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00:00:42The stars, over the centuries everything else in the galaxy has changed, keeps changing, but somehow they manage to stay
00:00:50the same.
00:00:53Three hundred years ago, colonists from Earth first brought the advances of their own global republic to the rest of
00:00:58the galaxy.
00:01:00They established colonies and built cities on planets in every system and sector.
00:01:05There's no denying the achievements of the galactic republic in those early days.
00:01:09War, famine, crime, even most diseases became things of the past.
00:01:14But then came the fall.
00:01:16No conquering enemies swept in from outside the galaxy to end it all.
00:01:20No of the worst enemies of the republic turned out to be the citizens of the republic themselves.
00:01:26Ancient factional rivalries buried for centuries flared up hotter than ever.
00:01:30The rule of civilized law was stretched tight and finally broke.
00:01:35The galaxy's dark age had begun.
00:01:50I was born on this planet called Caliban 6 in the Sifian sector in 2391 and lived here with my
00:01:57kid's sister until I was 29.
00:02:00A long time before that, our parents had taken our other brothers and sisters and disappeared.
00:02:04Why? We never really knew.
00:02:07Most likely there were just too many mouths to feed.
00:02:10That's how things were back then.
00:02:13Survival was all that mattered.
00:02:18Look who we got here!
00:02:20Look who we got here!
00:02:25Starlight!
00:02:26Where are you?
00:02:27Come on, hurry up!
00:02:28Let's go!
00:02:29Come on!
00:02:32Get out of there, love you!
00:02:35Come on!
00:02:36Get in there, let's see what we've got here!
00:02:38Come on, hurry up!
00:02:41Tricycletree!
00:02:42Oh, yeah, baby!
00:02:42Oh, yeah!
00:02:46Get back!
00:02:49Get the hypos!
00:02:50We're gonna hypo up first, then we're gonna have some real fun!
00:02:58Oh, yeah!
00:03:00Don't spill it!
00:03:01Oh, be careful, be careful!
00:03:09Hey, get out of here!
00:03:10Give me something!
00:03:11Give me something!
00:03:12Get out of here!
00:03:13Give me something!
00:03:19Keep quiet if you want to get out of this alive.
00:03:27Who...
00:03:28Who are you?
00:03:30Nobody.
00:03:32What's in the vehicle?
00:03:33Drugs.
00:03:34We were taking them to Barton, the city square.
00:03:37They...
00:03:37They killed my husband.
00:03:39He never had a chance.
00:03:41Most people don't.
00:03:43Forget your cargo, they're gonna use it up by morning.
00:03:46Yeah, baby.
00:03:46You better get moving.
00:03:48There's a village.
00:03:49A day is traveling on the other side of these rocks.
00:03:51People are decent enough, they'll take you in.
00:03:53What about my husband?
00:03:55Do you want to join him?
00:03:57Move.
00:03:59Move.
00:04:03I have nothing on me to repay you with.
00:04:05Forget it.
00:04:06In the vehicle, there's a case of cordium.
00:04:08If they haven't smashed it.
00:04:11Move.
00:04:11Move.
00:04:12Move.
00:04:13Move.
00:04:13Move.
00:04:14Move.
00:04:16Move.
00:04:18Move.
00:04:19Move.
00:04:21Move.
00:04:24Move.
00:04:26Move.
00:04:41What's that?
00:04:42Heh!
00:04:43Give me it!
00:04:44I can't.
00:04:46Huh?
00:04:47Why?
00:04:49Because I'm not even here.
00:04:50You're hallucinating I'm a bad dream.
00:04:55What?
00:04:56Look, there goes another one.
00:05:16Okay.
00:05:17That's about all the pressure we can put on her without the hole breaching.
00:05:20Did you get enough information, Nova?
00:05:23Nova.
00:05:24Hey, Nova.
00:05:25Huh?
00:05:26You can breathe now.
00:05:27No, I can't.
00:05:29Is the top of my head still attached?
00:05:31Well, you wanted to approximate the g-force pressures in a different atmosphere, right?
00:05:35You've gotta teach me how to do that.
00:05:37Oh, slow down.
00:05:39You just started flying a few months ago.
00:05:40So?
00:05:41I can handle it.
00:05:43Come on, I practically built this thing.
00:05:45Building it and flying it are two totally different things, genius.
00:05:49Tell you what, if this last batch of modifications actually gets us off this planet, I'll teach you that move.
00:06:09Hello, Matrix.
00:06:11Hello.
00:06:12Subject.
00:06:13Nova.
00:06:13Thought.
00:06:14How are you?
00:06:15Don't get excited.
00:06:17Model.
00:06:17Social.
00:06:17Skills.
00:06:18That question is irrelevant.
00:06:21I'm fine, thanks.
00:06:22Hey.
00:06:23Hey.
00:06:26Are you trying to flatten me?
00:06:27No.
00:06:28No, just coming to say hi.
00:06:30What have you got?
00:06:31Something's gonna keep us fed through the whole winter, that's what.
00:06:34You've got enough food in this container to last 14 months?
00:06:37No genius.
00:06:39But what's in this case is gonna get us the food.
00:06:42I hope.
00:06:42That does say quartium, doesn't it?
00:06:44Justin, you know it does.
00:06:46Your eating's not that bad.
00:06:48It's not that good either.
00:06:50You just don't say words like that too often.
00:06:53Now, quartium.
00:06:54Where are you gonna take it?
00:06:56He knocks Sean and his bunch.
00:06:58Nobody else on his planet has an interstellar ship.
00:07:00He's gonna barter plenty for that.
00:07:02What makes you think he won't just, well, take it?
00:07:06Nah.
00:07:07Doesn't mean breaking the barter code.
00:07:09Sean will stick to the rules.
00:07:11He made them up after all.
00:07:22Hey, what's this about?
00:07:25Promise me you'll be okay.
00:07:27Listen, Nova.
00:07:28I'm not going anywhere, cause we're family.
00:07:30Our family used to be bigger.
00:07:33Yeah.
00:07:34I can't tell you why they left,
00:07:36but I'll tell you that I'm not going anywhere.
00:07:40Okay?
00:07:42Okay.
00:07:43Now, let's get off this, cause you're depressing me.
00:07:45How's your friend Matrix tonight?
00:07:47Not so good.
00:07:50I thought that maybe some of the work Maggie and me did on the transpod
00:07:54might help modify it for interplanetary flight,
00:07:56but the data boards in the Matrix are too outdated.
00:08:00Maybe Sean will let me take a new set out of the archives.
00:08:04That'd be good.
00:08:06You know, as long as you're going to Sean's anyway.
00:08:09Nova, no.
00:08:11Not the bio-crystal thing.
00:08:12Come on.
00:08:13But you said yourself.
00:08:14You barter a lot for the accordion.
00:08:17Yeah, we're gonna get three months more worth of food for the price of a bio-crystal.
00:08:24I just never had a pet, that's all.
00:08:28On the history disc, I saw that almost all the children had them before the Republic fell.
00:08:34People did a lot of things before the Republic fell.
00:08:45Priority's keeping us fed, maybe someday, down the line.
00:08:53Hey, I'm gonna get through another chapter of this.
00:08:55Give me a hand.
00:08:57Let's see.
00:09:03Where are we at?
00:09:06There.
00:09:09This was the please...
00:09:13Pleasantest.
00:09:14Pleasantest year of all the life I lead and led in this place.
00:09:22Friday began to talk pretty well and understand the names of almost everything.
00:09:51where have you been.
00:09:53People canìichis.
00:09:56I'd rather long esteemed him to learn how easy will they Love McGavinans
00:10:00Ω my ability be able to survive.
00:10:01It depends.
00:10:02And so I need you to go to the Cancel.
00:10:05When the flight crash, you people are all the same.
00:10:08Lower than the worm-infested land, you know!
00:10:40Hold still!
00:10:42Now you've almost got it.
00:10:45Jack!
00:10:46You want the soap?
00:10:47There hasn't been a ship and a soap through here in almost a year.
00:10:50Don't know why you'd want the soap anyway.
00:10:52Nobody on cow band five ever baits.
00:11:01Fly strong relay. Here, hardly used.
00:11:06Alphrodisia?
00:11:08Oh.
00:11:08Bio-organisms!
00:11:10Mary-Keycobanus!
00:11:12Party parts!
00:11:14Fire crystals!
00:11:16Bio-organisms!
00:11:18Tribute! This dog has nothing, Valois!
00:11:21No?
00:11:23I'll wager he has family.
00:11:26That he does.
00:11:27Then chain him in the square until they bring what he owes to the warlord!
00:11:32Come, dog!
00:11:34Sam!
00:11:36Valois!
00:11:37Getting your usual enjoyment out of life, I see.
00:11:40I don't hear the buzz of insects like you, Thorpe.
00:11:44No?
00:11:44Well, where's Sean?
00:11:45Because I've got a little buzzing to do that might interest him.
00:11:48He left with the Omega system a week ago.
00:11:50We don't know just when he'll be back.
00:11:52So unless your business can wait, I'm afraid you're gonna have to deal with me.
00:11:58Couldn't use a case of Quartium for the Daedalus' hyperoptic drive, could you?
00:12:05Quartium?
00:12:07Interstellar grade?
00:12:08How would I be here if it wasn't?
00:12:14What's your price?
00:12:16Twenty months of rations, twelve ounces of refined platinum, eight Centauri sapphires, all cut.
00:12:21Sixty ion bursts for the Republican service automatic.
00:12:26Absurd.
00:12:28All right.
00:12:29I'll come back later and see if Sean agrees with you.
00:12:31No, wait.
00:12:36Get in the rations from inside.
00:12:40Hey, while you're in there, see if you can find the last edition of technical boards for an Alpha Matrix
00:12:4419.
00:12:46The what?
00:12:47For the what?
00:12:48It's a synthetic intelligence system.
00:12:51Well, find it, fool. It's gotta be in there somewhere.
00:12:57Look!
00:12:58It's a Daedalus!
00:13:01Enoch Sean has returned!
00:13:05You got a while?
00:13:07I'll be back for the rest of my loot.
00:13:08Can't stand to stay around and watch you lick Sean's boots.
00:13:22There's gotta be a way around this.
00:13:26Matrix, try it.
00:13:32Body parts!
00:13:34Bio-organism!
00:13:36Hey, you!
00:13:37Sir!
00:13:38Do you have any bio-crystals?
00:13:39Not any, sir.
00:13:41The best.
00:13:42The most beautifully formed, harmonious little creatures.
00:13:55One of the maker's true miracles, sir.
00:13:58Living rock.
00:13:59To give you loving companionship and soothing warmth and all I ask is a little water in return.
00:14:05What could you ask for my fellow creature?
00:14:07Would you trade one for 12 ounces of platinum?
00:14:11Refined?
00:14:13Of course, sir.
00:14:17Nova!
00:14:24Nova, you here?
00:14:28You got something you're gonna wanna see?
00:14:30You're welcome, baby.
00:14:31V.
00:14:31V.
00:14:32V.
00:14:33V.
00:14:34V.
00:14:35V.
00:14:39V.
00:14:46V.
00:14:53V.
00:14:54exit the perimeter with subject maggie sorenson that information is classified clas who classified
00:15:02it that information is unavailable that's me through the subject maggie sorenson now
00:15:14well well if it isn't public nuisance number one where's nova what do you mean i dropped
00:15:21off at your place last night i haven't seen her since i can't find her well maybe she's out of
00:15:26range of your sensors your system is pretty limited scout around the room more see if you
00:15:31can find her justin where are you going to the only one who can help me justin
00:15:45is that our friend thorpe
00:15:49bring him here provided he's unarmed
00:15:59well citizen thorpe you've got the devil's own nerve coming back here after the way you
00:16:05gouged valois today the deal was fair actually i think valois just doesn't like you personally
00:16:13he thinks you're nothing more than a scavenger and a petty thief
00:16:19he's right of course what does that make you sean
00:16:24that makes me warlord of this planet thorpe be thankful your little schemes have never
00:16:30conflicted with mine or you would have discovered the true meaning of that title
00:16:36now then
00:16:40valois tells me you took some more research materials from the archives today
00:16:45i must say i do find all this intellectual ambition quite admirable
00:16:53would you care to have a drink discuss some philosophical puzzle lord knows i can't discuss
00:16:59any such matters with these boys he's a capable man but sometimes i wish he had a little bit more
00:17:11of your rustic charm justin not here to socialize sean no of course you're not
00:17:23no one ever is we live in a savage age citizen thorpe
00:17:30all right then
00:17:35what's your grievance
00:17:39my sister's missing justin you have a family oh i've suddenly just gone warm all over
00:17:48is she attractive never a bad idea to have a warlord in the family you know
00:17:54my matrix system's coming up blank i was wondering you were wondering if we would turn the daedalus
00:18:01sensors loose on the problem
00:18:06well of course we will we'll have that little cherub back in no time
00:18:12oh it will cost you those centauri sapphires though i wouldn't ask myself but whenever i offer
00:18:19services for nothing valois becomes positively morbid
00:18:32no negotiation you are worried aren't you
00:18:39here's a hologram over
00:18:43hey justin how are you i love you why are you making me do this
00:18:54make a copy send it out to all our posts contact the ship find out if anyone's left
00:18:59the planet in the last few hours and put the sensors to work
00:19:11i'm afraid i don't have good news one of my people spotted your sister boarding an interstellar
00:19:16ship with a group of off worlders ship had cloaking capability which is why we didn't register its
00:19:21presence off worlders who are they headed toward the corvus sector before they recloaked i'm going
00:19:27after sean you have to help me i'm sorry thorpe i just got word that some rabble on the other
00:19:31side
00:19:31of the planet have decided they no longer want to live under my guidance it's always the same
00:19:37i try to provide a little order and security and this is my thanks
00:19:42at any rate i have to take the daedalus and deal with them you want my advice
00:19:51forget your sister forget are you crazy i don't know am i you're living in another time justin
00:20:00your sister's alive and according to my informant she wasn't fighting her captors be happy with that
00:20:06much besides your little idea of a happy home and family isn't just foolish it's dangerous sean sean
00:20:15i'm going after her all right then throw your life away too it's a shame thorpe with a little bit
00:20:22of work
00:20:22you might have made a warlord yourself thou are you'll stay in charge here baraka come
00:20:42well did you find anything out looks bad
00:20:48she's been kidnapped looks like it well who are they do they want a ransom no their ship's cloaked
00:20:54they're headed for the corvus sector a little different sector
00:21:01justin we need help we well you're not keeping me out of this you can't handle it alone you know
00:21:08you
00:21:09can't yeah you think you can help well maybe not me exactly
00:21:24hello justin
00:21:30well you never would have agreed if i'd asked to bring him
00:21:34look general sorenson you're not really a general of anything anymore so what are you doing here
00:21:39your sister's in trouble isn't she i honestly want to help
00:21:45well you and your kind have been helping out so thanks meaning meaning that if all you heroes
00:21:50hadn't let the republic fall in the first place we wouldn't have to live like this i don't intend to
00:21:56argue history with a common outlaw oh an outlaw an outlaw how can i be an outlaw when you didn't
00:22:02leave us any law as i just said both of you just stop it now we're here to figure out
00:22:08what to do about
00:22:09nova justin granddad has something you should see yeah what what's this read it
00:22:25can you read
00:22:34it says vr osiris what's that osiris was a god of ancient egypt back on earth in the vr
00:22:47vessel of the republic
00:22:51you've got an interstellar ship
00:22:56what i have is beyond description
00:23:08you've never been up this far before have you justin
00:23:14so where's this ship what's so amazing about it that you can't
00:23:24what is that that's it that's the osiris republican ship of the lie
00:23:35that's your only hope
00:23:38and mine too
00:23:55so
00:24:05so
00:24:06so
00:24:06so
00:24:34Well?
00:24:38i should have known useless just like everything else about the republic this ship is completely
00:24:44intact except for the tachyon generators when this station was abandoned there was no one left to
00:24:51stop them from powering down what about regular matter antimatter engines doesn't have any of
00:24:58those well if it's slower speeds and auxiliary power of course but for the osiris to function
00:25:03as she was designed the tachyon generators must be online and that is going to take enormous power
00:25:22how is it enoch shah's never come after this thing didn't you see the blast marks around the hatches
00:25:27and the loading bays he has but access to this ship was genetically keyed to members of the crew
00:25:33who owned me oh just a little secret that i've never revealed to anyone and you were part of that
00:25:39crew yes of course
00:25:52i just don't know what good a dead ship's gonna do us dead ship 24 particle cannon port and starboard
00:26:00the same number of torpedo tubes and a computer and sensory system second to none
00:26:06even in her day there's scarcely a ship in the galaxy that could match the osiris
00:26:13that day was a long time ago general technology's been at a standstill since the republic fell
00:26:18yes that's where i was hoping you'd come in me there is one group in the galaxy with the technical
00:26:27knowledge and the tools to restart the osiris's tachyon generators you mean the engineers
00:26:33you've had dealings with them
00:26:35no a little out of my price range engineers will cost a fortune were you going to raise that kind
00:26:40of money that's my question to you oh i get it i may be an outlaw but outlaws have their
00:26:46uses huh
00:26:48look justin i'm an old man and death holds no terrors for me but the thought of any of us
00:26:56dying on
00:26:57that planet down there no
00:27:01and then i have to think about what will happen to maggie after i'm gone
00:27:08what are you saying i'm saying that throughout the galaxy there are others like me servants of the
00:27:16republic who have kept its spirit alive to pass on to future generations in the mark ab system for
00:27:22example there are friends of mine who have for years been protecting the last remaining member
00:27:29of the cabell family isn't junius cabell the last pro consul of the republic thought he was
00:27:35assassinated along with his whole family one grandson survived and he's being raised by trusted
00:27:41friends i can think of no better group of people to look after maggie
00:27:47she'll have the opportunity to learn all that the cabell name stood for oh i get it you need me
00:27:53to
00:27:53raise money for the engineer so you can take this trip and you do know how i'm likely to do
00:27:57that
00:27:58well it's not really necessary that i know is it no but you just don't want to know wouldn't fit
00:28:04in
00:28:04with your nice republican principles
00:28:09look justin if you don't wish to you know i wish to
00:28:15see how intense i have to get my sister back
00:28:32hey old man go on you know nobody's allowed around the archives after dark
00:28:44uh
00:28:50uh
00:28:51uh
00:29:15Now you'll see me get some enjoyment out of life, Thorpe.
00:29:17The warlord will certainly allow me to kill you for this.
00:29:24I thought I told you to stay on the ship.
00:29:27Whoa.
00:29:29You weren't kidding.
00:29:31You could definitely do a lot of damage with one of these things.
00:29:35Is he dead?
00:29:36Nope.
00:29:37Stunned.
00:29:38Remind me to give you a lesson taking orders later.
00:29:41Hey, I'm not doing Nova any good sitting around waiting for you to get shot.
00:29:45Just keep your eyes peeled.
00:29:47Point that thing somewhere else.
00:29:50Come on, come on!
00:29:56I definitely gotta look at this whole warlording thing.
00:29:58Pipe down, fill your pockets.
00:30:00We gotta get out of here before Sean gets back.
00:30:06Okay.
00:30:08That's enough, let's go.
00:30:10There's still some left.
00:30:12It's just gonna weigh us down.
00:30:13Come on.
00:30:18Come on!
00:30:22So what happens now?
00:30:23You send out a signal and these engineer people just appear?
00:30:27Yeah.
00:30:28Welcome aboard, yes.
00:30:29In a day or so, one of their ships will pull alongside the Osiris, and a repair team will come
00:30:34aboard.
00:30:37Their equipment's top of the line.
00:30:38With the rates they charge, they can afford it.
00:30:42Nobody knows where they come from or how it is they still have the knowledge to do what they do.
00:30:46So don't bother asking, because they won't tell.
00:30:53So, how you doing, sir?
00:31:02Oh, ma'am?
00:31:05Oh, ma'am.
00:31:57Sorensen, Sorensen, where are you?
00:32:01I'm on the bridge, where are you?
00:32:03They did it, Sorensen.
00:32:04They really did it.
00:32:07Yes, they did, didn't they?
00:32:09I take it you're in engineering.
00:32:12The dachyon generators are coming online.
00:32:15It's quite a sign, isn't it?
00:32:28The engineers' ship is signaling.
00:32:33They've disengaged and they're clear of us.
00:32:42Okay, I'm ready for what?
00:32:47Come on, get out of the chair.
00:32:47Well, we've prepared a long time for this, Maggie.
00:32:50Let's see how well you were paying attention.
00:32:52Whoa, whoa, wait.
00:32:53You're not gonna let her fly this thing.
00:32:56You may want to sit down, Justin.
00:32:58Maggie's flying skills are prodigious, but you know that.
00:33:00And she spent hundreds of hours learning to man the helm of the Osiris.
00:33:05A 15-year-old is not gonna pilot an interstellar ship.
00:33:09She's more qualified than I am at this point.
00:33:13Unless you want to try, do you?
00:33:16Let me ask you one thing.
00:33:17Are you ever gonna tell me all the details of your little plan?
00:33:21Okay, Maggie.
00:33:24Take her out.
00:33:38Clear the dock.
00:33:49Easy, Maggie.
00:33:52Raise your collecting sales.
00:33:56Get your tachyon generators fully charged.
00:34:15Warlord.
00:34:18Excuse the intrusion, but we picked up...
00:34:20I'm sorry, Valwa.
00:34:21There's no way around it.
00:34:23I'll have to kill Thorpe.
00:34:25I know you wanted to, but I'll have to be the one to set the example.
00:34:29Warlord, we picked up...
00:34:30I'd rather not.
00:34:31Truly, I would.
00:34:32I mean, I sympathized with the man.
00:34:35Gave him my counsel.
00:34:37Well, I even found it in me to like him.
00:34:39Yet, how does he repay me?
00:34:42No, Valwa, unfortunately.
00:34:45No one.
00:34:46No one kills Justin Thorpe but me.
00:34:49Warlord.
00:34:50Our sensors have picked up something unusual.
00:34:53The old Republican ship, the Osiris.
00:34:55Yes?
00:34:57It's moving.
00:34:59Warlord!
00:35:01The Osiris is in open space.
00:35:06Thorpe.
00:35:09Have they engaged attacking engines yet?
00:35:12Not yet, Warlord.
00:35:14Then attack!
00:35:15Attack while we still care!
00:35:17But is it Thorpe?
00:35:19Of course it's Thorpe, you idiot.
00:35:21He used the money he stole from us to refit the Osiris and go after his sister.
00:35:29Damn those Thorpe.
00:35:30I want that ship.
00:35:33Prepare to attack.
00:35:35Rock up.
00:35:37Engine's at attack speed.
00:35:45All right, Maggie.
00:35:47The tachyon generators are almost at full capacity.
00:35:51What are you doing?
00:35:53Hey, it wasn't me.
00:35:54Hold it, both of you.
00:35:55That was an attack.
00:35:56Attack?
00:35:57Maggie, a base of action.
00:35:58Justin, you're with me at the operations.
00:36:01Okay, first things first.
00:36:02I'm raising the death net.
00:36:04The what?
00:36:05Defensive network.
00:36:06The shields and damping fields.
00:36:07Maggie!
00:36:07This is going to bring your sails down.
00:36:09But we're not at full power yet.
00:36:11I know that.
00:36:12We're defenseless while they're up.
00:36:28What is that?
00:36:29What's happening?
00:36:30The old girl's rigging for action.
00:36:32Why the damn drums?
00:36:34Meeting to quarters.
00:36:35Blurting the crew.
00:36:36Effective, isn't it?
00:36:39Now, let's see who our guests are on screen.
00:36:46It's shot.
00:36:47Steady, Maggie.
00:36:48No need to panic.
00:36:50We've got enough weapons on this ship to take on five like him.
00:36:54Justin, you go to the weapons station.
00:36:58All right.
00:36:59Enabling weapons.
00:37:00You should be receiving a schematic array on your tactical screen now.
00:37:05Now?
00:37:05Now.
00:37:06I got nothing now.
00:37:10Eric!
00:37:12Maggie.
00:37:14Maintain evasive tactics.
00:37:16It's got to be the computers.
00:37:18Matrix.
00:37:19Activate all weapons systems on the following voiceprint authorization.
00:37:23Sorenson, Alexander, A-1971.
00:37:27Weapons systems cannot be accessed.
00:37:29You mean the voiceprint is down?
00:37:31Voiceprint authorization is online.
00:37:33Weapons access has been repatterned.
00:37:35Repatterned?
00:37:36Well, what is that, repatterned?
00:37:38It means we've got a problem.
00:37:53Well, with our sails down, we can't outrun them, that's for sure.
00:37:55We've got to think of something.
00:37:57I just don't know.
00:37:58Wait a minute.
00:37:58Matrix.
00:38:00Use your medium-red sensors and get me the current status on Caliban 9.
00:38:04The planet Caliban 9 is currently experiencing a level 13 commentary fragment bombardment.
00:38:08Fine.
00:38:09Get me the height and the frequency of the thermonuclear impact plumes.
00:38:13Approximately 47.6 thousand miles every three and one half seconds.
00:38:16Perfect.
00:38:17Feed that information to the Helm guidance system.
00:38:30Aggie, I'm afraid you're going to get your big test a little early.
00:38:34Now, the computer's going to give you a course, but it's going to be an approximate course.
00:38:37So you've actually got to get us through that by yourself.
00:38:42Wait a second.
00:38:43Hey.
00:38:44Hey.
00:38:44No, no, no, no.
00:38:46Yes.
00:38:47Caliban 9, for the last week, has been bombarded with the last pieces of an enormous comet.
00:38:53And I'm betting that Char doesn't have the equipment to predict the frequency of the impact explosion.
00:38:59So if we can lead him into that at just the right second.
00:39:02Sorensen, if we're a half second off...
00:39:04All right, Dad.
00:39:04The information's coming up on my screen now.
00:39:07Don't worry, Justin.
00:39:09If I'm off, we fry.
00:39:12Just one of those blasts could cripple us, Warlord.
00:39:15Do you think they're suicidal, Valwall?
00:39:18If thought goes in, we go in.
00:39:21Oh, God.
00:39:33Just one of those blasts.
00:39:34We little to see them, what's happening.
00:39:35To be a friend of one of those blasts...
00:39:40Hey.
00:39:41We got a friend of the museum in England.
00:39:42Who's better?
00:39:49Who's better?
00:40:12our escape window should be opening no now what i can feel it in handling there's another one
00:40:17coming now then put away put away
00:40:56okay we've just enough power to get clear of the planet world
00:41:01yes first we'll make repairs then we'll go after him
00:41:09well done citizen thorpe but you can't run forever
00:41:19all this firepower i no idea how to make it work
00:41:24you know i know a guy an old friend from the aquila system hey guys next problem what's wrong
00:41:31i'm not sure the matrix is saying there's a small ship docked at one of our shuttle base
00:41:36what do you mean it's not the remora nope somebody else three life forms aboard you let somebody slip
00:41:43in here without noticing hey i kind of had my mind on other things
00:41:49what's the sense deck say
00:41:51same thing only one intruder's left their ship
00:41:55wait
00:41:58he's in the officer's quarters and he's playing with the nutrison
00:42:01nutrison
00:42:03hey
00:42:04who breaks into a ring like this just to raid the kitchen
00:42:07what i want to know is how we broke you
00:42:09nobody's ever violated this vessel's security system
00:42:17come on
00:42:18come on i know you can make one search your memory banks it's got to be in there
00:42:23wally what do you think you're doing
00:42:26hey justin i had a feeling you were on this ship
00:42:31the stupid nutrison claims it can't make a gel in our supreme
00:42:38hmm
00:42:40that's more like it
00:42:45nice ship you got here pal
00:42:46justin
00:42:49who is that
00:42:51wally bryce the guy i was telling you about before
00:42:54how are you general sorenson
00:42:55maggie
00:42:56oh what an amazingly fortunate coincidence
00:42:58wait a minute
00:43:01how did you know our names
00:43:02don't ask
00:43:03that's the feeling i got
00:43:04i get them
00:43:06and i've had one for the last day or so
00:43:08about you just
00:43:09i can't shake it
00:43:12how did you get through the security systems
00:43:14it wasn't easy
00:43:15they're good
00:43:16but i had a feeling
00:43:17hey
00:43:18knock it off with that
00:43:19with what
00:43:20you know what i'm talking about
00:43:21those feelings of yours
00:43:22my friend here has a very accurate
00:43:24and annoying ability to sense things
00:43:27about people animals machines
00:43:29as long as you're here wally
00:43:31you're putting it to work for us
00:43:33come on
00:43:36wait
00:43:38you're saying you're telepathic
00:43:39please i'm not telepathic
00:43:40i'm not psychic
00:43:41i'm not empathic
00:43:42come on wally
00:43:43do you have any idea of the garbage
00:43:45you have to deal with
00:43:45if people even think you're telepathic
00:43:47little old ladies who want to talk
00:43:48to their dead pets
00:43:49warlords who want to find out
00:43:50what their enemies are up to
00:43:52all right
00:43:53i just get fairly reliable feelings
00:43:57let's just leave it at that
00:43:58okay
00:43:59okay
00:43:59okay
00:44:03so what happened to nova anyway
00:44:04i was just going to tell you wally
00:44:06okay fine sorry go ahead
00:44:07it's not like i do it on purpose you know
00:44:11there's no structural damage
00:44:13just the access reconfiguration
00:44:15figures the engineers didn't fix it
00:44:18they're pretty passive people
00:44:19don't like working with weapons systems
00:44:21but i ought to be able to
00:44:28there we go
00:44:34splendid
00:44:35very good work mr bryce
00:44:37don't mention it helps you find nova
00:44:39seems like there's a lot of systems on this ship that would help find her
00:44:42the old war hero here doesn't know how to handle them
00:44:44wait a minute i was a general not a bloody admiral
00:44:48no he's got a point though willie
00:44:49if you stayed aboard it would greatly improve our chances of getting nova back
00:44:52it's a big favor to ask wally
00:44:55we don't know who's got her or why
00:44:56there's bound to be trouble
00:44:57hey
00:44:58you seem to be forgetting who gave that kid her first lesson in quantum mechanics
00:45:02whatever it is justin i'm in you know that
00:45:04hey i guess i do
00:45:06what worries me is what you think you're going to do when you find her
00:45:09what do you mean
00:45:12well wherever she is
00:45:13you can't just go in there with all the cannon
00:45:15on a republican ship of the line blazing
00:45:17not if you expect to get her out of there alive
00:45:21you're going to need an arbitrator
00:45:22i bet you just happen to have one tucked away on your ship
00:45:25and they call me psychic
00:45:28yeah
00:45:29i met her in the aquila system
00:45:31her name's ruler core
00:45:34uh look no
00:45:35um arbitrators can't be trusted
00:45:38i mean arbitrators are diplomatic mercenaries
00:45:40no no i don't know i've seen some good ones work out some pretty ugly scenes
00:45:43and believe me this lady's the best
00:45:46i gave her a lift once to graphias three
00:45:48and stick around to watch her work
00:45:51amazing
00:45:52that planet as you know has had one of the worst tribal wars around
00:45:54she took the two leaders aside
00:45:56and basically maneuvered them into a settlement
00:45:58i'm telling you justin
00:45:59if you have to place nova's life in an arbitrator's hands
00:46:02and i don't see any way around it
00:46:04then rule is the one
00:46:10all right all right
00:46:12what's taking her so long
00:46:13she's probably nervous
00:46:15nervous
00:46:18about what
00:46:20did i say nervous
00:46:22you know justin
00:46:23what i meant
00:46:24what
00:46:24what was wally what are you up to
00:46:27airlock
00:46:27secured
00:46:38well wally is this the client you mentioned
00:46:40this is him
00:46:40justin thorpe
00:46:41ruler core
00:46:42and her
00:46:44assistant
00:46:47johnna
00:46:48johnna's a zen trick
00:46:50i wouldn't try shaking hands with her unless you can afford to lose one
00:46:55ruler thanks for signing on
00:46:57i want you to know mr thorpe that professional interests aside
00:47:00i'm going to be making a special effort in this case
00:47:02oh
00:47:04why is that
00:47:06i know what it's like to lose a child
00:47:08and never find her again
00:47:11do you ruler
00:47:14it seems to me there's an obvious difference
00:47:17between losing a child
00:47:18and abandoning one
00:47:19i didn't come here to reopen old arguments with you
00:47:23what is this
00:47:24where's maggie
00:47:25maggie doesn't wish to see you
00:47:27don't
00:47:28don't even try that again
00:47:30maggie's old enough to speak for herself now
00:47:32ruler
00:47:34ruler wait
00:47:40hey
00:47:40hey
00:47:41wally so help me i'm
00:47:43look justin she's got a case listen to her side of the story
00:47:45i don't want to hear any stories
00:47:47you're a dead man
00:47:48justin they haven't seen each other in years
00:47:50and you do need an arbitrator
00:48:13mother
00:48:19you know
00:48:22i wasn't much older than you are right now
00:48:24when we found out i was pregnant
00:48:32could you see yourself having children in a few years
00:48:38nobody was holding a gun to your head
00:48:41it was your choice
00:48:42but i made that choice
00:48:44thinking that your father would always be there
00:48:47he always took care of everything
00:48:53i suppose i should have known something might happen one day
00:48:56he was a soldier after all
00:48:58and a republican loyalist
00:49:00pretty dangerous combination
00:49:02and then he went off to the baton cados war
00:49:04and never came back
00:49:07nobody did from that war
00:49:08the whole system's a neutron wasteland
00:49:10and when he died
00:49:13i don't know
00:49:15i couldn't really handle having a little girl suddenly
00:49:19i suppose i felt too much like one myself
00:49:21i needed to go off and grow up
00:49:25you know just about everything you say starts with i
00:49:28have you ever noticed that
00:49:31some people have pointed out to me yes
00:49:34your father
00:49:35i don't want to talk about him
00:49:36he couldn't help what happened to him
00:49:38you could
00:49:41you never even visited
00:49:43your grandfather wouldn't allow it
00:49:46he wouldn't even tell me where you were
00:49:47don't try to blame this on granddad
00:49:49he has taken care of me
00:49:51of everything
00:49:51i'm not trying to
00:49:53well maybe i am
00:49:55he can be so manipulative maggie
00:49:57you don't know him the way i do
00:49:58you're so right
00:50:00i know him better
00:50:02he's always been honest with me
00:50:04no matter how hard things have been
00:50:07look maggie
00:50:09this is hard for me too you know
00:50:15isn't there anything i can do to make this easier
00:50:18you came here to help us find my best friend
00:50:21do that and then do what you do best
00:50:24disappear
00:50:33oh
00:50:34jana isn't it
00:50:37access forbidden to all outsiders is that right
00:50:43oh access forbidden to me
00:50:45huh
00:50:48centrics
00:50:50they're all sworn to silence
00:50:52aren't they
00:50:53known throughout the galaxy
00:50:56for your warlike prowess
00:50:58your fanatical loyalty
00:51:02i take it you wouldn't advise me
00:51:03to try and get past you
00:51:11justin has asked that you join us
00:51:13on the bridge
00:51:14you didn't have to come all the way down here to tell me that
00:51:17no
00:51:18but you wanted to make sure i didn't undermine your position with maggie
00:51:22didn't you
00:51:22well don't worry father you've done a first class job in brainwashing her
00:51:26she has no interest in talking to me
00:51:35try and make sure maggie's okay will you jonna
00:51:37this has been pretty rough on her
00:51:51well at least you don't talk
00:51:55and if you don't talk
00:51:59then you can't lie
00:52:04okay
00:52:19about it
00:52:24you
00:52:29don't
00:52:30Justin, wake up.
00:52:32What?
00:52:34Something's wrong.
00:52:36Something's happening.
00:52:37Where? Where?
00:52:40I don't know.
00:52:41But I have this feeling.
00:52:43Oh, come on, Wally.
00:52:45I'm worried sick about Nova.
00:52:47I haven't slept in days.
00:52:48I finally...
00:52:51I don't know who's worse.
00:52:52You, that old lunatic Sorenson.
00:52:54Sorenson, trust me.
00:52:56What do you mean?
00:52:58He's a sly old fox, Justin.
00:53:00Real tough to read.
00:53:02Got his own agenda, that's for sure.
00:53:05We need to worry about him?
00:53:07I don't think so.
00:53:09His heart's in the right place.
00:53:11But he plays his card.
00:53:14Wally.
00:53:20Am I seeing that?
00:53:22Tell me I'm seeing that.
00:53:28It's a planet.
00:53:31Sorenson, everybody to the bridge now.
00:53:34It's a planet.
00:53:36It must have been cloaked.
00:53:45Oh, my God.
00:53:47What is that?
00:53:48I don't know.
00:53:49Some kind of projection?
00:53:51No.
00:53:52It's up on all the sensors.
00:53:53It's a planet.
00:53:54A planet?
00:53:55With no star?
00:53:57Well, that's not possible.
00:53:58There's only one group in the galaxy capable of it.
00:54:01The engineers.
00:54:02The engineers, they're not kidnappers.
00:54:05They don't even carry weapons.
00:54:07Maybe not.
00:54:08But there's no other possible explanation, and that is not good news.
00:54:11Why?
00:54:12If the engineers have your sister, Justin, then they didn't take her for money.
00:54:16No ransom would be enough to mean anything to them.
00:54:21An astute reading of the situation.
00:54:24But your fears are ungrounded, Rulagor.
00:54:27I know who we are.
00:54:29It's even worse than I thought.
00:54:31I am the Chakla, leader of the elders of the Society of Engineers.
00:54:37And in their name, I invite you to the surface of our world.
00:54:41You will be our guests.
00:54:43That is an honor that we have never bestowed on anyone.
00:54:46So how come I don't feel so lucky?
00:54:48If you know who we are, then you know why we're here.
00:54:51Where's my sister?
00:54:52She is with us, Justin Thorpe.
00:54:54With us and well.
00:54:56And I may add, anxious for your visit.
00:54:59I believe your ship is equipped with a spatial transverse system.
00:55:04Yes, of course it is.
00:55:06If it's functional.
00:55:08Then we shall drop our defensive shields to allow its use.
00:55:11And provide coordinates to your ship's matrix.
00:55:14Please accept our sincerest hospitality.
00:55:29We just programmed the coordinates they gave us.
00:55:32So how does that thing work?
00:55:33What does it do to people?
00:55:34Nothing.
00:55:35To people.
00:55:35In the early days, they used to scramble human molecules and send them across space to be
00:55:39reassembled at another terminal.
00:55:41But there were too many accidents.
00:55:44So they started bending and folding the space we travel through instead.
00:55:48Much more reliable.
00:55:51Yeah, I could do that myself.
00:55:52It's better if I do the injecting.
00:55:54I've had a lot of experience.
00:55:56I bet you have.
00:55:58Ow!
00:56:00I thought you said that wasn't going to hurt.
00:56:02I didn't say it wouldn't hurt.
00:56:03I said I'd done it a lot.
00:56:05I'm not crazy about having strange things in my head.
00:56:07You really think you'll notice one more?
00:56:10Besides, internal opticons aren't strange.
00:56:13They're just unusual.
00:56:15Sort of a secret weapon I developed for negotiations.
00:56:18Gives us an edge to be able to send agents into a situation and then see and hear exactly
00:56:22what they see in here.
00:56:24I still believe it's a big mistake to go down there unarmed, don't you?
00:56:27They didn't phrase it as a request, Father.
00:56:29If we go down there with weapons, all contact will be terminated and that'll kill any chance
00:56:34of getting Nova out.
00:56:39All right.
00:56:40Let's see if the implants work.
00:56:41Maggie, can you read me?
00:56:43Got it.
00:56:45Are the others coming online?
00:56:48Yeah, they're coming up now.
00:56:50All right.
00:56:50Now, you and Jana keep the situation on closed watch.
00:56:53At the first sign of trouble, get the Osiris to a higher orbit.
00:56:56Maggie, all arbitrators monitor a specific paraspace audiovisual frequency, and I've programmed
00:57:02our implants to feed into that frequency.
00:57:04So make sure to maintain the link.
00:57:06Got it.
00:57:09Do you want to be okay?
00:57:12Have been for the last 11 years.
00:57:17Remember, these implants are receivers as well as transmitters, so if you have any problem...
00:57:21I won't.
00:57:22All right.
00:57:24We should be ready to start down.
00:57:37Well, stay close, Justin.
00:57:40If you move outside the transverse while it's active, it could be most unpleasant.
00:58:03Well, brave travelers.
00:58:08You are welcome, indeed.
00:58:12I must say, Shoklan, you're the most cordial kidnappers I've ever met.
00:58:16Kidnapping is an act of force.
00:58:19Novathorpe came with us of her own free will.
00:58:22Then where is she now?
00:58:24Within.
00:58:24And awaiting your arrival, I merely thought that before you see her, you might wish to learn
00:58:30something of our customs, our culture, and our designs for the future.
00:58:36It might help you to decide if we were right or wrong to bring Nova here.
00:58:52Our society, though shielded from outsiders, is an ancient one.
00:58:58The city you are about to see is the result of generations...
00:59:02Jeez, Jonna.
00:59:04What's wrong?
00:59:05All the bad guys are down on the planet.
00:59:08Or at least I thought they were.
00:59:13Let me put this up on the main screen.
00:59:19Oh, great.
00:59:23You better power up the deaf net, Jonna.
00:59:40And so, as you have seen, our society inspires in our citizens a respect for the rule of law.
00:59:49You see, in order for any system to work for one, it must work for all.
00:59:58But your people.
01:00:01For all your talk of progress and community, there don't seem to be any emotional connection between them.
01:00:09In fact, there's no feeling of intimacy anywhere.
01:00:13Of course not.
01:00:16On our home world, we have eliminated all conflict.
01:00:21Can you imagine what that must be like?
01:00:23In order to achieve that goal, we had to eliminate the causes of conflict.
01:00:29Factionalism, tribalism, nationalism, globalism.
01:00:32Families.
01:00:34You started by eliminating families.
01:00:36Precisely, Mr. Thorpe.
01:00:38What has forever been known as the family system is, in fact, the basic unit of all conflict.
01:00:45Either from within, or when families formed the building blocks of competing tribes, nations, worlds.
01:00:53Was it not just such factionalism that destroyed your beloved republic, General Sorensen?
01:00:58Well, how do you bring it?
01:01:00How do you perpetuate your race?
01:01:02We are a race, not of blood, but of ideas.
01:01:07Thus, all intimate physical contact between members of the engineer society is strictly forbidden.
01:01:15Our genetic experts are striving to perfect a method of single-sex reproduction,
01:01:21while advanced hormonal restructuring will eliminate any sense of gender identity.
01:01:28In this way, we shall eradicate even conflict between the sexes.
01:01:37You're crazy.
01:01:40No. No, it's not crazy, Justin.
01:01:43The shock lens right.
01:01:45Nova?
01:01:49Nova, are you okay?
01:01:51Why wouldn't I be?
01:01:53Did you really come with these people willingly?
01:01:55Of course.
01:01:56It's an honor to be chosen for re-education.
01:02:00I was the only one in our whole sector.
01:02:03Re-education?
01:02:05We have not yet perfected our method of single-sex reproduction.
01:02:10Until we do, we perpetuate our race by taking in the most gifted children in the galaxy
01:02:16and allowing them to learn our ways.
01:02:22So, in the end, you are just simple kidnappers.
01:02:26They're not.
01:02:27They're allowing me to learn and grow and be a part of a great society.
01:02:31But Nova, we're family.
01:02:32Family?
01:02:34Like mom and dad who abandoned us?
01:02:38Families like that turned the galaxy into the place it is.
01:02:41What have you done to her?
01:02:43Must we have done something for a child as gifted as your sister to see the obvious truth?
01:02:48And your sister is gifted, Justin.
01:02:51More gifted than any new member of our society in years.
01:02:54Gifted enough in all probability to one day be incorporated into the sublime plenum.
01:03:00The what?
01:03:02Our highest authority.
01:03:07Yes, of course.
01:03:10It is decided.
01:03:12So genuine is our desire to include you in our society
01:03:16that you shall be the first off-worlders to observe the miracle of the plenum.
01:03:22Justin, the plenum! It's such an honor!
01:03:25Nova?
01:03:26I'm sorry, Shoplin.
01:03:29Shall I show them what I mean?
01:03:34Try to communicate with her, Justin.
01:03:36She's exhibiting all the signs of narcon neural root patterning.
01:03:40Marine washing?
01:03:41Worse.
01:03:41I'd say they'd actually been tampering with the characteristic structure for neural net.
01:04:15The sublime plenum.
01:04:18The sublime plenum.
01:04:22The sublime plenum.
01:04:29Well, he's hailing us.
01:04:37Well, now, I knew Thorpe was desperate, but I didn't know he'd hide behind children.
01:04:43You want to fight?
01:04:45You'll see how much of a child I am.
01:04:48After all my years of conquering and pillaging, I'm to meet my end by being strangled with a diaper.
01:04:54Horrors.
01:04:56Where's Thorpe?
01:04:58He's not on board.
01:05:01Oh, what a pity.
01:05:03Because in that case, young lady, you're going to die alone.
01:05:12John, it's I've burned auxiliary power to the deafness.
01:05:17I've got to figure out what to do.
01:05:24Honored ancestors.
01:05:27We have reached a determination.
01:05:31Despite their advanced age, they shall be granted inclusion into society.
01:05:37Provided they agree to be re-educated.
01:05:42Justin, they're going to let you stay.
01:05:45Yeah, well, before we go joining up, why don't you tell us what that thing is?
01:05:49Each conscious being has a unique pattern of synaptic pathways, which constitute his or her own life force, or what
01:05:59you might call a soul.
01:06:00We have found a way to transfer that pattern at the time of an individual's body death to other inert,
01:06:09organic tissues.
01:06:10Thus, the minds and thoughts of our greatest citizens are preserved indefinitely to guide our actions.
01:06:19Spiritual immortality?
01:06:22He's lying.
01:06:23What?
01:06:25That inert mass of flesh he's talking about.
01:06:28It's alive.
01:06:28I can feel it.
01:06:30It's alive.
01:06:31It's a living host.
01:06:34And it's in pain.
01:06:37Do strangers agree to re-education?
01:06:42I'd like an answer to a question of my own before we answer yours.
01:06:47It is permitted.
01:06:49All this activity, the great energy of your society, it obviously has some ultimate purpose.
01:06:55Could you tell us what that purpose is?
01:06:57Our is the most productive society in galactic history.
01:07:02Its privacy must spread.
01:07:04We are at last able to let this process begin.
01:07:08I thought so.
01:07:10Galactic conquest.
01:07:12I know what I call galactic liberation.
01:07:16An end to the strife that has plagued every civilization since the dawn of time.
01:07:23There'll be many worlds who won't join willingly.
01:07:26Those who resist will be compelled.
01:07:31Or enslaved.
01:07:33Like this creature that houses your eternal souls.
01:07:36Let's be clear.
01:07:38I take it you're offering us a choice between re-education and termination, correct?
01:07:44No further options exist, given current factors.
01:07:49Then consider this.
01:07:51My three associates and I have been implanted with transmission devices that are linked to our ship.
01:07:57Even now we're transmitting your words and your image over para-space waves to anyone in the galaxy capable of
01:08:03receiving them.
01:08:05How is this possible?
01:08:07Shukran!
01:08:08Revered ancestors, I...
01:08:12We...
01:08:12We did not think them so cunning.
01:08:16And we did not detect the devices.
01:08:18We also discovered that your repair team didn't reactivate our weapon systems.
01:08:22And we've done so ourselves.
01:08:23We can punch a hole through your planetary shields and transverse out of here whenever we like.
01:08:28Impossible!
01:08:29You need a demonstration very well, General.
01:08:34All right, Maggie.
01:08:36Fire starboard gun number one.
01:08:39Aim just outside the city.
01:08:42When ready, Maggie.
01:08:46Maggie?
01:08:48Where are you?
01:08:52So, the famed arbitrator's bluff.
01:08:55We are not quite so gullible.
01:08:58Take the strangers to the processing center.
01:09:03Exercise their transmission devices.
01:09:06And disfall some of their primitive bodies.
01:09:11Justin, no!
01:09:13No more!
01:09:14No more!
01:09:15Forget her, Justinthorpe.
01:09:17We gave you a chance for survival.
01:09:20Because we thought you might be exceptional.
01:09:23But you are only lying barbarians.
01:09:26Remove them!
01:09:29No more!
01:09:31John, I think we've got a link.
01:09:33Try patching it through.
01:09:38Hello?
01:09:38On the surface, wherever you are, can you hear me?
01:09:41Yes.
01:09:42Maggie, we're here.
01:09:43Where have you been?
01:09:44We have a slight problem here.
01:09:46It's Sean.
01:09:47He's attacking.
01:09:47And he won't leave without Justin.
01:09:49We could probably destroy his ship, but...
01:09:51Well, I've never actually killed anybody before.
01:09:55You say Sean wants Justin.
01:09:57Then you go right ahead.
01:09:58And you tell him exactly where Justin is.
01:10:00What?
01:10:01Please.
01:10:01Just do it.
01:10:15There must be a genetic defect.
01:10:17His body is rejecting the hormones.
01:10:25That concept is mistaken.
01:10:28That concept is mistaken.
01:10:31That concept is mistaken.
01:10:34This is re-education.
01:10:37If you're going to kill me, you can kill me right here and now.
01:10:41But as long as I'm alive, you won't subject my sister to any more of that.
01:10:44You'll do as you're told, Thorpe.
01:10:47Nova, I know it's hard.
01:10:49I know what they've done.
01:10:50But try to remember.
01:10:51We were family.
01:10:53Maybe not with a mother and father.
01:10:55But you and me, we've always come through for each other.
01:10:58Always.
01:10:59See?
01:11:00See?
01:11:01See?
01:11:01See?
01:11:02See?
01:11:04See?
01:11:04See?
01:11:05A bio-crystal.
01:11:07I got it for you that day at the Archives, remember?
01:11:10But now we won't have enough food for the winter.
01:11:12We will.
01:11:13We will.
01:11:14Enough of this, Thorpe.
01:11:18What was that?
01:11:25I'm very sorry.
01:11:26But if you have a score to settle with, my friend Thorpe,
01:11:31you'll have to wait your turn.
01:11:55Maggie, fire on the section of the defense shield above the city.
01:11:59Try to maintain an opening long enough to transverse us out of here.
01:12:05Justin!
01:12:07Come on.
01:12:08Maggie's got an opening.
01:12:09We can move.
01:12:11Order our defensive forces to assemble and launch.
01:12:15You okay?
01:12:16Yes, thanks.
01:12:16Told you we don't have to worry about the old man.
01:12:20No!
01:12:21You will not take her!
01:12:23I just don't want to run!
01:12:24I don't want to run!
01:12:26I don't want to run!
01:12:28Justin!
01:12:30Justin!
01:12:34Stop!
01:12:35Over!
01:12:36No!
01:12:40No!
01:12:41Reset!
01:12:41I'm going back down for now!
01:12:42I'm sad!
01:12:42Their shields are back up.
01:12:43Their ships are in the air and firing.
01:12:45I can't maintain the opening.
01:12:46They just keep clucking.
01:12:47I can't even see most of them.
01:12:49We have got to break off and head to open space.
01:12:51We'd be a match for the squadron, but not a whole fleet.
01:12:54We're not leaving without her.
01:12:55I don't care what they send against us.
01:12:57We're going back, Thorpe!
01:12:58Oh!
01:13:09Welcome.
01:13:11Good to have you back amongst us.
01:13:15i was afraid i'd given you a little too much
01:13:21you shot me nothing else to do you wouldn't let us leave even sean had the sense to head for
01:13:27arm
01:13:27when the engineer fleet appeared still no reply general i don't understand you know we're well
01:13:32within power space range nothing or range or reply remember the republican loyalists i told
01:13:39you about a mock-up for you're not gonna abandon my sister we're not going to abandon your sister
01:13:43we're going back for her but i will not have this be a suicide mission there's no one group can
01:13:49stand
01:13:50alone against the engineers this has got to be a united galactic effort talking about reviving the
01:13:56republic justin give yourself a minute to think about this people already understand the republic
01:14:01is an idea you won't have to waste a lot of time explaining except to me i probably fell apart
01:14:06wally what makes you think it's not going to happen again yes i've spent a lot of time thinking
01:14:12about that oh really yes really there's a lot of truth in what you say towards the end the leaders
01:14:19of the republic may have become too remote we should have had new blood we failed to get it blood
01:14:25like
01:14:25yours i must still be unconscious and you two you're on board with this
01:14:37maggie you're actually asking for my opinion you saved my butt twice in one week i figure i can manage
01:14:43that i think we can't go back for nova without help
01:14:52so what do we do now we need a rallying point of some kind someone associated with the republic that
01:14:59people want to follow a name they can trust and there's only one logical choice the boy i told you
01:15:07about the grandson of junius cabel finally markab four granddad it's mashwa put it on the screen
01:15:19i repeat alexander if it is you hailing us stay away stay away what's happening the entire planet
01:15:30surprise attack we don't know who can you give us a visual no they are cloaked don't don't approach
01:15:39they are too many but we've come for the boy cabel you've been trajan he hasn't been on this planet
01:15:47for years i thought you knew the plan for the republic trajan rejected everything about the republic
01:15:55since he grew up he called all of us sentimental fools he stole a ship he changed his name
01:16:05and he went off where i don't know but he calls himself sean now alexander he's not sean
01:16:15mashwa fire intensifying we lost our ship mashwa mashwa wally reestablish contact with markab4
01:16:30there's no sign of life on markab4
01:16:35they got here first the engineers who else can build ships that can fire even while cloaked
01:16:45all right maggie get us out of here before they realize we're in the area now but what course caliban
01:16:51six what so what if this cabel descendant is he not sean he's still the only hope you got
01:16:59he knows what the engineers are up to we'll just meet with him and make him see reason
01:17:04make he knock sean see reason
01:17:08does that mean you agree
01:17:11you agree to go along with the plan i'm not so stupid i don't get your point sorensen i'll get
01:17:17you he knock he knock will get you the loyalists and their ships and we go back for my sister
01:17:21well what makes you think he'll meet with us he won't meet with us he'll meet with me and it
01:17:25won't
01:17:26be to talk i just hope i get my point across before he kills me
01:17:31well well well citizen thor
01:17:36you got here quickly the osiris is certainly a remarkable ship i must say i'm going to make
01:17:43good use of her after i've killed you i mean are you going to kill me sean
01:17:51or should i call you trajan cabel
01:17:55oh
01:17:57been doing a little detective work now have we
01:18:03that knowledge will die with you i trust you've abided by our agreement to come unarmed yes good
01:18:10because i haven't
01:18:16i should have known i'm surprised you didn't what's happening to you
01:18:21you know what the engineers are up to and when they come to caliban six i'll
01:18:29you're loose
01:18:30well what other choice is there not the republic
01:18:34you could be the new brocastle tempting but i'm afraid not people like you and me have no place in
01:18:40a
01:18:40world like that for what fighters survivors
01:18:48but your family you don't imagine i ever knew my family do you the people who raised you sean
01:18:54what about them they're dead murdered by the engineers a desperate and pathetic boy thorpe you
01:19:01don't even know who those people are don't i the old woman moshua
01:19:06i'm letting you fall don't go on with this
01:19:16we saw the engineers kill them does that mean anything to you
01:19:24yes
01:19:29as a matter of fact it does
01:19:34she never asked for the job of bringing me up any more than i asked to have her
01:19:39but she never objected never complained
01:19:44always felt a little bad about not saying goodbye
01:19:50you say they destroyed the entire surface of the planet totally some advanced form of anti-matter
01:19:56radiation
01:20:00you have a strategy i suppose sorensen
01:20:04yes they'll hit the planets that were republican centers first we'll beat them to the punch
01:20:13oh this wonderful republican technology and that's our strategy beat them to the punch
01:20:27well not a bad one at that oh so i take it you do agree
01:20:33what about you thorpe what's your role to be my job's done i'm going back for my sister with what
01:20:43weapons if i may ask according to the general here once word spreads that you've signed on there's
01:20:49gonna be a whole fleet of republican ships not the squadron benadour put together
01:20:57so so sorensen
01:21:00you've tricked our friend thorpe what do you mean tricked what's he talking about
01:21:05well i do think you might be honest with the man sorensen justin
01:21:10the ships i wanted were part of an organized republican squadron
01:21:14it took years to assemble but they were on mark heb four they were obliterated what
01:21:23you knew that before i went down there
01:21:32you lied to me it had to be that way if i'd given you a choice you would have turned
01:21:37me down
01:21:38you used me justin justin we need you we even need sean if i may sorensen what
01:21:48thorpe and i understand each other in a way
01:21:55oh justin how are you i love you why are you making me jealous
01:22:03can i get it by a crystal
01:22:07what else should i say coming back up
01:22:13the bridge is awfully empty without a leader thorpe
01:22:18well i always told you you had potential
01:22:21i just didn't think it would fulfill itself in circumstances like these
01:22:26was there already one general too many on board
01:22:30who
01:22:33sorensen
01:22:35his days passed and he knows it what about you
01:22:42on this ship i don't think so
01:22:47it'll be hard enough being pro consul without having to act like one
01:22:51no i'll stay aboard the daedalus thank you
01:22:57so
01:23:00your sister got the looks as well as the brains
01:23:04genetics can be so unfair
01:23:07you know as well as i do the old man's right
01:23:12if you ever hope to see your sister again you'll have to let go of her for now
01:23:15face the bigger problem first if you try and go back they'll kill you
01:23:22assemble a new force she has a prayer
01:23:28and you me well i will say this we all may survive if the engineers have their way
01:23:38but there won't be much point in living i know
01:23:44and i know you know
01:23:49now
01:23:53get back to that bridge
01:24:09warlord
01:24:11you're not serious about all this
01:24:14this republic business are you
01:24:17i'm not sure
01:24:20the situation does have possibilities
01:24:24but what will the rest of us do
01:24:28do
01:24:31you will follow my orders as always
01:24:35now get back to the ship
01:24:47there are ghosts aboard this great vessel
01:25:01it's all right
01:25:05i'm sorry
01:25:09just for future reference you won't be needing tricks anymore
01:25:15deal
01:25:21there's a chair on this bridge that nobody sat in for many years
01:25:27i think you should see how it feels
01:25:31you're going to be spending a lot of time in it
01:25:45what was the closest
01:25:47republican senator mark heb four in the old days
01:25:49gamma valorem
01:25:52maggie
01:25:57lay in a course
01:25:58you got it
01:26:01but if you think you're getting a yes sir out of me
01:26:14as sorenson had said the job before us was almost overwhelming
01:26:19the engineers had spent years getting ready and we were scrambling for counter moves
01:26:23making them up as we went along
01:26:26we'd have to plan a campaign
01:26:29rebuild our technological systems
01:26:33negotiate allies
01:26:35and train a new generation to fight for a set of ideals that most people believed were dead
01:26:41ideals that had brought one of the galaxy's most dangerous warlords face to face with his past
01:26:46and with his destiny
01:26:49and the image of the one we'd been forced to leave behind would never leave our thoughts for very long
01:26:55in some ways success seemed impossible
01:26:58but we had something the engineers could never have
01:27:02the trust of friends who had already risked everything for each other
01:27:05who were bound by just the kind of ties that the engineers were trying to destroy
01:27:14as for whether or not we made it
01:27:16in the end
01:27:18that's the story these chronicles will tell
01:27:37of the
01:27:39of the
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