Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
Since the fall of the EMPIRE, the NEW REPUBLIC has maintained order. And yet, remote hyperspace routes are increasingly plagued by piracy. These PIRATES boldly brand their armored hulls as a sign to all ships. Surrender or die…

This Could Be A Real Adventure

Space pirates
The episode begins with a landscape shot of a battered freighter passing a distant planet. This freighter is rammed by a larger pirate frigate, which extends four large drills connected by long tubes. Aboard the first starship, the crew takes up position near the large metallic drills while pirates charge through the tubes. The crew exchanges fire with the pirates, taking several down, but they are overwhelmed by the wave of pirates.

A gun turret takes out one of the docking tubes. However, pirates wielding grappling lines use explosives to take out the gun turret. The pirates overwhelm the merchant crew, overpowering and disarming them. A Shistavanen pirate named Brutus enters the ship via a docking tube and informs Captain Silvo that the ship is secure. Silvo is pleased and proceeds towards the vault. After punching the defiant merchant captain, Silvo orders his crew to throw the captain out of the airlock.

While electronic lasers cut through the vault door, Silvo promises to deliver hard credits to his crew. However, they are disappointed to discover an empty vault. Brutus enters the vault and finds a single credit. He condemns the captain for risking the lives of the pirates for a single measly credit. The pirates stage a mutiny and subdue Silvo while Brutus watches with a grin.

Wim and Neel
Elsewhere, a curly-haired human boy named Wim plays with a Jedi and Sith action figure. His father, Wendle, reminds him not to be late for school. While Wim has cereal for breakfast, Wendle searches for his passcard and tells his son that he will be late home from work for the next few days due to a Supervisor’s review. He passes Wim several credits for school lunch money. After finding his passcard, Wendle departs for work and reminds his son not to be late for school.

After toying with his toy starship, Wim rushes to school, runs past a two-legged labor droid pushing a lawnmower. He also runs past an Ithorian woman named Mrs. Ikk, who is walking her pet frog-dog. Running along the street, he meets up with his friend Neel at a playground and the two engage in a pretend lightsaber duel. Wim and Neel join a group of schoolchildren in boarding a school tram. A girl plants chewing gum on the head of the RX-Series pilot droid, annoying the droid.

Wim and Neel sit at the back of the tram. Neel talks about mathematic equations while Wim is engrossed in reading a datapad about Jedi and Sith. Wim notices two girls riding a hoverbike side-car past the school tram and into a nearby forest. Wim peers out through the back window as the tram descends an underpass, which takes them into a crowded business district. Safety droids usher the children into a school building. Wim sees a safety droid reprimanding the two girls who had ridden the hoverbike side-car.

Class time
During a dry class about computer algorithms, Wim doodles Jedi on his screen but stops when a Supervisor named Undersecretary Fara enters the classroom. Fara briefs the children about tomorrow’s upcoming Career Assessment Test, which she explains will set the course of their future. Based on the test, they will be assigned a career path linked to their planet At Attin’s contribution to the Republic’s Great Work, keeping the Republic “peaceful and strong.”

When the teacher droid asks the pupils how they would like to contribute to the Great Work, a female Vazooan named Roona says she wants to be a senior statistical accountant. An Ithorian says he would like to be an analyst, promoting a dark-skinned human boy to complain that he also wants to be an analyst. Fara reassures him that there is a demand for analysts. When Fara turns her attention to Wim, he says that his father is a systems controller but that he truly wants to help people. This prompts the teacher droid to say that is what safety droids are for. Fara encourages Wim to study hard and reassures him that there is a place for him in the Great Work.

After school, Wim and Neel discuss the upcoming test. Neel is surprised that Wim is unaware of it. Wim is disinterested in the test, while Neel is nervous about failure. Neel confides in his feelings for a girl named Roona but admits he is too shy for her. When Neel questions Wim about his career ambition to be a Jedi, Wim initially denies it and asks if he ever considered doing anything exciting.

After school
Meanwhile, the two girls, KB and Fern, ride their hoverbike side-car through the plaza and race down the underpass, speeding between two trams. They reach the suburbs, but their hoverbike breaks down. Fern decides they should walk back. Meanwhile, Wim and Neel walk home together. Wim watches Neel enter his family home, where his two parents are present. Wim walks back to an empty home.

KB repairs the hoverbike elsewhere and tells Fern they need a new power converter. Other children visit them on hoverbikes. A boy named Bonjj Phalfa makes fun of their hoverbike and reminds them of an upcoming race before speeding off. KB suggests postponing the race, but Fern says they must act tougher towards “jerks.” KB hesitates about fighting Phalfa, but Fern is determined to participate in the race. Before leaving, Fern reminds KB to watch for a new power converter.

Fern then leaves KB’s garage and heads back to her luxurious family home. Inside the living room, she is met by a silver and blue servant droid. When the droid refuses to lie about her absence, Fern sets a memory override. When Fern sees her mother, Undersecretary Fara, she claims she was studying, which the droid supports. Fara passes her daughter a school badge, which she drops. Fern pretends to be relieved to get her school badge back before walking up the spiral staircase to her room.

Meanwhile, Wim studies on a datapad in his room when his father, Wendle, returns from work. Wim asks his dad to quiz him on a mathematical question. When Wendle asks for the basic table of five, Wendle says it is a string of numbers but gets the equation wrong. As he goes to bed, Wim asks Wendle if he could read him a bedtime story. Wendle declines the offer, saying he is too busy and suggesting that Wim is too old. After his dad leaves, Wim gazes at some hanging toys before reading a story about a Jedi fighting a monster on his datapad. The camera shifts to a greenish-cloudy night sky with red lights and stars above.

Wim’s misadventure
The following day, Wim is late catching the tram. He shouts to his friend Neel that he will be taking a shortcut. Wim rushes to the garage under his home and starts up his hoverbike. After racing past Mrs Ikk and her At Attin frog-dog, Wim drives towards the barrier along the suburban highway. He lifts his bike over the barrier and races through the forest. Meanwhile, Neel waits impatiently for his friend Wim in the exam hall while a teacher droid briefs the children about the exam rules. Neel asks the teacher droid about Wim’s predicament, but the droid orders him to sit down and be silent.

While racing through the forest on his hoverbike, Wim runs into several branches and shrubs, causing him to drop his helmet. He rides towards the city center tower but finds a ravine ahead. Wim attempts to slam the brakes but loses balance and falls down a steep incline into the ravine. High cliffs, boulders, and tree roots hem in the boy. As Wim calls for help, a bat-like creature flies above him. Wim tries to climb out of the ravine but trips on the loose soil. He grabs a root, but it breaks off.

Wim finds a piece of metal embedded in the ravine wall, which turns out to be a hatch. Before he can investigate further, he is discovered by a safety droid, who chastises him for breaching safety protocols. Wim agrees to come with the droid but asks how to get out of the ravine.

Later, Wim waits with the safety droid outside the Proctor’s office. While Wim reads through his storypad, he is joined by Fern, who is also in trouble. When Fern asks why he is outside the Proctor’s office, Wim says he missed his test. When Wim asks Fern about it, she says the safety droids hate her for riding a bike. Wim describes Fern’s bike as “wizard.” Fern then teases Wim about the proctor taking the last kid who missed his test to work in the mines, who will never be seen again.

Shortly later, Wim’s father, Wendle, appears and scolds him for missing his exam. When Wim explains that he found something in the woods, Wendle tells him that he convinced the Proctor to let his son retake the test with a 50-point penalty, meaning that he has to get every answer right just to pass. Wendle tells Wim to drop his Jedi Temple nonsense and to focus on his studies. He promises to take him to school the following day and asks if he understands before returning to work.

Wim’s quest
After Wendle leaves, Fern asks if he encountered a Jedi Temple in the woods. Wim claims he was lying and starts to head home. Fern eyes him successfully. Meanwhile, Neel’s three younger siblings, including Tuloo, watch a circus event on a hologram while their mother brings them snacks. Peering through the window, Wendle asks Tuloo about Neel’s whereabouts. The baby sister points upstairs. Wim climbs onto the ceiling window and finds Neel bathing in a pool. Wendle asks Neel if his dad still keeps tools.

In the garage, Neel suggests informing the adults and the safety droids. However, Wim insists that this is the adventure they have been waiting for. Neel reluctantly agrees to help his friend because they do not get in trouble with the grownups. The two boys walk to the ravine’s edge with their hoverbikes and tools. As they prepare to abseil down the ravine, Neel suggests that Wim should be studying, but the latter insists that he can do it later. Lacking climbing experience, the two roll down the grassy hill into the ravine below.

Four is company
The two boys find the hatch buried in the hill. Neel thinks it is junk. Before they can probe further, the two boys are disturbed by a cybernetic voice mimicking a safety droid. The voice chastises them for breaching safety boundaries and asks who Wim has a crush on. The boys reply they have a crush on Roona, prompting the voice to laugh. Shortly later, KB emerges and apologizes, explaining that Fern made her pull the prank on them. Fern emerges with a shovel. The two girls introduce themselves, with Fern insisting that the hatch is their find. Wim and Neel try to argue but reluctantly agree to dig as the girls’ employees.

Fern tells the boys that the hatch doesn’t lead to a Jedi temple. She explains that the ravine was supposed to be a new neighborhood development during her grandpa’s time. Still, she claims the plan was abandoned after a contaminated sewer station released poisonous gas that drove the residents mad. Fern teases the boys, claiming the residents were locked inside the buried hatch. While the boys position their ears against the hatch, Fern strikes the hatch with her shovel, scaring them. Wim convinces the girls to let the boys dig in return for the boys getting first right to the excavation.

Meanwhile, Wim’s father, Wendle, returns to find his son away from home. Back in the ravine, the boys continue their dig under darkness. Fern and KB watch the boys digging. KB thinks Fern was being mean in taking advantage of the boys and says the boys found the dig first. Fern doesn’t care and thinks that they have found a power converter. KB hooks a cable from the hatch into a cybernetic augmentation while Fern tells the boys to be quiet. This causes the hatch to fold open, releasing a cloud of dust.

The four children cautiously approach the hatch with their glowrods. They find a storage compartment laden with several crates. Sensing movement, the children hide their bikes and tools inside the hatch. Meanwhile, Wendle finds Wim’s helmet in the forest and calls out to his son. Inside the hatch, Fern teases Wim, being in a lot of trouble for disobeying his dad’s orders. Wim is unwilling to abandon his adventure and convinces the other children to accompany him to prove himself right. Wim discovers a derelict droid with a missing eye, which he initially mistakes for a skeleton. The children are startled by a rodent, causing Neel to recoil and pull a lever that closes the hatch, trapping the children inside.

The hidden starship
As the children bang on the door, KB points out that the hatch won’t open without power and suggests following the conduit to find the power source. As they continue deeper into the structure, Wim tells the other children that Jedi temples have many secret passageways. Fern tells the others to ignore Wim and not to touch anything. KB leads them down another hatch while Wim and Fern bicker. Wim reluctantly follows the other children down into the tunnel. He is startled by his reflection. KB strikes an engine-shaped device, which causes the circuits around the ship to glow.

Meanwhile, Wim realizes that he is inside an upside starship cockpit. He uses his walkie-talkie to inform Neel about the find. Fern warns him not to touch anything, explaining that KB has restarted the power so that they can open the hatch and get home. Wim says okay but is mesmerized by a glowing green button, which causes the starship to start shaping. The children attempt to rush to the hedge while the skeletal droid begins charging up. The children reach the now open hatch only to find the ground around the starship moving, causing the soil and vegetation to shake.

As the ship rises through the ground, Wim and his friends shout and wave to Wendle. The ship begins rotating, and the kids retreat into the hatch. Wim struggles to hold onto the hatch, and the others help him as the hatch closes. The engines tilt into position for take-off, setting fire to the surrounding trees and vegetation. Wendle watches in shock as the ship ascends the clouds into the Barrier. The children struggle with the controls and buttons. The ship takes them past the nebula clouds into space. The children gaze at the stars for a moment. They scream as the ship jumps into hyperspace.