The contingency orders of 1150 accounted for all possible failureslosses of Republic leadership . Politically , order 66 was only significant in that it was implemented . To the average clone , order 66 being enacted meant that the Jedi had committed treason and had to be removed from power , by any means necessary it would have been hard , but when contingency orders are implemented , its no time to screw around . To me the significance of order 66 is that it shows how too much power in one person ' s hands to dangerous it effectively allowed one person to get away with removing a huge block on his power . That the clones were forced to do so by the inhibitor chip takes away from the impact of everything .