pg.07: Troopers could communicate with one another through the comlinks built into their T-visored helmets, but the Advanced Recon Commando teams had created an elaborate system of gestures meant to thwart enemy attempts at eavesdropping.
pg.07:"Sirs, I have the latest from airborne command." "Show us," Anakin said. Cody dropped to one knee, his right hand activating a device built into his left wrist gauntlet. A cone of blue light emanated from from the device, and a hologram of task force commander Dodonna resolved. Cody made an adjustment to the wrist projector, and a 3-D schematic of the redoubt formed in midair.	Holocom device for comunications and tactical holos built into clonetrooper armor
pg.08: While the Kaminoans had managed to breed some of Fett out of the regulars, they had been more selective in the case of the ARCs. As a consequence, ARCs displayed more individual initiative and leadership abilities. In short, they were more like the late bounty hunter himself, which was to say, more human. While Cody wasn't genetically an Advanced Recon Commando, he had ARC training and shared many ARC attributes.
pg.13: The injured commando had already prompted his armor to inject him with painkillers,	Clonetrooper armor has built-in medical capabilities
pg.13-14: .With only half the army of 1.2 million in fighting shape, the life of every clone was vital. Blood and replacement organs—what regular troopers referred to as "spare parts"—were readily available—"easily requisitioned"—but with the war reaching a crescendo, battlefield casualties were on the rise and treated as high priority.	State of the Clonetrooper army right before ROTS. At least in the time of the Old Republic, cloned organs were available for those that needed them
pg.14: Rolling toward the trench at better than eighty kilometers per hour were some of the most feared of the Seperatists' infantry arsenal. Droidekas.
pg.15: A combination of sheer momentum and sequenced microrepulsors allowed the bronzium-armored droids to roll like balls then unfurl in a blink as tripoded gunfighters, shielded by individual deflectors and armed with paired, twin-barreled, high output blasters. Since the shields were powerful enough to resist lightsabers, blasters, even light artillery bolts, the proven strategy for dealing with droidekas was simply to run from them.
pg.16: "Recommend tactical electromagnetic pulse airburst, followed by SPHA-T barrage." "Pulse weaons don't discriminate, Commander," Obi-Wan thought to point out. Cody shrugged. "It's the only way, sir." The assistant squad leader moved his right hand through a series of gestures. When the gestures had been repeated down the line, the commandos removed their helmets and began to deactivate the electronic systems built into their armor. To a clone, they hunkered down in the fetid water. A screaming came from the south. Then: a nova-bright flare of white light, followed two-seconds later by a roar that turned Obi-Wan's eardrums to mush. A shock wave spread rom the ramparts, down onto the clear ground at the foot of the mound and out over the already blazing orchards. Above the trench, half the droidekas deployed prematurely from ball position and began to tumble down the slope in a tangle of limbs and weapons. Behind the trench, STAPs fell like stones, plunging from the sky into the burning trees.	Tactical pulse weapon effects on combat droids and electronic systems
pg.23: No one contested when Anakin held point position. The commmandos accepted without question that body armor and imaging systems were primitive compared to the power of the Force.
pg.24: The commando to Anakin's left nodded in confirmation, then extended a finger-thin holocam around the corner and activated his gauntlet holo-projector. Noisy images of Nute Gunray and his entourage of elite officers formed in mid-air.	Commandos can also capture and transmit holo-images.
pg.42: It was just a mechno-chair, after all; finely wrought, but just a walking chair. A walking chair equipped with a hyperwave transceiver. A hyperwave transceiver given to him fourteen years ago by— "Its not too late," Hakko said suddenly. "We can communicate with the chair from here." "Can we arm it to self-destruct?" Hakko shook his head negatively. "But we might be able to instruct it to arm itself."
pg.60: "A stern Master Dooku was, to Qui-Gon and others," Yoda began. "Powerful he was; skilled, disdainful. More important, convinced that lowering the shroud of the dark side was. Signs there were, all about us, long before to the Temple you came; long before Qui-Gon came. "	Yoda tells Ob-Wan that the shroud of the dark side was felt for many years before the beginning of TPM
pg.62: Obi-Wan turned to face Yoda. "Master, did Sifo-Dyas order the clone army?" Yoda nodded. "Contacted the Kaminoans, he did." "Without your knowledge?" "Without it, yes. but exists, a record of his initial contact." Obi-Wan gave in to some of his frustration. "I should have questioned Lama Su more extensively." "Questioned, the Kaminoans were. Furnished much they did." "Did they?" Obi-Wan said in surprise. "When?" "Reticent they were when first to Kamino I went. Only what already they had told you, I heard. That Sifo-Dyas the order placed; that Tyranus the donor clone furnished. That for the Republic the clones were. Seen by the Kaminoans, neither Sifo-Dyas nor Tyranus was. But later, after attacked Kamino was, more I learned from Taun We and Ko Sai. About the payments." "From Sifo-Dyas?" "From Tyranus." "Could Tyranus have been an alias for Syfo-Dias? Could he have adopted the name to prove deniability for the Jedi in case the clone army was discovered?" "Wished for that I did. But killed Sifo-Dyas was, before on Kamino Jango Fett arrived." "Murdered?" Yoda compressed his thin lips. "Unsolved, the crime remains, but, yes: murdered."	The mystery of Sifo-Dyas revealed
pg.64: "If I'd failed to trace the saberdart that killed the changeling..." "Ignorant about the clone army, we might have remained." "But surely the Kaminoans would have contacted us, Master." "Eventually. But grown greater in numbers the Separatist army would have. Invincible, perhaps." Obi-Wan's eyes narrowed. "Mine wasn't a case of blind luck." Yoda shook his head. "Meant to learn of the clone army, we were. Destined to fight this war, we were."	Palpatine's grand plan for the Sith takeover of the galaxy is presented.
pg.68: He cut his eyes to the three human technicians who were fitting the mechno-chair into a crash-foam safety harness. One of them was working too fast, and almost knocked the chair over. Anakin shot to his feet and stormed across the bay. "Be careful with that!" He shouted. The oldest of the three gave him a scornful glance. "Relax, kid. We know our job." Kid. He waved his hand, calling on the Force to keep the mechno-chair fixed in place. The three techs strained to move it, baffled until they realized what Anakin had done. Then the same one straightened and glared. "All right, let go of it." "When I'm convinced you actually know what you're doing." "Look kid—" Anakin beetled his brows in anger and advanced a step. The three techs began to back away from the chair. They're afraid of me. They've heard about me. For an instant, their fear empowered him; then he felt shame, and averted his glance.	Young Lord Vader begins to emerge
pg.73: Bail took a seat directly across from Palpatine's high-backed chair, which was said to house some sort of shield generator—
pg.75-76: Palpatine beamed at her. "Senator Amidala, is that not the droid Jedi Skywalker constructed?" Padme looked at C-3P0. "Yes, it is." For a moment, it appeared that C-3P0 was speechless—but only for a moment. "I am honored that you remember me, Your Majesty," he said. Palpatine returned an abrupt laugh. "A title more fit for a king or emperor."
pg.89: It was almost beyond explanation until the shuttle pilot confirmed that most of the Vultures had been atomized by fire from the cruiser's turbolaser batteries.	Power of turbolaser batteries
pg.97: The enormous building TC-16 had called a workshop topped two hundred meters in height and was crowned with latticework spires and towers that evoked strains of eerie music from the steady wind.	Size of the Xi Char building
pg.97: Without ceremony, TC-16 approached the Prelate and tendered a greeting. The droid had tasked his vocoder to provide Obi-Wan and Anakin with simultaneous translations of his utterances.	Protocol droid translation abilities
pg.102: Fearing what might result should Anakin call too strongly on the Force—Obi-Wan had visions of the entire workshop crumbling to pieces!—	Obi Wan fears Anakin might destroy a two hundred meter tall building
pg.103: Even with his hands pinned under him, Anakin managed to upend a pallet of kitchen appliances, then knock over a carefully arranged collection of toys, then tear from the wall more than half a dozen sconces.	Anakin's Force powers could be focused without using his hands, even before he became Darth Vader
pg.118: Wending through clouds of expanding fire, he locked down the trigger of the laser cannons and made a second pass through the enemy wave, destroying a dozen more fighters in a heartbeat.	Anakin destroying a dozen tri-fighters "in a heartbeat" in his Jedi starfighter
pg.120: The picket Anakin had piqued with missiles was under heavy bombardment. He grasped that a high-yield torpedo would be too much for it, and rushed to deliver it.	More proof of high-yield torpedoes, and the ability to carry them on one-man fighters
pg.128: Gunray saw that Grievous was accompanied by four of his elite MagnaGuards. Fearsome bipedal battle droids buit to exacting specifications, they stood as tall as the general and were armed with combat staffs tipped with electromagnetic pulse generators.
pg.133-134: For two hundred years before the coming of Darth Sidious the power of the dark side had been gaining strength, and yet the Jedi had made only minimal efforts to thwart it. The Sith were pleased by the fact that the Jedi, too, had been allowed to grow so powerful, because, in the end, their sense of entitlement would blind them to what was occurring in their midst.
pg.134: While midi-chlorians determined to some degree a Jedi's ability to use the Force, other inherited characteristics also played a part—notwithstanding the Temple's best efforts to eradicate them.
pg.136: Dooku was an eager student, and yet Sidious had continued to hold him at arm's length. Perhaps he had been working with other potential replacements for his earlier apprentice, the savage Darth Maul, who, in fact, had been nothing more than a minion, like Asajj Ventress and General Grievous.
pg.136: One of your former confidants at the Jedi Temple has percieved the coming change, Sidious had told him. This one has contacted a group of cloners, regarding the creation of an army for the Republic. The order for the army can stand, for we will be able to make use of that army someday. But Sifo-Dyas cannot stand, for the Jedi cannot learn about the army until we are prepared to have them learn of it.
pg.138: Just now Mace's eyes were on a small bronzium statue Palpatine had once identified as Wapoe, the mythical artisan demigod of disguise.	Mace examines one of Palpatine's statues in the Supreme Chancellor's chambers. Typo; in the book Inside The Worlds Of The Star Wars Trilogy, this same statue is sitting in Emperor Palpatine's personal chamber just off the throne room of the Death Star 2. The statue was named "the mythical Atrisian demigod of disquise." The statue also signifies the Sith lord hiding in plain sight of the Jedi
pg.157: "These things are the future," Travale said. "Fill a ship with enough tractor beam arrays and you could prevent an enemy from jumpinmg to hyperspace." "There aren't ships large enough." "There will be," Travale said. "To ensure that another war doesn't happen."
pg.161: "Obviously you were successful at disabling the tractor beam." "Not a skill I expect to draw on again, but, yes, thanks to Travale"	In fact, Obi-Wan does employ this skill again in ANH!
pg.178-179: To Obi-Wan's mind, the ship in question could only be the modified star courier that had belonged to the Sith he had killed on Naboo, and had been confiscated by the Republic after the battle there. Flight, weapons, and communications systems had self-destructed when Republic Intelligence agents had bungled an attempt to enter the courier, but, unknown to many, its burned-out carcass still sat in a clandestine docking bay in Theed.	The fate of Darth Maul's Sith Infiltrator
pg.183: "You know, they killed the engineers, the mechanics, just about everyone who worked on that craft."	More on the Sith Infiltrator
pg.186: In midflight from the vibrating blade, Obi-Wan watched Anakin rid the Falleen of blaster and hand, and thrust his lightsaber directly into the Falleen's chest. Whatever torso armor the humanoid was wearing beneath his jacket gave the energy blade pause, but heat from the lightsaber set fire to the Falleen's bandolier of explosive rounds.	Personal armor slowing a stabbing attack by a lightsaber
pg.208: Palpatine reclined in his chair. "Tell me, how goes the hunt for Darth Sidious?" Yoda leaned forward for emphasis. "Coming closer to him, are we."
pg.213: Sidious' upper lip was definitely twitching. Was this worry? Worry from someone fond of saying that things were going precisely as planned? "What has happened, my lord?" "The Twi'lek's information led them to our rendevous on Coruscant," Sidious said in a scurrilous voice. Dooku was stunned. "Is there a greater danger?" "They think they have my scent, Lord Tyranus, and perhaps they do." "Can you leave Coruscant, my lord?" From parsecs distant, Sidious stared at him. "Leave Coruscant?" "For a time, my lord. Surely, we can find some way." Sidious fell silent for a long moment, then said: "Perhaps, Lord Tyranus. Perhaps." "If not, then I will come to you." Sidious shook his head. "That won't be necessary. I told you that their search for me would benefit us before too long, and thanks to you I begin to see a way."
pg.216: "General, I'm certain you recall the plans we discussed some time ago, regarding the final stage of the war." "Regarding Coruscant." "Regarding Coruscant, yes." Sidious paused, then said: "We must accelerate those plans. Prepare, General, for what will be your finest hour."
pg.218: "Intelligence has discovered that the building belonged to a corporation called Li-Merge Power, which was believed to have been involved in the manufacture and distribution of prohibited weapons during Finis Valorum's term as Supreme Chancellor. It was rumored at the time Li Merge was responsible for funding acts of piracy directed against Trade Federation vessels in the Outer Rim. And it was those acts of piracy that led ultimately to the Trade Federation being granted the right to defend their vessels with battle droids."	Yet another piece of the puzzle that led to Emperor Palpatine's rise to power.
pg.220-221: Obi-Wan frowned sympathetically. "You can't afford to miss her in that way." "And exactly why is that, Master?" "Because you cannot be married to both." "Who said anything about marriage?" She's a friend. I miss her as a friend!" "You would forgo your destiny for Padme?" Anakin's brows beetled in anger. "I never claimed to be the Chosen One. That was Qui-Gon. Even the Council doesn't believe it anymore, so why should you?" "Because I think you believe it," Obi-Wan said calmly. "I think you know in your heart that you're meant for something extraordinary." "And you, Master. What does your heart tell you you're meant for?" "Infinite sadness," Obi-Wan said, even when smiling.
pg.233: Five Hundred Republica: home to thousands of Coruscant's wealthiest Senators, celebrities, shipping magnates, and media tycoons.
pg.235: with Tyth's brood of moons clustered in a two-hundred-degree arc, the Separatists had worked quickly to strew mines at several hyperspace jump points, leaving the Republic ships with only a narrow window with which to revert to realspace.
pg.235: Blinding payloads of spun plasma hurtled through space, detonating against the shields of the enemy vessels, atomizing any droid fighters unlucky enough to be caught in the way.
pg.236: In the view of those same naval commanders, invasion was senseless, a Base Delta Zero attack, justified. In the end it was decided that saturation bombardment, augmented by limited starfighter engagement, would send Dooku fleeing,	BDZ attacks were around before the official formation of the Empire, and proves that a BDZ op is not simply a saturation bombardment
pg.237: "No signature for Grievous's cruiser," he said to Obi-Wan. "None of the ships of the Separatist leadership are here." Obi-Wan glanced at the wire frame display of his threat assessment screen. "All the more reason to believe that Dooku was ordered here by Sidious." "Then where's everyone else?"
pg.238: Point defense turbolasers sought the starfighters as they fell on the ship, needling space with outpourings of gaudy energy.
pg.238: "All power to the ablative shields. Deceleration burn on my mark..." Obi-Wan clamped his hands on the violently shaking yoke, as Red Squadron ripped into Tythe's atmosphere.
pg.243: Mace could feel the oppressive weight of the structure bearing down on him as the team entered 500 Republica's level-one sub-basement—square kilometers of supportive ferrocrete and durasteel, crammed with whining, whirring machines that kept the tower stable, aloft, secure, climate-controlled, and supplied with water and power. As deep as it was, the sub-basement was still a hundred meters above Coruscant's true underground, and twice that above the original surface of the planet.
pg.244-245: Dyne took a comlink from his belt and was about to activate it when the floor began to tremble. "A quake?" Mace asked Shaak Ti. She shook her head. "I'm not sure—" A second jolt shook the sub-basement, strong enough to dust the team with loose ferrocrete from the high ceiling. "Feels like something rammed the building," Dyne said. It wouldn't be the first time an intoxicated or exhausted driver had veered from one of the free-travel skylanes and plowed into the side of a building, Mace told himself. And yet— The next shudder was accompanied by the distant sound of a powerful explosion. Lights in the sub-basement faded momentarily, then returned to full ilumination, sending the custodial and maintinance droids into frantic activity. Also at far remove, klaxons and sirens blared. "My comlink isn't working," Dyne said, jabbing at the device's frequency search control with his forefinger. "We're tiers below midlevel," Shaak Ti said. Dyne shook his head. "That shouldn't matter. Not in here."	The beginning of the attack on Coruscant
pg.246: Mace tracked the ill-fated ship for a moment, then tilted his head back and put the edge of his hand to his brow. Distant buildings shimmered, as if miraged by heat. The district's defensive shield had been raised!	Defensive shields raised around buildings instead of the planetary shield. Makes sense during a surprise attack, with all the traffic coming and going from Coruscant
pg.248: Once again, Darth Sidious had divined the actions they would take well in advance of their own deciding. The talent had less to do with being able to peer into the future, than with having access to streams of possibilities. Sidious wasn't unerring. He could be surprised or taken off his guard— as at Geonosis, as in the case of Gunray's mechno-chair—but not for long. His mastery of the dark side of the Force endowed him with the power to decipher the currents that comprised the future, and to comprehend that while those currents were manifold, they were not boundless. Such mastery was one of the skills that distinquished Sidious from Yoda, who believed the future was so much in motion, it could not be read with any clarity—especially during times when the dark side was on the ascendant. But how could Yoda be expected to see the whole picture with one eye closed? Deliberately closed.
pg.249: Despite his mastery of the Quey'tek technique for hiding oneself in the Force, they had located him!
pg.250: Yoda surrendered himself to the current of the Force. Sometimes, when the current was swift and steadfast, he could see through the eyes of his fellow Jedi, almost as if they were the Temple's remote sensors. And sometimes when the current was especially forceful, when it surged as if descending from great heights, he could hear the voice of Qui-Gon Jinn, as clearly as if he were still alive. Master Yoda, he might say, we still have much to learn. The Force remains a code only partially deciphered. But another key has been found. We will become stronger than we have ever been...
pg.251: Aged, experienced, diplomatic, informative, brilliant with a lightsaber...Yes, all of these things. And not unacquainted with the power of the dark side.	At some point during his 900 years, Yoda may have dabbled in the dark side of the Force.
pg.252: Did he know about Skywalker? Surely he did. What better way to ensure total victory than by killing or corrupting the Chosen One? Even if not that One, someone so strong in midi-chlorians...Someone birthed by the Force itself, Qui-Gon would have said—never a doubt that Anakin's mother might have been lying. The boy had no father. None that I choose to remember. None I would honor with that title.	Yoda's musings on Sidious and Anakin
pg.253: "Reports from naval command are garbled," Mace continued. "It's clear that the attack caught the home fleet by surprise. Groups of Separatist ships managed to penetrate the envelope before the fleet had time to engage. Now, by all accounts, our vessels are holding the line." Yoda adopted an expression that mixed anger and bafflement. "Monitoring hyperspace reversion points, our commanders weren't?" Mace's eyes narrowed. "The Separatist fleet jumped from the Deep Core" "Secret, those routes were. Known to us and few others." Yoda looked at Mace. "Unrestricted access to the archives, Dooku had. Access enough to erase all mentions of Kamino. Access enough to learn of explorations in the Deep Core."
pg.253-254: Mace swung back to Yoda. "It's Grievous. But he can't be planning to occupy Coruscant. There aren't enough battle droids in the entire galaxy for that." "Desperate, he is," Yoda said, more to himself. "It's not in his programming." Yoda looked up. "Not Grievous—Sidious." Mace took a moment to answer. "If that's true, then we're closer to finding him than we thought. Still, he can't believe we'd call off the search now." "Demoralize Coruscant, Grievous will. Harry those who live in the heights and who wield power. Send them fleeing for safer havens., the attack will. Disrupt the Senate." Mace paced in front of the windows. "This will only encourage Palpatine to triple the size of the clone army, construct more and more starships and fighters, strike at more worlds. With the Senate crippled, no one will oppose him."
pg.256: Secondary shocks that had rocked the huge building had been traced to the firing of plasma weapons concealed in 500 Republica's cake of a crown.
pg.257: Unlike many of Coruscant's tallest buildings, 500 Republica did not rely on the support of earlier structures for its foundation, but was solid almost all the way down to bedrock.
pg.260: To Dooku, this was nothing more than a game, Obi-Wan told himself. But if it was a demonstration of Force ability Dooku wanted, then Anakin was still more than willing to prpovide it. "Dooku!" he howled. With such force and wrath thast the ceiling of the vast hall began to collapse.
pg.267: Glinting in daylight, the gargantuan wedge-shaped assault ships that were, for good reason, the pride of the Republic fleet were positioned to provide cover for the planet's most important centers. In the first moments of the sneak attack, Grievous had caught a few of the ships with their shields contracted, and those hapless few glided now like flaming torches above Coruscant's pearl-strung night side, fire-supression tenders and rescue ships following in their wake, gobbling up escape pods and lifeboats. The surviving cruisers were managing to keep their Separatist counterparts at bay. Although that scarecely mattered, since neither aerial bombardment nor invasion was important to the plan.
pg.268: Others had dashed themselves against the defensive shields that provided additional safeguards for Coruscant's political districts. But that too, was part of the plan to inspire panic, since the sight of plasma bolts or plummeting ships detonating against those transparent domes of energy could be terrifying. Smoke billowing from some of the capital world's deepest canyons told Grievous that a few of the spearhead droids had succeeded in evading both shields and anti-aircraft fire.
pg.269: No doubt they were waiting for reinforcements to arrive from distant systems. Anticipating as much, Grievous had planted surprises for those Republic battle groups closest to the Core, surprises in the form of mass-shadow mines, and had station warships at reversion points along the hyperlanes.
pg.270: Had it not been for the Deep Core hyperspace routes the flotilla had taken, the attack could not have been launched successfully.
pg.272: "Raised, the defense shields are. Among one another, districts are unable to communicate."
pg.278: The fact that Palpatine was flustered, confused, possibly frightened was obvious. But when Shaak Ti attempted to read him through the Force, she found it difficult to get a sense of what he was truly feeling.
pg.279: "Down!" Stass Allie shouted a moment before the entire window wall blew inward, filling the air with permaglass pebbles.	"Permaglass", instead of transparisteel in Palpatine's suite at 500 Republica
pg.294: As many on the Jedi Council feared, Sidious's network of agents and assets might have infiltrated the Republic military command itself. Which suggested that the sneak attack on Coruscant may have been years in the planning!
pg.297: But those passengers failed to recognize that one of the Jedi was Mace Windu—rumored to have single-handedly destroyed a seismic tank on Dantooine—	Windu's exploits as shown in the Clone Wars cartoon are a rumor
pg.332: Shortly the bulkhead behind the swivel chair became a hologrammic display, showing the battle of Coruscant
pg.332-333: "You're about to make an unscheduled appearance on the HoloNet, Chancellor," Grievous said. "I apologize for not providing a mirror, hairbrush, and cosmetics, so that you might at least camouflage some of your fear." Palpatine's voice was sinister when he spoke. "You can display me, but I won't speak." Grievous nodded at what seemed an obvious statement. "I'll display you, but you won't speak. Is that understood?" "You will do all the talking." "That's correct. I will do all the talking." "Very good."	Palpatine manipulating Grievous with a Sith Mind Trick
pg.337: "You will duel them," Sidious had said. "Kill Kenobi. His only purpose is to die and, in so doing, ignite young Skywalker to tap the depths of his fear and rage. Should you defeat Skywalker easily, then we will know that he is not prepared to serve us. Perhaps he never will be prepared. Should he by some fluke best you, however, I will control the outcome to spare you any unnecessary embarassment, and we will have gained a powerful ally. But above all you must make the contest appear real, Lord Tyranus."
pg.338: "For all the jinks and jukes you've taken me through, there's no one else I'd rather fly with." Anakin canted his head and smiled. "It's about time you admitted it. Can I take that to mean you'll follow my lead without question?" "To the best of my ability," Obi-Wan said. "I may not always be able to remain at your wing, but I won't be far off, and I'll always have your back" "When I call for help, you'll come speeding to the rescue." "The day you call for help, I'll know that we're both in over our heads." Anakin adopted a serious look. "Obi-Wan, you don't know how many times you've already rescued me." Obi-Wan swallowed the lump that formed in his throat. "Then whatever lies ahead for us shouldn't be a problem."