Star Wars Episode III Plot

The plot is highly prized by moviegoers and Star Wars fans. SuperShadow has posted what purports to be the plot for Star Wars Episode III on his website.

The purported plot refers to many plot points with a vagueness that indicates the writer passing the plot to the public did not have access to a visual copy of the movie or to a complete script. Parts of this article are very specific while other portions gloss over important passages in vague uncertain terms. This version of the plot is the presently "accepted" one, and is made up of a combination of known facts, unconfirmed "spy reports" from inside Lucasfilm, and the blanks filled in with common sense.

Most Star Wars websites have their own version of this plot, drawn from the same sources.

Warning: Plot details follow.

Table of contents

1 Major plot points 2 Connections to Star Wars Episode IV 3 Remaining questions 4 External links

Major plot points

• Supreme Chancellor Palpatine is taken hostage by the separatist Confederacy of Independent Systems.
• Debut of General Grievous.
• Anakin duels Count Dooku in front of Palpatine. He pushes Dooku to beg for his life and cuts off his head.
• Padmé is hiding a pregenancy from the Senate.
• Palpatine has Anakin assigned as his bodyguard.
• The Senate seeks to have Palpatine's emergency powers returned since the clone wars are nearly over.
• Mace Windu determines that Palpatine is evil.
• Mace Windu confronts Palpatine in Anakin's presence. Palpatine attacks Windu with the Dark Force. Anakin is forced to choose a side.
• Palpatine convinces Anakin that the Jedi Order is corrupt and has been holding him back.
• Anakin kills Windu with the help of Palpatine.
• Palpatine reveals himself as a Sith to Anakin and Anakin joins the dark side.
• Palpatine declares that he will keep his emergency powers to deal with the threat of the Jedi Order.
• Palpatine announces the creation of the empire.
• Clone troopers are ordered to kill all Jedi.
• Anakin slays all students and teachers at the Jedi temple.
• After Obi-Wan tries to convince Padmé of Anakin's change, Padmé hides aboard Obi-wan's ship.
• Anakin kills the separatist leaders on a volcanic planet.
• Obi-Wan finds Anakin and an argument ensues. Padmé intervenes in hopes of helping both and is accused by Anakin of leading Obi-Wan to him.
• Anakin force-chokes Padmé.
• Obi-Wan and Anakin battle and Anakin loses his other arm and Anakin slips into molten lava. He is rescued by clone troopers.
• Both of Padmé's twins are removed from her and she dies.
• Anakin gains his healing black armor and learns of Padmé's death. He receives the title "Lord Darth Vader" from Palpatine.
• Leia is adopted by Bail Organa of Alderaan to save her from being taken. Luke is taken to stay with the Lars.

Connections to Star Wars Episode IV

• C-3PO's memory is erased in order to keep Leia safe from discovery.
• Chewbacca saves Yoda from being killed by the Clone troopers.
• Yoda takes an escape pod to Dagobah to await his part in the next encounter.
• The last scene with Darth Vader has him watching the Death Star being built.

Remaining questions

• It does not report how R2D2 loses the ability to fly.

External links

• Link to Supershadow plot