Rising Malevolence

"Rising Malevolence" is the second episode of season one of the television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. It aired on Cartoon Network October 3, 2008, following the premier of "Ambush."

Official description
''Creating panic throughout the galaxy, a devastating Separatist mystery weapon terrorizes the clone Starfleet. Anakin and Ahsoka race to save Jedi Master Plo Koon and his clone troopers in time.''

Plot summary
Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.

When Jedi Master Plo Koon located a Separatist secret weapon, he immediately moved his fleet to engage it. He contacted Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano, telling them that he had found the weapon in the Abregado system before his communications were cut off by General Grievous. Then the secret weapon, a massive ion cannon emplaced within the superstructure of the immense Separatist flagship Malevolence, fired, knocking out power on all three Star Destroyers, leaving them to be destroyed by Grievous' cannons.

Plo Koon and a few clone troopers managed to escape via escape pods, just before their ship was destroyed. Aboard the Confederate flagship, Dooku ordered Grievous to deploy Pod Hunters to find and kill any survivors in the escape pods. Meanwhile, Anakin and Ahsoka spoke with the Jedi Council who ordered them both not to go out to the Abregado system to look for survivors, despite Ahsoka's vehement opposition. Anakin chastised Ahsoka for her outburst as they took off in the Twilight. However, Anakin revealed to Ahsoka that he never intended to obey the Council; he agreed with her opinion but told her that if she was going to disobey the Council, she needed to do it carefully. Back in the debris field, Koon and his clones spotted another escape pod.

However, upon closer inspection, they saw that it had been broken open and the clones inside killed by the vacuum of space. They then witnessed one of the boarding craft/pod hunters attack a nearby pod, breaking it open and killing all inside. Then, the pod hunter noticed their escape pod and latched onto it. Master Koon and his men fought it off, destroying it and raising the alarm that survivors were putting up a fight, something Dooku didn't want. Just as Koon defeated the pod hunter, Ahsoka and Anakin arrived and rescued him and his men, despite growing holographic pleas from both Obi-Wan Kenobi and Supreme Chancellor Palpatine himself for Anakin to give up the search and rejoin his fleet. Now that they had picked up the few survivors, Anakin and Ahsoka prepared to leave the system. Unfortunately, Grievous's flagship was nearby, so they shut down all systems, including Artoo, hoping to blend in with the debris from the destroyed Republic ships.

However, they missed the medical droid, whose faint signal alerted Grievous. They were forced to try to flee the blast from the ion cannon. They re-activated Artoo, asking him to program a destination anywhere. They narrowly escaped the blast, which puts disappointed Dooku, who confers with his master. Once they reached Anakin's fleet, they contacted the Jedi Council, informing them of the mystery weapon and its capabilities. Anakin asked Ahsoka to come with him, saying taking the blame was necessary but he was willing to put some on her.

Cast

 * Matt Lanter - Anakin Skywalker
 * Ashley Eckstein - Ahsoka Tano
 * James Arnold Taylor - Plo Koon, Obi-Wan Kenobi
 * Matthew Wood - Grievous, Battle Droid
 * Dee Bradley Baker - Clone Trooper
 * Corey Burton - Dooku
 * Tom Kane - Yoda, Wullf Yularen, Narrator
 * Terrence Carson - Mace Windu
 * Ian Abercrombie - Palpatine
 * Tim Brock - 2-1B

Characters

 * Boost
 * Dooku
 * Grievous
 * Obi-Wan Kenobi
 * Plo Koon
 * Palpatine
 * R2-D2
 * Sinker
 * Anakin Skywalker
 * Ahsoka Tano
 * Twilight's 2-1B
 * Mace Windu
 * Wolffe
 * Yoda
 * Wullf Yularen

Droid models

 * 2-1B surgical droid
 * Twilight's 2-1B
 * B1 battle droid
 * Rocket battle droid
 * R2-series astromech droid
 * R2-D2

Events

 * Clone Wars
 * Battle of Abregado

Locations

 * Abregado system
 * Bith system
 * Coruscant
 * Jedi Temple
 * Republic Executive Building
 * Chancellor's Suite

Organizations and titles

 * Confederacy of Independent Systems
 * Corporal
 * Count
 * General
 * Galactic Republic
 * Supreme Chancellor
 * Grand Army of the Republic
 * Admiral
 * Clone trooper
 * Sergeant
 * Jedi Order
 * Jedi Council
 * Jedi General
 * Jedi Knight
 * Jedi Master
 * Padawan

Sentient species

 * Human
 * Kaminoan
 * Kel Dor
 * Togruta
 * Yoda's species

Vehicles and vessels

 * Escape pod
 * Pod 1977
 * G9 Rigger
 * Twilight
 * Low Altitude Assault Transport/infantry
 * Malevolence
 * Republic medical frigate
 * Separatist boarding craft
 * V-19 Torrent starfighter
 * Venator-class Star Destroyer
 * Resolute
 * Triumphant

Weapons and technology

 * DC-15S blaster
 * E-5 blaster rifle
 * Hologram
 * Hyperdrive
 * Ion cannon
 * Lightsaber
 * Tow cable
 * Turbolaser

Miscellanea

 * Kel Dor language