The Outer Rim Sieges were the final stand of the Confederacy of Independent Systems,
in the final phase of the Clone Wars.
So here’s an explainer on what the Outer Rim Sieges actually were, and how the Separatists
found themselves in that dire situation.
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Right from the beginning of the Clone Wars, the Republic had struggled to gain a clear
advantage over the separatists.
One of the reasons for this was because of their unwillingness to commit sufficient resources
to the war, allowing the Separatists to gain a foothold in the mid rim.
Support for the war was falling within the Republic and they were taking unsustainable
losses around the galaxy.
The Republic decided that sepratist advances into the Core must be stopped at all costs,
pushing them to ramp up production and their resources for the war about 2 and a half years
into the conflict.
The Republic then committed all of it’s industrial strength towards the war, hoping
to swiftly turn the tides.
This redistribution of industrial might allowed the Republic to repel the separatists out
of the core, and win key victories at the battles of Duro, Commenor and Balmorra, marking
a turning point in the war.
This string of victories by the Republic in the Core and Mid rim pushed the Separatists
back to the spiral arms of the Galaxy and left them with only their Outer Rim Territories
remaining, sparking the beginning of the Outer Rim Sieges.
Because the Separatists were unable to access the resources and raw materials of their previously
captured mid rim worlds, they began to retreat to their Outer Rim worlds, hoping to draw
the Republic’s forces into the outer rim, leaving them vulnerable to an attack on their
Capital, Coruscant.
The Separatists had also hoped to keep the Republic forces occupied in as many locations
as possible, giving them time to rebuild their fleet of ships and legions of droids.
The sieges began, when in response to the Sepratist retreat, the forces of the republic
fully committed to pummelling the Confederacy bases at the borders of the Outer Rim.
On top of committing a large attack force to Ryloth, the Grand army of the Republic
went as deep into the Outer Rim as the homeworld of Count Dooku, Serreno.
Eventually the Republic pushed the Separatists as far back as Kashyyyk, sparking the battle
of Kaskyyyk, led by Grand Master of the Jedi order, Yoda which we saw in Revenge of the
Sith.
The fighting eventually became so intense on three specific worlds, that Palpatine called
them the Triad of Evil.
These three planets were Felucia, Mygeeto and Saleucami.
He gave the three planets this name because of the intense battles and immense loss of
life in these three locations.
After this powerful statement, Palpatine gained the support of the Senate to send the Coruscant
home guard to reinforce the legions of clones already fighting on the Triad of Evil worlds,
opening the door to stage his kidnapping on Coruscant, which again, we saw in Revenge
of the Sith.
Despite this, the true purpose of the Outer Rim sieges was to lure the majority of the
Republic’s clone forces out to the fringes of the Galaxy, making it significantly easier
for Palpatine to seize power.
Once the Republic had committed so many Jedi and Clones to the Outer Rim Sieges, they were
unable to quickly return to the Core in case of a surprise attack, which of Course eventually
came.
Six months into the outer rim sieges, With the Jedi’s attention focused on the Outer
Rim, Chancellor Palpatine ordered General Grievous to target the Republic Capital in
the Battle of Coruscant and kidnap him.
At this point Outer rim sieges were brought to an abrupt end when Palpatine delivered
Order 66 to all Clone Troopers, leading to the extermination of the Jedi and the fall
of the Republic.
Because the Jedi were spread so thinly throughout the Galaxy and isolated away from each other,
they were caught off guard by the surprise attack from their Clone Troopers.
While Order 66 was being carried out, Anakin Skywalker, who by that time had already been
turned to Darth Vader travelled to Mustafar to kill the Sepratatist council and deactivate
the Droid Army, ending the Outer Rim Sieges and the Clone Wars.
And that is everything we know about the Outer Rim Sieges from both Legends and Canon material!
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