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Date Posted: 6/25/07 4:37pm Subject: Braken Starblaster, Space Attorney: The Dark Darkness (Luke on Trial, humor - complete 8/7) - Date Edited: 8/7/07 7:07pm (9 edits total) Edited By: The_Face
Title: Braken Starblaster, Space Attorney: The Dark Darkness
Author: The_Face
Timeframe: 1.5 months post-ANH
Characters: Braken Starblaster, Luke Skywalker, OC lawyers, and various canon guest spots
Genre: Humor, AU
Keywords: Lawyers, court, trial, Empire, Death Star, insanity
Summary: An incompetent Imperial lawyer is assigned the case of the century – defending Luke Skywalker, the man accused of destroying the Death Star. Hijinks ensue accordingly.
Notes: This fic is very strange. It is supposed to be. I hope you like it.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Star Wars characters, locations, objects, concepts, particles, etc. Nor do I claim to characterize any of them in a recognizable fashion. tongue Apologies/"neener-neener" to those I spoof and/or pay homage to, too many to list here. It's all in love.




Chapter One

There is an obscure planet on the very edge of the Outer Rim that is not in itself physically remarkable, unless you count the fact that it is about to be destroyed. However, it has an intriguing quasi-democratic society of beaver-seagull-men that includes four major divisions of government. The first is the legislative, which makes up laws and ordinances to better the condition of the people (and hopefully their lobbyists too). The second is the executive, which consists of the beaver-seagull-woman with the best-looking quills (called Miss Figurehead) and her advisors (who, luckily, happen to be wise on that planet). The third, and most remarkable, is the justilicious branch. No one is sure why it’s called that. At any rate, it is where lawbreakers are brought before a court of a fair-minded judge and fair-minded citizens. Vile offenders are jailed and the innocent are freed with a 100% success rate, which seems impossible, but obviously isn’t. The fourth branch is Ringo, on drums.

But this story is not about the planet Quimeran. It is about the government responsible for its destruction, the outlandish and improbable way that government dealt with its greatest rebellion, and a system that is not quite as justilicious.

Which brings us to a fellow named Starblaster. Braken Starblaster, space attorney.

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Braken sat in a hovertrain moving 700 kilometers an hour with his arm around Trixie McVzlste, who, since the start of the trip, had broken up with him eighteen times and counting. This was not a matter of reconciliation. It was a matter of Braken being too stupid for her to make him understand they were broken up.

“Braken,” she sighed.

“Yes dear?” The lawyer turned to what he thought was still his petite blonde girlfriend. In fact, she had died her hair bright purple a week ago to see if Braken would notice. The insensitive jerk had not, thus the last straw. Thus the 18 break-ups. Little did she know Braken was color-blind to the difference between blonde and bright purple. He was, however, an insensitive jerk.

“I think we should see other people.”

“I see people all the time, Trixie. Heck, there’s at least 30 people in this hovertrain car alone!”

“I mean romantically. Date other people.”

Braken frowned suspiciously. “That seems like it would cut into our together-time.”

Trixie struggled to keep the rage from her face. “That’s the point, Braken. I think it’s over.”

“Why?”

“It’s not you,” she lied. “It’s me.”

“I’m fine with you.”

“Okay, it’s all you. I don’t love you. Get that through your thick skull, please! I! Hate! You!”

“So the dinner this weekend is off?”

“Yes! Every dinner is off!”

“Won’t we get hungry?”

That’s when she threw him off the train.

This may seem extraordinary, but is not for several reasons, which are as follows:

One, Braken had been that offensively dumb their entire relationship. Trixie’s hate had been bottling up a long time, and been shaken around a lot. Violence was the fizz of weeks of rage.

Two, they were on the planet Kressel. No, not Kessel. People always make that mistake, and quite frankly, Kressel is sick of it. Kressel is not a desolate red spice-rich desert prison-world. It is a lightly-populated red paprika-rich desert world with three prison cells, one of which is always holding the wacky local drunk, who killed 13 men and didn’t pay his taxes. Anyway, Kressel has a very weak gravitational force. So Braken was light enough for Trixie to toss out.

Three, the train window was made of weak Alderaanian starglass. When Alderaan was destroyed a month and a half earlier, the notorious smuggler Tonno Two-Heads was carrying a shipload of sand offworld, thinking for whatever reason that it was something of value. The explosion of the planet crystallized the load. But a corporation recovered the resulting glass and sold it as the remnants of Alderaan. It is of terrible quality (and thus, easy to throw a lawyer through), but had a slick marketing campaign. (Incidentally, Tonno died a horrible death.)

Braken fell through the starglass, thinking for sure he was doomed. He felt something hard hit him, but not the ground. He opened his eyes and looked around. It was durasteel. He was on the outside of a train headed the opposite direction. Now this may seem extraordinary. It is.

“This,” he said, “is extraordinary.”

Braken had fallen out at the moment two trains passed each other – exactly three hours after the other train embarked 3200 kilometers from the station from which Braken’s (henceforth Train A) left. They met ¾ of the way to the other train’s point of origin. Ignoring planetary curvature and assuming constant speed, find x.

Braken looked at the rocky desert ground speeding by below at 700 kilometers an hour. He brushed some paprika off his sleeve and noticed a slight rip in his shirt from a rivet he’d caught on. He dramatically growled three words.

“I should sue.”

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A hawkbat who was not Braken Starblaster swept majestically across the deep cloudless blue sky, followed by two dozen more of his kind in a triangle formation. Their epic flight over an exotic mountain range stopped. The hawkbats’ wings froze in mid-flap, and the holo played the six-second clip again. Beneath the video hovered the words CONFORMITY: You are like your fingerprints… exactly the same.

The holo was of the EmpInspirations motivational series for offices throughout the galaxy. The Empire was the only organization that bought them, and was now burdened with an incredible surplus. The only saving grace was that the line was discontinued, since everyone who worked at EmpInspirations had since committed suicide.

This holo-poster, and many like it, covered practically every centimeter of wallspace at the legal offices of Palpatine, Palpatine, and Palpatine. This is the workplace of the Empire’s lawyers, including Braken Starblaster, a vaguely handsome but oily meathead who’d walked into the office just as the identical hawkbats swept majestically for the 41,376th time. As omniscient narrator, that is the kind of crap I am cursed to know. Not to mention every innermost though Jabba’s ever had – that ain’t a picnic.

Anyway, Braken walked in. (Ed. Note: You went all that way when three words would do? You owe me a minute of my life, jerk. Cut all of it.) He saw a fellow lawyer talking to a clone in an adjoining hallway.

“No, I’m not convinced you’re Jango Fett, and even if you were, you couldn’t claim an entire army of clones for tax deductions.”

Braken kept walking. A young man with shaggy brown hair stepped into his path – his intern, Zokk Hopscotcher. “Oh, Braken, you’re back! Did you have a nice trip? Trixie came back, like, hours ago. I thought you were traveling together?”

Braken blinked. He wasn’t entirely sure of anything Zokk had just said in all that chattering. “We hate Trixie now,” he informed the suggestible young lad.

“Okay!” he said brightly. “Oh, can you help me with this?” He produced an improbably thick brown folder and rooted through the flimsi sheets inside. “What does it mean here by ‘extralegal’?”

“It’s extralegal, Zokk,” Braken said with a tone that implied this concept was simpler than breathing. “That means it’s even more legal than usual. The government encourages it. Paying your taxes early, for example. Buying a portrait of the Emperor. The kind of things people get merit badges and employee of the month awards for.” He puffed up his chest and raised his chin to look just over Zokk’s head. “Excellence.”

Zokk frowned, confused. “Really? ‘Cause this is referring to flying a TIE Fighter while intoxicated and blowing up half a docking bay in the process.”

Braken raised an eyebrow at the shorter human. He said, “Oh. Well I don’t consider traffic law canon.”

“Hmm. By the way, Mr. Doufoom wants to see you in his office.”

“What does he want?”

“To see you in his office,” Zokk repeated, slower and louder.

Braken sighed. His protégé was a bit of an idiot. So was he, but he was too stupid to know that.

He navigated the grey, holo-poster-lined corridors of Palpatine, Palpatine, and Palpatine until he found the office of Ajian Cyrus Doufoom, his boss and generally Imperial guy. The door was open, so Braken poked his head in. “You wanted to see me, sir?”

Ajian glanced up at Braken over his eyeglasses. He was a human male in his 50s, with hair swept back so far it seemed as if it would pull him away by the scalp at any moment. Or at least it seemed that way if you had an overactive imagination, time on your hands to examine his ‘do, and a hallucination problem. He is played by Christopher Walken. “Ah, Starblaster. You’re late.”

“Trixie dumped me…”

“To say I’m… surprised would be a lie.”

“…Out the hovertrain.”

“We could trade excuses all day,” Ajian said, “but there’s business to… attend to. You have a case. I already gave… CL-113/9 the file. You two… will… be… working together on this one. He should be meeting with the client… already in Room 3A. You’re late.”

“She put me through the window,” Braken said.

Ajian held up a hand and put his commlink to his face.

“Beeeeeeep,” said the dialtone.

Ajian said, “I have to take this, Braken.”

“…Right.” Braken turned and walked out of the office. He headed down the hallway and went in search of Room 3A in the labyrinthine building. He found it three meters away from Doufoom’s office, just under eight minutes later. Like I said, labyrinthine. And, again, Braken was a bit of an idiot.

“Hi there, sorry I’m late. Braken Starblaster, space attorney.” He extended a hand to a pale, haunted-looking man dressed entirely in black. “And you’re a… cosmo-ninja?”

“I have slain many cosmo-ninjas, and they are not to be trifled with, nor made a joke,” the man replied.

Braken turned to CL-113/9, a clone in a suit with a Mandolorian-print on his necktie. “What’s the story?”

CL handed him several sheets of flimsiplast, stapled together, and Braken examined it. The document was full of muddled legal speech and those paragraph-sentences chock-full of extremely dependent clauses that huddle around each other for empathy and, while lacking in periods, enthusiastically overcompensate with commas and the occasional semicolon, and for this reason Braken had to read over it a few (a few being nine in this case) times – first for the main framework, which turned out to be two words long, seven times for all the ideas, and another time for review because he drifted off during the eighth read-through – before he finally understood, and could be fully and knowledgeably bored with the whole thing.

“And I take it you’re Henshu Vennom?”

“I am the shadow of mortality, present in all th–”

“Yeah, great,” interrupted Braken. “You’re practicing the Dark Side without a license.”

Henshu glared and crossed his arms. “No document, or man’s law, can regulate the power of the dark power that fl–”

Braken addressed CL. “I wasn’t aware – and continue not to care – that the Force was regulated so.”

“It is,” the other lawyer replied. “We’re up against the Official Galactic Bureau of Official Force-User Registration Bureau (Ed. Note: Patent pending) here. It’s not looking good.”

Henshu scoffed. “You weaklings should not rely on su–”

“Shut up,” both lawyers told their client.

“Braken, can I see you outside for a moment?” CL suggested. They stepped out of the room and into the hallway, in front of a holo-poster that read FEAR: If a Pretty Picture and Touching Saying Don’t Motivate You, Threats Will.

“What is it?” Braken asked. “Do you have an idea for how to win this ridiculous case?”

“No,” the clone replied, “I have this great bit for my stand-up routine, and I think this is what’s gonna make my career take off. Okay, first I do the Born Man voice, and use lots of stereotypes and make him seem like a real nerd, then I do this super-cool Clone Man voice…”

“CL, we don’t have time for your comedian dreams and… Wait, there are stereotypes for people who have parents?”

“If you’re curious, you all sunburn easily and love nerfsteak.”

“Let’s just get back to work.”

“Braken,” he said earnestly, “I don’t think you understand how much the Born Man loves nerfsteak. It’s way more than anyone possibly could!”


Today’s Moral: Exaggeration. Not always that funny.

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Next chapter: Jamie Calrissian, JusticeTron, and the ins and outs of Force user regulation. Plus, recess!


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Date Posted: 6/25/07 5:33pm Subject: RE: Braken Starblaster, Space Attorney: The Dark Darkness (Luke on Trial, humor)
Oh, my gosh. Face, you are absolutely hilarious!! I mean, bloody brilliant!! Very nice job writing like Douglas Adams, by the way -- especially with that bit in the beginning about the planet that was about to get blown up. And nice Ringo reference grin

I'd quote my favorite part, but I'd be quoting most of the story. I absolutely love it!!! Please keep me on the PM list happy

 

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Date Posted: 6/25/07 7:23pm Subject: RE: Braken Starblaster, Space Attorney: The Dark Darkness (Luke on Trial, humor)
Oh.My.God. I hurt myself laughing, and then I almost started crying. Not because I hurt myself, but because it was really funny. tongue

Where do I start??? Favorite lines...

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Braken had fallen out at the moment two trains passed each other – exactly three hours after the other train embarked 3200 kilometers from the station from which Braken’s (henceforth Train A) left. They met ¾ of the way to the other train’s point of origin. Ignoring planetary curvature and assuming constant speed, find x.

x=42

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As omniscient narrator, that is the kind of crap I am cursed to know.

Absolute most favorite line. Seriously, I'm still laughing.

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He is played by Christopher Walken.

I cracked up when I saw the ellipses. Brilliant!! laugh laugh And the lawyer-speak part was just perfect. I loved that paragraph-sentence.

If you bottled your humor and sold it, you'd be a very rich man because I'd corner the market. PM me, please. grin

 

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Date Posted: 6/25/07 10:58pm Subject: RE: Braken Starblaster, Space Attorney: The Dark Darkness (Luke on Trial, humor)
You're brilliant!

 

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Date Posted: 6/26/07 3:04am Subject: RE: Braken Starblaster, Space Attorney: The Dark Darkness (Luke on Trial, humor)
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Date Posted: 6/26/07 7:58am Subject: RE: Braken Starblaster, Space Attorney: The Dark Darkness (Luke on Trial, humor)
Holy cow !!!!

This was funny as hell. It's great to see this up.

There were so many excellent one-liners that I could probably quote the whole thing, but I'm too lazy. So I'll choose my favorite:

Extralegal: “That means it’s even more legal than usual.



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Date Posted: 6/26/07 8:04am Subject: RE: Braken Starblaster, Space Attorney: The Dark Darkness (Luke on Trial, humor)
Hee hee, awesome start on this!

The Douglas Adams-esque wording and tone was well done. If JadeSolo is correct about x=42 (I got some bad flashbacks from seeing a dreaded...*gasp* Word Problem, skull so I ain't gonna doublecheck the answer myself tongue ), then I'd say you hit upon the Ultimate Question, except it wasn't really a question. thinking It was more of a group of declarative sentences with an imperative at the end. Ultimate Imperative? Ultimate Word Problem? (This is secretly still my favorite way to find x. tongue )

But anyway, I'm digressing even more than normal. There were so many great lines in this story that I can't list them all, but I think this part eeks out as my favorite:

Ajian held up a hand and put his commlink to his face.
“Beeeeeeep,” said the dialtone.
Ajian said, “I have to take this, Braken.”


The motivational posters were a great touch, too.

I'm looking forward to following this group of colorful characters, meeting more (JusticeTron? I'm really curious about that one.) and seeing what zany things they do. happy Please add me to the PM list.

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Date Posted: 6/26/07 9:12am Subject: RE: Braken Starblaster, Space Attorney: The Dark Darkness (Luke on Trial, humor)
laugh cry laugh Absolutely, totally brilliant. Love the Douglas Adams vibe. Add me to the PM list. grin

 

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Date Posted: 6/26/07 7:17pm Subject: RE: Braken Starblaster, Space Attorney: The Dark Darkness (Luke on Trial, humor)
Face! You started a new story and didn't tell me! How do I get on the permanent new story PM list? wink

Anyway, it looks like another summer of wacky Face humor is off to a good start. The whole idea of a lawyer being that stupid (extralegal = more legal than normal? laugh ) is hilarious to begin with, and I can't wait to see what you come up with next.

And Starblaster defending the guy who blew up the real star-blaster? Wouldn't expect anything less in a name from you. tongue

Loved this part:

The document was full of muddled legal speech and those paragraph-sentences chock-full of extremely dependent clauses that huddle around each other for empathy and, while lacking in periods, enthusiastically overcompensate with commas and the occasional semicolon, and for this reason Braken had to read over it a few (a few being nine in this case) times – first for the main framework, which turned out to be two words long, seven times for all the ideas, and another time for review because he drifted off during the eighth read-through – before he finally understood, and could be fully and knowledgeably bored with the whole thing.

I also enjoyed the Demotivator posters, great knock-off. wink

Keep up the good work, Face! grin

 

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Date Posted: 6/27/07 10:39am Subject: RE: Braken Starblaster, Space Attorney: The Dark Darkness (Luke on Trial, humor) - Date Edited: 6/27/07 12:25pm (1 edits total) Edited By: The_Face
NYCitygurl: Ringo shows up on the end of just about every gag list I make. It has yet to get old - for me at least.

JadeSolo: Self abuse is not the answer! wink

x=42

A+

Walken as Ajian was in the fic from fairly early on, but shortly before I posted this chapter I realized what was missing to drive that experience home. Oddly-placed... pauses.

oqi, you picked my favorite line. grin

Thumper, there's no way Jade can be correct (other than that 42 is always correct), because I never said what the heck x was supposed to represent. It just came out of nowhere at the end. You could, however, probably calculate the other train's velocity. I wouldn't, and refuse to try.

I'd seen the math answers before, but they were still just as funny the second time around. laugh

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How do I get on the permanent new story PM list?


By asking that nicely. wink

The Demotivators would be so perfect for the Empire, I thought I'd make some up just for them. (Confused onlookers, I direct you to despair.com, one of the funniest places on the web)

Thanks so much for all the kind words, everybody! love x 8

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Date Posted: 6/27/07 5:24pm Subject: RE: Braken Starblaster, Space Attorney: The Dark Darkness (Luke on Trial, humor)
Face, to say this is fantastic is no small understatement. But it is fantastic. It is every bit as funny as a shot of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy mixed with a healthy dose of Jasper Fforde, except better because the Face style and humour is shining through grin

Quoting my favourite parts would be frivolous, but a short list would be: Extralegal, We Hate Trixie Now, "To. See. You. In. His. Office.", The Bornman, Tonno Two-Heads...my goodness. Tooo much to like grin

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Date Posted: 6/27/07 8:05pm Subject: RE: Braken Starblaster, Space Attorney: The Dark Darkness (Luke on Trial, humor)
*cough-choke* Remind me not to even SWALLOW while reading you stories! It's DANGEROUS! laugh

Do I get to be on the 'Special Double Secret "Any New Story" PM list'? Or am I already on it? wink *huggles* Thanks for writing a fanmarvical new story for me to read!

 

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Date Posted: 6/27/07 8:13pm Subject: RE: Braken Starblaster, Space Attorney: The Dark Darkness (Luke on Trial, humor)
Which brings us to a fellow named Starblaster. Braken Starblaster, space attorney.

Absolutely hilarious! I’m definitely keeping an eye on this one.

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Date Posted: 6/27/07 11:58pm Subject: RE: Braken Starblaster, Space Attorney: The Dark Darkness (Luke on Trial, humor)
I see you took the 'narrator who is self-aware' concept and pushed it a step further by adding 'and the editor who hates him'. Brilliant! The insane opening was very Douglas Adams. I see a very clear Monty Python inspiration here too. To skim the surface. I expect you to PM me when you update, or I'll sue.


I love their agency. "Palpatine, Palpatine, and Palpatine" cracked me up!!


“Hmm. By the way, Mr. Doufoom wants to see you in his office.”

“What does he want?”

“To see you in his office,” Zokk repeated, slower and louder.


^^^ Awesome! reminds me of that joke, "What does a yellow light mean?" "Slow down." "*sigh* What....does...a...yellow..." etc. I love that stuff.



Ajian glanced up at Braken over his eyeglasses. He was a human male in his 50s, with hair swept back so far it seemed as if it would pull him away by the scalp at any moment. Or at least it seemed that way if you had an overactive imagination, time on your hands to examine his ‘do, and a hallucination problem. He is played by Christopher Walken.


Damn it! You beat me to the offhanded 'he is played by' joke!! Now it's gonna look like I stole it from you. tongue


“I am the shadow of mortality, present in all th–”

“Yeah, great,” interrupted Braken. “You’re practicing the Dark Side without a license.”

This is pure "Birdman: Attorney at Law" gold

Will we be getting a moral at the end of every chapter?
Because that would also be awesome.

 

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Date Posted: 6/28/07 5:14am Subject: RE: Braken Starblaster, Space Attorney: The Dark Darkness (Luke on Trial, humor)
This is hilarious, and if you don't add me to the PM list I'll join Yodimus in the suit...the legal suit I mean.

“No, I’m not convinced you’re Jango Fett, and even if you were, you couldn’t claim an entire army of clones for tax deductions.”

laugh Well, you can't blame Jango for trying.


“Ah, Starblaster. You’re late.”

“Trixie dumped me…”

“To say I’m… surprised would be a lie.”

“…Out the hovertrain.”

“We could trade excuses all day,” Ajian said, “but there’s business to… attend to.


Typical workplace superior. No excuses. wink

I also appreciate the Douglas Adams feel, the 'Demotivator', and Christopher Walken bits. All together it's shaping up to be a classic.

 

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Date Posted: 6/28/07 8:57am Subject: RE: Braken Starblaster, Space Attorney: The Dark Darkness (Luke on Trial, humor) - Date Edited: 6/28/07 8:59am (1 edits total) Edited By: brodiew
Now that was a fun ride, Face! When does Luke come on the scene?

I loved the editorial notes, and other Imperial asides. The fact the Braken is clueless about his cluelessness is another fun hook.

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“You were right about one thing, Master. The negotiations were short.”
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