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about employing the best mercenaries credits could buy.

The burly commando squad leader went immediately to Salvo.

"Ion Team, Commander, attached to the Twenty-second out of Boz Pity."
Turning slightly in Shryne's direction, the commando nodded his helmeted
head.

"Welcome to Murkhana, General Shryne."

Shryne's dark brows beetled. "The voice is familiar...," he began.

"The face even more so," the commando completed.

The joke was almost three years old but still in use among the clone
troopers, and between them and the Jedi.

"Climber," the commando said, providing his sobriquet. "We fought
together on Deko Neimoidia."

Shryne clapped the commando on the shoulder. "Good to see you again,
Climber-even here."

"As I told you," Chatak said to Starstone, "Master Shryne has friends
all over."

"Perhaps they don't know him as well as I do, Master," Star-stone
grumbled.

Climber lifted his helmet faceplate to the gray sky. "A good day for
fighting, General."

"I'll take your word for it," Shryne said.

"Make your report, squad leader," Salvo interrupted.

Climber turned to the commander. "The Koorivarr are evacuating the
city, but taking their sweet time about it. They've a lot more faith in
these energy shields than they should have." He beckoned the captive
forward and spun him roughly to face Salvo. "Meet Idis-human under the
Koorivar trappings. Distinguished member of the Vibroblade Brigade."

"A mercenary band," Bol Chatak explained to Starstone. "We caught him.
.. with his trousers down," Climber continued, "and persuaded him to share
what he knows about the shoreline defenses. He was kind enough to provide
the location of the landing platform shield generator." The commando
indicated a tall, tapered edifice farther down the beach. "Just north of
the first bridge, near the marina. The generator's installed two floors
below ground level. We may have to take out the whole building to get to
it."