Star Wars - Episode I Adventures 001 - Search for the Lost Jedi by Ryder Windham

Author:Ryder Windham [Windham, Ryder]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 1999-08-31T23:00:00+00:00

Qui-Gon didn’t want to leave Trinkatta behind, but the Kloodavian insisted. All his life, Qui-Gon had felt great empathy for all living creatures, especially for those who looked like they could use some help. Trinkatta may have been small, but Qui-Gon had no doubt that he was a strong-willed being, capable of taking care of himself. The fact that Trinkatta owned an entire starship factory was proof that he was a formidable character.

Qui-Gon ran down the hallway. The sound of his footsteps reached the audio sensors of two factory operations droids at the far end of the hall.

The two droids stepped forward, blocking Qui-Gon’s entrance to the starship assembly room. Both droids had broad upper bodies supported on strong but narrow legs. Raising their arms, the menacing droids eagerly clicked their manipulatory claws at Qui-Gon.

Hoping to conserve the charge on his lightsaber, Qui-Gon’s hand darted for his grappling hook. Tugging it from his belt, he played out the thin, strong wire and released the hook’s claws. With a single whipping motion, Qui-Gon threw the hook at the droids’ legs. The hook caught and circled the droids, snaring them below their knees. As the droids tried stepping out of the tangle, Qui-Gon pulled hard on the cable. The droids’ feet flew out from under them, sending the two automatons smashing against the floor.

Qui-Gon leaped over the fallen droids as they clattered to the floor, unable to raise their bulky forms. He entered the starship assembly room and found it filled with a haze of smoke. Looking nine stories up to the ceiling, he could barely see the windows that lined the higher levels.

Across the room, beyond several rows of starships and repulsorlift vehicles at various stages of construction, Qui-Gon saw the assembly operations chamber. According to Trinkatta, the controls for the factory’s chimneys were located in the operations chamber. Coughing, Qui-Gon checked his breather gauge. It was nearly depleted.

Holding his breath, Qui-Gon ran across the room. To his dismay, he found the operation chamber’s computer circuits had been ripped apart. Qui-Gon suspected it was the droids’ handiwork, an effort to prevent anyone from opening the chimneys and allowing the smoke to escape.

Qui-Gon spied an unfinished starfighter resting on a nearby conveyer system. The ship wasn’t ready to fly but its laser cannons appeared to be operational.

Still holding his breath, Qui-Gon ran to the starfighter and leaped into the cockpit. His fingers flew over the vessel’s weapon system as he aimed the laser cannons for the high ceiling.

Qui-Gon pulled the triggers and the cannons fired, launching a powerful blast of coherent lights at the ceiling. The laser bolts punched through the roof in a fiery explosion. The upper beams ruptured and fell. Qui-Gon leaped out of the starfighter and dove for cover into a grease pit. A split second later, the starfighter was crushed by a huge chunk of falling plastoid.

Looking up from the grease pit, Qui-Gon saw he had created a wide hole in the ceiling. His view of the Esseles sky was obscured by rising smoke as the fumes lifted through the hole and out of the factory.

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