Forum:SH:Timeline of the Clone Wars (Legends)

Since 2008, after the release of The Clone Wars movie, the timeline of the Clone Wars has been confusing. The original timeline from the Clone Wars multimedia project can no longer be used. However, despite it being nearly 10 years since the initial release of The Clone Wars, the timeline for Legends has not been updated.

I think, in response to the revival of the TV show that started this debacle, we should take a look at trying to fix the timeline in Legends as best we can.

Things to Consider
We first should look at when the problem started, that way we can fix it:
 * TCW gives us a look at the time of Anakin Skywalker and his wartime after being knighted. Originally in Legends this was in late 20 BBY, taking place 6 months before the events of RotS. Going only by that fact, and nothing else, the entirety of TCW would take place from 15:11 to 16:5. However, that makes no sense when considering the scale of the series as a whole.
 * Leland Chee stated repeatedly that he would give us a concrete timeline to use that joins both projects together. However, since we have not gotten that, we'll have to use the sources available to figure it out.
 * The New Essential Chronology cannot be used as a basis for the timeline. No matter what anyone says, the up-to-date resources, like The Essential Reader's Companion, must be used first.
 * Staying on that topic, the Essential Reader's Companion (ERC) is the most up-to-date information that we have for the era of the Clone War in Legends. That must be used first and then we should either ignore it or work around things that cannot work (based on common sense or other sources that contradict it).
 * The Clone Wars: Wild Space and the junior novelization of TCW are the two most important books for figuring out where certain events take place. In Wild Space, Anakin is said to be knighted a little of four weeks after AotC and the Battle of Geonosis. Since the the Battle of Geonosis (BoG) takes place on 13:5:21, the knighting of Anakin would be around 13:6:21 (rounded for simplicity) over 4 weeks after later. We then learn that 7 weeks after the BoG (which is "not quite three weeks" since Anakin's knighting and sometime at the start of 13:7), the Battle of Anoth occurs. We then have the Battle of Bakura and then the Christophsis. For the Junior Novel, we are told that the events of the film take place 3 months after the BoG. That would place the film at around the end of 13:8.
 * Finally, for the dating of episodes in TCW, we will be using the timeline given on StarWars.com that details where every episode takes place (minus the material that is canon only).

With this timeline I will need  a lot of help to get everything figured out. This is currently a simple attempt to get everything figured out. This is also a work-in-progress. It'll definitely be incomplete at first, but it will expand over time.

With that explained and out of the way, let's get into the timeline.

22 BBY
('''Note: These are not in any order (excluding TCW episodes). They are simply placed so that we know what happens where
 * 13:5-6
 * Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones
 * Storm Fleet Warnings
 * Star Wars: Republic
 * Boba Fett (books)
 * Precipice
 * Death in the Catacombs
 * Elusion Illusion
 * Legacy of the Jedi
 * The Cestus Deception
 * The Hive
 * Secrets of the Jedi
 * Jedi Trial
 * Star Wars: Clone Wars
 * Star Wars: Republic: Dreadnaughts of Rendili


 * 13:8-14:3
 * "Cat and Mouse"
 * "The Hidden Enemy"
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars
 * The Clone Wars: No Prisoners
 * "Clone Cadets"
 * "Supply Lines"
 * "Ambush" to "Rookies"
 * "Downfall of a Droid" and "Duel of the Droids"
 * The Clone Wars: Wild Space
 * [to be filled in]

21 BBY

 * 14:3 - 15:3
 * "Jedi Crash" and "Defenders of Peace" {{C|The Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth and Siege novels take place after these two episodes. Since they are placed in 21 BBY in the ERC, it makes sense that these two episodes take place after it.
 * Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth and Clone Wars Gambit: Siege
 * "Trespass" through "Liberty on Ryloth"

Discussion
For the time being, I'm pausing. I wanted to get out a potential beginning timeline for the show and the multimedia project. While there is a lot more to cover, I don't have that much time to write it all out and divide it up. Anyone can help with it (especially those more knowledgeable in the subject) but for now, this is a skeleton of what the timeline should look like. Thoughts? SenatorConfer (talk) 18:13, July 30, 2018 (UTC)