❗️ TW: Blood, psychological breakdown ❗️
Finally, after so much time, I've released an animatic revealing what happened to the engineer on Alzor! 🥳
I've made animatics before, but this is the first one I've posted, more complete, and probably one of my best to date 😮💨☺️
P.s Sorry if this is crooked, I just did it on three layers and in a... flip clip. It was only after finishing it that I realized I should download the... not quite official version, so to speak 🥲😓 because I also plan to make animations or at least animatics with it (although I do have Open Toonz 😅).
After the death of first her professor and then her best friend Ceros, Nova's attempt to leave the planet with the last surviving Tardoshan fails, and she finds herself back on Alzor with the only SOS beacon she had previously stolen from the mercenaries.
Shortly after, she's contacted by her last surviving colleague and boyfriend, Leox Arven, who, in a fit of panic, apologizes to Nova and reveals that their crash landing here was his doing. Someone in the Empire's military leadership suspected Adar Kaylen of aiding the Rebellion, and it was decided to eliminate him, but it was made to look like an "accident" or a deliberate provocation by the rebels.
The young man, chattering, clutching the hand severed by one of the Tardoshans on Alzor, explains that he agreed to this so that his family (of considerable noble birth and considerable wealth) would not be deprived of these resources due to their past loyalty to the Republic (after all, in such a totalitarian regime, it is very easy to seize power and money from those who, despite having changed sides, are still not entirely pleasing to the system), because Leox was accustomed to living in abundance.
Naturally, this revelation sends Nova (Lyra) into a fit of hysteria, which ends badly...
