"No one really knows for sure," said Anakin, though even he knew that wasn't going to fly. "After the Clone Wars ended, the Galactic Republic died with them. Or so they say. A lot of records were destroyed or modified. But mostly, I've talked to enough people to know what happened. It's not the kind of thing that's easy to hear."
Anakin closed his eyes and envisioned his grandfather--himself, really--marching through the Jedi Temple, which looked like the Academy on Yavin IV. It lasted only a moment, and Anakin sighed. "Chancellor Palpatine was a Sith. His apprentice, Darth Vader, killed all of the Jedi living in the Jedi Temple while the Chancellor ordered all the Clone Troopers to fire on the Jedi fighting alongside them. Then he declared himself the Emperor of the Galaxy." He sighed again, hoping that his almost untruth didn't deserve much scrutiny. "That doesn't mean that you'll never see any of them again. People pop into this universe all the time, from all different kinds of places. Hell, I was killed before I ended up here."