Curiosamente, há uma ligeira discrepância entre o Novela Oficial Oficial e a Novelização Oficial de Filmes. No primeiro, é Anakin quem contata as tropas Clone que voam ao lado. No último, é Kenobi e somente depois que o navio é alvejado (e baleado) pelos combatentes da República:
Da Junior Novelisation do filme:
Distantly, he was aware of Obi-Wan and Palpatine following his instructions, of R2-D2 taking up a position at the auxiliary controls, but his fingers were already busy with the unfamiliar controls. First, stop the shooting. This switch? No … There. Quickly, he tapped out a message to the Republic’s clone fighters: General Kenobi and I have taken the ship. The Chancellor is safe. Stop firing. He signed it with his name and the code that would mark it as an authentic message, and sent it off.
e a Novelização Oficial do filme
The cruiser bounced even harder, and its attitude began to skew as a new klaxon joined the blare of the other alarms. “That wasn’t me!” Anakin jerked his hands away from the board. “I haven’t even done anything yet!”
“It certainly wasn’t.” Palpatine’s voice was unnaturally calm. “It seems someone is shooting at us.”
“Wonderful,” Anakin muttered. “Could this day get any better?”
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“Perhaps we can talk with them.” Obi-Wan moved over to the comm station and began working the screen. “Let them know we’ve captured the ship.”
“All right, take the comm,” Anakin said. He pointed at the copilot’s station. “Artoo: second chair. Chancellor?”
“You have to stand down the surface-defense system, sir! It’s General Kenobi!” Needa insisted. “His code verifies, Skywalker is with him-and they have Chancellor Palpatine!”
“Heard and understood this is,” the Jedi [Yoda] responded calmly.