this ruse . When the Jedi were reformed as the New Jedi Order , Jedi archivist s like Mander Zuma , active in 19 ABY , were charged with finding duplicate examples of documents recovered from the ruined Archives to authenticate the findings . Anakin Skywalker ' s personal astromech droid , R2 - D2 , stole a brief clip of Vader and a group of clones killing Drallig and his Padawan charges . He reluctantly showed it to Skywalker ' s son , Luke , fifty - five years later . In 40 ABY , Luke ' s nephew , Jacen Solo , was conflicted over his own decision to become a Sith Lord so , in the replacement Jedi Temple , he flow - walked back to the time of the raid to understand his grandfather ' s motive for the attack . Solo watched Vader murder many Jedi , but was interrupted by a clone trooper who raised his blaster rifle toward the time traveler and forced him to return to his own time . In 138 ABY , Darth Krayt , who had been a Jedi at the time of the Operation , recalled feeling the screams of the dying Jedi and an extreme intent to kill through the Force after Order 66 . Krayt was about to invade the Temple of the Sith , the rebuilt Jedi Temple that had fallen to the Sith in the wake of another Jedi Purge 149 years after Operation : Knightfall . He compared that murderous intent to his own toward his Voice , Darth Wyyrlok , who had grievously wounded Krayt and usurped the reestablished Imperial throne from him . Behind the scenes . The eradication of the Jedi Order and the turning of Anakin Skywalker were first indirectly mentioned in the original trilogy and later in " The Courtship of Princess Leia " by Dave Wolverton , though the circumstances of these events were not . However , in 2005 , the " Star Wars Episode III : Revenge of the Sith " and the were published prior to the theatrical release of the , depicting the event for the first time . That notwithstanding , the event was barely touched upon in the novel , which skipped to the scene with Bail Organa after Darth Vader killed Jurokk . " " , a non - canon ical video game that was released three days after the novels , contained the first visual presentation of the event . The brief scene was based upon the scene in " Revenge of the Sith " in which Yoda and Obi - Wan Kenobi watch holographic security footage of Vader ' s actions . Shaak Ti is seen being killed in her chamber — a scene that was to be in the movie before it was cut — followed by Vader kneeling to Darth Sidious , as seen in the film . George Lucas , the creator of " Star Wars " , felt that the portion of the raid featuring Sors Bandeam and his clan was a very necessary one . He wanted to demonstrate just how far Skywalker had fallen from his pedestal as a Jedi Knight , but he had absolutely no intention for actually showing them killed . Nonetheless , another child , Zett Jukassa , was killed on screen . He was portrayed by Lucas ' s son , Jett Lucas . The circumstances surrounding the raid were further explored in " " and the , which made the massacre playable while also revealing some of the secondary objectives of the transforming Republic , such as the acquisition of data from the Jedi library . The Nintendo DS version of " Revenge of the Sith " erroneously implied that Operation : Knightfall had occurred just as Obi - Wan Kenobi had arrived at Utapau , instead of after . " Battlefront II " showed Kenobi fighting alongside the 501st there before they were transferred to Coruscant . In the " Revenge of the Sith " video game , Vader and the clones were confronted by Jedi classified as Jedi brutes and Jedi snipers . After the game ' s release , Leland Chee described these as simply generic , game mechanical characters and that these were not to be taken as canonical designations . His ruling on this was later superceded by their inclusion in Daniel Wallace ' s " " . " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " stated that Serra Keto had been expelled from the Order before an eventual death at the hands of Vader , while the " Revenge of the Sith " video game clearly shows her fighting Vader as a Jedi Knight during Operation : Knightfall . Also , " The Essential Atlas " by Daniel Wallace and Jason Fry , released in 2009 , mentions the Operation in its section on the events of " Revenge of the Sith " . In it , the book states that the Operation was a part of Order 66 . However , this is wrong because it took place upon Sidious ' s personal command to Vader , not because of his subsequent enaction of Order 66 . In the episode " Ghosts of Mortis , " the Son shows Anakin Skywalker a vision of his future that included portions of the events of " Revenge of the Sith " . One of these visions was of Skywalker raising his lightsaber to strike down a child immediately after a vision of Palpatine using Force lightning , and before he saw his strangling Padmé Amidala with the Force just before his duel with Obi - Wan Kenobi . Taken as chronological visions of the movie , and interpereting Palpatine ' s scene as from the showdown with Mace Windu , that would place this child as a victim of Operation : Knightfall . Cut content . Originally , Kenobi and Yoda were to be greeted by a squad of clone troopers disguised as Jedi in the movie . A promotional image of Temuera Morrison as one of these clones is on the second disc of the " Revenge of the Sith " DVD set , suggesting that they were considered for the movie . These clones were included as playable characters — though not in the story — in " LEGO Star Wars : The Video Game " and its compilation game , " " . Nonetheless , a group of these clones appeared in the novelization , making them canonical .