Galactic Clone Wars

The Galactic Clone Wars were a series of significant conflicts that stretched across the whole galaxy, and were widely regarded by most people as the worst conflict in the history of the galaxy. The Clone Wars were brought about by the spreading conflict of the Mandalorian Civil War and the cloned Mandalorian mercenaries used by the Mandalorian Death Watch. These clone mercenaries were soon hired by the Commonwealth of Independant Systems to be combined with new droid armies so that they could present a military force powerful enough that the Republic would have to grant the CIS independance. However, the Republic responded by conscripting the various indigenous militaries, police and security forces of the systems it still possessed, as well as the prowess of the Jedi Order, and initiated the Clone Wars.

The Clone Wars started out as a series of brush-fire conflicts in unimportant regions of space, but as the Seperatists continued to produce more droids and purchase more clones from Spaarti Creations and the Kaminoans and Khommites the Republic continued to draw on more indigenous military forces. The wars would end up lasting over 35 years, with the Seperatists coming to rely ever more on their droid armies as the Republic captured and destroyed various cloning facilities.

In 19 BBY the Republic finally claimed victory over the Seperatists, but the ramifications of the wars were significant. The death toll was the largest ever seen in any single period of conflict in the galaxy, many planets entered periods of financial and social crisis, and the Galactic Republic was dissolved to allow the introduction of the Galactic Empire under the rule of Emperor Decarte Palpatine. In fact, this had been the secret intention of the Clone Wars all along, as a reason to sieze control of the galaxy under the rule of Palpatine, secretly a Dark Lord of the Sith.