Rookies

"Rookies" is the fifth episode of season one of Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series. It first aired on Cartoon Network on October 24, 2008.

Official description
Alone on a distant outpost, Clone Commander Cody and Clone Captain Rex must inspire their rookie unit to believe in themselves to stave off a Droid Commando invasion.

The best confidence builder is experience.

On the Rishi moon, a few clones stationed there are very bored. Hevy wishes he could be on the front when the acting Sergeant informs all of them that the outpost is vital to keep an eye on Separatist activities and make sure they don't head for Kamino where all their brothers are.

Meanwhile, Captain Rex and Commander Cody are headed to Rishi for an inspection. However, the station detects a meteor shower and raises shields. But the meteors aren't meteors -- they're pod hunters carrying droid commandoes that infiltrate the base. The remaining clones are forced to hide from the droids as they take over. The droids report to Grievous, who then contact Asajj on Kamino so that they can launch a sneak attack. The droids then try to pretend to be clones to trick Cody and Rex but they get suspicious. Elsewhere, outside the base, Cutup is eaten by a eel. His brothers notice Cody and Rex's ship and try to reach them. The clone officers are met by a peculiar "clone" who talks like a droid. The clones down below throw a flare and Rex shoots the false clone, revealing it to be a droid in disguise. Unfortunately, other droids begin to attack them and destroy their ship. They meet up with the rookie clones and plot to retake the base. Rex poses as a droid in armor but they asks to see his face. He simply bends down and brings up a severed droid head to the eye camera, convincing the droids to open the door. The clones that attack them, regaining control of the base. Unfortunately, the Separatist fleet led by Grievous has arrived and a landing party has landed to reinforce the place. Not wanting the base to get back into enemy hands, they resolve to blow it up with liquid tibanna gas, which would take out the all-clear signal to alert the Republic. Hevy grabs a repeater and fights against the droids. As the other clones escape through the vents, Hevy tries to arm the explosives but one doesn't, so he decides to activate it manually, just as he was cornered and injured. The base is destroyed and the Republic fleet is alerted, chasing off the Separatists.

When they return to the Resolute, Echo and Fives are granted medals and Rex thinks of inducting them in the 501st Legion. The rookies feel they don't deserve the honor, but Rex says they've earned it.

Cast

 * Dee Bradley Baker - Clone Troopers
 * James Arnold Taylor - Obi-Wan Kenobi
 * Matthew Wood - General Grievous / Battle Droids
 * Matt Lanter - Anakin Skywalker
 * Tom Kane - Narrator / Wullf Yularen
 * Nika Futterman - Asajj Ventress
 * Gwendoline Yeo as Hologram VJ

Individuals

 * Commander Cody
 * Captain Rex
 * Fives
 * CT-327
 * Cutup
 * Droidbait
 * Echo
 * Grievous
 * Hevy
 * Nub
 * O'Niner
 * Obi-Wan Kenobi
 * R2-D2
 * Anakin Skywalker
 * Asajj Ventress
 * Wullf Yularen

Creatures

 * Neebray
 * Eel
 * Rishi eel

Droid models

 * BD-3000 luxury droid
 * Bettie-Bot VJ
 * B1 battle droid
 * B2 super battle droid
 * Droid Commando
 * Unit 07
 * Unit 08
 * Unit 09
 * Unit 26
 * OOM-series battle droid
 * Plunk droid
 * R2-series astromech droid
 * TT-8L gatekeeper droid
 * Variable Geometry Self-Propelled Battle Droid, Mark I

Events

 * Clone Wars
 * Battle of the Rishi Moon
 * Battle of Tibrin

Locations

 * Balmorra system
 * Hell
 * Kamino
 * Mimban
 * Outer Rim
 * Pastil
 * Rishi system
 * Rishi moon
 * Listening post
 * Tibrin

Organizations and titles

 * Confederacy of Independent Systems
 * Supreme Commander of the Droid Armies
 * Galactic Republic
 * Grand Army of the Republic
 * 501st Legion
 * 224th
 * Mud-Jumpers
 * Clone Intelligence
 * Clone trooper captain
 * Clone trooper commander
 * Jedi General

Sentient species

 * Human
 * Kaleesh
 * Cyborg
 * Rattataki
 * Twi'lek

Vehicles and vessels

 * All Terrain Tactical Enforcer
 * C-9979 landing craft
 * Consular-class space cruiser
 * Low Altitude Assault Transport/infantry
 * Lucrehulk-class battleship
 * Lucrehulk-class Droid Control Ship
 * Munificent-class star frigate
 * Nu-class attack shuttle
 * Obex
 * Separatist boarding craft
 * V-19 Torrent starfighter
 * Venator-class Star Destroyer
 * Resolute

Weapons and technology

 * Comlink
 * DC-15A blaster rifle
 * DC-15S blaster
 * DC-17 hand blaster
 * E-5 blaster rifle
 * Holoprojector
 * Kamino cloning chamber
 * Lightsaber
 * Sword
 * Thermal detonator
 * Vocabulator
 * Z-6 rotary blaster cannon

Misc

 * Shinie
 * Liquid tibanna