Season 2
Patience!No episode listing in table form like Season 1 has yet, but if you look to your left you'll see that episodes are happening and I'm working on them.
1."Holocron Heist"[TCW2]
"Jedi trapped on Felucia! Clones are surrounded by droid forces. Their only hope is to escape on Republic gunships waiting to land on the embattled surface. Jedi cruisers have managed to blow a hole in the droid defenses, and have sent gunships to the rescue."
Chronological Notes
Occurs sometime after "Hostage Crisis"[TCW1]. Also notable, Anakin says "I was a padawan not that long ago," though of course that isn't exactly precise.Space Notes
Communications
Jedi Bolla Ropal is out of contact on the Devaron system, per Mace Windu. The reason for this is not specified, but it requires that a ship be dispatched to get a message to him.Galactography
("Felucia" is pronounced like "Fallujah", which might be in bad taste.)Defense Systems
Cloaking technology is mentioned but not seen (no pun intended) in the episode.Stratego-Tactical
The conflict on Felucia seems to be the reverse of the Ryloth trilogy of episodes . . . in this case the Separatists have space superiority.Plo Koon leads the Felucia rescue group right through the blockade by going right alongside a Munificent, dozens of meters from her hull.
Obi-Wan describes the setback at Felucia as affecting their efforts in the entire sector, and is interrupted when he's explaining that it would take weeks to . . . (presumably recover from the setback, or retake the areas of Felucia, or some other such statement).
Warships and Spacecraft
Republic Gunships, traditionally seen as atmospheric vehicles, are here shown to most definitely have space capability. This has been implied elsewhere but not definitively shown until now. Oftentimes they're shown as simply dropped from a ship which itself has entered the atmosphere already, leaving the issue open to debate for the casual observer. However, the gunships never fired their weapons while in space.Vulture droids are observed doing a lot of spinning. Apparently they've been watching Anakin too much.
One Munificent loses an entire huge plate off of its forward armor-wings. Another Munificent falls completely apart in combat, breaking in half.
Vulture droids appear to make use of the cannons vertically between their split wings in flight in this episode, rather than the ones near their head. Those are made use of exclusively in walker mode in this episode, whereas in other episodes they have used those for space combat as well.
Plo Koon defeats a pair of Vulture droids in Felucia's atmosphere. The one in front is explosively disassembled by weapons fire, with the one behind apparently striking a chunk of the first and thus disabling itself, crashing into the ground and sliding into the top of a Republic tank. The tank is knocked over, but no other significant damage is apparent, though at that point we can only see the bottom. Half of the fighter emerges from the destruction, but the other half is nowhere to be seen.
Bane requests a Rogue Class starfighter with a cloaking device. We never see the vessel or the cloak in operation.
Weapons - General
The blockading Separatist ships are not seen to fire frequently against Republic ships above Felucia. Whether this is merely a question of maneuvering or some technological 'battle fatigue' (e.g. lacking ammo, energy, power system damage, damaged droid gunners, or what) is unclear.Weapons - Firepower
One to two blaster bolt pairs from Plo Koon's fighter were sufficient to cause Vulture droids to explode in a head-on confrontation.We get excellent scenes of Vulture droid versus V-19 combat (e.g. the "M-wing", though officially not called that). Missed Vulture droid shots strike the ground, causing no huge blasts or craters, though it does appear that bush-sized puffs of displaced earth were animated in.
Weapons - Range
The capital ship fight in orbit of Felucia occurs at standard Star Wars ranges, and fighters fight in space and in atmosphere at standard ranges.Ground Notes
Communications
Cad Bane uses ear commlinks for the intrusion mission. The units are about the size of an older Bluetooth earpiece, and enable communication within the Jedi Temple undetected by any temple sensors.Jedi have special transmitter codes, purpose unclear.
Jedi Bolla Ropal is out of contact on the Devaron system, per Mace Windu. The reason for this is not specified, but it requires that a ship be dispatched to get a message to him.
Defense Systems and Security
Interestingly, the changeling's clothing appears to be holographic. After becoming the dead Jedi, for instance, the clothing (but only the clothing) flickers with the usual hologram scan lines before resolving into a solid-looking cloth surface.Despite advance warning from Yoda's precognition, the Jedi Temple cannot be completely secured. A weak point is found in the shielding around the temple's upper air shafts (implying that the shielding allows airflow but not anything else). With the Temple scanners in the process of being jammed, the weak point is exploited and intruders make entry.
Jedi Temple perimeter defense can be monitored from the Temple's central security station.
Jedi Temple security systems (including perimeter defense) can be accessed and disabled from the library terminals in the Archive, a rather peculiar security hole.
Jedi have special locking mechanisms that may require Force use to unlock, though it's possible some sort of identifying application (e.g. a midichlorian sensor) is used. The Jedi unlock them by waving their hands over, causing the "Jedi keypad" parts to move and unlock the desired locked object. Bane tried unsuccessfully to use some sort of zappy electrical-arc beam device to defeat one, but could not do so without more information or a diagram of the unit.
The Archive's Holocron vault access portal has laser sensors. Most could be disabled remotely, but a final set of lasers had to be disabled by Bane's droid using some sort of zappy beam device on its fingers. The vault's door was protected by one of the Jedi keypads, and Bane was not able to defeat it. However, using one of his 'USB bombs', he was able to destroy the keypad and thus cause the door to fall half-open. A simple pull opened it the rest of the way.
Cad Bane, wearing a Jedi-style hooded robe, walks out of the Archives and presumably the Temple itself while holding a holocron in his hands, in plain sight.
Droids
Cad Bane's small helper droid Todo 360("I am a techno-service droid!") has rocket feet, similar to R2's thruster assembly. The droid is also equipped with a simple torch-like cutting device, allowing a slow-but-effective cut through a metal wall as opposed to, say, a lightsaber.Todo also has a device akin to the shield penetrator from AotC, though whereas the AotC device involved what appeared to be an active system, the droid's penetrator simply involved a touch followed by a hole in the shield of long duration. The droid was programmed with the information about the Temple that Darth Sidious provided, presumably explaining some of its ease of defeating Temple systems. However, the droid did completely miss some sensors in the vertical air shaft, even after the Clawdite infiltrator advised the droid of them, implying that its information was incomplete.
Facilities
A false ground level is seen on Coruscant as we observe the exterior of Bane's apartment. The area looks like a courtyard of sorts, but the fact that it is not a real ground level is made apparent by the skyscraper windows at the top of the screen, indicating more height. The alternative is that those windows are a reflection off of a mirrored or wet surface, but we have no other indication of that.The communications center at the east tower of the Jedi Temple houses troop information and Jedi transmitter codes, making it a vital spot. The holocron vault backs up to the communication center. A peculiar shaft covered by a wall allows access directly from the vault foyer to the communication center.
The Jedi Temple is largely empty of personnel. When on high alert, for instance, Obi-Wan calls to the communication center and asks Yoda if they're detecting any other lifesigns in this quadrant. Given the frequent reference to east tower, south tower, and so on (the latter of which explicitly refers to a part of the main cube of the building), the use of the term quadrant is suggestive of the notion that there's literally almost nobody home. Given the Jedi being spread thin throughout the war's fronts, this makes sense.
Sensors
Ahsoka's Republic AT-TEs and turbo tank are unable to detect the surrounding droids. Ahsoka was charging into her own Little Big Horn, ridiculously outnumbered and surrounded, without warning. This fact only became apparent when airborne.The Jedi Temple's sensors are apparently all on the inside, as they do not detect the fact that Cad Bane and a helper droid land via jetboot on the ledge of the Temple. Only later do they detect that there is a disturbance of some kind in the air shafts, presumably due to the external cover being pulled off as shown a moment later.
The sensor suite of the Temple goes down when recycled, and recycling is not an uncommon occurrence from the context. The effect also occurs when the scanners are jammed, the true cause of the system failure in this case.
The internal sensors (as accessed from the library terminal) are able to show Obi-Wan and Anakin moving within the air shafts of the Temple. The Clawdite feeds this data to Bane.
Stratego-Tactical
As we join the Felucia battle, Anakin and Obi-Wan's troops have "circled the wagons", forming a square defensive perimeter with their tanks.The Republic's full retreat involves leaving behind half a dozen AT-TEs and one turbo tank.
The Jedi, despite being told that the Holocrons are the target, are insistent that the target must be the communications center data. In a move more fitting for a "shiny", Obi-Wan and Anakin even head to the communications center . . . a room with several Jedi in it already . . . while staring right at the newly-opened door to the holocron vault, which is empty and unprotected.
Clawdites seem more than willing to give up information if captured, perhaps due to a cultural similarity with the Japanese in WW2. This is presumably why Jango Fett killed the assassin on Coruscant in AotC, and why the Clawdite in this episode is so forthcoming with the name of the Jedi that Cad Bane is going after.
The Kyber Crystal, considered a repository of the future of the Jedi Order, is sent along with its Jedi keeper into combat on faraway worlds. This seems a capital mistake, on general principle.
Weapons - General
Bane uses very small bombs, approximately the size of a USB thumb drive, but with remarkable yield. Russian thermobarics manufacturers would be proud.Weapons - Range
Combat range is again seen to be limited to about a kilometer between the troops of both sides, though miss rates seem a little improved.Vehicles - Armored
Apparently Republic AT-TE tanks cannot be made to rest their bellies on the ground, as the circling-the-wagons maneuver might've been been served by such.An AT-TE is knocked over by a fighter laterally crashing into its upper side at high velocity. This implies a heavier construction than the Vulture droid (which ought to itself be a fairly heavy fighter, given its transformer-esque nature), but not by orders of magnitude.
We get what I believe is our first glimpse of a Republic Turbo Tank in TCW, the large boxy big-wheeled vehicle. However, they don't seem as monstrously huge in TCW.
The turbo tank head section is blown off while the Republic forces are still within line of sight during their retreat, and the two nearby AT-TEs are knocked over by the blast. There is a dusty blast wave that radiates out a short distance and the ground itself cracks around the turbo tank blast, but interestingly nearby battle droids are not knocked over as the AT-TE tanks were. This implies a large but not supremely large explosion, and that AT-TEs receiving that amount of blast broadside are not terribly stable.
Other Republic Gear
The Kyber Crystal, containing a list of force-sensitive children across the Republic, is a small data crystal that can only be read by a Holocron. The Holocron, then, is suggested to be a special data reader, though it is generally assumed that they have onboard storage.Other
Cad Bane has small thrusters on his boots. As observed, there appears to also be an antigrav belt or some other similar technology in play, given that he occasionally seems to enjoy lateral flight or hovering without his thrust vector and velocity being correct for such an occurrence.Other Notes
Kenobi is already on the Jedi Council, as he will be in Episode III but was not in Episode II.Yoda's precognition is able to discern the presence of intruders at the temple well before their entry.
The changeling shifts forms after touching the form it intends to become. This process seems to be like a scan, as even the voice of a dead Jedi is replicated after the touch. The voice is so good that even a Jedi friend is fooled. However, this could be a result of another system akin to the holographic clothing system . . . e.g. a voice duplicator that has scanned the vocal cords and related parts of the target. However, the idea that the maneuver was technological in origin stretches credibility, given the replication of inflections and accent and such . . . at that point a brain download seems required.
Obi-Wan and Skywalker use a Batman-esque line system to drop down a large ventilation shaft. This was probably a safety precaution, given the possibility of fan engagement. After all, we've seen the Jedi fall a great distance to a controlled and non-lethal landing before, such as in the Coruscant car chases of AotC.
Jocasta Nu had never met Ahsoka Tano . . . odd that the Jedi Archives are apparently never visited by youngling padawans. Anakin did not know who Bolla Ropal was. Given that there are only thousands of Jedi, and that they are all raised almost from birth in a single building, it seems peculiar that they are all so unfamiliar with each other.
Cad Bane, wearing a Jedi-style hooded robe, walks out of the Archives and presumably the Temple itself while holding a holocron in his hands, in plain sight, with no apparent Jedi intervention.
Cad Bane is aware he is working for a Sith Lord. While he may not be fully cognizant of what that means, it does imply that Palpatine was a bit more open with the true nature of Darth Sidious than we might've otherwise suspected.
2."Cargo of Doom"[TCW2]
"Stolen secrets! Villainous mercenary Cad Bane was hired by Darth Sidious to steal a holocron from the vaults of the Jedi Temple. After fleeing the scene of the crime, Bane hunted down and captured Master Bolla Ropal, who has a crystal which holds secrets of the Jedi Order. As a Separatist fleet arrives to help the bounty hunter, Anakin Skywalker races in to cut off their escape and stop Bane from delivering the stolen holocron."
Chronological Notes
Direct follow-on to "Holocron Heist"[TCW2] and shown back-to-back as the season two premiere.Space Notes
Communications
The lead Separatist ship over Devaron apparently receives an image of the attacking Republic cruiser from one of the destroyed ships, as a very close-range view of the Republic ship is shown on the command ship's viewscreen.On the Munificent viewscreen, video from the battle on the hull is shown. This either implies hull-based cameras or transmission of video from one of the droids.
A battle droid attempts to activate a communication wall panel aboard the Munificent. When it doesn't work, the droid hits it with a fist and tries again. It works.
Drive Systems - FTL
A Munificent loses one of its three primary engines due to a Venator cannonade intended to target its hyperdrive. When the engine explodes, a droid chases Bane and reports that the Venator has "hit the power converter so we can't go into hyperspace". Thus, on a Munificent, a hit to the power converter (presumably a result of the exploded engine) disables the hyperdrive, and seemingly all tactical systems as well.Drive Systems - STL
The Separatist command ship that Cad Bane is on appears to maneuver rather well, conducting a banking turn at a higher (relative) velocity than I recall seeing from Munificents before, as well as turning to flee.A Munificent loses one of its three primary engines due to a Venator cannonade intended to target its hyperdrive. When the engine explodes, a droid chases Bane and reports that the Venator has "hit the power converter". Thus, on a Munificent, the destruction of the starboard primary engine apparently can result in the destruction of the ship's power converter. The ship is not seen to maneuver after this, implying that the power converter is critical for even sublight propulsion.
Yularen orders his Venator to come about and put distance between themselves and the Munificent. We are treated to approximately five or six seconds of bridge view and exterior view of the ship as it moves. It is able to rotate on its lateral axis (with the center of rotation being on the far aft of the ship, approximately around the bridge area) by about thirty degrees in that time. The ship was stationary relative to the Munificent at the beginning of the maneuver.
Power Systems
A Munificent loses one of its three primary engines due to a Venator cannonade intended to target its hyperdrive. When the engine explodes, a droid chases Bane and reports that the Venator has "hit the power converter so we can't go into hyperspace". Thus, on a Munificent, a hit to the power converter (presumably a result of the exploded engine) disables the hyperdrive, and seemingly the sublight drive and all tactical systems as well.In other words, blowing one of the big engines in the back almost completely disables the Munificent.
When the Munificent main reactor is "exposed", implosion at any moment is a serious risk.
Sensors
On the Munificent viewscreen, video from the battle on the hull is shown. This either implies hull-based cameras or transmission of video from one of the droids.Defense Systems
The Separatist command ship at Devaron, a Munificent, is quickly disabled despite not having been seen to be involved in any combat prior to Anakin's Venator (the only Republic ship on the scene) opening fire.Stratego-Tactical
Bane disables the gravity in the beginning of the fight between his droids and the Jedi plus clones. With the exception of one clone who seemed to be turned around with his back to the fight, this maneuver seemed to serve little purpose.Further, Bane's escape is made by killing a clone and putting on the armor, which he is somehow able to fill out adequately, dressing the clone (or a battle droid, given his comparative waifness) in his clothes and setting up a scene wherein Bane, in armor, shoots the clone, dressed as Bane. Inexplicably, no one thinks to collect the body, despite it being nearby, which would've given them the holocron and Kyber crystal as well as an opportunity to discover that Bane was still alive.
Warships and Spacecraft
Have we seen a Munificent viewscreen before? They have one, apparently partially-blocking the upper front window view from the commander's chair.The Venators apparently do not carry certain items as standard operating procedure . . . for instance, Yularen's ship in this episode carries no ship-to-ship boarding craft, as they were prepared to land on the planet.
A Munificent loses one of its three primary engines due to a Venator cannonade intended to target its hyperdrive. When the engine explodes, a droid chases Bane and reports that the Venator has "hit the power converter so we can't go into hyperspace". Thus, on a Munificent, a hit to the power converter (presumably a result of the exploded engine) disables the hyperdrive, and seemingly all tactical systems as well. The vessel is not even seen to maneuver after that incident, implying that it has something of a glass jaw in regards to the starboard primary engine.
Whereas in the last episode the Vultures fired from their side-most between-split wing cannons, this time Vultures that are firing on tanks which are on the hull of a Munificent are seen to fire from their central guns near their heads just prior to going to walker mode.
It appears that a localized gravity field is projected from the Venator onto the Munificent hull for the battle. Several times gravity-requiring maneuvers are performed by Jedi, clones, and droids during the hull battle sequence. Anakin's long jump is an example, though explainable with Jedi powers. However, we also see a clone sliding down an incline then falling down to the hull, a maneuver that magnetic boots cannot explain. But it is inconsistent, as a droid is seen to be cut in half and float away further along in the battle. Thus, the best explanation seems that it is a local effect near the landing zone, but dissipates or disappears closer to the end of the hull battle area. The alternative idea is that there was simply gravity-field "leakage" from within the Munificent, or else specific areas on the outer hull that were meant to have gravity. That's the simpler solution, but it seems quite a coincidence that the apparent gravity happened to be under the Venator.
Cad Bane calls the Munificent a frigate. Yularen also calls it a frigate later.
Munificent bridges seem to have random lighted portholes that can be kicked open to expose shafts. Presumably this is a ventilation shaft and the lighted porthole is some sort of peculiar cover.
Bane orders the Munificent's memory banks to be wiped. However, not long afterward R2 is able to access communication records of at least one way (the transmission from the ship) of a HoloNet conversation.
Cad Bane orders the Munificent to have its self-destruct sequence initiated. Later, an explosion in the aft section is visible from the outside, and Yularen reports that one of the engines has exploded. Later, after onboard munitions have been manually detonated, there is also a power surge headed toward the bridge area causing explosions en route. Finally, several minutes later, there is mention of the ship's main reactor being exposed with the threat of implosion at any moment. However, the ship's destruction appears to be caused more by additional munitions explosions rather than power core implosion.
Munificents can have their gravity generators turned off and on again. It is unclear if this affects the entire ship or just affected the room in which the action was occurring, however.
The Munificent's air ducts apparently did not seal off when the outer airlock was opened and the atmosphere shield was dropped. The outer door closed, but air continued to rush out until the outer airlock door was closed. It is possible this was a flaw of a pressure equalization system, caused by the already-significant damage to the crippled ship, or by design of Bane. In any case, however, a small room depressurizing should not have continued blowing action after the first second or two.
A black flammable liquid material with a high surface tension is seen erupting from a damaged pipe alongside the broadside gun room. The black flammable liquid pours onto the floor and surrounds the broadside cannon shells, catching fire and causing explosions later. The liquid looks and acts not unlike a light oil, and indeed a similar material is seen in RotS (ejected from R2 as a weapon) and identified in the script as oil. The purpose of the oil pipe running by the gun room is unclear.
Weapons - General
Skywalker orders his Venator to target the command Munificent's hyperdrive to prevent their escape. This is, to my knowledge, the first time a vessel's hyperdrive has been intentionally targeted.The weapons of the Munificent are apparently disabled when one of the rear engines explodes, which apparently disables the power converter.
Blaster shots and fire are sufficient to detonate the shells of a Separatist broadside gun, though they hold up well against simple low-velocity physical impacts.
Weapons - Firepower
A single Separatist broadside gun shell, when detonated by blaster fire, is able to cause bulkhead and wall panel material collapse in the Munificent's broadside gun room. However, impressively, the room does not depressurize and despite the damage to the guns, the gunport shields appear to remain functional.Weapons - Range
Skywalker orders his Venator to target the command Munificent's hyperdrive to prevent their escape. The Venator opens fire from a few dozen kilometers away (up to ~100km), from an eyeball estimate. Some shots miss the Munificent entirely.Vessel Security
This Munificent required R2-D2's presence to open an exterior hatch, which is an improvement compared to Dooku's Munificent from "Dooku Captured"[TCW1] and perhaps even the docking port of the Malevolence in "Destroy Malevolence"[TCW1], both of which were apparently opened without hacking.Other
Bane has all the Munificent ship functions (including doors and gravity) transferred to his "wrist-com" devices, an impressive feat. This implies a very efficent command interface on his vambraces (i.e. forearm guards), not to mention an interesting vessel capability on the part of the Munificent to allow itself to be operated that way. It implies that the ship could basically be operated in its entirety from a handheld PC.Ground Notes
Droids
A battle droid attempts to activate a communication wall panel aboard the Munificent. When it doesn't work, the droid hits it with a fist and tries again. It works. The droids in this episode also all seem to recognize and lament their impending destructions even moreso than usual. Droid psychology continues to amuse.A battle droid moves out of a spider droid's way using the precise side-step walk we saw in The Phantom Menace.
Weapons - General
Bane draws on and fires at Skywalker, up to a dozen meters away, who is able to deflect the bolt back toward Bane. Bane executes a dodge of the blaster bolt after Skywalker's parry, implying both a good reaction time for Bane and exposing the problem of slow blaster bolts.Weapons - Firepower
Blasters are able to impart a small but significant momentum on struck adversaries during the zero-g sequence, largely ruling out the muscle twitch explanation that some have used in similar circumstances to explain the motion.Vehicles - Armored
AT-TE tanks are pressurized and also have magnetic feet. This may help explain the cliff-climbing in the film, depending on the composition of the rock.An AT-TE scores a direct hit using its main cannon on a Vulture droid in flight over the hull of the Munificent. The Vulture bursts into flame and presumably crashes into the hull, given its terminal trajectory.
Other Republic Gear
In a classic stormtrooper moment, Captain Rex is unable to see clearly while walking down a darkened corridor. He runs right into an exposed pipe. Afterward, he orders the use of night vision. Most of his clones drop a visor down over the eye areas of their helmets, but Rex is able to use the antenna-thing on his helmet as a swing-down night vision device. The visors appear no different than the visor binoculars seen in other episodes, suggesting that the visor is a general vision augmentation device.Other Confederacy Gear
We see yet another use for the scroll-pad object, seen in use as a Republic remote detonator in "Rookies"[TCW1] and a Separatist datapad in "Storm Over Ryloth"[TCW1]. This time a battle droid uses it like a medical scanner, confirming the death of Bolla Ropal.Other
Artoo has a very good headlight on board. Whereas live-action sci-fi shows frequently expose their productions by having advanced species with poor, weak flashlights, R2-D2's headlamp is at least of the quality of a modern automobile headlight but in a smaller projection package. An actual advanced species can probably do better, but it was superior to most flashlights, even the one seen in "Hostage Crisis"[TCW1].Other Notes
The battle droid tasked with overseeing the torture of Bolla Ropal orders the attachment of "mind limiters, pain pulsers, and give him a full dose of X-C33." Pain pulsers are somewhat self-explanatory, inasmuch as purpose if not a specific technology. The mind limiter is most interesting . . . does Star Wars technology feature some way of dumbing down a prisoner? Or is this some sort of anti-Jedi technology? We do not know what X-C33 is, either, though there is a Xerox cartridge model number matching that. Perhaps that is merely a writing team in-joke. In-universe, the purpose of the dosage of the presumable drug is unknown. Perhaps it is similar to the serum that was to be given to Leia by the floating droid with a hypodermic needle in ANH.The Jedi are nerfed in this episode. They are suddenly almost unable to deflect blaster bolts back toward their opponents, and Anakin misses several opportunities to use the Force to defeat Cad Bane and his plans. Skywalker does not Force pull the holocron, he is unable to run very far when using the Force run as seen in TPM, and he even opens the holocron he has levitated for Bane rather than launching it into Bane's face like a projectile or punch. This he does even as Bane taunts him about his "dead Jedi friend" Bolla Ropal that Bane killed, not to mention having just watched Bane kill more than one of his clones.
Anakin is unable to discern that a person in clone armor is not a clone or even a Republic soldier.
3."Children of the Force"[TCW2]
"A thief hunted! In a daring assault Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan Ahsoka boarded the warship of cunning bounty hunter Cad Bane to recover a stolen holocron containing a list of the galaxy's Force-sensitive children and future Jedi Knights. After a desperate chase and duel with the villain, Anakin and his troops defeated Bane, but were forced to evacuate his doomed vessel without the holocron... "
Chronological Notes
Space Notes
Ground Notes
Other Notes
4."Senate Spy"[TCW2]
"Treachery in the Senate! The Jedi Council suspects that Senator Rush Clovis is secretly taking part in a Separatist conspiracy. But to find out what the Senator from Scipio is up to, the Council will need a spy of its own. Meanwhile, Jedi Anakin Skywalker has been away from Coruscant on a lengthy tour of duty leading the clone army. Now Anakin returns for a long-awaited reunion with his wife, Padmé Amidala..."
