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During this three-year period, the Anakin Skywalker we left as a padawan learner in Attack of the Clones became a Jedi Knight and even took on Ahsoka as an apprentice. Obi-Wan Kenobi also became a Jedi Master and was awarded a seat on the Jedi Council.
Meanwhile, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine continued to consolidate his power, playing both the Republic and the Separatists for his own gain. Count Dooku also took on an apprentice, a Force-sensitive assassin named Asajj Ventress, who later switched sides (kind of) when the Sith tried to have her killed. Even Maul returned from the dead, this time as a crime lord and secret ruler of Mandalore’s puppet government until the planet was freed by Ahsoka and the Republic in The Clone Wars season 7.
The Clone Wars resulted in the deaths of billions across the galaxy, including Jedi, clones, Separatists, and civilians. Planets like Onderon, Mandalore, and Kashyyyk were completely transformed by the war, torn apart by a conflict greater than any one society. Coruscant, once the bright light of the Republic, became the center of oppression and the dark side.
Even the Geonosians, allies of the Separatists and Darth Sidious, were virtually eradicated as the Empire moved construction of the Death Star off of their home planet. Geonosis, the starting point of the Clone Wars, was left a wasteland, its people sterilized by Grand Moff Tarkin as a security measure meant to keep the Empire’s superweapon a secret.
What remained of the Jedi Order was left scattered, with many of the survivors going into hiding to avoid persecution. But Darth Vader and his order of dark side hunters, the Inquisitors, killed as many Jedi survivors as they could find in the aftermath of Order 66. No one was left to truly oppose the Galactic Empire until the Rebel Alliance began to organize in 5 BBY, almost 20 years into the Emperor’s rule.
