 Palpatine falsely accuses the Jedi of causing the Clone Wars, a secessionist war, to weaken the Republic and gain power.Palpatine manipulates the Galactic Senate into using clone troopers created during the conflict to kill the Jedi.After engineering these threats himself, Palpatine reorganizes the Republic into a state that could "ensure the security and continuing stability, and [provide] a safe and secure society" – a Galactic Empire with himself as its Emperor.