The Clone Wars: Shakedown

The Clone Wars: Shakedown is a short, six-page web comic and the second issue in The Clone Wars web comic series posted on StarWars.com on October 2, 2008. Shakedown leads directly into The Clone Wars television series episode "Rising Malevolence." It was written by Pablo Hidalgo, illustrated by Thomas Hodges, colored by Jeffery Carlisle, and lettered by Grant Gould. The comic introduces the Separatists' new secret weapon, the Subjugator-class heavy cruiser Malevolence, which is destroying the Republic Navy in hit and run attacks.

Plot
General Anakin Skywalker, aboard his flagship, the Resolute, arrives at a Republic staging area over a Bith populated planet. Admiral Wulf Yularen informs Skywalker that the staging area is secure, but Skywalker doubts that the Bith with give them any problems, saying that the true threat is far from them. Yularen asks the Jedi Knight if he means the Separatists' new secret weapon, which Skywalker responds to by saying that it has made almost twelve attacks on the Republic Fleet. Yularen reminds General Skywalker that Hight General Yoda blieves that it is important to keep a foothold in this part of space, but Skywalker thinks they aren't doing enough. However, Skyalker's apprentice, Ahsoka Tano, tells him that being in this system gives them a good vantage point to look at the Separatists' movements, and shows her master a chart she compiled of the secret weapon's stike-points. Unfortunalety for them, they're just too random, and that a prediction of the secret weapon's next strike would just be a wild guess.

Meanwhile, in the Phu system, a Republic task force, under the command of Jedi Master Ares Nune, is patrolling the system for enemy activity. Then the Malevolence fires and Master Nune's ship gets shot apart. Back on Coruscant Chancelor Palpatine, Plo Koon and Mace Windu talk about Master Nune's disapearence and Plo Koon anounces that he is going to go patrol the Abregado system in the Triumphant.

Behind the scenes
The Clone Wars: Shakedown is a six-page web comic and second issue in The Clone Wars web comic series, which ties directly into the The Clone Wars television series. The comic leads into "Rising Malevolence," an episode in the first season of The Clone Wars television series. Shakedown introduces the Malevolence and its mysterious hit and run attacks on the Republic, which was later expanded in The Clone Wars television episode.

Development
Shakedown was posted on Star Wars.com on October 2, 2008, and was written by Pablo Hidalgo, illustrated by Thomas Hodges, colored by Jeffery Carlisle, and lettered by Grant Gould. Leland Chee, Sue Rostoni, and Dave Filoni were also given special thanks.