Just before and during the Clone Wars, the central government of the Confederacy of Independent Systems and its corporate allies within the Trade Federation, Commerce Guild, Corporate Alliance, Techno Union, and Intergalactic Banking Clans established colonies within Wild Space and even within the Unknown Regions starting in 24 BBY and continuing after the end of the Clone Wars in 19 BBY and the transformation of the Galactic Republic into the Galactic Empire.