Set ten years after ''The Phantom Menace, Padme Amidala is now a senator whose life is threatened by a breakaway group from the Galactic Republic. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are assigned to protect her.
While Anakin escorts Padme to the safety of her home planet, Obi-Wan goes on the trail of an elusive bounty hunter and discovers a clone army being constructed at the edge of the galaxy.