Though it’s later than planned, Star Wars: The Bad Batch will be back.

The animated series will return for Season 2 on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, Disney announced at its D23 Expo Saturday. Season 2 will consist of 16 episodes.

The episodes will arrive later than the streaming service originally announced. At the time of The Bad Batch‘s renewal in August 2021, Disney+ indicated that the next round of episodes would get underway in Fall 2022. As recently as May, a Season 2 teaser also promised new episodes in the autumn.

Star Wars: The Bad Batch follows the titular elite and experimental clones (first introduced in Star Wars: The Clone Wars) as they find their way in a rapidly changing galaxy in the immediate aftermath of the Clone War. Members of Bad Batch — a unique squad of clones who vary genetically from their brothers in the Clone Army — each possess a singular exceptional skill which makes them extraordinarily effective soldiers and a formidable crew. In the post-Clone War era, they will take on daring mercenary missions as they struggle to stay afloat and find new purpose.

The series is executive-produced by Filoni (The Mandalorian, Star Wars: The Clone Wars), Athena Portillo (Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels), Brad Rau (Rebels, Star Wars Resistance) and Jennifer Corbett (Resistance), with Carrie Beck (The Mandalorian, Rebels) as co-executive producer and Josh Rimes (Resistance) as producer.

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