Let us return once more to a more civilized age, a Clone Wars podcast.

I'm Rob Zachney, joined by Aliyah Kampora, Austin Walker, and Natalie Watson.

We've got another three-part today, and once again, I think the series may have outstripped

its previous highs as the story moves to Mandalore, and high-stakes political gamesmanship

meets a sexy action thriller.

There's a lot to cover in these three episodes, but up front, I have to say that the series

has done multi-parters, like this is kind of this thing, it does a lot of linked episodes.

I think this is probably the one that I've seen do the best job of creating three episodes

that are compelling ass stand-alones, but also build up into a really nice cohesive

arc that also goes places independently of each individual episode.

So there's a lot to get into, so we will just jump right in with our visit to our visit

to Mandalore.

We learn that Duchess, I'm almost called a Duchess cinema, no quite the opposite, actually.

Duchess Satine is the head of state for Mandalore, but she is also the head of the Council

of Neutral Systems, which has 1,500 worlds pledged to stay out of the war.

1,500 systems, thousands of worlds, because each system may have multiple planets.

Is that right?

Yeah, later in a later episode, she says, I represent 1,500 systems, thousands of worlds

back to back, and I had to like a double take, I was like, wait, you just said 1,500

systems, and I was like, oh, but some of those have moons, like Narshadaz, a moon, just

like, you know, and those are, those are, that's how it works.

But the intro, but the intro to Mandalore, the intro narration to Mandalore, but definitely

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