					DARK ORIGINS

			      Script written by: John Tannehill

Script direction

Maul-  Being that Maul only had one or two lines in his short film career, I didn't have much to go on.  So I scripted him having a speech pattern like Vader.  I stole a few lines from him too.  I think their characters parallel each other in a way.
Sidious-  Of course, he always has a scolding, condescending speech pattern.    
Dooku-  He has an air of self-importance about him.  He is pompous and arrogant.
Athea-  Athea was often punished for disobedience to his master. He suffered injuries during his battle with Sidious when he betrayed him.  A deep raspy voice would suit him.
The other characters remain the same, especially Chiss the bartender.   

  

(Scene opens to a spacecraft.  Aboard are Darth Maul, Mark3, and a number of Mandalorian troops.  The Mark3 will collect information while the others search and destroy.)
 
   MARK3: "Preparing for final approach. We have reached our destination."
   MAUL: "Master Sidious has prepared everything.  The Mandalorians will assist us in our visit to the forces of the Death Watch."
   COMM: "Unidentified craft state your business."
   MARK3: "Code vessel "Sungra Anvil" on approach with reinforcments."
   COMM: "Excellent we have been anticipating your arrival."
   MARK3 "Requesting coordinates to land."
   COMM: "Sending the coordinates to your navacomputer now."
   COMM: "Proceed "Sungra Anvil", as Republic ambassador in this ordeal I welcome your assistance.  However, I am rather surprised, your arrival is a day early.  Of course we gladly welcome any help from the Jedi."
   MAUL: "What?"
   MAUL: "Jedi!"
   COMM: "The Republic has become concerned with the activities of Jango Fett's army.  They stand accused of murder and other crimes in this sector.  The leader of the Death Watch,Vizsla, has convinced us to align ourselves to his cause.  We hope your intervention will make this difficult matter pass with ease."
   MAUL: "What they will recieve is the Wrath of the Sith!."


End of Kejim

(Maul has found an exit and reports to Mark3.  Meanwhile, others are watching.)

   MAUL: " I've found an exit."
   MARK3: "Good my Lord.  Report back to the craft, we leave at once!."
cut scene
   NAVOUS: "Lord Athea, this is Commander Navous."
   ATHEA: "Ah, Commander Navous.  What progress do you report?"
   NAVOUS "Jango Fett's forces have destroyed our new laboratory.  It looks as though they had the aid of a figure wielding a saber.  I thought the Jedi were supporting us!"
   ATHEA: "This is not a Jedi." 
   NAVOUS: "Is he an agent of yours?  If so I question the strength of our alliance."
   ATHEA: "He is unfamiliar to me, a renegade perhaps.  Keep this matter silent I will deal with him myself."
   
(Open scene Courasant.  Darth Sidious has called upon his agents for an emergency meeting to gather information.  He has learned that another has begun cloning Death watch soldiers in his former lab.)

   SIDIOUS: "I become uncomfortable meeting here on Courasant but I must give you urgent instruction."
   MAUL: "The Jedi are now involved. We arrived there a day before they were to supply the base."
   MARK3: "I have recovered the data you requested."
   SIDIOUS "Yes...their involvement will certainly compromise the Mandalorians strengths.  Their situation is slowly deteriorating.  The leader of the Death Watch, Vizsla, has decieved the Jedi."
   MAUL: "The Jedi!"
   MAUL: "We look forward to dealing with our rivals!"
   SIDIOUS "Do not be so quick to engage our enemy.  The Jedi may prove to be a useful protagonist in our plans.  Allow me to deal with them for we must remain stealthful and not compromise our secrecy."
   MAUL: "What shall we do?"
   SIDIOUS "The Mandalorian army is losing strength.  We must help them rebuild their forces."
   MAUL: "Our task?."
   SIDIOUS: "The Death Watch took many civilian hostages.  They forced a small legion to surrender for their release.  Then took them all to this facility on Artus prime and put the civilians to work."
   MAUL "So you want us to go in and free them?"
   SIDIOUS: "Yes."
   MAUL: "I do not understand this mission of charity my Master."
   SIDIOUS: "You need only do as I request."
   MAUL: "Yes, my master."

Enter Artus mine.

(With his objectives completed Maul senses another prescence, a dark prescence.)

   MARK3: "---------"
   MAUL:"Mark3 respond!"
   MAUL:"Respond!!!"
(Maul rushes to the aid of the droid.  Darth Athea and Darth Tyranus{Jedi Dooku} are there with the droid.)
   TYRANUS:"A prize for you Master Athea."
   ATHEA: "Well done, Tyranus.  Secure the droid in the cargo hold, and prepare it for processing."
   TYRANUS: "At once, Master."
   ATHEA: "You.  Who are you?  You are a Sith no doubt. I feel the Dark side flowing through you.  Do not interfere, you have no business here."
   MAUL: "My business is to protect what is mine.  Move away and leave the droid behind."
   ATHEA: "You require this property?  Come, take it."
   MAUL: "You will regret this..."
   ATHEA: "I regret nothing..."
(The battle between Maul and Athea is uneven.  Maul is nearly struck down.) 
   ATHEA: "You're pathetic, young Sith.  You might have proven a worthy adversary had your powers been stronger.  But without the true power of the Dark Side, you're not worth the effort it would take to strike you down.  Perhaps your failure will teach you not to interfere against my will..."
   MAUL: "You can't do this..."
   ATHEA: "Secure the droid, we leave at once."
   MARK3: "------"
   MAUL: "Nooooooo!"
   MAUL: "I will claim my vengeance...."

(Darth Maul retreats to a place he remembered during his fight with Athea.  His old master Jedi Garun Tuk told him of the valley when he was under his study.)

Open Valley of the Jedi

(Maul approaches the fountain of force power, another presence is there...)
   GARUN: "You are not welcome here, Sith."
   MAUL: "I hear the voice of my old Master.  Still in your death you wish to restrain my quest for power."
   GARUN: "You had such powers I had never seen before.  Your turning to the Dark Side only proved that neither of us could restrain them, now it only consumes you."
   MAUL: "My enemy has shown a strength I cannot match, your Jedi fountain of power is mine to use as I require."
   GARUN: "This is the purest form of the force not a tool for the Sith.  I plead with you...."
   MAUL: "...No..."
   GARUN: "Then remember the way I tried to teach you, and may the Force Be With You..."
   MAUL: "I try to forget......"

(Maul enters power field and absorbs the stream of power.)


   GARUN: "You were always the most powerful, I had faith in your skills."
   MAUL: "Your ways were weak... leaving me vulnerable."   
   GARUN: "The path to the neverending hunger for power will consume your life in the end."
   MAUL: "I LIVE to feed that hunger... my old Master."

Cut to Athea and Tyranus

   TYRANUS: "His coordinates are set for Galidraan, Master Athea"
   ATHEA: "Yes, Tyranus, I wanted to see if the droid's data was correct.  The fool will lead us right to Sidious.  So I let him live...for now...Come, we must prepare for battle!"

Enter Galidraan Temple (Darth Sidious has retreated here with what droids he could gather from his former lab.)


   SIDIOUS: "No need for you to speak."
   SIDIOUS: "Your mind is completely open to me."
   SIDIOUS: "You have been to the Valley of the Jedi."
   MAUL: "A new enemy has emerged.  I was too weak to defeat him --"
   SIDIOUS: (disgusted)"Enough!"
   MAUL: "Yes Master."
   SIDIOUS: (scolding)"You have lost the droid I sent with you and have possibly exposed yourself to the Jedi, we will discuss this matter while your trial is being prepared..."
   MAUL: "Trial?"
   SIDIOUS: "A minor test to determine your devotion to the Dark side of the force...You have been paid a visit by your old Master."
   MAUL: "Yes, but I do not listen to his foolish words."
   SIDIOUS: "Ah.. but it is you who are the fool my friend.  Your wreckless pursuit for more power may have jeopordized our secrecy.  The Jedi are sure to become aware of a Dark prescence when their most sacred ground is intruded upon by an agent of the Sith!  I would think that the power you absorbed could have given you such foresight.  Nonetheless."
   MAUL: "I have failed you my Master."
   SIDIOUS: "Yes, but this will be a valuable lesson to you my young apprentice.  The true way of a Sith is to depend on oneself for power, no others can be trusted.  You are the true source of power, you have not fully learned the ways of the Sith."
   MAUL: "I am willing to learn."
   SIDIOUS: "Yes, you have much to learn from me young Sith.  This is the way it has been since the demise of the Sith long ago.  Only two, Master and Apprentice, shall exist at once.  Of the two Sith you encountered, one was once my apprentice before he betrayed me.  The scars he wears on his face are the evidence of my power over him."
   MAUL: "His name?"
   SIDIOUS: "Darth Athea ... "
   SIDIOUS: "And his apprentice Darth Tyranus also known as Jedi Dooku."
   MAUL: "A Jedi and a Sith at the same time?"
   SIDIOUS: "We will trouble ourselves about them later.  Their inteference will uncover the Sith and bring an end to my plans.  You must concern yourself with matters at hand. I will see if your journey to the Valley of the Jedi has made our task more difficult... "

Enter Courtyard


   SIDIOUS: "Your trial went well my friend."
   MAUL: "My mind is clear and I am ready for my next task."
   SIDIOUS: "The Mandalorians are in need of an alliance with us for protection.  The death Watch is closing in and the involvment of the Jedi have worsened their position."
   MAUL: "They seem to be growing in numbers here."
   SIDIOUS: "You have noticed."
   MAUL: "We should be able to provide ample protection, but to what end do we owe this courtesy to the Mandalorians."
   SIDIOUS: "I have future plans for them."
   MAUL: "And what of my failure Master?."
   SIDIOUS: "Fortunately the Jedi are too distracted at the moment with this coming war to have noticed, not to mention all of the other squabbles they attend to."
   MAUL: "I have been weak."
   SIDIOUS: "Yes, your loss of the droid is a setback.  It contains plans and secret data files including the location of this base.  But your failure was unavoidable, Athea seeks to undo all of my work."
   MAUL: "I will not fail you again..."
   SIDIOUS: "There is a valuable asset to this alliance that needs to be retrieved."
   MAUL: "Where is this "asset"?"
   SIDIOUS: "Do you know of The Kuhlthla."
   MAUL: "Yes, a worthless conglomeration of thugs and miscreants, their leader Fajen Baruk heirs himself a sense of false royalty.  Very poor breeding perhaps."
   SIDIOUS: "Yes their wasteful consumption of wealth is sickening indeed.  Now they hold Madalorian leader Jango Fett, hoping to satisfy a greed to further their fortunes.  He was captured in a false raid, his commandos all fought to their deaths as he was captured alive with a stun dart.  If he had been conscious for the attack he would have perished with his troops."
   MAUL: "Yes...Honorable Warriors...."
   SIDIOUS: "The Kuhlthla now hold him for ransom to the highest bidder for his being a wanted man hunted even by the Jedi."
   MAUL: "So this is your key to gaining favors from the Mandalorians."
   SIDIOUS: "Yes, now you are learning one of the strongest craft of the Sith "politics".  Our power to influence others to the means of our own reaches of power is the true strength behind an ability of wielding the Dark side of the Force."
   MUAL: "I will remember this.  I will not fail you again!"   
   SIDIOUS: "Go with Jango Fett's troops to Nar Shadda. Jango Fett must live, he is very important to me...."

Enter Narshadda
(Maul enters a bar hoping to stir up some trouble.)

   MAUL: "Bartender?"
   MAUL: "BARTENDER!?"
   CHISS: (Sarcasm)"Aye!!  Ignoring you I was...you and your face so ugly.  Not permanent I hope."
   MAUL: "Your face must be blue from lack of oxygen to your brain."
   CHISS: "Yes...you take my breath so ugly."
   MAUL: "Insolent scum..."
   CHISS: "Oooh Mr.Ugly's thirsting for drinks."
   MAUL: "No...no drinks...just answers."
   CHISS: "I make one my specialty."
   Haak a loogie sound.
   CHISS: "Mmmm good, a nice froth it has."
   MAUL: "Yes...your filth swims in it!"
   CHISS: "Oh a complaint you wish to make.  Your face gets uglier for more anger.  My eyes are hurting...red they are... get lost you."
   MAUL: "I am here for a prisoner."
   CHISS: "Oh so you say!  Money you have, you starting to look better already."
   MAUL:  "No...I will take the prisoner as I please."
   CHISS: "Ahh once again you Mr.ugly..take him?  Not on your looks I hopes."
   MAUL: (impatient)"I tire of this, where is the prisoner?"
   CHISS: "You want him?"
   MAUL: (irritated)"Yes, quickly!"
   CHISS: "Wait here.  I get him for you."
(A sheild comes down on the bar.  A brawl is about to begin.)
   MAUL: "I will cut out that ill toungue of yours..."

End barfight

   MAUL: "You are mere moments from death.  Where's the prisoner?"
   CHISS: "Please, noble Sirs!  Do not ugly my face!  Prison cells on higher levels.  Follow the garbage collectors!"

Enter cell area

   FETT: "Come to pay the ransom?"
   FETT: "You'll not take me alive."
   FETT: "Who are you?  You carry a lightsaber, but you certainly do not look like a Jedi."
   MAUL "I am not a Jedi, just an "ally"."
   FETT: "I have no reason to trust you."
   MAUL: "I am with the organization that wishes to help your people in their war on the members of the Death Watch."
   FETT: "The Death Watch!  Scourge!  They persue us to no end..."
   MAUL: "I know."
   FETT: "We have been getting distress signals from all over the system.  Some of them real, some false.  Either it will be a real attack on our civilians or an ambush much like the one I was involved in.  My outfit came here to aid a call for a "supposed" kidnapping.  We must answer every call for help from our people whether it be true or false, we leave no one behind.  Our loyalty and devotion to ourselves is what has kept us alive for ages."
   MAUL: "I understand."
   FETT: "Our troops arrived here and were immediately attacked.  I was knocked unconscious and woke up here.  I imagine my fellow soldiers are dead.  The Kuhlthla's interest in me is purly profit."
   MAUL: "We must leave."
   MAUL: "I must confront Fajen.  I will "persuade" him to release you.  If that does not work there are other means which are more...unpleasant."
   FETT: "Do what whatever you have to, I must return home to rally my army.  A more unpleasant end would be suitable for this collection of cutthroats and theives."
   MAUL: "We see things in a similar way."
   FETT: "I do have a plan.  You'll need the password to get into Fa Jen's command center and open the cells."
   MAUL: "I will take care of this."
   MAUL: "Do you know the password?"
   FETT: "It's Ruby Bliels"
   MAUL: "These scum deserve no more than death."
   FETT: "We are in agreement."
   FETT: "Show no mercy..."

Mual confronts Fa Jen


   FA JEN: "Looking for something?"
   MAUL: "Not anymore.  You're Fajen."
   FA JEN: "In the flesh.  But who are you?"
   MAUL: "Does it matter?"
   FA JEN: "Not really.  Any last words?"
   MAUL: "Does your life matter?  No, I will end it.  What worth is within it to exist?"
   FA JEN: "Making money of course! Yah-hah-hah-haaaaa!"

Return to the cell


   FETT: "What went on up there?"
   MAUL: "I ran into Fajen."
   FETT "Does he still live?"
   MAUL: "Yes, he escaped.  But we will see him again."
   FETT "We'd better get out of here.  There is a ship nearby.  What about yours?"
   MAUL:"The thugs have already destroyed it."
   FETT: "Fa Jen's plush cruiser will do."
   MAUL: "Where is it located."
   FETT: "It's in the main hangar.  Follow me, we'll see how well you do in a good fight."

(Maul and Fett escape, leaving Fajen dead along with the rest of his goons.)

In route to Bespin
(Fett flys the ship to Bespin.  Darth Maul rests he is having a dream of his past and of his new master.)

   FETT: "We're approaching Bespin.  Wake up."
   MAUL: "Agh...must not..fail!"
   FETT: "Hey!  Are you okay?"
   MAUL: "I'll be fine."
   FETT: "Good.  While you were sleeping I hailed the new base on Galidraan.  I have been informed that more of my troops have been ambushed on Bespin we will arrive there shortly.  This is another facility run by the Kuhlthla.  I am suprised they could manage such a place."
   MAUL: "Fools."
   FETT: "They'll probably lose it gambling or something."
   MAUL: "As they are wreckless and wasteful."
   FETT: "Will you be joining us?  We could use a fighter like you."
   MAUL: "My master has summoned me.  He says to accompany you...."
   FETT: "...your master?  What kind of order do you belong to?.  My instincts tell me not to trust you, but my logic can see no other way out.  You serve me as a true soldier and I can respect that.... When we arrive at Bespin, start at the lower level to create a distraction.  My soldiers have given us helpful details about the city to help me devise a plan.  Look for carbonite chamber #17 and aquire the R5 unit there to lead you the rest of the way.  We will start from topside."
   MAUL: "Then I must leave you..."
   FETT: "Yes.. yes... I see there is a shuttle topside.  If you could break ranks from the bottom up we could cover you.  These cutthroats are no match for a real face to face fight.  They should be no problem to us at all.  We'll meet you topside."
   FETT: "So, do we agree on this plan?"
   MAUL: "Yes, agreed."
   FETT: "You fight well my friend I hate to see you go."
   MAUL: "We will meet again, I am sure."

Bespin Topside
(Jango Fett and his soldiers blast their way out of Bespin.  Darth Maul fights his way to the craft his Jango Fett told him about.  Jedi Dooku awaits Darth Sidious' young apprentice.)

   DOOKU: "A small victory for you and your party...I must congratulate you."
   MAUL: "Where's your Master, apprentice?"
   DOOKU: "Athea's business is unimportant to me, your master waits for you beyond the destination of this craft.  True, yes?"
   MAUL: "How did you know?"
   DOOKU: "Master Sidious considers you a weapon of the Sith, a lumbering cretin with a lightsaber I say.  I'm surprised the entire Jedi council on Courasant has not felt your prescence as you slaughtered those Jedi.   Has Master Sidious taught you nothing? "
   MAUL: "I am learning you pompous bas-"
   DOOKU: "Then we both know that there can be only two, master and apprentice.  I seek a greater glory in the power of the Dark side.  You are just a brute, a crude warrior lacking the true skills of a Sith.  A master can only aquire one apprentice at a time.  A true Sith would agree to this....Yes?  "
   MAUL: "Yes...Let there be one!!"

(Dooku is defeated.  Maul grips him over the edge of the platform in a Sith stranglehold.)


   DOOKU: "D-d-don't!  M-m-mercy!"
   MAUL: "You are a lowly coward and deserve death!"
   DOOKU: "No wait!  There is much more you do not know!"
   MAUL: "Liar!  You have nothing to teach me!"
   DOOKU: "I already hold many favors for your master.  Our alliance holds many great plans for the rise of the Sith.  Surely he has told you, has he not? "
   MAUL: "....You Lie!"
   DOOKU: "Then how would I have known where you were going?  He told me of your arrival and to hold off the attack.  My inteference with you was misjudged, you are much more powerful than I had thought!
   MAUL: "Why should you still live?"
   DOOKU: "I..still serve ..your...master."
(Darth Maul pauses for a moment and remembers his past failures to his master.  He releases Dooku.)
   MAUL: "You live only for his sake."
   DOOKU: "You serve him well."
   MAUL: "When he has found no more use for you, I will kill you...Leave my sight."

Enter Cairn Bay
(Darth Sidious awaits his young pupil.)

   SIDIOUS: "You have arrived."
   MAUL: "Yes master, we must speak."
   SIDIOUS: "You have done well, young Sith."
   MAUL: "Why have you not told me of your alliance with Dooku?"
   SIDIOUS: "You assume too much, I only tell you what you need to know."
   MAUL: "He confronted me and told me of your plans, I spared his life for your sake."
   SIDIOUS: "All that he told you is true.  But Dooku cannot be trusted, he is as greedy for power as his master.  I only use him for his influence on the Jedi and his many connections throughout the galaxy."
   MAUL: "Of what worth am I to you?  I am merely good in a battle, a simple warrior..."
   SIDIOUS: "Yes...but you are loyal and would carry out any task to no end.  More than anything I need one that I can trust without any doubt.  You will be that one.  But I trust no one with the work of my plans, not even you.  That is why I will never tell you everything until the time is right."
   SIDIOUS: "Our time will come..."
   SIDIOUS: "...and of all the Sith only one will rise and rule over all!!!"
   SIDIOUS: "Others are here!"
(A number of troops and Jedi decend upon the two.)

End battle

   SIDIOUS: "There is a reason we are here my friend."
   MAUL: "I feel the presence of others, someone familiar."
   SIDIOUS: "Yes, many Jedi are here.  And Athea is here as well."
   SIDIOUS: "On the ship docked here Dooku hid the droid from Athea after they extracted the location of the base.  Athea seeks the rest of the data and plans to expose us to the Jedi."
   SIDIOUS: "I must confront him."
   MAUL: "Why?"
   SIDIOUS: "To teach him one final lesson in obedience, from his master."
   MAUL: "My task?."
   SIDIOUS: "Find the droid and take it from this place.  Destroy any Jedi you see.  Use caution, you must be stealthful.  Then return to Galidraan and seek me out."
   MAUL: "I will do as you command."
   SIDIOUS: "You will not fail me....."
   MAUL: "Yes...My Master."

Aboard the Doomgiver
(Sidious contacts his young apprentice through telepathy.)

   SIDIOUS: "...Lord Maul..."
   MAUL: "Yes my Master..."
   SIDIOUS: "I have confronted Athea but he has evaded me.  He now seeks you...he will try to turn you."
   MAUL: "I will not betray you..."
   SIDIOUS: "The ship you are on is headed to Galidraan for a final attack, he will be there waiting....  I have seen his thoughts, all of my plans depend on his defeat...."
   SIDIOUS: "...Destroy him!"
   MAUL: "As you command...."

Communications breakdown.......

   OPERATOR:Your call cannot be completed as dialed, please check the number and dial again.  Or call your operator for assistance..
   MAUL:Blast! I'll try the operator.
   REPCOMM:Welcome to the Republic telecommunications network. If you need help dial 1.  If you want to complain dial 2.  If you are a Dark Lord of the Sith please hold and a Jedi will be online to counsel you.
   MAUL:You've got to be kidding...
   RED6:*static*...so he comes out of the head with toilet paper hangin' out of his helmet.
   RED1:Cut the chatter Red6, we're coming into your quadrant now.
   CAPTAIN:Our fighters are still in the shop so we got these boss X-Wing rentals...they're pretty sweet.
   RED1:Yeah..the captain had to get the stereo upgrade...
   CAPTAIN:Can it ladies...just get those shields down before we get there if 'ya could..
   RED2:Oh Captain! You're so tough...*static*

Enter the detention center...


   MAUL: "There it is..."
   MARK3: "Recorded message from Master Tyranus..."
   MAUL: "Dooku!   ..."
   MAUL: "Your end will be at my hand..."
   DOOKU: "I knew Master Sidious would send you to collect this droid.  A simple task I am sure you could manage."
   DOOKU: "Your alliance with him is weak, I will turn him against you."
   DOOKU: "He says to clear a path for you to Athea's whereabouts.  I will not.  You will fail."
   MAUL: "You traitor!"
   DOOKU: "My personal order of Jedi.."
   DOOKU: "..will stop you."
   DOOKU: "Farewell.... friend."
   
   MAUL: "..A farewell soon to come...Dooku....  I must disable this ship"
   MARK3: "The sheild core I know where it is.  Follow me!"
   MARK3: "I'm pretty sure the shield core is through there."
   MAUL: " You get an escape pod ready and wait for me.  This shouldn't take long."
   MARK3: "Yes, My Lord."
   MARK3: "Meet me in the corridor.  I'll wait."
   MAUL: "No more words.  They waste time.  I will return."

Enter Sheild Core

(NAVOUS enters in a robotic armor suit to get rid of the one who causes so much trouble.)
   
   NAVOUS: "A dark presence has emerged on my ship.  To what do I owe this intrusion?  "
   MAUL: "I am here to carry out my Master's wishes...."
   NAVOUS: "Who is your master?  You will not interfere with my plans.  My leader Vizsla has promised me a complete victory over the Mandalorians."
   MAUL: "Your allies are weak.  You will suffer defeat."
   NAVOUS: "Weak?  I think not.  The force assembled here is capable of destroying the remains of all that awaits us on Galidraan.  We are the true Mandalorian race.  I mean to leave no survivors!"
   MAUL: "They will pay you the same respect."
   NAVOUS: "It is about to begin, listen for yourself."
   COMM VOICE: "Strike Force 1 to Doomgiver: Eastward assault on Temple grounds proceeding as planned..."
   COMM VOICE2: "Strike Force 2 to Doomgiver: Establishing beachhead outside main entrance..."
   COMM VOICE3: "Strike Force 3 to Doomgiver: Jedi Knights advancing on northern perimeter..."
   NAVOUS: "Within hours, my forces and the Jedi will destroy all who resist!  And they will fight to their death!  Then I, Navous, commander of the Death Watch will lead the true Mandalorian army across the galaxy!  My allies are strong indeed.  We will build a force to launch a major offensive and rule all!!!-"
   MAUL: "It is unwise to lower your defenses..."
   NAVOUS: "Raaaaaar!"
(Maul defeats NAVOUS and turns his thoughts to the task ahead.  He and the droid leave the ship.)

Landing on Galidraan


   MAUL: "Arrrrrgh!"
   MARK3: "I will return to the master."
   MAUL: "I must confront Athea.  He will be waiting for me at the heart of the battle.  I must go."
   MARK3: "My data is still intact.  The flight jostled my circuits a bit."
   MAUL: "Make your way to the base."
   MARK3: "I'll check you for damage."
   MARK3: "Go."

Confrontation with Athea


   ATHEA: "You are a true warrior of the Sith... young apprentice."
   MAUL: "You are defeated and alone."
   ATHEA: "On the contrary.  Your master decieves you.  He uses your power for his own ascent to glory.  Why has he never told you of his alliance with Dooku?  Betrayal runs deep within the Sith.  An honorable warrior like yourself is rare.  It is you who are powerless and alone."
   MAUL: "Master Sidious protects those who serve his needs. He would never align himself too closely with a traitor like Dooku."
   ATHEA: "Listen for yourself."
   COMM VOICE: "Master Sidious--Dooku reporting---- I will find Jango Fett--- and report to you----my Master----"
   ATHEA: "This all bodes well for your Master.  Tyranus is one step away from  apprenticeship...your death!  Your master Sidious may have even sent you here to die....  Come... Join me and together we can form a true alliance of the Sith!"
   MAUL: "You are the treacherous one!  You betrayed Sidious before and even now you attempt to decieve me....I remain in his service."
   ATHEA: "You choose death...fool!"


The final ending
(The battle is over for now. The remaining Mandalorians face a large order of Jedi moving in quickly. The Jedi will be left with their numbers fewer than half of what they were.  Jango Fett's army will be destroyed as the Death Watch is without a commander, their future is uncertain.  Maul seeks out his master for answers.)

   SIDIOUS "Speak my apprentice..."
   MAUL: "I am troubled my Master."
   SIDIOUS: "Clear your mind young apprentice."
   SIDIOUS: "You have proven your strengths and have not failed me. But our victory is short.  More Jedi will soon arrive and there will not be many survivors.  We must leave at once."
   MAUL: "Is this a failure or a success?"
   SIDIOUS: "You question my intentions."
   MAUL: "Master, I-"
   SIDIOUS: "There is much that I do not tell you, I can trust no one."
   MAUL: "I do not question you."
   MARK3: "Master our craft awaits me must leave."
   SIDIOUS: "We must complete your training."
   MAUL: "The future is laid out before me.  All I have known will no longer be a memory as I will serve you until my end.  My task is to see the Sith rise to their rightful place in the galaxy!"
   SIDIOUS: "Then we are in agreement."
   MAUL: "Yes....my Master."
   SIDIOUS: "Now we continue our ascent to power.  Come...."
   SIDIOUS: "There is much to do....my friend.... "



THE END

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