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===Act One===
===Act One===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Terran Confederation
! Empire of Kilrah
! Tortuga Pirates
|-
!colspan="3"|Strength
|-
|2 CF-105 Scimitar medium fighters
|1 Dorkar transport
|1 F-57 Sabre heavy attack fighter<br>2 F-54 Epee light attack fighter<Br>2 Dralthi medium fighter<br>1 Avenger heavy fighter
|-
!colspan="3"|Losses
|-
|1 Scimitar destroyed, 1 captured
|1 Dorkar captured or destroyed
|1 Epee destroyed
|-
|}


===Act Two===
===Act Two===


===Act Three===
===Act Three===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Empire of Kilrah
! Tortuga Pirates
|-
!colspan="3"|Strength
|-
|39 Sartha light fighters<br>1 Dorkir transport
|1 F-57 Sabre heavy attack fighter<br>2 F-54 Epee light attack fighter<Br>1 Dralthi medium fighter
|-
!colspan="3"|Losses
|-
|3 Sartha destroyed
|1 Sabre, 1 Epee, 1 Dralthi destroyed<br>Tortuga captured
|-
|}


==Characters==
==Characters==
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<gallery mode="nolines">
<gallery mode="nolines">
Image:WCA-1x01-Tolwyn.png|Commodore Geoffrey Tolwyn
Image:1x02_-_Tolwyn.png|Commodore Geoffrey Tolwyn
Image:WCA-1x01-Maverick.png|2nd Lt. Christopher "Maverick" Blair
Image:1x02_-_Maverick.png|2nd Lt. Christopher "Maverick" Blair
Image:WCA-1x01-Archer.png|2nd Lt. Gwen "Archer" Bowman
Image:1x02_-_Archer.png|2nd Lt. Gwen "Archer" Bowman
Image:WCA-1x01-Hyena.png|2nd Lt. Yulan "Hyena" Chang
Image:1x02_-_Maniac.png|2nd Lt. Todd "Maniac" Marshall
Image:WCA-1x01-Jazzman.png|2nd Lt. "Jazzman"
Image:1x02 - Payback.png|2nd Lt. Lindsay "Payback" Price
Image:WCA-1x01-Maniac.png|2nd Lt. Todd "Maniac" Marshall
Image:1x02 - McEdence.png|Tech Specialist Maya McEaddens
Image:WCA-1x01-Viking.png|2nd Lt. Victoria/"Viking"
Image:1x02_-_Bengal.png|Ship's Address
Image:WCA-1x01-Burroughs.png|Burroughs
Image:1x02 - Dral.png|Dral
Image:WCA-1x01-Guard.png|Flight School Guard
Image:1x02 - Karnes.png|Damon Karnes
Image:WCA-1x01-FlightInstructor.png|Flight School Instructor
Image:1x02 - Kilrathi Soldier Grey.png|Kilrathi Soldier #1
Image:WCA-1x01-Commandant.png|Flight School Commandant
Image:1x02_-_Thrakhath.png|Prince Thrakhath nar Kiranka
Image:WCA-1x01-Thrakhath.png|Prince Thrakhath nar Kiranka
Image:WCA-1x01-BRCaptain.png|Blockade Runner Commander
Image:WCA-1x01-SensorOperator.png|Blockade Runner Sensor Operator
</gallery>
</gallery>


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<gallery mode="nolines">
<gallery mode="nolines">
Image:WCA-1x01-Payback.png|2nd Lt. Lindsay "Payback" Price
Image:1x02_-_Blairents.png|Devi Soulsong & Major Arnold Blair
Image:WCA-1x01-Technician.png|Flight School Technician
Image:1x02_-_Grunt_and_Pilot.png|2nd Lt. Hector "Grunt" Paz & Pilot
Image:WCA-1x01-FlightCrew.png|Flight School Ground Crew, 8th Pilot
Image:1x02_-_Guard Two.png|Tortuga Guard #2
Image:WCA-1x01-FSStaff.png|Flight School Staff (2)
Image:1x02_-_Guard One.png|Tortuga Guard #1
Image:WCA-1x01-BrigeOfficer.png|Blockade Runner Bridge Crewman
Image:1x02_-_Ground Crew.png|Tortuga Ground Crewman
Image:1x02 - Gharal.png|Gharal nar Hhallas
Image:1x02_-_Kilrathi_Soldier.png|Kilrathi Soldier #2
</gallery>
 
==Kill Board==
 
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Pilot
! Sorties
! Kills
! Status
|-
!Maniac
|3
|3 (1 partial)
|Active
|-
!Maverick
|2
|1 (partial)
|Active
|-
!Archer
|2
|0
|Active
|-
!Payback
|2
|0
|Active
|-
!Easy
|1
|0
|Active
|-
!Grunt
|1
|0
|Active
|-
!Hyena
|1
|0
|Active
|-
!Jazzman
|1
|0
|Active
|-
!Viking
|1
|0
|Retired
|-
|}
 
==Locations==
 
===Tiger's Claw===
 
[[File:1x02-TigersClaw.png|frameless]]
 
<gallery mode="nolines">
Image:1x02-MavericksQuarters.png|Maverick's Quarters
Image:1x02-GravBall.png|Grav-Ball Court
Image:1x02-ClawCooridors1.png|Outside Maverick's Quarters
Image:1x02-LongHallway.png|Hallway
Image:1x02-Stairs.png|Stairs
Image:1x02-Doorway.png|Doorway
Image:1x02-Catwalks1.png|Catwalks
Image:1x02-Catwalks2.png|Catwalks
Image:1x02-Catwalks3.png|Catwalks
Image:1x02-AroundCorner.png|Down the Hall from Maverick's Quarters
Image:1x02-OutsideBriefingRoom.png|Outside Briefing Room
Image:1x02-BriefingRoom.png|Briefing Room
Image:1x02-Hangar.png|Hangar
Image:1x02-TolwynsOffice.png|Tolwyn's Office
</gallery>
 
===M421A System===
 
[[File:1x02-M421A System.png|frameless]]
 
<gallery mode="nolines">
Image:1x02-RingedPlanet.png|Ringed Planet
Image:1x02-Moon.png|Moon
Image:1x02-GasGiant.png|Gas Giant
Image:1x02-Jumpspace.png|Jumpspace
</gallery>
 
===Tortuga===
 
[[File:1x02-Tortuga.png|frameless]]
 
<gallery mode="nolines">
Image:1x02-TortugaHangar.png|Hangar
Image:1x02-TortugaDiningRoom.png|Dining Room
Image:1x02-TortugaPrisonCell.png|Prison Cell
Image:1x02-TortugaBatteries.png|Batteries
</gallery>
 
===Cockpits===
 
<gallery mode="nolines">
Image:1x02-HellcatCockpit.png|Scimitar
Image:1x02-SabreCockpit.png|Sabre
Image:1x02-DralthiCockpit.png|Dralthi
Image:1x02-EpeeCockpit.png|Epee
</gallery>
</gallery>


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==Trivia==
==Trivia==


* Red and Blue is the only episode not set aboard the TCS Tiger's Claw.
* The pirate shuttle is based on the Avenger bomber from Wing Commander IV.
 
* Seven out of the eight cadet pilots are identified in the show. The eighth may be Grunt, whose design had not been completed when the episode went into production.


* Mark Hamill uses his Wing Commander III 'inner voice' when Maniac challenges him to the duel.
* This is the only episode to feature the Kilrathi Dorkir transport.
 
* Wing Commander Academy was originally intended to be a more direct prequel to Wing Commander III, using more of the same ships and characters. The Hellcats and Arrows seen in this episode (and never again) were designed for that iteration of the show.
 
* The nebula chart seen in the Academy command center is a map of the United Kingdom and Ireland.


==Animation Errors==
==Animation Errors==


* In the scene at 16m19s Maniac's fighter is colored red instead of blue.
* The list of cadets summoned to the briefing rooms includes "Zoharian" (Emil "Easy" Zoharian); he is not present in the briefing scene.
 
* Maverick's orange vest appears and disappears from shot to shot in the last scene. It disappears at 19m25s, returns at 19m30s and then disappears for the rest of the show at 19m33s.
 
* Timing Director Brian Ray is incorrectly credited as "Brain Ray".


==Credits==
==Credits==
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|-
|-
!Also Starring
!Also Starring
|[[Lauri Hendler]] (Draal)
|[[Lauri Hendler]] (Payback, Dral, Maya)
|-
|-
!
!
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|-
|-
!
!
|[[Pat Fraley]] (Gharal)
|[[Pat Fraley]] (Ship's Address, Soldier #1)
|-
|-
!
!
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|-
|-
!Character Design
!Character Design
|[[Larry Lathan]]
|[[Larry Latham]]
|-
|-
!Character Cleanup
!Character Cleanup
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|-
|-
!
!
|[[Manuel Canoa]]
|[[Manuel Cano]]
|-
|-
!
!
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===Act One===
===Act One===


====SCENE - Flight Simulator====
====SCENE - Maverick's Quarters====


'''Blair''': Bandits at four o'clock. More Kilrathi.
'''Maverick''': I'm recording this message as the Tiger's Claw moves through jumpspace. So I won't be able to send it until we're out of here. We're moving faster than the speed of light, dad. So fast that to the rest of the universe we don't even exist. We're completely cut off. Completely alone. Just thinking about it I feel a... a deep sense of wonder, of awe. And maybe it's a little frightening too. I think most of the other cadets feel like I do about being out here in space but not all of them show it.


'''Maniac''': Sure Maverick, tell us something we don't know.


'''Hyena''': Hey, these guys are good! Way too good. (laughs) Oh man.
====SCENE - Racquetball Court====


'''Archer''': Ah! I'm hit.
'''Maniac''': Good return Archer, but try to get a racket off this. (grunt)


'''Maniac''': You should've stayed with your ship, Archer
'''Archer''': Any time, Maniac.


'''Archer'''. Ah go fly your own ship.
'''Maniac''': Oh man. (grunt)


'''Maverick''': Well, we're the only ones left. I'm your wingman, Maniac.
'''Archer''': (grunt) Woo! Game played, Maniac. Want to try two out of three?


'''Maniac''': (laughs) You think you can keep up with me.
'''Maniac''': Ow. No fair, you've been practicing.


'''Maverick''': Hey, I hope you're not thinking about taking on that carrier.
'''Archer''': Yeah it wouldn't hurt you to practice every now and then. Or does everything have to come easy for you?


'''Maniac''': Well, in the words of John Paul Jones, I have not yet begun to dogfight. Hey, what happened! I was going to get that carrier.
'''Maniac''': Hey, if you can't do it right the first time, why bother?


'''Maverick''': Yeah? You were about to get your atoms dusted across space. What you did in that simulation was against every flight reg in the books.
'''Ship's Address''': Attention all hands, prepare to exit jumpspace. Brace for node deceleration. Repeat: all hands brace for node deceleration.


'''Maniac''': No book ever destroyed a Kilrathi carrier.


'''Instructor''': All right fall in, cadets. A computer glitch shut down the simulation. Lucky for you Maniac. As soon as the problem's corrected we'll have playback and analysis of the exercise. Get on it Burroughs, I want that computer online ASAP.
====SCENE - Outside Maverick's Quarters====


'''Burroughs''': Yes sir.
'''Ship's Address''': Node decceleration complete. Secure ship for subjump flight. All duty personnel return to stations. Cadets Blair, Marshall, Paz,  Price, Bowman and Zoharian report to the briefing room.


'''Instructor''': Dismissed
'''Maverick''': Hey Marshall, you're going the wrong way.


'''Maniac''': Try to get it right this time.
'''Maniac''': I've got my own shorcut, Maverick.  


'''Maverick''': This is the quickest way to the briefing room.


====SCENE - Flight School====
'''Maniac''': You wouldn't know up from down if it weren't for gravity. We'll ust see who gets to the briefing room first.


'''Maverick''': It always reminds me of why I came to the Academy, to fly.
'''Maverick''': Okay, Maniac, you're on.


'''Viking''': What do you think it's like up there? In a real fight, I mean.


'''Maverick''': I guess we'll find out. But we're being trained by the best. We'll be ready when the time comes.
====SCENE - Tiger's Claw Hallway====


'''Viking''': I wish I had your confidence.
'''McEaddens''': Hey, who lit your afterburners, pal?


'''Maverick''': Yeah, well... uh, listen, I was wondering if maybe we coudld get together sometime. Maybe study for our Kilrathi psychology exam.
'''Maverick''': Sorry, I didn't know anyone was coming around the corner. Here. I was just on my way to... uh, to the briefing room.


'''Viking''': Sure, I'd like that.
'''McEaddens''': Back the way you came, turn left at the next corridor, even you can't miss it.


'''Maverick''': Thanks, Viking.
'''Maverick''': Thanks, uh..


'''Viking''': I like to be called Victoria, when I'm on my own time.
'''McEaddens''': McEaddens. Tech Specialist Maya McEaddens.


'''Maverick''': Victoria, eh.
'''Maverick''': Well, thanks again.


'''Maniac''': Hey Maverick, I was about to prove who the best pilto is when that simulator shut down.
'''McEaddens''': Space jockeys.


'''Maverick''': Oh yeah? The best pilot is the one who completes his mission and comes back alive.


'''Maniac''': (laughs) Come on, you know you want to be Wing Commander. You're just too busy being a perfect little cadet to admit it.
====SCENE - Briefing Room====


'''Maverick''': I wouldn't do that if I were you.
'''Maverick''': Looks like we have to call this one a draw.


'''Maniac''': (laughs) So what are you going  to do about it? Huh? Come on, let's just have it out right now, you and me.
'''Maniac''': At least we're the first ones here.


'''Maverick''': You know that's against the Academy rules. Hey, I am not going to fight you.
'''Tolwyn''': Blair, Marshall. Good of you to join us. At last.


'''Maniac''': Well then I'll fight you. HEY!
'''Maverick''': Sorry sir.


'''Archer''': Chill out, Maniac. You want to get bounced out of the Academy?
'''Tolwyn''': I used to get lost myself my first few weeks on a carrier. But see that you learn your way around.


'''Maniac''': Butt out Archer. This is between Maverick and me.
'''Maniac''': I, I wasn't lost sir. I was, uh, I was unavoidably detained.  


'''Archer''': (screams)
'''Maverick''': I was organizing a search party for Cadet Marshall, sir.


'''Maniac''': You must be a lot of fun on a date.
'''Tolwyn''': Yes, I see. Well, now that we're all here (clears throat) we can begin. As you see M421A is not an impressive system, but its proximity to more well traveled jump routes give it some strategic importance. Your mission is reconnaissance, turning over rocks. You'll divide into three flights of two fighters each. I want each pla net and its moons checked out thoroughly. This is an uninhabited system. There's been no Confederation activity since the initial survey just before the war. I don't anticipate any excitement, but stay alert. Any questions?


'''Commandant''': What's going on here?
'''Maniac''': Uh sir, that name on the system exploration report. Uh, D. Karnes. Is that Damon Karnes?


'''Archer''': Unarmed combat practice, sir.
'''Tolwyn''': Yes it is.


'''Maverick''': Uh, that's right, sir. Cadet Bowman was demonstrating a forearm throw.
'''Payback''': Friend of yours?


'''Maniac''': Yeah, uh, thanks for the demonstration.
'''Maniac''': Damon Karnes was the best pilot that ever flew for the Confederation.


'''Commandant''': Next time, keep it in the gym. Commodore Tolwyn, I apologize for my cadets'... enthusiasm.
'''Maverick''': I've heard of Karnes. Didn't he disappear in space about ten years ago?


'''Archer''': Commodore Tolwyn? Captain of the Tiger's Claw?
'''Tolwyn''': Look, this isn't a history lesson, get moving.


'''Maniac''': The most decorated commander in the fleet?


'''Maverick''': Oh it's a great honor sir.
====SCENE - Space====
 
'''Tolwyn''': I thought I'd have a look at you cadets while the Tiger's Claw is being refitted. I'd like to see you in action in space, not in a simulator.


'''Commandant''': They're ready for combat maneuvers in real fighters. We'll divide into two flights, red wing and blue wing, with weapons set at the lowest level. They'll get knocked around a bit but their shields will protect them.
'''Maverick''': Engaging automatic navigation.


'''Tolwyn''': I'd like to pick the commanders of the two opposing teams. Hmm. You lead the red wing and you'll lead the blue.
'''Maniac''': (sigh) Autonav engaged. Some hotshot pilots, we might as well take the bus.


'''Maniac''': Well at least we already know who's going to win.
'''Maverick''': Maniac, proximity alert. Switch to manual control.


'''Maverick''': Hey, thanks Maniac, takes a big man to admit when he's second best.
'''Maniac''': Huh, what's up?


'''Maniac''': Well, I just... well, hey that's not what I meant!
'''Maverick''': Unidentified ship coming in. Shut down your systems, we'll blend into the background. I've got target lock. A Kilrathi transport!


'''Maniac''': All right! Let's take it out.


====SCENE - Maverick's Quarters====
'''Maverick''': Negative. You must have been asleep in tactics class, we slip into his particle trail and follow him. That transport might lead us to a Kilrathi base or a fleet.
 
'''Blair''': Dad, I know you and mom disagreed with my decision to come to the Academy but I just wanted to let you know I've been studying hard and well I think I'm doing well here. My callsign is Maverick. (laughs) One of the cadets gave it to me as a joke, I sort of have a reputation for following the rules. Dad, you told me there's no glory in war, and I'm not saying you were wrong. But to willingly take on a hard and dangerous job, to give your best in the company of the best, surely there's some glory in that.


'''Maniac''': Yeah, well, there better be a whole fleet of transports.


====SCENE - Communications Room====
'''Maverick''': Multiple contacts closing on transport. Small ships, fighters!


'''Commander''': Ready to receive data transmission.
'''Maniac''': Oh, I knew it! We waited too long, now its picked up a fighter escort. Oh, that's the last time I ever listen to you.


'''Burroughs''': The deals have changed. If you want the Academy's classified files, you'll have to take me back to Kilrah with you. It's only a matter of time until they realized someone's copied the files and trace it to me. I'll rendezvous with you in the nebula then I'll turn over the data.
'''Maverick''': Wait, the transport's changing course. It's trying to evade the fighters. It's under attack.


'''Commander''': Transmit now. Academy fighters will overtake you before you can reach us.
'''Maniac''': What do you mean under attack? I wish somebody 'd tell me what's going on here. Oh, I had to ask!


'''Burroughs''': No, they'll be too busy with their own problems to worry about me. I've reprogrammed the fire computers on the fighters to full strength. While they think they're having their mock combat, they'll be blowing each other to bits.
'''Maverick''': Missile lock red! We're in their sights.


===Act Two===
===Act Two===


====SCENE - Flight Line====
====SCENE - Space====


'''Maniac''': Hey Maverick! You got the nerve for a little one on one? Just you and me. We have our teams hold position while we meet for a private dogfight. With all the interference in that nebula the Aacademy brass weill never know. It's the only way to settle once and for all who's the best pilot.
'''Maverick''': Missile's locked on. (grunts) I can't shake him. Launch decoys and break formation.  


'''Maverick''': What do you have teo do to get through to this guy? We're not playing games. You're on, Maniac!
'''Maniac''': I still got a lock, it's no good.


'''Maniac''': (laughs) Allright! May the best pilot win. That'd be me.
'''Maverick''': Maniac? Maniac!


'''Maniac''': Hey! I'm alive. (laughs) Shields are down... and I've lost main engines.


====SCENE - Space====
'''Maverick''': Hang on, I'm coming.


'''Maverick''': Maverick to Viking. Switch communications to tac-two and scramble.
'''Maniac''': Negative Maverick, get back to the 'Claw. This is just great! Alright jerk, what are you waiting for? Get it over with. Maverick!


'''Viking''': Roger Maverick. I'm on tac two.
'''Maverick''': (grunts)


'''Maverick''': Viking, I'm making you second in command of the blue wing. With your help I'm going to each Maniac a lesson he'll never forget. I'm meeting him for a one on one inside the nebula. His approach vector will shjow the location of the red wing. I'll transmit the coordinates to you. I'll keep Maniac while you lead a surprise attack on the red wing.
'''Karnes''': Surrender immediately or be destroyed.


'''Viking''': Understood. Good luck, Maverick.
'''Maniac''': Tell him to blow it out his afterburners, Mav.


'''Maverick''': We surrender.


====SCENE - Blockade Runner====


'''Sensor Operator''': Commander, sensors detect a ship approaching. A Terran ship. I cannot determien the class. A second Terran ship.
====SCENE - Tortuga Hangar====


'''Commander''': Curious. Prince Thrakhath, two Terran ships are approaching the nebula.
'''Dral''': Welcome to Tortuga. Believe me, you won't like it.


'''Prince Thrakhath''': Perhaps our spy isn't as clever as he thought. Monitor the situation. Be prepared for teachery. But whatever the danger to you and your crew I will have those Academy files. That information will render their fighter squadrons useless. We will sweep them from space. Get me those files.  
'''Maniac''': Oh, I don't know... it seems like a nice place you've got here.


'''Dral''': This is not my place. It belongs to him.


====SCENE - Nebula====
'''Maniac''': What? It can't be.


'''Maverick''': Maniac, where are you? It's just like you to be late.
'''Maverick''': What's wrong, Maniac.


'''Maniac''': Woo-hoo-hoo!
'''Maniac''': It's Damon Karnes.


'''Maverick''': Give me a vector on Maniac's ion trail. Got it. Transmit data to Viking on tac two.


====SCENE - Tortuga Dining Room====


====SCENE - Space====
'''Maniac''': What's Damon Karnes doing here with these... renegades?


'''Viking''': We've got the approach coordinates for the red wing. Let's go.
'''Maverick''': Right now, he's holding us prisoner.


'''Maniac''': I mean, I had a holovid about Karnes when I was a kid, The Last Hero. I, I must have watched it about a hundred times.


====SCENE - Command Center====
'''Karnes''': Propaganda. That vid was made by the Confederation to persuade gullible children to become pilots. Apparently it worked.


'''Commandant''': We'll monitor the exercise from here, tally hits and tell the cadets when they've scored kills. At the moment the blue team is on an intercept course for the red. We've lost contact with the team leaders. Huh. They must have gone on a reconnaissance and flown too close to the nebula.
'''Maniac''': But... you were the best!


'''Tolwyn''': Hmm. Unusual choice of tactics.
'''Karnes''': Sometimes being the best isn't enough.  


'''Instructor''': Yeah. Maniac and Maverick were interesting choices for team leaders. They're good pilots but they're very competitive.
'''Karnes''': One day I realized I no longer cared who won the war. I had no hatred for the Kilrathi and no love for the Confederation. I had no feelings at all. Space has that effect on some people. When you look too long into emptiness, the emptiness gets inside you. So one day I went out on patrol and I just kept going. Eventually I found others like myself. Humans, Kilrathi, renegades, outcasts. Now, we take what we need to survive from all sides. You disapprove?


'''Tolwyn''': I know, that's why I chose them.
'''Maverick''': Is that why you keep us alive? You want our approval?


'''Karnes''': I let you live because I'm bored.


====SCENE - Nebula====
'''Maverick''': I believe a person's life should serve a purpose.


'''Maniac''': Come on out, Maverick. You can't hide from me forever. WHat are you, afraid to face me? Maybe your callsign should be Chicken instead of Maverick. (clucking)
'''Karnes''': There are two kinds in the galaxy, only two. Those who fly in order to get somewhere and those who love to fly.  




====SCENE - Space====
====SCENE - Tortuga Prison Cell====


'''Jazzman''': Incoming target. Could be Maniac but there's too much interference to be sure.
'''Maverick''': Tolwyn could send out search parties for a thousand years and still not find this place, it's too well hidden.


'''Archer''': I copy, Jazzman. Woah! That's not Maniac, it's the blue team. Evasive action.
'''Maniac''': If you'd have let me take out that transport when we first spotted it none of this would've happened.  


'''Jazzman''': Woah! What, what was that? Oh. Man, this is too real. Jazzman to Archer, these lasers pack quite a punch.
'''Maverick''': Yeah, if your hero hadn't gone insane...


'''Archer''': Check your shields Jazzman.
'''Maniac''': He was out here for twenty years. You don't know the things he's seen. The things he had to do.  


'''Jazzman''': Showing shields at 100%.
'''Maverick''': He wasn't strong enough to take it.


'''Maniac''': You don't have the right to judge him!


====SCENE - Flight Line====
'''Maverick''': Give me that! You should've studied your unarmed combat manual.


'''Guard''': (groans)
'''Maniac''': (screams) Give me.


'''Karnes''': That's enough. Sensors have detected another transport. We're going to take it.


====SCENE- Space====
'''Maniac''': Uh, I'd like to go along.


'''Archer''': She's on my tail, I can't shake her.
'''Maverick''': What?!


'''Jazzman''': Hang on Archer, I'm on my way.
'''Maniac''': Ever since I was a little boy, I wanted to fly with you.  


'''Viking''': Gotcha, Jazzman! (gasps) Get outta there, Jazzman!
'''Karnes''': What about you?


'''Maverick''': Is it a Kilrathi ship, or Terran?


====SCENE - Command Center====
'''Karnes''': Does it matter to you?


'''Instructor''': Sir, message coming in fron red team.  
'''Maniac''': No.


'''Archer''': Fighter has been destroyed. Weapons are at full strenght but shields register no damage.
'''Karnes''': Then come with me.
 
'''Tolwyn''': This is Commodore Tolwyn. All fighters return to the Academy immediately.  




====SCENE - Space====
====SCENE - Space====


'''Tolwyn''': I repeat, return to the Academy immediately.
'''Dral''': The Confederation coward is running. I knew he couldn't be trusted.


'''Archer''': You take the others back, Viking. I've got to find Maniac and Maverick. They won't be able to hear the recall message inside the nebula.
'''Karnes''': He's no coward, he's going back to Tortuga. Continue the attack. I'll deal with Maniac.


 
'''Maniac''': Maniac to Tiger's Claw. Come in, Tiger's Claw.
====SCENE - Nebula====
 
'''Maverick''': Maniac!
 
'''Maniac''': (laughs) No more computer simulators. You're just lucky my cannons aren't on full strength.


===Act Three===
===Act Three===


====SCENE - Nebula====
====SCENE - Space====
 
'''Maniac''': Where'd you go, Maverick? (laughs) You're not getting away that easy. Hey! Watch it! You're the one that's supposed to be getting your lumps.
 
 
====SCENE - Blockade Runner====
 
'''Commander''': Did you bring the data?
 
'''Burroughs''': (laughs) I'd have to be pretty stupid to show up here without it.
 
'''Commander''': I have never met a spy before, face to face. How does your honor allow you to betray your own people?
 
'''Burroughs''': Honor? I want revenge! I was a cadeet at the Academy until they washed me out. Who are they to tell me I'm not good enough to be a pilot? All the work I put in. And then one bad psych evaluation and it's all for nothing. Unstable? Hah, what a laugh!
 
'''Commander''': Yes, I see.
 
'''Burroughs''': What are you doing? We had a deal! A deal! (screams)
 
'''Commander''': A man without honor has no reason to live.
 
'''Sensor Operator''': Commander, another Terran ship is approaching.
 
 
====SCENE - Nebula====
 
'''Archer''': There are two ships out there but I can't tell who they are. It's gotta be Maverick and Maniac. Oh my... Kilrathi.
 
'''Maverick''': Maniac, hold your fire. There's something wrong with my shields.
 
'''Maniac''': Oh ha ha, boo hoo. Nice try Maverick, but I'm not falling for it. WHo's the best, Maverick? Who's the best?
 
'''Archer''': Archer to red blue leaders. I have abandoned ship. Need assistance. Repeat, I need assistance.
 
'''Maniac''': Ah, Maverick, I'm picking up a distress call from Archer.
 
 
====SCENE - Blockade Runner====
 
'''Commander''': I want the Terran ejection pod found and destroyed.
 
 
====SCENE - Nebula====
 
'''Maniac''': Sit tight Archer, we're on our way.
 
'''Archer''': Negative, Maniac, there's Kilrathi everywhere. No matter what your instruments say your weapons are at full strength.
 
'''Maniac''': (laughs) Oh man, we could've really found out who's the best.
 
'''Maverick''': Hey, get a grip pal, this isn't a game.
 
'''Archer''': Maverick's right, One shot from the Kilrathi's cap ship could blow you to bits.
 
'''Maniac''': Well then we'll just have to get the furballs first. What do you say, Maverick?


'''Maverick''': I'm your wingman.
'''Maniac''': Come on, you piece of junk. (screams) You were the best, Karnes. That should've been enough. What? Hey!


'''Karnes''': Your long range communications and weapons don't work. It's been a long time since I trusted anyone.


====SCENE - Blockade Runner====
'''Maniac''': (screams)


'''Sensor Operator''': Commander, two Terran ships approaching on an attack vector.
'''Karnes''': You should've joined us. You're the first pilot in a long time good enough to stay on my tail.
'''Commander''': Open fire.


'''Maniac''': I'm not like you.


====SCENE - Nebula====
'''Karnes''': I know, I was like your friend, Maverick.


'''Archer''': Gotta buy some time for Maniac and Maverick. Well, here goes nothing.
'''Maniac''': No way, he'd never turn his back on the Confederation like you did.  


'''Karnes''': You think you know him. But people change. They have to. War isn't a game for children.


====SCENE - Blockade Runner====
'''Dral''': Dral to Karnes. Emergency, come in.


'''Sensor Operator''': Commander, we've been rammed!
'''Karnes''': What is it, Dral?


'''Commander''': Take evasive action, fire main engines and come about to full power.
'''Dral''': It's a trap. The transport was  bait to lure us into the open... there are too many of them. We're being taken over...


'''Thrakhath''': Why has the Academy data not been transmitted to me? Begin transmission at once!
'''Karnes''': Dral? Dral?


'''Maniac''': It's over Karnes. The world you built is falling apart.


====SCENE - Nebula====
'''Karnes''': Perhaps. But every soldier must fight his last battle.


'''Maniac''': Woo hoo! (laughs)
'''Maniac''': Oh! Maverick always said I should study the tech manuals more. I hate it when he's right.


'''Archer''': Yes, you got it! Your first Kilrathi ship.


'''Maverick''': Yeah, right, and our last one. There's no way we can keep the Academy brass from finding out about this now.
====SCENE - Tortuga Orbit====


'''Karnes''': The whole universe to fight.


====SCENE - Commandant's Office====


'''Commandant''': You got away with it this time, but next time you go off to fight your own private duel bagging a whole Kilrathi fleet won't keep you in the Academy. (sighs) You're not my problem anymore.
====SCENE - Tortuga Exterior====


'''Tolwyn''': The brass hats at fleet headquarters decided you cadets need hands on training. You'll be under my command aboard the Tiger's Claw. You'll finish your training and fly patrols in our assigned sector. If you're lucky, you won't even see a Kilrathi ship. You've got one hour to pack your gtear and report to your fighters for transfer to the Tiger's Claw. Dismissed.
'''Soldier #1''': My Lord, this is the last one left. We found him locked in a cell.  


'''Archer''': The Tiger's Claw!
'''Thrakhath''': Why were you locked up, Terran?


'''Maverick''': The best carrier in the fleet.
'''Maverick''': I guess I'm just a renegade.


'''Commandant''': Geoffrey, we've known each other for a long time. Why did fleet command give you this assignment? You should be an Admiral by now instead of babysitting a bunch of cadets on a training patrol.
'''Thrakhath''': (laughs) Vermin. I am Thrakhath nar Kiranka, Prince of Kilrah, the Fang of Sivar, Destroyer of Worlds. You renegades attacked Kilrathi ships. For that offensive I have destroyed you to the last man. But you will be left alive. You will tell what happened here so the galaxy may be warned: to attack the Kilrathi is to die.


'''Tolwyn''': Fleet command is trying to teach me a lesson. I won't fight the war their way so they're going to keep me out of combat. Apparently the Kilrathi aren't my only enemies.


'''Commandant''': Don't take it out on the cadets, Geof. It's not their fault.
====SCENE - Tortuga Hangar====


'''Maverick''': Ow!


====SCENE - Flight Line====
'''Maniac''': Must have been some party. I'm glad I missed it. You know I was lying to Karnes, didn't you?


'''Maniac''': Hey Maverick. Oh, it's not over between us. I'm still a better pilot than you and I'm going to prove it.
'''Maverick''': I hoped you were. If I can get mine started, we'll take a look at the heap you're flying. Sounds like you need a tune up.  


'''Maverick''': Any time, anywhere, Maniac! Viking?
'''Maniac''': Hey, what do you mean heap? That heap can out fly you any day.


'''Viking''': It's just Victoria now. I'm leaving the Academy.


'''Maverick''': Why? You're a good pilot.
====SCENE - Commodore Tolwyn's Office====


'''Viking''': I almost killed Jazzman.
'''Tolwyn''': It seems the Kilrathi task force has jumped out of the system. Probably its only purpose was to destroy the renegades. This whole Damon Karnes affair was classified top secret by the Confederation years ago. You're never to mention Karnes again. Not even to the other cadets.


'''Maverick''': That wasn't your fault.
'''Maniac''': You mean the Confederation knew what he'd become? They knew he was a renegade?


'''Viking''': The way I felt, it would've been the same against a Kilrathi pilot. They're the enemy but they're living beings too. I can't take that away from anyone, even the enemy. Are you going to stay?
'''Tolwyn''': They knew. They thought the truth about Karnes would be bad for morale. People need heroes.


'''Maverick''': I can't let someone else take my place. I knew the risks when I chose to be here.
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'''Viking''': Well... good luck, Maverick.
[[category:Wing Commander Academy Episodes]]

Latest revision as of 15:25, 6 July 2020

The Last One Left is the second episode of Wing Commander Academy.


The Last One Left
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Episode Number 1x02
Production Code 74702
Story Mark Edens
Writer(s) Michael Edens
Air Date September 28, 1996
Run Time 20m51s
Animation Studio Koko
Theme Version 2
Previous Red and Blue
Next The Most Delicate Instrument



Summary

Act One

Terran Confederation Empire of Kilrah Tortuga Pirates
Strength
2 CF-105 Scimitar medium fighters 1 Dorkar transport 1 F-57 Sabre heavy attack fighter
2 F-54 Epee light attack fighter
2 Dralthi medium fighter
1 Avenger heavy fighter
Losses
1 Scimitar destroyed, 1 captured 1 Dorkar captured or destroyed 1 Epee destroyed

Act Two

Act Three

Empire of Kilrah Tortuga Pirates
Strength
39 Sartha light fighters
1 Dorkir transport 		1 F-57 Sabre heavy attack fighter
2 F-54 Epee light attack fighter
1 Dralthi medium fighter
Losses
3 Sartha destroyed 1 Sabre, 1 Epee, 1 Dralthi destroyed
Tortuga captured

Characters

Speaking

  • Commodore Geoffrey Tolwyn

    Commodore Geoffrey Tolwyn

  • 2nd Lt. Christopher "Maverick" Blair

    2nd Lt. Christopher "Maverick" Blair

  • 2nd Lt. Gwen "Archer" Bowman

    2nd Lt. Gwen "Archer" Bowman

  • 2nd Lt. Todd "Maniac" Marshall

    2nd Lt. Todd "Maniac" Marshall

  • 2nd Lt. Lindsay "Payback" Price

    2nd Lt. Lindsay "Payback" Price

  • Tech Specialist Maya McEaddens

    Tech Specialist Maya McEaddens

  • Ship's Address

    Ship's Address

  • Dral

    Dral

  • Damon Karnes

    Damon Karnes

  • Kilrathi Soldier #1

    Kilrathi Soldier #1

  • Prince Thrakhath nar Kiranka

    Prince Thrakhath nar Kiranka

Nonspeaking

  • Devi Soulsong & Major Arnold Blair

    Devi Soulsong & Major Arnold Blair

  • 2nd Lt. Hector "Grunt" Paz & Pilot

    2nd Lt. Hector "Grunt" Paz & Pilot

  • Tortuga Guard #2

    Tortuga Guard #2

  • Tortuga Guard #1

    Tortuga Guard #1

  • Tortuga Ground Crewman

    Tortuga Ground Crewman

  • Gharal nar Hhallas

    Gharal nar Hhallas

  • Kilrathi Soldier #2

    Kilrathi Soldier #2

Kill Board

Pilot Sorties Kills Status
Maniac 3 3 (1 partial) Active
Maverick 2 1 (partial) Active
Archer 2 0 Active
Payback 2 0 Active
Easy 1 0 Active
Grunt 1 0 Active
Hyena 1 0 Active
Jazzman 1 0 Active
Viking 1 0 Retired

Locations

Tiger's Claw

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  • Maverick's Quarters

    Maverick's Quarters

  • Grav-Ball Court

    Grav-Ball Court

  • Outside Maverick's Quarters

    Outside Maverick's Quarters

  • Hallway

    Hallway

  • Stairs

    Stairs

  • Doorway

    Doorway

  • Catwalks

    Catwalks

  • Catwalks

    Catwalks

  • Catwalks

    Catwalks

  • Down the Hall from Maverick's Quarters

    Down the Hall from Maverick's Quarters

  • Outside Briefing Room

    Outside Briefing Room

  • Briefing Room

    Briefing Room

  • Hangar

    Hangar

  • Tolwyn's Office

    Tolwyn's Office

M421A System

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  • Ringed Planet

    Ringed Planet

  • Moon

    Moon

  • Gas Giant

    Gas Giant

  • Jumpspace

    Jumpspace

Tortuga

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  • Hangar

    Hangar

  • Dining Room

    Dining Room

  • Prison Cell

    Prison Cell

  • Batteries

    Batteries

Cockpits

  • Scimitar

    Scimitar

  • Sabre

    Sabre

  • Dralthi

    Dralthi

  • Epee

    Epee

Ships

Terran Confederation

Fighters

Capital Ships

Empire of Kilrah

Fighters

Capital Ships

Pirates

Fighters

Small Arms

Empire of Kilrah

  • Pistol

    Pistol

  • Rifle

    Rifle

Trivia

  • The pirate shuttle is based on the Avenger bomber from Wing Commander IV.
  • This is the only episode to feature the Kilrathi Dorkir transport.

Animation Errors

  • The list of cadets summoned to the briefing rooms includes "Zoharian" (Emil "Easy" Zoharian); he is not present in the briefing scene.

Credits

Role Name
Story by Mark Edens
Written by Michael Edens
Producer Larry Latham
Executive Story Editors Mark Edens
Michael Edens
Executive Consultant Ralph Sanchez
Executive Story Consultants Richard Hilleman
Adam Foshko
Starring Mark Hamill (Maverick)
Tom Wilson (Maniac)
Malcolm McDowell (Tolwyn)
Dana Delany (Archer)
Also Starring Lauri Hendler (Payback, Dral, Maya)
Kevin Schoen (Thrakhath)
Pat Fraley (Ship's Address, Soldier #1)
Ron Perlman (Karnes)
Music by Alexander Van Bubenheim
Voice Direction and Casting Susan Blu
Pre-Production Sound by Screenmusic Studios, Inc.
Pre-Production Sound Mixer Pete Elia
Recording Assistant Mark Caballero
Storyboards Dave Williams
Flammarion Ferriera
Dan Nosella
Storyboard Cleanup Judy Nielson
Timing Directors Zeon Davush
Tim Walker
Character Design Larry Latham
Character Cleanup Harry McGlaughlin
Joy Kolitsky
Prop Design Lee Go
Background Design Derek Carter
Background Color Key Kathryn Yelsa
Computer Color Key Cynthia McIntosh
Studio Production Manager Alex Johns
Production Manager Patty Jausoro
Production Coordinator Estrella Capin
Production Assistants Aaron Justman
Scott Huml
Manuel Cano
Monte Alexander
Junior Gonzalez
Danik Thomas
Executive in Charge of Post Production Barbara Beck
Editors Jay Bixsen
Paul D. Calder
Assistant Editor Michael Trueba
Track Reading Glenwood Editorial
Negative Cutting Executive Cutting
Post Production Video Unitel Video, Hollywood
Post Production Sound West Productions Inc.
Supervising Sound Editor Rick Hinson
Re-Recording Mixers John Boyd
Stuart Calderon
Overseas Animation Studio Koko Entertainment Co., Ltd.
Overseas Animation Director Masao Maryuyama
Produced in Association with USA Network

Transcript

Act One

SCENE - Maverick's Quarters

Maverick: I'm recording this message as the Tiger's Claw moves through jumpspace. So I won't be able to send it until we're out of here. We're moving faster than the speed of light, dad. So fast that to the rest of the universe we don't even exist. We're completely cut off. Completely alone. Just thinking about it I feel a... a deep sense of wonder, of awe. And maybe it's a little frightening too. I think most of the other cadets feel like I do about being out here in space but not all of them show it.


SCENE - Racquetball Court

Maniac: Good return Archer, but try to get a racket off this. (grunt)

Archer: Any time, Maniac.

Maniac: Oh man. (grunt)

Archer: (grunt) Woo! Game played, Maniac. Want to try two out of three?

Maniac: Ow. No fair, you've been practicing.

Archer: Yeah it wouldn't hurt you to practice every now and then. Or does everything have to come easy for you?

Maniac: Hey, if you can't do it right the first time, why bother?

Ship's Address: Attention all hands, prepare to exit jumpspace. Brace for node deceleration. Repeat: all hands brace for node deceleration.


SCENE - Outside Maverick's Quarters

Ship's Address: Node decceleration complete. Secure ship for subjump flight. All duty personnel return to stations. Cadets Blair, Marshall, Paz, Price, Bowman and Zoharian report to the briefing room.

Maverick: Hey Marshall, you're going the wrong way.

Maniac: I've got my own shorcut, Maverick.

Maverick: This is the quickest way to the briefing room.

Maniac: You wouldn't know up from down if it weren't for gravity. We'll ust see who gets to the briefing room first.

Maverick: Okay, Maniac, you're on.


SCENE - Tiger's Claw Hallway

McEaddens: Hey, who lit your afterburners, pal?

Maverick: Sorry, I didn't know anyone was coming around the corner. Here. I was just on my way to... uh, to the briefing room.

McEaddens: Back the way you came, turn left at the next corridor, even you can't miss it.

Maverick: Thanks, uh..

McEaddens: McEaddens. Tech Specialist Maya McEaddens.

Maverick: Well, thanks again.

McEaddens: Space jockeys.


SCENE - Briefing Room

Maverick: Looks like we have to call this one a draw.

Maniac: At least we're the first ones here.

Tolwyn: Blair, Marshall. Good of you to join us. At last.

Maverick: Sorry sir.

Tolwyn: I used to get lost myself my first few weeks on a carrier. But see that you learn your way around.

Maniac: I, I wasn't lost sir. I was, uh, I was unavoidably detained.

Maverick: I was organizing a search party for Cadet Marshall, sir.

Tolwyn: Yes, I see. Well, now that we're all here (clears throat) we can begin. As you see M421A is not an impressive system, but its proximity to more well traveled jump routes give it some strategic importance. Your mission is reconnaissance, turning over rocks. You'll divide into three flights of two fighters each. I want each pla net and its moons checked out thoroughly. This is an uninhabited system. There's been no Confederation activity since the initial survey just before the war. I don't anticipate any excitement, but stay alert. Any questions?

Maniac: Uh sir, that name on the system exploration report. Uh, D. Karnes. Is that Damon Karnes?

Tolwyn: Yes it is.

Payback: Friend of yours?

Maniac: Damon Karnes was the best pilot that ever flew for the Confederation.

Maverick: I've heard of Karnes. Didn't he disappear in space about ten years ago?

Tolwyn: Look, this isn't a history lesson, get moving.


SCENE - Space

Maverick: Engaging automatic navigation.

Maniac: (sigh) Autonav engaged. Some hotshot pilots, we might as well take the bus.

Maverick: Maniac, proximity alert. Switch to manual control.

Maniac: Huh, what's up?

Maverick: Unidentified ship coming in. Shut down your systems, we'll blend into the background. I've got target lock. A Kilrathi transport!

Maniac: All right! Let's take it out.

Maverick: Negative. You must have been asleep in tactics class, we slip into his particle trail and follow him. That transport might lead us to a Kilrathi base or a fleet.

Maniac: Yeah, well, there better be a whole fleet of transports.

Maverick: Multiple contacts closing on transport. Small ships, fighters!

Maniac: Oh, I knew it! We waited too long, now its picked up a fighter escort. Oh, that's the last time I ever listen to you.

Maverick: Wait, the transport's changing course. It's trying to evade the fighters. It's under attack.

Maniac: What do you mean under attack? I wish somebody 'd tell me what's going on here. Oh, I had to ask!

Maverick: Missile lock red! We're in their sights.

Act Two

SCENE - Space

Maverick: Missile's locked on. (grunts) I can't shake him. Launch decoys and break formation.

Maniac: I still got a lock, it's no good.

Maverick: Maniac? Maniac!

Maniac: Hey! I'm alive. (laughs) Shields are down... and I've lost main engines.

Maverick: Hang on, I'm coming.

Maniac: Negative Maverick, get back to the 'Claw. This is just great! Alright jerk, what are you waiting for? Get it over with. Maverick!

Maverick: (grunts)

Karnes: Surrender immediately or be destroyed.

Maniac: Tell him to blow it out his afterburners, Mav.

Maverick: We surrender.


SCENE - Tortuga Hangar

Dral: Welcome to Tortuga. Believe me, you won't like it.

Maniac: Oh, I don't know... it seems like a nice place you've got here.

Dral: This is not my place. It belongs to him.

Maniac: What? It can't be.

Maverick: What's wrong, Maniac.

Maniac: It's Damon Karnes.


SCENE - Tortuga Dining Room

Maniac: What's Damon Karnes doing here with these... renegades?

Maverick: Right now, he's holding us prisoner.

Maniac: I mean, I had a holovid about Karnes when I was a kid, The Last Hero. I, I must have watched it about a hundred times.

Karnes: Propaganda. That vid was made by the Confederation to persuade gullible children to become pilots. Apparently it worked.

Maniac: But... you were the best!

Karnes: Sometimes being the best isn't enough.

Karnes: One day I realized I no longer cared who won the war. I had no hatred for the Kilrathi and no love for the Confederation. I had no feelings at all. Space has that effect on some people. When you look too long into emptiness, the emptiness gets inside you. So one day I went out on patrol and I just kept going. Eventually I found others like myself. Humans, Kilrathi, renegades, outcasts. Now, we take what we need to survive from all sides. You disapprove?

Maverick: Is that why you keep us alive? You want our approval?

Karnes: I let you live because I'm bored.

Maverick: I believe a person's life should serve a purpose.

Karnes: There are two kinds in the galaxy, only two. Those who fly in order to get somewhere and those who love to fly.


SCENE - Tortuga Prison Cell

Maverick: Tolwyn could send out search parties for a thousand years and still not find this place, it's too well hidden.

Maniac: If you'd have let me take out that transport when we first spotted it none of this would've happened.

Maverick: Yeah, if your hero hadn't gone insane...

Maniac: He was out here for twenty years. You don't know the things he's seen. The things he had to do.

Maverick: He wasn't strong enough to take it.

Maniac: You don't have the right to judge him!

Maverick: Give me that! You should've studied your unarmed combat manual.

Maniac: (screams) Give me.

Karnes: That's enough. Sensors have detected another transport. We're going to take it.

Maniac: Uh, I'd like to go along.

Maverick: What?!

Maniac: Ever since I was a little boy, I wanted to fly with you.

Karnes: What about you?

Maverick: Is it a Kilrathi ship, or Terran?

Karnes: Does it matter to you?

Maniac: No.

Karnes: Then come with me.


SCENE - Space

Dral: The Confederation coward is running. I knew he couldn't be trusted.

Karnes: He's no coward, he's going back to Tortuga. Continue the attack. I'll deal with Maniac.

Maniac: Maniac to Tiger's Claw. Come in, Tiger's Claw.

Act Three

SCENE - Space

Maniac: Come on, you piece of junk. (screams) You were the best, Karnes. That should've been enough. What? Hey!

Karnes: Your long range communications and weapons don't work. It's been a long time since I trusted anyone.

Maniac: (screams)

Karnes: You should've joined us. You're the first pilot in a long time good enough to stay on my tail.

Maniac: I'm not like you.

Karnes: I know, I was like your friend, Maverick.

Maniac: No way, he'd never turn his back on the Confederation like you did.

Karnes: You think you know him. But people change. They have to. War isn't a game for children.

Dral: Dral to Karnes. Emergency, come in.

Karnes: What is it, Dral?

Dral: It's a trap. The transport was bait to lure us into the open... there are too many of them. We're being taken over...

Karnes: Dral? Dral?

Maniac: It's over Karnes. The world you built is falling apart.

Karnes: Perhaps. But every soldier must fight his last battle.

Maniac: Oh! Maverick always said I should study the tech manuals more. I hate it when he's right.


SCENE - Tortuga Orbit

Karnes: The whole universe to fight.


SCENE - Tortuga Exterior

Soldier #1: My Lord, this is the last one left. We found him locked in a cell.

Thrakhath: Why were you locked up, Terran?

Maverick: I guess I'm just a renegade.

Thrakhath: (laughs) Vermin. I am Thrakhath nar Kiranka, Prince of Kilrah, the Fang of Sivar, Destroyer of Worlds. You renegades attacked Kilrathi ships. For that offensive I have destroyed you to the last man. But you will be left alive. You will tell what happened here so the galaxy may be warned: to attack the Kilrathi is to die.


SCENE - Tortuga Hangar

Maverick: Ow!

Maniac: Must have been some party. I'm glad I missed it. You know I was lying to Karnes, didn't you?

Maverick: I hoped you were. If I can get mine started, we'll take a look at the heap you're flying. Sounds like you need a tune up.

Maniac: Hey, what do you mean heap? That heap can out fly you any day.


SCENE - Commodore Tolwyn's Office

Tolwyn: It seems the Kilrathi task force has jumped out of the system. Probably its only purpose was to destroy the renegades. This whole Damon Karnes affair was classified top secret by the Confederation years ago. You're never to mention Karnes again. Not even to the other cadets.

Maniac: You mean the Confederation knew what he'd become? They knew he was a renegade?

Tolwyn: They knew. They thought the truth about Karnes would be bad for morale. People need heroes.


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