What If Anakin Skywalker Refused To Execute Order 66 on the Younglings

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What If Anakin Skywalker Refused To Execute Order 66 on the Younglings? Let’s explore the depths of this scenario in the video.

Youngling: Master Skywalker, there are too many of them, what are we going to do?

Anakin looks at the youngling and his friends who are hiding behind the chairs. His orders are clear, no survivors. But as he stares into the child’s eye, he sees the emotions plain on his face. Fear, desperation, but also hope and respect. Though the Jedi Council might have never given him that, many in the Order still saw him as an equal.

His lightsaber feels heavy in his hand and he slips it back into his robes. Anakin bends down and places a hand on the younglings shoulder.

Anakin: Listen very carefully. You are to find a place to hide and stay there until it's all clear. I will ensure that no clones enter this area.

The younglings all seem heartened to have Anakin around and it makes his heart clench about what he did. But he hides his emotions and makes his way out. He tells the clones that he has already secured this area and that no one is to enter as he wants to inspect the Jedi Council Chambers personally after the battle.

Anakin soon departs along with most of his troops, leaving only a small garrison. For almost a day, the younglings remain hidden until they hear the sound of combat outside. The children gather by the windows to see Yoda and Obi-Wan fighting the clones stationed in the courtyard.

As they clear the area, the pair begin searching for survivors. To their surprise, they find a group of Jedi younglings running down the hall. The children rush to greet their masters as the pair exchange looks. They searched through the entire temple and found no signs of anyone, but these untrained children managed to escape.

Obi-Wan: Young ones, how did you survive?

Youngling: Master Skywalker protected us. He led the clones away while we hid in the council chambers.

Obi-Wan: Anakin was here?

The younglings all nodded as they had received no word from Anakin and more importantly, many of the Jedi weren’t killed with blaster fire, but lightsaber wounds and they had found footage of Anakin cutting them down. So why did Anakin help these young ones?

However, they do not have time to question it as they must first find him. Obi-Wan decides to confront Anakin while Yoda takes the younglings to safety. Thankfully, Yoda finds help from Bail Organa who saw the destruction of the Jedi Temple and ferries the survivors to safety. They regroup in a far-off medical station where Padme is staying.

When Obi-Wan returns he comes with grim news. He found Anakin, but the Jedi had gone over to the Dark Side and he was forced to defeat him. However, Yoda was unable to defeat the Emperor, meaning that Palpatine remained in power.

To make matters worse, Padme succumbs to the birthing process, leaving two more younglings in the group, Luke and Leia.

Yoda: Unsafe we are, so long as the empire exists. Exile we must go.

Obi-Wan: but what of the younglings? They are not meant for life on the run?

Bail: I have agreed to take Leia, but bringing this many children to Alderan will raise questions, especially since the Empire already suspects my involvement.

Yoda: Put this burden on you, we shall not. Take the children with me, I shall.

Obi-Wan: And I shall care for Luke. When the time comes, we shall bring them together and restore the Jedi Order.

The others agree with this plan and Yoda heads to Dagobah with the children. There he continues his training with Qui-Gon. Because of them, the Jedi Order can continue, but it cannot do so as it has before. The rise of the Empire has made the flaws of the Jedi Order clear and the old Jedi Master takes a different approach to training then.

Taking everything he learned from Qui-Gon and his experiences in the Wellspring of Life, he begins training the younglings in the ways of the living force just as they should have.

However, things are not going so well for Darth Vader. Although only a few younglings escaped, it does not escape Palpatine’s notice as several clones report how Vader locked down the Council Chambers and how a few children managed to escape.

He pieces together what happened and determines that Vader has not yet fully embraced the Dark Side. This only fuels Palpatine’s resentment towards his apprentice and he becomes determined to squash that weakness from him.

For the next few years, he sends Vader out on missions to hunt down the remaining Jedi, ensuring that Vader kills them and punishing him for every failure. This hardens his apprentice’s heart for the one act of compassion he spends years of punishment and makes him determined to hunt down these lost Jedi and finish them.

Despite all his efforts, he is unable to find the younglings or his former master.
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[deanastephensosborne]

Palpatine in canon had this happened be like: more inquisitiors anakin you did something smart for once

[yigitorhan]

One thing I dislike about the prequels is the part with the younglings. Every scene up to that point tells me that Anakin would not be feeling anything beyond fear of loss, and he should be reluctant enough about his orders that he only does what he does in his desperation to save Padmé. With the circumstances, his feelings of anger would be unfocused and he'd be overall confused and reluctant about everything (since he wouldn't trust Palpatine all that much either, knowing him all his life and him suddenly turning out to be a Sith Lord).

It would be better to get an extra movie out, and rewrite things so that Anakin starts off with more minor betrayals of the Jedi that he can justify to himself to save his wife. Then his growingly desperate actions would be discovered by the Jedi, resulting in a confrontation where Anakin fights so hard in order to accomplish his goal that the Jedi have to cripple him in self defence (the way it happens in Mustafar in the official timeline) in order to survive. His visions come true and Padmé dies while he's being constructed as Darth Vader. Palpatine then uses his grief about his broken body and the death of his wife to pit him against the Jedi, saying it was because of them that he was unable to save her. Then they initiate the Sith grand plan and hunt down the Jedi, turning the Republic into the Empire. The Jedi would have been raising Luke and Leia up to that point, and after surviving the Jedi purge, Yoda and Kenobi would split them up like they do in the original timeline. After all that, Vader would see the Jedi as a bunch of incompetents that couldn't stop a war, and contributed to a reality where a father and husband such as himself couldn't protect his family. He would firmly be seduced by the power of the dark side and be loyal to Palpatine, seeing a reality where he has an iron grip over everything as the only way to bring proper order to the galaxy (as hinted in Attack of the Clones with his conversations with Padmé).

The reality is that the pace of Anakin's fall wasn't adjusted well, and not having enough time and not wanting to break the trilogy formula, George made Anakin kick the metaphorical puppy real quick so that the audience buys that he's evil now.

That's just my two cents.

[Only]

What if order 66 was never meant to kill the jedi instead the order is to capture the jedi for a number of imperial experiments later on?

[private_c]

I like this particular what if when it comes to sparing the younglings. Good boy Anakin for not killing them

[owenscott]

What if danny phantom was in star war prequels movie

[chasetauscher]

What if Anakin became the Daimyo of Tatooine?

[newbornviking]

What if The covenant from halo Had invaded The Star wars galaxy Durban The cold wars ?

[nick_knows_stuff]

The only thing missing was telling Vader he killed Leia to help turn him.

[notapplicable]

The whole reason Bail was allowed to take Leia was to hide both her and Luke, they're supposed to be the only hope, with other children going with Yoda that's moot and why only train Luke when Leia can also train but with yoda. If he's already gonna look after yungons it'd be irresponsible not to train both twins. Only training Luke was always irresponsible, two masters two children, Duh

[TheThunderguardian]

Leia barely got any mention and was never brought up to Luke and Anakin's attention after Vader's bombers blew up her ship. Using the knowledge of Luke being Anakin's son to turn him, yet not mentioning his actions killing his daughter like his wife.

[citingpilot]

What if Anakin Skywalker discovered Gates of Shadows?

[dylanh]

Honestly i think padme could have brought him back at this point as killing the younglins was what really destroyed anakin

[Ravenfanatic]

Saturday+Star Wars=🍿🥤😎. Good video👍🏽👍🏽

[cts]

Seeing your Hazbin Hotel crossover with Anakin Skywalker (really loved it btw, it was a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one ;3) reminded me of my dream crossover, that being a Star Wars x Sailor Moon crossover, idk if it'll ever happen, but hey, here's hoping, right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[tmote-O]

It's a good story, but didn't grab me like some of the other ones. Don't know why.
How about an some school crossovers?
What if Mon'Star, from The Silver Hawks, and his crime syndicate invaded the outer rim worlds?
What if Mumm-Ra, from The Thunder Cats, led the mutants of Plundar in an invasion?
What if Hordak and the hoard invaded the Galactic Republic?

[JohnFourtyTwo]

This is one of the best so far! Great job!👍

Also, Tantive IV is pronounced tan-ta-vee. If you listen to the Star Wars Radio Show, which was produced by Lucasfilm for National Public Radio in the early 1980s, you will find this out. All the Star Wars radio shows for the original are on YouTube.

[notapplicable]

I just can't finish this, Leia who? Leia Nayberrie-Skywalker gets zero respect getting killed by her father. Do the Jedi care? Do the fans?
#wastedpotential

[WilliamStamour-otbu]

I’ve been loving the content lately I can already tell this is a good one ❤

[KellymatthewBarnes]

What if Luke Skywalker completed his training with Master Yoda?

[heavyarms]

Meanwhile Ahsoka is twiddling her thumbs working in a cantina somewhere.

It was all very well thought out at the beginning, but I struggle to see the ending working out that way. They just walk in without Palpatine knowing? Vader's codes or not, this Palpatine is an idiot!