Executive Order Codes for the Grand Army of the Republic

The Executive Order Codes for the Grand Army of the Republic, also known as the 150 general orders, were a set of directives encoded on inhibitor chips implanted into the brain of every clone trooper of the Grand Army of the Galactic Republic. Along with the Supreme Chancellor, the Galactic Senate's Republic Security Council was capable of activating any of the orders. Order 65 was a directive that declared the Supreme Chancellor an enemy of the Republic, while Order 66 declared the Jedi Order enemies of the Republic. Order 66 was issued by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, secretly a Dark Lord of the Sith, and implemented by the Republic's clone troopers in hunting down and eliminating all Jedi. Order 66 led to the Great Jedi Purge and the end of the Clone Wars.

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