if there were temple tooka then order 66 wouldn't have happened because one or more of the temple tooka would have 100% take out palpatine before the order could be given and there'd be a whole big thing where the jedi are trying to cover for the fact that their temple tooka killed a politician (again)
I feel like they wouldn't have to hide it to much like, they can make it pretty obvious how uncontrollable the templetooka's are, and they did try and remove and get rid of the nexu sized one THEY TRIED! everyone was warned about them, but like its not their fault! they contacted the coruscant animal control bout it, they ate or mauled the natborn rangers and any clones who were sent to deal with them turned the other way!
Its not their fault theres magic tookas just as its not their fault the chancellor WAS A SITH and thus needed to be eaten
Well I mean... Temple Tooka ARE specifically Anti-Sith war beasts. Like... that is one of the major things they were made for? Working breeds gotta work you know? The big nexu one was probably hunting that dark alter like an otter trying to crack open a clam. When "????!!?" *sniffs air* "I smell a lil bitch (≖ - ≖) mama didn't raise no sith-lover" *Palpatine gets fucking mauled live on air by an ancient anti-sith war beast* *somewhere Mandalorians toast then take a shot* *jedi horrified but also it's kinda shouting "fuuuuuck yooooooou Sith!" So like? Cautious lightsaber noise?*
Lol it's like? You plan for everything. EVERYTHING! Only to get taken out not by the finest of state of the art modern war tech. No, no. You get taken out by the finest of medieval seige warfare technology. A god damned warhorse with a vendetta kicks open congress doors to come stomp you to death.
WHERE'RE YOUR PLOTS WITHING PLOTS NOW, SITH BOY!? Shouts the horse stomping you, a respected politician, to death.
But also? On a sadder n dark note? Yeah. Order 66 would not go nearly so well. Because while the Jedi hesitate and are largely peaceful? The Tooka are not. They don't care about the Vode. They don't CARE why you're attacking. It's just one more invasion. And they would kill, and kill, and kill, until they themselves were so riddled with holes they physically could not fight. And even then, they'd use their limited Force Sensitivity.
They'd be wiped out.
You'd HAVE to kill every last one, if you want to take the Temple.
There can be no trophies here. No captured pets to parade. If a temple tooka lives, big or small, they'll rip your throat out for Invading the Temple. Attacking the Jedi. Only when they are GONE could you slaughter the jedi in full.
And their deaths would buy so, SO much more time to escape. For so many.
It would be ugly and tragic and horrible. Because NOTHING anyone could ever say or do would convince them to run. You might be able to physically pick up the kittens and carry them with you. But the adults? The adolescents? The fluffy friends you've known and loved all your life? They'd be throwing themselves into the carnage. Because.... they are guards.
The horrible, horrible truth is, they are Guards.
To Jedi Lords and their Temples. To Jedi Generals and their Knights. To defend their homes. To fight and die. To be... expendable. They're "just" animals after all.
A living legacy, from a darker era. From when fighting the Sith made good Jedi monstrous. Made them compromise. Made them behave in ways that modern jedi find shameful and abhorrent.
Yet here they are, dying. Jedi Guards, Temple Tooka, the Vode. Nothing but chaos and blasterfire and the deep, echoing howls of their friends. Jedi scattering to the stars. Carrying younglings and kittens.
Ultimately? Far too many Jedi would survive. The Order would be crippled, as it has been before, but not destroyed. They would be forced to abandon Coruscant. As they have had to abandon Main Temples before. But the painful sacrifice of the Guards, both Knight and Tooka, would ultimately save the Jedi.
It's just the sort of phyrric victory that makes you feel like sobbing, you know? The sort that screams of tragedy.
I am in love but I raise you the following!
Sidious never knew why his master had forbidden him from going too close to the Jedi temple. Even Plageus didn't know why. The reason was lost to time. As such Palpatine as some point decided to go visit a now 12 years old Anakin because the poor boy was grounded and wasn't allowed to leave the temple. After all the manipulations the sith was partaking in were a long term effort. Kinda like brushing your teeth to keep them nice and white.
And so far everything was going well untill Palpatine stepped inside the temple and a giant ancient tookacat jumped on top of him and started eating him. And no one helped him. Palpatine was eaten right in front of the escort Jedi.
And the giant tookacat? It was the oldest temple tookacat in all of history. The Lady had lives through the 'sacking of corusant' led by Darth Malgus all those centuries ago. Between the Force, careful breeding and care and a freight load of good luck the Lady has seen many things. Eaten many sith. Warned about many fallen.
The Lady eating the chancellor was a surprise yes but the Jedi council only sighed in relief. This is one less sith in the galaxy. Especially as he was now clearly trying to steal their strongest junior Padawan. Hopefully poor Anakin would understand why the Lady ate his friend.
THE LADY HAS SAVED THE DAY! Yes yes be greatful kittens you are welcome.
