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The weather was beautiful on Coruscant today: not a cloud in the sky, with the sun shining brightly.
But for everyone on the planet, their spirits were far from high. They had neither the time nor the energy to pay attention to such a trivial thing as the weather!
After all, for the first time in several centuries, Coruscant—the heart of the Republic and the galaxy it belonged to, the greatest planet of all, the cradle that had given birth to the Galactic Republic—had once again been ravaged by the horrors of war.
And it all probably began that morning, when the Jedi Temple came under siege...
Obviously, there was no such thing as a wall that was completely soundproof in this world. Once a second person learned a secret, it was no longer a secret. And the Jedi Temple was certainly the sort of place that attracted the attention and surveillance of certain people!
So, after Anakin and Padmé had spent two days enjoying themselves without a care in the world in those secret rooms in the Jedi Temple that were practically cells, with Obi-Wan—the giant Force-sensitive lightbulb a few walls away—after the Jedi Council elders settled on a seemingly workable plan and began preparing to carry it out, an unexpected turn of events finally occurred...
And the reason it was called an unexpected turn of events was that nobody knew when it would happen, what form it would take, or who it would happen to.
In short, it was completely unreasonable and unpredictable. It erupted before the Jedi Council could launch its operation against the Supreme Chancellor, Palpatine—the man who could now be all but confirmed as the Sith Lord Darth Sidious!
The Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic clearly had some real talent. Otherwise, he could