This Week in The Clone Wars: "Mercy Mission"

As you can tell from the peaceable look of the clone troopers pictured above, this week’s episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars involves a mercy mission to the planet Aleen, which is being plagued by quakes. The 104th Battalion, led by Commander Wolffe and accompanied by C-3PO and R2-D2, fly in with supplies. The […]
The 104th Clone Battalion

As you can tell from the peaceable look of the clone troopers pictured above, this week's episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars involves a mercy mission to the planet Aleen, which is being plagued by quakes. The 104th Battalion, led by Commander Wolffe and accompanied by C-3PO and R2-D2, fly in with supplies. The droids get caught up in a tangent to the clone's mission -- shocking, I know -- and end up having to save the planet.

On the one hand, Aleen is a planet devoted to sports, especially podracing, and, for fans of The Force Unleashed, it's the homeworld of Kazdan Paratus, who survived Order 66.

On the other hand, judging from the clip, the Aleena can best be described as reptilian Ewoks:

Here's a still of the Aleena.