Star Wars: Battlefront 2 - Remastered Edition/Scripted Scenes

These are the intro and outro Journal cutscenes for the main story, narrated by a sole unnamed Stormtrooper voiced by Temuera Morrison.
==Geonosis: Attack of the Clones (tutorial)==
*Intro: "My first day as a member of the 501st was hot, sandy, chaotic - nothing at all like the simulations on Kamino; of course that's pretty much how it was for all of us, wasn't it? All that breeding, all those years upon years of training... doesn't really prepare you for the screaming or the blood, does it? Frankly, I'm amazed we made it through the first hour, nevermind the first day."
*Outro: "Incredibly, the 501st survived the crucible on Geonosis and emerged battle-hardened and ready for whatever the war would throw at us."
==Mygeeto: Amongst the Ruins==
*Intro: "In the waning months of the Clone Wars, the 501st faced missions critical to the agenda of Chancellor Palpatine; when we arrived at the bombed-out ruins of Mygeeto, our Jedi commander had believed we had been sent to take out a droid energy collector. What Ki-Adi Mundi didn't know, however, was that our unit of the 501st was really after an experimental Mygeetan power source that the Chancellor wanted for his superlaser; keeping Mundi in the dark wasn't easy - the Jedi had become increasingly wary of the Chancellor's doings and were on the lookout for the slightest hint of treachery. But just like the rest of them though, he never caught whiff of what was really going on, until it was far too late."
*Outro: "The success of the mission on Mygeeto was something of a revelation to the men of the 501st; suddenly, we realized that the Jedi could be fooled. And if they could be fooled, they could be killed."
==Space Coruscant: A Desparate Rescue==
*Intro: "As the Clone Wars progressed, more and more ground-based units found themselves pressed into space combat, including the fighting forces of the 501st; for month after month, every hour of our downtime was spent in the simulator, preparing us for the time we would face our enemies from the cockpit of a 170. Finally, the day came to earn our wings: the CIS had staged a daring kidnapping of Chancellor Palpatine, and were escorting him from Coruscant with a fleet of Separatist ships; with only a few veteran pilots on planet, many of the 501st were pressed into service to drive off the Seps and buy time for a pair of Jedi Knights to rescue the Chancellor."
*Outro: "After disabling the final capital ship, General Kenobi and Skywalker took advantage of the opportunity we'd created and rescued the Chancellor. Took all the credit, too."
==Felucia: Heart of Darkness==
*Intro: "It's been said that the 501st got the best of the war, but we also got the worst; on Felucia, the Seps dug their metal heels into the muck of that alien hellhole and dared the Republic to come in after them. So we did, only to be met with month after month of flesh-eating diseases, shrieking nocturnal predators, and other sights that haunt me to this day.  Cut off and, for all we knew, abandoned by our superiors, our only hope was Aayla Secura, our Jedi commander; without her, I - well, none of us would have come out of that mess with our sanity - or our lives. When her death came, I hope it was quick; she earned that much." 
*Outro: "When the 501st was finally rotated out of Felucia, Aayla Secura made a point of seeing us off personally, calling us "the bravest bunch of soldiers [she'd] ever seen"; it's a good thing we were wearing helmets. Of course, none of us could bear to look her in the eye."
==Space Kashyyyk: First Line of Defense==
*Intro: "When the Seperatists' invasion of Kashyyyk caught the Republic flat-footed, a detachment of the 501st was sent in to stop the bleeding until reinforcements could arrive; it was a textbook suicide mission and we knew it. As we fought our way into Kashyyyk's atmosphere, many of us believed that the only way we would be getting off this planet was in a body bag." 
*Outro: "As the 501st finally broke through the Sep blockade over Kashyyyk, I took a long, hard look back at the battle that raged on over the planet and wondered why so many had to die for a bunch of walking carpets; then I followed my orders and turned planetward."
==Kashyyyk: A Line in the Sand==
*Intro: "When we arrived on Kashyyyk, things were just as bad as we feared: the droids had us outgunned, outmaneuvered and outmanned by a 5-to-1 margin; what none of us had counted on was the Wookies. We all heard the stories, of course, but we never fought next to them, never seen them rip apart a Battle Droid with their bare hands; they were magnificent. Even though, it was still a suicide mission; at least it was until Master Yoda arrived. Then it became a battle, a winnable battle."
*Outro: "With the timely arrival of Master Yoda, the 501st was able to hold the line against the Seps on Kashyyyk; we left as heroes, but years later, we would return as conquerors."
==Utapau: Underground Ambush==
*Intro: "In our bones, we knew the war was almost over; the galaxy held its breath, watching and waiting to see which side would make the final daring move. As fortune would have it, the Republic moved first; after the Chancellor informed the Jedi Council that General Grievous and the Sep leaders were hiding on Utapau, General Kenobi gathered an army large enough to capture 3 star systems. When the orders reached the 501st, our morale soared; for better or worse, this would be the beginning of the end." 
*Outro: "With the death of General Grievous at the hands of General Kenobi, the Utapau raid had broken the back of the Separatists; under normal circumstances it would have been a time for celebration, but our next orders put pain to those thoughts."
==Coruscant: Knightfall==
*Intro: "What I remember about the Rise of the Empire was... was how quiet it was; during the waning hours of the Clone Wars, the 501st legion was discreetly transferred back to Coruscant. It was a silent trip; we all knew what was about to happen, what we were about to do. Did we have any doubts? Any private, traitorous thoughts? Perhaps, but not one of us said a word; not on the flight to Coruscant, not when Order 66 came down, and not when we marched into the Jedi temple. Not a word..."
*Outro: "With the fall of Coruscant and the elimination of the traitorous Jedi, Palpatine's rise to power was complete; in recognition of our service and loyalty to the Emperor, the 501st was placed under the direct command of Lord Vader. Armed with deadly new weapons, blazing new ships and shiny new armor, our prescence let the galaxy know that the days of the old Republic were well and truly over; we were establishing a new era: an era of order and peace."
==Naboo: Imperial Diplomacy==
*Intro: "During the Rise of the Empire, the Emperor's home planet of Naboo rapidly established itself as a major irritant; after a number of Naboo's ambassadors were sent home in various states of dismemberment, her newly elected Queen broke off diplomatic ties and began exploring military options. Clearly, it was time for a regime change - a change that would be effected by the 501st, now under the direct command of Darth Vader; our orders were simple: to infiltrate the city and take out their leader, sending a clear signal to other potential troublemakers in the Empire.
*Outro: "With the Queen eliminated, Naboo quickly fell in line; this was the first time the 501st was called upon to... adjust a planet's government, but it wouldn't be the last; within months the 501st gained a well-deserved reputation as "Vader's Fist."
==Space Mustafar: Preventative Measures==
*Intro: "Although the Clone Wars were over, some people never seem to get the message. The worst case of denial was Gizor Dellso, a Geonosian Separatist that somehow escaped Lord Vader's efforts to wipe out the remnants of the CIS; Lord Vader tracked him to Mustafar and brought us in to finish the job. It seemed like a simple enough mission; but when we saw the fleet of Droid ships hovering over the planet, we suddenly realized that Dellso's denial mechanisms were a little more dangerous than we imagined."
*Outro: "The slight whiff of nostalgia the 501st had enjoyed fighting the droid fleet over Mustafar had already grown sour by the time we established orbital positions; now it was time to see what this was all about."
==Mustafar: Tying up Loose Ends==
*Intro: "By the time we made our way to the molten surface of Mustafar, it was apparent that Dellso had been a busy little bug; all by his lonesome he found a previously hidden droid factory, fired it up and cranked out his own private army of Battle Droids. Needless to say, this got the men of the 501st a little hot under the helmet, and not just cause of all that lava; truth be told, we all had our fill of those gearheads during the war, and we couldn't stomach the thought of going through another one. So we blew them up; blew up the droids, blew up the factory, damn near blew up the planet."
*Outro: "The destruction of the mining facility put an end to any thoughts of a second droid rebellion; for the first time in years, the 501st could go about the business of maintaining an Empire, rather than building one.
==Kamino: Changing of the Guard==
*Intro: "Officially, there never was a Clone Rebellion on Kamino; unofficially, approximately 20 years after we were created, a special detachment of the Imperial 501st Legion was dispatched to Kamino, with orders to eradicate an army of clones that had been bred to take arms against the Empire; our mission commander, an expert on the inner workings of Kamino, was a young bounty hunter named Boba Fett."
*Outro: "The bounty hunter left after the battle was over; said something about tracking down a smuggler on Tatooine. After the Kamino uprising, the Emperor decided that an army of genetically identical soldiers was too subsceptible to corruption; future troopers would be cloned from a variety of templates. Though the 501st itself remained pure, the rest of the Imperial Army gradually became more and more diverse. We never really got used to the new guys..."
==Death Star: Prison Break==
*Intro: "Once it was finally finished, the Death Star was the Emperor's favorite toy; it was also the most boring assignment in the galaxy for a Stormtrooper. Tedious inspection drills, endless hours of guarding impregnable force field generators - things got so bad that when a prison break erupted in the cell block we were almost happy to have someone shooting at us again. If only we known what an embarrassing snipe storm we were about to wade into; probably would have jettisoned the whole detention block into space."
*Outro: "After the embarrassment of the prison break, Lord Vader removed us from our comfortable belay and began dragging the 501st across the galaxy in a dangerous hunt for the now-missing Death Star plans; ironically, our punishment eventually proved to be our salvation - the poor souls who took our place in the detention area were completely wiped out when the Death Star was destroyed."
==Polis Massa: Birth of the Rebellion==
*Intro: "By the time of the raid on Polis Massa, the men of the 501st were starting to get a little sick of this so-called Rebellion; in the past, we'd secretly enjoy putting down a local insurrection or two - it kept the troops sharp and the Empire feared. But these rebels were different: they were organized, they were growing and they were everywhere; the raid on Polis Massa was a perfect example of how things were starting to fall apart - we were supposed to go in and wipe out a small band of rebels and recover some stolen Imperial plans on an encrypted holodisc. Before we knew it, we were nearly overrun by rebel forces with the holodisc nowhere to be found."
*Outro: "Even though the Polis Massa raid was only a partial success, we finally had a lead on the whereabouts of the Death Star plans, which suited the 501st just fine."
==Tantive IV: Recovering the Plans==
*Intro: "With the information gathered on Polis Massa, Vader concluded that the stolen plans had been given to Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan; we weren't surprised - for all their talk of being a peaceful planet, Alderaan had been thumbing its nose at the Empire for years. After a brief and pointless battle, we boarded the ship the Tantive IV over Tatooine, began looking for the plans and waited for Lord Vader's arrival."
*Outro: "After Lord Vader took custody of Princess Leia, we all figured it was just a matter of time before she coughed up the plans: many of us had been unwilling witnesses to Vader's powers of persuasion in the past - and the thought of a pampered little princess resisting his terrible will was inconceivable."
==Yavin Orbit: Vader's Fist Strikes Back==
*Intro: "When the Death Star was destroyed, about half of the 501st legion was still in the hangar getting into their ships; of those who made it out, another third were caught in the explosion. I've fought with some of those men for over 20 years... Afterwards, those of us that survived hooked up with a nearby Imperial fleet making a retaliatory strike on the Rebel's base on Yavin 4; wasn't the best thought-out plan, but we were cut off from our leaders, tired and operating on instinct. If not for our training, we probably would have never gotten past their orbital defenses."
*Outro: "And so the battle over Yavin came to an end; I'm told we destroyed hundreds of Rebel ships that day. Even if it had been thousands, it wouldn't have made up for the Death Star."
==Yavin IV: Revenge of the Empire==
*Intro: "By the time we landed on Yavin, whatever shock we'd felt at the destruction of the Death Star had been replaced by anger; for months, we treated the Rebellion like a disobedient child, only to be repaid for our tolerance with treachery on an unimaginable scale. Frankly, I don't remember much of the fighting, I guess we won." 
*Outro: "After the battle, the surviving members of the 501st finally caught their breath; the Empire had taken the Rebels' best shot and come up standing. Now, it was our turn to strike."
==Hoth: Our Finest Hour==
*Intro: "No one ever complained about the cold on Hoth - we never felt it; even though we were blinded by blizzards, we could see the final end of the Rebellion in our blaster sights. Was it only a mirage? Perhaps. But on that day on that planet, our blood ran hot with dreams of victory, melting the ice that stood in our way."
*Outro: "As the rebels fled, the 501st gathered around the burning bunker and let out a cheer that shook the stars; the Rebellion was done, the Death Star was being rebuilt bigger than ever - order had finally returned to the galaxy. At least, that's how it felt that; but pride comes before the fall, it seems, as we would be undone for believing the Rebellion ended."
==Endor Orbit: Second Chances==
*Intro: "While we had intially believed that the rebellion had been defeated on Hoth and sent scattered over the galaxy, a straggler group of rebel forces had amassed near Sullust and planned to destroy the new, under-construction Death Star hovering above the forest moon of Endor. Needless to say, the men of the 501st weren't exactly eager for a repeat of what happened over Yavin IV despite their incredibly low odds but we didn't take any risks - plus, it was a chance to make up for not protecting the Death Star the first time. So the 501st took to our ships and engaged the rebellion one more time for old time's sake; even though we felt this was the end, we wanted it to end with a bang."
*Outro: "As we received word that a strike team had begun an attack to destroy the shield generator protecting the Death Star, the 501st tore through the swarm of rebel fighters in space and landed on the planet quick as we could; it was time to put this rebellion to bed for good."
==Endor: Our Final Stand==
*Intro: "As we landed on the forest moon, we knew that things had become a mess near the bunker where the generator was located but we didn't expect the natives to put up a fight with such primitive weaponry that caught us all off-guard; nonetheless, we pressed on and while we didn't know this would be the final stand for the 501st, we were going to make sure it was a memorable battle that would finally bring peace to the galaxy."
*Outro: "When the Death Star exploded from orbit, what remained of the 501st slowly and steadily realized the battle was over; as we fought on we slowly realized we were fighting a battle we couldn't win - but we made our stand and lost plenty of good men on that dark day. I now sit in a prison cell as I dictate this journal waiting to be tried for my actions. Do we regret what we did? All the atrocities we committed in the name of the emperor? Perhaps some but I don't. This was the story of a legion of men who fought and bled together as one, a group who could make planets quiver in fear and respect at the mention of our name and while history may not look kind upon us and what we did I wouldn't change a thing if I could do it over again and I will always be proud of the men I served with. This was the story... of the 501st."﻿
Credit to this guy on Youtube for writing most of the Endor dialogue; I did some minor revisions of my own.
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