[ SECRET POST #5531 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5531 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, but the world without fallen Anakin probably would have missed out on the Jedi baby slaughter.

More generally, Palpatine would have been deprived of one of his most powerful weapons, and all canon implications are that there wasn't another Jedi who was both strong enough and uncertain enough to suit Palpatine's purposes. Taking Vader out of the picture doesn't stop the world being set on fire, but it possibly makes the fire more containable. Or, at the very least, makes it no less containable and potentially prevents a bunch of psychic preschoolers from being murdered.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

Again, depends. We have no way of knowing, but Order 66 was a function of the Clone plan, and probably didn't actually need Anakin himself to enact. So whatever Jedi General was on-planet would have been offed, and the Clone forces march on the temple anyway. Maybe without Anakin, the defense hold longer and the kids get away, but maybe they don't. With the chips, the clones aren't going to balk at kids, because they can't, so if the Sith forces breach the temple at all, the slaughter of the younglings is absolutely still on the cards.

Anakin's turn is so late in the war. There's so many pieces already in play, ticking down to the fall of the Order. The Seperatists. The war. Palpatine's ascension to Chancellor and then use of the war to alter and strengthen the position. The Clone troopers. Order 66. Anakin didn't cause or even really hasten any of that. That's all been in the works for a literal decade before Anakin ever falls. Darth Vader is a bonus prize for Sidious, but he already had the galaxy ready and waiting.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

You can't contain what you don't know about, though.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

Palpatine was going to come out eventually. Otherwise, his whole "take over the known universe" scheme kind of fizzles.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

Well, yes, but even in canon with Anakin, he wasn't actually outed as a Sith until he was already Chancellor and Order 66 was imminent. Without Anakin to tip Mace off, Order 66 could well have gone off long before he's outed. He's playing the civilian chancellor to the hilt, the Jedi combatants are murdered in one fell swoop, any clone troopers he has on Coruscant kill the temple, and literally no one knows he's a Sith for the entire thing. He takes over as Emperor in the aftermath, exactly as he did in canon. No part of his plan actually depended on turning Anakin. As soon as he got the clone troops up and running, and had a war set up to put the Jedi in their sights, he had the Order toppled. Once he's Emperor, outing himself as a Sith does ... probably nothing. The canon Empire had no problems with it, after all.