Clone Wars

The Clone Wars were a series of civil wars that plagued the Imperial Republic on and off during the reign of Emperor Palpatine the 4th, first elected in 333 IR and served until his death in 700 IR. The issue was the fact that Palpatine the 4th was a clone of Palpatine the 3rd and also genetically engineered with a lifespan far beyond the human norm.

It was also a growing trend since at least the year 200 IR to artificially breed humans instead of natural birth for cheap labor and for manpower for the Republic's private corporations and government's military, police, and civil service.

Special genetic engineering in 287 IR permitted clones, but not natural-born humans, to live far beyond the human norm.

Natural-born humans, the majority population among both the human population and the citizenry of the Imperial Republic, increasingly grew resentful of these mutant human clones.

The First Clone War was exclusively on Coruscant, but lasted from 350 to 402 IR as a low-level guerilla war.

The Second Clone War did not include Coruscant, but did include several solar systems and lasted from 415 IR and lasted until 434 IR.

The Third Clone War launched in 500 IR, and was the largest in terms of interplanetary and interstellar scale, and included rogue factions of the Senate and the Council of Moffs. It divided the Organa family and it's supporters. The anti-cloners actually formed their own government, the Confederacy of Independent Systems, which passed a law banning human cloning and the genetic alteration of the human lifespan. The CIS actually lasted until it surrendered to the Imperial regime in 641 IR.

In 643 IR, Emperor Palpatine the 4th actually decreed a ban on human cloning and genetic alteration of the human lifespan which was ratified by the Senate and the Council of Moffs but did not officially go into effect until 650 IR.

From 600 IR onward, radical advances in artificial intelligence and robotic technology led to the rise of so-called droids.