'The Clone Wars' Teased So Many Unseen Stories, Here Are Our Top Five
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There were a lot of stories told in The Clone Wars, and there have been a lot of stories told since in various comics, novels, and other series connected to elements of that show. Indeed, in this modern era of Star Wars, it appears that The Clone Wars and Rebels together have become the bedrock for The Mandoverse, mainly through Ahsoka Tano and the Mandalorians. But for as many stories as were told in these various materials, others were not. So today, join us at CultureSlate as we count down five stories connected to characters in The Clone Wars that we haven’t seen, with our hope for how they might be adapted and brought to audiences in the near future!
5. The Friendship Of Ahsoka Tano And Riyo Chuchi
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Republic Senators often counted Jedi among their friends during the final years of the Galactic Republic. But one of the odder friendships we only got a glimpse of in the show was the bond between Padawan Ahsoka Tano and Pantoran Senator Riyo Chuchi. This link, introduced in Season 3’s “Sphere of Influence”, saw the two young women team up to help save the kidnapped daughters of Chairman Papanoida. But while Riyo introduces Ahsoka as her “good friend,” when exactly did the two become friends?
With Ahsoka so young, and Riyu assumedly at least in her early twenties by the time of the Clone Wars, it seems likely that their meeting was the result of some Senate matter, or an adventure Ahsoka had before she became a Padawan to Anakin Skywalker. This likely small story seems perfect for a comic issue, and can easily help expand Senator Chuchi’s story through flashbacks or dual storytelling in the present and the past during the post-Bad Batch era, where we last saw her helping the Clones.
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4. The Disarming Of Cham Syndulla
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Cham Syndulla is one of the most notable characters The Clone Wars created, thanks to the later creation of Hera, his daughter, and for Cham’s unique honor of appearing in three of the four major Star Wars animated series. Within The Clone Wars itself, Cham also represents a well-known and enjoyed story arc of the show’s first season set around the Republic's efforts to liberate Ryloth. Like a few other stories, a later episode revisited earlier events and told a new chapter, with the tragic deaths of Master Ima-Gun Di, Captain Keeli, and their clone forces in a defensive maneuver that allowed the refugee Twi’leks and their fighters, led by Cham Syndulla, to escape. Republic supplies arrived soon after, and the planet was saved!...for a few weeks at most.
We know that this event takes place before the Season 1 arc, and so cannot be the event referred to by Cham when he meets with Master Mace Windu. He describes how his people were disarmed and that they were forced to come to their current hidden base in that state before finding new weapons to fight the droids with. Showing Cham and his people in a difficult situation and then how they pulled themselves out of it would be an interesting, small-scale story that could play with expectations and how stories are told after the fact. Maybe later retellings glorify that period when, really, it was wretched misery, and there could be a clash between words and illustrations of the event. It could also provide more clarity on where Hera and Cham’s wife Eleni were during that Season 1 Clone Wars arc. There are numerous possibilities!
3. Obi-Wan Kenobi On Umbara
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The Umbara arc of The Clone Wars is one of the most lauded pieces of storytelling from the show. A gritty, intense war story full of betrayal, intrigue, and heartbreak, it also took place as a zoom-in on one particular part of an ongoing military campaign. Revealed in brief snippets of communications from elsewhere, and discussed in different strategy meetings, we are made aware that while the 501st suffers under the leadership of Pong Krell, Obi-Wan Kenobi and the 212th are off handling other objectives. Obi-Wan’s story is the main area of focus for this suggestion, given how it shapes the events we see the 501st suffer.
Obi-Wan is also given the tough job during this conflict of thrusting toward the Umbaran capital city. While the 501st certainly had its struggles against the local militia in claiming the key airbase they were directed to take, they didn’t have to handle an urban environment, nor civilians in a populace who might have been fairly anti-Republic. A look at this very different side to an already harsh conflict might also already be on the way. Star Wars Zero Company will introduce Luco Bronc, an Umbaran sniper who served with his people’s forces against the Republic’s invasion. It may be that he fought in the wilderness, or from the urban centers, but if he won’t be our lens to Obi-Wan’s part in the invasion, we hope something is soon.
2. The First Meeting Of Mother Talzin And Count Dooku
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These two heavyweights in the Star Wars villain community could not be more different…well, maybe not so different. Both are incredibly powerful Force users, both are older individuals, and both also have links with Darth Sidious. But the question is: Did Dooku’s connection with Talzin come before or after he made a connection with Sidious? Talzin’s wording during the Nightsister arc in Season 3 of The Clone Wars implies that their encounter was long ago, and that Dooku helped her in some key way. Was she already the leader of the Nightsisters at that time? Or did she have yet to ascend to that status? Was Dooku only a Padawan, or was he already a Jedi Knight, and was he perhaps training Qui-Gon during the encounter?
Star Wars publishing has gradually added more stories about the two characters during this key period, from sections of Dooku: Jedi Lost, to part of the recent Hyperspace Stories: Qui-Gon graphic novel. There’s also the mysterious question of why Dooku gave Talzin his hair, given he helped her, and not the other way around (assumedly). With Nightsisters growing in importance to the world of Star Wars, it seems likely that this particular tale might be told someday soon as part of that focus on these witches from the galaxy far, far away.
1. The Mandalorian Civil War
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The Clone Wars significantly changed the Mandalorians compared to how they had often been portrayed in Legends. Ruled by a pacifist government, yet drawing heavily from the painful history of the Spanish Civil War, the introduction of the Mandalorian Civil War has been one of The Clone Wars’ most lasting contributions to the canon.
It also remains an area of storytelling that is completely unexplored, leaving fans bereft of key details about Bo-Katan Kryze’s background, alongside nearly no information on the love story between the young Satine Kryse and Obi-Wan Kenobi. It has been stated that Dave Filoni apparently has a great deal of information about the Kryze family thought out, so it might be that some of this will factor into some future entry of The Mandoverse, but we think it's several years too late. Give us a series of YA novels, Lucasfilm Publishing! A series chronicling the tribulations of young love, complex family dynamics, and conflict would be perfect for that genre and for fans! One can only hope.
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