AU timeline (for my main AU series) for the Clone Wars - Part Two

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AU timeline (for my main AU series) for the Clone Wars

Continued from first post, over here https://polgarawolf.livejournal.com/249242.html since I nattered too much for the LJ to be able to fit it all in one post. This part contains most of the rest of the actual timeline as well as some thoughts about all of this and what it means for my main SW AU.

AGAIN, I DO NOT KNOW WHY IT KEEPS RANDOMLY CHANGING FONTS. I HAVE TRIED AND TRIED TO FIX IT AND GIVEN UP ON THE INFERNAL THING.

• Ten full months essentially makes a standard year, and, since it probably takes Obi-Wan a while to actually recover after getting back to the Temple, after Rattatak, I’m going to bump Jedi Trial up to not long after Obi-Wan’s rescue, during the tenth month after the First Battle of Geonosis (with Anakin being sent on a more difficult solo mission while Obi-Wan is either still recovering or else being eased back into active duty with a simpler solo mission of his own, probably something purely diplomatic in nature. They’ll meet back up again for Christophsis, basically) and I am going to place The Clone Wars (both the animated feature that launches the second animated series about the war and its novelization, which means that the novelization also takes place during this timeframe) basically right afterwards, which means that the episodes “Cat and Mouse” (the sixteenth episode of season two) and “The Hidden Enemy” (the sixteenth episode of season one) from the second Clone Wars animated series are also being bumped up, to around the first third or the middle of the tenth month following the First Battle of Geonosis (since they are essentially immediate prequels to The Clone Wars). In regards to the Second Battle of Geonosis and the Republic’s capture of Archduke Poggle the Lesser (in episodes 5-8 of season two of Star Wars: The Clone Wars), since Orson Krennic rescues the Erso family from Vallt about twelve standard months or so after the war starts and Poggle is already supposed to have been captured by the Republic at this point, the Geonosis arc from season two has to come pretty much right on the heels of The Clone Wars, before anything else from season two or even season one (involving Ahsoka, Anakin, and/or Obi-Wan, that is), for the timing to work out right, meaning that it probably happens towards the end of the tenth month after First Battle of Geonosis. (The timing for all of that marks a slight point of divergence for me, for my AU version of Catalyst - there is some actual confusion over when the Second Battle of Geonosis takes place, from source to source, but it honestly just feels like more of that year in which the war starts vs. the first continuous year of fighting type of confusion - since the Republic has had Poggle in custody for a much shorter amount of time than Catalyst would seem to hint at, when Orson first thinks of recruiting him and his worker drones for Project Stardust, and some of the early information about Separatists plans for the mobile battle station also came to the Republic by way of their brief capture of Nute Gunray, back towards the end of the third standard month after the First Battle of Geonosis, when Republic and Naval Intelligence were interrogating Gunray, before trying to send him to trial for his crimes, at which point he was rescued.)
• Since, again, the Erso family is on Vallt for approximately twelve full standard months total (and likely arrived on Vallt about three weeks or so into Nelona, the month before the war officially started), according to Catalyst, Orson Krennic rescues them around the beginning of the twelfth month after the First Battle of Geonosis, likely near the festival of Shelova Week or the beginning of Melona (so that Jyn can specifically be referred to as being six months old at the time), which necessarily puts the besiegement of Grange starting somewhere around the end of Telona/beginning of Nelona for what would’ve been 21 BBY (or about nine full standard months or so after the war first starts).
• The events in Commando: Triple Zero and “Omega Squad: Targets” happen about eleven to twelve standard months after the First Battle of Geonosis (which basically translates to around the end of the sixth and/or the beginning of the seventh month of 21 BBY). This is where Karen Traviss starts to use “days after Geonosis” to date things, which can be confusing, as most (but not all) of the book actually falls between 367 (one day less than a standard year) and 395 days after the First Battle of Geonosis (no matter what number of month is also assigned to things).
• The rest of season one of Star Wars: The Clone Wars as well as seasons two (minus the Geonosis arc) and three (except for the three Dathomir episodes, 12-14, which are being bumped to after Yoda: Dark Rendezvous and the Obsession storyline from When They Were Brothers, in months eighteen and nineteen) plus the first six episodes of season four all happen approximately from the eleventh through the nineteenth months after the war starts; however, since the final episode of season one, “Hostage Crisis,” needs to happen in the fifteenth month following the First Battle of Geonosis so that it will still occur during what would’ve canonically been 22 BBY, I am subsequently also moving episode eight of the third season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, “Evil Plans” (which is a preface, of sorts, to “Hostage Crisis”) to near the middle of the fifteenth month following the First Battle of Geonosis, placing “Hostage Crisis” in the latter half of the fifteenth month following the First Battle of Geonosis, and I am likewise moving episode nine of season three, “Hunt for Ziro,” which deals with the aftermath of “Hostage Crisis,” to basically the very beginning of the sixteenth month following the First Battle of Geonosis. The timeline for the episodes of the various seasons Star Wars: The Clone Wars isn’t necessarily chronological at all, so I thought about moving at least part of season one until after the whole “Hostage Crisis” mess, to give season one a little bit more time/room, but the more I thought about it, the more I felt like those episodes would fit just fine into the hundred or so days in question (from approximately month twelve through the end of month fourteen or so). So “Hostage Crisis” stays at the end of that season (if after “Evil Plans”), with season two (except for “Cat and Mouse,” which has been moved to earlier on, around the beginning of the tenth month after the war begins, and the Geonosis arc, in episodes 5-8, which happens towards the end of the tenth month after the First Battle of Geonosis) following after that and “Hunt for Ziro” (though with some changes to the Mandalore storyline, since the supposed Darth Maul isn’t actually the real Darth Maul in my AU and my Duchess of Mandalore is definitely going to live), after which season three will pick up with episodes five through seven, then episode two, and then episode four, before jumping to episode ten, “Heroes on Both Sides,” and continuing on through the rest of the season (except for the Dathomir arc, in episodes 12-14, which, again, won’t be happening until after Yoda: Dark Rendezvous and the Obsession storyline from Clone Wars Volume 7: When They Were Brothers, after which a rather different version of episodes 14-16 from season five, for the altered Mandalore storyline, will likely take place) and the first six episodes of season four. Practically speaking, what this means is that everything in season one that hasn’t already been moved to earlier on in the war as well as two episodes from season three (eight and nine) occur from the eleventh through the beginning of the sixteenth standard month following the First Battle of Geonosis, with most of the rest of seasons two and three (or the majority of those seasons, aside from the Dathomir arc in season three) and the first six episodes of season four not happening until after “Hunt for Ziro” has wrapped up. It should be noted that the storyline beginning with “Padawan Lost” is altered in my AU in that Kalifa is wounded but survives (Ahsoka is slower to try to help her up, because she is still scanning the area for further threats, so she stumbles, nearly falling, and the killing shot that Garnac takes completely misses her. The rest of the story doesn’t alter too much, though, since Kalifa is wounded and rattled by nearly being shot and so agrees with the plan to try to get the drop on the dropship). Please note that any and all of the webcomics associated with different episodes of the various seasons of Star Wars: The Clone Wars will always move so that they will stay where they will make the most sense, nearest their associated episodes! Also, it’s worth noting that the Ryloth storyline from season one has to wrap up around Harvest Day the year after the war has started, given that Ryloth is “celebrating” the first anniversary of its victory over the Separatists invaders (and, thus, being made a protectorate of the Galactic Republic) approximately a year and a day afterwards.
• I have decided to place an extremely altered version of The Clone Wars: Wild Space (in both of my AU series, Bail Organa is already a longtime friend and ally of Obi-Wan by the time the war starts, which definitely changes things, especially in regards to Zigoola. I’m basically also discarding the first three chapters of the book, which are ridiculously overwrought, make no logical sense, and would seem to contract both canon and earlier EU, in regards to the aftermath of Obi-Wan and Anakin’s confrontation with Dooku, on Geonosis) during the twelfth standard month (probably towards the end of that month) following the First Battle of Geonosis, not only because this helps explain why Obi-Wan isn’t really present for some of the season one missions with Anakin and Ahsoka (and Skyguy and Snips seem fairly tentative together still, in this book), but because I’m fairly certain that part of this book (the whole Grievous and Bothawui thing, and Anakin telling Obi-Wan that Artoo’s missing in the field) is meant to be taken as overlapping with episodes six and seven of season one (“Downfall of a Droid” and “Duel of the Droids”).
• “Odds” (another clone wars story by Karen Traviss) is supposed to be set fourteen months after the First Battle of Geonosis, as far as I know, but I’m honestly not sure if that’s meant to be taken as GFFA standard months of 35 days each or Earth human months of around 30-ish days apiece, so I’m just going to average things and say it happens around almost thirteen standard months or in the extreme latter half of the twelfth month after the war starts.
• A slightly altered version of The Clone Wars: No Prisoners (guys, I’ve respected/liked Gilad Pellaeon since Tim Zahn first introduced us to Thrawn, but the characterization of Gil in this book honestly makes no bloody sense. The man is Corellian and he essentially lied about his age to get into the academy that produces Judicials, which ended up providing basically the first wave of Republic naval officers after the war started. Karen Traviss writes him like a blustery old-fashioned British naval officer - seriously, I had flashes of those Patrick O’Brian Napoleonic war naval books, reading this version of Gil - who’s having something of a crisis of conscience because his ship is the closest when his Jane Bond-ish lover of a Republic spy [actually named Hallena Devis] gets into trouble on a mission after a full-fledged rebellion suddenly starts on the world that she’s been sent to work on. Now, the crisis of conscience, I can completely get, but Jiminy Cricket, folks, this is a Corellian captain who’s essentially lied about his age to get into the service and has been held back from advancing any further than captain of a ship because apparently he’s a something of a womanizer and won’t give in to pressure to settle down with an “appropriate” spouse, and yet Traviss basically writes him as a stodgy, set-in-his-ways British naval officer who literally makes Ahsoka change her clothes before he’ll ever even let her on his ship, because her outfit is apparently showing way too much skin for his delicate sensibilities [and how that’s supposed to make any logical sense whatsoever when he’s also supposed to be a known womanizer/someone who loves women, I honestly cannot even begin to understand, unless it’s her age in combination with her outfit that’s actually freaking him out]. I actually like that he’s somewhat leery about the Force in general and Jedi having so much power in particular - having the Altisian Jedi show up and help save the day and having Hallena decide ultimately to ditch Republic Intelligence to go off with them and try to do some good in the galaxy are easily the best things about the whole blasted book - but a lot of the rest of this man’s characterization is insanely ridiculous and anachronistic at best and, in my opinion, needs to be altered to actually make sense, which necessarily affects the rest of the book, too) is probably set during the first half or so of the fourteenth standard month following the First Battle of Geonosis.
• I have decided to have a somewhat modified version of the duology Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth and Clone Wars Gambit: Siege start towards the end of the fourteenth/the beginning of the fifteenth standard month following the First Battle of Geonosis, so that they can (if only just barely) wrap up before the events of “Hostage Crisis” (since, in my AU, Mon Mothma’s head injury in this episode wipes out her memories of the war, including the attack on Chandrila that happens during Clone Wars Gambit: Siege). Folks, I actually like Jedi Shadow Taria Damsin a lot as a character - she gets on really well with Snips and inspires a lot of good things out of her and it’s always nice to find someone both willing and able to make Obi-Wan actually bother to take care of himself - but most of her ridiculously meager backstory makes me want to spit nails at the writer. I’m also seriously hacked off at the writer on behalf of that poor biochemist, Tryn Netzl (though I have next to no pity for that self-pitying, whiny coward, Bant’ena Fhernan), who didn’t sign up for this crap and more than deserves his anger with Bail Organa and the Jedi, in my opinion. People should be aware that both Taria and Dr. Netzl (not so much in the sense that he’s a practicing Healer but in that he has multiple doctorates and is heavy into biochemical and xeno-genetic research in between his teaching duties, which is why Bail and Breha consult with him about their problems conceiving/carrying to term), as well as Sufi and Greti (and her mother, Bohle, and probably some of the other Lanteebans who accept Queen Jamillia’s offer of refuge on Naboo), will be showing up again at some point down the road in my AU, on Naboo.
• I have decided to move a (somewhat altered) version of Yoda: Dark Rendezvous up to the beginning of the eighteenth standard month after the First Battle of Geonosis (not long before when the altered Dathomir storylines for Star Wars: The Clone Wars start to kick in. I’m going to say that Ahsoka isn’t with Anakin and Obi-Wan because this is when “Heroes on Both Sides” is happening and she’s off with Padmé). Clone Wars Volume 7: When They Were Brothers (or the Obsession storyline) is subsequently being moved up to the very end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth standard month after the First Battle of Geonosis (and Ahsoka’s either still with Padmé or else she’s on another “minor” mission of her own, which is why she isn’t with Obi-Wan and Anakin), with the Dathomir storyline in episodes 12-14 of season three following that, if with some major changes (involving Asajj Ventress, Mother Talzin, and the whole thing with Maul and his brothers), probably from around the beginning of the twentieth month. It should be noted that, from here on out - in other words, from around the middle of 20 BBY onwards - the “Ventress” in the subsequent seasons of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and all related materials is not actually the Asajj Ventress of the earlier EU materials, but rather her twin sister, who has been made into a weapon of vengeance and put in play by Mother Talzin to try to bring Dooku and the Sith down, for what she initially perceives as the murder and betrayal (later the betrayal and ruination) of Asajj and Palpatine’s theft of her son, Maul. (If Mother Talzin can have three sons - Maul, Feral, and Savage Opress - then frankly I don’t see why the unnamed mother of Asajj Ventress can’t have had twins and only given up one of them, Asajj, to placate the Siniteen criminal Hal’sted [which accounts for how Asajj ends up on Rattatak], especially not when having two Nightsisters with the name of Ventress can help solve the many headaches surrounding the completely different portrayals and histories of Asajj Ventress in the EU and/or Legends and canon materials.) This is what causes most of the aforementioned changes to the Dathomir storylines and also the Mandalore storylines, since it’s Asajj’s twin sister who works with Mother Talzin as a matter of course to seek revenge against Dooku for his betrayal (and murder, or so it’s initially thought) of her sister (who, in choosing to flee the war, after Boz Pity, is essentially lost to Dathomir and the Nightsisters, who take that loss very personally. Asajj’s twin is just about the only one who doesn’t also believe that Dooku’s betrayal of Asajj at Boz Pity has resulted in her actual death. Mother Talzin eventually figures this out, too, but is still furious that Dooku’s betrayal has, as she puts it “broken” and “ruined” Asajj) and eventually (after becoming a bounty hunter to support herself, as in a slightly modified version of season four’s episode 20, “Bounty,”), when it becomes clear that Mother Talzin is going to have to let Grievous and Dooku believe that they have defeated/decimated their Nightsister Clan, in order to avoid outright war between them that the Nightsisters are not yet prepared to wage) also ends up getting involved in an attempt to assassinate Dooku sanctioned by the Jedi High Council. Please note: since another animated show created by DISNEY, Star Wars: The Bad Batch, apparently has retconned or reversed Ventress’ death in Dark Disciple, Asajj’s twin sister also survives the end of the Clone Wars in my AU. Additionally, since the Kiffu sector is essentially left in control of the CIS after events in Clone Wars Volume 4: Light and Dark, I’ve decided that Quinlan Vos should be largely responsible for defeating the CIS in that sector sometime in between the Battle of Boz Pity and his part in the Siege of Saleucami, so that will essentially coincide with this modified season three Dathomir arc.
• With, again, some major changes to the various Dathomir and Mandalore storylines, as well as to the events surrounding the Temple hangar bombing and its aftermath (since Barriss Offee does not fall to the Dark Side in my main AU series), the rest of season four (episodes 7-22), season five, and probably episodes 5-9 of the season six Lost Missions of Star Wars: The Clone Wars take place from approximately the twentieth until through the twenty-sixth month or so following the First Battle of Geonosis (since Ahsoka is removed from Anakin and Obi-Wan’s care in the wake of the only mostly averted Temple bombing, before those two are sent out to help with the Outer Rim Sieges - where they fight for around six months, leading up to a slightly altered version of events in Labyrinth of Evil, before the kidnapping of Chancellor Palpatine during the Battle of Coruscant brings them back to the Temple - season five has to wrap around the beginning or middle of the twenty-sixth month or so following the First Battle of Geonosis, so Obi-Wan and Anakin can then get sent to the Outer Rim Sieges around the beginning of the twenty-seventh standard month after the war starts. Technically, the whole mess with Onderon is considered part of the Outer Rim Sieges, but since Anakin and Obi-Wan are only ever there to advise and to leave Ahsoka to help train and fight with the Onderonian rebels, it makes sense that it happens before those two are specifically sent to help with the Outer Rim Sieges, after having had Ahsoka returned to her original Master. The actual Onderonian Civil War is resolved during the twenty-third month after the First Battle of Geonosis, with Ahsoka escorting the younglings on their Gathering afterwards). The season five storyline starting with “Deception” (involving the Separatist plot to kill/kidnap the Supreme Chancellor and Obi-Wan supposedly being killed by bounty hunter Rako Hardeen, so he can go undercover as Hardeen and infiltrate Dooku’s hired thugs - altered so that Anakin is not being kept entirely in the dark about Obi-Wan still being alive - and so protect Palpatine) almost certainly happens sometime near the second year anniversary of the war beginning, given that Naboo’s Festival of Light celebration (in “Crisis on Naboo”) seems to be happening in the midst of Naboo’s warmer season (most of Naboo doesn’t have a winter, per se, but rather a slightly cooler rainy season, but this doesn’t mean that the planet doesn’t have springs, summers, and autumns of a sort). So I’m going to tentatively say that the Festival of Light very likely corresponds with the first week of Helona, just after Productivity Day (which marks the First Battle of Geonosis), and that episodes 15-18 of season five therefore occur before the rest of season four does (probably in the entire twentieth month or so after the war starts, around when the Dathomir storyline from season four is happening), after which the rest of seasons four and five and The Lost Missions happen.
• The Lost Missions that essentially comprise the truncated season six of Star Wars: The Clone Wars mostly occur at various points during the six standard months that Anakin and Obi-Wan are assigned to the Outer Rim Sieges (during months twenty-seven through thirty-two at least, spilling over into the thirty-third month after the war begins), after Ahsoka is taken from them and returned to her first Master (the whole thing with the Temple hangar bombing actually takes quite a bit longer to resolve in my AU series than it does in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, since Ahsoka and Barriss nearly do manage to stop it from actually happening and there’s a lot more actual official investigation into Letta Turmond and her allies/resources while Obi-Wan and Anakin and Padmé’s allies in the Senate are trying to keep Tarkin from succeeding in his witch hunt and yanking up both Padawans on trumped up charges of either treason or criminal negligence, at the very least. Again, everything in that season up to the Temple bombing - plus episodes 5-9 of The Lost Missions, too - almost certainly happens by the end of that twenty-fifth month, but the bombing attempt itself and the aftermath spills over well into the next month, which is why it’s most likely in the latter half of month twenty-six after the war first began by the time Master Yrannia Tey has successfully reclaimed Ahsoka and the High Council decides to respond by ordering Obi-Wan and Anakin out to the Outer Rim Sieges), if they haven’t already clearly happened at some point prior to what’s been happening on Mandalore and the whole mess surrounding the Temple hangar bombing crisis, when the rest of seasons four and five are occurring (for example, the episodes with Rush Clovis were originally supposed to happen around when “A Friend in Need” from season four is set, and then they were supposed to air starting with episode six in season five, so as far as I’m concerned, “A Friend in Need” from season four logically should directly lead to episodes two through five of season five, about Onderon, with the episodes about Rush from The Lost Missions happening immediately after the Onderon storyline closes - altered in that Steela Gerrera lives, since Lux notices that the gunship Saw’s downed isn’t entirely disabled and immediately throws himself in between it and Ahsoka, so he ends up taking the shot (well, what Ahsoka doesn’t manage to instinctively deflect, half out of panic and half while having an instance of being truly one with the Force) instead of Ahsoka’s back and shoulder. Ahsoka has to catch him again, of course, as he then is nearly thrown over the edge of the crumbling cliff, but ultimately she’s able to float both Lux and Steela back to safety - while Ahsoka is being chosen to accompany the six Jedi Initiates who’re going to Ilum for their Gathering, and that’s why she’s not there with Anakin. In other words, the Rush episodes from The Lost Missions are happening at essentially the same time as the story arc starting with “The Gathering” in season five, which also explains why Anakin doesn’t try to go after Ahsoka and the Initiates after the pirates attack their ship and end up taking Ahsoka prisoner, even when Obi-Wan is delayed from going after them by a Separatist attack, since he’s so distracted by what’s going on with Padmé and Rush Clovis. Also, since both parts of “The Disappeared” are almost certainly set not much later in the war than the attempt by the Shadow Collective and Death Watch, under the cloned Maul and Savage Opress, to seize Mandalore, since Mother Talzin’s [failed] attempt to gather more strength by stealing the Living Force of others logically should take place well before Savage Opress would seek to contact her, after the Maul clone has been cut down and Opress has subsequently been captured by Sidious and rescued from imprisonment by the Death Watch, I’ve placed those two episodes in the month before the Temple hangar bombing). I am, however, altering the storyline with Tup and Fives and the so-called inhibitor chips, in that I am allowing Fives to not just notice that something’s off with Tup but to react quickly enough to tackle him when he moves to fire on Jedi General Tiplar, resulting in a nasty hit to her shoulder instead of killing her (which is why Tiplar and Tiplee are both present with the other Jedi who end up confronting Dooku and Opress during the altered storyline for Son of Dathomir). Also, apparently Fives is in the fraction of that less than one percent of the bit of gen pop (which among the clones is even less, given that the Kaminoans never allow for too much deviance among their genetic template) that not only has dextrocardia situs inversus totalis, but all of his visceral organs are on the mirror-image side of his body, so when Commander Fox takes the shot that looks like it hits Fives directly in the heart, he actually completely misses said heart. Fives passes out due to shock/pain (and the lingering side-effects of having been drugged earlier by Nala Se) and everyone assumes that he’s dead, since it seems obvious that he’s been hit directly in the heart. He wakes up much later on in the morgue (likely scaring the hells out of the attendant) and pretty much immediately finds himself prisoner of the Sith, since Palpatine is definitely enough of a monster to deliberately keep him alive and imprisoned, so he can continue to torture Fives with his failure to get the truth out about the biochips and use him as yet another specimen to experiment on. (Fives will eventually be discovered and rescued, but not until after Palpatine has been revealed as Darth Sidious and there’s been some time to start investigating his personal records, his movements and past actions, his “experiments,” and so on.)
• The eight unfinished episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Legacy (including “Crystal Crisis on Utapau” and “Bad Batch”) as well as the twelve episodes from the DISNEY revival of Star Wars: The Clone Wars season seven (some of which are just the unfinished episodes from the earlier Legacy materials) are also set during the six standard months or so that Obi-Wan and Anakin are fighting in the Outer Rim Sieges, with the “Bad Batch” story reels that became the story arc from season seven starting with “The Bad Batch” clearly following after the whole mess with Tup and Fives and the biochips from The Lost Missions (since Fives is supposed to be dead then but has actually secretly been imprisoned by Sidious to keep him from warning anyone about the inhibitor chips). Finding out Echo is still alive and being able to rescue him is what makes Rex decide that he needs to look into the so-called inhibitor chips and the apparent death of Fives more closely, which is why he already strongly suspects that something’s hinky with the biochips when he ends up on Mandalore with Ahsoka during what would’ve basically been the beginning of RotS. Right on the heels of those six months, instead of Anakin and Obi-Wan going to Mandalore with Ahsoka due to the request to help retake the planet (and find Satine. This is when she’s gone missing, since I’ve had Obi-Wan defeat the Maul clone but Savage Opress has basically taken his place in the overall storyline and he’s fixated on hurting Obi-Wan for killing his “brother” twice) but being very quickly recalled due to Palpatine being kidnapped during the Battle of Coruscant, a slightly altered version of Labyrinth of Evil ends up happening. Anakin, who’d previously given Rex permission to unofficially investigate the so-called inhibitor chips (and Fives’ claim of conspiracy) further and has gotten caught up in the hunt for Dooku, has Rex recalled so that he can send him to head a partial battalion of clone volunteers from both the 501st (including Corporal Echo and the Bad Batch clones, who’ve been folded into the 501st by then) and Obi-Wan’s 212th Attack Battalion to help capture/kill Savage Opress and support Ahsoka (who’s supposed to be on Mandalore with her “real” Master, though by that time Master Tey has actually been killed in action, so Ahsoka’s had to assume command of her Master’s clone forces. Neither Anakin nor Obi-Wan realize that Master Tey is dead at this point, though, since the rest of the High Council hasn’t told them yet and they’ve also specifically ordered Ahsoka not to tell them), and the effort to end Mandalore’s troubles and, hopefully, help Bo-Katan locate her sister, Duchess Satine Kryze (who, again, has gone missing by this point and is feared lost for good).
• Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir is not quite written out of existence due to the changes to the Dathomir and Mandalore storylines, but the entire storyline is greatly altered, since the Sith-modified Maul clone is slain by Obi-Wan on Mandalore (though Savage Opress escapes justice and fighting in the streets still breaks out before the end of that particular storyline for Mandalore and Satine), so that Obi-Wan can save Satine’s life (with some help from Bo-Katan and the Nite Owls and Anakin and Ahsoka, who haven’t, after all, let Obi-Wan go to Mandalore alone, which explains why Anakin and Ahsoka haven’t been deployed to Cato Neimoidia during the timeline for the Temple bombing, which, in turn, explains why Ahsoka is able to give Barriss Offee the support that she needs to realize that working with anti-war and anti-Jedi extremists like Letta Turmond isn’t the right path for her to take and, therefore, keeps Barriss from succumbing to the Dark Side, which at least mostly derails the whole Temple bombing mess). Since Savage Opress is the only surviving Nightbrother of that particular line and has seized control of the Shadow Collective, in the wake of the clone Maul’s death, in yet another attempt to pursue revenge against Obi-Wan by eventually conquering Mandalore and capturing/killing Satine Kryze, he is the one who is subsequently captured on Mandalore by Sidious and pursued by Grievous after being freed from the Spire on Stygeon Prime by two Death Watch warriors (not because of Almec, who’s dead at this point, but rather in an attempt on the part of those two Death Watch members to gain enough power to stop Ursa Wren from becoming the new leader of the Death Watch, due to Pre Vizsla’s death). The rest of the story unfolds pretty much as it does in the comics, but with Savage Opress in Maul’s place and without Almec being present (and, since Tup only injures Master Tiplar instead of killing her, she’s also with the Jedi who end up investigating the battle that takes place between the Shadow Collective and the Separatists on Ord Mantell, with the result that she and her sister, Master Tiplee, are both badly wounded but still survive the confrontation between the Jedi and Dooku and Opress), ultimately ending with Mother Talzin being cut down by Grievous and Savage Opress fleeing with the Death Watch back to Mandalore (which is why the Siege of Mandalore is still ongoing, during the timeline for RotS, and why Ahsoka is there fighting, as mentioned previously, and trying to either capture or kill Savage Opress. The Republic can get involved because Mandalore has asked for help and there’s proof that Opress - who’s considered a tool/possible accomplice of the Sith, by then - is a major agitator behind/leader in the fighting). The entire altered storyline basically takes place between the twenty-fifth and either the thirty-second or the thirty-third standard months after the war starts (probably the very end/very beginning of the thirty-second/thirty-third months, to give Savage Opress enough time back on Mandalore again for the Jedi to notice that Mandalore’s troubles are still ongoing and that he’s there again).
• In case it’s not completely clear to anyone, the four Ahsoka-centric episodes of the DISNEY revival of season seven of Star Wars: The Clone Wars happen in somewhat altered form not long after Ahsoka has been reclaimed by Master Tey and the Golden Team has been sent off to the Outer Rim Sieges, while the altered Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir (with Opress taking the place of Maul and the mad Maul clone) is also happening. My working theory is that, even though Master Tey insists that she’s recovered enough to resume her teaching/mentoring duties with Ahsoka and go on active missions again, she clearly isn’t, and Ahsoka crashes her speeder accidentally on purpose as a way to get “in” with the Martez siblings, who’re suspected of having ties to the criminal Pyke Syndicate, which is still tied to the Shadow Collective and the troubles that are still plaguing Mandalore, as part of the Jedi Order’s ongoing efforts to break up/stamp out the Shadow Collective and to hunt down and properly deal with Savage Opress. In other words, Yrannia Tey has sent Ahsoka in undercover while Master Tey stays at the Temple and researches and tries to sort through information from various other sources regarding the Pykes and the Shadow Collective. Bo-Katan still follows Ahsoka back to Coruscant after the whole thing with the Martez sisters and the Pykes, but Master Tey is the one who ultimately makes the decision to head to Mandalore, in pursuit of Savage Opress (and in hopes of breaking the Shadow Collective once and for all. I am presuming that there’s been months of work trying to break the Shadow Collective and to ultimately find/recapture/deal with Opress by this time, which is how/why this can still be ongoing towards the end of the six plus standard months that Anakin and Obi-Wan are busy with the Outer Rim Sieges), which is where Master Tey is killed and how Ahsoka ends up in charge of both her troops and the partial battalion headed by Rex (with the orange paint on their helmets in Ahsoka’s honor, as a sign that the 501st still regard her as one of their Jedi) that Anakin sends to help deal with and/or capture Savage Opress (also, Obi-Wan may have asked for volunteers from the 212th to accompany the 501st boys, who naturally would’ve also adopted the orange painted helmets in honor of their Jedi Commander). A lot of the communication between Ahsoka and Anakin and Obi-Wan shown in season seven of Star Wars: The Clone Wars doesn’t occur in my main AU series, but then, to be fair, it doesn’t really need to happen, since Ahsoka is still a Jedi Padawan (just no longer assigned to Anakin and Obi-Wan, since Master Tey demanded her back after the Temple bombing fiasco and the majority of the High Council Masters backed her up). The High Council does decide to deliberately sit on the fact that Master Tey is dead (Yoda and Mace especially don’t want to have to deal with the fallout of that just yet) and Satine is still missing, but Ahsoka does manage to defeat and capture Opress essentially right before Palpatine is revealed as Sidious, though Order 66 gets through to the clones that were Master Tey’s command (which are mostly clones grown at Centax-2 by Arkanian Microtechnologies), resulting in chaos and confusion and Opress going free yet again.
• Regarding the rest of Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Legacy, an extremely altered version of Dark Disciple (involving the twin sister of Asajj Ventress and a Quinlan Vos who’s already considered to have been turned by Count Dooku and has been acting [mostly] as a double agent for the Jedi Order since his story way back in Clone Wars Volume 1: The Defense of Kamino. Quinlan accepts the mission to recruit the bounty hunter operating under the name of “Ventress” as a way to get close enough to Dooku to assassinate him in between when Quinlan shows up in the Aayla Secura story and the whole Dreadnaughts of Rendili arc in Clone Wars Volume 6: On the Fields of Battle - part of which takes place, coincidentally, around the same time that season five of Star Wars: The Clone Wars is wrapping up - and when he and Khaleen are finally widely acknowledged as a serious couple, when he shows up again, in Clone Wars Volume 8: The Last Siege, the Final Truth, which, please remember, I’ve set during the twenty-ninth and the thirty-second month following the First Battle of Geonosis, to allow for enough time between for all of these various missions to feasibly occur, after Quinlan has freed the Kiffu sector from the CIS) also basically happens around the same time that Ahsoka is taken from Anakin and Obi-Wan and those two end up being assigned to the Outer Rim Sieges (to give Quinlan some time to try to recover from the affair with the Ventress twin - during which he briefly loses track of the fact that he’s only supposed to be playing a double agent and not actually be a Dark Acolyte - and decide that there’s just no escaping his feelings for Khaleen and he needs to stop trying to deny that connection, since it’s only making him unconsciously transfer his desire to be with Khaleen and to save her from the darkness to other individuals who reminds him at all of her, like the Ventress twin, who I am naming Ysyjja Ventress). Dark Disciple is almost certainly set before the “Bad Batch” arc (and the story arc that starts with “The Bad Batch” in season seven of Star Wars: The Clone Wars) and at least most of the highly altered Son of Dathomir storyline. It is highly likely that most if not all of the other unfinished episodes that fall under the Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Legacy heading (such as the Bounty Hunter arc, Kashyyyk arc, Rex and Artoo Top Gun arc, Yuuzhan Vong arc, Return to the Jedi Temple arc, Return to Mon Cala arc, and etc., originally meant for late season five through season seven, before the DISNEY buyout screwed everything up) also occur (in some form or another) in between Dark Disciple and the “Bad Batch” arc that predates most of the altered Son of Dathomir storyline as well as the Siege of Mandalore storyline, when Anakin and Obi-Wan are involved in the Outer Rim Sieges. However, the unfinished arc of Ahsoka’s Walkabout will likely either be written out of existence or else altered enormously to fit the parameters of a mission set at some point after Master Tey reclaims Ahsoka as her apprentice (depending on what kind of details, if any, eventually surface regarding this unfinished arc in particular and Ahsoka’s time between the Temple bombing and her involvement in the Siege of Mandalore in general).
• Speaking of Clone Wars Volume 6: On the Fields of Battle, this takes place during the eighteenth, the nineteenth, the twenty-fifth (towards the end, probably pushing the twenty-sixth), and then the thirty-first standard month following the First Battle of Geonosis.
• I am bumping slightly altered versions of MedStar I: Battle Surgeons and “MedStar: Intermezzo” to the twenty-eighth month following the First Battle of Geonosis (so Barriss has some time to recover from the Temple hangar bombing and, with the unstinting help and support of Master Unduli, pass her Trials of Knighthood with flying colors, so she can be assigned as a fairly new Knight to Rimsoo 7 when it is stationed at Drongar. This means that bota is still in play longer into the war, though the bota storyline and its use by the Jedi will definitely not end up turning out like the public is lead to believe it does, in the two MedStar books. In actuality, poppers with bota mixes end up a major part of Jedi war kits and, in conjunction with bacta and Force healing, will be a major part of the reason why certain Jedi are as active as they manage to be, even when they constantly seem to be seriously injured, though most Jedi won’t realize what it is that they’re being treated with, only that the treatment is all but miraculously effective), and I’m moving the main events depicted in the comic General Grievous from around the twenty-fourth to around the twenty-fifth month after the First Battle of Geonosis (the kerfuffle with the aspirants of Bergruutfa Clan, Padawan Ty, and Master Quarmall basically happens right before the Temple bombing, though the Battle of Nadiem still happens approximately five months after the First Battle of Geonosis and the mission to Vandos is basically right at the very end of 20 BBY. I have Master Kenobi convincing renegade Jedi Master Djinn Altis to take on everyone the [majority of the] Council Masters would’ve censured or banned from the Jedi Order, in the wake of that entire mess, and, though the other Masters would likely never admit it, at least part of the reason why [most of] the High Council won’t be swayed about sending Ahsoka back to her “real” Master is due to the fact that most of them are still extremely unhappy with Obi-Wan for involving the leader of the “heretical” so-called Altisian Jedi in the business of the “real” Jedi).
• I am moving MedStar II: Jedi Healer to the twenty-ninth month after the First Battle of Geonosis.
• Secrets of the Jedi concludes approximately twenty-nine months after the First Battle of Geonosis, almost halfway into 19 BBY.
• Republic Commando: True Colors is supposed to begin 470 days after the First Battle of Geonosis and last for around eighty days, but that timeline is farkled even without me touching it (since the Clone Wars canonically lasts at least three full years and standard years are 368 days long - meaning three full years is 1,104 days - and some of this book is supposed to be set after the end of the Clone Wars). Thus, I’ve bumped a modified version of it to mostly near the end of standard month thirty-two through almost month thirty-five (Etain and Delta Squad do end up on Kashyyyk, still, but that’s close to two months after Palpatine’s been revealed as Sidious and defeated and things obviously turn out much differently in my main AU than in this book).
• I am bumping Clone Wars Volume 8: The Last Siege, the Final Truth to the twenty-ninth and the thirty-second month following the First Battle of Geonosis. I don’t think this is actually something that ever comes up in the prequel stories, but it’s important to keep in mind that, in my main AU series, the mission that has Master Nejaa Halcyon accompanying his friend, Master It’kla, and the Jedi known as Desertwind to Susevfi (in response to rumors of another Dark Side cult, which ends up being the Jensaarai) begins in the thirty-second standard month after the war starts and ends up deviating enormously from what’s basically presented in several of the older EU X-Wing books and I, Jedi, due to the timing of the reveal of Palpatine as Sidious and the immediate aftermath of that.
• The events in chapters 23-25 of Clone Wars (the first animated series) and Clone Wars Adventures: Volume 6 are all being bumped to the thirty-second month after the First Battle of Geonosis, with a slightly altered version of Labyrinth of Evil basically following just afterwards (not long before the events of what would’ve been Revenge of the Sith, basically setting the stage for it). Please note that this is also when the Siege of Mandalore is really heating up and Rex and a (combined) battalion of clones (including 501st clones and the so-called Bad Batch boys and Echo, plus volunteers from the 212th) end up being sent to support Ahsoka in the attempt to finally capture/deal with Savage Opress, retake Mandalore, and hopefully find the missing Duchess Satine (the fighting on Mandalore basically has been an ongoing issue since the attempt to kill Satine resulted in the death of the Maul clone, but as of right now I’m going to say that what’s known as the Siege of Mandalore overlaps most with Labyrinth of Evil, so that’s probably mainly in the thirty-second and thirty-third standard months after the war starts, after Savage Opress is freed and returns to Mandalore again in search of revenge against Obi-Wan Kenobi).
• Clone Wars Adventures: Volume 5 is essentially set just prior to and concurrently with the events of what would’ve been Revenge of the Sith (with some alterations, for the concurrent story, since Order 66 doesn’t really get past Coruscant in my main AU, aside from the Centax-2 clones created by Arkanian Microtechnologies, and so there’s no so-called “Great Jedi Purge,” either, even if there are some deaths because of it), so that’s probably towards the middle to the latter half of the thirty-third month after the First Battle of Geonosis.
• Clone Wars Adventures: Volume 4 is also set concurrently with what would’ve been RotS, with some alterations (since the Sith don’t actually get their revenge - unless you want to count Anakin’s defeat of Palpatine/Sidious, with help from Obi-Wan - in my main AU).
• Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel starts out concurrently with the events of what would’ve been part of the end of Revenge of the Sith but largely doesn’t occur as such in my main AU, since Order 66 and the Jedi Purge don’t really happen (and a lot of what does happen in my main AU occurs just a few weeks shy of what would’ve been the start of the thirty-fourth standard month after the war began, with Palpatine’s “rescue” during the Battle of Coruscant and then the lead-up to the confrontation with Palpatine about him being Sidious and the immediate aftermath of that and the thwarted attack on the Jedi Temple, etc.) and, since the ending of the prior book in the series (Republic Commando: True Colors) ends up deviating so widely from what Traviss has written, please note that most of this particular book that actually could’ve still happened (with Order 66 largely failing to occur) won’t happen much like it does in the book.
• Most of the first story in Clone Wars Volume 9: Endgame takes place concurrently with what would’ve been Revenge of the Sith, but the rest of it doesn’t happen as such, since, again, Order 66 mostly doesn’t happen and so there’s no real Jedi Purge. Please note, though, that, even though Palpatine is defeated in my main AU not too long before the start of the thirty-fourth month after First Battle of Geonosis, the war itself technically doesn’t end until High Justice is dispensed on (most of) the remaining members of the CIS Leadership Council (who’ve willingly surrendered to the Republic, following the widespread dissemination of the news about Palpatine being Lord Sidious) at the start of the Winter Fete holiday week of that calendar year, so that’s essentially thirty-five full standard months plus a week and two days after the First Battle of Geonosis (the rest of the festival week is a combination of the regular holiday and a celebration for the end of the war that stretches through the end of the year). There’s (basically) already a working government in place by then (largely rooted in the old government), but there have been emergency elections at the end of that year, to replace all the Senators and officials known to have been in league with Palpatine/Sidious or proven to have been linked with the Separatists (and, thus, also with Sidious), etc., with terms starting in the new year. (And, of course, there are a lot more changes in the works for the overall structure of the government.) Since the Clone Wars officially end at the end of a calendar year, you lose the need for a 0 year where the event that precipitates the need for a new dating system actually occurs, so that you can have dating that acknowledges years both Before and After the year in which said event happens. So the new calendar for the New Alliance of the Republic and the New Jedi Bendu Order technically starts its first year after the war’s end and those elections, at the end of year 19 BBY, so what would have been 18 BBY in the regular GFFA timeline in my main AU series actually becomes year 1 AHJ (I thought about using After Reunification, or AR, as the simplest choice I could come up with, but it’s not actually a true reunification of all of what used to be part of the Galactic Republic and, in any case, it seemed too close to the old ARR of After Ruusan Reformations, so that’s why tentatively I’m going with Before and After High Justice instead. Also, as it turns out, all of the fighting doesn’t stop immediately, and, though most of what’s left of the Separatist Leadership Council does officially surrender, the agreement to reunify all of the supposedly nonparticipating 1,500 plus systems represented by the Council of Neutral Systems with the myriad NAR or New Alliance of the Republic systems does not end up including all of the Separatists systems that are located in what used to be the Republic’s Outer Rim Territories, with the agreements/various treaties that officially end the war specifically allowing some of those systems to peacefully separate from the NAR, with the understanding that the NAR would welcome petitions from individual worlds/systems to rejoin at some later date, if the majority of the local citizens wish to petition for inclusion in the NAR, but will not force any such world/system to join them or remain within its boundaries and will not attempt to interfere with the governance of said worlds/systems, either, unless officially invited/asked for help. This results in the formal recognition of/creation of the Confederation of Independently Allied Systems or the CIAS out of what used to be the heart of the Confederacy of Independent Systems or CIS, which is precisely why “reunification” wouldn’t actually work). The war does actually end, and most of those who want to keep fighting, at that point, aren’t Separatists per se but rather various wannabe Imperialists and Dark Side fanatics who would’ve supported/worked for Emperor Palpatine and just don’t want any kind of democratic republic (or any version of the Jedi Order) to remain in power. (In other words, while there’s still residual fighting and mopping up going on in some places, even after the Separatists formally surrender and the war is declared over, basically by the end of that calendar year, the Clone Wars is officially over with, and most of the next round of serious fighting doesn’t start immediately, since most of those who want to keep fighting both have fewer resources on their side without Palpatine and his Empire to call on and are trying to avoid a situation where the NAR would officially be called upon to rescue any of the worlds/systems that are officially not a part of the NAR, since they are either trying to seduce them into joining their side or else quietly cutting them off and taking them over.)
• The war does actually end, and most of those who want to keep fighting, at that point, aren’t Separatists per se but rather various wannabe Imperialists and Dark Side fanatics who would’ve supported/worked for Emperor Palpatine and just don’t want any kind of democratic republic (or any version of the Jedi Order) to remain in power. (In other words, while there’s still residual fighting and mopping up going on in some places, even after the Separatists formally surrender and the war is declared over, basically by the end of that calendar year, the Clone Wars is officially over with, and most of the next round of serious fighting doesn’t start immediately, since most of those who want to keep fighting both have fewer resources on their side without Palpatine and his Empire to call on and are trying to avoid a situation where the NAR would officially be called upon to rescue any of the worlds/systems that are officially not a part of the NAR, since they are either trying to seduce them into joining their side or else quietly cutting them off and taking them over.)
• While the majority of Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader obviously won’t be happening in my AU, the (basic) background for Jedi Masters Roan Shryne and Bol Chatak and Padawan Olee Starstone (and the battle against a Separatist stronghold on Murkhana) remains pretty much the same, at least up until Order 66 (mostly) doesn’t occur and Palpatine is outed as Sidious (and defeated). Please note that Master Saras Loorne and the “two Jedi Knights” they also arrive with - who, as far as I can tell, are never even named in the book, much less described, something I will doubtlessly end up rectifying - will not be killed by the clones under Salvo’s command on Murkhana (just as numerous other Jedi also won’t be killed as in canon, since Order 66 doesn’t really make it off of Coruscant, except for perhaps with some of the decidedly inferior clone soldiers bred not by the Kaminoans but rather on Centax-2 by Arkanian Microtechnologies, which is what happens on Mandalore, with the clones that were under Master Tey’s command).

Note: More nattering continued in next post, https://polgarawolf.livejournal.com/249748.html since apparently I talked so much that LJ couldn’t fit everything in a single post.