SCENE 8.

Space, aboard the Millennium Falcon.

Enter HAN SOLO and CHEWBACCA.

HAN

Now dropping out of light speed’s frantic rush

We enter swift unto the area

Where should there be great Alderaan in view.

But pray, what madness meets the Falcon’s flight?

Is this an ast’roid field I see before me?

The ship hath wrought a course direct and true,

And yet no Alderaan may here be found.

O errand vile, O portents of great ill!

What shall it mean, when planets are no more,

For those who make their wages by the stars?

Enter OBI-WAN KENOBI and LUKE SKYWALKER.

LUKE

What news, good Han?

HAN

—The ship’s position hits

The mark, and yet no Alderaan there is.

LUKE

I pray thee, marry, say: what canst thou mean?

How can a planet vanish in the air?

HAN

Thou hast said right, my lad. It is not there.

The planet’s gone, all turned to rock and ash.

LUKE

Thou speak’st not right. Say how? Pray how? Tell how!

OBI-WAN

Destroy’d it was, and by the Empire cruel.

HAN

A thousand thousand ships could not destroy

The planet. Truly ’twould take greater pow’r

Than ever there was known to humankind.

But soft! Another ship approaches quick.

[A small ship flies quickly past the Millennium Falcon.

LUKE

Belike they can the tale to us relate.

OBI-WAN

Imperi’l fighter ’tis.

LUKE

—Hath it made chase?

OBI-WAN

Nay, nay! A short-range fighter ’tis. [Aside:] O how

This situation here doth give me pause.

HAN

No base is there nearby. Whence cometh it?

[Aside:] The courage in me melts away at this.

My boasts cannot resolve this mystery.

LUKE

The ship departeth swiftly! If they have

Identifi’d our lot, we shall have strife.

HAN

’Tis my intent to keep us from that Fate.

Chewbacca, render its transmissions block’d.

OBI-WAN

Pray, let it go, ’tis too far flown.

HAN

—Not long!

OBI-WAN

Dost thou agree—a fighter of its size

This deep in space could not have come alone?

LUKE

Belike ’twas in a group and now is lost.

HAN

It shall not live to tell the tale today.

LUKE

Forsooth! He makes his way to that small moon.

HAN

I may play checkmate on him ere he lands.

OBI-WAN

Alas—I sense the game, and we’re the pawns.

That is no moon. ’Tis a space station there.

[The Death Star looms in the distance, growing closer.

HAN

’Tis far too large a space station to be.

LUKE

My feelings now do stir, I sense them well!

They tell me we shall lose the match we play.

OBI-WAN

Pray, turn thee now the ship around.

HAN

—I shall!

Now Chewie, lock thou quick th’auxill’ry pow’r.

LUKE

Why do we still approach? What can be done?

HAN

It hath th’advantage, using tractor beam

To pull us in, unto its landing bay.

LUKE

But pray, some move thou must have left to make!

HAN

My moves are finish’d, lad, I must shut down,

Else shall the ship entire soon come apart.

But still, with all my players I shall fight.

OBI-WAN

Thou canst not win, but will by strategy

Some good alternatives to fighting see.

CHORUS

So enters the Millenn’um Falcon in

Unto the Death Star, grand and stark and mean.

With fear the Wookiee and the three brave men

Look on as their space journey changes scene.

Meanwhile, the denizens within the base

Make haste to catch the ship that cometh near.

Commanders come with well-arm’d guards apace,

While stormtroopers do at their posts appear.

[Exeunt.

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