Knights of the Old Republic
No.2
Dark Side Secrets

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NEXT:The Saga of Nomi Sunrider

Last Update 07/Feb/1999
STAR WARS: TALES OF THE JEDI Full Cast Audio Drama Transcript #2 of 7 v1.1 March 1998 Audio Adapatation written by John Whitman Based on "Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi" Five issue comic miniseries published in 1993 Written by Tom Veitch Drawn by Chris Gossett, Mike Barreiro, Janine Johnston, and David Roach "Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi -- The Freedon Nadd Uprising" Two issue comic miniseries published in 1994 Written by Tom Veitch Drawn by Tony Akins and Denis Rodier Transcript by Christopher G. McElroy ============================================================================ A long, LONG time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..... ============================================================================= SCENE 1-10 EXT. NEBULON RANGER -- A LITTLE LATER...... ================================================================== Sound: The creaking open of the Ranger's hatch. The three Jedi climb out. TOTT: (coughs) I think we're alive. ULIC: Oh, Cay.....are you in one piece? CAY: (sigh) Sure. (cough) One piece. One really bruised piece, but one piece. I can't believe we survived that. ULIC: We did, thanks to Tott. TOTT: I activated the shields. Too late to stop the torpedo, but the shields absorbed some of the energy of the explosion. Then, as the Ranger went down, I angled the shields to cushion our fall. ULIC: Damage report, Cay? Sound: Cay starts rummaging through the smashed Ranger's engine. CAY: Activating computer now. Sound: Computer beep. COMPUTER: Damage Assessment. Specify parameters. CAY: Sublight drive. COMPUTER: Working.....damage assessment. Sublight systems: Ion drive--20% operational. Solid fuel retrothrusters--40% operational. Inertial stabilizers--inoperative. Lateral fin--inoperative. Sublight transponder--inoperative. ULIC: Hmm. Guess that means the ship won't go. CAY: That's what it means. I can fix the stabilizers and the lateral fin, but....it'll take at least a day. ULIC: All right, Cay. Stay here with the ship and see what you can do. Tott and I will investigate that fortress we spotted before we went down. SCENE 1-11 EXT. JUNGLE ================================================== Sound: Footsteps on wet ground. GUARD #1: Are you sure they went down around here, Gobee? GOBEE: I know how to read my tracking scopes! Those Jedi are around here somewhere...Trouble is, the same jungle that hides us from the city dwellers hides those Jedi from us. GUARD #1: We'll have to keep looking 'til we-- ULIC: 'Till you find us, Beast Rider? GUARD #1: There they are!! Sound: The two Beast Riders cock their weapons. GUARD #1: All right, Jedi, keep your hands away from those lightsabers! TOTT: We don't need lightsabers to deal with you. Sound: The Force becomes audible, as a rising hum. GUARD #1: Huh? ULIC: (echoing) You should put your weapons away. GUARD #1 and GOBEE: We should put our weapons away. ULIC: (echoing) And tell us where we are. GOBEE: You are in the wilds of Onderon, near the stronghold of our leader, Oron Kira. TOTT: Good work, Ulic. Your skills of control have grown powerful. ULIC: (echoing) Where is Princess Galia? GOBEE: In the fortress. She is going to be married to Oron Kira. ULIC: Married!? TOTT: Ulic, we must stop them!! ULIC: (echoing) Take us to Oron Kira! SCENE 1-12 INT. BEAST RIDER HEADQUARTERS ================================================= Sound: A large room, filled to bursting. Clacking of staffs, and a chant: "Daw nee sha....daw nee sha...." PRIEST: We gather beneath the four moons of Onderon to perform the ceremony of binding. Who among you bears witness to this great event? RIDER #2: WE DO!!! THE WARRIORS OF ORON KIRA!! RIDERS: AYE AYE!!! PRIEST: Then you are witnesses to the life vows of these two. Galia, Princess of Onderon..... SCENE 1-13 EXT. BEAST RIDER HEADQUARTERS ======================================================= Sound: The party can be heard from outside -- barely. PRIEST: (a whisper) ....and Oron of the House of Kira..... Sound: Ulic grunts as he climbs up to the door. TOTT: Ulic, give me a hand! PRIEST: ....you drink of the cup of.... ULIC: Come on, Tott. Up you...(unn) go. There. TOTT: By the Twi'lek goddess. Ulic, there must be 400 Beast Riders down there. ULIC: And there's Princess Galia. Looks like they're forcing her to marry that muscle-bound savage with the long hair. TOTT: How are we going to stop the ceremony? ULIC: Easy. Sound: Ulic ignites his lightsaber. Tott does the same. ULIC: We ask them nicely. SCENE 1-14 INT. BEAST RIDER HEADQUARTERS - SAME ==================================================== PRIEST: Princess Galia, in the name of the four moons of Onderon, take the hand of Oron Kira-- ULIC: STOP!!! Sound: The chant/clacking stops. ORON: (who we recognize as Rider #1 from earlier) Who dares interrupt the binding ceremony!? ULIC: I do! Ulic Qel-Droma of the Jedi! ORON: A Jedi Knight? Here?!? Guards, TAKE HIM!! Sound: Blaster fire. Ulic blocks it with his saber. Guards scream as the bolts come back at them. ULIC: I've sworn to rescue Princess Galia and (unn) nothing (uhh) will get (oof) in my way!! ORON: Impressive. But let's see how your Jedi powers help you against me, Oron Kira!! TOTT: He is not alone, Beast Rider! Tott Doneeta stands with him! GALIA: WAIT!!! ULIC: What....? GALIA: Why can't you Jedi leave me alone!? ULIC: Princess Galia, I'm here to rescue you and return you to your mother! GALIA: You IDIOT!! I don't want to be 'rescued.' I want to marry Oron Kira!!! SCENE 1-15 INT. BEAST RIDER HEADQUARTERS -- A SHORT TIME LATER =============================================================== Sound: A party is in full swing. Ringing of glasses joining together, general merriment. ORON: Eat! Drink! Everyone celebrate the marriage of Oron Kira, Lord of the Beast Riders! ULIC: What's wrong, Cay? Why aren't you eating? CAY: I'm still bewildered, Ulic. You and Tott leave me alone in the jungle to fix the Nebulon Ranger while you go off to rescue Princess Galia. Next thing Iknow, you come back, tell me 'The Princess has happily married the leader of these Beast Riders, and we're invited to the party!' Tott, can you make sense of this?? TOTT: The first lesson I learned as a Jedi, Cay, is that 'things are rarely what they seem.' ORON: It's simple, Jedi. I've loved Princess Galia for years. And she's loved me. CAY: But what I don't understand is.... how you two from different warring peoples came to meet in the first place? GALIA: The Beast Riders have been going in and out of the city for years, trading secretly with the political underground. ORON: Yes. We'd been plotting the overthrow of the government. ULIC: We came here to prevent a war, Beast Lord. ORON: Hmm. I'm ready to talk peace. But I'm also ready to make war. BEAST RIDERS: AYE AYE!!! GALIA: But either way, Jedi, Oron and I were going to marry. ORON: It was unthinkable that the Royal daughter of Onderon would marry a Beast Rider. GALIA: That's why we arranged my 'abduction.' It was all a masquerade. ULIC: But the Beast Riders killed your soldiers during that so-called 'masquerade!' GALIA: Cruel men. Evil men. They deserved to die. ULIC: No one deserves.... GALIA: Ulic....I love my city. I love my mother and my dying father. But I can no longer live under the pall of the Dark Side of the Force. Sound: Ulic leaps to his feet, flinging away his plate. ULIC: THE DARK SIDE?!? How can the Dark Side be on Onderon?!? You've had so little contact with other star systems..... ORON: Four centuries ago, a Jedi Knight named Freedon Nadd brought the dark power of the Sith to our world. ULIC: The 'Sith?' TOTT: Yes, Ulic. The Sith studied the Dark Side. They were an ancient line of Dark Lords, but they're now extinct. ORON: Extinct on your world, maybe. But in the city of Iziz, they are remembered. This Freedon Nadd died centuries ago. But his memory is worshipped by Queen Amanoa and King Ommin. ULIC: T-this is moving too quickly for me. The Dark Side has ruled Iziz for FOUR CENTURIES??? GALIA: You know that my people exile our lawbreakers and send them into the wilderness. ORON: What you DON'T know is that these 'lawbreakers' only broke one law--they defied the Dark Side. We were branded as criminals and banished. Everyone in this room has felt the dark power. And still we defy it. BEAST RIDERS: HEAR HEAR!! DOWN WITH THE DARK SIDE!!! ULIC: A JEDI......a Dark Jedi caused all this....? ORON: But the end is near. The armies of all the Beast Lords are gathering for a great and final battle against that cursed city. Jedi, will you help us throw down the power, brought by one of your own, that has corrupted our world? ULIC: You want us to join a war? CAY: Ulic, be careful.... ULIC: Oron Kira. I promised my master that I would make war a last resort. (to Galia) Let's go to your mother and reveal your marriage. I'll make her see that your wedding should mark the end of this long war! Maybe she'll-- GALIA: You don't know my mother, Jedi. And I fear that you don't know ANYTHING about the Dark Side. ORON: Galia is right. You have NO grasp of what's going on here. I will never let Galia set foot in Iziz again. ULIC: Trust me, please! I am a Jedi. The Jedi have to deal with the Dark Side all the time. BOTH of you will accompany me. Together, we can bring peace to this accursed world. ORON: (uncertain) Galia? GALIA: Oron....my love....the Jedi may be our only hope. ORON: Very well. We will trust you, Ulic Qel-Droma. But tell me. When your plan fails.... will you help us make war against the Dark Side? ULIC: If I fail......there won't be any other choice. SCENE 1-16 EXT. ONDERON ===================================== Sound: The Nebulon Ranger roars over the jungle. SCENE 1-17 INT. NEBULON RANGER COCKPIT ======================================= ORON: (over comm) Can't that ship of yours go any faster, Ulic? My Beast Riders and I are tickling your belly, and we've hardly worked up a sweat! ULIC: (laughs) Don't tempt me, Oron Kira. I'll leave you tasting ion afterburn for weeks. CAY: Can't you fly a little lighter, Ulic? I just put the Ranger back together! ULIC: Sorry, Cay. But we've got to get to Iziz before time runs out. Oron Kira may have agreed to follow us on his winged Beast, but he left word for his army to prepare for war. TOTT: Well, the city's just ahead on our scopes. I'm sure they'll be happy to see us again. Sound: Cannonfire begins to shoot from the city. TOTT: Or not!! ULIC: They're firing on us!?! (hits comm) Iziz security, this is the Nebulon Ranger. Cease fire!! CEASE FIRE!!! TOTT: Shields holding. NOVAR: (on comm) Nebulon Ranger, you are flying in the company of our mortal enemies. SCENE 1-18 INT. PALACE - SECURITY ROOM =========================================== NOVAR: Heave to or we'll blast you from the sky. ULIC: (on comm) WAIT!! We're bringing in the Queen's daughter!! In the name of the Jedi, we call for a peace conference between Queen Amanoa and the Beast Riders! SECURITY OFFICER: Our guns have a lock, sir. Your orders? NOVAR: Hmm. Allow them to land. (louder) Initiate security protocols, and alert the Queen! SECURITY OFFICER: Do you think Her Majesty will agree to a peace treaty with the Beast Riders? SCENE 1-19 INT. PALACE THRONE ROOM -- A SHORT TIME LATER ============================================= AMANOA: NEVER!!!! ULIC: But your Majesty.... if you truly want peace.... AMANOA: (cold and angry) You are a fool, Ulic Qel-Droma. As ALL the Jedi are fools!! And YOU, Galia....my only daughter.....how dare you betray us!!! Never will you belong to an outcast!!! I WILL SEE YOU DIE FIRST!!!! ULIC: (angry himself) Queen Amanoa....I represent the Jedi and the Galactic Republic. If Onderon wants to leave it's Dark Ages and join the community of worlds, then you must put aside these hatreds! GALIA: Mother, please listen to Ulic Qel-Droma. My marriage to Oron can mark the beginning of a new age! An end to this evil worship, and the beginning of an age of Light! ORON: (a strong note of warning in his voice) And if you will not listen 'Your Majesty', I--Oron Kira--SWEAR that the skies will grow dark with the beating of our warbeasts. AMANOA: (quiet) You want darkness, Oron Kira? (loud, and echoing) I'LL SHOW YOU DARKNESS!!!! Sound: Wailing wind fills the room. GALIA: (shocked) Mother!!! What are you DOING--?!? TOTT: Ulic!! Do you sense it??? ULIC: Yes! A power. The Dark Side is rising. AMANOA: (echoing) I call upon the spirit of Freedon Nadd, a Jedi far greater than these impotent youths. MAY HIS DARK POWER FILL ME NOWWWW!!!! Sound: The ground begins to shake. TOTT: The Dark Side....it's everywhere! Stifling the Force! AMANOA: Guards, surround them! GUARD: We hear, Queen Amanoa! CAY: Ulic--those guards--dozens of them!! ULIC: Don't worry, Cay. Three Jedi are worth a hundred men with blasters! AMANOA: (laughs) Foolish Jedi, these are Dark Side Adepts. Worshippers of the Dark Lord Freedon Nadd. More than a match for little boys. Guards, by the power of the Dark Side, I command you -- Destroy them!! Sound: The Jedi ignite their sabers, and start deflecting bolts. SCENE 1-20 EXT. JUNGLE, NEAR THE BEAST RIDER HQ. =============================================== Sound: Multiple flapping and crying of Beasts. GOBEE: Hey, you men! Get that war Beast saddled! RIDER #3: Yes, sir. GOBEE: You there, lock down that turbolaser! You want them to blow out of the saddle? RIDER #4: Sorry, sir. RIDER #3: Hey, Gobee, take it easy. Just because Oron Kira left you in charge of his army doesn't mean you have to polish every buckle. GOBEE: I CAN'T take it easy! Not while Oron's stuck inside that rockpile!! Sound: Comm beeps for attention. GOBEE: Wait a minute. That's my comlink. (turns on comm) This is Gobee. Sound: Gunfire can be heard over the static. ORON: (over comm) Gobee, this is Oron Kira. We're under attack. The Jedi mission has failed, and we're under fire. Launch your counterstrike. GOBEE: But what about you? Where can we find you? ORON: We're safe for the moment. We've taken cover, but we're caught in a crossfire. If you don't launch your attack soon, we'll all be--ARRRGGGHHH!!! SCENE 1-21 INT. PALACE THRONE ROOM =========================================== GOBEE: (over comm) ORON!!! ORON: I'm all right. A blaster shot singed the hair off my arm. ULIC: "Singed the"....? Oron, you're bleeding!! ORON: There's no time to worry about that. (catches his breath) Well, Jedi, you've gotten us into this mess. Can you get us out? GALIA: I can. Across this chamber is a door that leads down an unused corridor. ULIC: But the minute we move, those Royal guards will cut us to pieces! CAY: No they won't. I'll cover your retreat. ULIC: Cay, you're my brother. I can't ask you to-- CAY: Did you think you were the only one with courage, Ulic?? Now GO!!! And leave these Darksiders to me!! Sound: Cay rushes at the guards. ULIC: Cay--! GALIA: This way!! Sound: Galia leads the party to the door. GALIA: The door's locked!! Sound: Ulic chops the door off with his saber. ULIC: Now it's open!! Let's go!! SCENE 1-22 INT. DROID REPAIR ROOM ======================================== Sound: Clinking of metal. ULIC: Ow. What is this, a junk room? It's full of broken-down droids and spare parts. GALIA: This is my father's old laboratory. It is seldom used now. ORON: We have no time for talk. We must leave immediately. ULIC: Tott, take Galia and Oron Kira back to the Nebulon Ranger and secure it. TOTT: What about you? ULIC: Cay is still back there. I'm going after him. SCENE 1-23 INT. PALACE THRONE ROOM ======================================= Sound: Cay is furiously chopping at the guards. GUARD: Get him!!! GUARD #2: (uhn) He fights like a demon!! AMANOA: Destroy the Jedi!! CAY: One Jedi (oof) is enough (unn) to defeat you!! NOVAR: Your Majesty.... AMANOA: Novar?? Where did you come from? NOVAR: Scanners report thousands of Beast Riders approaching the city. The largest army we've ever seen. AMANOA: Very well, Novar. Order the defense towers to fire ion cannons and turbolasers at will. NOVAR: Shall we take you to safety? AMANOA: No....I'm going to prepare.....a more powerful weapon. SCENE 1-24 EXT. IZIZ ========================================= Sound: The battle is going full pitch. Flapping wings, Beast cries, ion cannon blasts, turbolaser shots, explosions, screams..... GUNNER #4: (over comm) Gunner Four to Gunner One. Relay sensor data. GUNNER #1: Gunner One to Gunner Four. I'm tracking a squad of War Beasts. They should be coming into your range. GUNNER #4: I copy, Gunner One. Turbolasers charged and ready. But you'd better be careful -- you've got Beast Riders approaching from your rear!! Watch your back -- (shots are heard, and he grunts and audibly drops dead.) Sound: Gunner One readies his turbolaser. GUNNER #1: Gunner Four? Gunner Four, can you hear me?? Repeat message, I couldn't hear the end of your -- GOBEE: He was trying to tell you to watch your back!! Sound: Gobee shoots Gunner One down. GOBEE: This is Commander Gobee to all squadron commanders! We've secured every tower on the northern wall!! All wings, commence your attack run!! SCENE 1-25 INT. PALACE THRONE ROOM =========================================== Sound: The battle of lone Jedi vs. numerous Darksiders continues. CAY: It doesn't matter (huuh) how many soldiers you send against me (uuh)!! You won't stop me (heeuh) from finding (geuuh) the Queen!! Music: Music from ROTJ (scene where Vader arrives at Death Star) is played. NOVAR: (shouting) By the ghost of Freedon Nadd, he is just one man!! Can't you defeat one man?!? GUARD #3: Novar, security reports that the Beast Riders have overrun the northern wall. They're inside the city walls!!! NOVAR: Hmm?! No matter. They are fools. They cannot realize that we possess the ultimate weapon. I'm more concerned with this Jedi nuisance. I shall have to take care of this myself. Give me your blaster. Sound: Guard #3 passes the blaster to Novar. GUARD #3: Here. NOVAR: Go. Tell our forces to continue fighting until the Queen has prepared her counterattack. Now....to wait for just the right moment..... CAY: (now audibly tired) (uhh) That's...(darr ooh) the last!! ULIC: (relieved) Cay!! CAY: Ulic!! How nice of you to show up, just as I have things under control! NOVAR: (He is off to the side, unnoticed by the Jedi) Ah, two Jedi in my sights. Which shall it be....? CAY: Where is Tott? NOVAR: HIM, I think.... ULIC: He's taking Galia and Oron back to our ship. Where's the Queen? CAY: Escaped, I -- Sound: Novar fires his blaster. The shot hits Cay, severing his left arm at the shoulder. (NOTE: In the comic, it was an axe that did this) The arm and saber hit the ground. CAY: AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOVAR: (laughs) ULIC: CAAAAAYYYYY!!!!!!!!!! Your ARM!!!!! Sound: Novar runs off, still laughing. CAY: MY ARMM!!! THEY CUT OFF MY ARRRRRRRMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!! Music: Rises into the Imperial March. END OF SIDE ONE ========================================================= TAPE ONE / SIDE TWO ========================================================= SCENE 2-1 EXT. IZIZ ========================================================= Sound: Cry of the War Beasts. Shouts of Riders, blaster fire, etc. RIDER #5: (over comm) I've got a squad of city dwellers holed up in that bunker. RIDER #3: (over comm) Watch that sniper!! RIDER #5: Holding them back at the first gate. RIDER #3: Weapons depot, control your fire! GOBEE: DESTROY THE CITY DWELLERS!!! DOWN WITH IZIZ!!! DOWN WITH FREEDON NADD!!! FORWARD!!! FORRRWARDDD!!!! RIDER #2: Commander Gobee, we're still taking heavy fire from the Royal palace. GOBEE: I don't care!! That's where Oron Kira's last transmission originated! I want him out of there! RIDER #2: But what about those turbolasers?!? GOBEE: I'll take care of those! Just get going!! RIDER #2: Yes, sir. GOBEE: (hits comm) This is Commander Gobee to Flight Leader Kurt. KURT: (over comm) Kurt here. Yes Commander? GOBEE: Pull your Beast Riders off the Eastern wall and swing it around to the Palace!! Sound: Large explosion, very near. GOBEE: Whoa, that was close!! Somebody lay some surpressing fire along that rooftop! I've got ground troops taking heavy fire up there!! KURT: Affirmative. We're on our way. ORON: (far off) Gobee.... GOBEE: (he doesn't hear him) AND SOMEBODY GET THAT SNIPER OFF THE ROOF!!! ORON: GOBEE!!! GOBEE: Oron? ORON!!! BY THE FOUR MOONS, YOU'RE ALIVE!!! ORON: Alive and fighting, Gobee. GOBEE: Where's your new bride? ORON: She's safe, with the alien Jedi Tott Doneeta. I came to help with the battle. GOBEE: (laughs heartily) Well, you may be too late, Oron! We've taken half the city! I've got ground troops in the streets, and six wings of Beast Riders making strafing runs over the city! The only thing I was worried about was trying to find you! Oron, the reign of the Dark Side is OVER!!! ORON: Don't be too rash, Gobee. We can't defeat the Dark Side without those Jedi. And right now, I don't even know if they're dead or..... SCENE 2-2 INT. PALACE -- DROID REPAIR ROOM ========================================================= ULIC: (gasping, voice shaking) ....alive, Cay. You look so pale....you've lost a lot of blood....and your arm.... CAY: Don't be.....stupid, Ulic!! I can live without my arm! Sound: Ulic tears open a package (antiseptic pads?). ULIC: I've got a medikit. Here. This may hurt-- CAY: OOOHHHHHH!!!!! (groans) Good thing I can handle a lightsaber with my other hand....where.....where are we? ULIC: I didn't think you'd want to wait around for more of Queen Amanoa's Dark Side warriors. Here, bite down on this while I stop the blood flow. CAY: (grunts with the stick in his mouth, then spits it out when the pain becomes too great) OWW!! ULIC: Princess Galia showed me this room. It's some sort of old laboratory that used to belong to King Omin. CAY: Laboratory? Looks more like a cybernetics shop. Bionic limbs, cannibalized droid parts....I'd say old King Omin dabbled in bio-reconstruction. ULIC: That's very interesting, but I'm a little too worried about your arm to care. CAY: (very excited) Well if that thing in the corner is what I think it is.... I'm getting myself a BETTER fighting arm!! Sound: With his one arm, Cay grabs the metallic thing in the corner. ULIC: Cay, what are you doing?! There's a war going on outside, and I'm trying to keep you from bleeding to death! This is no time to start fixing antique droids!! Sound: Cay tinkers with the droid part (an arm), and starts trying to hook it into his empty shoulder socket. CAY: This is an old XT-6 model, Ulic. Their appendages make GREAT prosthetics! Are the others safe? ULIC: Tott Doneeta is taking Galia to the Nebulon Ranger. Oron Kira has joined the battle. CAY: What about the Queen? ULIC: I don't know where she is! And it worries me..... SCENE 2-3 INT. VAULT -- BENEATH THE PALACE =================================================== Sound: The creaking of a stone door being pushed open. AMANOA: Here. I've reached the tomb. Those cursed Jedi will never find me here....(laughs) Buried in the depths of the palace, with the tomb of Freedon Nadd. (louder) Freedon Nadd....for years, I worshipped your name. For a lifetime I served the memory of your dark power. Now, in the name of my husband King Omin, in the name of his ancestor Freedon Nadd, (echoing) I CALL DOWN THE POWER OF THE DARK SIDE UPON THESE FOES!!!! SCENE 2-4 INT. IZIZ -- SENSOR TOWER =================================================== GOBEE: Oron Kira, we have a prisoner! ORON: Excellent! Gobee, bring him up here!! I'm using this captured sensor tower as a headquarters. Computer.... COMPUTER: Computer on. ORON: Activate sensor array. Scan this sector for all inbound starships. I want to know about any battleships the Queen may have waiting to attack. COMPUTER: Working...... GOBEE: Here's our prize, Oron. A member of the Queen's entourage. On your knees, Darksider!! Sound: Gobee knocks Novar down upon his knees. COMPUTER: No Onderonian ships located. ORON: What is your name, city dweller? NOVAR: I am called Novar. And it is YOU who should be upon your knees, Beast Rider. COMPUTER: Warning -- one offworld ship detected. Planet of origin: Arcania. ORON: (ignoring the computer) Me?! On MY knees?!? Why, when I have control of the city? NOVAR: You can HAVE the city. WE have the power of the Dark Side. Sound: Distant rumbling, like several far-off explosions, or a giant storm..... ORON: What is that?? Sound: The Beast Riders are now screaming, moaning in pain. GOBEE: Some kind of darkness....settling over the city....(moans and wails) ORON: Gobee!! What -- GOBEE: OHHH!! PAINN!!! PPPAAAINNNNNN!!!! ARRGGHHH!!! PAAAINNN!! CAN'T....STAND.....IT...... ORON: Computer, identify disturbance!! COMPUTER: Wave force. Energy type unknown. Anomalous power surges detected. Corollary information: Approaching offworld ship uneffected by power surge. SCENE 2-5 EXT. IZIZ -- LANDING PAD -- SECONDS EARLIER ==================================================== Sound: Racing set of two footsteps. TOTT: Princess Galia, this way. The Nebulon Ranger is just ahead. GALIA: I see it, Tott Doneeta. TOTT: Once we reach the ship, we'll.....ARRGGGHHH!!! (crashes to his knees, as the storm becomes audible again) GALIA: Tott!! TOTT: (groaning and screaming) GALIA: What's the matter?? TOTT: (groans) Momentary pain. It's gone now. I-I'm all right, Princess. GALIA: What was it?? TOTT: I don't know. A dark shadow has fallen.....it caught me off guard. Everything's all right now. GALIA: No, it's not.....LOOK!! Sound: The wailing Beast Riders, and the sounds of a battle that's suddenly turned back in the favor of the Iziz military. TOTT: The Beast Riders' army!! They've.....they've gone mad!! SCENE 2-6 INT. IZIZ SECURITY TOWER ========================================= NOVAR: (laughs) ORON: By the four moons, it's begun affecting everyone!! RIDER: Ohh.....my eyes......my EYESSS!!!! RIDER #4: GET IT OFF ME!!! GET IT OFF ME!!!! ORON: Whatever this force is, it's some kind of madness!! Infecting all my troops..... NOVAR: It is the magic of the Sith, Oron Kira!! A power you cannot fight!! ORON: Your queen's petty magic cannot -- (storm envelopes him as well) AAAGHHH!!! NOVAR: Cannot WHAT, Beast Rider? "Cannot harm you?" DARK SIDE WHISPERS: (deep and echoing in Oron's mind) THE BATTLE IS LOST. LOST. YOUR STRENGTH IS GONE. YOUR WILL IS GONE. YOUR LIFE IS PAIN. SURRENDER. ORON: (in agony) NO-- voices..... in my head--! NOVAR: The voices speak the truth, Beast Rider! The battle is LOST!!! Your people are DOOMED. ORON: LOST--!! DDOOOMMMMED!!!! NOVAR: Come outside with me, Oron Kira.... and watch your people die. Sound: Novar walks out of the tower (Oron crawls). The door closes. COMPUTER: (unheard by anyone) Proximity alert. Offworld starship has reached city limits.... SCENE 2-7 INT. ARCA JETH'S STARSHIP -- COCKPIT ==================================================== Sound: Humming of cockpit controls. ARCA: Viewscreen on. Give me a visual on the battle. Sound: Viewscreen activates. The sound of the battle wafts over the speakers. ARCA: (pained) By all the Jedi..... SCENE 2-8 EXT. IZIZ ==================================================== Sound: The battle is fast being lost by the Beast Riders, as the Iziz army quickly takes savage advantage of the dark madness. RIDER #4: (weakly) Fall back!! Fall back!! RIDER #5: Our beasts have gone mad!! They're out of control!! RIDER #4: The city dwellers are on the attack!! We're being ground up like gravel maggots! LOOK OUTTTT!!!!! Sound: Large crash. BLOCK #3: (on comm) Block Three to Block Six. We've retaken the Northern wall!! BLOCK #6: Affirmative, Block Three. That'll teach those Beast Riders to defy the Dark Side!! We've got an armored company moving in to support you. RIDER #4: (to Block Three) We surrender. We surrender. Just stop the pain....(moans) BLOCK #3: You should know by now, Beast Rider....the followers of Freedon Nadd have NO MERCY!! Sound: Block Three shoots Rider Four right between the eyes. Sound: The Dark Whispers return, as we reach Oron and Novar's vicinity. NOVAR: Do you see, Oron Kira? ORON: (murmuring in conjunction with the Whispers) Lost.....we've lost.... NOVAR: We have the Dark Side power of Freedon Nadd on our side. Your Beast Riders mean nothing. Sound: Novar unsheathes a dagger. NOVAR: And now it's time -- SCENE 2-9 INT. ARCA'S SHIP ============================== NOVAR: (on comm) -- for you to feel the edge of my knife!! ARCA: (echoing, speaking from a later time) By the Force. I could not let that happen. I had trained my three Jedi to prevent this violence. So many deaths, so much hatred. It was time I intervened. SCENE 2-10 EXT. IZIZ ================================ ORON: (weak with pain) Voices....paralyzing..... NOVAR: (laughs) This is the last battle for you, Oron Kira! The power is with the city!! ARCA: (echoing, unheard by the combatants) Every soldier knows that war is more than arms and armor. Every soldier carries an image of impending victory in his heart. NOVAR: Don't move now. One quick stroke of my knife, and all your worries will be ended. ARCA: When the image shatters, to be replaced by defeat.....he is beaten. ORON: Lost....the battle is lost...... Music: Luke's theme (the theme of the Force) plays softly. ARCA: But sometimes, a warrior receives assistance from an unexpected source. An inrush of light, blasting away his fear and despair. NOVAR: NOW, Oron Kira.... ARCA: Releasing inner strength..... NOVAR:.....you die. Sound: The blade slashes down -- Novar's knife arm is caught by Oron!! ORON: .......NO!!!! NOVAR: WHAT?!? You STILL resist?? ARCA: Yes, a war is much more than arms and armor. ORON: (with every last reserve of his strength) YESSS!!!! Sound: Oron slugs Novar to the dirt. ORON: TO THE LAST!!! Sound: Another suckerpunch. ARCA: Half of every conflict is the will to win. We are Jedi. We must recognize that the will to win...and the power of war....are given sometimes by the Dark Side. NOVAR: (hurting) no-- (another punch) ARCA: And sometimes, as dawn throws back the night, victory is given...by the Light. Music: Theme continues to play into next scene, then fade out. SCENE 2-11 EXT. IZIZ LANDING PAD ========================================== Sound: Arca's ship powers down, next to the Nebulon Ranger. (NOTE: We've now reached the time in which Arca was speaking in the last scenes. It's some hours later, and the battle has ended in the Beast Riders' conquest of Iziz. ) ARCA: (finishing his speech) Never, Ulic, should you underestimate the power of the Force to inspire others. ULIC: So it was you, Master Arca. You used the Force to influence the battle. ARCA: Yes. ORON: I felt it. I, Oron Kira, felt a knife at my throat. I....could not move. And then, suddenly, strength flowed through me. I.....I thought it was my own courage. ARCA: It was, Oron Kira. I merely used the Force to awaken what was already in you. TOTT: Master Arca, I watched the battle. CAY: One minute, the Beast Riders were defeated -- the next minute, they were unstoppable! ARCA: (sorrow-filled voice) And you, Cay....my son. Your arm is gone. Have you already begun to throw your flesh away in your hunger for the greater Light? CAY: My arm gone, yes Master. But I -- Sound: The whir of Cay's new droid arm. CAY: I've got another. This droid arm will serve me well, once I've adapted it. ULIC: (regretful) Cay's wound is my fault, Master Arca. ARCA: (his tone suddenly grows cold and stern) Ulic, I made you my chargeman. And you have utterly FAILED the test I gave you. ULIC: B-But Master Arca, we did everything we could -- ARCA: So you did. But the Dark Side is at work here. You should have sensed it the moment you arrived. ULIC: I.....I guess I was too eager. ARCA: As for this great war you have launched....the way to win it is the way I won it. I used the Jedi technique of Battle Meditation, influencing the battle's outcome. ULIC: um.......i'm sorry. ARCA: You relied too much on your strong arms and brave spirit. Do not forget the Force. By visualizing the desired results of a battle, a Jedi influences the field of Force that surrounds all events. Now, come with me. We still must find Queen Amanoa....and the source of all this trouble. SCENE 2-12 INT. PALACE CAVERN / VAULT =================================================== Sound: Your typical sewer can be hears outside the vault. AMANOA: (tired and weak) Freedon Nadd, protect me.....the Dark Side will come to me.....Freedon Nadd, protect me.....the Dark Side will come to me..... ULIC: (far off , in the cavern) Are you sure you know where you're taking us, Galia? GALIA: I can't be sure. These catacombs under the city extend for miles. Many people have wandered down here and been lost forever. CAY: Why would anyone want to come down here in the first place? ARCA: Treasure seekers. Worshippers of the Dark Side. GALIA: They say the tomb of the Dark Jedi Freedon Nadd is hidden down here. But that's just a myth. ARCA: Like most myths, it leads to the truth. Behold. AMANOA: (jumps as she sees the party) NOOO!!!! GALIA: Mother!!! CAY: Queen Amanoa! Why is she kneeling before that stone coffin? ULIC: Master Arca, is that--? ARCA: Yes, Ulic. The tomb of the Dark Side Master....Freedon Nadd. AMANOA: Defilers!! YOU DO NOT BELONG HERE!!! ULIC: I feel the Dark Side here. It's so powerful..... ARCA: Dark forces linger around this old sarcophagus, Ulic. But my light is stronger. Sound: The Force rises to a roar. AMANOA: NO!! NOO!! THE LIGHT!!! THE LIGHTTT!!!! NNNOOOO-- (her heart gives out under the strain. Moaning like the dying Wicked Witch, she falls lifeless to the ground.) GALIA: MOTHER!!! Master Arca....you.....YOU KILLED HER!!!! ULIC: (gently) Galia... GALIA: (choked voice) I don't care how evil she was!! She was my mother..... I loved her.... ARCA: I did not kill her. The dark power that supported her has fled. Let us have a look at the remains of Freedon Nadd. ULIC: But that stone coffin is far too heavy to lift. ARCA: Size means nothing to the Force, Ulic. Sound: The Force rises again -- and the coffin is flung open. ARCA: Behold the Dark Jedi. ULIC: Even after four centuries, those brittle bones.....that death's head grin..... GALIA: (repulsed) He looks so.....EVIL. ARCA: Freedon Nadd was seduced by the Dark Side. He apprenticed himself to a Dark Lord of the Sith. After his death, his tomb became a focus of Dark Side energy. And so his power passed from generation to generation. All your ancestors belonged to the Dark Side, Galia. But that is over. The shadow has been broken. You are free. Sound: The coffin slams shut. SCENE 2-13 INT. IZIZ PALACE COURT -- SEVERAL DAYS LATER =========================================================== Sound: The bustling of people moving throughout the court, genuinely happy for the first time ever. The whirring of Cay's arm. ULIC: Hey, Cay! Come on, brother!! Princess Galia and Oron Kira are about to be crowned King and Queen of Iziz! You want to miss the fun? CAY: Be right there, Ulic. I've almost got this new arm working. ARCA: Ulic? ULIC: Master Arca! What is it? ARCA: Don't be too quick to celebrate. Our battle with the Dark Side is far from over. ULIC: But -- the Queen! The sarcophagus! I-I thought we won! ARCA: The battle, yes. But the war goes on. Freedon Nadd still has a great following in this city. His cult may still cause trouble. There are even rumors that Princess Galia's father, King Omin, is still alive somewhere on the planet. ULIC: King Omin? ARCA: I'll need you and your brother Cay and Tott Doneeta to stay on here for a while. Sound: The arm starts working properly. CAY: Well, I'm ready. ULIC: Cay, that mechanical arm actually suits you. CAY: Anyone for arm wrestling? ARCA: Well done, Cay. We'll need your arm -- and your spirit -- in the weeks ahead. But I'm afraid we'll need even more. ULIC: What do you mean? ARCA: I'm thinking of calling on other Jedi for help. Master Thon is the watchman for the Stenness system. He may be able to send someone to help us with this Dark Side threat. ULIC: (troubled) Master Arca....Freedon Nadd was a Jedi. How can a Jedi, trained in the ways of the Light, fall victim to the Dark Side? ARCA: It has happened more than once. Fortunately, it does not happen often. Ulic, my son.....pray that it never happens to YOU.