Space Wars: Chapter IV – Revenge of the Smith

""Once more, the Smith will rule the galaxy! And we shall have... peace.""

- Dark Hideous

Space Wars: Chapter IV – Revenge of the Smith is a 2048 American animated epic science-fiction film written and directed by Brandon Greene. It stars Brad Pitt, Mae Whitman, Dante Basco, Mark Hamill, Dennis Haysbert, Christopher Lloyd, Sonny Strait, Harvey Fierstein, Gedde Watanabe, Jerry Tondo, David Tennant, Dee Bradley Baker, George Takei and Zachary Quinto. The sequel to The Martian Menace (2039), Attack of the Troops (2042) and The Civil Wars (2045), It is the eighth film in the Space Wars film series, the final installment in the Space Wars prequel quadrilogy, and fourth chronological chapter of the "Starrider Saga".

Set two years after The Civil Wars, The Astro-Knights of the 0R-01 Enterprise are spread across the galaxy, leading a large-scale war against the Galactic Organization. Following the death of Organization leader Count Doofus, the Astro-Knight Council dispatches General Oberon Canary on a mission to eliminate General Genghis, the head of the Organization army, to put an end to the war. Meanwhile, after having visions of his wife Stella Amadeus dying in childbirth, Captain Adrian Starrider is tasked by the Council to spy on Alpine, the Supreme President of the Spacefleet Republic and, secretly, a Smith Lord. Alpine manipulates Adrian into turning to the dark side of the Source and becoming his apprentice, Dark Slader, with wide-ranging consequences for the entire galaxy.

Revenge of the Smith was released on Amazon Prime Video on May 19, 2048 and received positive reviews and has been deemed the best out of the prequel films by many, with praise for its animation, action sequences, mature themes, score, visual effects, darker tone, and the voice performances; criticism largely focused on the film's dialogue and humor.

Plot
Above Cusueturn, General Oberon Canary and Captain Adrian Starrider lead the 0R-01 Enterprise on a mission to rescue the kidnapped Supreme President Alpine from the cyborg Organization commander General Genghis. After infiltrating Genghis' flagship, Oberon and Adrian battle the Smith Lord Count Doofus, whom Adrian overpowers and decapitates at Alpine's urging. Genghis escapes the battle-torn ship, which the Jedi crash-land on Planet Kansas. The Enterprise crew rest and celebrate their brief victory until one Organization warrior catches one of the crew members, Bardrick off-guard and decides to give him the "gift" of seeing the future as his way to avenge his people, before being killed by Adrian as Bardrick subsequently passes out. The crew return to Cusueturn so Bardrick can heal. There, Adrian reunites with his wife, Stella Amadeus, who reveals that she is pregnant. While initially excited, Adrian soon begins to have visions of Stella dying in childbirth.

When Genghis and two Organization alien soldiers Zadoc and Domick steal a Cusueturn artifact from a London museum, Adrian and Bora Tribe leader K'Rabi urges him to bring the two aliens back alive. Oberon, Adrian, Yoel, Lane, Cheepo, and Zuva travel to Busan, South Korea, where Zadoc and Domick plan to sell the artifact to Genghis. A firefight erupts, and Domick attempts to flee but is caught by Adrian, who reluctantly releases him to Senator Ross Organitza's custody. Zadoc tells Ross that Cusueturn's international image is a front for a technologically advanced civilization. Genghis attacks and extracts Domick and Zadoc as Ross is gravely injured. As Genghis, Zadoc, and Domick escape, Oberon and Adrian take Ross to Cusueturn, where their technology can save him.

While Celfhea heals Ross, Alpine appoints Adrian to the Astro-Knight Council as his personal representative. The Council, suspicious of Alpine, approves the appointment but declines to grant Adrian the rank of Astro-Knight Master and instead instructs him to spy on Palpatine, diminishing Anakin's faith in the Jedi. Meanwhile, on Utapau, Grievous relocates the Separatist leaders to the volcanic planet Mustafar. Obi-Wan travels to Utapau to confront Grievous and kills him, while Yoda travels to the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk to defend it from a Separatist invasion.

Palpatine tempts Anakin with his knowledge of the dark side of the Force, and offers to teach him the power to prevent death in order to save Padmé's life. Anakin deduces that Palpatine is the Sith Lord behind the war and reports his treachery to Mace Windu, who confronts and subdues him. Desperate to save Padmé's life, Anakin severs Windu's hand before he can kill Palpatine, who sends Windu falling to his death. Anakin pledges himself to the Sith, and Palpatine knights him Darth Vader. Palpatine issues Order 66, which commands the clone troopers to kill their commanding Jedi generals across the galaxy, while Vader and a battalion of clone troopers kill the remaining Jedi in the Jedi Temple. Vader then travels to Mustafar to assassinate the Separatist leaders, while Palpatine declares himself Emperor before the Galactic Senate, transforming the Republic into the Galactic Empire, and denounces the Jedi as traitors.

Having survived the chaos, Obi-Wan and Yoda return to Coruscant, where Obi-Wan learns of Anakin's turn to the dark side. Yoda instructs Obi-Wan to confront Vader while he faces Palpatine. Obi-Wan seeks out Padmé to find out Vader's whereabouts and reveals his treachery. Padmé then travels to Mustafar – with Obi-Wan stowing away on her ship – and pleads with Vader to abandon the dark side and leave with her, but he refuses. Seeing Obi-Wan aboard the ship, and thinking that they are conspiring to kill him, Vader uses the Force to strangle Padmé to unconsciousness in a blind rage. Obi-Wan then engages Vader in a lightsaber duel that ends with Obi-Wan severing Vader's legs and left arm, leaving him at the bank of a lava flow where Vader is horribly burned. Obi-Wan picks up Vader's lightsaber and leaves him for dead.

On Coruscant, Yoda battles Palpatine until their duel reaches a stalemate. Realizing he cannot defeat Sidious, Yoda flees with Senator Bail Organa and regroups with Obi-Wan and Padmé on the planetoid Polis Massa. There, Padmé gives birth to twins, whom she names Luke and Leia, and dies soon after, having lost her will to live but still believing there is good in Vader. Palpatine retrieves a barely-alive Vader and takes him to Coruscant, where his mutilated body is treated and covered in a black armored suit. When Vader asks if Padmé is safe, Palpatine says that he killed her out of anger, devastating Vader.

Obi-Wan and Yoda plan to conceal the twins from the Sith and go into exile until the time is right to challenge the Empire. As Padmé's funeral takes place on her homeworld of Naboo, Palpatine and Vader supervise the construction of the Death Star. Bail takes Leia to his homeworld of Alderaan, where he and his wife adopt her, while Obi-Wan delivers Luke to his step-uncle and -aunt, Owen and Beru Lars, on Tatooine before going into exile to watch over the boy.