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====The Purge====
{{main|Great Jedi Purge}}
Palpatine reveals himself as a Sith Lord to Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, promising to save Padmé, Skywalker's secret wife, from dying in childbirth as Anakin has foreseen. Skywalker reports Palpatine's true identity to the Jedi Council; confirming their worst-case scenario and triggering a [[constitutional crisis]]. Knowing the extent of his crimes and influence, Jedi Council are forced to circumvent bureaucratic procedure to arrest him on the two charges of "instigating a war of aggression" and "high treason" (and if necessary, execute him as they would any Sith, should he resist) without consulting the Senate and without following the [[rule of law]].

However, they fell for Palpatine's trap; when Jedi Master [[Mace Windu]] confronts Palpatine, Anakin comes to Palpatine's aid, and helps him kill Windu. Desperate to save Padmé, Anakin pledges himself to the [[dark side of the Force]] and becomes Palpatine's third apprentice, [[Darth Vader]]. Palpatine declares the Jedi to be traitors, providing "irrefutable evidence" that they were the instigating masterminds behind the Clone Wars, and all but [[Great Jedi Purge|exterminates the Jedi Order]] in a galaxy-wide slaughter, while sending Vader to kill everyone in the [[Jedi Temple]] and assassinate the Separatist leaders. Vader then immediately ends the Clone War by transmitting deactivation codes to all Separatist droids in galaxy.<ref name="A Long Time Ago"/>

Two remaining Jedi, [[Obi-Wan Kenobi]] and [[Yoda]], mount a counterattack. Obi-Wan defeats Vader and leaves him for dead, but Yoda's duel with Palpatine ends in a stalemate; both Jedi flee into exile. Grievously wounded, Vader is rescued by Palpatine and fitted with cybernetics and a black suit of armor with a life-support system. After Padmé dies giving birth to twins, Yoda and Obi-Wan decide to separate the children – [[Luke Skywalker|Luke]] and [[Princess Leia|Leia]] – to hide them from the Sith. Luke goes to Vader's stepfamily on [[Tatooine]], while Leia is adopted by Senator [[Bail Organa]] of [[Alderaan]].