How come the clones did not attack Anakin?

Now when Chancellor Palpatine places Order 66, everyone knows that is the Jedi termination order. Even if the Jedi Council didn't trust Anakin, and even if Darth Sidious assumed that Anakin hadn't known about the Jedi's so-called plot to take over the Senate, how are the clones programmed to attack every single Jedi and not attack Anakin?

I understand Anakin was a Sith during the time of the attack on the Jedi temple and what have you. But wouldn't Sidious, with trying to make Anakin his apprentice, placed an order to the clones not to attack Anakin? As a Sith, Darth Vader is wearing Jedi robes and has a lightsaber with a blue blade which signifies action, in accordance with the Jedi Order and not a red blade like the Sith.

Discuss.

 

Well Anakin is pretty famous so they wouldn't really have a problem not knowing who he was. Plus Anakin was the only one there fighting other Jedi with a Lightsaber. So it is pretty easy to tell that he is on your team when he is cutting down other Jedi.

 

I think that pretty much sums it up.

 

I overstand that completely. But do the clones know he's a Sith?

 

Yes, but how are the clones aware of this before the attack on the Jedi temple take place?

Aayla Secura, Plo Koon, Master Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Ki Mundi- all of the Jedi Masters who are shown to have clones turned on them were very famous too but that didn't stop the clones from attacking them. What I'm saying is from the time Darth Sidious renames Anakin Darth Vader and the time Sidious calls for Order 66, Order 66 apply to the killing of all Jedi and Anakin Skywalker was a Jedi. Darth Sidious could have made a certain plea for the clones to exclude Anakin from being apart of the Jedi purge. But we as people who saw the movie didn't exactly see that.

 

Darth Vader led the 501st into the temple, so I'd imagine Palpatine when ordering them to attack the temple said that Anakin Skywalker would lead the attack and that he was on their side. As to how they remembered that Anakin was on their side due to the outfits being similar, Anakin led at least part of the 501st during the Clone Wars, so I'd imagine they'd recognise him instantly. To my memory the only other time clones and Vader meet is on Mustafar where Palpatine orderes a medical capsule, and they would have known that they were looking for Vader as one told Palpatine he was over there..

 

We only hear "execute Order 66" and we don't know exactly what "order 66" was, only that it includes an order for the clones to kill the Jedi. Palpatine was planning all along (probably since TPM) to make Anakin his apprentice, so it's possible that the original order 66 in the clones' memory banks, already included an exception for Anakin.

 

If you go by the EU the clone followed order 66 out of their allegiance to the Emperor, as a few clones chose not to execute their Jedi Generals out of their allegiance to them. I think it was the clones logic and info from Sidious that Skywalker was on their side than anything else.

 

Exactly what I was going to say.

 

Palpatine gave Anakin a sign to wear that said "DO NOT SHOOT ME."

I think it's something along these lines. There must have been a part we don't see where Palpatine contacts the commanders (like he did when he issued Order 66 in the first place) to tell them that Anakin Skywalker is his new apprentice and they are to follow his orders (and not consider him a Jedi any longer).

 

Its quite simple though, isnt it? Palpatine has to personally instruct every Clone Commander currently serving under a Jedi general at that point to execute the order. While this may indeed be hundreds of Clone Commanders, it doesn't appear that Palpatine is sending this as a single blanket order to every single clone. He is sending it to every individual clone currently serving in charge of a particular battalion (we see it happen 3 or 4 times). There would obviously be no such instruction given to any of the clones serving with Anakin/Vader in the Jedi Temple... and even if it were or the clones were wondering why their mission was to destroy other Jedi but not Anakin, as others have suggested they must have been instructed that Anakin/Vader was no longer a member of the Jedi Order - though they wouldn't have to know his actual Sith identity... merely that he had defected from the Jedi order.

 

The clones did not attack Anakin because he plays Darth Vader in the next three films...

 

Well, that too Would have somewhat messed things up on the continuity front, wouldn't it.

 

By the time of Order 66, Anakin was in Palp's office....It would be fun if troopers ran in the office to kill Anakin and Palpatine burned them with lightning and then called Lama Su to complain about malfunctions......

Obviously, they were later informed about their new master....

 

The clones are not "programmed" to kill the Jedi. They are taught to carry out orders given by the Chancellor/Emperor.

As for why they didn't attack Anakin, all we can assume is that somewhere along they line they were made aware that Anakin was no longer with the Order and would be leading their attack on the Temple.

 

Darth Sidious had ordered Order 66 at the right moment. However, what would have happened had Sidious called for Order 66 and Anakin was fighting alongside Obi-Wan, Yoda Ki-Adi Mundi, Aayla Sercura or any other Jedi. He would have been killed or at least attacked.

 

How come the clones did not attack Anakin?

Because Commander Appo did not recieve the transmission from Palpatine to "Execute Order 66"

 

According to Wookiepedia he did, same with every other Clone Commander.

Appo didn't recognize Anakin as a Jedi at all, just as Darth Vader.

 

Funny, he still looks like Anakin Skywalker. Does this mean that all the other Jedi had to do was change their names?

"Hi, I'm Darth Kenobi"

 

I think with that silly hood over his head the whole time, the clones weren't even aware that it was Anakin.

Even Nute Gunray didn't even know it was Anakin while they were all being sliced at Mustafar.

 

Funny, he still looks like Anakin Skywalker.

But he smelled like Sith.

 

Of course Appo received the Order 66 command from Palpatine. Otherwise he would have been acting on his own in attacking Jedi at the temple. All that needed to happen was for him and his troops to be told (him to be told directly by Palpatine) that Anakin Skywalker was a)no longer a Jedi, b)reporting directly to Palpatine, and c)to be obeyed as well.

Incidentally, the clone troopers / stormtroopers (especially Appo and his troops) continued to work with Vader after he got his armor and used that name, so I think they knew that Vader was Anakin.

 

This is likely what happened. Palps had to have told them about Anakin's status.

But this raises another question. There was one source I read that stated that Anakin was officially listed as having been killed in the Temple during the raid. But that's not so. So, I wonder if the troopers that were there said anything.

 

But of course Palpatine had to have advanced knowledge that Anakin would turn to the dark side..