Countless Clone Troopers formed ranks and surrounded the Jedi Temple on all sides.
Anakin Skywalker, clad in a black cloak, wore a sinister expression as he led the army step by step up the stairs before the Temple's main entrance.
Statues of ancient Jedi stood tall on either side of the Jedi Temple's main gate, solemn and majestic. The enormous gate, over a hundred meters high, also displayed the Jedi Order's dignity and heritage accumulated over tens of thousands of years.
But now, this most sacred place in the entire Milky Way Galaxy was finally being trampled upon!
Shaak Ti, the current leader of the Jedi Order, stood at the entrance. Though she was so small before that army of a hundred thousand, she remained standing tall, holding back the Galactic Republic's forces all by herself.
Yet behind her stood the immense Jedi Temple. Its heavy architecture and sculptures lent a weight and solidity to her slender frame.
"Anakin Skywalker! You have finally come to this point... I never could have imagined that it would be you!" Shaak Ti demanded sternly as she looked at Anakin.
"The era of the Jedi Order is over! Lay down your resistance, open the archives, and submit to the Republic's interrogation!" Anakin Skywalker shouted.
"We trusted you so deeply. We trained you. And this is the final answer you give us? Do you truly understand nothing?" Shaak Ti shook her head in pain. "You are the Chosen One. You are a Jedi Knight! You should have protected all of this, not become a tool for Palpatine's personal ambition! He is also a Sith..."
"You are the one who understands nothing, Master Shaak Ti! The Jedi Order has become an obstacle to the Galactic Republic. Your existence can only keep dragging the Republic toward the