A series of Republic defeats in the war's second year culminated in Operation Durge's Lance, a major strike into the Core Worlds led by the Supreme Commander of the Droid Armies, General Grievous.

The first two years of the war saw both sides skirmish with and raid each other, while fighting a handful of significant battles and trying to gain allies while they built up their respective war industries. These armies, the Grand Army of the Republic and the Separatist Droid Army, were two of the largest ever pitted against each other in galactic history, and the fighting between them rapidly spread to countless inhabited worlds.īeginning with the First Battle of Geonosis, both sides scored significant victories over the other, and at different times during the war either seemed likely to triumph. The war was named after the clone troopers utilized by the Republic against the battle droid forces of the Separatists. The Clone Wars ( 22– 19 BBY), also known as the Clone War and the Great Clone War, was the name given to the major galactic conflict fought between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems. ' It is possible that the war itself has been only one further move in some greater game.' ― Palpatine Commander CC-3636 'Wolffe' ( 104th Battalion).Commander CC-8826 'Neyo' ( 91st Mobile Reconnaissance Corps).Commander CC-5052 'Bly' ( 327th Star Corps).Commander CC-1004 'Gree'† ( 41st Elite Corps).Marshal Commander CC-2224 'Cody' ( 7th Sky Corps).Marshal Commander CC-1138 'Bacara' ( 21st Nova Corps).Many Clone Commanders and Clone Captains.Commander Ahsoka Tano (Early-Late Mid War).General Anakin Skywalker (later transformed into the Sith Lord Darth Vader).Republic High Command† (re-organized into Imperial High Command).Galactic Republic (re-organized into Galactic Empire).

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