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between the twins, his lanky form towering over them. He growled with
amazement.

"I think it's most impressive," Em Teedee said from the clip on Lowie's
belt. "And Master Lowbacca thinks so too."

GemDiver Station orbited just at the fringe of Yavin's outer atmosphere.
The station's inclined orbit took it high above the planet and then
dipped down to graze the gaseous levels so that Lando's Corusca gem
miners could delve into the planet's deep, swirling currents.

Lando tapped his fingertip against the transparisteel window. "Far down
where the atmosphere ends, the metallic core scrapes against the
liquefied air. Pressures are great enough to crush elements together
into extremely rare quantum crystals called Corusca gems."

Jacen perked up. "Can we see one?"

is Lando thought for a moment, then nodded.

"Sure. We've got a shipment ready to go out," he said. "Follow me."

With his emerald cape flowing behind him, Lando strode down the
scrubbed-clean corridors.

Jacen stared at the metal bulkheads, the chambers, the computer-lined
offices.

The walls were smooth plasteel plates painted in soft colors and
embroidered with glowing optical tubes in a variety of designs. In the
background Jacen heard the faint whispering noises of forests, oceans,
rivers. The soothing colors and gentle sounds made GemDiver Station an
attractive place, comfortable and pleasant-not at all what he had
expected.

As they approached a set of large armored doors, Lando tapped buttons in
his wristlink and turned to Lobot. "Request access to security level."

Lobot mumbled something into a microphone at his collar. The sealed
metal doors hissed, then slid aside to reveal an airlock chamber, the
far side of which was an insulated portal providing access to open
space. Four armored, conical projectiles lay on a rack; each module was
only about a meter long and bristled with self-targeting lasers.

"These are the automated cargo pods," Lando said. "Because Corusca gems
are so valuable, we have to take extra security precautions."

Several multiarmed droids worked busily beside the first cargo pod, an
open module padded with thick insulation. The droids' copper
exoskeletons gleamed, as if newly polished.