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00:00:42The stars, over the centuries everything else in the galaxy has changed, keeps changing, but somehow they manage to stay
00:00:50the same.
00:00:53Three hundred years ago, colonists from Earth first brought the advances of their own global republic to the rest of
00:00:58the galaxy.
00:01:00They established colonies and built cities on planets in every system and sector.
00:01:05There's no denying the achievements of the galactic republic in those early days.
00:01:09War, famine, crime, even most diseases became things of the past.
00:01:14But then came the fall.
00:01:16No conquering enemies swept in from outside the galaxy to end it all.
00:01:20No of the worst enemies of the republic turned out to be the citizens of the republic themselves.
00:01:26Ancient factional rivalries buried for centuries flared up hotter than ever.
00:01:30The rule of civilized law was stretched tight and finally broke.
00:01:35The galaxy's dark age had begun.
00:01:50I was born on this planet called Caliban 6 in the Sifian sector in 2391 and lived here with my
00:01:57kid's sister until I was 29.
00:02:00A long time before that, our parents had taken our other brothers and sisters and disappeared.
00:02:04Why? We never really knew.
00:02:07Most likely there were just too many mouths to feed.
00:02:10That's how things were back then.
00:02:13Survival was all that mattered.
00:02:18Look who we got here!
00:02:20Look who we got here!
00:02:25Starlight!
00:02:26Where are you?
00:02:27Come on, hurry up!
00:02:28Let's go!
00:02:29Come on!
00:02:32Get out of there, love you!
00:02:35Come on!
00:02:36Get in there, let's see what we've got here!
00:02:38Come on, hurry up!
00:02:41Tricycletree!
00:02:42Oh, yeah, baby!
00:02:42Oh, yeah!
00:02:46Get back!
00:02:49Get the hypos!
00:02:50We're gonna hypo up first, then we're gonna have some real fun!
00:02:58Oh, yeah!
00:03:00Don't spill it!
00:03:01Oh, be careful, be careful!
00:03:09Hey, get out of here!
00:03:10Give me something!
00:03:11Give me something!
00:03:12Get out of here!
00:03:13Give me something!
00:03:19Keep quiet if you want to get out of this alive.
00:03:27Who...
00:03:28Who are you?
00:03:30Nobody.
00:03:32What's in the vehicle?
00:03:33Drugs.
00:03:34We were taking them to Barton, the city square.
00:03:37They...
00:03:37They killed my husband.
00:03:39He never had a chance.
00:03:41Most people don't.
00:03:43Forget your cargo, they're gonna use it up by morning.
00:03:46Yeah, baby.
00:03:46You better get moving.
00:03:48There's a village.
00:03:49A day is traveling on the other side of these rocks.
00:03:51People are decent enough, they'll take you in.
00:03:53What about my husband?
00:03:55Do you want to join him?
00:03:57Move.
00:03:59Move.
00:04:03I have nothing on me to repay you with.
00:04:05Forget it.
00:04:06In the vehicle, there's a case of cordium.
00:04:08If they haven't smashed it.
00:04:11Move.
00:04:11Move...
00:04:12I've...
00:04:14I've...
00:04:40What's that?
00:04:42Give me it.
00:04:44I can't.
00:04:46Huh?
00:04:47Why?
00:04:49Because I'm not even here.
00:04:50You're hallucinating I'm a bad dream.
00:04:55What?
00:04:56Look, there goes another one.
00:05:24You can breathe now.
00:05:27No, I can't. Is 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 got to teach me how to do that.
00:05:37Oh, slow down. You just started flying a few months ago.
00:05:41So? I 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, Nova, Thorpe.
00:06:14How are you?
00:06:15So, Matrix said it's model social skills.
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?
00:06:28No, just coming to say hi.
00:06:30What have you got?
00:06:32Something'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.
00:06:43That 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 see words like that too often.
00:06:53I'll court him.
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.
00:07:31Our family used to be bigger.
00:07:33Yeah.
00:07:34I can't tell you why they left, but...
00:07:36I'll tell you that I'm not going anywhere.
00:07:40Okay?
00:07:42Okay.
00:07:43Let's get off, just 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.
00:08:00Well, maybe 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 borrowed her a lot for the fortium.
00:08:17Yeah, we're going to 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.
00:08:46Maybe someday, down the line.
00:08:53Hey, I'm going to get through another chapter of this.
00:08:55Give me a hand.
00:08:56Give me a hand.
00:08:57Let's see.
00:09:03Where are we at?
00:09:07There.
00:09:08This was the...
00:09:13Pleasantest.
00:09:14Pleasantest year of all the life I lead and led in this place.
00:09:23Friday began to talk pretty well and understand the names of almost everything.
00:09:42People are dead, Dan.
00:09:44I've eaten up when you're dead.
00:09:48To the moon!
00:09:52Justin...
00:09:52Where have you been?
00:09:53And what's that you're carrying?
00:09:55It looks valuable.
00:09:56It is, Gita.
00:09:57Wouldn't interest you, though.
00:09:59Anything of value interests me.
00:10:01Don't let that mound dweller place you, Justin.
00:10:03I can give you everything you need for a whole lot less.
00:10:06It looks like trashy people are all the same.
00:10:08Lower than the worm-infested land, you little.
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.
00:11:01Fly strong relay.
00:11:03Here, hardly you.
00:11:06Alphrodisia?
00:11:08Bioorganisms.
00:11:10Medi-kipopanus.
00:11:12Party parts.
00:11:14Fire crystals.
00:11:16Bioorganisms.
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, 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 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 going to have to deal with me.
00:11:58Couldn't use a case of quartium for the Daedalus' hyperoptic drive, could you?
00:12:05Quartium?
00:12:07Interstellar grade?
00:12:08How would I be here if it wasn't?
00:12:14What's your price?
00:12:1620 months of rations, 12 ounces of refined platinum, 8 Centauri sapphires, all cut, 60 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.
00:12:45What do you mean?
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.
00:12:57Look!
00:12:58It's a Daedalus!
00:13:01Enoch Sean has returned!
00:13:05Got a while?
00:13:07I'll be back for the rest of my loot.
00:13:08Can't stand to stay around and watch you lick Sean's boots.
00:13:22There's got to be a way around, miss.
00:13:28Matrix, try...
00:13:32Body parts!
00:13:35Bioorganism!
00:13:36Hey, you!
00:13:37Sir!
00:13:38Do you have any bio-crystals?
00:13:39Not any, sir.
00:13:41The best.
00:13:42The most beautifully formed, harmonious little creatures.
00:13:55One of the maker's true miracles, sir.
00:13:58Living rock.
00:13:59They give you loving companionship and soothing warmth, and all they ask is a little water in return.
00:14:05What could you ask of a fellow creature?
00:14:07Would you trade one for 12 ounces of platinum?
00:14:11Refined?
00:14:12Refined?
00:14:13Of course, sir.
00:14:17Nova!
00:14:24Nova, you here?
00:14:28You got something you're going to want to see?
00:14:45Matrix, locate subject Novothorpe.
00:14:48Subject Novothorpe is not within my sensory perimeter.
00:14:53Matrix, did subject Novothorpe exit the perimeter with subject Maggie Sorensen?
00:14:57That information is classified.
00:15:01Who classified it?
00:15:03That information is unavailable.
00:15:07Patch me through to subject Maggie Sorensen now.
00:15:14Well, well, if it isn't public nuisance number one.
00:15:18Where's Nova?
00:15:19What do you mean?
00:15:20I dropped her off at your place last night.
00:15:22I haven't seen her since.
00:15:23I can't find her.
00:15:25Well, maybe she's out of range of your sensors.
00:15:27Your system is pretty limited.
00:15:30Scout around the remorse, see if you can find her.
00:15:32Justin, where are you going?
00:15:33To the only one who can help me.
00:15:44Is that our friend Thorpe?
00:15:49Bring 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 gouged Valois today.
00:16:07The deal was fair.
00:16:09Actually, 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.
00:16:21What does that make you, Sean?
00:16:24That makes me warlord of this planet, Thorpe.
00:16:28Be thankful your little schemes have never conflicted with mine or you would have discovered the true meaning of that
00:16:33title.
00:16:36Now then.
00:16:40Valois tells me you took some more research materials from the archives today.
00:16:45I must say, I do find all this intellectual ambition quite admirable.
00:16:53Would you care to have a drink?
00:16:56Discuss some philosophical puzzle?
00:16:58Lord knows I can't discuss any such matters with these boys.
00:17:01Hmm, Valois?
00:17:03Well, he's a capable man.
00:17:07But sometimes, I 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?
00:17:38My sister's missing.
00:17:41Justin, you 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.
00:18:10Oh, it will cost you those Centauri sapphires, though.
00:18:16I wouldn't ask myself, but whenever I offer services for nothing, Valois becomes positively morbid.
00:18:32No negotiation.
00:18:35You 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.
00:18:55Send it out to all our posts.
00:18:57Contact the ship.
00:18:58Find out if anyone's left the planet in the last few hours and put the sensors to work.
00:19:07Paul.
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 Sean.
00:19:27You have to help me.
00:19:28I'm sorry, Thor.
00:19:29I 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.
00:19:47You want my advice?
00:19:50Forget your sister.
00:19:52Forget?
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.
00:20:26Now, while you'll stay in charge here, Baraka, come.
00:20:35Who else?
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.
00:20:57A little different sector.
00:21:00Justin, we need help.
00:21:02We?
00:21:05Well, 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.
00:21:30Well, 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 to help.
00:21:45Well, you and your kind have been helping out, 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.
00:22:22Read it.
00:22:23Read 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?
00:23:14So where's this ship?
00:23:17And what's so amazing about it that you can't?
00:23:24What is that?
00:23:26That's it?
00:23:27That's the Osiris.
00:23:30Republican ship of the law.
00:23:35That's your only hope.
00:23:38And mine too.
00:23:54And mine too.
00:23:56No one.
00:23:57Hey.
00:24:00Yeah.
00:24:25Maybe you're welcome.
00:24:26Maybe I'm not sure.
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.
00:25:08And that is gonna take enormous power.
00:25:22How is it Enoch 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 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?
00:26:58No.
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.
00:27:30Isn't Junius Cabell, the last proconsul of the Republic?
00:27:34Thought 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.
00:27:51Oh, I get it.
00:27:53You need me to raise money for the engineer so you can take this trip.
00:27:56And you do know how I'm likely to do that.
00:27:58Well, it's not really necessary that I know, is it?
00:28:01No.
00:28:02But 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.
00:28:17Yes.
00:28:33Hey, old man. Go on.
00:28:36Hey, old man.
00:28:37You know nobody's allowed around the archives after dark.
00:28:41You know nobody's allowed around the archives after dark.
00:28:42Gah!
00:28:44Gah!
00:28:45Gah!
00:28:46Gah!
00:28:47Gah!
00:28:50Gah!
00:28:50Oh.
00:28:51Oh.
00:28:52Oh.
00:28:53Oh.
00:28:54Oh.
00:28:56Oh.
00:28:57Oh.
00:28:58Oh.
00:28:58Oh.
00:28:59Oh.
00:28:59Oh.
00:29:00Oh.
00:29:02Oh.
00:29:14Oh.
00:29:19Oh.
00:29:23Oh.
00:29:24I thought I told you to stay on the ship.
00:29:27Well, you weren't kidding.
00:29:31You could definitely do a lot of damage with one of these things.
00:29:35Is he dead?
00:29:37Nope. Stunned.
00:29:38Remind me to give you a lesson taking orders later.
00:29:41Hey, I'm not doing Nova any good sitting around waiting for you to get shot.
00:29:45Just keep your eyes peeled.
00:29:47Point that thing somewhere else.
00:29:50Come on, come on!
00:29:55I definitely got to look at this whole war-lording thing.
00:29:58Pipe down, fill your pockets.
00:30:00We gotta get out of here before Sean gets back.
00:30:06Okay.
00:30:08That's enough, let's go.
00:30:10But there's still some left.
00:30:12It's just gonna weigh us down. Come on.
00:30:18Come on!
00:30:22So what happens now?
00:30:23You send out a signal and these engineer people just appear?
00:30:27Yeah.
00:30:28Welcome aboard, yes.
00:30:29In a day or so, one of their ships will pull alongside the Osiris,
00:30:33and a repair team will come aboard.
00:30:37Their equipment's top of the line.
00:30:38With the rates they charge, they can afford it.
00:30:42Nobody knows where they come from or how it is they still have the knowledge to do what they do.
00:30:46So don't bother asking,
00:30:47because they won't tell.
00:30:50Okay.
00:30:53So, how you doing, sir?
00:31:02Oh, ma'am?
00:31:03Doh!
00:31:04Oh, ma'am.
00:32:07Yes, they did, didn't they?
00:32:09I take it you're in engineering.
00:32:12The dachyon generators are coming online.
00:32:15It's quite a sign, isn't it?
00:32:28The engineers' ship is signaling.
00:32:33They've disengaged and they're clear of us.
00:32:42Okay, I'm ready.
00:32:45You're ready? Ready for what? Come on, get out of the chair.
00:32:48Well, we've prepared a long time for this, Maggie. Let's see how well you were paying attention.
00:32:52Whoa, whoa, wait. You'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.
00:33:01And she spent hundreds of hours learning to man the helm of the Osiris.
00:33:05A 15-year-old is not gonna pilot an interstellar ship.
00:33:09She's more qualified than I am at this point.
00:33:13Unless you want to try, do you?
00:33:16Let me ask you one thing.
00:33:17Are you ever gonna tell me all the details of your little plan?
00:33:21Okay, Maggie.
00:33:24Take her out.
00:33:38Clear the dock.
00:33:49Easy, Maggie.
00:33:52Raise your collecting sales.
00:33:56Get your tachyon generators fully charged.
00:34:15Warlord.
00:34:18Excuse the intrusion, but we picked up...
00:34:20I'm sorry, Valwa. There's no way around it.
00:34:23I'll have to kill Thorpe.
00:34:25I know you wanted to, but I'll have to be the one to set the example.
00:34:29Warlord, we picked up...
00:34:30I'd rather not.
00:34:31Truly, I would.
00:34:32I mean, I sympathized with the man.
00:34:35Gave him my counsel.
00:34:37Well, I even found it in me to like him.
00:34:39Yet, how does he repay me?
00:34:42No, Valwa, unfortunately.
00:34:45No one.
00:34:46No one kills Justin Thorpe but me.
00:34:49Warlord.
00:34:50Our 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!
00:35:15Attack 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.
00:35:31I want that ship.
00:35:33Prepare to attack!
00:35:35Rock up!
00:35:36Engines 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!
00:35:54Hey, 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.
00:36:01Okay, 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!
00:36:07This is going to bring your sails down.
00:36:09But we're not at full power yet.
00:36:11I know that.
00:36:12But we're defenseless while they're up.
00:36:28What is that?
00:36:29What's happening?
00:36:30The old girl's rigging for action.
00:36:32Why the damn drums?
00:36:34Meeting to quarters.
00:36:35Blurting the crew.
00:36:36Effective, isn't it?
00:36:39Now, let's see who our guests are on screen.
00:36:46It's shot.
00:36:47Steady, Maggie.
00:36:48No need to panic.
00:36:50We've got enough weapons on this ship to take on five like him.
00:36:54Justin, you go to the weapons station.
00:36:58All right.
00:36:59Enabling weapons.
00:37:00You should be receiving a schematic array on your tactical screen now.
00:37:05Now?
00:37:05Now.
00:37:06I got nothing now.
00:37:10Eric!
00:37:12Maggie!
00:37:14Maintain evasive tactics.
00:37:16It's got to be the computers.
00:37:18Matrix!
00:37:19Activate all weapons systems on the following voiceprint authorization.
00:37:23Sorenson, Alexander, A-1971.
00:37:27Weapons systems cannot be accessed.
00:37:29You mean the voiceprint is down?
00:37:31Voiceprint authorization is online.
00:37:33Weapons access has been repatterned.
00:37:35Repatterned?
00:37:36Well, what is that repatterned?
00:37:38It means we've got a problem.
00:37:53Well, with our sails down, we can't outrun them, that's for sure.
00:37:55We've got to think of something.
00:37:57I just don't know.
00:37:58Wait a minute.
00:37:58Matrix!
00:38:00Matrix!
00:38:00Find your medium-read sensors and get me the current status on Caliban 9.
00:38:04The planet Caliban 9 is currently experiencing a level 13 commentary fragment bombardment.
00:38:08Fine.
00:38:09Get me the height and the frequency of the thermonuclear impact 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 Char doesn't have the equipment to predict the frequency of the impact explosions.
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.
00:39:21Hmm, oh, what did we do?
00:39:26Oh, no, no, no, no.
00:39:35I think they're toimbing him.
00:39:35Oh, no.
00:39:42Oh, no, no.
00:39:43You're here.
00:40:06Here are you.
00:40:08Let's go.
00:40:09We're here.
00:40:10Let's go.
00:40:12Let's go.
00:40:13Let's go.
00:40:13should be opening it now what I can feel it in handling there's another one coming now then put
00:40:18away put away
00:40:56we've just enough power to get clear of the planet world yes first we'll make repairs then we'll go
00:41:03after him well done citizen thought but you can't run forever all this firepower no idea how to make
00:41:22it work you know I know a guy an old friend from the Aquila system hey guys next problem what's
00:41:31wrong I'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 sins deck say same thing only one intruders left their ship wait
00:41:58he's in the officers quarters and he's playing with the nutrison nutrison
00:42:04hey who breaks into a ring like this just to read the kitchen what I want to know is how
00:42:08he broke it nobody's ever violated this mess of security
00:42:17come on come 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 hey Justin had a feeling you were on this ship
00:42:31the stupid nutrison claims it can't make a gel in our supreme
00:42:40hmm that's more like it
00:42:45nice ship you got here pal Justin
00:42:49who is that Wally Bryce the guy I was telling about before
00:42:54how are you General Sorensen Maggie oh what an amazingly fortunate coincidence wait a minute
00:43:01how did you know our names don't ask the feeling I got I get them and I've had one for
00:43:07the last day
00:43:08or so about you just I can't shake it how did you get to the security systems wasn't easy they're
00:43:16good
00:43:16but I had a feeling hey knock it off with that with what you know what I'm talking about those
00:43:21feelings
00:43:22of yours my friend here has a very accurate and annoying ability to sense things about people
00:43:28animals machines as long as you're here Wally you're putting it to work for us come on
00:43:37wait you're saying you're telepathic please I'm not telepathic I'm not psychic I'm not impact come on
00:43:42Wally do 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 warlords who want to find out what their
00:43:50enemies are up to all right I just get fairly reliable feelings let's just leave it at that
00:43:58okay okay so what happened to Nova anyway just gonna tell you Wally okay fine sorry go ahead
00:44:07it's not like I do it on purpose you know there's no structural damage just the access reconfiguration
00:44:15figures the engineers didn't fix it they're pretty passive people don't like working with weapons
00:44:21systems but I ought to be able to ah there we go
00:44:34splendid very good work Mr. Bryce don't mention it helps you find Nova seems like there's a lot of
00:44:40systems on this ship that would help find her the old war hero here doesn't know how to handle them
00:44:44wait a minute I was a general not a bloody admiral now he's got a point though Wally if you
00:44:50stayed aboard
00:44:50it would greatly improve our chances of getting Nova back it's a big favor to ask Wally we don't know
00:44:55who's got her or why there's bound to be trouble hey you seem to be forgetting who gave that kid
00:45:00our
00:45:00first lesson in quantum mechanics whatever it is Justin I'm in you know that hey I guess I do
00:45:06what worries me is what you think you're going to do when you find her what do you mean well
00:45:11wherever
00:45:12she is you can't just go in there with all the cannon on a republican ship of the line blazing
00:45:18not if you expect to get her out of there alive you're going to need an arbitrator I bet you
00:45:23just
00:45:23happen to have one tucked away on your ship and they call me psychic yeah I met her in the
00:45:30Aquila
00:45:30system the name's ruler core uh look no um arbitrators can't be trusted I mean arbitrators
00:45:39are diplomatic mercenaries no no I don't know I've seen some good ones work out some pretty ugly scenes
00:45:43and believe me this lady's the best I gave her a lift once to graphias three and stick around to
00:45:49watch her work amazing that 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 I'm telling you
00:45:59Justin if you have to place Nova's life in an arbitrator's hands and I don't see any way
00:46:03around it then rule is the one
00:46:10all right all right what's taking her so long she's probably nervous nervous
00:46:15nervous about what did I say nervous you know Justin what I meant what was
00:46:25Wally what are you up to airlock secured
00:46:38well Wally is this the client you mentioned this is him Justin Thorpe ruler core and her assistant
00:46:48Jonna Jonna's a Zen trick I wouldn't try shaking hands with her unless you can afford to lose one
00:46:55ruler thanks for signing on I want you to know mr. Thorpe that professional interests aside I'm going
00:47:00to be making a special effort in this case oh why is that I know what it's like to lose
00:47:07a child
00:47:08and never find her again do you ruler it seems to me there's an obvious difference between losing a
00:47:18child an abandoning one I didn't come here to reopen old arguments with you what is this where's Maggie
00:47:25Maggie doesn't wish to see don't don't even try that again Maggie's old enough to speak for herself
00:47:31now ruler ruler wait hey hey Wally so help me I'm look Justin she's got a case listen to her
00:47:44side of the
00:47:45story I don't want to hear any stories you're a dead man Justin they haven't seen each other in years
00:47:50and you do need an arbitrator
00:48:12mother
00:48:13mother
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 it was your choice but I made that choice thinking that
00:48:44your father would always be there he always took care of everything
00:48:53I suppose I should have known something might happen one day
00:48:56it was a soldier after all and a republican loyalist pretty dangerous combination
00:49:02and then he went off to the Baton Cato's war and never came back nobody did from that war the
00:49:08whole
00:49:08system's a neutron wasteland and when he died I don't know I couldn't really handle having a little girl
00:49:17suddenly I suppose I felt too much like one myself I needed to go off and grow up you know
00:49:25just about
00:49:26everything you say starts with the eye have you ever noticed that some people have pointed out to me
00:49:33yes your father I don't want to talk about him he couldn't help what happened to him you could
00:49:41you never even visit it your grandfather wouldn't allow it he wouldn't even tell me
00:49:47where you were don't try to blame this on granddad he has taken care of me of
00:49:51everything I'm not trying to well maybe I am he can be so manipulative Maggie you
00:49:57don't know him the way I do you're so right I know him better he's always been
00:50:03honest with me no matter how hard things have been look Maggie this is hard for me too you know
00:50:15isn't there anything I can do to make this easier you came here to help us find my best friend
00:50:20do that
00:50:22and then do what you do best disappear oh
00:50:34Jana isn't it access forbidden to all outsiders is that right
00:50:43oh access forbidden to me huh
00:50:49centrics they're all sworn to silence aren't they known throughout the galaxy for your warlike prowess
00:50:58your fanatical loyalty
00:51:02I 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 no but you wanted to make
00:51:19sure I
00:51:19didn't undermine your position with Maggie didn't you well don't worry father you've done a
00:51:24first-class job in brainwashing her she has no interest in talking to me
00:51:35try and make sure Maggie's okay will you Jana this has been pretty rough on her
00:51:51well at least you don't talk and if you don't talk then you can't lie
00:52:06you
00:52:13yeah
00:52:15yeah
00:52:15yeah
00:52:15yeah
00:52:30Justin, wake up.
00:52:32What?
00:52:34Something's wrong.
00:52:36Something's happening.
00:52:37Where? Where?
00:52:39I don't know.
00:52:41But I have this feeling.
00:52:43Oh, come on, Wally.
00:52:45I'm worried sick about Nova.
00:52:47I haven't slept in days.
00:52:48I finally...
00:52:51I don't know who's worse.
00:52:52You, that old lunatic Sorenson.
00:52:54Sorenson, trust me.
00:52:56What do you mean?
00:52:58He's a sly old fox, Justin.
00:53:00Real tough to read.
00:53:02Got his own agenda, that's for sure.
00:53:05We need to worry about him?
00:53:07I don't think so.
00:53:09His heart's in the right place.
00:53:11But he plays his cards.
00:53:14Wally.
00:53:20Am I seeing that?
00:53:22Tell me I'm seeing that.
00:53:28It's a planet.
00:53:31Sorenson, everybody to the bridge now.
00:53:34It's a planet.
00:53:36It must have been cloaked.
00:53:45Oh, my God.
00:53:47What is that?
00:53:48I don't know.
00:53:49Some kind of projection?
00:53:51No.
00:53:52It's up on all the sensors.
00:53:53It's a planet.
00:53:54A planet?
00:53:55With no star.
00:53:57Well, that's not possible.
00:53:58There's only one group in the galaxy capable of it.
00:54:01The engineers.
00:54:03The 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.
00:54:27I 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's that thing work?
00:55:33What's it do to people?
00:55:34Nothing.
00:55:35To people.
00:55:35In early days, they used to scramble human molecules and send them across space to be reassembled
00:55:39at another terminal.
00:55:42But there were too many accidents.
00:55:44So they started bending and folding the space we travel through instead.
00:55:48Much more reliable.
00:55:51Yeah, I could do that myself.
00:55:52It's better if I do the injecting.
00:55:54I've had a lot of experience.
00:55:56I bet you have.
00:55:58Ow!
00:56:00I thought you said that wasn't going to hurt.
00:56:02I didn't say it wouldn't hurt.
00:56:03I said I'd done it a lot.
00:56:05I'm not crazy about having strange things in my head.
00:56:07You really think you'll notice one more?
00:56:10Besides, internal opticons aren't strange.
00:56:13They're just unusual.
00:56:15Sort of a secret weapon I developed for negotiations.
00:56:18Gives us an edge to be able to send agents into a situation and then see and hear exactly
00:56:22what they see in here.
00:56:24I still believe it's a big mistake to go down there unarmed, don't you?
00:56:27They didn't phrase it as a request, Father.
00:56:29If we go down there with weapons, all contact will be terminated.
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 close 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.
00:57:07Got 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.
00:57:37Well, 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, Shaaklan, 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 your talk of progress and community,
01:00:05there don't seem to be
01:00:07any 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, Mr. Thorpe.
01:00:39What has forever been known as the family system
01:00:41is, in 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.
01:01:07Thus,
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,
01:01:21while advanced hormonal restructuring
01:01:23will eliminate any sense
01:01:25of gender identity.
01:01:28In this way,
01:01:29we shall eradicate
01:01:32even conflict
01:01:33between the sexes.
01:01:36You're crazy.
01:01:40No.
01:01:41No, it's not crazy, Justin.
01:01:43The shockland's right.
01:01:45Nova?
01:01:49Nova, are 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
01:01:58to 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
01:02:14the most gifted children
01:02:16in the galaxy
01:02:17and allowing them
01:02:18and allowing them
01:02:19and allowing them
01:02:19to 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?
01:02:34Like 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
01:02:44something for 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
01:02:53in 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
01:03:13is 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,
01:03:27Shoplin.
01:03:28Shall 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.
01:03:40Marinewashing?
01:03:41Worse.
01:03:41I'd say they'd
01:03:42actually been tampering
01:03:43with the characteristic
01:03:44structure for neural net.
01:04:15A sublime plenum.
01:04:18A sublime plenum.
01:04:28Well,
01:04:30he'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,
01:04:50I'm 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,
01:05:13I've heard
01:05:13auxiliary power
01:05:14to the deafness.
01:05:17I gotta figure out
01:05:18what to do.
01:05:25Honored 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
01:05:38they agree
01:05:39to be re-educated.
01:05:42Justin,
01:05:43they're going to let you stay.
01:05:45Yeah,
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.
01:06:00We 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
01:06:13and 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.
01:06:23What?
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.
01:06:37Do 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
01:06:46yours.
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 is the most
01:06:58productive society
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.
01:07:12I know what I call
01:07:13galactic liberation.
01:07:16An end to the strife
01:07:18that has plagued
01:07:19every civilization
01:07:20since the dawn
01:07:21of time.
01:07:23There'll be many worlds
01:07:24who won't join willingly.
01:07:26Those who resist
01:07:28will be compelled.
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 devices
01:07:55that are linked
01:07:56to 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?
01:08:07Shukla?
01:08:08Revered ancestors,
01:08:10I...
01:08:11We...
01:08:13We did not think
01:08:14them 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 so ourselves.
01:08:23We can punch a hole
01:08:25through your planetary shields
01:08:26and transverse out of here
01:08:27whenever we like.
01:08:29Impossible!
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?
01:08:48Where are you?
01:08:52So,
01:08:53the famed
01:08:53arbitrator's bluff.
01:08:55Huh.
01:08:56We are not
01:08:57quite so gullible.
01:08:58Take 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 for survival
01:09:19because we thought
01:09:21you might be exceptional.
01:09:23But you are only
01:09:24lying barbarians.
01:09:26Remove them!
01:09:31John, I think
01:09:32we've got a link.
01:09:33Try patching it through.
01:09:38Hello?
01:09:39On the surface,
01:09:39wherever you are,
01:09:40can you hear me?
01:09:41Yes, Maggie.
01:09:42We'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,
01:09:56Sean wants Justin.
01:09:56then you go
01:09:57right ahead
01:09:57and you tell him
01:09:58exactly where
01:09:59Justin is.
01:10:00What?
01:10:01Please,
01:10:02just do it.
01:10:15there must be a genetic
01:10:16defect.
01:10:17His body is
01:10:18rejecting the hormones.
01:10:25That concept is mistaken.
01:10:28That concept is mistaken.
01:10:31That concept is mistaken.
01:10:34This is re-education.
01:10:37If you're going to kill me,
01:10:38you can kill me
01:10:39right here and now.
01:10:41But 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 as you're told, Thorpe.
01:10:47Nova,
01:10:47I 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?
01:11:00See?
01:11:01See?
01:11:01See?
01:11:02See?
01:11:04See?
01:11:05A bio-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
01:11:11have enough food
01:11:12for 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
01:11:28to settle with,
01:11:28my friend Thorpe,
01:11:31you'll have to
01:11:31wait your turn.
01:11:54Maggie,
01:11:56fire on the section
01:11:57of the defense shield
01:11:58above the city.
01:11:59Try to maintain
01:12:00an opening long enough
01:12:01to 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
01:12:13to assemble and launch.
01:12:15You okay?
01:12:16Yes, thanks.
01:12:16Told you we don't have
01:12:17to worry about the old man.
01:12:20No!
01:12:21You will not take her!
01:12:27Justin!
01:12:30Justin!
01:12:35I'll move on!
01:12:36No!
01:12:40No!
01:12:40Reset!
01:12:41I'm going back down for now!
01:12:42I'm glad their shields
01:12:43are back up.
01:12:43Their ships are in the air
01:12:44and 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
01:12:50and head to open space.
01:12:51We'd be a match
01:12:51for the squadron,
01:12:52but not a whole fleet.
01:12:54We're not leaving without her.
01:12:55I don't care what
01:12:55they send against us.
01:12:57We're going back, Thorpe!
01:12:59Oh!
01:12:59Oh!
01:13:00Oh!
01:13:00Oh!
01:13:01Oh!
01:13:03Oh!
01:13:05Oh!
01:13:15Oh!
01:13:32Oh!
01:13:33Oh!
01:13:33Oh!
01:13:33Oh!
01:13:34Oh!
01:13:34Oh!
01:13:35arrange your reply remember the republican loyalists i told you about on markab 4 you're
01:13:41not going to abandon my sister we're not going to abandon your sister we're going back for her
01:13:44but i will not have this be a suicide mission there's no one group can stand alone against
01:13:50the engineers this has got to be a united galactic effort talking about reviving the republic
01:13:56justin give yourself a minute to think about this people already understand the republic
01:14:01it's an idea you won't have to waste a lot of time explaining except to me probably fell apart
01:14:06wally what makes you think it's not going to happen again yes i've spent a lot of time thinking about
01:14:13that oh really yes really there's a lot of truth in what you say towards the end the leaders of
01:14:19the republic may have become too remote we should have had new blood we failed to get it blood like
01:14:25yours i must still be unconscious and you two you're on board with this
01:14:37maggie you're actually asking for my opinion you saved my butt twice in one week i figure i can manage
01:14:43that i think we can't go back for nova without help
01:14:52so what do we do now we need a rallying point of some kind someone associated with the republic
01:14:58that people want to follow a name they can trust and there's only one logical choice
01:15:05the boy i told you about the grandson of junius cabel
01:15:12finally markab four granddad it's moshua put it on the screen
01:15:18i repeat alexander if it is you hailing us stay away stay away moshua what's happening
01:15:27the entire planet surprise attack we don't know who can you give us a visual no they are cloaked
01:15:37don't don't approach they are too many we've come for the boy cabel you've been trajan he hasn't
01:15:46been on this planet for years i thought you knew the plan for the republic trajan rejected
01:15:53everything about the republic since he grew up he called all of us sentimental fools
01:16:00he stole a ship he changed his name name and he went off where i don't know but he calls
01:16:10himself
01:16:11sean now alexander he's not sean moshua fire intensifying we lost our ship
01:16:23moshua moshua wally re-establish contact with markab four
01:16:30there's no sign of life on markab four
01:16:35they got here first the engineers who else can build ships that can fire even while cloaked
01:16:45all right maggie get us out of here before they realize we're in the area now
01:16:49but what course caliban six
01:16:54what so what if this cabel descendant is he knock sean he's still the only hope you got
01:16:59he knows what the engineers are up to we'll just meet with him and make him see reason
01:17:04make he knock sean see reason
01:17:08does that mean you agree
01:17:11you agree to go along with the plan i'm not so stupid i don't get your point sorenson i'll get
01:17:17you he knock he knock will get you the loyalists and their ships and we go back for my sister
01:17:20but what makes you think he'll meet with us he won't meet with us he'll meet with me and it
01:17:25won't be
01:17:26to talk i just hope i get my point across before he kills me
01:17:32well well well citizen thor
01:17:36you got here quickly the osiris is certainly a remarkable ship i must say i'm going to make
01:17:43good use of her after i've killed you i mean
01:17:49are you going to kill me sean or should i call you trajan cabel
01:17:57been doing a little detective work now have we
01:18:03that knowledge will die with you i trust you've abided by our agreement to come unarmed
01:18:08yes good because i haven't
01:18:15i should have known i'm surprised you didn't what's happening to you
01:18:21you know what the engineers are up to and when they come to caliban 6
01:18:25i'll fight
01:18:29you're loose
01:18:30well what other choice is there not the republic
01:18:34you could be the new brocastle
01:18:36tempting but i'm afraid not people like you and me have no place in a world like that
01:18:40thorpe were fighters survivors
01:18:48but your family
01:18:49you don't imagine i ever knew my family do you
01:18:52the people who raised you sean what about them
01:18:55they're dead murdered by the engineers
01:18:57a desperate and pathetic boy thorpe you don't even know who those people are
01:19:02don't i the old woman moshua
01:19:06i'm warning you thorpe don't go on with this
01:19:09i always 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
01:19:44i always felt a little bad about not saying goodbye
01:19:50you say they destroyed the entire surface of the planet
01:19:52totally
01:19:54some advanced form of anti-matter 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
01:20:09then we'll organize those worlds and get them on our side
01:20:14all 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 so 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
01:20:39i'm going back for my sister
01:20:42with what weapons if i may ask
01:20:46according to the general here
01:20:47once word spreads that you've signed on
01:20:49there's going to be a whole fleet of republican ships
01:20:51not the squadron benadour put together
01:20:57so sorensen
01:21:00you've tricked our friend thorpe
01:21:02what do you mean tricked what's he talking about
01:21:05well i do think you might be honest with the man sorensen
01:21:08justin
01:21:10the ships i wanted were part of an organized republican squadron
01:21:14it took years to assemble
01:21:17but they were on mark heb four
01:21:18they were obliterated
01:21:20what
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
01:21:36you would have turned me down
01:21:37you used me
01:21:40justin
01:21:42justin we need you
01:21:43we even need sean
01:21:44if i may sorensen
01:21:46what
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 bio crystal
01:22:07what else should i say
01:22:10coming back up
01:22:13the bridge is awfully empty without a leader thorpe
01:22:18well i always told you you had potential
01:22:21i just didn't think it would fulfill itself in circumstances like these
01:22:26was there already one general too many on board
01:22:30who
01:22:33sorensen
01:22:35his days passed and he knows it
01:22:39what about you
01:22:42on this ship
01:22:43i 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
01:22:53thank 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
01:23:15face 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
01:23:48now
01:23:52get back to that bridge
01:24:10warlord
01:24:11you're not serious about all this
01:24:14it's for a public business are you
01:24:18i'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
01:24:47there are ghosts aboard this great vessel
01:25:01it's all right
01:25:05i'm sorry
01:25:09just for future reference
01:25:11you won't be needing tricks
01:25:13anymore
01:25:16deal
01:25:21there's a chair on this bridge
01:25:24that nobody sat in for many years
01:25:27i think you should see how it feels
01:25:31you're going to be spending a lot of time in it
01:25:45what was the closest
01:25:47republican senator mark heb four in the old days
01:25:50gamma valorem
01:25:53maggie
01:25:57land of 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
01:26:29rebuild our technological systems
01:26:33negotiate allies
01:26:35and train a new generation to fight for a set of ideals that most people believed were dead
01:26:41ideals that had brought one of the galaxy's most dangerous warlords face to face with his past
01:26:46and with his destiny
01:26:49and the image of the one we'd been forced to leave behind would never leave our thoughts for very long
01:26:55in some ways success seemed impossible
01:26:58but we had something the engineers could never have
01:27:02the trust of friends who had already risked everything for each other
01:27:05who were bound by just the kind of ties that the engineers were trying to destroy
01:27:14as for whether or not we made it
01:27:16in the end
01:27:18that's the story these chronicles will tell
01:27:20the truth is
01:27:50the truth is
01:27:50the truth is
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