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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.
00:04:40Move.
00:04:41What's that?
00:04:42Heh.
00:04:43Gimme 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?
00:09:07There.
00:09:09This was the please...
00:09:13Pleasantest.
00:09:14Pleasantest year of all the life I lead...
00:09:20Led.
00:09:20Led in this place.
00:09:22Friday, began to talk pretty well.
00:09:27And understand the names of almost everything.
00:09:36Halumbra.
00:09:43challenging...
00:09:43Kind ofience...
00:09:45Hey Canadians!
00:09:46You are a man!
00:09:51Justin.
00:09:52Where have you been?
00:09:53And what you are carrying?
00:09:55It looks valuable.
00:09:56The thing is, Deida.
00:09:58It wouldn't interest you, though.
00:09:59Anything of value interests me!
00:10:01Don't let the man dweller fleece you, Justin!
00:10:03I can give you everything you need for a whole lot less.
00:10:06When it's like trash, 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.
00:10:46You want the soap?
00:10:47Hasn'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 Cal Band 5 ever baits.
00:10:55Get off me!
00:11:01Fly strong relay.
00:11:03Here, hardly you.
00:11:06Alphrodisiac?
00:11:08Oh.
00:11:08Bio-organisms!
00:11:10Medi-kipopanus!
00:11:12Body parts!
00:11:14Bio-crystals!
00:11:16Bio-organisms!
00:11:18Tribute!
00:11:18This dog has nothing, Valois!
00:11:21No?
00:11:23I'll wager he has family.
00:11:26That he does.
00:11:28Then chain him in the square until they bring what he owes to the warlord!
00:11:32Come, dog!
00:11:34Damn!
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 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 Quardium for the Daedalus' hyperoptic drive, could you?
00:12:05Quardium?
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, sixty ion bursts for the Republican
00:12:23Service 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.
00:12:45The what?
00:12:46The what?
00:12:47For the what?
00:12:48It's a synthetic intelligence system.
00:12:51Well, find it, fool.
00:12:52It's gotta be in there somewhere.
00:12:57Look!
00:12:58It's a Daedalus!
00:13:00Hey, look, Sean has returned!
00:13:05You got what?
00:13:06I'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.
00:13:57Living 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 of 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!
00:14:20Nova!
00:14:24Nova, you here?
00:14:28You got something you're gonna wanna see?
00:14:53Not me.
00:14:56Maybe.
00:14:56Maggie Sorensen. That information is classified. Who classified it? That information is unavailable.
00:15:07Pats me through to subject Maggie Sorensen now.
00:15:14Well, well. If it isn't public nuisance number one. Where's Nova? What do you mean? I dropped
00:15:21her off at your place last night. I haven't seen her since. I can't find her. Well, maybe
00:15:25she's out of range of your sensors. Your system is pretty limited. Scout around the
00:15:30remorse. See if you can find her. Justin, where are you going? To the only one who can help me.
00:15:35Justin!
00:15:46Is that our friend Thorpe?
00:15:50Bring him here. Provided he's unarmed.
00:15:58Well. 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. He's right, of course.
00:16:21What 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.
00:16:40Valois 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?
00:16:57Lord knows I can't discuss any such matters with these boys, hmm, Valois?
00:17:05He's a capable man.
00:17:07But sometimes,
00:17:09I wish he had a little bit more of your rustic charm, Justin.
00:17:16Not here to socialize, Sean.
00:17:19No.
00:17:20Of course you're not.
00:17:23No one ever is.
00:17:25We live in a savage age, Citizen Thorpe.
00:17:30All right, then.
00:17:35What's your grievance?
00:17:39My sister's missing.
00:17:41Justin,
00:17:42you have a family.
00:17:44Oh, I've suddenly just gone warm all over.
00:17:48Is she attractive?
00:17:50Never a bad idea to have a warlord in the family, you know.
00:17:54My matrix system's coming up blank.
00:17:58I was wondering...
00:17:59You were wondering if we would turn the Daedalus sensors loose on the problem.
00:18:06Well, of course we will.
00:18:07We'll have that little cherub back in no time.
00:18:11Oh.
00:18:12It will cost you those Centauri sapphires, though.
00:18:16I wouldn't ask myself, but whenever I offer services for nothing,
00:18:20Valois becomes positively morbid.
00:18:32No negotiation.
00:18:35You are worried, aren't you?
00:18:39Here's a hologram of her.
00:18:43Hey, Justin, how are you?
00:18:45I love you.
00:18:47Why are you making me do this?
00:18:54Make a copy, send it out to all our posts.
00:18:57Contact the ship, find out if anyone's left the planet in the last few hours, and put the sensors to
00:19:01work.
00:19:07Thorpe.
00:19:07Thorpe.
00:19:11I'm afraid I don't have good news.
00:19:14One of my people spotted your sister boarding an interstellar ship with a group of off-worlders.
00:19:18The ship had cloaking capability, which is why we didn't register its presence.
00:19:22Off-worlders?
00:19:23Who are they?
00:19:24Headed toward the Corvus sector before they re-cloaked.
00:19:26I'm going after you, Sean.
00:19:28You have to help me.
00:19:28I'm sorry, Thorpe.
00:19:30I just got word that some rabble on the other side of the planet have decided they no longer want
00:19:33to live under my guidance.
00:19:36It'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.
00:19:46You want my advice?
00:19:51Forget your sister.
00:19:53Forget?
00:19:53Are you crazy?
00:19:55I don't know.
00:19:56Am I?
00:19:57You're living in another time, Justin.
00:20:00Your sister's alive.
00:20:01And according to my informant, she wasn't fighting her captors.
00:20:05Be happy with that much.
00:20:08Besides, your little idea of a happy home and family isn't just foolish, it's dangerous.
00:20:13Sean.
00:20:14Sean!
00:20:15I'm going after her.
00:20:17All right, then.
00:20:17Throw your life away, too.
00:20:19It's a shame, Thorpe.
00:20:21With a little bit of work, you might have made a warlord yourself.
00:20:26Though I, you'll stay in charge here.
00:20:28Baraka, come.
00:20:42Well, did you find anything out?
00:20:45Looks bad.
00:20:48She's been kidnapped?
00:20:49Looks like it.
00:20:50Well, who are they?
00:20:51Do they want a ransom?
00:20:53No.
00:20:54Their ship's cloaked.
00:20:55They're headed for the Corvus sector.
00:20:57I'm in a different sector.
00:21:00Justin, we need help.
00:21:02We?
00:21:04Well, you're not keeping me out of this.
00:21:07You can't handle it alone.
00:21:08You know you can't.
00:21:09Yeah?
00:21:10You think you can help?
00:21:13Well, maybe not me, exactly.
00:21:24Hello, Justin.
00:21:29Well, you never would have agreed if I'd asked to bring him.
00:21:34Look, General Sorensen, you're not really a general of anything anymore, so what are you doing here?
00:21:40Your sister's in trouble, isn't she?
00:21:42I honestly want her help.
00:21:45Well, you and your kind have been help enough, so thanks.
00:21:48Meaning?
00:21:49Meaning that if all you heroes hadn't let the Republic fall in the first place, we wouldn't have to live
00:21:54like this.
00:21:55I don't intend to argue history with a common outlaw.
00:21:59Oh, an outlaw.
00:22:00An outlaw!
00:22:01How can I be an outlaw when you didn't leave us any law?
00:22:03As I just said...
00:22:05Look, both of you, just stop it!
00:22:07Now, we're here to figure out what to do about Nova.
00:22:12Justin, Grandad has something you should see.
00:22:14Yeah?
00:22:14What?
00:22:17What's this?
00:22:19Read it.
00:22:20Read it.
00:22:21Read it.
00:22:33It says VR Osiris.
00:22:37What's that?
00:22:38Osiris was a god of ancient Egypt back on Earth.
00:22:43And 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?
00:23:15So where's this ship?
00:23:17And what's so amazing about it that you can't?
00:23:23What is that?
00:23:26That's it?
00:23:27That's the Osiris.
00:23:30Republican ship of the line.
00:23:35That's your only hope.
00:23:38And mine too.
00:24:35Well?
00:24:38I should have known. Useless, just like everything else about the Republic.
00:24:42This ship is completely intact except for the tachyon generators.
00:24:47When this station was abandoned, there was no one left to stop them from powering down.
00:24:54What about regular matter, antimatter engines? Doesn't it have any of those?
00:24:58Well, for slower speeds and auxiliary power, of course.
00:25:02But for the Osiris to function as she was designed, the tachyon generators must be online.
00:25:07And that is gonna take enormous power.
00:25:22How is it Enoch Shah has never come after this thing?
00:25:25Didn't you see the blast marks around the hatches and the loading bays? He has.
00:25:29But access to this ship was genetically keyed to members of the crew only.
00:25:34Oh, just a little secret that I've never revealed to anyone.
00:25:38And you were part of that crew?
00:25:41Yes, of course.
00:25:45Why are you people lost?
00:25:53I just don't know what good a dead ship's gonna do us.
00:25:56Dead ship?
00:25:5724 particle cannon, port and starboard.
00:26:00The same number of torpedo tubes.
00:26:03And 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.
00:26:16Technology's been at a standstill since the Republic fell.
00:26:19Yes.
00:26:20That's where I was hoping you'd come in.
00:26:22Me?
00:26:24There is one group in the galaxy with the technical knowledge and the tools
00:26:28to restart the Osiris' tachyon generators.
00:26:31You mean the engineers?
00:26:33You've had dealings with them?
00:26:35No, a little out of my price range.
00:26:38Engineers will cost a fortune.
00:26:39Were you gonna raise that kind of money?
00:26:40That's my question to you.
00:26:42Oh.
00:26:43I get it.
00:26:44I may be an outlaw, but outlaws have their uses, huh?
00:26:48Look, Justin.
00:26:50I'm an old man.
00:26:52And death holds no terrors for me.
00:26:55But the thought of any of us dying on that 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?
00:27:10I'm saying that throughout the galaxy there are others like me.
00:27:16Servants of the Republic who have kept its spirit alive to pass on to future generations.
00:27:21In the mark-up system, for example, there are friends of mine who have for years been protecting the last
00:27:28remaining member of the Cabell family.
00:27:31Isn't Junius Cabell, the last pro-consul of the Republic?
00:27:34He thought he was assassinated along with his whole family.
00:27:37One grandson survived.
00:27:39And he's being raised by trusted friends.
00:27:42And 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.
00:27:52Oh, I get it.
00:27:53You need me to raise money for the engineers so you can take this trip.
00:27:56And you do know how I'm likely to do that.
00:27:59Well, it's not really necessary that I know, is it?
00:28:01No, but you just don't want to know.
00:28:04Wouldn't fit in with your nice Republican principles.
00:28:09Look, Justin.
00:28:11If you don't wish to.
00:28:12You know I wish to.
00:28:15It's the only chance I have to get my sister back.
00:28:17Yes!
00:28:32Hey! Old man! Go on!
00:28:36You know nobody's allowed around the Archives after dark.
00:28:52What and the family, I care for.
00:29:08You're not able to get the group to take this room.
00:29:09Don't be afraid of a family.
00:29:09That makes sense.
00:29:09they have to be a family member,
00:29:09they are living in a family member.
00:29:09Then, the room is in a family member.
00:29:14now you'll see me get some enjoyment out of life thorpe the warlord will certainly allow
00:29:19me to kill you for this i thought i told you to stay on the ship well you weren't kidding
00:29:31you could definitely do a lot of damage with one of these things is he dead nope stunned
00:29:38remind me to give you a lesson taking orders later hey i'm not doing nova any good sitting
00:29:43around waiting for you to get shot just keep your eyes peeled like that thing somewhere else
00:29:50come on come on
00:29:55i definitely gotta look at this whole war-lording thing pipe down fill your pockets we gotta get
00:30:01out of here before sean gets back
00:30:08okay that's enough let's go but there's still some left it's just gonna weigh us down come on
00:30:18come on
00:30:22so what happens now you send out a signal these engineer people just up here yeah
00:30:26yeah welcome aboard yes in a day or so one of their ships will pull alongside the osiris
00:30:32and a repair team will come aboard
00:30:37their equipment's top of the line with 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
00:30:54so how you doing sir
00:31:00uh
00:31:02oh ma'am
00:31:07so
00:31:17so
00:31:17so
00:31:17so
00:31:17so
00:31:17so
00:31:33so
00:31:57Sorensen, Sorensen, where are you?
00:32:01I'm on the bridge, where are you?
00:32:03They did it, Sorensen, they really did it.
00:32:07Yes, they did, didn't they?
00:32:09I take it you're in engineering.
00:32:12The tachyon generators are coming online.
00:32:15It's quite a sign, isn't it?
00:32:28The engineer's ship is signaling.
00:32:34They've disengaged and they're clear of us.
00:32:42Okay, I'm ready.
00:32:45You're ready?
00:32:46Ready for what?
00:32:47Come on, get out of the chair.
00:32:48Well, 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 going to 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.
00:33:01And she spent hundreds of hours learning to man the helm of the Osiris.
00:33:05A 15-year-old is not going to 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 going to tell me all the details of your little plan?
00:33:22Okay, 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.
00:34:34Gave 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 censors 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 the tachyon engines yet?
00:35:12Not yet, Warlord.
00:35:14Then attack, attack while we still care.
00:35:17But is it Thorpe?
00:35:18Of course it's Thorpe, you idiot.
00:35:20He used the money he stole from us to refit the Osiris and go after his sister.
00:35:29Damn, Thorpe.
00:35:30I want that ship.
00:35:33Prepare to attack.
00:35:36Rock 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.
00:36:04What?
00:36:05Defensive network.
00:36:06The shields and damping fields.
00:36:07Maggie, this is going to bring your sails down.
00:36:09We'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.
00:36:35Alerting 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, activate 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.
00:37:47Well, 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.
00:38:00Matrix, use your medium-read sensors and get me the current status on Caliban 9.
00:38:03The planet Caliban 9 is currently experiencing a level 13 cometary fragment bombardment.
00:38:08Fine.
00:38:09Get me the height and the frequency of the thermonuclear impact room.
00:38:13Approximately 47.6 thousand miles every three and one half seconds.
00:38:17Perfect.
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, hey, no, no, no, no.
00:38:46Yes, Caliban 9 for the last week has been bombarded with the last pieces of an enormous comet.
00:38:53And I'm betting that Sean 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...
00:39:04The 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, Valois?
00:39:18If thought goes in, we go in.
00:39:23For a third.
00:39:33I hope so.
00:39:42I don't know.
00:39:42I don't know.
00:39:45My kid.
00:39:45Oh, my man.
00:40:11Now, our escape window should be opening.
00:40:14No, now.
00:40:15What?
00:40:15I can feel it in handling.
00:40:16There's another one coming now.
00:40:18Then put it away.
00:40:19Put it away.
00:40:28It's true.
00:40:43It's true.
00:40:56We've just enough power to get clear of the planet world.
00:41:00Yes.
00:41:02First we'll make repairs, then we'll go after him.
00:41:09Well done, Citizen Thorpe.
00:41:12But you can't run forever.
00:41:19All this firepower, I have no idea how to make it work.
00:41:24You know, I know a guy, an old friend from the Aquila system.
00:41:27Hey guys, next problem.
00:41:30What's wrong?
00:41:31I'm not sure.
00:41:33The Matrix is saying there's a small ship docked at one of our shuttle bays.
00:41:36What do you mean?
00:41:37It's not the Remora?
00:41:39Nope.
00:41:39Somebody else.
00:41:40Three life forms aboard.
00:41:42You let somebody slip in here without noticing?
00:41:44Hey, I kind of had my mind on other things.
00:41:49What's the SENS deck say?
00:41:51Same thing.
00:41:52Only one intruder's left their ship.
00:41:55Wait.
00:41:58He's in the officer's quarters and he's playing with the Nutriset.
00:42:01Nutriset.
00:42:03Hey!
00:42:04Who breaks into a rig like this just to raid the kitchen?
00:42:07What I want to know is how it broke in.
00:42:09Nobody's ever violated this vessel's security system.
00:42:17Come on.
00:42:18Come on.
00:42:19I know you can make one.
00:42:20Search your memory banks.
00:42:21It's got to be in there.
00:42:23Wally?
00:42:24What do you think you're doing?
00:42:26Hey, Justin.
00:42:27I had a feeling you were on this ship.
00:42:31The stupid Nutriset claims it can't make a Jelanar Supreme.
00:42:38Hmm.
00:42:39Hmm.
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.
00:42:52The 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.
00:42:59Wait a minute.
00:43:01How did you know our names?
00:43:02Don't ask.
00:43:03What's the feeling I got?
00:43:04I get them.
00:43:06And I've had one for the last day or so about you, Justin.
00:43:10I 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, but I had a feeling.
00:43:18Hey.
00:43:18Knock it off with that.
00:43:20With what?
00:43:20You know what I'm talking about, those feelings of yours.
00:43:22My friend here has a very accurate and annoying ability to sense things.
00:43:27About people, animals, machines.
00:43:29As long as you're here, Wally, you're putting it to work for us.
00:43:33Come on.
00:43:37Wait.
00:43:38You're saying you're telepathic?
00:43:39Please.
00:43:39I'm not telepathic.
00:43:40I'm not psychic.
00:43:41I'm not empathic.
00:43:42Come on, Wally.
00:43:43Hey, hey, hey.
00:43:43Do you have any idea of the garbage you have to deal with if people even think you're telepathic?
00:43:47Little old ladies who want to talk to their dead pets?
00:43:49Warlords who want to find out what 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, okay?
00:43:59Okay.
00:43:59Okay.
00:44:03So what happened to Nova anyway?
00:44:05I was just going to tell you, Wally.
00:44:06Okay, fine.
00:44:06Sorry.
00:44:06Go 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.
00:44:16Figures the engineers didn't fix it.
00:44:18They're pretty passive people.
00:44:19Don't like working with weapons systems.
00:44:22But I ought to be able to...
00:44:26Ah.
00:44:28There we go.
00:44:34Splendid.
00:44:35Very good work, Mr. Bryce.
00:44:37Don't mention it.
00:44:38It 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.
00:44:45I was a general, not a bloody admiral.
00:44:48Now, he's got a point, though, Wally.
00:44:49If you stayed aboard, it would greatly improve our chances of getting Nova back.
00:44:53It'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.
00:44:58Hey.
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.
00:45:03You know that.
00:45:05Hey, 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?
00:45:11Well, wherever she is, you can't just go in there with all the cannon on a Republican ship of the
00:45:17line blazing.
00:45:18Not 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 Rula Cor.
00:45:34Uh, look, no.
00:45:35Um, arbitrators can't be trusted.
00:45:38I mean, arbitrators are diplomatic mercenaries.
00:45:40No.
00:45:41No, I don't know.
00:45:41I'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 Gruffius III and stuck 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 and basically maneuvered them into a settlement.
00:45:58I'm telling you, Justin, if you have to place Nova's life in an arbitrator's hands, and I don't see any
00:46:03way around it, then Rula's 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, what I meant was...
00:46:24What?
00:46:25Wally, what are you up to?
00:46:27Airlock secured.
00:46:38Well, Wally, is this the client you mentioned?
00:46:40This is him.
00:46:41Justin Thorpe, Rula Kaur, and her assistant, Jonna.
00:46:49Jonna's a Zen trick.
00:46:50I wouldn't try shaking hands with her unless you can afford to lose one.
00:46:55Rula, thanks for signing on.
00:46:57I want you to know, Mr. Thorpe, that professional interests aside, I'm going to be making a special effort in
00:47:02this case.
00:47:03Oh?
00:47:04Why is that?
00:47:06I know what it's like to lose a child and never find her again.
00:47:11Do you, Rula?
00:47:14It seems to me there's an obvious difference between losing a child and abandoning one.
00:47:20I 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.
00:47:32Rula.
00:47:34Rula, wait.
00:47:40Hey.
00:47:40Hey!
00:47:42Wally, so help me, I'm...
00:47:43Look, Justin, she's got a case.
00:47:44Listen 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.
00:48:12Mother.
00:48:19You know, I wasn't much older than you are right now when 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 thinking 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, and a Republican loyalist.
00:49:00Pretty dangerous combination.
00:49:02And then he went off to the Baton-Catos 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, I don't know, I couldn't really handle having a little girl suddenly.
00:49:19I suppose I felt too much like one myself.
00:49:22I 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 it 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.
00:49:52I'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.
00:49:59You'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.
00:50:25Disappear.
00:50:33Oh.
00:50:35Chana, isn't it?
00:50:38Access forbidden to all outsiders.
00:50:40Is that right?
00:50:43Oh, access forbidden to me.
00:50:46Huh?
00:50:48Centrix.
00:50:50They're all sworn to silence, aren't they?
00:50:53Known throughout the galaxy.
00:50:56For your warlike prowess.
00:50:58Your fanatical loyalty.
00:51:01I take it you wouldn't advise me to try and get past you.
00:51:11Justin has asked that you join us on 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, didn't you?
00:51:23Well, don't worry, Father.
00:51:24You'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, Chana?
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.
00:52:02You can't lie.
00:52:30Justin, wake up.
00:52:32What?
00:52:34Something's wrong.
00:52:36Something's happening.
00:52:37Where?
00:52:38Where?
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.
00:53:00He's been real 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.
00:53:15Holy...
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.
00:53:59There's only one group in the galaxy capable of it.
00:54:01The engineers.
00:54:03The engineers?
00:54:04They'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.
00:54:28I know who we are.
00:54:29It's even worse than I thought.
00:54:31I am the Shakla, 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.
00:55:07Then 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 reassembled
00:55:39at another terminal.
00:55:41But, uh, 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?
00:56:11Besides, 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.
00:56:23I 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 close watch.
00:56:52At 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, so 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.
00:57:16Remember, 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.
00:57:36Wally?
00:57:38Stay 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.
00:58:25And awaiting your arrival.
00:58:26I merely thought that before you see her, you might wish to learn something of our customs,
00:58:32our 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.
00:58:44Come.
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.
00:59:22You better power up the deaf net, Jonna.
00:59:41So, as you have seen, our society inspires on our citizens a respect for the rule of law.
00:59:48You see, in order for any system to work for one, it must work for all.
00:59:58But your people, for 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?
01:00:24In 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.
01:00:39What 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 form 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.
01:01:08Thus, all intimate physical contact between members of the engineer society is strictly forbidden.
01:01:14Our genetic experts are striving to perfect a method of single-sex reproduction, while advanced hormonal restructuring will eliminate any
01:01:25sense of gender identity.
01:01:28In this way, we shall eradicate even conflict between the sexes.
01:01:40No, no, it's not crazy, Justin.
01:01:43The shockland's right.
01:01:45Nova?
01:01:50Nova, are you okay?
01:01:51Why wouldn't I be?
01:01:53Did you really come with these people willingly?
01:01:56Of course.
01:01:57It'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 and allowing them
01:02:18to 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 that you shall be the first off-worlders to
01:03:19observe the miracle of the plenum.
01:03:22Justin, the plenum.
01:03:24It's such an honor.
01:03:25Nova?
01:03:26I'm sorry, Shoklyn.
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?
01:03:40Worse.
01:03:41I'd say they'd actually been tampering with the characteristic structure for neural net.
01:04:01Hi.
01:04:03Hi.
01:04:28Well, he's hailing us.
01:04:37Well, now.
01:04:39I 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.
01:05:00Ah, what a pity.
01:05:03Because in that case, young lady, you're going to die alone.
01:05:12John, I've heard an auxiliary power to the deafness.
01:05:17I've got to figure out what to do.
01:05:24Honored Ancestors, we have reached a determination.
01:05:31Despite their advanced age, they shall be granted inclusion into society.
01:05:38Provided that 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.
01:06:11Thus the minds and thoughts of our greatest citizens are preserved indefinitely to guide our actions.
01:06:19Spiritual immortality?
01:06:22He's lying.
01:06:23He'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?
01:06:41I'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 smallest 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.
01:07:12No, Lachor.
01:07:13Galactic 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, like 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.
01:07:56Even now, we're transmitting your words and your image over paraspace waves to anyone in the galaxy capable of receiving
01:08:04them.
01:08:04How is this possible?
01:08:08Revered ancestors, I...
01:08:11We...
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, and 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!
01:08:30You 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.
01:09:03Excise their transmission devices and disfall some of their primitive bodies.
01:09:11Justin, no!
01:09:13No more!
01:09:14No more!
01:09:15Forget her, Justin Thorpe.
01:09:17We gave you a chance for survival because 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.
01:09:42We have a slight problem here.
01:09:46It's Sean.
01:09:47He's attacking, and 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, and you tell him exactly where Justin is.
01:10:00What?
01:10:01Please, just do it.
01:10:15There must be a genetic defect.
01:10:17His body is rejecting the hormones.
01:10:34This is re-education.
01:10:37If you're gonna kill me, you can kill me right here and now.
01:10:40But 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, we 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?
01:11:06Bio-Crystal.
01:11:06I 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.
01:12:17I told 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 die!
01:12:24I don't want to die!
01:12:27Maggie!
01:12:28Justin!
01:12:35I'll move her!
01:12:36No!
01:12:40No!
01:12:40Reset!
01:12:41I'm going back down for her now!
01:12:42I can't!
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!
01:12:56We're going back, Thornton!
01:13:10Welcome.
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.
01:13:22Nothing else to do.
01:13:23You wouldn't let us leave.
01:13:25Even Sean had the sense to head for her when the engineer fleet appeared.
01:13:29Still no reply, General.
01:13:31I don't understand.
01:13:32You know, we're well within power of space range.
01:13:34Nothing.
01:13:34Or range, or reply.
01:13:37Remember, they were...
01:13:38Republican loyalists I told you about on Markham IV.
01:13:40You're not going to abandon my sister.
01:13:42We're not going to abandon your sister.
01:13:43We're going back for her.
01:13:44But I will not have this be a suicide mission.
01:13:48There's no one group can stand alone against the engineers.
01:13:51This has got to be a united galactic effort.
01:13:55Talking about reviving the Republic?
01:13:56Justin, give yourself a minute to think about this.
01:13:59People already understand the Republic.
01:14:01It's an idea you won't have to waste a lot of time explaining.
01:14:03Except to me.
01:14:05It probably fell apart, Wally.
01:14:07What makes you think it's not going to happen again?
01:14:09Yes.
01:14:11I've spent a lot of time thinking about that.
01:14:13Oh, really?
01:14:13Yes, really.
01:14:15There's a lot of truth in what you say.
01:14:18Towards the end, the leaders of the Republic may have become too remote.
01:14:22We should have had new blood.
01:14:24We failed to get it.
01:14:25Blood like yours.
01:14:27I must still be unconscious.
01:14:30And you two.
01:14:32You're on board with this.
01:14:35Maggie?
01:14:37You're actually asking for my opinion?
01:14:40You saved my butt twice in one week.
01:14:42I think I figure I can manage that.
01:14:44I think we can't go back for Nova without help.
01:14:52So what do we do now?
01:14:54We need a rallying point of some kind.
01:14:57Someone associated with the Republic that people want to follow.
01:15:00A name they can trust.
01:15:03And there's only one logical choice.
01:15:05The boy I told you about.
01:15:07The grandson of Junius Cabell.
01:15:12Finally, Markab 4.
01:15:15Granddad, it's Mashua.
01:15:17Put her on the screen.
01:15:19I repeat.
01:15:20Alexander, if it is you hailing us,
01:15:24stay away.
01:15:25Stay away.
01:15:26Mashua, what's happening?
01:15:28The entire planet tries attack.
01:15:31We don't know who.
01:15:33Can you give us a visual?
01:15:35No.
01:15:35They are cloaked.
01:15:37Don't, don't approach.
01:15:39They are too many.
01:15:41But we've come for the boy, Cabell.
01:15:44You've been Trajan.
01:15:45He hasn't been on this planet for years.
01:15:48I thought you knew.
01:15:49The plan for the Republic.
01:15:52Trajan rejected everything about the Republic since he grew up.
01:15:56He called all of us sentimental fools.
01:16:00He stole a ship.
01:16:03He changed his name.
01:16:04And he went off.
01:16:07Where?
01:16:08I don't know.
01:16:09But he calls himself Sean now.
01:16:13Alexander?
01:16:14Enoch, Sean.
01:16:15Mashua!
01:16:16Fire intensifying.
01:16:19We lost our ship.
01:16:22Mashua!
01:16:24Mashua!
01:16:25Wally, reestablish contact with Markab 4.
01:16:30There's no sign of life on Markab 4.
01:16:35They got here first.
01:16:38The engineers?
01:16:39Who 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.
01:16:48Now!
01:16:48But what course?
01:16:50Caliban 6.
01:16:52Justin.
01:16:54What?
01:16:55So what if this Cabell descendant is Enoch Sean?
01:16:57He's still the only hope you got.
01:16:59He knows what the engineers are up to.
01:17:01We'll just meet with him and make him see reason.
01:17:04Make Enoch Sean see reason?
01:17:08Does that mean you agree?
01:17:11You agree to go along with the plan?
01:17:14I'm not so stupid I don't get your point, Sorensen.
01:17:16I'll get you Enoch.
01:17:17Enoch will get you the loyalists and their ships, and we go back for my sister.
01:17:20But what makes you think he'll meet with us?
01:17:23He won't meet with us.
01:17:24He'll meet with me, and it won't be to talk.
01:17:27I just hope I can get my point across before he kills me.
01:17:32Well, well, well.
01:17:34Citizen Thor.
01:17:36You got here quickly.
01:17:38The Osiris is certainly a remarkable ship.
01:17:41I must say, I'm going to make good use of her.
01:17:45After I've killed you, I mean.
01:17:49Are you going to kill me, Sean?
01:17:51Or should I call you Trajan Cabell?
01:17:54Well, I'm going to kill you.
01:17:55Ooh.
01:17:58Been doing a little detective work now, have we?
01:18:03That knowledge will die with you.
01:18:05I trust you've abided by our agreement to come unarmed.
01:18:08Yes.
01:18:09Good.
01:18:10Because I haven't.
01:18:16I should have known.
01:18:17I'm surprised you didn't.
01:18:19What's happening to you?
01:18:21You know what the engineers are up to.
01:18:23And when they come to Caliban 6, I'll fight them!
01:18:29You're loose.
01:18:30Well, what other choice is there?
01:18:32Not the Republic.
01:18:34You could be the new pro-castle.
01:18:36Tempting, but I'm afraid not.
01:18:38People like you and me have no place in a world like that, Thorpe.
01:18:41We're fighters.
01:18:42Survivors!
01:18:48But you're family!
01:18:50You don't imagine I ever knew my family, do you?
01:18:52The people who raised you, Sean.
01:18:54What about them?
01:18:56They're dead.
01:18:56Murdered by the engineers.
01:18:58A desperate and pathetic boy, Thorpe.
01:19:01You don't even know who those people are.
01:19:03Don't I?
01:19:03The old woman, Moshua.
01:19:06I'm letting you, Thorpe.
01:19:07Don't go on with this.
01:19:16We saw the engineers kill them.
01:19:20Does 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.
01:19:53Totally.
01:19:54Some advanced form of antimatter radiation.
01:20:00You have a strategy, I suppose, Sorensen.
01:20:04Yes.
01:20:05They'll hit the planets that were Republican centers first.
01:20:08We'll beat them to the punch.
01:20:10Then we'll organize those worlds and get them on our side.
01:20:14Oh, this wonderful Republican technology.
01:20:19And that's our strategy.
01:20:22Beat them to the punch.
01:20:27Well, not a bad one at that.
01:20:29Oh, sir, I take it you do agree.
01:20:33What about you, Thorpe?
01:20:36What's your role to be?
01:20:38My job's done.
01:20:40I'm going back for my sister.
01:20:42With what weapons, if I may ask?
01:20:46According to the general here, once word spreads that you've signed on, there's going to be a whole fleet of
01:20:49Republican ships.
01:20:51Not the squadron Benadour put together.
01:20:57So, Sorensen, you've tricked our friend Thorpe.
01:21:02What do you mean tricked?
01:21:03What's he talking about?
01:21:05Well, I do think you might be honest with the man, Sorensen.
01:21:08Justin, the ships I wanted were part of an organized Republican squadron.
01:21:14It took years to assemble.
01:21:17But they were on Mar Cab 4.
01:21:19They were obliterated.
01:21:21What?
01:21:23You knew that before I went down there.
01:21:32You lied to me.
01:21:33It had to be that way.
01:21:35If I'd given you a choice, you would have turned me down.
01:21:38You used me.
01:21:40Justin?
01:21:41Justin, we need you.
01:21:43We even need Sean.
01:21:45If I may, Sorensen.
01:21:47What?
01:21:48Thorpe and I understand each other.
01:21:51In a way.
01:21:55Oh, Justin, how are you?
01:21:57I love you.
01:21:59Why are you making me jealous?
01:22:03Can I get a biocrystal?
01:22:07What else should I say?
01:22:10Coming back up.
01:22:11No, what do I do?
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.
01:22:26Is there already one, General?
01:22:27Too many on board.
01:22:30Who?
01:22:33Sorensen?
01:22:35His day's passed and he knows it.
01:22:39What 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.
01:22:57Oh.
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.
01:23:10I love you.
01:23:12If you ever hope to see your sister again, you'll have to let go of her for now.
01:23:16Face the bigger problem first.
01:23:18If you try and go back, they'll kill you.
01:23:22Assemble a new force.
01:23:25She has a prayer.
01:23:28And you?
01:23:30Me.
01:23:32Well, I will say this.
01:23:35We all may survive if the engineers have their way.
01:23:38But there won't be much point in living.
01:23:41I know.
01:23:44And I know you know.
01:23:49Now.
01:23:52Get back to that bridge.
01:23:55I know you're not serious about all this.
01:24:14It's for a public 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.
01:24:34Now get back to the ship.
01:24:46There 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 Republican senator to Mark Ebb IV in the old days?
01:25:50Gamma Valorum.
01:25:53Maggie?
01:25:56Lay in a course.
01:25:58You got it.
01:26:01But if you think you're getting a yes, sir, out of me.
01:26:15As Sorenton 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, rebuild our technological systems, negotiate 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, and with his
01:26:47destiny.
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.
01:27:06Who 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, in the end, that's the story these chronicles will tell.
01:27:22To be a better might a bad�� in the end, that's the story they're trying to fight to fight.
01:27:26To be an adviser.
01:27:50To be an�
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