Attack on the Jedi Temple Following a duel between Mace Windu and Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine , who had been revealed as the Sith Lord Darth Sidious , Anakin Skywalker swore himself to Palpatine and the dark side of the Force . Skywalker was given the name Darth Vader and was then ordered to lead the attack on the Jedi Temple on Coruscant . Vader led the siege of the Jedi Temple with his 501st Legion of clone trooper s . He did not stop until even the Younglings were destroyed , and set the Temple beacon to call the Jedi home , saying the war was over , so that any surviving Jedi might be lured to Coruscant and killed . He later left to tell his wife Padmé Amidala of the situation , and the troops continued the attack independently , notably taking down Zett Jukassa in front of Bail Organa . The attack , along with the execution of Order 66 on other planets , led to the exile and near - extermination of the remaining Jedi . However , two Jedi survivors , Masters Obi - Wan Kenobi and Yoda , managed to infiltrate the Temple and invert the beacon , having it tell all Jedi to stay away from the Temple . Prelude . Since their first encounter , Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine — secretly the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious — had taken an interest in Anakin Skywalker , a boy strong in the Force and intent on learning the ways of the Jedi . He positioned himself as a mentor and father figure to the boy in order to influence his decisions , and eventually make him his apprentice . Skywalker , because of this , trusted Palpatine absolutely , confiding in him his greatest secrets , such as his slaughter of Tusken Raider s on Tatooine . Near the end of the Clone Wars , Palpatine invited Skywalker , who had become a Jedi Knight , to a performance of " Squid Lake " in the Galaxies Opera House . There , he told to Skywalker The Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise , telling him that there were Sith techniques that he could learn to save people - such as his wife - from death . Later , Palpatine admitted to Skywalker that he knew how to utilize the dark side of the Force , and Skywalker realized that he was actually the Sith Lord that the Jedi had been looking for . The Knight was shocked by this revelation , and he fled to the Jedi Temple to inform Jedi Master Mace Windu , who took 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 arm to save the Sith Lord , and Sidious Force push ed Windu out of a window to his death . Skywalker then pledged himself to Sidious ' s teachings in order to save his wife , and was given the Sith name " Darth Vader . " Sidious took this moment to carefully admit that he did not actually know the secret to preserving life , but Vader evidently did not realize what he had said . With that , Sidious declared the Jedi Order an enemy of the Galactic Republic , assigning Vader the task of attacking the halls of the Jedi Temple and eliminating the growing " menace . " A large detachment of troopers from the 501st Legion was transferred to Coruscant to serve Lord Vader during the mission . While Vader prepared to begin his mission , Sidious enacted Order 66 , a mandate that Republic clone troopers across the galaxy had been programmed to follow without question since before the Clone Wars had broken out . It commanded them to kill their Jedi Commander s in the name of the Republic . Within minutes , many Jedi were killed by their formerly loyal troop s , though a few survived the Order . The raid . Marching silently to the gates of the Temple with the clones , Darth Vader led the clones inside where they attacked its residents . The Jedi refused to die without a fight in defense of their home and fought back , killing many clone troopers . Vader altered and broadcast a beacon ordering all Jedi to return to the Jedi Temple because the war was over , leading any who heeded the call to their death at the hands of the clones . Vader went to search the Council Chamber for more survivors , and it was there that he found a large group of younglings . A young boy approached Vader from where the other youngling s had hidden themselves . The boy , not realizing that Skywalker had become Vader and defected to the Sith , asked him what the Jedi were going to do , and in answer , Vader re - ignited his lightsaber and proceeded to execute the entire group . The fierce fighting sparked a blaze which soon engulfed the entire Temple , attracting the attention of hundreds of beings who watched in horror as the ancient edifice burned . Witnessing the smoke and flames 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 Zett Jukassa , a young Padawan , cutting his way through the group in an attempt to escape the massacre . Though Jukassa put up a tremendous fight and killed six clones , including the commanding officer Sergeant Appo , he was soon overwhelmed and shot dead right in front of the horrified Senator . The clones started to fire on Bail Organa until a trooper ordered them to stand down , telling the others not to worry about him . As she meditated in the temple , Shaak Ti was murdered by Vader when he stabbed her through the back . Vader then confronted Cin Drallig , the Temple ' s battlemaster and one of the most powerful Masters in the Temple . After murdering two of Drallig ' s trainees , Bene and Whie Malreaux , the Sith entered a duel with Drallig , but Vader killed him by slashing his shoulder . Soon after , this would be briefly witnessed by Yoda and Obi - Wan Kenobi . As the fighting began to die down , Darth Sidious arrived at the Temple to check on Vader ' s progress . Vader knelt before his Master to be congratulated by the Dark Lord and said to go and bring peace to the rising Empire . Sidious then ordered Vader to travel to Mustafar to eliminate the leaders of the Confederacy of Independent Systems , a unrecognized state opposing the Republic that had seceded three years prior , assembled there by Sidious under the pretense of talks to end the conflict . Aftermath . Leaving the clones to root out any remaining Jedi in the Temple , Darth 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 , saying there were traitors there , too . Before the fires had been doused , an emergency Galactic Senate meeting was called by Palpatine the day after the attack on the Temple . During the assembly , he informed the senators of the Jedi ' s attempt to usurp control of the galaxy and the previous night ' s events . 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 also announced that to prevent another such attempt , the Galactic Republic would be reorganized as a unified body under his sole , absolute authority , the Galactic Empire . The Jedi incursion . Following the raid , two survivors of Order 66 , Masters Yoda and Obi - Wan Kenobi , received the message ordering all Jedi to return to the Temple and immediately recognized it as a trap . Since the emergency Senate session would make it easier to enter the Temple , the two Jedi Masters returned to the Temple during the meeting to take advantage of it . They found the Temple in shambles , fires still burning , and bodies from both sides of the conflict strewn through the halls . After fighting his way through their former allies alongside Yoda , Kenobi was able to enter the beacon room . There , Kenobi reconfigured the beacon to ward Jedi away . They also found a security hologram that showed Vader killing Cin Drallig and his Padawan students before conferring with Sidious . Kenobi was shocked by the revelation that Skywalker , his former Padawan , had fallen to the Dark Side and lead the massacre . In order to find him , he went to Amidala , who had been watching the Jedi Temple burn from afar , and stowed away in secret on her ship when she went to confront her husband on Mustafar . This led to a duel between the two Force users . Before her murder at Darth Vader ' s hand , Shaak Ti managed to record a message on a holocron urging any future readers to carry on the Order and not let the Jedi die in vain . This holocron would end up in the collection of Grakkus , a Hutt crime lord , and the message witnessed by Luke Skywalker . Behind the scenes . The eradication of the Jedi Order and the turning of Anakin Skywalker were first indirectly mentioned in the original trilogy . However , in 2005 , the theatrical release of the , depicting the event for the first time . 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 . 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 interpreting Palpatine ' s scene as from the showdown with Mace Windu , that would place this child as a victim of the raid . 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 .