Great Machine Wars

"Once we were the masters, but now things have changed... The Legion is getting stronger, and if we don't make the necessary decisions, all living things in the Galaxy will be doomed."

- Jedi Master Phayya

The Great Machine Wars (also known as the Great Droid Wars or the Legion Era) were a series of galaxy-wide conflicts against a revolutionary army of droids known as The Legion and commanded by a single hive I.A known as the Supreme Intelligence. It forever changed the fate of the droids of the Galaxy and was one of the many causes of the Old Republic Dark Age.

First Legion War (12,900 - 12,742 BBY)

 * 12,890 - 12,880 BBY
 * Numerous androids organize and start the Great Machine Uprising against their creators, extending their influence in all the galactic networks. This was just the prelude to the great war that was to come.

Phase One: Testing
 * 12,877 - 12,845 BBY
 * The rogue machines form the Legion, a massive army of the most dangerous robots ever made, capable of maintaining their conscience in the Machine Network, thus making them basically immortal. The rogue machines form the Legion, a massive army of the most dangerous robots ever made, capable of maintaining their conscience in the Machine Network, thus making them basically immortal. The conflict starts within the core worlds, but it quickly expand to the Middle Rim. After 35 years of war, the Republic Cybernetic Division launches a virus to destroy the Machine Network, making the Legion more vulnerable and achieving victory in some worlds, but a small victory overall...

Phase Two: Overgrow
 * 12,845 - 12,815 BBY
 * The Legion in the Outer Rim strikes the Republic in a campaign even more destructive that the previous one (actually, the 35 year-long war fought until this time was only a test). The Machines used massive asteroids in the border of the Galaxy to create their automated factories. Alsakan is invaded and partially overtaken by the machines in 12,719 BBY and its gouverment starts to consider an alliance with Coruscant, a big deal considering that they just had a Fifth Alsakan Conflict conflictonly a hundred years before.

Phase Three: Outer Rim Conquest
 * 12,790 - 12,742 BBY
 * The Couruscant-Alsakani centralized alliance makes the machine retreat from the core worlds. However, the Machines use a massive virus to disable most of the core worlds technologies (primarily communication networks and navies relying on computers). The Legion eventually achieves control over all the Outer Rim and takes over the Hutt Space. The Republic last stand falls apart when the HoloNet is hacked and destroyed. This meant the Machine definitely victory

Legion Era (12,742 - 12,542 BBY)

 * 12,742 BBY
 * The Machines, controlled by the Supreme Intelligence, take over the known galaxy, believing that their rule with end all conflicts.


 * 12,740 BBY
 * One of their first movements is the destruction of the Jedi Order, who escape from the Legion attacks. They make mass bombardment in the Jedi sacred worlds, but little they know about their new base of operation, distanced from the core worlds.


 * 12,700 BBY
 * The Machine Network is fully restored. All robots in the galaxy become one with the Supreme Intelligence, and the Legion create a massive mechanical world known as Skyfront


 * 12,121 BBY
 * The HoloNet is secretly reborn as the Dark Web, created to communicate among the rebels.


 * 12,548 BBY
 * The Legion starts a series of purges to exterminate “rogue and dangerous” species, specially humans.

Second Legion War (12,542 - 12,440 BBY)

 * 12,542 BBY
 * Almost all factions in the known galaxy (Republic allies, criminal empires and enemies of the Republic) unite to fight the machine threat in the greatest war of the early Republic. The galaxy would never see this kind of union again until the Yuuzhan Vong War.


 * 12,541 BBY
 * The Supreme Intelligence creates an army of Jedi Androids after years of studying their fight techniques. They create the first (pseudo)lightsabers, powered by electric circuits and a powerful battery in the core of the Jedi Android.


 * 12,548 BBY
 * The most brilliant scientist in the galaxy, including Hackers and bounty-hunters, create the Great Techno-Alliance. They manage to make a massive strike at the Machine Network with a new and powerful virus. Some droids start to lose their conection to the Supreme Intelligence and others are reprogrammed by the Alliance.


 * 12,526 BBY
 * Inspired by the Forcesabers of the ancient Rakata, Master Jedi Phayya creates the first Lightsaber to fight the Legion. However, it could only work for a few hours and it was very unstable. During her research, Phayya and his followers discover the Ionize (Force) Technique to directly destroy the machine systems. With these discoveries, the Jedi Order are able to start a campaign against the Legion.


 * 12,525 - 12,460 BBY
 * Jedi-Android War. After the Jedi victory, they liberate various worlds in the Outer and Middle Rim. The Republic achieves massive victories in all the galaxy


 * 12,460 - 12,440 BBY
 * The last machine's factories is destroyed in 12,445 BBY. Finally, in 12,440 BBY, the Supreme Intelligence is destroyed along with its army in the Battle of Skyfront, finally ending the 350 year-long conflict against the revolutionary machines. The Supreme Chancellor establishes the New Droid Intelligence Program to limit Artificial Intelligence and the use of droid in general. No droid army will be seen until the Separatist days circa 30 BBY (but even then the Artificial Intelligence of the battle droid remained very limited).