The Star Wars Page #6

GENERAL:

You are trained well, but remember, a Jedi must be single-minded, a discipline

your father obviously never learned, hence your existence. Clean yourself up.

Discipline is essential. Your mind must follow the way of the Bendu.

STARKILLER:

It won't happen again, Sir. There are many new....

P.A.

General Skywalker, white com.

The general moves to a control station and picks up a phone.

PHONE VOICE:

Sir, Captain Whitsun has just been admitted to Med Vac.

GENERAL:

What's his condition?

PHONE VOICE:

No data, Sir.

GENERAL:

I'm on my way.

21. MED VAC EMERGENCY ROOM - UNDERGROUND FORTRESS

Captain Starkiller waits in an outer chamber as General Skywalker rushes into

the Med Vac emergency room where several doctors are working on the prostrate

Whitsun.

GENERAL:

What's his condition? Is he conscious?

DOCTOR:

Partially. He's be all right - a few bruises, primary exhaustion....

Whitsun thrashes around in a semi-conscious state. He sees the general.

GENERAL:

What happened, boy? What's going on?

WHITSUN (with difficulty)

The Imperial Starforce is already on its way, not far behind me... They're

going to attack.

GENERAL:

Are you sure?

WHITSUN:

I have tapes...A giant space fortress....

He struggles to give General Skywalker his ring.

GENERAL:

As big as our Third Moon?

WHITSUN:

Bigger. It's unlike anything I've ever seen. Sophisticated deflection

systems.... work in opposition to the suns.

GENERAL:

They will show up on our screens at sunrise. They'll attack before that.

The general rushes into the outer chamber where Captain Starkiller is waiting

for him.

GENERAL:

Take the fastest landspeeder to Chathos. Pick up Princess Leia... and only

Princess Leia. Return by way of the Great Reef. Most speed.

Starkiller exits and the general goes to an intercom and pushes several

buttons.

GENERAL:

Montross.

MONTROSS:

Sir!

GENERAL:

Full alert....everything! Get the Royal Family back here.

MONTROSS:

The princess is at Chathos. There are no transports....

GENERAL:

I've already sent Captain Starkiller for her! Contact the king, first

priority. He's probably still en route to Amsel. Use the scan com. I'm on

my way.

22. WAR ROOM - UNDERGROUND FORTRESS - AQUILAE

The war room is on full alert. Everyone is at attention, waiting for the

command that will put them into action. The general enters a communication

center, followed by many aides. Captain Montross and the com aide salute.

MONTROSS:

We're having a problem getting through, Sir. There is a great deal of

interference.

PRUE:

It could be jamming.

GENERAL:

Try a surface link through Amsel.

The aides go back to the com-link system to try to get a line through to the

king.

PRUE:

We should be able to spot them at sunrise....That's not too far off.

GENERAL:

They'll attack with sunrise. Until the king gives us that code to start the

war computers, we'll just have to sit tight.

PRUE:

All units are on alert, Sir.

GENERAL (to Montross)

Have you made contact yet? (to himself) This is one hell of a way to run a

war.

PRUE:

Sir?

23. COURTYARD - ACADEMY OF CHATHOS - AQUILAE

A landspeeder roars into a courtyard of the Academy at Chathos. Starkiller

jumps out, and runs up to the large, heavy doors of the academy. They are

locked. He bangs madly on the carved metallic door, until finally an old

woman manages to swing it open. Starkiller rushes past her into the main

courtyard where Princess Leia and her hand-maiden, Mina, struggle with two

large cases. They are followed by two very old matrons, dragging several more

cases.

STARKILLER:

Forget the cases - we've no time.

LEIA:

These are my things. They must...

STARKILLER:

I said forget them, and hurry...

LEIA:

Just who do you think you are?

Starkiller grabs the princess by the arm, and hauls her to the speeder. Mina

and the old women run after them.

LEIA:

I will not be treated like this! You bring my things.... My father will have

your head... (etc.)

Leia struggles to break away from the young warrior's grasp as he opens the

door of the speeder.

STARKILLER:

Settle down!

When the door to the speeder is opened, Mina starts in, and Starkiller stops

her.

STARKILLER:

You must stay. Here, take the Crest.

Starkiller rips the royal crest from the princess' neck, and hands it to the

startled handmaiden. The old women gasp in horror. The princess starts

hitting Starkiller with little result.

PRINCESS:

Mina's not staying...I'm not leaving her. You can't....

Starkiller punches her square on the jaw and knocks her cold. Mina is panic

stricken, one of the old women faints, and another starts for Starkiller with

a large staff.

STARKILLER:

She'll be all right. I'm taking her to safety...as ordered. You will wear

the crest and continue as before.

The authority of Starkiller's voice stops the old lady. He places the

princess into the speeder, and maneuvers it out of the courtyard. Mina puts

on the crest as the speeder races away from the academy.

24. WAR ROOM - UNDERGROUND FORTRESS - AQUILAE

Queen Breha, Biggs and Windy are escorted into a rest area of the war room.

General Skywalker sits rigidly in a chair in the communications area,

apparently asleep.

MONTROSS:

Sir, we've made contact!

The general opens his eyes and takes the intercom mike.

KAYOS:

What is it, General?

GENERAL:

The Empire will attack on the rising of the sun. My agent made it back. I

now have proof. I need the war code...

KAYOS:

I'll relay it directly to the computer. Is Breha...?

GENERAL:

The Royal Family is safe. Starkiller has gone after Princess Leia...

KAYOS:

I'm on my way back.

25. RED PLAINS - AQUILAE

The small caravan of four speeders sits motionless on the vast red plains of

Aquilae. The king returns the intercom to the pilot and takes a small

metallic card from around his neck and gives it to the co-pilot.

KAYOS:

Send this sub-land, priority one. (to the pilot) Get us back to Calvas

immediately!

The four speeders turn around and scream away in the direction they had come.

They pass a huge ultrasleek powerplow, planting green fungus in endless

furrows. Two clay-covered farmers, riding atop the ponderous machine, watch

the speeders disappear over the horizon, and into the rising twin suns. A

bright object, twinkling in early morning heavens, catches the eye of the

older of the two farmers, and he brings the machine to a lumbering halt. The

younger farmer also notices the object, and stares skyward, shading his eyes

to get a better view.

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