Clone Wars Wookieepedia FANDOM powered by Wikia. Clone WarsIt is possible that the war itself has been only one further move in some greater game. PalpatinesrcThe Clone Wars 2. BBY, also known as the Clone War and the Great Clone War, was the name given to the major galactic conflict fought between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems. The war was named after the clone troopers utilized by the Republic against the battle droid forces of the Separatists. 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, and the fighting between them rapidly spread to countless inhabited worlds. Beginning with the First Battle of Geonosis, both sides scored significant victories over the other, and at different times during the war either seemed likely to triumph. The Clone Wars 2219 BBY, also known as the Clone War and the Great Clone War, was the name. Torrentz domain names are for sale. Send an offer to contactinventoris. Development and design. In writing The Empire Strikes Back, Leigh Bracketts first draft of the film initially developed Lando Calrissian as a clone from a planet of. Since the founding of their Legion at the birth of the Imperium, the Space Marines of the Dark Angels have been dreaded by their enemies and held in awe by those. The first two years of the war saw both sides skirmish with and raid each other, while fighting a handful of significant battles and trying to gain allies while they built up their respective war industries. A series of Republic defeats in the wars second year culminated in Operation Durges Lance, a major strike into the Core Worlds led by the Supreme Commander of the Droid Armies, General Grievous. After the defeat of Grievous forces in the Core, however, the Republic gained traction when it mobilized its greater industrial base. Using superior numbers, the Republic drove Separatists from the Core and Colonies and engaged them in their own territories, a series of attritional campaigns known as the Outer Rim Sieges. In an effort to reverse the course of the war, Grievous launched a massive strike on Coruscant through the Deep Core. Much of the Confederate fleet was lost and their Head of State. Count. Dooku was killed over Coruscant. General Grievous was subsequently killed at the Battle of Utapau. This, coupled with the issuing of Order 6. At the time, it was the largest galactic conflict to date. Unbeknownst to most of those involved, the conflict was started, maintained, and eventually ended by the Dark Lord of the Sith. Darth Sidious, whose ultimate goal was the transformation of the Republic into the Galactic Empire with him as Emperor as well as the eradication of the Jedi Order through the Great Jedi Purge. The conflict led to the Order of the Sith Lords controlling the dominant galactic government. Escape The Legion Torrent' title='Escape The Legion Torrent' />Origins. Tensions in the RimI will not let this Republic which has stood for a thousand years be split in two. My negotiations will not fail. If they do, you must realize there arent enough Jedi to protect the Republic. Blackberry Smoke Holding All The Roses. We are keepers of the peace, not soldiers. Palpatine and Mace WindusrcAlthough the Clone Wars officially began in 2. BBY at the Battle of Geonosis, their origins could be found over a century earlier. Though a fictive event controlled by Darth Sidious, the war had its origins in the age old divide between the galaxys inner and outer systems. In 1. 24 BBY, the Galactic Senate passed two critical pieces of legislation the entire Outer Rim Territories were declared a Free Trade Zone, repealing numerous sector level taxes. Since the Ruusan Reformations of 1. BBY and the abolition of a centralized Republic Navy, the Outer Rim had been plagued by piracy and slavers, breeding political isolation. The act hoped to jump start legitimate commerce and so restore ties between the Core and the Rim. Additionally, the status of functional constituencies was extended to include Senatorial representation of the galaxys largest guilds and corporations. These twin acts benefited various mega corporations, including the Inter. Galactic Banking Clan and the Corporate Alliance, but none more so than the Trade Federation, a Neimoidian trade cartel. The Trade Federation rapidly expanded into the Outer Rim, stifled competition, and enforced deals with its powerful Trade Defense Force. By 6. 7 BBY it enjoyed full voting privileges in the Galactic Senate, and within a decade commanded the votes of hundreds of systems. Many on Coruscant supported the Trade Federation, admiring the TDFs rapid extinction of piracy on the major hyperlanes. Others bemoaned Trade Federation corruption and the extinction of representation for the systems it controlled. The issue of the Outer Rim polarized the Senate. By 5. 2 BBY, a faction known as the Militarists had emerged on Coruscant, calling for the restoration of the centralized Republic Military to restore order on the Rim. Meanwhile, a terrorist group known as the Nebula Front declared its intention to fight the Trade Federation by any means necessary. Amid this political storm began the career of one Senator. Palpatine of Naboo, representing the Chommell sector. Unbeknownst to all at the time and unclear to the rest of the galaxy until many decades later, Palpatine was in fact Darth Sidious, apprentice to the Dark Lord of the Sith. Darth Plagueis. Over the next two decades, he would manipulate the tensions between the Core and the Rim and the government and the Trade Federation to finally fulfill Darth Banes. Grand Plan, a thousand year scheme by the Order of the Sith Lords to foment a war that would destroy the Republic. As Sidious, he fomented the Stark Hyperspace War of 4. BBY, a ruse cooked up by him, the Federation, and Iaco Stark so that the Trade Federation could demand additional rights to increase protection on its ships. As Palpatine, he worked his way into Supreme Chancellor. Finis Valorums confidence as an opponent of the Trade Federation. In 3. 3 BBY, he encouraged Valorum to restore taxation on the Outer Rim trade routes in order to break the Trade Federations power. In exchange, Valorum offered the Neimoidians the right to unlimited defense of their merchant ships. However, the attack on their finances through taxation drove the Trade Federation, the IG Banking Clan, and the Corporate Alliance together. After a disastrous summit on Eriadu that saw four Federation board members murdered at Sidious behest, Nute Gunray was elevated to the position of Trade Federation Viceroy. With the Trade Federation radicalized and Baktoid Armor Workshop and Haor Chall Engineering filling its ever larger orders for a new Droid Army, Darth Sidious approached Gunray and encouraged him to make a stand that would force the Senate to back down over the taxation of trade routes. The Battle of NabooWhy bring the war to NabooHow quickly you forget after all, the war started here years agoAnakin Skywalker and Count Dooku on Naboos role in the Clone WarssrcAt Sidious behest, the Trade Federation began a blockade of Palpatines homeworld of Naboo. The entire incident made Valorum look weak, and in the Senate debate over what action to take over the blockade, Palpatine induced the enraged Queen. Padm Amidala of Naboo to demand a Vote of No Confidence in his leadership. In the aftermath, a strong sympathy vote for Naboo rode Senator. Palpatine to the office of Supreme Chancellor. Thus, a Sith Lord had control of the Galactic Republic. The invasion of Naboo saw the continued existence of the Sith exposed to the Jedi Order after Sidious apprentice Darth Maulkilled. Jedi Master. Qui Gon Jinn during the liberation of the planet. Additionally, events during the escape of Queen Amidala from Naboo to Coruscant saw the discovery of Anakin Skywalker on Tatooine, whom Qui Gon had believed to be the Chosen One, the prophesied being who would bring balance to the Force. Salamanders Warhammer 4. FANDOM powered by WikiaOn the Anvil of War are the strong tempered and the weak made to perish, thus are mens souls tested as metal in the forges fire. The Primarch. Vulkan. Salamanders. WarcryInto the fires of battle, unto the Anvil of WarSuccessors of. Dragon Warriors. Chapter Master. Colours. Green, Black and Gold. The Salamanders are one of the Loyalist First Founding. Chapters of Space Marines. They originally served as the Imperiums XVIII Space Marine Legion during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy and for some time before the return of their Primarch were known as the Dragon Warriors. Their homeworld is the volcanic Death World of Nocturne. The Salamanders as a Chapter are unusually concerned with civilian casualties compared to most other Space Marines and believe that one of their most important duties is to protect the lives of the Emperor of Mankinds innocent subjects whenever and wherever possible. This is an attitude that developed as a consequence of the Salamanders own unusually close connections to the Nocturnean people, as they are one of the only Chapters of Astartes who continue to interact with their families and the people of their homeworld after their transformation into Space Marines. For instance, it is not uncommon for a Salamander to serve as a clan leader among the Nocturneans and live with them when Chapter business does not require him to remain at the Chapters fortress monastery on Nocturnes moon of Prometheus. The Salamanders and their people as a whole are also defined by their adherence to a variation of the Imperial Cult called the Promethean Cult. The story of the Salamanders and the legend of how their Primarch. Vulkan was reunited with the Emperor is one of the few stories from the time of the Great Crusade told in a coherent form across many different worlds of the Imperium. How much of the so called Promethean Opus is factually accurate is unknown, and in many ways unimportant. The fact that the Salamanders have stood for ten thousand standard years as paragons of strength, honour and resolution is the true legacy of their Primarch, and one that endures into the dark epoch of the late 4. Millennium. The Salamanders hail from a world wracked by constant volcanic instability, but possessing the very rarest kinds of mineral resources. The violence of the cyclic volcanic activity creates and churns up minerals highly prized by the Adeptus Mechanicus, yet the planet has been occupied by Mankind since long before the Age of the Imperium. When the infant Vulkan appeared on Nocturne, he was discovered by the smith of one of the seven main settlements, a mastercraftsman who soon taught the infant Primarch all he knew. Within a few short standard years Vulkan had developed into a hulk of a man, his mind as powerful as his body. Soon, Vulkan was teaching the master smiths of Nocturne metalworking techniques lost to them since the darkest days of the Age of Strife. When Vulkan defeated one of the regular and highly costly Eldar raids, he was unanimously acknowledged as their leader. When the Emperor came to Nocturne to be reunited with His lost son, He chose not to do so with great ceremony as He had in several other cases, and He did not announce His identity, hiding behind an obscuring psychic glamour. Instead, He came as a stranger during the festival to celebrate Vulkans great victory. By tradition, such celebrations included numerous contests and trials of strength, and so the stranger challenged Vulkan, declaring that the winner of their contest would kneel before the other and declare his eternal fealty. The resulting challenge saw the stranger and the Primarch perform such deeds that no mortal could replicate, culminating in a hunt to slay the largest salamander and return to the settlement with its body. During this final challenge, Vulkan slew a gargantuan beast, but upon his return journey the ground opened up beneath him and a torrent lava surged up to engulf him. With one hand clinging to a rock and the other gripping the tail of his huge prize, Vulkan hung perilously over the surging lava, his mighty strength seeping away after days of trials. Only by abandoning his trophy could Vulkan save himself, yet he refused to do so, even in the face of death. Then, the stranger appeared before him, but his path was blocked by yet another lava channel. Vulkan saw that the stranger dragged behind him a prize even greater than his own, the body of the largest salamander ever seen, which he cast into the lava to form a bridge. A moment later, the stranger took Vulkans hand and lifted the Primarch and his prize straight up, saving him from death. Upon their return to the settlement the elders declared Vulkan the winner of the contest, for the stranger had returned from the hunt empty handed. But it was not the stranger who declared his eternal fealty, but the Primarch who did so, going down on one knee and declaring that a man who valued anothers life over his own victory was a man worth serving. In that moment, the stranger cast off His disguise and all could see Him for what He truly was, the Master of Mankind, come to Nocturne to find His son and to reunite the people with the rest of Humanity. Vulkan assumed the mantle of Primarch of the XVIII Legion, thereafter called the Salamanders. Recruiting from the hardy men of Nocturne, the Legion soon became known for the strength, courage, and honour of its Battle Brothers, as well as the skills with which they fashioned their weapons of war. But the age of glory was not to last long, for along with the Iron Hands and the Raven Guard, the Salamanders were deceived by Horus into taking their place amongst the doomed first wave at Istvaan V, where they were decimated first by the Traitors defences and then by the treachery of the Legions forming the second wave. The Salamanders are known to have suffered tragic losses at Istvaan V as one of the so called Shattered Legions, though sufficient numbers escaped to save the Legion from extinction. Records of this age are incomplete at best, and little of the Salamanders actions or the deeds of their Primarch are preserved. The events immediately following the galactic civil war are even more obscured and perhaps known only to the taciturn masters of the Salamanders Librarius. The XVIII Legion appears to have sired no immediate Successors, and it is likely that their numbers were so depleted by the events of the Istvaan V Drop Site Massacre that it was not possible to divide it into Chapters. Several Chapters created much later in subsequent Foundings may share the genetic inheritance of the Salamanders, but no evidence exists of any Second Founding Successor Chapters having been sired. The extent to which the dictates of the Codex Astartes were adhered to in the aftermath of the break up of the old Legions varied much, and the Salamanders appear to have obeyed it in some respects, while ignoring it in others. The fielding of only seven, over strength companies by the Chapter is one example of this, though in other respects the Chapter is largely compliant with Roboute Guillimans tome. The ultimate fate of the Salamanders Primarch is a matter of much conjecture, for he disappeared many years after the Horus Heresy.