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STAR WARS
THE BOUNTY HUNTER WARS 1 THE MANDALORIAN ARMOR
K.W.Jeter

Scan/OCR - Demilich ([email protected])


1

NOW . . .
during the events of
star wars return of the Jedi

live ones are worth more than the dead ones.
That was the general rule of digital appendage for
bounty hunters. Dengar hardly had to remind himself of it
as he scanned the bleak and eye-stinging bright wastes of
the Dune Sea. Right now he'd spotted a lot more dead
things than living, which all added up to a big zero for
his own credit accounts. I'd have done better, he told
himself, getting off this miserable planet. Tatooine had
never been any luckier for him than it'd been for any
other sentient creature. Some worlds were like that.
His luck wasn't as bad as some others' had
been-Dengar had to admit that. Especially when, as his
plastoid-sheathed boots had trudged up another sloping
flank of sand, a gloved fist had seized on his ankle,
toppling him heavily onto his shoulder.
"What the-" His surprised outcry vanished echoless
across the dunes as he rolled onto his back, scrabbling
his blaster from its holster. He held his fire, seeing
now just what it was that had grabbed on to him. His fall
had pulled a hand and arm free from the drifting sands
that formed the shallow grave for one of Jabba the Hurt's
personal corps of bodyguards. Some reflex wired into the
dead warrior's battle-glove had snapped the dead hand
tight as a womp-rat trap.
Dengar reholstered his blaster, then sat up and began
peeling the fingers away from his boot. "You should've
stayed out of it," he said aloud. The Dune Sea's scouring
wind revealed the corpse's empty eye sockets. "Like I
did." Getting into other creatures' fights was always a
bad idea. A whole batch of the galaxy's toughest
mercenaries, bounty hunters included, had gone down with
the wreckage of Jabba the Hutt's sail barge. If they'd
been as smart as they'd been tough, Dengar himself
wouldn't have been out here right now, searching for
their weapons and military gear and any other salvageable
debris.
He got his boot free and stood up. "Better luck next