A Distant Echo

"Wars are not won with superior weapons, but with superior strategy."

- Moral

"A Distant Echo" is an unfinished episode of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series. The episode was originally intended to be the second episode of a seventh season, but production on the television series was halted before the episode was completed. Scripted by Brent Friedman, it is the second installment in a four-part story arc focusing on a ragtag unit of clone commandos of the same name. The episode, along with the rest of its arc, premiered on April 17, 2015 at Celebration Anaheim and was released on StarWars.com shortly after on April 29, 2015.

Development
Series Writer Brent Friedman, who scripted "The Bad Batch" as well as the other three episodes of the arc, released information about the episode via his Twitter account in May 2014. Jedi General Anakin Skywalker is involved throughout the arc to an extent, though most of the action focuses on Rex and The Batch. Friedman stated that the "emotional hook" of the arc is Rex's relationship with ARC trooper Echo, a character who had been killed in the third season episode "Counterattack" but was resurrected for this arc. The setting for the episodes is split between Anaxes, a planet from the Star Wars Legends line, and Skako Minor.