I know that this subject has been discussed before, and in a previous blog entry some weeks ago I had wanted to make a comment, but as per usual the annoying 50 comment limit made this impossible.

What I wanted to talk about specifically was the programming and conditioning that the clones had recieved in relation to who truly gave the original order for the clones to be created. Theories have abounded throughout the blogs, some claiming that Sifo-Dyas sensed a coming darkness and ordered the clones out of desperation, others saying Sifo-Dyas had been turned to the dark side by either Dooku or Palpatine but was killed after making the order to hide the secret. Yet more connected Jango's being hired by a man named Tyrannus as meaning it was Dooku who made the order for the clones under the name of Sifo-Dyas.

When I was reading some of these theories, one thing kept popping into my mind about the clones - Order 66. Now of course the clones were programmed, no matter who ordered them, to follow the Chancellor, but one particular scene in Episode III made me realize that it was more specific than that.

first I'll talk about the scene - during the sequence of Order 66, there's one where a clone is following a Jedi in starfighters, and the order is given to him. He says "It will be done, my lord." Two things to notice here, firstly and a somewhat minor point, he says "My lord" which is not something you generally say to the chancellor. To me this suggests that order 66 was not just to wipe out the Jedi, but it activated certain programming within the clones' psyche, so that they would ONLY take orders from then on from Emporer Palpatine and anyone he told them to take orders from (Hence why Anakin was able to lead the clone army against the Jedi Temple.)

The second, and for my argument most important part of the starfighter sequence, is when this clone says "it will be done my lord." He says it after Palpatine's communication ended. Why is this so important? This indicates and proves that Order 66 was programmed into them and not just an order given at one point of the war. How? Think about it, Palpatine, in a hurry to give the order to every clone detatchment, ended the transmission, and yet this clone, with somewhat glazed-over eyes and a droning voice, feels it necessary to say to his lord that it will be done. Behavioral conditioning that, until this order was given, we'd not seen in the clones before.

This kind of behavioral condition can only be done from the beginning, it's radical and very, very strong. From what I know of conditioning, this can not be programmed into someone after they reach a certain developmental point (of course, it's all basically theoretical.) In other words, Order 66 was given to the Kaminoans from the start as part of the programming for the clones. That said, who ever Sifo-Dyas was, he did not give the order for the clones out of fear of the Order falling. Now of course this doesn't prove one way or another if it was Dooku or a fallen Sifo-Dyas, but the fact that Obi-Wan points out in Episode II that Sifo-Dyas was killed prior to the time when the order was made makes me think that Dooku was the one who made it, probably with Jango already on the planet with him, though I don't think Jango was around when Dooku used the name Sifo-Dyas.

It's obvious by Dooku's conversation with Sidious at the end of Episode II that he's had some idea of the big picture for quite some time. "The War has begun." His tone of voice and his word choice, not to mention previous conversation with Obi-Wan, seems to indicate that he knew his mission was to pit these two armies against one another, for what ever plot Sidious had in mind.

Anyway, it's all theory really and it's all conjecture, and I could be very wrong. what do you all think?