Some Pics by Ralph McQuarrie and Joe Johnston and Nilo Rodis Jamero I coloured about two years ago for a project I doubt I'll pursue much further but the idea was to mix Star Wars with Apocalypse Now with a 30 year old Mace Windu as Willard so it took place ten years before Phantom Menace ,it would been released in a alternative universe 1975 and would be based around Georges first go at The Journal of the Whills if if it had a car crash with John Milius
Mace would come out of hypher space to board the ""Cantwell" where he is due to meet the new Chancellor Valorium as a crisis has arisen
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Bit of A.I here as I did colour Ralph's ball robot it's kind of twee but i fed it through dream wombo and kinda liked it
The little robot would hop out of Maces Interceptor and speed towards the medbay as his master seems to have picked up a hypherspace fever -the droids name is Reel D and ideal voice actor would be Danny Devito as he doesn't bleep but talks basic ,a very old droid he squirts oil and steam as he moves
illustrations- Ralph McQuarrie .
Next we a sequence from the very end of the movie of a artificial moon exploding over a city like planet -this been Had Abbaddon
The Vaderesque figure walks through the ship corridors and the doors open to reveal Chancellor Palpatines Office as it was in Revenge of the Sith Lord Windu announces "You're Under Arrest Chancellor"
Windu wakes up , at his bed side is Jedi Master Yoda , he lends a sympathetic ear as Mace tries to explain his fever dream but soon it appears Yoda gets bored and proceeds to force choke Mace ...
The whole Med bay is wrecked and the bacta tank that Mace was actually recovering in has exploded such was the shock of the dream ending a second time , Mace is worse for wear and begins to doubt himself and his abilitys .,a young officer appears at the med-bay and gets Mace cleaned up, he is a young Billy Dee Williams replica about 17 years old his name is "Clone" he escorts Mace to the meeting with Chancellor Valourium
Mace greets Valorium , who with a man in Espo fatigues who is the dead spit of Harrison Ford and an E,T Citizen (an Asogian) discuss the highjacking of a important hyperspace route by what it seems native insurgents the Opuchi, Their leader is known as Kurtz the Abhorrent leaves a holographic message and a demonstration of how cryptic and ruthless he is
illustration Joe Johnston
Kurtz and his Opuchi Warrior Braves have besieged two large space stations that direct intergalactic trade routes his demands are simple that all non Opuchi leave the system. .
The Espo Officer explains that all hypherspace lanes have been shut down by Kurtz he was actually there and got out by skin of his teeth his fellow station officers weren't so lucky. Communications at the space stations have been shutdown
Then the Asogian interjects he has been silent throughout until now "Terminate!, Terminate with Extreme Prejudice"
Mace tells them that Kurtz was in fact a Jedi Knight who had gone missing 7 seasons prior on a trip to the Dagobah System he never returned it was thought he was lost to the planets hostile environment He informs the E.T citizen that Jedi's do not Terminate or harbour prejudice but instead negotiate
Mace meets "Clone" at the Cantwells docking bay as the two approach an old battered Old Republic trawler "The Tarnack" which is with Reel D's ancient databanks can jump through the Opuchi's blockade
undetected . The Craft embarks and "Clone" introduces his fellow crewmates
First up is Captain Dardell Thorpe (played by either James Coburn or Lee Marvin) who strikes Mace as very serious minded , very much the captain of the ship fed this image and a few prompts again into wombo and came up with these images
Then Mace is introduced to CJ Thorpe Dardells eldest daughter played by a young Michelle Pfieffer or Debbie Harry) Mace senses she is very strong with the force but because she is 18 she is too old to train , but it strikes him that she is force sensitive
The final crew member is "Cheff" a Lasat and the ships cook he takes great delight in his talents for creating unique dishes and prepares a final supper before the ship jumps into lightspeed
The Tarnack on it's uncharted trip comes out of hypherspace only to find itself dead centre in a oppuchi laid minefield the mines themselves look like the original designs for the blue tie-fighter
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Suddenly the Tarnack lunges the crew are thrown to the deck as the ship rises vertically carried up by a tractor beam intro a large Mandolorian Battle cruiser .
They are greeted by Lieutenant Gor Kil (Robert Duvall )and a large group of Supercommandos ,Lt Gor wants to know why a Jedi Knight and a crew of Aquilian Rangers are doing in Oppuchi space . there is a standoff but Mace with Jedi Mind trickery convinces Gor that they come in peace and have a common foe in the The Opuchi and if he and the Tarnacks Crew can aid them in any way-Gor explains his problem as the minefield needs to be cleared in order for his Mando Commandos to attack the small green moon that orbits Had Abaddon
CJ and Clone get kitted up and embark on there three man space ranger assault , a tense suspenseful space minefield scene follows till the trio reach the Opuchi freighters docking bay unmolested as it seems every oppuchi warrior has been slain. CJ notes that some of the warriors have been struck by laser sword the choice of sidearm Aquilian Rangers use.
The three rangers explore the ghostship and search for the control room where they can deactivate the tie mines as they approach the relevant panel a masked cloaked figure leaps out of the darkness , Dardell reacts by opening fire on the masked figure but his shot is deflected directly back into his chest armour CJ leaps into action and engages in a laser sword duel with the Vader like figure
a Laser Sword duel breaks out and takes place in the corridors of the ghostship CJ Unleases a metal sphere shaped combat remote an earlier version of the one used by Luke in a ANH this helps CJ to direct the mad space warrior towards the escape pods where the duel continues..
Meanwhile Clone assists Dardell pulling him towards a two seater X Wing the original Colin Cantwell green X Wing- Clone states that the Ship belongs to there superior officer Marshall Tora (Dennis Hopper) Dardell reminds Clone why they are here and Clone presses the wrong button instead of deactivating the mines they fall downwards onto the green moons surface. Dardell protests as Clone takes him onto Tora's X Wing that he can't leave his daughter but Clone is thinking of saving his captain and takes off for he Mandolorian fleet
On the green moon hell rains down and the Oppuchi forces flee but not before cutting Mandolorian Gauntlets cut through the sky and attack the defences on board alongside Gor Kil is Mace who assists the supercommando's as the over power the Oppuchi braves
Meanwhile the game of cat and mouse between the golden masked figure and C.J concludes when the young ranger accidently seals them both an escape pod which hurtles down to the Moon landing in the jungle river then down a waterfall then to a sudden halt where C.J leaps out the pod a stunned gold mask figure pursues , C.J see's a vision what appears to be Diathim Angels high up in the sky she is greeted by a number of tiny versions of the diathim that tell her to follow them to safety through the forrest fires now far behind the masked figure follows but is interrupted by falling tree branches and various oppuchi warriors
Nellith tells CJ Thorpe that she has been summoned by the force itself to part take in a ancient ritual .
Meanwhile on the outskirts of the town the Vaderesque Figure approaches.
That's as far as I'll go for now I do sort of know how rest of story goes but I need to collect more images and give them a colouring but right now it ain't so good what with my Mum in hospital , it's been a while and it's really scary so I've been spending most of February by her bedside so not sure if I'll post much in near future. I have a few episodes of stories I've been colouring but with this new crisis it's difficult to complete them , mind you I'll see if I can come up with a OST I did do one of Udio a few monthes back but I'll do a better one which lasts a bit longer this time around.
Hearing about Robert Duval made me want to do this post so a Boba Fett Nod to Tom Hagen
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