Legacy of the Force VI: Inferno by Troy Denning

Author:Troy Denning
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science Fiction - Adventure, Skywalker, Interplanetary voyages, Fiction, Leia, Solo, Uncles, Science Fiction - Star Wars, Adventure, Media Tie-In - General, Fiction - Science Fiction, Space Opera, Civil war, Space warfare, American, Han (Fictitious character), Science Fiction - Space Opera, Science fiction, Star Wars fiction, General, Luke (Fictitious character), Science Fiction And Fantasy, Media Tie-In
ISBN: 9780739487662
Publisher: DEL RAY
Published: 2007-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

Luke dropped into his cockpit. "I haven't told you anything yet, as 1 recall."

"Then it's time to change that." Jaina grabbed the access ladder and pulled herself up until she was eye-to-eye with Luke. "I'm not letting you go until I know why you're acting this way."

"It's nothing special, "Luke said. "A standard assault mission-we're going to soften up the Fifth Fleet so the Wookiees have a fighting chance to stop Jacen's pyromania."

"And?"

Luke sighed. "And I'm going to use the assault as a diversion to make a run at the Anakin Solo. Lowie managed to drop a shadow bomb near the bridge, and we might drive it off with another hit. Maybe even take it out."

Jaina dropped off the ladder. "I'm coming."

"Great, "Luke said. "Tahiri seems to have disappeared. You can take her place in the Night Blades."

"With you."

"Jaina, I don't need..."

"The hell you don't." Jaina turned back toward her own StealthX. "And don't even think about trying to lose me. I'll blow out your droid socket faster than you can say sideslip."

R2-D2 screeched in protest, but if Luke voiced his consent, Jaina didn't hear it. She was already racing across the hangar toward her own StealthX. The efficient ground crew had refueled the craft and topped off the laser cannon actuating gas. But Jaina had not been carrying heavy weapons when she arrived, and the Wookiees were just now preparing to stock the torpedo compartment.

"Forget it, boys." Jaina jumped onto the cockpit access ladder. "I don't think we're going to have time to load the shadow bombs, and it looks like I'm flying tail cover anyway."

Jaina had barely reattached her suit systems to the cockpit before the order came to launch. She closed her canopy and, once the ground chief had given her the okay, engaged her repulsor drives and spun around. The StealthXs were just launching, a long line of black ghosts gliding out the hangar door, arcing up into the wroshyrs and vanishing into the smoke.

Most of the wing had departed before Jaina felt Luke touch her mind. She opened herself to the Force, expecting to join him in a combat-meld. She felt only his outer presence, reluctant and unwelcoming, and even that quickly drew in on itself until she could barely tell it was there. There would be no emotional joining on this mission; he was not ready to share his pain with anyone. Jaina slid into line behind her uncle, wishing there was some way to comfort him through the Force, but knowing there wasn't. A few minutes later, they were climbing out of the smoke into the blue Kashyyyk sky.

It was almost too early to call the battle a battle. The Wookiee fleet was still on the far side of the planet, just getting itself organized, and the Alliance's Fifth Fleet was hanging back beyond the gravity well to protect the Anakin Solo. The only actual hostilities taking place were the blue lines lancing out from the Anakin Solo's long-range batteries, blazing through the Kashyyyk atmosphere to burn what no one had ever thought it necessary to defend.

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