WARNING: The following contains spoiler for Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 7, streaming now on Disney+.

Set within the gap between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: The Clone Wars always served as a key piece of lore between installments of the Skywalker Saga. However, as the seventh and final season of the acclaimed animated series nears its climax, it also has begun to weave elements that connect it to 2018's Solo: A Star Wars Story and the Disney+ series The Mandalorian.

The Clone Wars featured the return of Maul, despite his apparent death at the hands of Obi-Wan Kenobi in The Phantom Menace. After reuniting with his long-lost brother, Maul set to build up his own power base from behind-the-scenes culminating in him seizing the throne of Mandalore, a planet inhabited by a warrior race with their own strict code of honor. Meanwhile, Anakin Skywalker's former Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano had left the Jedi Order and fallen in with smugglers and raiders in the streets of Coruscant. After a botched heist, Ahsoka learned that Maul had returned and was currently on Mandalore, setting the stage for an epic battle for the planet's fate.

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Perhaps more intriguingly, the recent episodes of The Clone Wars had revealed how Maul installed himself as the head of the galaxy-spanning criminal syndicate Crimson Dawn. The organization had played a prominent role in the 2018 Star Wars spinoff film as the syndicate that employed Han Solo shortly after the young smuggler deserted from the Imperial military. Following the death of crime lord Dryden Vos after Han and Chewbacca opted to help the fledgling Rebel Alliance instead of Crimson Dawn, the syndicate's leader was revealed to be Maul, still alive and well since the events of The Clone Wars, operating from his home planet Dathomir. With Crimson Dawn's origins revealed, The Clone Wars has set up how exactly the Sith Lord becomes a crime lord following his inevitable ousting on Mandalore.

The upcoming Siege of Mandalore between forces loyal to Maul and his puppet government against the Galactic Republic and Mandalorians seeking to liberate the throne is a cataclysmic event directly referenced in the first season of The Mandalorian. In the decades since the liberation of Mandalore, the warrior race had canonized the conflict with songs and poems honoring the historical event. As The Mandalorian's titular character confronts the Imperial officer Moff Gideon, the commander taunted the bounty hunter with the revelation that the weaponry he employed was similar to some that had slaughtered many Mandalorians during the conflict.

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Some details regarding the Siege of Mandalore have already been revealed by subsequent, canonical installments in the franchise. Star Wars Rebels revealed that Maul had indeed successfully escaped Mandalore after he was ousted by Republic forces led by Ahsoka and Clone Captain Rex. Presumably still in charge of Crimson Dawn after the fall of his previous criminal syndicate, the Shadow Collective, Maul would have a rematch against Ahsoka over a decade later on Malachor before attempting to gain revenge on an exiled Obi-Wan on Tatooine.

The Siege of Mandalore is a momentous event in Star Wars history, one of the final major battle of the Clone Wars and the event that simultaneously drove Darth Maul further into hiding and explained how Ahsoka Tano survived the initial Jedi Purge. And as an event that devastated Mandalore in an epic battle for control of the planet, it is a conflict that has loomed heavily with Mandalorian society for decades following its end.

Streaming on Disney+, the final season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars stars Matt Lanter as Anakin Skywalker, Ashley Eckstein as Ahsoka Tano, Dee Bradley Baker as Captain Rex and the clone troopers, James Arnold Taylor as Obi-Wan Kenobi, Katee Sackhoff as Bo-Katan and Sam Witwer as Maul. A new episode arrives each Friday.

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