Source: StarWars.com | TheForce.net | Posted By: Dan Geer

Coming this Friday night, January 7th at 8:30/7:30c on Cartoon Network is the first episode of the three-part “Savage Opress”  (Darth Maul’s brother) story-arc for Star Wars: The Clone Wars that was released theatrically at select movie theaters around the U.S. last month.

The first part in this story is titled Nightsisters, and you can check out a couple of new preview clips after the jump (I’ll leave it up to you to view the upcoming episodes to find out just what exactly the role of the Nightsisters is in relation to Savage Opress in this story).

Head on over to TheForce.net for more video, a synopsis of the episode and brief commentary from Star Wars: The Clone Wars supervising director Dave Filoni!

And, just for a refresher on how cool Savage Opress is going to be, you can watch the following clip: