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Star Wars Read-Through Part 18: Early Clone Wars, Part 1 of 2: Like fire, the Clone Wars spread

Cover of Jedi: Mace Windu . Master Windu was a prominent figure in early Clone Wars stories. Image from Wookieepedia. The chronology of the Clone Wars era of Star Wars is not as clear as I would like it to be. An initial set of stories set during the conflict, released between 2002 and 2008, were internally consistent with each other and were spread out relatively evenly between Episodes II and III. They included novels, comics, video games, and the 2D animated Clone Wars television series. The timeline, which measured time in "months since the Battle of Geonosis" (the battle which launched the Clone Wars in the third act of Episode II), was printed in every novel.  Rough timeline of the Clone Wars, in the Legends continuity, pre-2008. Units are in "months after the Battle of Geonosis". Homemade. In 2008, Lucasfilm released " Star Wars: The Clone Wars ", a 3D animated movie followed by a TV series. While starting weak, this series would go on to include s