"Michael Stackpole "The Bacta War"" - читать интересную книгу автораshooting to kill. With Vorru, Isard, or Dlarit, I'll go for a stun shot, but
only if that's not going to get me or anyone else killed." "Your plan calls for more finesse than the bomb, but I guess we can make it work." "We will." Iella nodded solemnly. "Two days until Thyferra regains its freedom and Ysanne Isard loses hers." 35 Captain Joak Drysso let a low sinister laugh fill the dark hol-low of the ready-room on the Lusankya. He recalled with holographic clarity the image of the Executor plunging into the heart of the half-completed Death Star at Endor. He'd known at that point that the battle was lost, so he'd taken his Virulence and fled from the battle. / always knew I would have another chance to crush Rebels. He didn't believe for an instant the fiction that Antilles and his people were outcasts from the New Republic. Theirs was obviously a mission meant to keep Isard bottled up until they could deal with her-and Antilles had done a good job of keeping her attention on him. Had he not preoccupied her, she might have seen the wisdom of creating an Imperial Com-bine, bringing together the various Warlords out there to put an end to the New Republic. It would have been very success-ful, he was certain of that, and she could have even led it because she possessed what everyone else wanted: Bacta. Isard's short-sightedness in this regard didn't surprise Drysso, primarily because she thought like a politician, not a warrior. Isard took great delight in being subtle and tricky, then when she decided to wield a hammer, she did it in a very assault shuttle and a squadron of TIEs could have laid waste to that settlement. The attack did nothing but salve her ego and anger Antilles. He would have handled things entirely differently. Drysso had agreed a strike was necessary, but he would have gone after Corellia and brought the Diktat to heel, adding Corellia and its shipyards to the Iceheart Empire. That would supply them the means of building more ships. He would have then badgered Kuat into making a similar deal, giving him access to those shipyards. And then on to Sluis Van. Once I have those three sites under my control, I can strangle the New Republic by restricting trade-without ships and shipyards, nothing moves between stars. Drysso had chosen to stay with Isard because he thought she represented the best chance at reestablishing the Empire, and because she had the most legitimate claim to the throne itself. He had supported her decision to abandon Corus-cant-a world that does not provide the means to wage war is worth little in a war. The New Republic's conquest of it did hamper the Rebellion, and Isard's possession of the Bacta Cartel put her in a very powerful position in the galaxy. Unfortunately, her power is embodied by this ship. Drysso caressed the arms of the command chair in which he sat. Only through this ship can she project her power to other worlds, command their compliance and punish their defiance. Now this ship is mine and thus is her power ceded to me. The comlink clipped to his jacket beeped. "Drysso here." "Captain, five minutes to reversion to realspace." "On my way to the bridge." Drysso stood and strode from the ready-room to a |
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