5 years after Ep. 1.
The republic now has a Clone Army, thanks to Mandalore’s DNA.
Republic clones battle CIS droids AND seperatist planet militias across the galaxy.
ObiWan is training Anakin, who is soon to take on the trials to become a Jedi Knight.
The cloning process has had negative health outcomes for Mandalore, who is dying.
ObiWan visits Mandalore frequently and tries to console him, he is the only Jedi Mandalore trusts, even though he also likes Anakin.
Secretly, Palpatine is sending Darth Maul to assassinate Seantors whom oppose his power as chancellor.
Although Jedi and clone troopers DO work together on various missions, they are not their “generals,” they are much more like spies/diplomats/commandos who serve the republic, but act seperatly of the clones.

Plot:
After the senator of Aldaraan is assassinated, the planet’s government threatens to leave the republic and join the CIS. ObiWan and Anakin are sent to investigate the murder and convince Aldaraan to not leave. ObiWan discovers Maul was behind the assassination, confirming his fear that Maul survived their encounter in Ep.1.
The cloning facility is moved from Aldaraan to a secret space facility, where Mandalore is kept in a prison-like environment.

^^This could all happen BEFORE the actual movie^^

A “black-ops” Mandalorian squad lands on Tython (sic?) and kidnaps ObiWan, who is meditating at a waterfall (lol idk). Meanwhile, Yoda and the Jedi Council are conducting Anakin’s trials, which consist of facing several challenges in a cavern on Tython. Anakin feels a disturbance in the force as ObiWan is kidnapped, becomes distracted, and fails the trial. With no trace left behind of ObiWan, Yoda and the elder members debate what could have happened. In the meantime, they send Anakin to Coruscant to prevent the assassination of Palpatine, who they believe Maul will kill next.
Princess Padme is reluctantly elected as the new senator of Aldaraan.
Anakin bonds with Palpatine on Coruscant, and is also reunited with Padme after 5 years. (Vague) love story occurs.
ObiWan is taken to a Mandalorian flagship, where the captain tells him that Mandalore is located at a secret cloning facility (more like a prison), and that the Mandalorians will succeed and join the CIS unless ObiWan rescues Mandalore and returns him to his people. Knowing the Mandalorians could lead the CIS to victory, ObiWan reluctantly agrees.
Anakin and Padme get close on Curuscant.
While guarding Palpatine, Anakin is told by him that he is secretly a force-user who dislikes the Jedi code (isnt revealed as a straight-up Sith). Subliminally, he introduces Anakin to the Sith code.
ObiWan’s strike team, consisting of a few Mandalorians (including a young Boba Fett), a wookie and a “badass” protocal droid (like HK-47 form KOTOR), take a ship to slip by a Republic blockade of the prison space station.
At this point, the CIS launches a massive attack/invasion against Coruscant. Anakin leads the ground defense as the capital erupts with war.
The Jedi on Tython learn of the attack and leave to help, but it’ll take time to get there.
Obi-Wan’s strike team infiltrates the base and battle with several security attack droids and clone troopers. Although ObiWan doesn’t “kill” any troopers, his team most certainly does. The find Mandalore in terminal condition and rescue him. Not wanting Mandalore’s DNA to fall into enemy hands, a Republic captain (not a clone) shoots Mandalore, whom dies in ObiWan’s arms. ObiWan feels a great disturbance deep within the prison. The strike team discovers hundreds of Jedi imprisoned within the prison, and ObiWan realizes that the republic wants to get rid of the Jedi. Boba Fett tells the Mandalorian captain that Mandalore is dead. The Mandalorians quickly join the CIS, which nobody in the strike team wanted.
On Coruscant, the CIS are winning the battle. Almost all hope is lost, then the Jedi from Tython arrive. Yoda directs the ground battle as Anakin leaves the space fighter assault of the control ships. Ships are destroyed, all is well. Anakin learns aboard the ship that the CIS answers to Darth Maul. Due to his outstanding acheivements in battle, Yoda declares Anakin a Jedi knight.
With Tython empty, Darth Maul and a fleet of newly-loyal Mandalorians glass the planet, destroying the Jedi temple.
ObiWan’s team meet Yoda and Anakin back on Tython, horrified by the ruins. Using the force (idk how), they trace the fleet back to Korriban. ObiWan, Anakin, and the strike team goes to Korriban.
The Mandalorian fleet has occupied Korriban, defending it from all Republic forces. The strike team sneeks by and lands on the surface. They learn that Maul is traing an army of dark acolytes (who are the prisoners from the republic prison, brainwashed) and plans to betray Sidious to conquer the galaxy for himself. Clone armies come and battle the Mandalorians in orbit around the planet. Palpatine himself supervises the battle aboard the republic flagship.
Using….the force (idk lol), ObiWan and Anakin un-brainwash the acolytes. Clone troopers land and kill all the ex-acolytes in cold blood, instructed by Palpatine to do so. ObiWan’s pissed so he goes to the flagship.
Anakin and Boba Fett infiltrate Maul’s temple and make battle.
ObiWan realizes that Palpatine staged the whole war since he supplied Maul with the brainwashed Jedi. Palpatine/Sidious reveals his dark side abilities to him. They battle on the flagship, ObiWan disarms Palpatine but won’t kill him. Republic officers come in and see ObiWan holding a lightsaber to Palpatine. They attack ObiWan, who escapes.
On the planet, Maul cuts of Anakin’s arm and force-chokes him, semi-crushing his windpipe. He escapes as clones invade the temple. Boba Fett saves Anakin and takes him to a med center. Med officers lie to him that ObiWan tried to kill Palpatine. He grows darker as he’s given a robot arm and robotic thoracic parts. Padme comes and cares for him, then agrees to marry him.
ObiWan and his strike team, who are now his friends, hide out on Tatooine as Palpatine outlaws the use of jedi in Republic affairs and proceeds to place them in “concentration camps” (or some equivilent).

The End

“The term “Sith” dates back to the rough draft of Star Wars, when the “Knights of Sith” battled the legendary “Jedi Bendu” warriors. Later drafts would rename the dark order the Legions of Lettow, before finally settling on a single warrior, Darth Vader, to be Dark Lord of the Sith.” (http://web.archive.org/web/20110629023811/http://www.starwars.com/databank/organization/thesith/index.html)

I know you don’t like the idea of things taking place from senate meetings, but the senate, and the republic were both mentioned in the original trilogy. I am not saying that the senate should be how things are decided in these movies, in fact it could be interesting if the senate decides on one thing but Palpatine does the oposite to defy it. Even though we never see it happen in Episode 4, we find out that The Emperor disolves the Imperial senate, so we know that he has been wanting to get rid of it for years just never had enough power to do it. I would like to see Palpatine play the senate like a game of chess so that he can eventually destroy it!

These things do have to play a role! There has to be a Republic that turns into an Empire, or else it wont make sense when Obiwan talks of how the Jedi were the guardians of peace and justice in the old Republic! I really like your idea of Anakin being kind of like a John Connor figure on Tattoine, but in this kind of senario I wouldn’t use Quigon. Quigon could be a very close friend and mentor to Obiwan, but there shouldn’t be any relationship built between Anakin and Quigon. Mostly because the relationship between Anakin and Obiwan is more important, and since there is probably about an episode and a half to really show that it would just take up too much time in the movie. Plus , remember that you have to show Anakins relationship with Padme, and his familly too!

I also really don’t like the sith! It is not a term used in the original trilogy and I don’t think it belongs in the prequels. It was always refered to as the darkside of the force, and that was it! I think Lucas was trying to get creative when he came up with the sith for the prequels, but it needs to make sense with the original trilogy. I say just call them dark lords!

So many great ideas! Again, it is a shame that these movies will probably never be made!

Ep1:
The Clone Wars have already begun and the CIS have just began attacking the
republic. Their new battle droids (cooler than the ones Lucas made) out-battle the
individual planets’ militias, causing the republic to consider a galactic clone army.
The film’s beginning follows two storylines, ObiWan being hired by the republic to find the perfect cloning specimen, and QuiGon goes to aid Tatooine’s battle against the CIS. When he arrives, the CIS have taken the citizens as slaves. Anakin (17 yrs old) and his mother are leaders of the resistance (very terminator-esque), and QuiGon helps them overthrow the CIS occupation and liberate Tatooine. QuiGon senses the force in Anakin, whom knows nothing of the jedi. They suceed in the liberation, but Shmi dies. QuiGon convinces him to return with him to Typhon (jedi council home), he agrees to go (homeage to Ep4 when Luke and ObiWan go to Aldaraan). The council is reluctant to accept Anakin as QuiGons apprentice because his time in slavery on Tatooine built up his rage, fueling the dark side within. Meanwhile, ObiWan travels to “planet x” to hire Mandalore (not a Fett) for the cloning process. To gain their trust, he must complete the Mandalorian’s trials. He does so and they travel to a republic cruiser to meet ” Chancellor X”. Onboard, the cloning process is greenlit, and Mandalore is to be escorted to Aldaraan for the project. A CIS strike force led by Darth Maul attack the cruiser and kill Chacellor X. ObiWan and Mandalore help various crew members escape and escape to Aldaraan. Leaving Mandalore, ObiWan travels to Typhon to inform the council of Maul and the possibility that the Sith have returned. He meets Anakin and is immediatly impressed by his power, yet cautious of its potential. On Coruscant, Senator Palpatine runs for election as new
chancellor. The CIS make a massive attack on Aldaraan, and the jedi recieve the Queen of Aldaraan’s distress signal. ObiWan and QuiGon go to aid, but Anakin sneaks off with them. Senator Palpatine (of Aldaraan) asks the militias of other planets to aid as well. They agree. Massive space battle against CIS. Mandalore and Anakin lead Aldaraan’s militia in space while the jedi go to rescue the Queen. The Queen’s daughter (padme) has been kidnapped aboard the CIS flagship so Anakin goes stealth to rescue her and escape. Maul shows up and mortally wounds QuiGon, ObiWan then injures Maul, whom escapes. The CIS flagship prepares to bomb Aldaraan from orbit. QuiGon gives ObiWan the last of his power so ObiWan can “EMP” the ship, crashing it into the ocean. Most of the space
militia is defeated, But are saved by the Mandalorian starfleet. Aldaraan is saved and the clone project begins. ObiWan get permission to train Anakin.

but Aldaraan is saved by the Mandalorian starfleet. ObiWan is granted permission to train Anakin and the clone army project begins.

Lucas definitley started the prequels too far back, and in 3 movies he couldn’t tie everything together the way it should have been, and some of the tie in he had seemed phoned in at the last minute. More than anything else, I believe that fans of Star Wars wanted to see a badass Darth Vader that hunts down the jedi in the 3rd episode! Anakins reason for turning to the darkside was stupid in Revenge of the Sith, and he didn’t have much to do at all with hunting down the jedi other than killing younglings! Anakin needs to turn, because of his lust for power, and the emperor twisting his mind a bit to make Anakin think that the jedi are turning on him! Anakin was cocky, and thought was already the most powerfull, but the Emperor shows him otherwise! Anakin turning to the darkside to save Padme???????????? This is not the Darth Vader I’m looking for!

I agree that you can’t make 5 episodes, but maybe a tv series taking place between 3 and 4 would be a good idea? I think that my timeline is probably the best you could come up with for a prequel trilogy. The chances of these ever getting made however are pretty slim, which is too bad. Ever since I was about 7 years old I wanted to see a prequel trilogy! Never say never I guess!

I could see what you’re saying about there being a lot of material there. I was also reminded of a rumor that I’d heard that Lucas had originally included a Jedi in the script that would vanish at the end of the prequels, about the same time that Obi-wan and Yoda went into hiding. That Jedi would then resurface as one of the hero characters from Episodes 7, 8 and 9.

The main problems that I see with the inability to complete the prequel story in only 3 films is that the numbering doesn’t allow for 5 movies to tell the story. I think it all needs to be told in only 3 films, but it could be longer films. I can see the concept that you have being something that would work fairly well.