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- Doctor Aphra
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE
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IG-90:
Statement: Yes.
BOSSK:
I think you’d think about it. Then sslink away.
APHRA:
Sooooo…do this again soon, sometime? My employer has more work coming up.
BEEBOX:
Next time you pay up front, Aphra.
APHRA:
You know, Beebox…I’ll see what I can do.
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INT. CAVE. ANTHAN 13, MOON OF ANTHAN PRIME. LATER.
APHRA (narration):
Next stop: Anthan 13, a moon of Anthan Prime. I’d sent the bounty hunter gang on their merry way, so it was just me, Triple-Zero, and Beetee, camped out in a dark, shadowy cave replete with jagged rock formations throwing monstrous shadows everywhere.
So cold! So dark! So mysterious. Can’t you just hear the mysterious, uh…wind! Whistling through…
Atmosphere: A mysterious-sounding wind whistles through the cave.
Perhaps the soundscape is slightly exaggerated here, to reflect Aphra’s telling of it.
APHRA (narration):
Oooooh, scary! The perfect atmosphere for a grand reveal. Like one of those rock formations revealing itself to be an actual monster jumping out of the shadows!
Or…an unexpected bit of light filtering into all that darkness.
Beautiful, beautiful light…emanating directly from the massive pool of ingots dumped in the cave’s center.
Whoa.
It was such an endless sea of credits, you could have jumped in and had yourself a little swim, if you were into that sort of thing.
TRIPLE-ZERO:
Well, Mistress Aphra, this is quite the bounty. Perhaps the bounty hunters would have been less enraged if you had simply shared all of the ingots with them.
APHRA:
Shhh, Trip. Just let me enjoy this for a minute.
APHRA (narration):
Oh, what, you’re confused again? Did you really think I’d let all those beautiful ingots slip off into space like that? Do you know me at all?
Nah, there was always another twist to my grand ol’ heist plan.
Remember how I said there were things I wasn’t telling you? And…
well, most of those things, the bounty hunter boys knew about. But this one…they didn’t.
Recording: Rewind to previously encrypted section six-eight-eight.
Right after Black Krrsantan’s epic, limb-crushing pit fight.
Passcode: APHRA KNOWS YOU ARE A FOOL AND WILL TOTALLY
FALL FOR ANYTHING seven-five-nine.
We hear the sound of the recording rewinding itself to the correct spot.
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INT. SON-TUUL BAR. FLASHBACK.
Atmosphere: The rowdy sounds of the crowd post-pit-fight.
BLACK KRRSANTAN:
[triumphant]
GRAAAAAAAARGHHHHHH!
APHRA:
Hey. Psst. Santy. Before we go get that drink with our scummy compatriots…let’s have a little one-on-one bonding time.
BLACK KRRSANTAN:
Grrrr?
APHRA:
When I saw you across the way, pulling off that guy’s arms…well, I felt something. Something real. You could perhaps call it a…kinship?
BLACK KRRSANTAN:
GRAGH!
APHRA: