Clone Wars

Organizations| * Galactic Republic/Galactic Empire
* Jedi order
* Hutt clan
* Terran Alliance (Joined 1992)
* Mandalorian Resistance
* Sith
* Death Watch
* Zygerrian Slave Empire (1993)

Personnel| * Supreme Chancellor/Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine
* Galactic Senate
* Officers of the Republic Military
	+ Republic High Command
	+ Republic Intelligence
* Jedi Order
	+ Jedi High Council
* Terran Alliance General Assembly
* Terran Joint Command
* Confederate Head of State Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus
* Supreme Commander of the Droid Army General Grievous
* Separatist Council
* Separatist Senate
* Officers of the Confederacy Military

Result| * Galactic Empire/Sith victory
	+ Billions of casualties
	+ Contact finally made between the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way
	+ Formation of the Terran Alliance
	+ Collapse and occupation of the Confederacy of Independent SYstems, leading to the formation of Separatist holdouts
	+ Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine declares himself Galactic Emperor and reforms the Galactic Republic into the Galactic Republic, thereby restoring the Sith Empire
	+ Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker falls to the dark side and becomes Darth Vader
	+ Extermination of most Jedi through Order 66 and the dissolution of the Jedi order
	+ Beginning of the Imperial Era
	+ Beginning of the Intergalactic Cold War

The **Clone Wars** (22–19 BBY), occasionally referred to as the **Clone War**, the **Separatist War**, or the **Droid War**, was a major, three year war between the Galactic Republic and its allies, including the Terran Alliance, and the Confederacy of Independent Systems. The war was named after the army of clone troopers used by the Republic against the Confederacy's battle droid army. With both being fielded in enormous numbers by each respective side, the Grand Army of the Republic and the Separatist Droid Army were two of the largest military forces in galactic history, and fighting between them swept through the galaxy upon the outbreak of war in 22 BBY/1991 AD.

Prior to the conflict, Darth Sidious, under his alter ego Sheev Palpatine, had spent years amassing political power, eventually rising to become the Republic's Supreme Chancellor. Through his Sith apprentice Count Dooku, he sparked the Separatist Crisis, causing thousands of Republic star systems to secede and form a new government as the Confederacy of Independent Systems in 1989, with Dooku as its Head of State. Beginning with the First Battle of Geonosis, the conflict quickly spread throughout the galaxy with both sides scoring significant victories. At different points in the war it seemed that either side was likely to triumph over the other. At the war's outset, both sides vied for control of major hyperspace lanes to gain strategic advantage. That particular struggle ended with a Republic victory when Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan, Ahsoka Tano, secured an alliance between the Republic and the Hutt Clan.

Five Months after the first battle of Geonosis, the Republic received a distress signal believing that the Seperatists are looking for resources to another galaxy on what they called Milky Way, so the Republic's forces sent a task force led by Jedi General Anakin Skywalker, and including his padawan Ahsoka Tano, Captain Rex and the rest of the 501st Legion. After a brief search, they found Earth (later known as Terra) on October 5, 1991, upon which they made first contact with the Government of the United States of America. The Republic established diplomatic relations with the nations of Earth, thee quarters of which formed a military alliance known as the Terran Alliance to fight an impending Separatist invasion. Following the Terran campaign, the Terran Alliance became an official unified government of Earth, and officially entered the war in January 1992 with a declaration of war on the Confederacy.

After years of fighting, on July 24, 1994, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine revealed his true identity as Darth Sidious and initiated what became known as the Jedi Purge as he transitioned the Republic into the Galactic Empire. Prior to this event, The Terran Alliance, has already suspicious of Palpatine himself, as they fought back against their former allies in an attempt to defend the Jedi Knights, while taking heavy casualties but managing to save a number of the Jedi.

In the aftermath of the war, the Confederacy of Independent Systems fractured and broke apart, with a few holdouts establishing themselves in defiance of the new Empire. The new Empire established its control over the galaxy, and began secret construction of a battlestation known as the Death Star, which they hoped would prove their tool of absolute control over the galaxy. At the same time, the Terran Alliance retreated out of the Andromeda Galaxy, declaring themselves enemies of the Empire. As the Empire's forces were spread somewhat thin trying to establish Galactic control, and the Terran Alliance was beginning a mass militarization and build up, the two sides refrained from continuing their fighting, and the Intergalactic Cold War began between the two powers, which would last 19 years until the Terran Alliance declared war on the Empire following the Battle of Yavin, which began Terran involvement in the Galactic Civil War.

## Appearances

* *Rise of the Terran Alliance (first appearance)*
* *The Terran Alliance Strikes Back (mentioned)*