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- Doctor Aphra
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE
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Every nerve in my body was focused on fighting back, on getting them to leave, on hoping against hope my mom was somehow okay…even though I knew she wasn’t. Tears streamed down my cheeks…and then the most extraordinary thing happened…
Lightning cracks through the sky, and it starts to rain. Perhaps we hear the chitterings from local wildlife getting louder as the rain gets heavier…
APHRA (narration):
It started to rain.
It was like this dust-dry, boring-ass world had suddenly decided to become… interesting.
But at that point, my excitement had faded.
Now I was just scared.
I fired and fired and fired.
At the time, I wasn’t ready to die. My blood wasn’t prepared to doodle the margins of history.
But that’s because I hadn’t really lived yet.
I hadn’t found an epic quest worth pursuing.
When Darth Vader recruited me, I felt that click into place—just as surely as I feel it when I crack a safe or reactivate a troublesome droid.
Somehow, this was going to be my epic quest. Vader sensed actual greatness in me, not just the ability to help cart old Jedi scrolls offworld. I still hadn’t totally earned his trust, but once I did…well, the possibilities were endless.
And it was going to happen. I just knew it.
I couldn’t wait to see where we were going next.
I was really hoping for Naboo. The Ark Angel would do such lovely acrobatic maneuvers over all those lakes.
Please be Naboo, please be Naboo…
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EXT. SKYWALKER HOMESTEAD. TATOOINE. DAY.
Atmosphere: Winds blowing through a barren desert. This one is perhaps less scorched than Geonosis—it feels abandoned, but more like the inhabitants are really into keeping to themselves. There is life here—but it’s been frightened inside.
APHRA:
Tatooine? Are you kidding me?
DARTH VADER:
You will go where I have need of you.
APHRA:
Y-yes. Of course, my lord. It just seems like a rather, ah, unconventional choice for someone of your stature. Not much for a secret droid army to shoot at here on Tatooine.
DARTH VADER:
The boy who destroyed the Death Star has…connections to this place.
And it was on this planet that he bested Boba Fett.
APHRA:
[sotto]
Oh reaaalllly…huh, Boba Man didn’t tell me that part…
DARTH VADER:
What was that, Doctor?
APHRA:
Nothing.
DARTH VADER:
Do not take it lightly when I share this information with you.
APHRA:
Of course, my lord. So very honored, my lord. Does this kid have a name?
A beat of Vader’s weighted breathing, then…
DARTH VADER:
Luke Skywalker.
APHRA (narration):