Executive Order Codes for the Grand Army of the Republic

The Executive Order Codes for the Grand Army of the Republic,Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire also known as the 150 general orders, were a set of directives memorized by every clone trooper of the Grand Army of the Galactic Republic. Along with the Supreme Chancellor, the Galactic Senate's Republic Security Council was capable of activating any of the orders.Rise of the Separatists Order 65 was a directive that declared the Supreme Chancellor an enemy of the Republic, while Order 66 declared the Jedi Order an Republic enemy. Order 66 was issued by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, secretly a Dark Lord of the Sith, and implemented by the Republic's clone troopers in hunting down and eliminating all Jedi. Order 66 led to the Great Jedi Purge and the end of the Clone Wars.
==Behind the scenes==
The 150 general orders were first mentioned in the new Star Wars canon in Rise of the Separatists, a 2019 supplement to Fantasy Flight Games' series of Star Wars Roleplaying products. The orders first appeared in the Star Wars Legends, where they were identified as Contingency Orders for the Grand Army of the Republic: Order Initiation, Orders 1 Through 150 in the junior novelization of Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith, authored by Patricia C. Wrede and published in 2005.Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith junior novelization
==Sources==
*Rise of the Separatists 
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*Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire 
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