Remnant was a small, lesser known planet in a galaxy far, far away. Its inhabitants were Human and a species known as the Faunus. Although the small planet had their problems they were relatively unknown to many. That was until the Clone Wars began; the Trade Federation began to look for planets with more resources and one that was far away from the Republic's reach. An ambassador for the Trade Federation was sent to Remnant to persuade the planet's leaders to allow the Trade Federation access to the planets major resource areas to supply the Trade Federation with Materials to continue to build their droid army. This plan was unknown to Remnant's leaders as they allowed the Trade Federation to begin their operations in exchange for assistance against overwhelming monsters of Remnant known as the Grimm. The Trade Federation agreed and battle droids of all kinds were sent to deal with the Grimm, at first the trade seemed reasonable as the droids would assist Hunters and Huntresses while fighting Grimm. The Trade Federation soon began to have an iron grip on the planet. In time the Trade Federation had begun to take the planet of Remnant and make it a secret base of operation. They had power over everything in Remnant, the food supply, resources, even the Academies were Hunters and Huntresses trained, Remnant soon became a planet controlled by the evil villains of the galaxy.
Some people merely went on with life as they had before, others began protests against the Federations control, some didn't know what to do. People like Ruby Rose, a student at Beacon Academy, she had finished her first year at Beacon when the Federation shut down the program saying that Hunters and Huntresses were no longer needed as the Grimm slowly became less and less of a threat to the people of this planet. Ruby doesn't know what to do next, all her life she wanted to become a Huntress and now they were no longer needed. As Ruby and her team spent their day wandering what to do a battle in space was erupting as the Republic have discovered the Federation's secret base, a war in space and soon to on land will go down and team RWBY will be in the middle of it.
As the battles on land begin the Jedi Knights are sure to arrive, but all does not go so well as the Republic begin to evacuate the cities the Federation begin to bomb were the Republic have taken, as they try to keep everyone from leaving the planet civilians or Republic. Obi-Wan Kenobi is one of the Jedi sent to evacuate the civilians. Although very close, the transport he is aboard makes it out of the system and into Republic space on the way to Coruscant Obi-Wan senses the Force to be very strong with four passengers. When the shuttle lands on Coruscant Obi-Wan pulls these four aside. He find three Human girls and a Faunus girl, he learns their names and introduces himself to the four who seem to be friends with each other although he can feel their emotions as they are all sad for losing their home to a war they never knew existed. He plans to bring them before the Jedi Council to see if they can still be trained to become Jedi.