In Star Wars: Episódio 1 - A Ameaça Fantasma, na batalha climática, Anakin Skywalker entra no centro de comando para dróides e o destrói por dentro. Depois de escapar, outro piloto diz:
BRAVO THREE: Look! One of ours! Outta the main hold!!
Alguém descobriu que foi Anakin quem explodiu o centro de comando? Anakin se gabou de alguém sobre isso? Ou Anakin não era tão arrogante quanto Anakin mais velho, e manteve essa conquista para si mesmo?
No roteiro original, eles descobriram quase imediatamente após o pouso.
RIC OLIE : We're all accounted for. Who flew that ship?
ANAKIN sheepishly opens the cockpit and stands up. All the PILOTS stare in amazement.
ANAKIN : I'm not going to get into trouble, am I?
O novelização para adultos indica que Obi-Wan descobriu logo depois disso e considerou um sinal de que Anakin era o escolhido, as profecias estavam falando.
But it was a nine-year-old boy who had saved them all. Even without knowing exactly what he was doing, Anakin Skywalker had flown a starfighter into the teeth of the Federation defense, penetrated their shields, landed in the belly of the Neimoidian flagship, torpedoed the ship’s reactor, and set off a chain reaction of explosions that destroyed the control station. It was the destruction of the central transmitter that had caused the droid army to freeze in place, their communications effectively short-circuited. Anakin claimed not to have attacked with any sort of plan in mind or fired his starfighter’s torpedoes with any expectation of hitting the reactor. But after hearing the boy’s tale and questioning him thoroughly, Obi-Wan believed Anakin was guided by something more than the thinking of ordinary men. That extraordinarily high midi-chlorian count gave the boy a connection to the Force that even Jedi Masters on the order of Yoda might never achieve. Qui-Gon, he now believed, had been right. Anakin Skywalker was the chosen one.
In Star Wars: The Clone Wars S04E09 "Plano de dissidência", Fives está discutindo o ataque a uma nave de controle de droides e diz:
General Skywalker blew up a droid control ship when he was just a kid, and he told me the trick is hitting their main reactor from the inside.
Portanto, sabemos que Anakin disse diretamente a pelo menos uma pessoa que ele era responsável por explodir. Dada a sua personalidade de boate, é provável que Fives não tenha sido o único que ele contou.
Sim, as pessoas descobriram. Em um episódio de Clone Wars (que é cânone) do arco "Darkness on Umbara", um clone menciona como Anakin levou a nave de comando.