There are 16 more episodes that take place in the year 22 BBY, covering such events as the Galactic Republic convincing Toydaria to side with it over the Confederacy of Independent Systems, General Grevious’s deployment of an experimental warship that’s equipped with ion canons (technology that would become standard issue by the time of The Empire Strikes Back), and the capture of Dooku, Kenobi, and Skywalker by that charmingly unscrupulous pirate, Hondo Ohnaka.
This story arc not only depicts the Battle of Christophsis, but it also introduces viewers – and Anakin Skywalker – to Padawan Learner Ahsoka Tano. The Clone Wars starts, chronologically, with the episodes “Cat and Mouse” (episode number 216) and “Hidden Enemy” (116), and then progresses to the pilot movie, which was released theatrically. There is an undisclosed amount of time that transpires between Attack of the Clones and The Clone Wars, which probably amounts to a month or two – just enough time for Anakin and Obi-Wan to get both their Jedi promotions and their clone attaches (Captain Rex and Commander Cody, respectively) and to have already met Count Dooku’s new would-be Sith “assassin,” Asaj Ventress. (It doesn’t help that the chronology was originally kept opaque because the creators behind the production didn’t know how long The Clone Wars would be on the air its original executive producer, George Lucas, had at one point talked about doing a whopping 300 episodes.)
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What’s proven to be so surprising since then, however, is discerning when, exactly, these years pass because the series already starts with Anakin Skywalker being a Jedi Knight and Obi-Wan Kenobi being a Jedi Master – and, indeed, already sitting on the Jedi Council – it’s hard to get a natural sense of the passing of time.
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The writers behind the Clone Wars were in a special position to flesh out yet-unknown events in the Star Wars timeline, and this is essentially the root of the confusion regarding Clone Wars’ watch order. Seeing as how the military conflict that was the Clone Wars started in Attack of the Clones and ended in Revenge of the Sith, viewers already knew heading into the TV show’s run (which started all the way back in 2008) that this was the three-year timeframe that it had to work within. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan Kenobi is set in 9 BBY – 10 years after Revenge of the Sith – accounting for the old age of Obi-Wan Kenobi‘s clone trooper, whose sad cameo reveals what happened to some veterans after the Clone Wars. And in order to understand Clone Wars’ chronological order and timespan, one must first get (re)acquainted with when the prequel trilogy of movies occur: Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace is set in 32 BBY Episode II: Attack of the Clones, 22 BBY and Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is in 19 BBY, which is also when Star Wars: The Bad Batch begins. The dating system employed in the Star Wars universe revolves around the Battle of Yavin, the major conflict seen in A New Hope, the film that was, of course, released first everything that happened prior to it is labeled as BBY (Before the Battle of Yavin), and everything subsequently, ABY (After the Battle of Yavin).
Star Wars: The Clone Wars may have been aired in non-chronological order, but now that the series has completed its run on Disney+, it’s possible to sort everything out within the larger timeline of that galaxy far, far away.
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