When Palpatine commanded the clone army to execute Order 66 in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, he inadvertently ensured that the Jedi Order would never be forgotten. Despite Palpatine’s best efforts to expunge the Jedi from the galaxy’s memory, censoring the information pertaining to the Jedi only succeeded in solidifying their reputation. Before Order 66, the Jedi were plentiful—and their tools and equipment were heavily guarded and rarely fell out of their hands. Once the Jedi were gone, the few remaining artifacts of theirs suddenly became rarer and more desirable than ever before.
