The Historian casts his eyes back over the rich history of the DDS Universe.When tensions rise between the DDS and HCS now and then there is talk of "the 4th Clone War", but what were the other 3 Clone Wars?
The First Clone War is said to have begun in 2089 when the early DDS launched an offensive on Cloneworld against the HCS. However some place the start in 2088 when the DDS was first hired by the human authorities to protect against the growing Clone threat. This first war continued until 2092 when, after several years of to-and-fro fortunes, a weakened DDS was wiped out by a rampant HCS who went onto conquer all of Cloneworld.
Most authorities regard the Second Clone War as beginning immediately as this marked the Clone expansion into space to form an empire and the DDS efforts to stop them. However the Clone Star Empire began in 2091 when the Clones invaded Daggaddon so in a way the Second Clone War began before the First ended...
In any event this was the longest of the 3 wars with the Clones and DDS battling each other across the galaxy and on many worlds. Key battles were on Terra (with the Clones conquering a good portion of the human homeworld) and Randalf 74 where the DDS arguably won its greatest victory over the Clones. The war is considered to have ended by 2100 when a disintegrating DDS faded away following the (apparent) death of Windscorpion and the Clones were given a free hand to expand across many worlds.
The return of Windscorpion saw the war resumed and this marks the Third Clone War. Windy quickly saved the DDS from collapsing and scored an amazing victory over the Clones by devastating their main fuel source Sandworld. Windy and The Shiner then engineered a final peace agreement with the Clones with the Clones abandoning their territory on Terra and any other attacks on the UNP in return for a cessation of hostilities and the Clones being allowed to hold what territory they had taken.
In many ways the three Clone Wars are around 11 years of near endless conflict, the breaks between the wars were fairly short. It is worth noting though that we are now over 12 years since the end of the last war...
