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The pirateship is just coming out of hyperspace; a strange surreal light show surrounds the ship.
INTERIOR: MILLENNIUM FALCON -- COCKPIT.
HAN: Stand by, Chewie, here we go. Cut in the sublight engines.
Han pulls back on a control lever. Outside the cockpit window stars begin streaking past, seem to decrease in speed, then stop. Suddenly the starship begins to shudder and violently shake about. Asteroids begin to race toward them, battering the sides of the ship.
HAN: What the...? Aw, we've come out of hyperspace into a meteor shower. Some kind of asteroid collision. It's not on any of the charts.
The Wookiee flips off several controls and seems very cool in the emergency. Luke makes his way into the bouncing cockpit.
LUKE: What's going on?
HAN: Our position is correct, except...no, Alderaan!
LUKE: What do you mean? Where is it?
HAN: Thats what I'm trying to tell you, kid. It ain't there. It's been totally blown away.
LUKE: What? How?
Ben moves into the cockpit behind Luke as the ship begins to settle down.
BEN: Destroyed...by the Empire!
HAN: The entire starfleet couldn't destroy the whole planet. It'd take a thousand ships with more fire power than I've...
A signal starts flashing on the control panel and a muffled alarm starts humming.
HAN: There's another ship coming in.
LUKE: Maybe they know what happened.
BEN: It's an Imperial fighter.
Chewbacca barks his concern. A huge explosion bursts outside the cockpit window, shaking the ship violently. A tiny, finned Imperial TIE fighter races past the cockpit window.
LUKE: It followed us!
BEN: No. It's a short range fighter.
HAN: There aren't any bases around here. Where did it come from?
EXTERIOR: SPACE.
The fighter races past the Corellian pirateship.
INTERIOR: MILLENNIUM FALCON -- COCKPIT.
LUKE: It sure is leaving in a big hurry. If they identify us, we're in big trouble.
HAN: Not if I can help it. Chewie...jam it's transmissions.
BEN: It'd be as well to let it go. It's too far out of range.
HAN: Not for long...
EXTERIOR: SPACE.
The pirateship zooms over the camera and away into the vastness of space after the Imperial TIE fighter.
INTERIOR: MILLENNIUM FALCON -- COCKPIT.
The tension mounts as the pirateship gains on the tiny fighter. In the distance, one of the stars becomes brighter until it is obvious that the TIE ship is heading for it. Ben stands behind Chewbacca.
BEN: A fighter that size couldn't get this deep into space on its own.
LUKE It must have gotten lost, been part of a convoy or something.
HAN: Well, he ain't going to be around long enough to tell anyone about us.
EXTERIOR: SPACE.
The TIE fighter is losing ground to the larger pirateship as they race toward camera and disappear over head.
INTERIOR: MILLENNIUM FALCON -- COCKPIT.
The distant star can be distinguished as a small moon or planet.
LUKE: Look at him. He's headed for that small moon.
HAN: I think I can get him before he gets there...he's almost in range.
The small moon begins to take on the appearance of a monstrous spherical battle station.
BEN: That's no moon! It's a space station.
HAN: It's too big to be a space station.
LUKE: I have a very bad feeling about this.
BEN: Yeah, I think your right. Full reverse! Chewie, lock in the auxiliary power.
The pirateship shudders and the TIE fighter accelerates away toward the gargantuan battle station.
LUKE: Why are we still moving towards it?
HAN: We're caught in a tractor beam! It's pulling us in!
LUKE: But there's gotta be something you can do!
HAN: There's nothin' I can do about it, kid. I'm in full power. I'm going to have to shut down. But they're not going to get me without a fight!
Ben Kenobi puts a hand on his shoulder.
BEN: You can't win. But there are alternatives to fighting.
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