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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3652204" data-attributes="member: 13966">Not really.  Palpatine or the Jedi who commissioned the clone army in the first place (probably a Sith apprentice or something to Palpatine) likely informed the clone troopers of Order 66 before they even got deployed, or shortly after they were deployed, so the clone troopers would have 'known' that it was possible the Jedi Order might betray the Republic and try to take control (even though it was only Palpatine's propoganda).Once the order was given, the clone troopers knew what they had to do, and the Jedi were caught by surprise.  The Jedi were spread thin in trying to deal with the Separatists and the possibility that Sith were active in secret and needed to be dealt with.  Then all of a sudden, most of the Jedi were being shot at by their own clone troopers, entire squads, platoons, or more of them, all trying to gun down the few Jedi.And keep in mind that, as Yoda mentioned in the prequels, the Jedi Order was keeping secret the fact that their strength in the Force was weakened at that time, because the Dark Side had grown stronger and the Light Side was weaker than it had been in a long time.  The Jedi couldn't rely on Force premonitions or powers as much as they could have in the past, as Anakin had not brought balance to the Force yet as the Jedi were hoping.  Only Anakin, Dooku, and Palpatine were really strong in the Force at that time, drawing on the Dark Side (and Anakin just being very highly talented in the Force, bordering on the edge of the Light Side and the Dark Side).Outnumbered, any Jedi will fall to a mass of troopers shooting at him or her from multiple sides, even if he or she manages to deflect the first barrage and cut down a few attackers; even more likely when that Jedi is surprised, something they're not used to because their Force sensitivity would usually warn the Jedi if someone nearby had menacing plans toward them.  The clone troopers were just following an order though, and had fought beside the Jedi, so they weren't really malicious, just believing in their orders, Order 66 in that case (loyalty to their commands was genetically ingrained in them by the cloners, after all).</blockquote>

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