To strengthen The Clone Wars...the separatists no longer use droids for soldiers. Instead, they conscript their citizens to fight a war against the republic clone army lead by the jedi. Making the war into a morally gray conflict where we see jedi cut down normal soldiers, Grievous seen as a hero.

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Rey senses something in maz kanata's castle, and finds this saber in maz's basement...the mystery of whose lightsaber it belongs to is solved in episode 9 when luke reveals that it belonged to leia...who hugged her because she realized that it will be rey who saves ben from palps(ben survives).

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