The Tom Veitch Files

[circled: 40] Threepio and Artoo are instrumental in uncovering the Imperial spy who is working as a Rebel Technician on Nespis VIII. [margin: How? Artoo catches the spy sending a message & tells 3-PO -] The spy is interrogated and defiantly reveals that the city is doomed. [margin: "[uncertain: Nuthin'?] you can do about it."] The Rebels know about the Galaxy Gun (after all, it blew up Pinnacle Base in DEII), so they immediately initiate an evacuation of the space city...just in time! [margin: FIRST MISSILE GOES RIGHT THROUGH THE CITY, DESTROYING STRUCTURE, HITS [uncertain: STARFLEET?] BEYOND & BLOWS. They'd also try to shoot down the missile -- maybe hit one, but another gets thru.] As the Rebel ships scatter to hyperspace, a missile comes out of hyperspace and blasts the Nespis space city to smithereens. [margin: Where do they evacuate to? Ossus? Onderon? Are they pursued across the Galaxy? A fast-moving hunt... a [uncertain: veiled?] [uncertain: climax?] as [uncertain: they approach.?] Brings "energy [uncertain: clashes?]" [uncertain: and?] in space battles for survival. What about "[uncertain: anger improving their future?]" (see [uncertain: prev.?] [uncertain: article?])] * Cut to the Emperor. He's getting some bad news from his doctors: the aging of his clone body is accelerating. It was an inferior clone, a "reject" that was left after Luke destroyed all the best clones in Dark Empire I. [margin: Emp talks about the terror of being adrift w/o a body... he doesn't want to do that again... [uncertain: the d.s.?] not a friendly place... he lacks multidimensional transference.] The doctor/magi predict that he has only a few months to live before he must take a new clone. [margin: What if Emp is having a mental breakdown? What if Korriban is a place he goes to Commune w/ the dark side... he "draws nourishment" there ?? "I will live forever." His adepts may have already [uncertain: fetched?] Ysanna DNA.] Palpatine wants to improve his line of clones. He wants to introduce genetic material from a Jedi bloodline. [quote the "genetic" permission] Towards that goal, he sends [inserted: (]his seven[inserted: )] Dark Jedi to Ossus, to bring back Ysanna, who are descended from Jedi. He especially wants their chiefs. [margin: or 4 of them ([uncertain: perhaps?] already sent out as we open)] But what he really wants is Leia's third child, Anakin. He wants the Skywalker heritage because it will mean the [margin: He wants his holocron too. [boxed: What if, to inhabit a living child (not a clone) he needs new D.S. knowledge or a legendary Sith power object. He journeys to Korriban (or Yavin 4) to find it. Or else his men bring it to him... But it has a hidden [uncertain: danger?]]] [margin: He might need to take the child to the Valley of the Dark Lords] [adjacent page, cropped: [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] " S [illegible] [illegible] a En sp if Je to * in Leia ord its on. con of mas dest conc As P droi Gala journ stars * Leia insta caught chiefs Or, a been sells Rebels Or, a Onderon an Imp resent failing supplie (incomp]