Tail of the Roon Comets

Tail of the Roon Comets
Production information
Series	Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO
Season	One
Episode	10
Production No.	D9
Air date	November 9, 1985
Director(s)	Ken Stephenson
Writer(s)	Michael Reaves (teleplay) Ben Burtt (story)
Episode chronology
Previous episode	"Coby and the Starhunters"
Next episode	"The Roon Games"

Warning: This infobox is missing the following parameters: runtime, timeline "Tail of the Roon Comets" is the tenth episode of Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO. Written by Michael Reaves from a story by Ben Burtt and directed by Ken Stephenson, the episode originally aired on ABC on November 9, 1985.

Plot summary

Mungo Baobab, R2-D2 and C-3PO meet Krox in a cantina. Krox gives Mungo a map to the Roon system. Stormtroopers arrive to arrest them; Krox runs off, and Artoo jams the Stormtroopers' audio amplifiers so he, Threepio and Mungo can escape.

Mungo and the droids head to the Baobab Archives, where Mungo reads the holographic map. He plans to follow the Rainbow comets to find a safe path through The Cloak of the Sith to the planet Roon; this will allow him to open the first trade route for Roonstones, saving his father's merchant fleet from ruin.

Meanwhile, the Imperials, under the direction of Admiral Terrinald Screed, are exploring the Cloak of the Sith with probe droids to see if there are any planets there to conquer. The probe droid returns with a gift of Roonstones and a message from Governor Koong, who is eager to form an alliance with the Empire.

Mungo and the droids follow a rainbow comet through the asteroid field. Their ship is drawn in by a tractor beam to New Umboo Lightstation, where they're mistaken for Imperial emissaries and treated to a tour of the station. They encounter a prisoner, Noop Yeldarb, who used to run the Umboo Lightstation, before Koong shut it down and took him captive.

Admiral Screed arrives, blowing Mungo and the droids' cover. They attempt to escape, but are captured. Mungo, who is wanted by the Empire, is thrown into a cage with Mupples, while Threepio is taken away by Gaff to be reprogrammed.

Artoo pretends to blow a circuit and escapes under the cover of smoke, freeing Mungo and Noop. They rescue Threepio and escape, leaving the Lightstation to crash. The Imperials and pirates escape, believing that Baobab and the others were in the station when it exploded.

Angered, Admiral Screeb throws Governor Koong in the brig. Mungo and the droids, with Noop's help, finally reach the Roon system.

Credits

By type

Cast

Uncredited cast

Crew

Uncredited crew

Special thanks

Cast

Anthony Daniels as C-3PO Winston Rekert as Mungo Baobab Graeme Campbell as Admiral Screed Dan Hennessey as Governor Koong

Appearances

By type

Characters	Organisms	Droid models	Events	Locations
Organizations and titles	Sentient species	Vehicles and vessels	Weapons and technology	Miscellanea

Characters

Mungo Baobab (First appearance) C-3PO Gaff (First appearance) Bisad Koong (First appearance) Krox (First appearance) Palpatine (Indirect mention only) R2-D2 Terrinald Screed Noop Yeldarb (First appearance)

Organisms

Mupple (First appearance)

Droid models

Archivist droid (First appearance) Astromech droid R-series R2-series astromech droid Probe droid Protocol droid 3PO-series protocol droid Variety of unidentified droids

Locations

The Cloak of the Sith (First appearance) (Appears in hologram) Roon system (First appearance) Roon (First appearance) Tawntoom (First appearance) (Appears in hologram) Manda (First appearance) Baobab Archives (First appearance) The Blue Nebula (First appearance) Manda-Roon Merchant Route (First appearance)

Organizations and titles

Baobab Merchant Fleet (First appearance) Galactic Empire Admiral Galactic Emperor (Mentioned only) Governor Stormtrooper Sith (Mentioned only)

Sentient species

Human Kobok (First appearance)

Vehicles and vessels

Caravel (First appearance) Gladiator-class Star Destroyer Koong's cloudcraft (First appearance) Lambda-class T-4a shuttle Landspeeder New Umboo Lightstation (First appearance) TIE/LN starfighter Umboo Lightstation (First appearance)

Weapons and technology

Armor Stormtrooper armor Behavioral circuitry matrix (Mentioned only) Blaster staff Computer Electronic eye patch Force field Hologram Jukebox Tractor beam

Miscellanea

Asteroid Cape "I have a bad feeling about this" Nergon-14 Radiation cloud Rainbow comet (First appearance) Roonstone (First appearance)

Behind the scenes

"Tail of the Roon Comets" was released on DVD in 2004 as part of the Treasure of the Hidden Planet feature film. It was adapted into the children's storybook entitled Escape from the Monster Ship: A Droid Adventure. The Star Wars series' trademark line of "I have a bad feeling about this" is spoken by C-3PO in the episode.

The Mupple species that appears in this episode appears to resemble the Tribble species from the Star Trek original series episode "The Trouble with Tribbles". Additionally, the scene in which the Mupples appear seems to be an homage to the final scene of that episode.

When the pirates prepare to re-program C-3PO, they ask him if he has any preference as to his new name. C-3PO replies "Well, I've always been partial to Anthon—oh dear, what I am saying?" This is a reference to Anthony Daniels, the actor who voices C-3PO in the series, and plays him in the films.

Bibliography

• "A Star Wars CELibration" — Star Wars Insider 27

In other languages

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