Order 37 is the Palpatine Contingency Order MORE DISGRACEFUL Than Order 66. What is Order 37? Find out in this video. Order 37 Star Wars and Order 37 Clone Wars. Order 37 was one of a series of contingency orders that the clone troopers of the Grand Army of the Republic learned when they were being trained on Kamino. It dealt with using a large amount of civilian hostages to force the capture of an individual. It involved suppressing local civilian populations, including mass civilian arrests and civic lockdowns, and then issuing an ultimatum: if the local populace does not turn over said individual, all the arrestees will be executed. Though it was common they always had to use this order as it was a last resort to capture the wanted individual Jedi for instance.