SCENE 4.
On the planet Naboo.
Enter NUTE GUNRAY, SIO BIBBLE, OOM-9, and other GUARD DROIDS.
NUTE
Your queen is lost, your people feebly starve,
And it appears their governor—e’en you—
May not outlive them. Truth, your life is mine,
A prize that I do mean to claim anon.
SIO
Your ill-advis’d attack shall gain you nil.
Naboo is proudly a democracy:
Its citizens decide, and they did speak
Decisively enough against your rule.
NUTE
OOM-9
My troops have ta’en position in the swamps,
Where they seek out the underwater towns
About which rumor hath been spread of late.
What hidden is shall soon revealèd be.
NUTE
I thank thee, Captain: thy words ease my mind.
Make me a full report of what they find.
[Exeunt.