KEEVE TRENNIS:

The Force will protect me.

FX: Blaster bolts whistle from down the corridor.

RALEIGH: (RESPIRATOR)

It’s going to have to.

FX: The Jedi ignite their lightsabers.

SSKEER: (RESPIRATOR)

Get behind usss.

MACKEN: (RESPIRATOR)

No, we can help.

KEEVE TRENNIS:

You just concentrate on staying alive.

FX: More blaster bolts, plus the skittering of crablike droids heading toward them. These are scav droids, each roughly the size of a large dog with multiple manipulator arms/legs—tipped with a sharp point—that clatter as they scuttle. Other limbs have cutting torches and saws that whir menacingly. There should also be some kind of electronic chatter among them as they communicate, a bit like the buzz droids of the prequels.

FX: The Jedi block the bolts with their lightsabers.

RALEIGH: (RESPIRATOR)

What are those things?

SSKEER: (RESPIRATOR)

Those are your ssscav droids. They can ssstrip a ssstarfighter of its hull in ssseconds.

KEEVE TRENNIS:

(COUGHING SLIGHTLY) Although some genius has given these ones blasters.

FX: The lightsabers continue to bat the bolts away.


Star Wars The High Republic Tempest Runner Scene 29