In a consultation within the Rebel""s Command Center, there were findings that a sensor was reporting a disturbance and unusual signal coming from an unidentified metal object (the Imperial probe droid) at Station 38.Meanwhile, in another section of the underground city, at Ape Management""s command center, radiation-scarred mutant humans were still living and working drone-like under the leadership of Governor Kolp (Severn Darden), who ascended to the position when the bomb killed the former governor.Brad mentioned that they had only one thing to do - to go see their science teacher in whose classroom hey met ("the man who began it").Lord Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna (Lewis Stone), the regent and head of the council, announces that after the "grievous war" - a war that has lasted fourteen years while Sweden fought "for he Protestant cause," the King has died.[The second monolith - another indication of extra-terrestrial intelligent life and their desire to provide further guidance to mankind - also exerts its unmistakable will on human beings in a different era.