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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

How they could have ended things while keeping The Last Jedi intact. bsky.app/profile/rkig...

R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

It kind of sucks watching A New Hope in a lot of ways. The duel? The 70s computers on the Death Star? The DOS graphics? No Imperial March? They really only figured out so much of the aesthetic we associate with Star Wars on Empire.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I will always be upset that it didn’t go down like this. bsky.app/profile/rkig...

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The inspiring, nakedly emotional way they could’ve ended things. bsky.app/profile/rkig...

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The nakedly emotional way they could’ve ended things. bsky.app/profile/rkig...

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

BEN: I've done such terrible things. I don't know who I am now. Rey smiles at Ben with the patience of the teacher she'll become. REY: Whoever you want to be. It's a big galaxy. She puts a hand on his shoulder as they look out at the setting suns -- and whatever the future holds. END CREDITS

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

EXT. TATTOINE - SUNSET Ben, Rey, and the droid walk up the hill away from the moisture farm. They look down the hill at the Falcon in the golden light. Poe and Chewie are standing outside, guarding the ship. With them are Threepio, Artoo, and Finn. And Phasma, too, without her helmet.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

REY (standing behind him): All they wanted to do was protect him. And all he wanted to do was leave. Ben turns to look at her. REY: They were nobodies. But they knew who HE was, and they chose to love him anyway. They taught Anakin Skywalker’s son to be a good man.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

BB-8 shines a light at a section of the wall. It's a frame, half covered in dust. Ben brushes away the debris. An old, flickering hologram switches on. It shows Owen and Beru Lars, and Luke Skywalker as a teenage boy. The aunt and uncle are smiling. Luke looks bored. Ben stares at the image.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

INT. TATOOINE MOISTURE FARM BB-8 leads Rey and Ben into the dark, abandoned farmstead. The corners are covered in sand. Nobody's been here in years. Ben looks around. He's not in his black outfit anymore. He's cut his hair, and he's wearing a vest and trousers. He almost looks like his father.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

POE: Hey, watch yourself out there. I've got a bad feeling about this whole planet. REY (smiling): We'll be careful.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

EXT. TATTOOINE - AFTERNOON The suns are hot and bright. The Millennium Falcon lands on dunes near a familiar moisture farm. INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON COCKPIT Rey unbuckles and stands up to leave the ship. Poe turns to her from the pilot’s seat, Chewie beside him.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

EXT. PALACE LANDING PLATFORM - DAY The air is calm now. Ben Solo lies on the ruined landing platform at Rey’s feet. He looks up at her, confused and uncertain. The boy Leia raised. BEN: My mother. My uncle. My grandfather… My dad. I've failed them all. I'm alone.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Phasma hesitates, uncertain. Her finger twitches on the trigger, ready to kill Finn while his guard is down. Finn places his gun on the ground. FINN: It doesn’t make us cowards. It makes us heroes. Phasma tenses, then lowers her weapon. She approaches and shakes Finn’s hand.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

EXT. CORUSCANT STREETS - DAY Down below, the warring troops are frozen in shock. They're alive. Now what? Finn looks at Phasma and lowers his gun. FINN: We don’t have to do this. We don’t have to war. We can choose not to.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Because deep down, when all hope seems lost, we all know what the Force is. We know what binds the universe together.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The storm dies. All around the galaxy, in a dozen worlds, across the stars, humans, aliens, people of all shapes and species, sob with relief. Parents hold their children, while brothers and sisters and partners clutch each other close.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

KYLO: Dad, I… Kylo Ren puts his head in his hands, and when he looks back up, he’s sobbing. KYLO: I’m so sorry! Han reaches out and touches his son’s face. Ben Solo looks up at his father's lopsided smile. HAN: I know.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Leia looks at Kylo Ren, and holds out her hand. Then Han Solo saunters out of the maelstrom. His gruff voice cuts through the howling wind. HAN: Hi, kid.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The ghosts of Luke and Leia step out of the storm and approach their father. Anakin puts his arms around them, and kisses Leia’s forehead. Kylo Ren drops to his knees. Trillions of voices all around the galaxy cry out in terror as the storm tears at their cells.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Underneath is Anakin, as he was when he was a Jedi. But older, now. Wiser. Kinder. He smiles at Kylo Ren. ANAKIN: It’s love.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Over the noise of the wind and thunder, we hear labored, ominous breathing. Out of the maelstrom strides the ghost of Darth Vader. Kylo Ren looks on in horror as Vader reaches up, and slowly takes off his mask.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

REY: You’re wrong! It’s not energy! Rey reaches out and touches Kylo’s sleeve. He sees her vision.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

As Rey approaches Kylo, he reaches into his hate and hurls it out at the galaxy. The storm doubles in ferocity. KYLO: I know what it is! It’s what binds the galaxy together! It’s an energy field! And I’m going to release it! I’m going to free the Force once and for all!

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

REY: You’re wrong! He WAS the chosen one! He figured it out! The Sith didn’t know! Neither did the Jedi! When Anakin saved his son, he figured out what the Force IS!

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Rey struggles to her feet as the platform is torn to shreds around her and fights through the whirling Dark Side cloud toward Kylo with every ounce of her strength.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The fabric of reality is being ripped apart. The rebels and the Empire down below stop fighting as the world comes apart around them. Soldiers on either side help each other as buildings crumble and the earth quakes. People scream for their lives on Tatooine, Naboo, Endor.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

EXT. PALACE LANDING PLATFORM - DAY Kylo lands on the platform across from Rey as the blue storm swirls around them. KYLO: It doesn't matter. Vader was a fool! He was weak! He was supposed to be the chosen one! But look at the galaxy! Does it look better to you? All he did was die!

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

But then he calls on the Dark Side, and the air around him starts spinning, spinning, growing larger and larger, until it’s a maelstrom that covers the whole planet, the solar system, the entire galaxy.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

In a burst of blue, Kylo blasts Rey back to the landing platform of Vader’s palace. For an instant, Kylo Ren has never looked more like a child. Rattled, heartbroken, that his grandfather appeared not to him, but to a nobody like Rey.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

REY: Stop this! This isn’t the way! I’ve seen him! I’ve seen Vader! He came to me! On Tatooine! In a cave! KYLO: You?

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

EXT. CORUSCANT - DAY Kylo floats out the window on a cloud of blue Dark Side energy. As the battle between Finn and Phasma rages below them, Ren and Rey clash swords. They fight along the sides of the skyscrapers, slicing the sky and toppling towers.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Kylo approaches the opening to find Rey hovering in midair, brandishing her lightsaber, defiant. KYLO: You've grown stronger. But so have I.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

A book flies off its library shelf and smacks Rey in the head. KYLO: Then you're the biggest fool of all. Faster and faster, more books fly at Rey. She tries to slash them out of the air, but there are too many, and they blast her out the open window.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Rey ignites her saber. REY: I can't let you do that, Ben. My friends are out there right now, fighting for the future. Join us. We can build something better. We don't have to repeat the past. KYLO: The Jedi and Sith have been battling for thousands of years. You think you can end the cycle?

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Images flash of Obi-Wan and Anakin battling on Mustafar. KYLO: My grandfather was supposed to bring balance to the Force, but he failed. I won't. I'm going to end this useless war between good and evil. I'm going to wipe out every living thing in the galaxy, and free the Force forever.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

KYLO: Don’t be stupid, the Sith were fools, too. They wanted the same thing as the Jedi -- to rule! But if the Jedi didn't CARE about people, the Sith HATED them! Why rule over a world you hate? All that pride and anger, to live in misery. REY: So what is it you want?

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

REY: So you'd rather be a Sith? The holocron shows images of Vader kneeling before Palpatine and leading Star Destroyers out to conquer the galaxy.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The holocron shows Anakin leading clone troops toward the Jedi Temple. KYLO: Vader was so alone that he tore the Republic apart just to be with my grandmother. By the time Vader finished them off, the Jedi had cut themselves off from the universe so badly they could barely touch the Force.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

KYLO: The Jedi were monsters. They sat in their cold tower telling the rest of the galaxy how to live their lives, but they didn't know what life WAS. They ripped children away from their families, taught them it was wrong to HAVE families.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

REY: I'm here to stop you, Ben. KYLO: Why? Because you're a Jedi? Let me tell you about the Jedi. He gestures to the holocron, and it begins showing images of the Jedi from the heyday of the Republic.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

INT. VADER’S LIBRARY Kylo Ren is standing there, waiting for her. He's smiling, with tears in his eyes. KYLO: I knew you'd come, in the end. You're the only one who could understand.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

EXT. CORUSCANT - DAY Rey glides on the air, deflecting anti-air fire with her lightsaber, and touches down on the palace's landing pad, light as a feather. She brandishes her weapon and enters the library.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

INT. FALCON COCKPIT Poe looks at Chewie, dumbfounded. POE: She can fly now?! Chewie growls. Poe shrugs. POE: She can fly now.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

EXT. CORUSCANT - DAY As she hurtles toward the towers of the Imperial City, Rey closes her eyes, stretches her arms out wide, and soars through air toward Vader's Palace.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

An impact rocks the ship. Rey is thrown clear, into the open air. POE: Rey! Rey! Poe frantically searches out the window for his friend. REY (through the earpiece): I'm ok! Pull up, and go help Finn!

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

REY: There! Get me as close as you can! Rey runs to the back of the ship and opens the exit ramp. The ground is far away, but hurtling up at them fast. POE (through their earpieces): Whatever you learned out on that dustball, I hope it was worth it, kid!

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

EXT. CORUSCANT - DAY High above, the Millennium Falcon barrels through the atmosphere, spinning to avoid anti-aircraft fire. INT. MILLENNIUM FALCON COCKPIT Poe and Chewie sit at the controls, their seats rumbling from laser strikes. Rey points over their shoulders at the palace.

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R.K. Ignazio // Enoch: The First City @rkignazio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Kylo makes a tearing motion, and a bloodied Hux screams, helpless, as he and the whole tower around him are torn apart atom by atom, in a glowing blue Dark Side storm. Kylo watches out the window as the other building evaporates into dust on the wind.

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