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| - The Clone Wars (11—16 ArS), also known as the Clone War, the Great Clone War, the Clone-Droid War, and less commonly known as the War of Secession, the Separatist-Republic War, and Darth Sidious' War, was the name given to the major galactic conflict that featured the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order fighting against a strong secessionist movement—the Confederacy of Independent Systems.
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| - The Clone Wars (11—16 ArS), also known as the Clone War, the Great Clone War, the Clone-Droid War, and less commonly known as the War of Secession, the Separatist-Republic War, and Darth Sidious' War, was the name given to the major galactic conflict that featured the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order fighting against a strong secessionist movement—the Confederacy of Independent Systems. The war was named after the clone troopers utilized by the Republic, who battled the battle droid forces of the CIS. 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, since each side possessed massive amounts of their own types of soldiers. The fighting between them rapidly spread to countless populated worlds, and starting with the Battle of Geonosis, both sides scored major victories over the other, and at different periods of the war, either seemed likely to achieve victory. As a result of the conflict, numerous worlds were laid to ruin in the war's numerous battles. However, in 16 ArS, the death of Count Maxon Dooku, the Separatist Head of State, during the Battle of Coruscant, and that of General Grievous, the leader of the droid armies, during the Battle of Utapau, coupled with the deactivation of the droid army, brought about an end to the fighting. The Treaty of Corellia—signed the same day as the Mission to Mustafar—officially ended the war. At the time, it was the largest galactic war to date. Unknown to most of those involved, the conflict was set in motion, and, for the five years of its duration, preserved, by the Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Sidious, whose ultimate goal was the transformation of the Republic into an Empire with himself as Emperor; also, as a Sith Master, Sidious' sought the complete eradication of the Jedi Order, the Sith's ancient enemies. Despite controlling the Republic as Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, and the Separatists through Dooku, who was his secret apprentice, Sidious' plans were ultimately thwarted, and he was forced to flee known space.
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