Jedi Trial by David Sherman & Dan Cragg

Author:David Sherman & Dan Cragg
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Anakin (Fictitious Character), Vader, Military Readiness, Science Fiction, Skywalker, Star Wars Fiction, Fantasy fiction, General, Fantasy, American, Adventure, Life on Other Planets, Command of Troops, Darth (Fictitious Character), Fiction, Space Opera, Media Tie-In
ISBN: 9780345461148
Publisher: Del Rey
Published: 2004-10-26T00:00:00+00:00

“I’m Corporal Raders, sir.”

“I’m Private Vick, sir.”

“Call me General. And no more jokes from here on out.”

They came upon the battle droids just as three of them entered the crew’s compartment. Halcyon didn’t hesitate. His lightsaber flashed in a whirl of energy, easily deflecting the bolts from the droids’ laser rifles. He slashed into them, one-two-three, and the machines disintegrated before his companions could point their blasters at the intruders. Halcyon stood flat against the bulkhead and, as the next three battle droids came through the hatch, disposed of them in turn. In six seconds he had turned the compartment into a junkyard.

“Blast through that hatch!” Halcyon ordered. “Exec, we’ve got them stopped. Bring up the rest of the force.”

The two guards advanced using fire-and-maneuver, one directing bolt after bolt of energy through the open hatch while the other rushed to the left, to continue delivering fire when his companion broke to the right and took cover up against the bulkhead. Ensign Dejock followed the second guard. “Sir, this next area is a storage compartment. The one directly aft of that is a repair shop and then the propulsion room.”

Halcyon went through the hatch. The compartment was full of battle droids, all of which opened fire at the same time. Halcyon parried the blaster bolts with his lightsaber. Most of the bolts arced back onto the droids that had fired them. Halcyon pressed forward. The two guards followed him. In seconds the repair shop was a shambles, but the droids in it were all destroyed. Halcyon’s suit was nearly melted through in places from near hits; one of the guards had sustained a bad burn on his thigh, but the self-sealing material in his suit had saved his air supply.

“We have them on the run!” Ensign Dejock shouted.

“Yes, we’ve pushed them back. Come on, let’s clear out the next compartment.” Halcyon started forward.

“Hold it!” The ship’s exec stepped through from the crew compartment, followed by twenty heavily armed men. “You don’t look so good, sir. Your suit’s sustained some damage.” He looked around the compartment, littered with destroyed droids, and glanced up at the hull. “It’ll take some time to repair that damage,” he said. “General, you’d better get back up to the bridge and get out of that suit before it fails. Take these others with you. We know what to do. We’ll finish what you started.” He looked around the compart-ment again and whistled. “You really did a job on them.”

Supporting the wounded guard between them, the trio staggered back up to the bridge. Within a few minutes the ship’s exec and his team had cleared the boarding party. The crew sustained no further casualties. Damage control was already working on restoring hull integrity, and atmosphere was being restored in some of the forward compartments—but the Ranger was out of the battle.

“I’m very sorry about your ship and her crew, Captain,” Halcyon said.

“They were good troops and she’s a good ship, sir, but I’ve already made arrangements to transfer to another vessel.

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