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Star Wars: Clone Wars was an animated television series set in the Star Wars galaxy. The series chronicles the Clone Wars, which are fought between the Galactic Republic under Chancellor Palpatine and the Confederacy of Independent Systems under Count Dooku. Clone Wars was intended to serve as a bridge between the films Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, which begin and end the war respectively. It first aired on November 7, 2003. It last aired on March 25, 2005.
Storyline
Introduction
The series opens with Chancellor Palpatine's office, where he, Master Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi are talking about a war on Munnilnist and who should lead the battle. Yoda suggests that Obi-Wan lead the ground-force while Palpatine then told the Jedi that Anakin should lead the space-forces.
Battle of Muunilnist
The Battle of Muunilinst began and Durge is sent by Dooku to help the Banking Clan win. Obi-Wan and Durge fight, and Obi-Wan wins, but Durge regenerates and persues Obi-Wan. Fordo and his men fight Durge and eventually he is defeated and the Banking Clan loose.
Asajj Ventress
Asajj Ventress, a Dark Jedi found by Count Dooku, is introduced and she is assigned to kill Anakin Skywalker. Anakin followed her to Yavin 4 where he lost his first starfighter Azure Angel and R4-P22. He dueled her and finally won by releasing his anger. Using her lightsaber, he pushed her into ravine.
Battle of Mon Calamari
While Kenobi and Skywalker were busy with the war on Muunilinst and Yavin 4, the series found out what other Jedi members were doing. Kit Fisto battling was assigned to Mon Calamari, to help the planet in a period of Civil War. Kit defeated the Quarren with the help of the native people and Mon Calamari was liberated from Separatist forces.
Battle of Dantooine
Mace Windo and his clone army were also fighting during the Clone Wars; they were assigned to fight on Dantoonine. When Mace's clones were all killed by a new Separtist war machine, Mace took on a whole army of Super Battle Droids to reach and destroy it!
Adventure on Ilum
Master Yoda, after sensing a disturbance in the force, fly to Ilum with Padme Amidala to search for Luminara Unduli and her padawan, Barriss Offee on Ilum. They Jedi were trapped in the wreckage of the temple on Ilum. Yoda rescued them and was reunited with Padme, who had come to look for him. R2-D2 discovered that it was Dooku who had sent droids to destroy the temple, and this upset Yoda.
Battle of Hypori
In the last chapter of season 2, fans were introuced to General Grievous on Hypori where he fought against seven Jedi in the wreckage of a starship. Luckily, they managed to send a distress call to Obi-Wan, who had just finished the battle of Muunilnist, who sent Fordo to save them. Unfortunately, only three Jedi surviving the duel, Ki-Adi-Mundi, Shaak Ti and Aayla Secura.
Adventure on Nelvan
Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi were then dispatched to the planet Nelvan, because Grievous had been sighted there. On the planet, the clones were killed and Anakin was sent by the Nelvan Shamen to end the suffering on there planet. He found that Techno-Union soldiers were experimenting and controlling Nelvan Warriors. Anakin saved the warriors, but had a vision that said he would soon become Darth Vader. Anakin then lost his robot hand and returned home with the liberated Nelvan Warriors. Anakin and Obi-Wan returned to the hanger of their ship, where R2-D2 was fixing Anakin's hand (changing it to the robot hand seen in Episode III) and Obi-Wan came and gave Anakin a lecture about how we form our own destinys and how our desisions make us who we are.
Battle of Corusant
Darth Sidious, who was actually Chancellor Palpatine, ordered General Grievous to attack the Republic's capital planet, Corusant. Jedi were sent to stop every attempt of capturing the Chancellor, while Master Windu and Yoda fought against droid army. Shaak Ti was soon attacked by General Grievous, who succeed in capturing the Chancellor. Near the end, Grievous was preparing to return to his flagship, when Mace Windu arrived and crushed his chest with the Force. Since then, Grievous started to cough and run from the Jedi. The series finished with scene of Battle of Coruscant seen from space.
Aftermath
Shortly after Palpatine was kidnapped, Mace Windo contacted Anakin and Obi-Wan (who were still in orbit around Nelvan) and informed them on the situation on Corusant. He then instucted them to return and rescue Palpatine. Anakin cursed Grievous and ordered his men to get into their battle positions and instructed them to jump to hyperspace. The series ends with the space battle above Corusant - leading right up to the beginning of Episode III.
Chapter List
| Number | Image | Chapters | Released | Prod. Code |
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Chapter 1 | November 7, 2003 | 101 |
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Chapter 2 | November 10, 2003 | 102 |
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November 11, 2003 | 103 | |
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Chapter 4 | November 12, 2003 | 104 |
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Chapter 5 | November 13, 2003 | 105 |
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Chapter 6 | November 14, 2003 | 106 |
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Chapter 7 | November 17, 2003 | 107 |
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Chapter 8 | November 18, 2003 | 108 |
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Chapter 9 | November 19, 2003 | 109 |
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November 20, 2003 | 110 | |
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Chapter 11 | March 26, 2004 | 111 |
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Chapter 12 | March 29, 2004 | 112 |
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Chapter 13 | March 30, 2004 | 113 |
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March 31, 2004 | 114 | |
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April 1, 2004 | 115 | |
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Chapter 16 | April 2, 2004 | 116 |
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Chapter 17 | April 5, 2004 | 117 |
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Chapter 18 | April 6, 2004 | 118 |
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Chapter 19 | April 7, 2004 | 119 |
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Chapter 20 | April 8, 2004 | 200 |
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Chapter 21 | March 21, 2005 | 201 |
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Chapter 22 | March 22, 2005 | 202 |
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Chapter 23 | March 23, 2005 | 203 |
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Chapter 24 | March 24, 2005 | 204 |
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Chapter 25 | March 25, 2005 | 205 |
Continuity
With the Expanded Universe being made Non-Canon on April 25th 2014, Star Wars: Clone Wars fell under the Legends banner with only Star Wars: The Clone Wars being Canon.
However, originally, Star Wars: The Clone Wars was intended to be a continuation of Star Wars: Clone Wars as stated by George Lucas in an unscripted interview with Hayden Christensen for moviefone. So even though not Canon now, Star Wars: The Clone Wars was intended to fit in between Chapters 21 and 22, where a 3 year time jump occurs in the original show.
Thus far, no new content has overwritten the events of the show, however, in the Ahsokas Untold Tales Panel of Celebration London 2016, Dave Filoni said, speaking about the Siege of Mandalore arc, that Obi-Wan and Anakin would be with Ahsoka making a plan to capture Maul who had since returned to Mandalore, when Master Yoda would would call them saying "I need Skywalker and Kenobi back to Coruscant immediately, the city's been attacked, and the chancellors been taken prisoner". In Star Wars: Clone Wars, it is Mace Windu, and not Yoda who contacts Skywalker and Kenobi, shortly after the events on Nelvaan, when Anakin was finishing up repairs on his arm.
Contradictions with Star Wars: The Clone Wars series
- Anakin Skywalker started to use his Jedi Interceptor after he got knighted, but in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars he first used his Delta-7B Aethersprite-class starfighter. However, all of the ships in the hanger are yellow, and not individualized to each Jedi, this could imply that Anakin was flying a Prototype, perhaps testing it out for a battle so that this version could be mass produced and used later on in the War.
- In this show Anakin get's his face scar sometime towards the end of the Clone Wars, whereas in Star Wars: The Clone Wars he has the scar early in the clone wars from the start of the show.
- Anakin doesn't have a Padawan in this series, but in Star Wars: The Clone Wars he does.
Contradictions with Legends sources
- In the chapters, Anakin becomes a Jedi Knight very early (when he still has a short hair), but in the novel Jedi Trials, he becomes a Knight only few months before the third episode.
- In the chapters, Shaak Ti, Roron Corobb and Foul Moudama are attempting to save Chancellor from General Grievous, but in the novel Labyrinth of Evil, there are more Jedi Characters and alongside Shaak Ti, Stass Allie is leading them too.
- Eeth Koth, who was listed as killed in the Battle of Geonosis, appeared in two Jedi High Council scenes and in the credits was listed as another Zabrak Jedi, Agen Kolar. It is still unknown if that Jedi was really intended to be Koth, but they put name Agen Kolar in credits, in order to avoid continuity problems, or he was intended to be Agen Kolar, but animators used wrong image as reference.