OBI-WAN: Is it in their nature to make us wait this long? The door to the conference room slides open, and TC-14 enters with a tray of drinks and food. INT FEDERATION BATTLESHIP - CONFERENCE ROOM QUI-GON and OBI-WAN sit at the large conference table. DOFINE turns to TC-14, who lets out a squeaky sigh. DOFINE: Are you brain dead? I'm not going in there with two Jedi! Send the droid. DOFINE: I knew it! They're here to force a settlement. NUTE (shaken): What?!? What did you say? TC-14: The Ambassadors are Jedi Knights, I believe. INT FEDERATION BATTLESHIP - BRIDGE NUTE GUNRAY and DAULTRAY DOFINE stand, stunned, before TC-14. OBI-WAN (CONT'D): How do you think the trade viceroy will deal with the chancellor's demands? QUI-GON: These Federation types are cowards. They walk over to the window and gaze out into space. Be mindful of the living Force, my young Padawan. OBI-WAN: But Master Yoda says I should be mindful of the future. Keep your concentration here and now where it belongs. QUI-GON: Don't center on your anxieties, Obi-Wan. OBI-WAN: It's not about the mission, Master, it's something. OBI-WAN: I have a bad feeling about this. OBI-WAN is twenty five, with very short brown hair, pale skin, and blue eyes. QUI-GON, forty years old, has long brown hair in a ponytail. The JEDI lower their hoods and look out a large window at the lush green planet of Naboo. The droid bows before OBI-WAN KENOBI and QUI-GON JINN. TC-14: We are greatly honored by your visit Ambassadors. INT FEDERATION BATTLESHIP - CONFERENCE ROOM A door slides open, and the two cloaked shapes are led PAST CAMERA into the formal conference room by TC-14. Two darkly robed figures are greeted by TC-14. The door opens, and the Republic cruiser can be seen in the docking bay. INT FEDERATION BATTLESHIP - DOCKING BAY - SPACE A PROTOCOL DROID, TC-14, waits at the door to the docking bay. EXT FEDERATION BATTLESHIP - DOCKING BAY - SPACE (FX) The small space cruiser docks in the enormous main bay of the Federation battleship. Out the cockpit window, the sinister battleship looms ever closer. as you know, our blockade is perfectly legal, and we'd be happy to receive the Ambassador. CAPTAIN: With all due respect, the Ambassadors for the Supreme Chancellor wish to board immediately. The CAPTAIN looks to her view screen, where NUTE GUNRAY, a Neimoidian trade viceroy, waits for a reply. CAPTAIN: Yes, sir? QUI-GON (V.O.): Tell them we wish to board at once. The Captain turns to an unseen figure sitting behind her. INT REPUBLIC CRUISER - COCKPIT In the cockpit of the cruise, the CAPTAIN and PILOT maneuver closer to one of the battleships. PAN with the cruiser as it heads toward the beautiful green planet of Naboo, which is surrounded by hundreds of Trade Federation battleships. PAN DOWN to reveal a small space cruiser heading TOWARD CAMERA at great speed. While the Congress of the Republic endlessly debates this alarming chain of events, the Supreme Chancellor has secretly dispatched two Jedi Knights, the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy, to settle the conflict. Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Naboo. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute. Episode I THE PHANTOM MENACE Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic.
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