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THE SKYWALKER SAGA

07 05 The discovery
of a kyber
dart sends
Obi-Wan off
on a fateful
mission.

06 Dexter
Jettster
connects the
dart with the
cloners of
Kamino.

07 On the orders
of Jedi Master
Sifo-Dyas, the
Kaminoans
have been
growing an
army of
clones.

08 Obi-Wan
Kenobi meets
Jango Fett,
the genetic
source of the
clone army.

08

and sought to protect the Republic succumb to the most devious
from it. Tracking Jango Fett to the scheme in the Sith master plan.
droid foundry world of Geonosis,
Obi-Wan finds that the Separatists Begun, The Clone War Has
are in the midst of preparing for When Chancellor Palpatine and
galactic war, too. his advisors receive an urgent report
Captured and imprisoned, from Obi-Wan, retransmitted with
Kenobi comes face to face with an assist from Anakin and Padmé,
his old master’s teacher. Count everyone realizes that war is all but
Dooku reminds Obi-Wan that inevitable. The chance to peacefully
Qui-Gon Jinn recognized the resolve the legitimate grievances of
corruption in the Senate, and the Separatist worlds has been lost,
the misguided leadership of the but that alone does not determine
Jedi Council, before his death a how and on what terms the
decade earlier. Obi-Wan insists government of the Republic will
that Qui-Gon would never have wage war. Instead of ensuring fi rm
joined the insurrectionist side, but authority for the Senate, Palpatine
The climactic events the underlying truth to Dooku’s tricks Jar Jar Binks into supporting
allegations is impossible to ignore: the motion for emergency powers
happening on Geonosis the Republic is under the control of for the Supreme Chancellor. In The

gather each of the story’s the Sith. Just as Obi-Wan himself Phantom Menace, Padmé topples
walked into a trap by following the
a Chancellor who refuses to act in
threads toward an trail of clues from Zam Wesell to the face of injustice; in Attack of
Kamino, and from Fett to Geonosis, the Clones, the representative in
epic conclusion. so too the Jedi Order is about to her stead helps to grant more

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