For many centuries after the defeat of the Empire
the galaxy remained in equilibrium.
Then...
everything changed.
Sorran, the most powerful Master of the Jedi Order,
discovered ancient inscriptions in a forgotten land.
The prophecy told of a temple built on the planet Eron.
Whoever could enter it
would acquire a great power
and many wars
would be fought for its control.
According to the prophecy,
one day a Chosen One
would find the temple
and they would open the Seal,
thus becoming the Living Force.
Sorran had a vision of the future
which convinced him that he was the Chosen One
so he began searching for the temple.
During these obsessive explorations
many apprentices died for his ambitions.
It was a mistake to let him keep his lightsaber.
We know what he is capable of.
He would not be so foolish.
He would not dare defy the entire Council!
But what if we are underestimating him?
If he opposes the sentence...
Then we will have no other choice!
The Council has decided!
The search for the temple of Eron must cease immediately!
And you, Sorran,
will lose forever
the rank of Master!
The search for knowledge
is our greatest purpose!
How can you not understand?
And how many more must die for your thirst of knowledge?
It is a necessary sacrifice,
my brother.
You are not the Chosen One, Sorran!
The future of the Council is at stake, Aron. We must stop him while we can!
We might not have another chance.
There are many of us. We must perform the Separation immediately.
We didn't want it to come to this
but you leave us with no other choice!
For the crimes you have committed
you will be banished forever from the Order
and deprived of your powers
with the ritual of Separation!
Do not try to resist, Sorran.
Even you know that this is necessary.
Don't you dare come closer!
We told you that they would not accept the truth.
And now
there is no other way to prevent the others from knowing.
PART ONE
You did an excellent job on this, Hope.
It is a fine weapon.
Thank you, Master.
You are almost ready for the trials.
How did you feel while you were building it?
I was anxious to finish it
and to see its blade.
To see its blade...
And how did you feel when you finished it?
I was happy, Master.
Happy...
...and nothing more?
We'll find out.
Stand up, Hope!
Close your eyes
and concentrate.
Now you have to feel it.
Catch it, Hope!
Catch it!
(Inner voice) The lightsaber...
... catch the lightsaber...
...I can't feel it.
Can you feel it now?
Yes, Master
Why?
It is my lightsaber.
The heart of the blade vibrates the way my body vibrates in the Force.
And what is the heart of the blade?
The crystal is the heart of the blade.
The crystal vibrates even when the lightsaber is off.
Its power existed even before you built your lightsaber!
You have to feel its heart;
its origin is in the Force.
Do you understand now?
I think so, Master.
Let's go.
Announce their arrival.
It is a pleasure to welcome you here, Masters.
I hope your journey was comfortable.
The ship stopped being comfortable a long time ago.
Master Organa asked me to take you to her
in private.
It's been a long time since you were last here on Akiah, yes?
Yes, a long time indeed.
What you had to learn while building your lightsaber
was its true nature.
The Jedi is the lightsaber and the lightsaber is the Jedi.
When you feel your weapon as you feel your arm,
only then will you be ready.
Control.
Your life depends on the your skill with the lightsaber
and so does mine!
Stronger!
Remember what I taught you, Organa.
Remember...
the nature of the Force.
It permeates everything
from the smallest particle
to the largest of the suns.
Its essence is divided into two equal parts:
into darkness
and light.
Past and future
coexist within it.
Only by considering what has been
will you be able to understand what will be.
There is no certain future
but in all those that we have seen
we do not exist.
Keys, the origin of all this,
where the Order decided to survive.
Many have sacrificed themselves to stop him
and they have done so in vain.
All of our premonitions
converge to a single future.
Sorran has learned how to deceive death.
He will open the Seal of Eron.
It is inevitable.
And all of us
will be annihilated.
We must face a truth different from our own
if that is the will of the Force.
No, Organa!
We can't.
Eron is an abomination.
It was built by mortal beings, remember that.
So we have no more options?
If the future is already written
then we have no hope.
Perhaps, we might have one...
What has happened to our principles?
We created hope
by going against everything that we believed in.
You took your time!
It was difficult!
(Computer) Warning! Core implosion in 140 seconds.
Warning! Core implosion in 80 seconds.
There's something wrong.
The code has changed.
It's him.
That won't stop him for long.
They must have reset the codes, Nemer!
He's getting in!
(Computer) Warning! Core implosion in 10...
...9...
...8...
...7...
...6...
...5...
...4...
...3...
Access granted.
It's open!
She's very beautiful.
She's also very dangerous.
The vision has returned.
The time has come.
Eron is center of everything
and he has almost reached it.
You found it!
We must send them there immediately.
And if it is too soon?
She still seems so weak.
You know very well that's not true.
Don't be so pleased with your victory.
You used the Force through anger
and that is a serious mistake.
We have to go now.
Finally, after all this time, I've found it.
Let me go, Master.
It's not your time yet.
This matter concerns only myself.
Go and prepare the ship!
I will be there in a moment.
As you wish.
Admiral.
Someday you must tell me why you associate with such an animal.
We are wasting precious time, Sorran.
When the Seal is opened
time will no longer have any importance.
You will find an ancient building emerging from the sea.
That's all.
Zui Mar,
I know you have always had complete faith in my visions,
but you must doubt them this time.
Go.
Wait.
Hope.
Take care of your Master.
He doesn't know, does he?
We never told him.
We feared it might compromise their bond.
That was very wise.
Their bond will save us all.
Sir, the Sith's shuttle has just left the hangar.
Why don't you tell me something that I cannot see for myself by looking out the window, Commander?
May I speak freely, sir?
Go ahead.
Sir, I don't understand your strategy.
Our fleet is complete and we have never been so powerful,
but instead of attacking we waste time following these fools.
Do you know what battle meditation is, Commander?
No, Sir.
Obviously not.
A person who possesses this ability
can alter the course of a battle involving thousands of ships.
The Sith are merely a weapon, Commander, like those fighters out there.
Keep that in mind.
But Sir, how can we control them?
I have taken precautions, Commander!
Order all fighters to return, we are heading out.
Sir, yes Sir!
Anomalous magnetic activity, calculation not possible.
Anomalous magnetic activity, calculation not possi...
I have a bad feeling about this.
You always say that.
True.
Admiral!
Yes, Captain.
An urgent communication from the planet.
Excellent!
Alert Lord Drown and prepare his ship.
Yes, sir.
A terrible battle was fought here.
You cannot comprehend it, can you?
What can cause people to do such a thing.
No Master,
I can understand it perfectly
because a part of me is capable of it.
I feel an echo, Master,
an echo in the Force.
All these past years spent training,
trying to control my emotions,
to overcome fear.
You should not fear the conflict that you feel inside of you.
You must dominate it,
understand it without becoming its slave.
One day your power will be too great
to be affected by emotions.
Remember your first lesson, Hope.
Fear...I feel fear.
I have always felt fear!
Control doesn't work,
not for me.
Perhaps I'm not suitable to be a Jedi.
You are the most suitable of all of us.
Your doubts are are the best possible deterrents.
As long as you have doubts, you will be in the right.
As long as you seek out who you are,
you will walk in the light.
What if one day I discover who I really am...
...and I don't like it at all?
The path to truth is very long.
Only those who are close to death can truly know themselves.
It is the will of the Force that once you understand your true self, you cease to exist as a unit.
That's why I'm in no hurry to get there.
Let's go now, we still have a long journey ahead of us.
Who did you kill?
My brother.
Sir, a message from Lord Sorran.
He requests your presence on the planet.
My ship?
It is ready, Sir.
There isn't any mechanism.
Nothing.
Or at least nothing visible.
Shall we do it like on Goron?
It seems that you enjoy cutting all sorts of things.
Here we go again.
You lost your first weapon because of that stunt.
This is not an emergency,
we are neither suffocating, nor are we about to be crushed,
therefore there is no reason to melt down the door of an ancient building
that could even be inhabited!
Then? What shall we do?
Wait until someone opens the door for us?
Let's say it's an emergency then.
But this time, if a native complains
I will say it was your fault.
That's where the mechanism was.
It's a recent construction.
I don't see any inscriptions anywhere.
Organa was wrong.
No, Hope, it is you who is wrong.
We aren't looking in the right direction.
There are symbols here.
This isn't just a platform.
Master!
Hope...
What did you see, Master?
(Inner voice) Eron...this place is Eron...the prophesy...Eron...
... Eron...the prophesy of Eron!
Eron. This place is Eron! I'm sure!
Eron? That's impossible!
You must leave Hope!
Get out of here immediately!
Go back to the ship and fly to Akiah. You must alert the Council!
Master...
There is someone below us, someone who arrived here before us,
and whom you must never meet!
No, we'll confront him together.
Damn it, Hope!
The platform!
Hope, you have to leave! Now!
I don't want to. I can't leave you here!
You don't understand, Hope.
If you stay both of us will die.
I cannot let you die!
You must alert the Council.
They need to know!
What do they need to know?
That this place is Eron!
Go now, go back to the ship. Go!
I told you to go! Now!
That's an order!
Go! Go! Now!
It is over.
Yes, it is over!
What have we done, Nemer?
We should have found another way.
What have we done?
If only they hadn't imposed their will, then we could have found another way.
We've stopped him.
For now.
But we haven't yet found Eron,
and without using the child there's no chance of stopping him.
Masters,
the Order of Nirras demands that we proceed with the original plan.
They forced us to do it.
It was the only way, Organa.
Master,
there is a ship here that seems to be a Jedi transport.
Destroy it!
We are trying to contact you on this old frequency.
They are blocking all of our communications.
Zail's fleet is immense.
We need Organa here as soon as possible.
Without her powers our fleet is doomed.
We have sent a transport shuttle for you with an escort.
You have to come to Keys immediately
or there will be no pos...
Hope.
For me it is over.
Master.
Warn...the others...you must warn the others.
The Separation is no longer active.
The Force will flow into her now.
This moment is crucial...
everything could fall apart now.
It would be the end of all hope.
She's feeling too many negative emotions, Nemer.
This is Hope, Zui Mar. From today onward she will be your apprentice.
She's not very powerful.
She will be.
Master.
Master...who is Sorran?
Who told you that name?
You will open the Seal of Eron.
Take care of your Master.
(Inner voice) I won't let you die...I won't let you die...
...I won't let you die...I won't let you die...
I won't let you die!
Commander.
Sir.
The time has come. I want the fleet lined up and ready to attack.
As you wish, Sir.
This time we will wipe them all out.
Open!
Open, damn it!
Open!
Now!
You will learn the true nature of the Force.
You will open the Seal of Eron.
Hope.
He's getting in!
He wants the child, you must stop him!
(Computer) Warning! Core implosion in...
...6...
...5...
...4...
He's getting in!
...3...
...2...
Access granted,
Sorran.
Come on, let's go.
She is the one, isn't she?
Yes,
she is.
Sorran is dead?
Sorran cannot die.
We can only hope we have enough time.
She's too powerful.
Hope.
What have you done?
Who am I?
Subtitles based on translations by Fabrizio Cardone, Ciacomo Persi Paoli, and Marianna Moralis