Beep, beep, beep... The communicator rang. Anakin Skywalker took out his communicator and looked at Padmé Amidala's pre-recorded hologram. Then, he crushed the communicator in his hand.
He turned slightly and looked behind him.
Before him stood an army stretching almost beyond sight! Clone Troopers wearing fully enclosed helmets and white polymer-alloy armor, armed with upgraded DC-15LE blaster rifles, standing there in utter stillness!
An army of one hundred thousand!
And that was not all. Large numbers of armored units, including AT-TE tactical assault walkers, TX-130 Saber hover tanks, AV-7 self-propelled artillery, and Zephyr-G speeder bikes, had also taken up position.
Before this boundless army stood a massive trapezoidal structure. At its summit rose five majestic spires!
Without question, this was the Jedi Temple, which had stood on Coruscant for more than twenty-five thousand years since the founding of the Galactic Republic, even becoming a sacred place of faith in people's hearts.
But now, this holy ground was destined to be consumed by blood and fire...
Anakin Skywalker looked up at the gloomy clouds hanging over Coruscant. It seemed even the weather foretold the tragedy unfolding.
Order 66 was an order to massacre, an order to exterminate...
It was different from the arrest Palpatine had spoken of. This order was meant to wipe out the Jedi Order entirely!
Anakin Skywalker had thought he would fly into a rage and condemn Palpatine for deceiving him. Yet when it all actually happened, when the orders from his own mouth directly led to the brutal deaths of thousands of Jedi Knights, he was strangely calm.
As he watched the horrifying scenes appearing on the holographic display, Anakin Skywalker suddenly realized that he seemed to feel a trace of pleasure.
Jedi Knights were being brutally slaughtered one after another, most of them shot in