Star Wars - 200 - Tales of the Bounty Hunters by Kevin J. Anderson;Stephen Youll

Author:Kevin J. Anderson;Stephen Youll
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Space Opera, General, Science Fiction, American, Adventure, English, Fiction
ISBN: 9780553568165
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1996-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Not him, but.

He smiled bitterly. Inside his storage lockers were two of his carbon-frozen kinsmen, executed by the Em-pire. Their bodies had been dropped at a Wookiee out-post. Chenlambec had vowed to avenge their deaths by making use of those bodies. Bossk's droid, X10-D, was allegedly brainless, so Flirt could order X10-D to trans-fer the carbon freeze units into these gunnery sockets. He must also tell Flirt to make sure that the Hounds scanners still showed those lockers fully loaded. With Flirt's help, he sneaked next onto the bridge, carrying the data chip Tinian had retrieved. Before sit-ting down, he slipped Flirt into position under the navicomputer. Several long seconds later, she chirped, "You're secure. sort of."

He demanded an explanation.

"You'll be checked every two minutes. Whatever you want to do, move quickly." Almost instantly, she beeped a warning. He slouched over the controls, motionless, until she chirped,

"Okay. I overrode without trouble."

He growled a question.

"No, don't pull any wires," she answered. "I'll hold off the Hound." Chen snatched a set of miniature tools out of his bandolier pouch. He pulled the main computer's cover, dropped it aside, then eyed internal circuitry. He almost had it figured out when Flirt beeped again. Hastily he replaced the cover.

It took five intervals before he located the spot to slide in that chip full of doctored data. Then he locked it in place and installed a parallel circuit around it.

Just in time, too. They would reach Lomabu within half an hour.

He growled a last question at Flirt.

"Not yet," she chirruped. "Sorry."

Then it was Plan Three. Leaving Flirt in position un-der the navicomputer in case she was close to a break-through, he retreated to the port cabin.

Tinian crouched alongside the communication con-sole, steadying herself against the starboard bulkhead, wearing a lightweight headset. So far, she heard only static.

Bossk took the main chair with Chen as his copilot. Chen had told her that he thought Bossk was amused to let a Wookiee sit on his bridge. Bossk had brought up the bridge lights. His greenish scales showed orange undertones where the lights caught them.

Bossk killed the hyperdrive. The Hound cut in its sublights, and a star system appeared. According to the navicomputer readout, it had six planets in erratic orbits. They looked more like electrons' orbitals than a flat planetary ecliptic, as if the Lomabu system had been stirred by a passing stellar giant. Bossk had ori-ented the Hound's Tooth to the third planet's orbital plane. From this distance, it looked like a small blue disk with one moon: According to scanners, its surface was almost entirely covered by ocean, with long archi-pelagoes marking arcs where tectonic plates collided.

"Excellent," Bossk hissed. "Hound, establish a mo-mentum course and cut engines."

"Confirmed." The ship fell silent. To casual scanners it would look like an eccentric asteroid passing the planet.

Tinian watched Bossk flick a control alongside one of his forearm troughs. He'd have to utilize shipboard scanners sparingly now. Stray transmissions would be picked up by Imperial sentries. though ^thought he was hiding from Wookiee sentinels.

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