Lit Final Legends Clone Wars Timeline

Amid all the retcons and de-canonizing during TCW's run there was a lot of talk about creating a definitive timeline once everything died down but with the advent of the new canon that all kinda got forgotten. Have there been any large scale attempts to smooth out a Clone Wars timeline that includes TCW and all related materials?

 

I don't know any. I think a lot of people have shuffled things around, but nothing official unless you include "Only TCW is canon. Problem solved."

 

There hasn't been a legends timeline, unfortunately. There's a thread on the forum that does a good job at constructing a timeline that synthesizes TCW with the earlier material. Another good solution is just to separate the versions of the war. TCW is the canon timeline, everything else is the legends version. The only problem with that is the TCW related novels and comics (excluding Darth Maul Son of Dathomir), which don't fit that well with legends and are also not canon.

 

HEDGESMFG put together a pretty thorough fanmade timeline of all Clone Wars material, which I think included all The Lost Missions, though I don't know if he ever updated it for any of the Story Reels. I also participated in an older attempt to order the TCW episodes and the "TCW Expanded Media" of books, comics, etc that spun-off from the show, but I can't find that thread. I'm pretty sure a lot of it was integrated into HEDGESMFG's timeline though. Unless we get an official Legends timeline, I think this is the best I've seen.

The full HEDGESMFG timeline:

These might be of interest as well:

http://boards.theforce.net/threads/...ilers-allowed.28450104/page-679#post-51843990
http://boards.theforce.net/threads/...ilers-allowed.28450104/page-669#post-51481099

 

I've said before that I really wish they would just formally decouple TCW from Legends altogether. Not because I dislike it or anything, but just because it would be so much simpler to just have the original Clone Wars timeline for the Legends continuity and the TCW timeline for the new canon. True, the older TCW tie-ins would be left in a rough place, but honestly, I'm not sure any of them are good enough to worry about to begin with. And it's unlikely they'd be explicitly contradicted for the most part, so it'd be easy to headcanon them in anyway.

 

Fate of the Jedi is closely tied to the Mortis story-arc however. Other Legends material, such as 'The Jedi Path', has scribblings in them by Ahsoka.

 

FotJ is also a load of osik, so it doesn't really matter.

 

I think my other posts here have made it pretty clear that I think if the older TCW tie-ins aren't good enough to worry about, FOTJ definitely isn't. Though I suppose it does make a difference from the pure continuity-maintenance perspective.

 

^^Another Troy Denning book, I take it?

 

The post-NJO or Denningverse consists of the DNT, LotF, FotJ, and Crucible, LotF and FotJ are both nine book series and they aren't all written by Denning, but they are still a major part of the Denningverse.

 

Legends Clone Wars timeline (pre-TCW) had its own problems though. Why would Anakin expect to be made a Master if he just became a Knight? And during the debate on Anakin's knighting in the Clone Wars microseries, why would Master Mundi discuss battling Grievous on Hypori as a recent event if it took place 3 years ago? The TCW timeline cleans out those issues.

 

And are those issues really as bad as the existence of Ahsoka Tano and the return of Darth Maul?

 

Agreed, Zeta.

 

I'd like to go ahead and offer my apologies to everyone else for giving Zeta another chance to rant about his limitless hatred for the show he's seen 11 minutes of.

 

Even though there's "Legends" stuff that relates to TCW in varying regards, it honestly wouldn't surprise me if, eventually, there's some statement or "Ultimate Legends Sourcebook" type thing which essentially severs TCW from the pre-2008 stuff.

 

I've watched the whole show and it almost makes me wish I was a movie only fan of this franchise.

 

I don't think you hold much responsibility for that, honestly. Any thread with the words "Clone Wars" in the title is basically an open invite.

 

Well, Chee swore up and down at C6 that they had a timeline all worked out and would be revealed when CWAS was over, to avoid having to constantly update it. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to wonder about how much Chee knew about the sale to Disney and the reboot.
The closest that we got was the Reader's Guide.

Ah, but apparently even watching the entire show isn't enough to justify disliking it.

 

I think you're well aware by now, blackmyron, that simply disliking the show isn't the issue.