Return (cinematic trailer)

"Korriban. Ancient birthplace of the Sith. We believed ruins were all that remained of their evil empire."

- Satele Shan

Return is the third trailer released by BioWare for the upcoming video game, Star Wars: The Old Republic. Released on June 6, 2011,the video depicts Sith Empire's effort to retake its ancient homeworld of Korriban. The trailer focuses on Darth Malgus and his struggles against Galactic Republic forces, as seen in the previous two trailers, Deceived and Hope. The video, released at E3 2011, runs at six minutes and twenty seconds.

Synopsis
The scene opens at a Republic space station orbiting Korriban. Two Jedi, Satele Shan and her Master, and two Republic troopers are escorting a smuggler they have captured who had been smuggling Sith artifacts out of Korriban. Suddenly, Satele Shan feels a premonition of "a great darkness." Moments later, a fleet of Sith capital ships and fighters comes out of hyperspace and begins to attack the space station. Satele's master immediately recognizes it as the return of the Sith Empire and expresses the need to warn the Republic. The space station does not have any ship capable of outrunning the Sith, but the captured smuggler reminds them that he has "the fastest ship in the sector."

The group flees the Empire, which is already boarding the station, and one of the troopers is killed. As the Jedi try clear the hangar area of Sith soldiers, the smuggler aids the remaining trooper in fighting off another attack from the rear. With all the Sith troopers dead, a ship lands in the hangar, and two Sith emerge. The surviving trooper and the smuggler board the smuggler's ship and prep it, while Satele and her Master fight Malgus and his Master. The four engage in lightsaber, lightning, and Force combat, aiding each other throughout the fight.

As the smuggler's ship prepares to leave, Malgus' master attacks it with Force lightning but fails to do damage as the Trooper fires on him. The Zabrak Jedi master tells Satele to escape in the ship, saying that she "must walk a different path', and returns to face the two Sith. Shan throws her master her double-bladed lightsaber and he fights on, as she escapes in the smuggler's ship. The surviving Trooper and Satele man the Quad laser cannons aboard the smuggler's ship as he pilots the craft through an asteroid field, evading Sith fighters. The Jedi Master skillfully duels both Sith, severely wounding the Pureblood Sith Lord.

Malgus takes his wounded master's lightsaber along with his own and eventually kills Satele's master. Satele feels his death, but continues to fight on as the smuggler daringly pilots the ship past a Sith capital ship and makes the jump to lightspeed.

With the duel over, Malgus approaches his master, telling him that he failed because the smuggler's ship escaped, and word will go to the Republic that the Sith have returned. Malgus and his master both know that Korriban has been reclaimed, and that this is "only the beginning". Malgus then turns on his near-dead master and kills him using his lightsaber.

Behind the scenes
The Zabrak Jedi is seen to catch Satele's saberstaff with his right hand (wielding his own lightsaber with his left) and fights much of the duel in this configuration. However, for several seconds the lightsabers have inexplicably switched places, with the saberstaff in his left hand and the single lightsaber in his right hand.