The intention of adding it (in my edit anyway) was to give the vision some more immediate relevance to Rey’s emotional state - she’s afraid of losing people forever and fears that this has just happened with Finn. I don’t think it needs to speak to the rest of the trilogy.
Eh, the script still had too many problems to feel definitively superior to what we got.
ACT II. In a cavernous hold on the Star Destroyer lies the Millennium Falcon. Ben sits in the darkened Falcon on the floor beside the game table, hands cradling his head. A Porglet hops out of the nest built in the wiring and waddles over to his side. He makes to push it away with the Force, extending a robotic hand, but the Porglet doesn’t move. He stares at the hand in shock, then tries with his right. There is no response. He struggles with all his might to move a piece of debris on the floor before him, but his efforts are in vain. He lets his hands fall, one with a resounding clunk, and breaks down in tears. The Porglet waddles to his good side and nuzzles him for warmth.
Rey comes onboard and goes past him without noticing him. She rummages through her things and pulls out the broken pieces of Luke’s lightsaber. The shattered halves have been repaired to fit like interlocking puzzle pieces picked out in intricate brass amidst the burnished chrome. Still, the interior of the device fails to connect to itself and she sits in increasing concentration attempting to knit the two halves of the crystal back together. Her frustration boils over, and she roughly tosses the pieces away. One rolls to where Ben sits watching her. She starts, walking opposite him in the curving hallway and retrieving the other piece. She says she didn’t notice him there. Ben motions to her piece and asks what she’s trying to do. When she says that she’s been trying to mend the saber for months, Ben shakes his head. He says that mending a crystal was beyond even Luke’s skill in the Force, and that she should just start over with a new one. She refuses to believe this, but Ben insists that some things just can’t be mended so easily. Picking up on this, she asks what’s wrong, he doesn’t answer, just picks up the Porglet and cups it in his right hand, stroking its feathers with the metal fingers of his left.
Rey asks what the speech was about, the dying and the worth of all people. Ben asks what Rey thinks of this being, indicating the Porglet, and whether it might be as connected to the Force as any person. She thought that was what Luke was trying to teach her when he told about the balance between all things. Ben replies that he heard the same lesson from Luke many times, but realized that he had never really understood until now the meaning underneath. She asks if Ben had seen Luke, and he shoos the Porglet away and replies that he has, and that Han and Leia say Hi as well. Rey’s eyes widen. This wasn’t in the Jedi Texts or any teaching she has heard of. She holds out her broken half of the saber, saying that perhaps together they can mend it. Ben responds that Rey didn’t notice him on her way in. She is confused for a moment, then understands. She didn’t notice him or sense his presence in the Force at all!
JEDIT: Obsolete
If you were editing each movie individually, I would agree that ‘saving the reveal’ would cut too much out of ROTS to be worth it. However, if this is a 3-in-1 idea, then there would be plenty of material even if it leaves out Anakin’s fall to darkness.
Of course with so much of Anakin’s part cut, it makes a good argument for centering the story on Obi-wan instead.
Start with his relationship with Qui-gon, the emergence of the Sith, and him taking Anakin as his apprentice.
‘Your apprentice, Skywalker, will be.’
Hard cut to Zam’s speeder weaving in and out of traffic, Anakin hanging onto the roof for dear life. There can be the occasional scene between Anakin and Padme to establish the plot, but most of the scenes with Obi-wan discovering the clones would stay and be the through-line for this section. Continue an abbreviated film with ‘Begun the clone wars have’ and go from the ships lifting off into the Coruscant sky to Anakin and Obi-wan zipping among them in ROTS.
ROTS would focus on Obi-wan and his growing unease at the state of the war. Anakin is painted as more heroic here, with little of Palps insinuations. Focus on Anakin’s love for Padme and future children. End Anakin’s part with him waiting in the council chambers. Order 66 is the big emotional culmination of the film. The implication is that Anakin died defending the young Jedi, but his children will carry on and avenge him. End as ROTS ends, with Obi-wan delivering Luke to Owen and Beru.
I tend to skip over the episodes which don’t focus on world-building/character development/the Dominion War. Seven seasons of 20-26 episodes each are too damn many, anyway.
DS9 tries to go for an edgier tone, more gray areas and darkness, but that feels antithetical to the optimism of Star Trek. TNG largely remains true to this optimism, to the point that even when it becomes overly comfortable with itself and eschews real world drama it is at least settling into that quietly radical philosophy.
Trek became so insufferably smug with TNG’s self-satisfied utopianism; it needed a spoonful of deconstructive humility to reduce the swelling in its head.
Fair enough, but it works for me. I guess none of the DS9 characters speak to me as much.
Man, I don’t know what people love about DS9 but I just can’t get into it. I’ve been trying to work my way through it for several years and I’m on season 5. I watch an episode and that’s enough DS9 for the next month. That’s not to say it’s bad - Inner Light brought me to tears - but episode to episode it feels like such a stifling drag.
TNG to me is the opposite. After Season 2 it breezes by. I think it’s a tone thing. DS9 tries to go for an edgier tone, more gray areas and darkness, but that feels antithetical to the optimism of Star Trek. TNG largely remains true to this optimism, to the point that even when it becomes overly comfortable with itself and eschews real world drama it is at least settling into that quietly radical philosophy.
I agree with everyone else about TOS though. It’s just fun. Watch it.
I have updated the scenes prior to the afterlife slightly. To continue:
Kylo awakens in a First Order medical bay. Surrounding him are, from left to right, Rose, Poe, Finn, Rey, Threepio, and Chewie. Poe says ‘I still think we should kill him again.’ Finn raises Kylo’s saber. Rose and Chewie voice immediate dissent and Rey asks for the saber, which Finn hands over.
They tell Kylo that he’s been nearly dead for several days, and at one point they really thought he was, but during this time Hux has declared himself Supreme Leader and destroyed Leia on Yavin 4. The Resistance managed to disable and commandeer one of Kylo’s ships, at which point the rest of the fleet evacuated. This meant leaving the First Order soldiers on the ground to be taken prisoner. Now every prisoner is being held in the main hangar of the destroyer, and this is the reason our friends need Kylo Ren. They know that Kylo has been forced out of the First Order and his troops are wavering, their loyalty to the Order sorely tested by this attempt on their life. All his soldiers know is that Kylo has put his life on the line for them in every battle, and they will follow him to the death. Rey hands the saber to Kylo, asking him to lead his forces alongside their own. Kylo nods assent. They fit him with a prosthetic arm and leg, and he dresses for the occasion.
On the balcony overlooking the assembled officers and soldiers, Kylo announces that the First Order has betrayed them and is their enemy as well as his. He names Hux and Thrawn specifically as leaders who will suppress all religions of the Force under their fist and in so doing bring disorder to the galaxy. But, he says, the Force is true. As one who was dead and returned to life he has seen the reality of the Force present in all people, not just those of noble blood. Thus he sees that he is not any more worthy of command than another. He bequeaths his saber to Finn, the man who slew Kylo Ren. Henceforth, he wishes to be known only as Ben. Finn takes the saber and the soldiers salute him. He motions this down. His first order to them is to remove their helmets and see their fellows for who they truly are. They fight for the First Order no longer!
END OF ACT I
JEDIT: Obsolete
My write-up has no sequel trilogy. If it did, it’d be the Thrawn Trilogy.
The crowd won’t yawn if you choose Thrawn.
IT’S SNOWING
IT NEVER SNOWS AROUND HERE
I’LL PROBABLY GET SEVERAL INCHES
THAT SOUNDED WEIRDER THAN I INTENDED
I decided to slow this part down and actually write the dialogue, since it seems important:
The squawk of the jeweled plume dragons outside his window pulls Kylo from sleep. He feels…fine. Better than fine in fact. Kylo stretches his arms and sits up, looking out the window of his old house on Aquilae. The Falcon sits on the flagstones in front of the house, and just beyond the edge of the window he can see the nose of an X-wing with a distinctive paint job. ‘Uncle…?’ he says to himself, remembering the day he left for Luke’s academy. Sounds of laughter drift up from downstairs. Kylo eases out of bed and stands. This is his room, just as he remembers it. Color holograms of famous Jedi festoon the walls, Sleek model ships overflow from a cargo container in the corner, and a furred Garbol rolls about in its terrarium beside his bed. He investigates the Garbol. It’s just as he remembers, but then, his Garbol died years ago. He leaves the room and descends the stairs to the living quarters, as slowly and as quietly as possible. He knows who it will be before he reaches the room, the mixing of Han’s low murmur and his uncle’s high-pitched laughter forming an audial contrapposto ingrained in his deepest memories. It has been a long time since he has heard that easy laugh from his uncle.
At the foot of the stairs he stops, as does the conversation. Han’s expression is unreadable, but Luke seems bemused. ‘Ben? What are you doing here?’ It’s Kylo’s turn to be confused. ‘You don’t know?’ Luke shrugs noncommittally. ‘So I haven’t gotten around to checking up yet. Time just flies…’ He motions to his surroundings, Han, the entire universe. A shriek of happiness erupts from something outside the house. Kylo glances up. ‘Is that Aki?’ Han nods. ‘Sure seems happy to see someone.’ Luke looks between father and son. ‘I’ll go see who it is.’ He leaves in a swoosh of Jedi robes and beard. Kylo stares at his father. ‘You’re really here.’ Han nods. ‘I think Luke was as surprised as anyone when he got here. I’ve been telling him to go back and check up on everyone, it’s the only way I get any news.’ Kylo looks down, shame and regret threatening to overwhelm him. ‘Hey, kid.’ Han places a hand on his shoulder. ‘It’s slag in the incinerator.’ Kylo turns away, trying to blot out this place and its memories. Han pulls him back to face his father. ‘Ben. We all have regrets. People we weren’t there for, people we loved. But…it’s something Luke said…maybe if that Force is strong enough…we might have another chance.’
From across the house a door opens. ‘Hey Han, guess who’s here to visit?’ Han gets up from his seat ‘Leia…’ Kylo turns. There she is, arm around Luke, then running to embrace Han, Aki’s six legs scrabbling against the floor around them. Luke allows them their moment, walking over to Kylo, who is unable to process or accept her presence here. Luke sits beside Kylo, clapping him on the shoulder. ‘I think I will take your advice, Ben, maybe see what’s going on over there.’ He gestures vaguely with his thumb and disappears from Kylo’s side. Kylo shakes himself, turning back to Han and Leia still in the midst of their reunion.
^Nice.
Kylo must suffer, and suffer greatly, if he is to be eventually redeemed in the eyes of the audience. And he isn’t done suffering, not in my version. 😉
Love these ideas! Keep em comin!
Updated the first scenes slightly. Now to continue:
Early morning sunlight casts a slight glow on the cavernous floor of the great stone hall. On its marble steps, C-3PO sits, on his lap a tome of Jedi learning. Rey lies against him in sleep. Threepio finishes translating the final chapter and closes the book, then turns to Rey and realizes that she’s been asleep for some time. Chewie walks down the empty room and roars a greeting. Rey awakens and tells Threepio not to worry, she’ll have him read the final chapter to her again later.
Rey and company move through the old tunnels of the Yavin base, stirrings of activity around them. A dozen ships from the latest sortie against Kylo’s fleet have returned at dawn, and techs rush to refuel and recharge them. Rey meets up with Poe, who is parsing information from multiple channels. They talk progress. Poe is pleased that they are forming a hypernetwork of sympathetic worlds, but their strategy is fragile. They are having to send practically all their forces to combat the next First Order repression each time one springs up, and all at a moment’s notice. They have been able to drive off the First Order only through the skin of their teeth in each battle, and a single defeat could be their end. But they are making progress. Soon they will have enough free worlds to challenge the First Order on even terms. Rey worries about this inevitable confrontation. She says to Poe that without a dramatic return of the Jedi to the galaxy another vast civil war is inevitable, and she cannot do it alone. Poe says that he always deferred to Leia on that front, that she believed that hope would get them through. Poe is not so optimistic.
Rey goes to Leia with the texts, Threepio in tow, and tells her that she still feels unworthy and has no faith that the Jedi can triumph. She holds the books out to the general, but Leia doesn’t turn from where she is, standing on the stone roof of the temple overlooking the jungle. Rey makes as if to go, but then Leia sweeps her into an embrace, telling her not to be ashamed of who she is. Rey leaves Threepio with Leia but takes the books back. On her way back to the command center the klaxons blare, and she leaves the books in Leia’s quarters.
They have the location of the next First Order attack, a large assault which Leia says must be met with the Resistance’s full force. Everyone who can be of use in battle boards a fighter. The Resistance is a well-oiled machine, with new pilots stepping in to refresh those who just returned. Poe uses R2 in his X-wing in leu of BB-8. Threepio arrives on the Falcon, saying that Leia sent him to narrate the final chapter of the Jedi texts to her on the way. As the ships fly away, Leia looks from a deserted temple at the departing vessels, a collection of blockade runners and small fighters.
…
Kylo stands on the bridge gazing out at the curve of the planet before him. The captain updates him with relevant information and asks how he will aid the beleaguered First Order forces on the ground, whether he will go himself or allow his officers to assist. Kylo decides that he will settle for evacuating their ground forces and immediately leave the planet. He does not trust his ships or his crew and tells them to set a course for the nearest shipyard, then to open a channel to the leader of this insurrection to bargain for the release of his troops.
In the engine room, Rose sees the linakges move from sublight drive to Hyperdrive and she shouts to Finn about their ship in the garbage bay. She orders him and BB-8 to head for it and abandon her. Finn shouts that she’s being suicidal, and this is an enemy ship after all. She will not abandon her task, though most of the explosives are deactivated, so Finn clambers up, throwing away his armor, and pulls her bodily onto him. She demands he put her down, and he just mutters something about saving what he loves and takes off to their ship. However, they are too late. The engines explode. On the ground below, Resistance fighters cheer as the lead Destroyer spouts explosions and debris from its port engine block.
On the bridge, all is chaos. The ship lists drunkenly as the power fails and the curve of the planet fills the windows of the bridge. Only Kylo keeps his footing, holding onto mystical energy in the empty air. There are shouts that the ship is doomed, and officers stumble towards escape pods. Kylo makes no move to escape, but instead mutters ‘Luke’. He places his hand before him, as if to push the colossal mass of the ship away from the planet with Force alone. There is no effect.
Captains of the other vessels try to establish tractor locks on the lead destroyer, but the ship is too large and already falling too fast. At this moment the Resistance fleet appears out of hyperspace.
Rose, Finn, and BB-8 dash to the hangar for hope of a flyable ship, but they quickly realize that they will have no time to reach the hangars before the ship crashes. Their only hope lies in the small bay behind the bridge with the Captain’s shuttles and escape pods.
Poe leads the fighter attack on the Star Destroyers, R2 beeping to him about the disabled Destroyer. Poe says that he sees it and figures that the Resistance on the ground must have gotten a lucky shot with some powerful artillery. He orders the fleet to target a single Destroyer and activates Rose’s own sabotage devices. Their plan is to disable at least one of the ships.
In the Falcon, Rey senses that Kylo and their friends are all aboard the crashing ship, and to get there as fast as they can. Chewie roars and Threepio translates that it’s impossible to get there in time, and even worse, the odds of survival are too small to measure.
On the bridge, Kylo remains immovable as the ship careens through the atmosphere, flames licking along the great surface of its arrowhead prow. Behind him in the hallways, the three friends rush to the hangar to see the ships smashed against the walls and one another. The ship rocks like a wild thing, and all are flung across the floor. They fly down the hallways into the bridge, coming to a stop against the main viewscreens. Kylo sees them, understands. He throws them back against the far wall with the Force, one hand extended to them, the other still facing forward at the oncoming planet. The windows shatter with the heat, which licks at Kylo’s clothes and burns away his cloak. Mountain ranges emerge from the clouds and still Kylo stands, and then the impact. The forward section of the Destroyer crumples against the mountains, pieces shorn off by jagged peaks. The noise is absolute, a rending and tearing and still Kylo stands, slowing their descent and holding them in place until the last moment when everything gives way and falls into darkness.
Leia stares out at the sky above the temple, doom above her in the form of Thrawn’s personal fleet. She readies herself for this fate she has long foreseen.
Kylo blinks in the brightness. Over him stands Finn, battered and bruised but otherwise uninjured. Kylo looks down at where he is laying. He is on the scorched outer hull of the Destroyer, the crumpled bridge far above and behind him. A streak of blood shows his journey out of the broken windows of the bridge and he sees that he is missing several limbs. The left ones, to be specific. Blood gushes from his wounds. He looks again at Finn, and sees he is holding his own red saber. ‘Go ahead, do it.’ He says to the traitor. He lacks the strength to lift a finger, much less a hand to stop him.
An officer salutes the red-eyed alien at the helm of the Destroyer, giving him confirmation of the successful sabotage. Hux’s hologram comes on the viewscreen, giving him permission as Supreme Leader to commence the attack. A single green bolt of energy strikes down at the temple.
Finn smiles grimly, activating the saber, and strikes true.
As the Falcon emerges from the clouds above the wreck Rey screams, clutching her head, and falls unconscious upon the controls.
holding the broken fragments of TROS
How do we build a worthy conclusion from this?
Thanks! I feel like the First Order has been in desperate need of a cool-headed villain from the beginning, and Thrawn seems to fit well.
Updated the first scene btw.
It would be hard not to, a lot of those ideas had potential. I think it’s criminal how Coruscant isn’t featured in TROS.
After seeing The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, I couldn’t help but wonder what would happen if Disney ever made a third movie with these characters. There are a few scripts floating around which got me thinking, and seeing how it’s already 2020 and no movie seems to be on the radar, I thought I’d take a stab at concluding the story. For the sake of brevity it is presented in summary form with specific dialogue only in critical scenes.
Enjoy!
STAR WARS EPISODE IX
ACT I
Trash floats through the vacuum of space into the distance. The outline of a giant hatchway comes into view, outlined against the starfield. A small, ugly craft appears suddenly as if from thin air, then creeps into the hatchway as it begins to close, and as it snaps shut the stars turn into starlines as the Star Destroyer jumps to hyperspace.
The small ship lands in the grimy interior of the garbage bay and a hatch slides open. BB-8 rolls out, disguised as a First Order tactical droid, followed by Finn in Stormtrooper armor and Rose in a rough and ready First Order uniform. After quipping about the existence and danger of Dianogas they get to work, BB-8 and Finn heading for the crew and bridge sections, Rose descending into the engine bays with a variety of small electronic devices connected to binary beacons. Arriving at the intersection between the bridge and crew quarters, Finn and BB-8 split up, Finn to crew, BB-8 to the bridge. As he marches down the hallway, a unit of Stormtroopers pass headed by a glowering Kylo Ren. Finn quickly turns the corner out of sight, but Kylo whirls around and glares behind him, the troopers stumbling to a stop. Gathering himself, he marches on to the bridge. As the captain rises to greet him, he throws the hapless soul into the window and begins ranting about his lack of support in the battle. The captain sputters about ship malfunctions and crew morale, but Kylo doesn’t want to hear it. What peeves him most is the fact that the Resistance seems to be able to predict his every move. The officers mutter behind his back of rumors that Kylo believes Luke is orchestrating these failures from beyond the grave.
Finn and BB-8 return to the garbage dump. Finn has updated the trooper’s information and procedure manuals with some choice history of the Galactic Empire and the Jedi, and BB-8 has gathered from the computers the fleet’s next destination. Finn sends this info down the line to the Resistance. Sabotaging Kylo’s ship was the most dangerous of their missions, which is why it was their last, but they seem to have pulled it off. The last Resistance hyperspace relay is placed on the floor of the garbage dump, awaiting its ejection at the site of the next place of unrest in the galaxy. Rose is still unaccounted for, however. Finn’s communicator crackles, telling him that there’s a problem. They leave for the engine rooms.
…
On Coruscant, Hux reviews the losses and Kylo’s final report. Thrawn stands behind him. He denigrates Kylo’s tactics as unbecoming of a Supreme Leader, bemoaning the state of the First Order with an unbalanced Skywalker at its helm. Thrawn comments on the frivolous waste of chasing down the Resistance as he has singlehandedly won the core worlds for the First Order.
They walk the halls of the First Order palace, coming to a room off-limits to anyone but Kylo. Thrawn nevertheless has the codes, and they enter Kylo’s sanctuary. Here are his artifacts, his broken mask which has been welded together, Vader’s mask, broken lightsabers and old Kyber crystals, Sith paraphernalia. Thrawn approaches Kylo’s mask. He remarks upon how Kylo himself broke the mask and had it remade, and how curious it was that one so eager to destroy finds it difficult to actually take action. He claims that Kylo is in fact governed by his legacy to such an extent that he is unable to move beyond it. He tells Hux that the First Order knows very well where Leia is hiding, directing all these uprisings, but Kylo refuses to destroy her because of his conflicted soul. He urges Hux to take action, to do that which he has wanted to do since the beginning, that someone fighting on the front lines is susceptible to…accidents. With Kylo out of the way, Thrawn would be under Hux’s control, and would gladly end this insurrection. It is Leia who keeps the legend of Luke alive, Thrawn says, and to kill her is to kill the Resistance. Hux asks of the girl who is so important to Kylo, and what threat she poses. Thrawn pauses beside a collection of curious artifacts – the helmet of a Rebel pilot, a small potted flower clinging to life, a stuffed Rebel fighter doll – and says that she is nobody, capable of inspiring no armies, no resistance to their will, Force or not. For the Force is a distraction from real power, the power to rule galaxies.
Perhaps it’s not so much that the scenes would have significantly improved the film, but more the apparent lack of effort on Disney’s part that has everyone so bitter.
As far as script rewrites, I really liked the discussion about Kylo turning in the first act and think that would be just a whole lot of fun.
I guess I’ll be fanediting this movie in the ‘Script Writing and Rewriting’ section then.
I’m with you too. It’s just impossible to work with what we have. I’ve already started work on a modified version of Trevorrow’s “Duel of the Fates” draft, and I’ll be sharing that here soon.
I look forward to it!
It seems our paths are similar. After hearing the discussion about Duel of the Fates, I almost couldn’t help but start writing a script in my head. I haven’t ever committed to writing a whole new script for something, but maybe this is the one that happens.
I guess I’ll be fanediting this movie in the ‘Script Writing and Rewriting’ section then.
I don’t remember women and children in that scene.
And I think more is in order.
All joking aside, it would be a nice touch.
Although a 3-in-1 edit would have been neat, it’s probably unfeasible as you say. But a 2-in-1 ESB and ROTJ could be really good, and I had actually been thinking along those lines for a theoretical fanedit.
Open with Palpatine’s arrival at the partially destroyed Death Star. He senses Vader wants to continue his search for Skywalker, and says that Luke will eventually seek him out.
Cut to Hoth, and Luke’s misadventures in the snow. He is knocked out by the Wampa and remains offscreen while the Probe Droid plot is moving forward.
The Emperor dismisses Vader to go wait on the command ship, where he hears his officers talking of a transmission of the Probe Droid. Vader’s decision to follow it despite his master’s insistence that he have patience is now a foreshadowing of their familial connection and weakness.
The Imperial fleet arrives over Hoth as Han is still missing, looking for Luke, and then a search party is sent out and find Han even as the walkers advance on the base to drive up tension. Cut the Bacta sequence and skip straight to Luke suiting up and getting in a speeder.
The asteroid chase could again be cut in favor of simply putting the Falcon on the Star Destroyer.
Luke’s training could be shortened, Vader’s communication with the Emperor can be cut because of redundancy.
Lando and Leia escape Cloud city and jump to Hyperspace before the Vader/Luke battle is finished. When Luke calls out to Leia from the antenna, there is no response.
Tatooine. The band plays Baroque music and dancers twist their bodies to the beat. Han is seen in Carbonite against the wall. Night falls, and a masked figure arrives and rescues Solo. ‘Who are you?’ ‘Someone who loves you’. Shot of the Falcon flying away from Tatooine.
The Rebel fleet is assembled. The plan to attack the Death Star is underway, and cuts before Luke arrives. There is a montage of preparing for battle and the shuttle goes into Hyperspace.
Luke awakens in Bacta. a sinister droid places a device against the tube and he ascends. Form cut to the elevator shaft with lights rising on its surface. It opens and Luke appears beside Vader. Together they walk into the throne room. Cut after ‘you will call me master.’
The shuttle flies past the command ship. Repurpose footage of Leia sensing Luke’s presence from ESB on the Falcon. He senses her as well from the throne room. Luke says ‘You’re gravely mistaken. Soon I’ll be dead. And you with me’. The Emperor makes his speech about his plan.
The shuttle lands and the troops file out. Cut straight to them opening the door to the bunker and beginning to set the charges. The Ewoks arrive as a surprise to everyone. The rest of the battle, and the film, plays out as in the original. I don’t know how Leia as Luke’s sister would fit into this, but perhaps it could be cut altogether.
Because now that the last great worm of Tatooine is dead, its sequestered waters do spread across the arid soil and push back the advancing dunes. And so the Tusken’s millennia of toil draws to a close with the fulfillment of this prophecy.