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Prologue
Insert large scrolling letters over a starry background here: Anakin Skywalker, desparate to save his young wife Padmé Amidala has turned to the aid of Chancellor Palpatine, heretofore equally each the cause of the Clone War, the secret Sith Lord destroying all that is good in the galaxy, and the evil force clouding the judgement of the Jedi Council...
Asked to spy on Palpatine by the Jedi Order, denied the position of Master despite gaining a seat on the Council, and plagued by their many years mistrust of him and his methods, Skywalker has been weighing for a long time his loyalties to the Order-a dangerous path to the Dark Side of the Force that Skywalker does not fully appreciate nor deem worthy of consideration for the sakes of his child and wife.
Unfortunately for Skywalker, the scales tip when he walks into the Chancellor's office at a moment when he sees something he presumably was never meant to see: a battle between Mace Windu and Palpatine. Hidden during the fight, Skywalker hears Palpatine's true plans to use him as a weapon of the Dark Side to destroy the Republic, the Jedi, and the pregnant senator from Naboo.
As Windu dies, Anakin is enraged to see the true nature of his would-be master. He attacks ferociously-and loses. Palpatine escapes and from his pod executes Order 65: the Sacking of the Inner Rim. Holding the public for ransome, Palpatine renders the Jedi useless, divided between the Separatists on one uninformed front and the fate of millions on the other. Skywalker must get off Coruscant and get to Obi Wan Kenobi somehow...