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Screens across ISC space and elsewhere cut to a blue screen suddenly, interrupting scheduled programming with the holonet news symbols. A voiceover speaks quickly, coming across as slightly hurried and altogether rather breathless.
"We interrupt this broadcast to bring you live to Corellian News Network main studio, where anchor-man Chetubetcha has urgent news regarding the safety of Corellia."
The blue fades, replaced by a close up of legendary CNN achor-man Chetubetcha, who seems to be holding the camera that he is broadcasting from himself. Footage shakes as dust rains down from the ceiling behind his head. The legendary news reporter seems shaken, with a small trickle of blood running down from the side of his face.
His makeup, however, remains excellent.
"If you are receiving this broadcast then it means the ISC navy's attempts to bypass the signal blockage is working - Corellia is under attack by the Sith Empire! Stormtroopers are marching through the streets, launching strikes on anything that they deem to be important for their assault. As you can see..."
The video footage moves, showing that there is an almost destroyed news studio around the presenter, with a massive hole in the side of the wall. In the distance, down the street, streaks of blaster fire can be seen even as ISC troopers and Sith troopers seemingly take turns in charging and counter-charging each other. Bodies fall by the dozen even in the brief amount visible before Chatubetcha returns the camera to himself.
"... they have already attempted an assault on my life and destroyed much of the studio. This, gentlebeings, is nothing less than an act of outright war! Citizens of the ISC, the time has come for you to rise up and defend our way of life!"
From off screen a voice calls out.
"Drop the camera! Drop the camera or we will fire!"
The scene spins as he turns the camera, catching a trio of stormtroopers as they climb in through the hole in the wall, blaster rifles trained on the reporter who seems to growl.
"Freedom of speech and of the press - I'm not stopping this broadcast!"
One of the troopers turns to his allies before cursing.
"Command says no broadcasts are to leave the planet... call in the bombers."
The camera shakes as the reporter rages.
"You can't do that!"
The Imperial looks back at the reporter for a second - before firing twice, blasting the reporter and the camera to the ground. The camera skids off to one side, showing Chetubetcha tryng to crawl away, before the Imperial takes two steps forward and blasts him in the back of the head. With the camera still rolling, the trooper then turns to it and there is a flash of a blaster bolt before the screen goes black.
It is replaced by the blue screen and the voiceover, who seems even more shaken up, stuttering for a moment before taking a deep breath.
"W-We now return to your regularly scheduled episode of "Every Rose needs a Thorne". My the Force have mercy on us all..."