"Michael Stackpole "The Bacta War"" - читать интересную книгу автораwell save yourself some pain."
One of the tankers began to move away from the others. Mynock, Wedge's R5 droid, tagged it as Xucphra Rose. "This is Bors Kenlin in the Rose. We're yours, Antilles." "Kenlin, don't go. You have a wife back on Thyferra." "Isard will be doing me a favor if she kills her." The Rose drifted further from the other two ships. "Where am I go-ing?" "Stand by, Rose." Wedge shifted his comm unit over to the squadron's tactical frequency. "Nine, you and Ten and your two Deathseed friends will escort the Rose to Halanit. Isard has threatened dependents on Thyferra if the crew goes along with us, so find out who their people are so we can transmit the data to the Ashern and try to save them." Corran's voice came back strong. "As ordered, sir." Two X-wings broke from formation and made a quick flyby on the Rose. In the first pass they downloaded to the Rose's navicomp the course for their run to Halanit. As they came back around, the Rose moved on the exit vector with them and two Deathseeds fell in behind. In the blink of an eye all five ships went to lightspeed and vanished. Wedge looked back at his monitor again. The remaining ships were Xucphra Alazhi and Xucphra Meander. Wedge suspected the first voice he'd dealt with was on the Alazhi. Since the ship was named after a key component in bacta, he assumed the captain had seniority over the other two. Wedge shifted his comm unit back to the Thyferran frequency. "Me-ander, what is your decision?" A woman's voice answered him. "Meander is uncon-vinced the crew will be safe from Isard's reprisals." "Meander, your cargo will be bound for Coruscant. If you can't lose yourself guarantee you that your cargo will alleviate an incredible amount of suffering." Xucphra Meander began to drift away from Alazhi. As it did so, the Alazhi began to roll to bring its turbolasers to bear on Meander. Wedge shifted over to his tactical frequency. "Three and Four, neutralize Alazhi. Five and Six, pick up Meander and head to Coruscant." Gavin and Shiel broke their X-wings out of the forma-tion and sprinted in at the Alazhi. They kept their fighters moving in a grand spiral, which made them very difficult to track, especially as they dipped below the turbolasers' ability to depress sufficiently to shoot at them. Green laser bolts shot out in pairs at the incoming fighters, but they always came in above or below the X-wings. Coming up on a turn in the spiral, Gavin's fighter rolled and spat laserfire at the freighter. One quad burst hit the ship's hull right in front of the turbolaser battery, then two more caught the battery in the side. Fire tracked up the blocky battery, blasting away at the armor plates sheathing it. Molten globules of armor rocketed off through space, then an explosion filled the battery with fire and ripped it apart. Shiel's run on the aft battery proved just as effective, stripping the freighter of its offensive weaponry. The two fighters began to orbit the Alazhi, flashing past the cockpit one after another. Well away from them Rhysati, Inyri, and their two Twi'lek companions led the Meander off toward Coruscant. Wedge adjusted his comm unit and tightened the beam to focus on the Alazhi. "Alazhi, you are defenseless." The man who had first answered him again spoke, but anger had replaced nervousness in his voice. "We can and will oppose you, Antilles. This is piracy. |
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