The clone wars have been over for nearly two decades, so I didn’t want to reference them as they have no connection to this story.
Yeah but the opening scene takes place just a few years after the end of the Clone Wars (I’m a little bit unsure of the new SW chronology about that).
Ummm that would be like saying Operation Red Dawn was last week. If I’m not mistaken, the Clone Wars ended with the fall of the Jedi.