Maul takes Savage as his apprentice and together they set out to gather an army. Their attempt to recruit Hondo Ohnaka and his pirates is interrupted by Jedi Council members Obi-Wan Kenobi and Adi Gallia.
By a request from Lux Bonteri, Anakin, Obi-Wan, Ahsoka and Rex travel to Onderon to help train a group of rebels so they can take back the capital city of Iziz from the Separatists.
The Jedi and Rex return to Coruscant and leave Ahsoka in charge of supervising the Onderon Rebels as they carry out a series of strikes in the capital.
Hondo has failed to capture the Kyber crystals, but does hold Ahsoka as a prisoner. The younglings form a plan to infiltrate the pirate hideout on Florrum.
R2-D2 joins a team of Republic Droids known as D-Squad, led by Colonel Gascon. Their mission: to steal an encryption module from a Separatist dreadnought.
Colonel Gascon and the five droids of D-Squad have arrived at the remote town of Pons Ora on the planet Abafar and find a clone commando suffering from amnesia.
Darth Maul and Savage Opress join forces with the Death Watch and together they recruit the Black Sun and Hutt crime lords to form the Shadow Collective.
The Sith brothers and their criminal allies attack Mandalore and the Death Watch pretends to defeat them, causing the gullible people to choose Pre Vizsla's rule over Duchess Satine's.
Darth Maul has taken over leadership of Death Watch. Though the Jedi cannot officially interfere, Obi-Wan Kenobi travels to Mandalore to rescue Satine.