DarthBoba posted:
I looked on the Wookiepedia page; I don't see anything about that, and there's a number of problems about it, really.
1. A big part of Sidious' plan was making it appear as though the Jedi started the war and were in fact behind it. There's really no way to tie the Jedi into starting the invasion of Naboo, at least, nothing as good as one of their former Masters being the Sep leader.
2. One of the presumed sides-the Republic-doesn't have an army to fight with. There's the system forces and the Judicial Department, but neither of those are personally loyal to Palpatine like the clonetroopers are, which was of critical importance to Palpatine's plot-I don't see regular soldiers executing Order 66 without a second thought, which leads to point number three...
3. Order 66 was the keystone to Palpatine's triumph, and it depended on the soldiers being so single-mindedly loyal that Palpatine simply had to give the order and it would be executed without a single doubt. If he attempted it with regular soldiers-who, by that point, may have been far more personally loyal to their Jedi commanders than to the Republic or Palpatine-it might have horrendously backfired and resulted in Palpatine being mercilessly hunted by an alerted Jedi Order with a galaxy's worth of soldiers at their command.
If the clone army had been ready in time for Naboo, then there's no particular reason the war couldn't have started there-but it wasn't.
Yes, I always interpreted the whole PT to indicate that everything basically went according to Palpatine's plan (with the exception of a few "hiccups" here and there that he quickly adjusted to).
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