"Michael Stackpole "The Bacta War"" - читать интересную книгу автораpulled the trigger. Sithspawn! What is that?
A ship the size of a Carrack-class light cruiser ranged up from the Graveyard, cutting in past the Aggregator's stern and in at the Corrupter's bridge. The ship's white nose was separated from the bloodred after portion by a big black stripe slashed on the diagonal across it. Wedge realized he'd seen that color scheme on a ship before, but he didn't connect it with Tycho's X-wing until the cruiser opened up on the Corrupter with its weaponry. Five heavy turbolasers and ten laser cannons poured scarlet energy into the Destroyer's unshielded hull. The laser cannon shots skittered across the white surface, stippling it with black marks and exploding turbolaser batteries. The heavy turbolasers concentrated their fire on the Destroyer's tower, burning through the hull on deck after deck. Wedge kicked his thrust in at full and rolled his X-wing so he put the Graveyard over his head and the Destroyer's hull beneath his fighter. Off his starboard S-foils a silvery glow built as the first of the proton torpedoes hit. The energy storm they created splashed up and around the edges of the shield. Wedge pushed the X-wing lower, skimming it along the Destroyer's hull. Just like being back in the trenches. Wedge jinked the ship as turbolasers and the starfighter behind him tried to target him, then hauled back on his stick. The aiming reticle for his proton torpedoes had burned red for the entirety of his flight, but Wedge held back until his true target sank down into the reticle. He saw one Imperial officer standing in the middle of the bridge viewport and watched his mouth open in surprise. Wedge hit the trigger. the bridge with blue fire, then deto-nated. The bridge's blocky outline plumped and softened for a second before the aft port corner blew out, vomiting golden fire. Backblast sent smaller golden geysers back out through the forward viewports, but Wedge pulled up between them, then rolled and dove past the Destroyer's aft. "Tycho, hit the cruiser!" "I copy. On me, Rogues. Beginning my run now." Coming up over the belly of the Destroyer Wedge got a good look at the battle. Sporadic turbolaser and ion cannon fire came from the Corrupter, but far more numerous were the escape pods exploding from its hull. The Aggregator tried to shoot at the snubfighters, but most were using the dying Destroyer as a shield as they approached, and the Aggrega-tor's commander seemed reluctant to shoot in that direction. The light cruiser came back around and made a run across the Aggregator's stern. The ships exchanged fire, but the Interdictor Cruiser could only bring a few of its weapons to bear on the other ship. Neither ship did significant damage to the other, though the Aggregator's starboard shields did go down. "On my mark, launch torpedoes. Mark." On Tycho's command the X-wings launched their mis-siles. Blue pinpoints of fire blossomed from various points around the Graveyard and shot in at the Interdictor Cruiser. The red light on Wedge's console went out as the ship's com-mander shunted power from the gravity well projectors to his shields. That's the move to make, but did he do it in time? Most of the proton torpedoes, beginning with the two Tycho launched, slammed |
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