For three years, a warlike conflict struck almost every corner of the galaxy. The Clone Wars not only claimed billions of victims, but they also came close to ending the Jedi Order.
The entire conflict was orchestrated from the shadows by Sheev Palpatine, who, while gaining political strength in the Galactic Republic, manipulated the Confederacy of Independent Systems under his secret identity as Sith Lord Darth Sidious. After years of meticulous preparation, by the time the conflict broke out, the then Supreme Chancellor Palpatine dominated both sides with no one suspecting his public image at all, just as no one imagined the dark times that awaited the galaxy...