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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 205288" data-attributes="member: 99">The following is pure speculation.First, maybe Palpatine really wanted Amidala dead but not with the bomb at the landing platform.  That bomb would give him an excuse to assign some Jedis to protect her.  When she died later from the second attack (I think the bugs were simply done for purposes of making the movie more exciting.  But explosives were used in the first attack and therefore doing something different the second time was a good tactical move.) it would be a major blow to those opposed to the creation of an Army of the Republic.  Furthermore, it would discredit the Jedis who were protecting her and possibly hasten Anakin on his journey to the Dark Side.I'll posit that if the Jedi never discovered the existence of the clone army that it would have been just fine with Palpatine.  When the droid army started attacking the Republic, two things would instantly happen.  First, the Jedi (being the only defense forces the Republic had) would rush to try and fend them off.  We already saw that they would have been on the losing end of that battle.The second thing would be that the Senate would vote for Palpatine to defend the Republic by any means necessary.  Once most of the Jedi were dead trying to defend against the droid army, Palpatine could go and retrieve his clone army and rescue the Republic from its plight.  That is the kind of thing that gets one voted Emperor for life.The best part of this whole scenario is that with Palpatine holding the strings on both armies, he can orchestrate the war for maximum dramatic effect.  He can have the droid army attack targets important to the Jedi in order to bring them to battle where they can be destroyed.  If too many systems start thinking that hope is lost and that they should surrender to the Seperatists, no problem.  Just stage a dramatic loss by the droid army.Frankly, the whole plan seems pretty elegant and low risk.Looked at from this perspective (and again, this is just brainstorming on my part), things didn't go great for Palpatine in Ep II.  Yeah, he got the clone army that he wanted.  But he didn't get to use the droid army as an anvil to smash the Jedi against.  Because Obi-Wan not only discovered his clone army, but also his droid army, the Jedi actually swiped the "clone card" from Palpatines hand and played it sooner than he would have liked.Maybe I'm wrong about all of this.  But it would explain that Palpatine wasn't planning on sheer serendipity in order to eventually bring his clone army into play.</blockquote>

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