Does the Clone Army order and Order 66 make any sense?


We know that the Jedi Syfo Dyas rocked up ten years before the events of this film armed with a big bag of cash, paid in full for the creation and upbringing of literally thousands of troops, then disappeared into the sunset never to be seen again.

Nobody, either within the Jedi order or within the Republic, noticed this huge wad of cash had disappeared from a bank account somewhere without anyone else's knowledge?

And then - despite the order being placed by this Jedi (shifty money stealing or not) - the Komodians decide to embed the Jedi ordered clones with a Jedi destroying override function?

How does this work?

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It doesn't work. Its a plot hole

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How is it a plot hole?

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Because the plan makes no sense

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Thought the clones fought on behalf of the Jedi against the Droid army of the trade Federation and Dooku. The plan between whatever ord was leading Dooku and Palpatine though is to start a war, in which they could have everyone fighting themselves so they could rise in power.

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I always assumed that Palpatine had ordered and paid for the Clone Army, years before he started working up the Seperatists to start a huge war. His plan was to start a war the Republic couldn't win, make sure the Clones became their primary fighting force, and use the Clones to take out the Jedi, leaving himself in control of the dominant army in the galaxy and facing no opposition.

I don't know if Palpatine himself ordered the Clones under a false name or if the Jedi Sifo Dyas was a Sith or a Stooge, but everything about the Clone Army had Palpy's Sithy fingerprints on it and I assume Palpatine provided the money - and I don't consider anything about the origin of the Clones to be a plothole at all (just something that wasn't adequately explained). I consider it evidence that Palpatine had been working on his plot to take over the galaxy for at least a decade, or however long it takes clones to grow up, and was the smartest person in the galaxy (I LOVE Palpatine!).

Now, Syfo Dyas appeared on "Clone Wars", as an old madman who's rescued by Obi-Wan from some jerkwater prison, but I can't remember what he revealed about ordering the clone army. And I can't be arsed to look it up at this hour.

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