


Plo Koon and three clone troopers, including Commander Wolffe, watch from their escape pod as they find one with dead clones – leading Koon to remark that, “we’re not alone out here.” They pick up a distress signal from another pod, but by the time they get there they see the droids open up the pod to send the clones to their deaths in space. They pick up a weak signal, but can’t seem to find anyone. After the meeting, however, Anakin sends his fleet with Admiral Yularen on the mission while taking a small ship with Ahsoka and R2 and going to search for survivors in the Abregado System. She wants to go save him, but the Council and Anakin make it clear that they must stick to their own mission. Meanwhile, the Jedi Council knows of Koon’s discovery but presumes him dead, though Ahsoka Tano refuses to believe it. That leaves the survivors floating in the pods in space, hoping desperately to be rescued but knowing it’s unlikely. Koon orders his men into escape pods right before the ship is destroyed. On board this ship, the Malevolence, General Grievous and Count Dooku order it to fire upon Koon’s ship, rendering it useless. They find it in the Abregado System, a massive ship with an ion canon capable of wiping out all systems of a fleet. Plo Koon is in search of a new Separatist mystery weapon, one that has destroyed fleets and left no survivors. Today, we’re looking at the sixth episode chronologically, the second episode of season one, titled “Rising Malevolence.” With excitement building over the coming release of a seventh season of The Clone Wars in 2019, we’re taking a look back at each episode of the first six seasons – doing so in chronological order.
