Book 3 - Showdown at Centerpoint by Roger Macbride Allen
Author:Roger Macbride Allen [Allen, Roger Macbride]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Star Wars, Science Fiction, Fiction
ISBN: 9780553298062
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 1995-09-02T07:00:00+00:00
The ship dove down into the repulsor chamber, moving fast and aggressively, but not so fast that Ebrihim wasn’t able to see the insignia painted on the underside of its fuselage as he looked up at it. A stylized human skull with a knife in its teeth. “Human League!” he cried out. “Can we get the shields up?”
“No!” Aunt Marcha shouted. “The children are still outside. We have to wait for them to get aboard.”
Ebrihim hopped up into the copilot’s chair and turned toward the weapons controls as the enemy ship dropped down to a fast, assault-style landing. Burly figures in combat gear were tumbling out of the attack boat’s hatches even before it had stopped bouncing on its landing legs.
Weapons. Ebrihim did not know much about such things, but he had to try. There had to be some sort of auto-system to let the turbolasers—
Suddenly huge hands were scooping him up out of the seat, tossing him out of the way. Chewbacca scrambled into the copilot’s chair and started powering up the defense systems. Power began to surge through the Falcon’s weapons.
“The children are aboard!” Marcha shouted. “Raise the access ramp. Activate the shields!”
Chewbacca hit the ramp close button and reached for the shield controls—but it was too late. A trooper with a very powerful-looking blaster was looking up at Chewbacca from below the cockpit. The Falcon was surrounded by troops standing inside the shield perimeter. Chewbacca tried the shields anyway. The lights in the cockpit surged for a moment as power went to the shield generators, but nothing else happened. Chewbacca roared in frustration. Shield jammers. They must have attached shield jammers to the hull, preventing the shields from forming.
A tall, heavyset, bearded figure stepped out of the assault boat and walked toward them, a most unpleasant smile on his face.
“Sal-Solo,” Ebrihim said. “It’s him.”
“That’s our dad’s cousin?” Anakin asked. Ebrihim turned around and realized for the first time that the children had crowded their way in. All of them, the entire party, were there, in the cockpit.
“That is his cousin and yours, child,” said Marcha. “But I doubt you will gain much joy from knowing him.”
Ebrihim tried not to listen. There was something that had just flitted across his mind, at the thought of their all being together. Wait a moment. That wasn’t true. They weren’t all together. But if he, Ebrihim, assumed they all were here, then surely their friends outside might make the same mistake. Ebrihim had an idea. Not even a plan, just an idea that would give them options, advantages. Maybe enough so that there would still be a way out of this. It was a long shot, but still it was a chance that could turn this thing around. That was the good news.
The bad news was in two parts. First, they only had a few seconds to put it in motion. And two, his idea relied completely and entirely upon Q9-X2.
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