Mystery of a Thousand Moons

"Mystery of a Thousand Moons"

"Mystery of a Thousand Moons" is the eighteenth episode ofSeason One of theStar Wars: The Clone Wars television series. It is the eighteenth episode of the series overall. It is the second part of the 1-hour special that aired on February 13, 2009.

Official description[]

The fatal Blue Shadow Virus is released, infecting Ahsoka, Padmé and many Clone Troopers - and giving Anakin and Obi-Wan just 48 hours to find the antidote on a mysterious planet from which no visitor has ever returned.

Opening crawl[]

Hard-pressed Jedi and their valiantclone troopers have thwarted aninsidious Separatist plot to plant bombsloaded with the deadly Blue ShadowVirus in key Republic systems.Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalkerhave captured the vile scientist behindthe nefarious scheme: Doctor NuvoVindi. Now the Jedi plan to transportVindi to the Republic capital for trial....

Plot summary[]

Obi-Wan andAnakin prepare to transferDr.Nuvo Vindi toTheed for trial.Padmé and the clones discover that one of the virus bombs is missing the container that held theBlue Shadow Virus, meaning that if the wrong hands have possession of the virus (in this case, Vindi), it can still be released, and they sound the alarm.

Two clones search forVindi's servant droid in the bomb room. The droid sneaks into the room behind them and inserts the virus into a bomb. Before the clones can stop it, the droid sets off the bomb, and the virus starts to spread through the complex.Rex,Ahsoka and the clones manage to make it into the safe room. Ahsoka briefs Anakin on the virus' release, and he informs Padmé. She sets off withJar Jar in theirEVA suits to find Ahsoka and prevent any remaining droids from escaping the lab and releasing the virus onto the planet.

Anakin tries to wrest theantidote out of Vindi, but Vindi taunts him, stating that his job was to manufacture a plague, not cure it. Obi-Wan manages to convince Anakin to lay down hislightsaber, and they depart for Theed. Ahsoka, Rex and the clones discover that a small portion of the virus managed to get into the safe room before the door closed and they were thus contaminated. Padmé and Jar Jar, summoned by Ahsoka, open the door to the safe room, and she and Ahsoka take up the task of destroying the droids before they can ascend to the surface ofNaboo. During a struggle in one of the corridors, Padmé pulls a hose out of her EVA suit after tackling Jar Jar to stop him from trying to shoot Destroyers with their shields on, potentially injuring or even killing Ahsoka who is on to of the droids destroying them through the weak top of the shields and is thus affected by the virus as well.

Anakin, Obi-Wan and Vindi arrive in the hangar bay, and they meet up withTypho. Vindi is escorted away, and Typho tells Anakin and Obi-Wan that he may have found an antidote:Reeksa root, found only onIego, in the World of a Thousand Moons, which happens to beSeparatist-controlled space. Typho mentions that it's "suicide", but Anakin and Obi-Wan head off in theTwilight anyway.

Anakin and Obi-Wan approach Iego, but not before passing through a massive ship graveyard in its orbit. As they land, they find strangely disfigured droids with mixed-up parts, all saying, "Welcome to Iego". A boy approaches them and introduces himself asJaybo before going over to lie in a hammock strung between the legs of twoVulture droids, with the retrofitted battle droids attending him. Jaybo explains that when the Separatists left, they left a lot of their droids behind, and he simply reprogrammed them to serve him. When Obi-Wan and Anakin inquire about the Reeksa root, Jaybo mentions that the system is "haunted" and no one gets off the planet, sinceDrol, the phantom ruler of Iego, destroys anyone attempting to leave. According to Jaybo, fifty of the best pilots in the galaxy tried, and none made it alive.

Anakin and Obi-Wan descend a cliff, while Jaybo shouts down to not touch the vines, because the plants "don't like it" and have big, sharp teeth. AXandu appears, and the twoJedi grab ahold of it. It takes Anakin and Obi-Wan down to the bottom, and Anakin begins to hack away part of a root while the Reeksa plant awakens. Anakin and Obi-Wan manage to fend off the Reeksa and ascend the cliff.

Jaybo leads them toAmit Noloff, who tells the Jedi that the ghost of Drol is preventing them from leaving the planet. When the Jedi don't believe him, he shows them a hologram ofTaquito, a friend of Jaybo's, being electrocuted before his ship exploded. Anakin and Obi-Wan attempt to leave Iego in theTwilight, but as they pass through the debris field, sensors activate a labyrinth of electrical lasers that prevents them from getting very far from Iego, and they return. The ghost of Drol turns out to be an energy field that Obi-Wan theorizes the Separatists installed as an electric fence to prevent the inhabitants from leaving the planet.

As they land, Obi-Wan and Anakin receive a hologram from Ahsoka and Padmé, both appearing parched and weak. Ahsoka weakly tells them that they have destroyed all the droids in the compound and that Naboo is safe from further contamination. Padmé asks Anakin to promise her that no one will ever open the bunker, and starts to say "I love you", but the hologram is cut off. As they walk out onto the platform, Anakin starts to panic, having realized that Ahsoka and Padmé are dying from the effects of the virus. He tries to rush and find a solution to getting past the energy field, but Obi-Wan has an idea and manages to calm Anakin down.

The Jedi call a meeting with the citizens of Iego. Obi-Wan tells them that Drol is not a ghost, but a Separatist security system. He asks if anyone inhabited Iego's moon before the Separatists arrived, and anAngel enters the room. She tells the Jedi that they were a peaceful people before the Separatists arrived and stole their home: the moon ofMillius Prime, and Anakin theorizes that the primary node of the energy field must be near Millius Prime. Obi-Wan notices Vulture droids in another room, and he asks Jaybo to reactivate them so thatArtoo can fly them via remote control. The Vultures are activated, and after Jaybo transfers control of the droids to Artoo, they launch and follow theTwilight into the ship graveyard. The laser field activates, and Artoo attempts to send the Vulture droids into the laser emitter, but they are destroyed. Obi-Wan fires at the generator, and the energy field explodes. Anakin mentions to Jaybo that he will need new Vulture droids, as all were destroyed, but Obi-Wan tells them that they are free to leave Iego whenever they choose. TheTwilight immediately jumps intohyperspace for Naboo.

Meanwhile in the lab Padme and Jar Jar tend to the clones. Seeing clones dying of the virus, Padme comments on the waste. Rex tells her its what these men were born to do. Padme hopes their sacrifice will bring them closer to peace. Ahsoka starts to say it will but faints. Fortunately Rex catches her so she doesn't get hurt, but her friends are alarmed, fearing the young padawan may not survive.

LAAT/is land at the lab, and stretchers bearing Padmé, Ahsoka, Rex, and the rest of the clones are transported onto the gunships. Anakin and Obi-Wan find the others weak from their ordeal, but thanks to the antidote they are expected to make a swift recovery. Glad about the outcome, all commend each other for their achievements.

Continuity[]

This is the first episode of the entire series to not receive aweb comic leading into it onStarWars.com since it happens immediately after the previous episode.

Originally, theXandu was to be devoured by theReeksa plant.^[1]

Media[]

Collected in[]

• Star Wars: The Clone Wars The Complete Season One

Credits[]

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Appearances[]

Sources[]

• A Deadly Virus Unleashed inThe Clone Wars onStarWars.com(original site is defunct)
• The Clone Wars Episode Guide: Mystery of a Thousand Moons onStarWars.com(original site is defunct)
• "Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season One Episode Guide, Part Two" —Star Wars Insider 110
• "Mystery of a Thousand Moons" Episode Guide | The Clone Wars onStarWars.com(backup link)
• The Clone Wars Rewatch: That's No "Mystery of a Thousand Moons," It's a Security Field onStarWars.com(backup link)

Notes and references[]

External links[]

• "Mystery of a Thousand Moons" on theAurebesh Wiki

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