"Michael Stackpole "The Bacta War"" - читать интересную книгу автораAlderaan's sacrifice."
"Undoubtedly so, Madam Director. What is important is that Antilles will have his fighters and his freighters there. If we divert our warships to Alderaan we can ambush the Antil-les group and destroy them." Isard's eyes narrowed, but her smile did not die and this contradiction confused Vorru. "No, Minister Vorru, I'm not going to send all my ships in case this information is false. I don't doubt you or your source, but Antilles might catch wind of our ambush and refuse to show up. He could even hit a bacta convoy and subject us to yet more ridicule. No, I won't have that." She held up her right index finger. "I do know what I will do. I will send Convarion and the Corrupter. He's ambushed them once and can do it again." Vorru shook his head. "But if you only send the Cor-rupter, Antilles and his people will scatter as usual. We will accomplish nothing." "No, Vorru, we will accomplish everything." Isard laughed aloud, her voice full of triumph. "While you have woven a net of spies to catch Antilles, I have been searching for the means to kill him. I have found it, and in twelve hours it will be here and ready to join Convarion as he goes for the kill." Vorru frowned. "I don't understand." "It is rather simple, Minister Vorru." Isard's smile be-came cold. "At great expense I have leased from High Admi-ral Teradoc a ship, the Aggregator." Vorru's jaw dropped. "An Interdictor Cruiser." "Exactly." She clapped her hands together. "When it ar-rives at Alderaan and powers up its gravity well projectors, Antilles and his ships will be trapped. There will be another sacrifice at Alderaan-another victory there for the Empire "I say, Madam Director, I will accept that drink you offered"-Vorru smiled-"and raise a toast to victory." 24 Wedge's X-wing reverted to realspace above the plane of the elliptic in the Alderaan system. Spread out in a flat disk, the rubble that had once been Alderaan looked like the crumbs left behind after the cutting of a ryshcate. He slowly shook his head. Dying only once isn't nearly enough punishment for the Emperor to atone for this evil. Mynock beeped with each ship entering the system. The Rogues in their X-wings had come in first and oriented them-selves toward the Graveyard. The most likely threat to them would come from there, from pirates or others hidden amid the debris. Some of the chunks are large enough to screen even a Star Destroyer. If there was one there, the plan was clean and simple: The X-wings would target it with a full salvo of proton torpedoes, giving the other ships a chance to run. The dozen freighters Booster had rounded up came in next with the Pulsar Skate in the lead. Moments after rever-sion they made course corrections to get themselves pointed toward their exit vectors. The Chir'daki came in last and split their squadron up so each freighter had a fighter escort. If trouble erupted, the Twi'lek and Gand squadron could reas- semble and screen the escaping freighters from any TIEs or other snubfighters, then head out themselves. Wedge glanced at his screen and saw the names of the various ships in his fleet scroll up. Green letters indicated they were all set to fulfill their part in the mission. At least we've gotten here in one piece. Now we need Karrde to do |
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