20 Useless Things You Probably Never Knew About Star Wars

18. The Empire Had 84 More Orders After Order 66

Darth Vader Orson Welles
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To say Emperor Palpatine wasn't a man with a plan is just ludicrous. The man in the shadows had been plotting his takeover of the galaxy for decades before exacting his revenge on the Jedi with Order 66: an instruction to all clone soldiers to exterminate the Jedi.

However, 66 seems like such a randomly selected number, and indeed it's just one of the many orders the Empire had to rely on in times of need. How many, exactly?

150, apparently.

Annoyingly, only five have full disambiguation on the internet's home of all things Star Wars, and another is speculated upon by Darth Vader (basically that Palpatine has a plan in place to bump him off should he need to).

So, with 84 Contingency Orders to go after eliminating the Jedi, what on Earth are they all George!?

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