Star Wars: Hunted by David Gremillion

Author:David Gremillion
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Tags: Star Wars
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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The shuttle was spacious, almost luxurious by normal standards. It could easily have held ten people en route to Korriban, but of the only two passengers, Anakin was the only one feeling cramped.

Colonel Adani had an unsettling demeanor. He was always quick with a joke, seemed to always know what to say, when to say it, or when to say nothing at all. He kept his distance, not crowding Anakin at all as he expected. Most strangers tended to pepper Anakin with questions about his destiny or fighting Darth Maul. So far, topics of conversation included starfighter racing, Hutt-ball, and the next generation of INCOM starfighters.

He was the perfect travelling companion, and it drove Anakin crazy.

“Looks like INCOM is going with a split-wing configuration. Pretty smart, doubles the firepower without sacrificing speed,” the colonel mentioned.

It was almost like he was made for Anakin; his best friend for all time.

“So where are the droids?” Anakin asked.

“Hmm?” Adani replied half-heartedly.

“There’s no astromech droid,” Anakin pointed to the empty middle console slot where a droid was supposed to be. His mind wandered back to when R2-D2 had helped to guide his wounded transport from Ambria to Rishi.

“We have a nav-computer, don’t we? We have the natural instincts of a humanoid pilot and a Jedi Knight onboard. What more do I need?” he replied.

“Suppose the nav-computer fails,” Anakin surmised.

“There’s a backup,” Adani retorted.

“And if that fails?” Anakin pressed.

“You have the honor of being with one of the best mechanical minds in the Republic. I know machines like you know a lightsaber,” he grinned.

“And if you’re dead?” Anakin threw up his hands.

“We have repair bases all over the quadrant staffed by humanoid mechanics,” Adani chuckled.

Anakin chewed on his lower lip for a moment. Could he have gotten them to Rishi on his own? He knew the way there thanks to Jango, he had used the Force to help keep the ship together, and he only relied on the droid sparingly for assistance.

“What about going to an entirely new planet without a protocol droid?” Anakin asked.

“Those droids blab so much they’re practically a liability,” Adani replied.

“A translator droid that talks a lot? Get the Holo-Net News on this one,” Anakin chuckled.

“Droids can talk too much, if you know what I mean,” Adani replied.

Anakin nodded slowly.

He couldn’t avoid the glaring security error that had gotten past the Jedi Order, nor could he ignore that droids could be sliced, much like people. Anakin’s mind wandered back to just how easily he had “sliced” into Aiya Rios in an interrogation room. She sang like a bird on that day. Surely it wouldn’t take very much to crack open a droid as well?

The nav-computer buzzed an alarm, breaking his train of thought.

“We’re nearly there,” Adani sat up in his chair. “I’d strap in if I were you, I’ll be cutting in the sub-light engines in just a bit.”

“Are we the first ones here?” Anakin eagerly asked.

Colonel Adani cocked his head sideways. “Yes, Master Jedi, so far we are.”

Anakin buckled his restraining harness as the ship entered the planet’s orbit.

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