"The New Rebellion (Kristine Rusch)" - читать интересную книгу автора (Rusch Kristine Kathryn)

It was for a contact named Dolph, and Jarril had noted [NAME RETIRED] in the
hidden-words section. From Lando's cursory examination of Jarril's system, it
seemed that Jarril deleted unusable information. Lando made a note of the
name, the out-of-date address, and continued searching.
The address on Dathomir had no name attached to it. Instead, it had notes
that appeared to be directions, along with stars marking it as a Big Find. The
address was new enough that Lando suspected Jarril hadn't had a chance to
exploit the Big Find, hence its continuation in the records.
He opened the file on Almania to find that Jarril had sent a message
there on the day the manifest was erased. The message had been deleted as
well, but Jarril had based the Spicy Lady on the Falcon. He had followed all
the schematics for the cockpit-the schematics that Lando had-and had bragged
about it. Which meant that he had put in all of Lando's back doors.
Once erased, not always erased.
Jarril had never been a brilliant man. He not only put in Lando's back
doors, he had used the same codes. Or perhaps that was bright. Who would think
that two such diverse ships had the same coding system?
Except, of course, Lando.
It only took a moment for Lando to find the message. He put it on
speaker, only to have the computer tell him the message was coded.
And written.
Stranger and stranger.
Lando uncoded the message and brought it onscreen. The message had no
addressee and it was unsigned. Typical smuggler. That way no one who
intercepted it would know who it was for.
CARGO DELIVERED. FIREWORKS SPECTACULAR.
It was followed shortly thereafter by another message.
SOLO KNOWS. WE CAN COUNT ON HIS INVOLVEMENT.
Then nothing. Those were the last messages Jarril had sent.
Lando copied them to his own computer. He glanced at Jarril. Jarril had
known something, told Han, and now Jarril was dead. Which meant that someone
was after Han.
Someone who had taken the A-wing and left the Spicy Lady to drift.
Lando got out of the copilot's chair. He had a call to make to Coruscant,
and he couldn't make it from here.


Brakiss. Luke sat on the rubble-covered stair. He wasn't willing to leave
the Hall, not yet. Not until he had gotten all the remnants of emotion and
knowledge he could get.
Brakiss. One of the failures. One of the students who had turned to the
dark side. Luke remembered each student who left Yavin 4 before completing
training. Some had left because of family crises (Decide you must how to serve
them best), and those crises always came at the wrong point in the training.
(This is a dangerous time for you, when you will be tempted by the dark side
of the Force.) He remembered Ben and Yoda; he always let those students go
although he gave them the same admonition Yoda had given him: Mind what you
have learned. And in his mind he always added the next sentence: Save you it
can.
Some did. They returned for more training. Others disappeared. Luke hoped