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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 me.
00:04:13The...
00:04:14Wants.
00:04:22Gain.
00:04:27Cas in 1 Plus.
00:04:32Come!
00:04:41what's that give me it i can't huh why because i'm not even here you're hallucinating i'm a bad
00:04:52dream what look there goes another one
00:05:17okay that's about all the pressure we can put on her without the whole breaching
00:05:20did you get enough information nova nova hey nova huh you can breathe now no i can't the top of
00:05:29my
00:05:30head still attached well you wanted to approximate the g-force pressures in a different atmosphere
00:05:34right you've got to teach me how to do that oh slow down you just started flying a few months
00:05:40ago
00:05:40so i can handle it come on i practically built this thing building it and flying it are two
00:05:46totally different things genius tell you what if this last batch of modifications actually gets
00:05:52us off this planet i'll teach you that move
00:06:08oh matrix hello subject nova thought how are you don't get excited model social skills
00:06:18that question is irrelevant i'm fine thanks hey hey
00:06:26are you trying to flatten me no just coming to say hi
00:06:30what have you got something's going to keep us fed through the whole winter that's what
00:06:34you've got enough food in this container to last 14 months no genius but what's in this case is going
00:06:40to get us the food i hope that does say cordium doesn't it just didn't you know it does your
00:06:46eating's
00:06:47not that bad it's not that good either you just don't say words like that too often now cordium
00:06:54where are you going to take it he knocks sean and his bunch nobody else on his planet has an
00:06:59interstellar ship he's going to butter plenty for that what makes you think he won't just
00:07:05well take it nah that mean breaking the barter code sean will stick to the rules he made them up
00:07:12after all
00:07:23hey what's this about promise me you'll be okay listen nova i'm not going anywhere because we're
00:07:30family our family used to be bigger yeah i can't tell you why they left but don't say that i'm
00:07:37not
00:07:38going anywhere okay okay now let's get off this because you're depressing me how's your friend matrix
00:07:46tonight not so good i thought that maybe some of the work maggie me did on the transpod might help
00:07:54modify it for interplanetary flight but the data boards in the matrix are too outdated well maybe
00:08:00sean will let me error take a new set out of the archives that'd be good you know as long
00:08:08as you're
00:08:08going to sean's anyway nova no not the bio crystal thing come on but you said yourself you borrowed her
00:08:15a
00:08:15lot for the cordium yeah we're gonna get three months more worth of food for the price of a bio
00:08:19crystal
00:08:24i just never had a pet that's all on the history disc i saw that almost all the children had
00:08:31them
00:08:31before the republic fell people did a lot of things before the republic fell
00:08:45priorities keeping us fed maybe someday down the line
00:08:53hey i'm gonna get through another chapter of this give me a hand let's see
00:09:03where are we at
00:09:07there this was the please pleasantest pleasantest 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
00:09:51everything
00:09:51justin where have you been and what's that you're carrying it looks valuable yeah it is gator wouldn't
00:09:58interest you though anything of value interests me don't let that mound dweller please you justin i can
00:10:04give you everything you need for a whole lot less
00:10:06it looks like trashy people are all the same lower than the worm infested land you know
00:10:16go
00:10:18ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
00:10:40Hold still.
00:10:42You've almost got him.
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 up!
00:11:01Fly, strong relay.
00:11:03Here, hardly you.
00:11:06Alphrodisiac?
00:11:09Bioorganisms!
00:11:10Medi-kip-a-banus!
00:11:12Party parts!
00:11:14Fire crystals!
00:11:17Bioorganisms!
00:11:18Tribute!
00:11:18This dog has nothing, Valois!
00:11:21No?
00:11:23I'll wager he has family.
00:11:24Ha, ha, ha, that 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, getting 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.
00:11:51So unless your business can wait, I'm afraid you're going to have to deal with me.
00:11:58You couldn'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?
00:12:1620 months of rations, 12 ounces of refined platinum, 8 Centauri sapphires, all cut, 60 ionbursts for 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.
00:12:52It's got to be in there somewhere.
00:12:53No, no, no.
00:12:57Look!
00:12:58It's a Daedalus!
00:13:01The Enoch Sean has retired!
00:13:05Is that 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 matrix try
00:13:32body parts bio organism hey you sir do you have any bio crystals not any sir
00:13:41the best the most beautifully formed harmonious of the creatures one of the
00:13:56makers true miracles sir living rock to give you a loving companionship and
00:14:02soothing warmth and all they ask is a little water in return what could you
00:14:06ask of a fellow creature would you trade one for 12 ounces of platinum
00:14:12refined of course
00:14:17nova
00:14:24nova you hear
00:14:28got something you're gonna want to see
00:14:45matrix locate subject novathorpe subject novathorpe is not within my sensory
00:14:51perimeter matrix did subject novathorpe exit the perimeter with subject maggie sorenson
00:14:57that information is classified who classified it that information is unavailable
00:15:07that's me through to subject maggie sorenson now
00:15:14well well if it isn't public nuisance number one
00:15:18where's nova what do you mean i dropped her off at your place last night
00:15:22i haven't seen her since i can't find her well maybe she's out of range of your sensors
00:15:27your system is pretty limited scout around the remorse see if you can find her
00:15:32justin 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
00:16:02you've got the devil's own nerve coming back here after the way you gouged valois today
00:16:07the 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
00:16:35and now 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
00:16:59discuss any such matters with these boys who are
00:17:05he's a capable man but sometimes i wish he had a little bit more of your rustic charm justin
00:17:16not here to socialize sean
00:17:20no of course you're not
00:17:23no one ever is
00:17:26we 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
00:17:58i was wondering you were wondering if we would turn the daedalus sensors 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
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 contact the ship find out if anyone's left
00:18:59the planet in the last few hours and put the sensors to work
00:19:06oh
00:19:11i'm afraid i don't have good news one of my people spotted your sister boarding an interstellar ship
00:19:16with 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 deadalus and deal with them you want my advice
00:19:50forget 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
00:20:05be happy with that much besides your little idea of a happy home and family isn't just foolish it's
00:20:12dangerous sean sean sean i'm going after all right then throw your life away too it's a shame thorpe
00:20:21with a little bit of work you might have made a warlord yourself
00:20:25though i you'll stay in charge here baraka come
00:20:43well 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
00:20:53no their ship's cloaked they're headed for the corvus sector
00:20:57a little different sector
00:21:01justin we need help we
00:21:04well you're not keeping me out of this you can't handle it alone you know you can't yeah you think
00:21:10you can help
00:21:13well maybe not me exactly
00:21:23hello 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 help enough so thanks meaning meaning that if all you heroes hadn't let
00:21:51the
00:21:51republic fall in the first place we wouldn't have to live like this i don't intend to argue
00:21:56history with a common outlaw oh an outlaw an outlaw how can i be an outlaw when you didn't leave
00:22:03us
00:22:03any law as i just said both of you just stop it now we're here to figure out what to
00:22:08do about nova
00:22:12justin 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
00:22:43in the vr
00:22:47vessel of the republic
00:22:52you'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 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
00:23:50so
00:24:00so
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 have any of those?
00:24:58Well, if it's slower speeds than auxiliary power, of course.
00:25:02But for the Osiris to function as she was designed, the tachyon generators must be online.
00:25:08And that is going to take enormous power.
00:25:22How is it Henoch Shah's 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.
00:25:45I wonder, are you people lost?
00:25:53I just don't know what good a dead ship's going to do us.
00:25:56Dead ship?
00:25:56Twenty-four 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.
00:26:18Yes.
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 to 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 going to raise that kind of money?
00:26:40That's my question to you.
00:26:43Oh, I get it.
00:26:44I may be an outlaw, but outlaws have their uses, huh?
00:26:48Look, Justin, I'm an old man, and 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 Markab system, for example, there are friends of mine who have for years been protecting the last remaining
00:27:28member of the Cabell family.
00:27:31Isn't Junius Cabell the last proconsul of the Republic?
00:27:34Thought he was assassinated along with his whole family.
00:27:36One grandson survived, and he's being raised by trusted friends.
00:27:42I 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.
00:27:51Oh, I get it.
00:27:53You need me to raise money for the engineer so you can take this trip, and you do know how
00:27:57I'm likely to do that.
00:27:58Well, 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.
00:28:08Look, Justin.
00:28:11If you don't wish to...
00:28:12You know I wish to!
00:28:15See how intense I have to get my sister back?
00:28:16Yes!
00:28:18Yes!
00:28:21Yes!
00:28:32Hey!
00:28:33Old man!
00:28:34Go on!
00:28:36You know nobody's allowed around the Archives after dark!
00:29:14now you'll see me get some enjoyment out of life thorpe the warlord will certainly allow me to
00:29:19kill you for this i thought i told you to stay on the ship whoa you weren't kidding you could
00:29:32definitely do a lot of damage with one of these things is he good nope stunned remind me to give
00:29:39you a lesson taking orders later hey i'm not doing nova any good sitting around waiting for you to
00:29:44get shot just keep your eyes peeled like that thing somewhere else come on come on
00:29:55i definitely gotta look at this whole warlording thing
00:29:58pipe down fill your pockets we gotta get out of here before sean gets back
00:30:07okay that's enough let's go 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
00:30:28yeah 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
00:30:36their 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
00:30:45they do so don't bother asking because they won't tell
00:30:53so how you doing sir
00:31:01oh ma'am
00:31:03oh ma'am
00:31:06oh ma'am
00:31:13oh ma'am
00:31:27oh ma'am
00:31:30oh ma'am
00:31:57sorensen sorensen 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 dachyon generators are coming online
00:32:15it's quite a sign isn't it
00:32:28the engineer ship is signaling
00:32:33they've disengaged in the clear of us
00:32:41okay
00:32:43i'm ready
00:32:45you're ready ready for what come 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
00:32:51whoa 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
00:33:03learning 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
00:33:15let 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
00:33:25take her out
00:33:38clear of 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
00:34:19but we picked up
00:34:20i'm sorry val wall there's no way around it
00:34:22i'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
00:34:30truly i would i mean i sympathized with the man
00:34:34gave him my counsel
00:34:36well i even found it in me to like him
00:34:39yet how does he repay me
00:34:41no valois unfortunately
00:34:44no one no one kills justin thorpe but me
00:34:49warlord
00:34:50our sensors have picked up something unusual
00:34:53the old republican ship
00:34:54the osiris
00:34:55yes
00:34:57it's moving
00:34:58warlord
00:35:00the osiris
00:35:02is in open space
00:35:06thorpe
00:35:09have they engaged the tachyon engines yet
00:35:12not yet
00:35:13warlord
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
00:35:35rocker
00:35:36engines at attack speed
00:35:45all right maggie
00:35:46the tachyon generators are almost at full capacity
00:35:51what are you doing
00:35:52hey it wasn't me
00:35:54hold it both of you
00:35:55that was an attack
00:35:56attack
00:35:57maggie evasive action
00:35:58justin you're with me at the operations
00:36:00okay 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 gonna 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
00:36:28look at that
00:36:29what's happening
00:36:29the old girls rigging for action
00:36:32why the damn drums
00:36:33beating 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
00:36:53justin you go to the weapons station
00:36:58all right enabling weapons
00:37:00you should be receiving a schematic array on your tactical screen now
00:37:04now
00:37:05now
00:37:06i got nothing now
00:37:10ma'am
00:37:12and i got a lot of weapons on the weapons on the following voice print authorization
00:37:23Sorenson Alexander A-1971
00:37:26Weapons systems cannot be accessed
00:37:28You mean the voiceprint is down?
00:37:31Voiceprint authorization is online
00:37:33Weapons access has been repatterned
00:37:35Repatterned? Well, 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, wait a minute
00:37:58Matrix, use your medium-red sensors
00:38:01And get me the current status on Caliban 9
00:38:03The planet Caliban 9 is currently experiencing
00:38:06A level 13 commentary fragment bombardment
00:38:08Fine, get me the height
00:38:10And the frequency of the thermonuclear impact room
00:38:13Approximately 47.6 thousand miles
00:38:15Every three and one half seconds
00:38:16Perfect, feed that information to the helm guidance system
00:38:30Aggie, I'm afraid you're going to get you a big test a little early
00:38:34Now, the computer's going to give you a course
00:38:35But 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
00:38:47Yes, Caliban 9 for the last week
00:38:49Has been bombarded with the last pieces of an enormous comet
00:38:52And I'm betting that Sean doesn't have the equipment
00:38:56To predict the frequency of the impact explosion
00:38:59So if we can lead him into that
00:39:00At just the right second
00:39:02Sorensen, if we're a half second off
00:39:04All right, Deb
00:39:04The information's coming up on my screen now
00:39:07Don't worry, Justin
00:39:08If I'm off, we fry
00:39:12Just one of those blasts could cripple us, Warlord
00:39:15Do you think they're suicidal, Val, Val?
00:39:18If thought goes in, we go in
00:39:34Sorensen, come back for you
00:39:35As always, get out of your room
00:39:35Come on, all right, let's check these –
00:39:40OK, we're here
00:39:43How long are we going?
00:39:45Have we, ladies?
00:39:45I don't know
00:39:46But you're going
00:39:47Do you think I don't know
00:39:47That's really nice
00:39:47Why the name is
00:39:49Sorensen
00:39:50Let's see
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
00:44:03so 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
00:44:48now he's got a point though will he
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 on 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
00:45:44this 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
00:46:03then 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 what i meant
00:46:24what was wally
00:46:25what are you up to
00:46:27airlock secured
00:46:38well wally is this the client you mentioned
00:46:40this is him
00:46:40justin thorpe
00:46:41ruler core
00:46:42and her
00:46:44assistant
00:46:45jonah
00:46:48jonah's a zen trick
00:46:50i wouldn't try shaking hands with her
00:46:51unless you can afford to lose one
00:46:55ruler thanks for signing on
00:46:57i want you to know mr thorpe
00:46:58that 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
00:47:22with 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
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
00:47:49they haven't seen each other in years
00:47:50and you do need an arbitrator
00:48:12mother
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
00:48:37nobody 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
00:49:06nobody did from that war
00:49:08the whole system's a neutron wasteland
00:49:10and when he died
00:49:12and 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
00:50:20do 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 aren't they
00:50:53known throughout the galaxy
00:50:55for 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
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 jana
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
00:52:03you 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?
00:52:39I don't know that 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 cards.
00:53:15Holy...
00:53:20Am I seeing that?
00:53:21Tell 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.
00:54:03The engineers?
00:54:04They're not kidnappers.
00:54:05They don't even carry weapons.
00:54:06Maybe 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.
00:54:57Anxious 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 reassembled at another
00:55:39terminal.
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 gonna 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,
00:56:20and then see and hear exactly what 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,
00:56:32and that'll kill any chance of 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,
00:57:01and I've programmed our 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,
00:57:20so if you have any problem...
00:57:21I won't.
00:57:22All right.
00:57:24We should be ready to start down.
00:57:27All right.
00:57:37Wally, stay close, Justin.
00:57:40If you move outside the transverse while it's active,
00:57:42it could be most unpleasant.
00:58:03Well, brave travelers.
00:58:08You are welcome, indeed.
00:58:12I must say, Chaklan, 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,
00:58:29you might wish to learn something of our customs,
00:58:32our culture,
00:58:34and our designs for the future.
00:58:36It might help you to decide if we were right or wrong
00:58:40to bring Nova here.
00:58:44Come.
00:58:53Our society, though shielded from outsiders,
00:58:56is an ancient one.
00:58:58The city you are about to see
00:59:00is 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,
00:59:43our society inspires in our citizens
00:59:46a respect for the rule of law.
00:59:49You see,
00:59:50in order for any system to work for one,
00:59:53it must work for all.
00:59:58But, your people,
01:00:02for all your talk of progress and community,
01:00:06there don't seem to be any emotional connection between them.
01:00:09In fact,
01:00:11there's no feeling of intimacy anywhere.
01:00:13Of course not.
01:00:16On our home world,
01:00:18we have eliminated all conflict.
01:00:21Can you imagine what that must be like?
01:00:24In order to achieve that goal,
01:00:25we had to eliminate the causes of conflict.
01:00:29Factionalism,
01:00:30tribalism,
01:00:30nationalism,
01:00:31globalism.
01:00:32Families.
01:00:34You started by eliminating families.
01:00:36Precisely,
01:00:37Mr. Thorpe.
01:00:39What has forever been known as the family system
01:00:41is,
01:00:42in fact,
01:00:42the basic unit of all conflict.
01:00:45Either from within,
01:00:47or when families form the building blocks
01:00:49of competing tribes,
01:00:50nations,
01:00:51worlds.
01:00:53Was it not just such factionalism
01:00:55that destroyed your beloved republic,
01:00:57General Sorensen?
01:00:58Well, how do you bring it?
01:01:00How do you perpetuate your race?
01:01:02We are a race,
01:01:04not of blood,
01:01:05but of ideas.
01:01:08Thus,
01:01:08all intimate physical contact
01:01:10between members of the engineer society
01:01:12is strictly forbidden.
01:01:15Our genetic experts
01:01:16are striving to perfect a method
01:01:18of single-sex reproduction,
01:01:20while advanced hormonal restructuring
01:01:23will eliminate any sense
01:01:25of gender identity.
01:01:27In this way,
01:01:29we shall eradicate
01:01:32even conflict
01:01:33between the sexes.
01:01:36You're crazy.
01:01:39No.
01:01:41No, it's not crazy, Justin.
01:01:43The shockland's right.
01:01:45Nova?
01:01:49Nova.
01:01:50Are you okay?
01:01:51Why wouldn't I be?
01:01:53Did you really come
01:01:54with these people willingly?
01:01:55Of course.
01:01:57It's an honor to be chosen
01:01:59for re-education.
01:02:00I was the only one
01:02:01in our whole sector.
01:02:03Re-education?
01:02:05We have not yet perfected
01:02:07our method
01:02:07of single-sex reproduction.
01:02:10Until we do,
01:02:11we perpetuate our race
01:02:13by taking in the most gifted children
01:02:16in the galaxy
01:02:16and allowing them
01:02:18to learn our ways.
01:02:21So,
01:02:22in the end,
01:02:23you are just
01:02:24simple kidnappers.
01:02:26They're not.
01:02:27They're allowing me
01:02:28to learn and grow
01:02:29and be a part
01:02:29of a great society.
01:02:31But Nova,
01:02:31we're family.
01:02:32Family?
01:02:34Family?
01:02:34Like Mom and Dad
01:02:35who abandoned us?
01:02:38Families like that
01:02:38turn the galaxy
01:02:39into the place it is.
01:02:41What have you done to her?
01:02:43Must we have done something
01:02:44for a child
01:02:45as gifted as your sister
01:02:47to see the obvious truth?
01:02:48And your sister
01:02:49is gifted, Justin.
01:02:51More gifted
01:02:51than any new member
01:02:52of our society in years.
01:02:54Gifted enough
01:02:55in all probability
01:02:56to one day
01:02:57be incorporated
01:02:58into the sublime plenum.
01:03:00The what?
01:03:02Our highest authority.
01:03:07Yes,
01:03:08of course.
01:03:10It is decided
01:03:12so genuine
01:03:13as our desire
01:03:14to include you
01:03:15in our society
01:03:16that you shall be
01:03:17the first off-worlders
01:03:19to observe
01:03:19the miracle
01:03:20of the plenum.
01:03:22Justin,
01:03:23the plenum!
01:03:24It's such an honor!
01:03:25Nova?
01:03:26I'm sorry,
01:03:27Shoklyn.
01:03:29Shall I show them
01:03:30what I mean?
01:03:34Try to communicate
01:03:35with her, Justin.
01:03:36She's exhibiting
01:03:37all the signs
01:03:38of narcon-neural
01:03:38root patterning.
01:03:39Marinewashing?
01:03:41Worse.
01:03:41I'd say
01:03:42they'd actually
01:03:43been tampering
01:03:43with the characteristic
01:03:44structure for neural net.
01:04:01Hi.
01:04:15The sublime plenum.
01:04:18The sublime plenum.
01:04:26The sublime plenum.
01:04:28Well,
01:04:29he's hailing us.
01:04:37Well, now,
01:04:39I knew Thorpe was desperate,
01:04:40but I didn't know
01:04:41he'd hide behind children.
01:04:43You want to fight?
01:04:45You'll see
01:04:46how much of a child I am.
01:04:48After all my years
01:04:49of conquering
01:04:50and pillaging,
01:04:50them to meet my end
01:04:51by being strangled
01:04:52with a diaper.
01:04:54Horrors.
01:04:55Where's Thorpe?
01:04:57He's
01:04:59not on board.
01:05:00Ah,
01:05:01what a pity.
01:05:02Because in that case,
01:05:04young lady,
01:05:05you're going to die alone.
01:05:12John,
01:05:13it's I've heard
01:05:13auxiliary power
01:05:14to the deafness.
01:05:17I've got to figure out
01:05:18what to do.
01:05:24Honored ancestors,
01:05:27we have reached
01:05:28a determination.
01:05:31Despite
01:05:31their advanced age,
01:05:33they shall be granted
01:05:35inclusion into society,
01:05:37provided that they agree
01:05:39to be re-educated.
01:05:42Justin,
01:05:43they're going to let you stay.
01:05:44Yeah,
01:05:45well,
01:05:45before we go
01:05:46joining up,
01:05:47why don't you tell us
01:05:47what that thing is?
01:05:49Each
01:05:50conscious being
01:05:51has a unique
01:05:52pattern
01:05:53of synaptic pathways
01:05:55which constitute
01:05:56his or her own
01:05:57life force,
01:05:58or what you might call
01:05:59a soul.
01:06:01We have found a way
01:06:02to transfer that pattern
01:06:04at the time
01:06:05of an individual's
01:06:06body death
01:06:06to other
01:06:07inert
01:06:08organic tissues.
01:06:11Thus,
01:06:12the minds
01:06:12and thoughts
01:06:13of our greatest
01:06:14citizens
01:06:14are preserved
01:06:15indefinitely
01:06:16to guide
01:06:17our actions.
01:06:19Spiritual
01:06:20immortality?
01:06:21He's lying.
01:06:24What?
01:06:25That inert
01:06:26mass of flesh
01:06:27he'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.
01:06:33And it's in pain.
01:06:37To strangers
01:06:38agree
01:06:39to re-education.
01:06:42I'd like an answer
01:06:43to a question
01:06:44of my own
01:06:44before we answer yours.
01:06:47It is permitted.
01:06:49All this activity,
01:06:51the great energy
01:06:52of your society,
01:06:53it obviously has
01:06:53some ultimate purpose.
01:06:55Could you tell us
01:06:56what that purpose is?
01:06:57Our most productive
01:06:59society
01:07:00in galactic history.
01:07:02Its privacy
01:07:03must spread.
01:07:04We are at last
01:07:05able to let
01:07:06this process begin.
01:07:08I thought so.
01:07:10Galactic conquest.
01:07:12No,
01:07:12the core.
01:07:13Galactic liberation.
01:07:16An end
01:07:17to the strife
01:07:18that has plagued
01:07:19every civilization
01:07:20since the dawn
01:07:21of time.
01:07:22There will be
01:07:23many worlds
01:07:24who won't join
01:07:25willingly.
01:07:26Those
01:07:27who resist
01:07:28will be
01:07:30compelled.
01:07:31Or enslaved
01:07:33like this creature
01:07:34that houses
01:07:35your eternal souls.
01:07:36Let's be clear.
01:07:38I take it
01:07:39you're offering us
01:07:40a choice between
01:07:41re-education
01:07:42and termination,
01:07:43correct?
01:07:44No further options
01:07:46exist
01:07:47given current
01:07:48factors.
01:07:49Then consider this.
01:07:51My three associates
01:07:52and I
01:07:53have been implanted
01:07:54with transmission
01:07:55devices that are
01:07:56linked to our ship.
01:07:57Even now
01:07:58we're transmitting
01:07:59your words
01:07:59and your image
01:08:00over para-space waves
01:08:02to anyone in the galaxy
01:08:03capable of receiving them.
01:08:05How is this possible?
01:08:07Shukran.
01:08:08Revered ancestors,
01:08:10I...
01:08:11We...
01:08:12We did not
01:08:14think them so cunning.
01:08:16And we did not
01:08:17detect the devices.
01:08:18We also discovered
01:08:19that your repair team
01:08:20didn't reactivate
01:08:21our weapon systems
01:08:22and we've done
01:08:22so ourselves.
01:08:23We can punch a hole
01:08:25through your planetary
01:08:25shields
01:08:26and transverse out of here
01:08:27whenever we like.
01:08:28Impossible!
01:08:30You need a demonstration
01:08:31very well, General.
01:08:34All right, Maggie.
01:08:36Fire starboard gun
01:08:37number one.
01:08:39Aim just outside
01:08:40the city.
01:08:42When ready, Maggie.
01:08:46Maggie?
01:08:47Maggie?
01:08:48Where are you?
01:08:51So, the famed
01:08:53arbitrator's bluff.
01:08:55We are not quite
01:08:57so gullible.
01:08:59Take the strangers
01:09:00to the processing center,
01:09:03exercise their
01:09:04transmission devices
01:09:06and disfall
01:09:07some of their
01:09:08primitive bodies.
01:09:11Justin, no!
01:09:13No more!
01:09:14No more!
01:09:15Forget her, Justinthorpe.
01:09:17We gave you
01:09:18a chance
01:09:19for survival
01:09:19because we thought
01:09:21you might be exceptional.
01:09:23But you are
01:09:24only lying barbarians.
01:09:26Remove them!
01:09:29No more!
01:09:31John, I think
01:09:32we've got a link.
01:09:33Try patching it through.
01:09:38Hello?
01:09:38On the surface,
01:09:39wherever you are,
01:09:40can you hear me?
01:09:41Yes.
01:09:42Maggie, we're here.
01:09:43Where have you been?
01:09:44We have a slight
01:09:45problem here.
01:09:46It's Sean.
01:09:47He's attacking
01:09:47and he won't leave
01:09:48without Justin.
01:09:49We could probably
01:09:50destroy his ship,
01:09:51but...
01:09:51Well, I've never
01:09:52actually killed
01:09:53anybody before.
01:09:55You say Sean
01:09:56wants Justin,
01:09:57then you go right ahead
01:09:57and you tell him
01:09:58exactly where Justin is.
01:10:00What?
01:10:01Just do it.
01:10:15There must be a genetic
01:10:16defect.
01:10:17His body is rejecting
01:10:18the 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 gonna kill me,
01:10:38you can kill me
01:10:39right here and now.
01:10:40But as long as I'm alive,
01:10:42you won't subject
01:10:42my sister to any more of that.
01:10:44You'll do
01:10:45as you're told, Thorpe.
01:10:46Nova,
01:10:48I 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
01:10:54a mother and father,
01:10:55but you and me,
01:10:56we've always come through
01:10:56for each other.
01:10:58Always.
01:10:59See?
01:11:06Bio-Crystal.
01:11:07I got it for you
01:11:07that day at the Archives,
01:11:08remember?
01:11:10But now we won't have
01:11:11enough food for the winter.
01:11:12We will.
01:11:13We will.
01:11:14Enough of this, Thorpe.
01:11:18What was that?
01:11:24I'm very sorry.
01:11:26But if you have a score
01:11:28to settle with,
01:11:28my friend Thorpe,
01:11:31you'll have to wait
01:11:32your turn.
01:11:55Maggie, fire on the section
01:11:57of the defense shield
01:11:58above the city.
01:11:59Try to maintain an opening
01:12:00long enough to transverse
01:12:02us 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
01:12:13to assemble and launch.
01:12:15You okay?
01:12:16Yes, thanks.
01:12:16I told you we didn't have to
01:12:17worry about the old man.
01:12:20No!
01:12:21You will not take her!
01:12:45I can't even see most of them.
01:12:49We have got to break off
01:12:50and head for open space.
01:12:51We'd be a match for the squadron,
01:12:52but not a whole fleet!
01:12:54We're not leaving without her.
01:12:55I don't care what they send
01:12:56against us.
01:12:57We're going back, Thorpe!
01:12:59Oh!
01:13:10Welcome.
01:13:11Good to have you back amongst us.
01:13:15I was afraid I'd given you
01:13:16a 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
01:13:26to head for arm
01:13:27when the engineer fleet appeared.
01:13:29Still no reply, General.
01:13:31I don't understand.
01:13:32You know, we're well
01:13:32within power of space range.
01:13:34Nothing.
01:13:34Or range, or reply.
01:13:37Remember the Republican loyalists
01:13:39I told you about
01:13:39on Markham IV?
01:13:40You're not going to
01:13:41abandon my sister.
01:13:42We're not going to
01:13:42abandon your sister.
01:13:43We're going back for her.
01:13:44But I will not have this
01:13:46be a suicide mission.
01:13:48There's no one group
01:13:49can stand alone
01:13:50against the engineers.
01:13:51This has got to be
01:13:52a united, galactic effort.
01:13:55Talking about
01:13:55reviving the Republic?
01:13:56Justin, give yourself
01:13:58a minute to think about this.
01:13:59People already understand
01:14:00the Republic.
01:14:01It's an idea you won't have
01:14:02to waste a lot of time
01:14:02explaining.
01:14:03Except to me.
01:14:05It probably fell apart, Wally.
01:14:07What makes you think
01:14:08it's not going to happen again?
01:14:09Yes.
01:14:11I've spent a lot of time
01:14:12thinking about that.
01:14:13Oh, really?
01:14:14Yes, really.
01:14:15There's a lot of truth
01:14:16in what you say.
01:14:18Towards the end,
01:14:19the leaders of the Republic
01:14:20may have become
01:14:20too remote.
01:14:22We should have had
01:14:23new blood.
01:14:23We 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
01:14:38for my opinion?
01:14:40You saved my butt
01:14:41twice in one week.
01:14:42I figure I can manage that.
01:14:44I think we can't go back
01:14:45for Nova without help.
01:14:52So what do we do now?
01:14:54We need a rallying point
01:14:55of some kind.
01:14:57Someone associated
01:14:58with the Republic
01:14:58that people want to follow.
01:15:00A name they can trust.
01:15:03And there's only one
01:15:03logical choice.
01:15:05The boy I told you about.
01:15:08The grandson
01:15:09of Junius Cabell.
01:15:12Finally,
01:15:13Markab 4.
01:15:15Granddad,
01:15:16it's Mashua.
01:15:17Put her on the screen.
01:15:19I repeat.
01:15:20Alexander,
01:15:21if it is you
01:15:22hailing us,
01:15:24stay away.
01:15:25Stay away.
01:15:26Mashua,
01:15:27what's happening?
01:15:28The entire planet
01:15:29tries attack.
01:15:31We don't know who.
01:15:33Can you give us
01:15:34a visual?
01:15:35No.
01:15:36They are cloaked.
01:15:37Don't,
01:15:38don't approach.
01:15:39They are too many.
01:15:41But we've come
01:15:42for the boy,
01:15:43Cabell.
01:15:44You mean Trajan?
01:15:46He hasn't been
01:15:46on this planet
01:15:47for years.
01:15:48I thought you knew.
01:15:49The plan
01:15:50for the Republic?
01:15:52Trajan rejected
01:15:53everything about
01:15:54the Republic
01:15:55since he grew up.
01:15:56He called all of us
01:15:58sentimental fools.
01:16:00He stole a ship.
01:16:03He changed his name.
01:16:05And he went off.
01:16:07Where?
01:16:08I don't know.
01:16:09But he calls himself
01:16:11Sean now.
01:16:13Alexander?
01:16:14He's not Sean.
01:16:15Mashua!
01:16:16Fire
01:16:17intensifying.
01:16:19We lost our ship.
01:16:22Mashua!
01:16:24Mashua!
01:16:25Wally,
01:16:25reestablish contact
01:16:26with Marcap 4.
01:16:28There's
01:16:31no sign of life
01:16:32on Marcap 4.
01:16:35They got here first.
01:16:37The engineers?
01:16:39Who else can build
01:16:40ships that can fire
01:16:42even while cloaked?
01:16:45All right,
01:16:46Maggie,
01:16:46get us out of here
01:16:47before they realize
01:16:47we're in the area.
01:16:48Now!
01:16:49But what course?
01:16:50Caliban 6.
01:16:52Justine.
01:16:54What?
01:16:55So what if this
01:16:55Cabal descendant
01:16:56is Henoch Sean?
01:16:57He's still the only
01:16:58hope you got.
01:16:59He knows what the
01:17:00engineers are up to.
01:17:01We'll just meet with him
01:17:02and make him see reason.
01:17:04Make Henoch Sean
01:17:05see reason?
01:17:08Does that mean
01:17:09you agree?
01:17:11You agree to go along
01:17:13with the plan?
01:17:14I'm not so stupid
01:17:15I don't get your point,
01:17:16Sorenson.
01:17:16I'll get you Henoch.
01:17:17Henoch will get you
01:17:18the loyalists and their ships
01:17:19and we go back
01:17:19for my sister.
01:17:20Well, what makes you
01:17:21think he'll meet with us?
01:17:23He won't meet with us.
01:17:24He'll meet with me
01:17:25and it won't be to talk.
01:17:27I just hope I can get
01:17:28my point across
01:17:28before he kills me.
01:17:32Well, well, well.
01:17:34Citizen Thor.
01:17:36You got here quickly.
01:17:39The Osiris is certainly
01:17:40a remarkable ship.
01:17:41I must say,
01:17:42I'm going to make
01:17:43good use of her
01:17:45after I've killed you,
01:17:47I mean.
01:17:49Are you going
01:17:50to kill me, Sean?
01:17:51Or should I call you
01:17:53Trajan Cabell?
01:17:55Ooh.
01:17:58Been doing a little
01:17:59detective work now,
01:18:01have we?
01:18:03That knowledge
01:18:04will die with you.
01:18:05I trust you've abided
01:18:06by our agreement
01:18:07to 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
01:18:22engineers are up to.
01:18:23And when they come
01:18:24to Caliban 6,
01:18:25I'll fight you!
01:18:29You're loose.
01:18:30What other choice is there?
01:18:32Not the Republic.
01:18:34You could be
01:18:35the new pro-castle.
01:18:36Tempting,
01:18:37but I'm afraid not.
01:18:38People like you and me
01:18:39have no place
01:18:39in a world like that,
01:18:40Thorpe.
01:18:41We're fighters.
01:18:42Survivors!
01:18:48But you're family!
01:18:50You don't imagine
01:18:50I ever knew my family,
01:18:52do you?
01:18:52The people who raised you,
01:18:54Sean.
01:18:54What about them?
01:18:56They're dead,
01:18:56murdered by the engineers.
01:18:58A desperate
01:18:59and pathetic boy,
01:19:00Thorpe!
01:19:01You don't even know
01:19:01who those people are!
01:19:03Don't I?
01:19:03The old woman,
01:19:04Moshua.
01:19:06I'm letting you, Thorpe.
01:19:07Don't go on with this.
01:19:16We saw the engineers
01:19:17kill them.
01:19:20Does that mean
01:19:21anything to you?
01:19:24Yes.
01:19:29As a matter of fact,
01:19:30it does.
01:19:34She never asked
01:19:35for the job
01:19:35of bringing me up
01:19:36any more than
01:19:36I asked to have her.
01:19:39But she never objected,
01:19:41never complained.
01:19:44Always felt a little bad
01:19:45about not saying goodbye.
01:19:50You say they destroyed
01:19:51the entire surface
01:19:52of the planet.
01:19:53Totally.
01:19:54Some advanced form
01:19:55form of anti-matter radiation.
01:19:59You have a strategy,
01:20:01I suppose,
01:20:02Sorensen.
01:20:04Yes.
01:20:05They'll hit the planets
01:20:06that were Republican
01:20:07centers first.
01:20:08We'll beat them
01:20:09to the punch.
01:20:10Then we'll organize
01:20:11those worlds
01:20:11and get them
01:20:12on our side.
01:20:14Oh,
01:20:14this wonderful
01:20:16Republican technology.
01:20:19And that's
01:20:20our strategy.
01:20:22Beat them
01:20:23to the punch.
01:20:27Well,
01:20:27not a bad one
01:20:28at that.
01:20:29Oh,
01:20:30so I take it
01:20:30you do agree.
01:20:33What about you,
01:20:34Thorpe?
01:20:36What's your role
01:20:37to be?
01:20:38My job's done.
01:20:40I'm going back
01:20:40for my sister.
01:20:42With what weapons,
01:20:44if I may ask?
01:20:45According to
01:20:46the general here,
01:20:47once word spreads
01:20:48that you've signed on,
01:20:49there's going to be
01:20:49a whole fleet
01:20:49of Republican ships.
01:20:51Not the squadron
01:20:53Benador
01:20:53put together.
01:20:57So,
01:20:58Sorensen,
01:21:00you've tricked
01:21:01our friend Thorpe.
01:21:02What do you mean,
01:21:03tricked?
01:21:03What's he talking about?
01:21:05Well,
01:21:05I do think
01:21:06you might be honest
01:21:07with the man,
01:21:07Sorensen.
01:21:08Justin,
01:21:10the ships I wanted
01:21:11were part of an organized
01:21:12Republican squadron.
01:21:14It took years
01:21:15to assemble.
01:21:17But they were on
01:21:18Markab 4.
01:21:19They were obliterated.
01:21:20What?
01:21:23You knew that
01:21:24before 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,
01:21:36you would have turned me down.
01:21:38You used me.
01:21:40Justin,
01:21:41Justin,
01:21:42we need you.
01:21:43We even need Sean.
01:21:45If I may,
01:21:46Sorensen.
01:21:47What?
01:21:48Thorpe and I
01:21:49understand each other.
01:21:51In a way.
01:21:55Oh, Justin,
01:21:56how are you?
01:21:57I love you.
01:21:59Why are you making me do this?
01:22:03Can I get it by a crystal?
01:22:07What else did I say?
01:22:10Coming back up?
01:22:11No,
01:22:12what do I do?
01:22:13The bridge is awfully empty
01:22:15without a leader, Thorpe.
01:22:18Well,
01:22:19I always told you
01:22:19you had potential.
01:22:21I just didn't think
01:22:22it would fulfill itself
01:22:23in circumstances
01:22:23like these.
01:22:26Is there already
01:22:27when General
01:22:27too many on board?
01:22:30Who?
01:22:33Sorensen?
01:22:35His day's passed
01:22:36and he knows it.
01:22:39What about you?
01:22:42On this ship?
01:22:43I don't think so.
01:22:47It'll be hard enough
01:22:48being pro-consul
01:22:49without having to act
01:22:50like one.
01:22:51No,
01:22:52I'll stay aboard
01:22:53the Daedalus.
01:22:57Oh.
01:23:00Your sister got the looks
01:23:01as well as the brains.
01:23:04Genetics can be so unfair.
01:23:07You know as well as I do
01:23:09the old man's right.
01:23:10I love you.
01:23:12If you ever hope
01:23:13to see your sister again,
01:23:14you'll have to let go
01:23:15of her for now.
01:23:16Face the bigger problem first.
01:23:18If you try and go back,
01:23:20they'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
01:23:36if the engineers
01:23:37have their way.
01:23:38But there won't be
01:23:39much point in living.
01:23:41I know.
01:23:44And I know you know.
01:23:48Now,
01:23:52get back to that bridge.
01:23:55I know you.
01:23:58Bye.
01:24:09Warlord.
01:24:11You're not serious
01:24:13about all this.
01:24:14It's for a public business,
01:24:16are you?
01:24:17I'm not sure.
01:24:20The situation
01:24:21does have possibilities.
01:24:24But what will
01:24:25the rest of us do?
01:24:28Do?
01:24:31You will follow
01:24:32my orders
01:24:33as always.
01:24:34now get back
01:24:36to the ship.
01:24:47There are ghosts
01:24:48aboard this great vessel.
01:25:01It's all right.
01:25:05I'm sorry.
01:25:09Just for
01:25:10future reference,
01:25:11you won't be
01:25:12needing tricks
01:25:13anymore.
01:25:16Deal.
01:25:21There's a chair
01:25:22on this bridge
01:25:23that nobody sat in
01:25:25for many years.
01:25:27I think you should
01:25:28see how it feels.
01:25:31You're going to be
01:25:32spending a lot
01:25:32of time in it.
01:25:45What was the closest
01:25:47Republican senator
01:25:48to Mark Ebb
01:25:48for in the old days?
01:25:50Gamma Valorum.
01:25:53Maggie?
01:25:57Lay in a course.
01:25:58You got it.
01:26:01But if you think
01:26:02you're getting
01:26:03a yes, sir,
01:26:03out of me.
01:26:15As Sorenton had said,
01:26:16the job before us
01:26:17was almost overwhelming.
01:26:19The engineers
01:26:20had spent years
01:26:20getting ready
01:26:21and we were scrambling
01:26:22for counter moves,
01:26:23making them up
01:26:24as we went along.
01:26:26We'd have to
01:26:27plan a campaign.
01:26:29Rebuild our
01:26:30technological systems.
01:26:33Negotiate allies.
01:26:35And train a new
01:26:36generation to fight
01:26:37for a set of ideals
01:26:38that most people
01:26:39believed were dead.
01:26:41Ideals that had
01:26:42brought one of the
01:26:43galaxy's most
01:26:43dangerous warlords
01:26:44face to face
01:26:45with his past
01:26:46and with his destiny.
01:26:49And the image
01:26:50of the one we'd
01:26:51been forced to
01:26:51leave behind
01:26:52would never leave
01:26:52our thoughts
01:26:53for very long.
01:26:55In some ways,
01:26:56success seemed
01:26:57impossible.
01:26:58But we had
01:26:59something the
01:26:59engineers could
01:27:00never have.
01:27:02The trust of
01:27:03friends who had
01:27:04already risked
01:27:04everything for
01:27:05each other.
01:27:06Who were bound
01:27:07by just the kind
01:27:07of ties that the
01:27:08engineers were
01:27:09trying to destroy.
01:27:14As for whether
01:27:15or not we made it,
01:27:16in the end,
01:27:18that's the story
01:27:19these chronicles
01:27:20will tell.
01:27:21enabled.
01:27:49That's the day
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