Wednesday 11 November 2009

Clone Wars: Season 1 - Episode 3, Shadow of Malevolence



Clone Wars, Episode 3 Malevolence
is the second part of the Malevolence trilogy. The Moral of the Episode is, "Easy is the Path to wisdom for those not blinded by themselves."

A deadly weapon unleashed. The Separatist's Battleship Malevolence advances unopposed into Republic space tearing apart any ship that stands in its path. After a daring rescue and narrow escape, Anakin Skywalker prepares a counter-attack on the enemy ship and its diabolical Droid Commander, General Grievous.

A strike force is commisioned by the Galactic Senate to hunt down the enemies new powerful battleship. Anakin Skywalker develops a somewhat aggressive plan involving bombers. Anakin is confident and single minded in his thinking while Master Plo Koon has some reservations.

Meanwhile, Count Dooku assigns Grievous and The Malevolence a new target, a secret Republic Medical station based on the Outterrim. It is unprotected and treating over 60,000 wounded clones.

The Jedi learn of the Malevolence's target, but it is not possible to evacuate all the occupants in the limited time. Anakin's strike force immediately launch, determined to get to the Medical Station before Grievous. Their path is a very dangerous one. To catch the Separatist battleship, they must take a short-cut through a notorious smugglers path through a gas nebulae. Despite encountering a number of large gas creatures, the Strike force make it through with limited damage.

Over Holotransmission, Dooku alerts Grievous a small strike force has been launched to attack them. He adds, "Skywalker is leading the mission. Do not underestimate him.". Grievous does not seem too concerned, he is confident in the Ships mighty Ion weapon.

The Republic Medical station is in sight. Both The Malevolence and Anakin's strike force arrive at roughly the same time. A Battle is very imminent !

"I want every single ship destroyed!" screams Grievous and immediately fires the Ion Cannon.

Unwavering from his original plan, Anakin orders his squadron into a steep climb in order to clear the enormous blast wave from the weapon. Two of his squadron are destroyed and some others left without power failing to complete the maneuver.

The battle is in full motion. Blasts exchanged every milli-second. Whilst Anakin can pull off the complicated moves, with the exception of Plo Koon, his squadron are unable to keep up this level of intensity. Acting as his rear-gunner, Padawan Ahsoka warns him of this. Anakin is still unwavering.

General Grievous prepares the Ion Cannon for another devastating blast.

Plo Koon communicates, "If we can do enough damage, the weapon may overload when Grievous tries to fire."

Finally Anakin sees the logic and is broken free of his single minded plan. We are reminded of the episode's moral, "Easy is the Path to wisdom for those not blinded by themselves".

The Ion Cannon is taken out of action with a volley of accurate torpedoes and it explodes causing massive damage to The Malevolences systems. The Separatist's have lost both primary weapons and the hyperdrive is disabled.

The ship in flames, General Grievous orders a full retreat back to Separatist space.



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