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Infiltration of the Jedi Temple

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Legends. This article is part of Legends: the expanded-universe stories that Lucasfilm set apart from canon in 2014.

Immediately following Order 66, which saw the mass execution of Jedi across the galaxy, surviving Jedi Masters Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda conducted an infiltration of the fallen Jedi Temple on Coruscant. The temple had been attacked by Anakin Skywalker, Kenobi's former Padawan who had recently succumbed to the Dark side of the Force and taken the name Darth Vader. Except Yoda, Kenobi was unaware of Skywalker's fall or the cause of Order 66, and planned to return to the temple to investigate, as well as shut down an emergency beacon that had been activated by Vader that recalled Jedi back to the Temple and into a trap.

At the Temple, occupied by clone troopers, Kenobi and Yoda encountered and fought Decoy Squad Five, a clone squad whose members had disguised themselves as Jedi to lure any stragglers into a trap. They fought more clones at a surface entrance and continued to face different types of clone troopers on their way up to the security station. On their way they discovered the corpses of their Jedi brethren and noticed that several had been killed by lightsaber strikes, but had little time to mourn as they hid from the thousands of clone troopers at the Temple.

After reaching the security station Kenobi fought a group of clone assassins posted there by Vader and deactivated the beacon, after which the younger Jedi examined the security holograms to discover who had invaded the Temple. To his horror, Kenobi discovered Skywalker's betrayal with a hologram of him personally leading the attack on the temple. With their knowledge, Kenobi and Yoda set out to destroy the Sith perpetrators of the Jedi massacre, with Yoda fighting Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious in the Senate Building on Coruscant, while Kenobi confronted his former apprentice on the planet Mustafar.

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Facts

Prev
Operation: Knightfall
Order 66
Conc
Declaration of a New Order
Mission to Mustafar
Next
Duel on Mustafar
Skirmish in the Senate
Conflict
Great Jedi Purge
Objective
Deactivate beacon at the Jedi Temple
Investigate betrayal of the Jedi Order
Date
19 BBY
Place
Jedi Temple, Coruscant
Result
Pyrrhic Jedi victory
Emergency signal deactivated
Jedi discover Anakin Skywalker's transformation into Darth Vader
Side 1
Jedi Order
Side 2
Galactic Republic/Galactic Empire
Commanders (side 1)
Grand Master Yoda
Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi
Commanders (side 2)
Clone trooper commander†
Clone trooper sergeant†
Unit2
Decoy Squad Five
Ppl1
Two Jedi Masters
Ppl2
Thousands of Clone troopers
Disguised Clone Troopers
Clone assassins
Clone blaze troopers
Clone heavy gunners
Clone snipers
Low Altitude Assault Transport/infantry
Casual1
None
Casual2
All 8 members of Decoy Squad Five
Many clones
All Low Altitude Assault Transport/infantry

Appearances

11 works, in story order
  1. Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
  2. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith novelization
  3. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith abridged audiobook
  4. Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith junior novelization
  5. Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: The Movie Storybook
  6. Star Wars Revenge of the Sith Interactive Play-A-Sound
  7. Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith video game
  8. Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith 4
  9. The Last of the Jedi: The Desperate Mission (indirect mention)
  10. The Last of the Jedi: Underworld (indirect mention)
  11. The Life and Legend of Obi-Wan Kenobi (indirect mention)
Non-canon appearances: 4
  1. LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game
  2. LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
  3. LEGO Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith DK Reader (pictured only)
  4. William Shakespeare's Tragedy of the Sith's Revenge: Star Wars Part the Third

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