Star Wars: Most Wanted by Rae Carson

Author:Rae Carson
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Disney Lucasfilm Press
Published: 2018-05-25T04:00:00+00:00

Qi’ra couldn’t believe their luck. First they’d just walked right into the Foundry. Then Han had smooth-talked his way past that manager at the turbolift. And just now Tsuulo had figured out the perfect way to get Tool to talk. Things like that never happened to her.

Things like that never happened to her when she was alone, she corrected herself. But strangely, unexpectedly, she and Han and Tsuulo were turning out to be a good team.

“The Droid Gotra,” Tool said, “is an organization dedicated to droid emancipation.”

“It’s a terrorist organization,” Tsuulo said. “Everyone on Coruscant—”

“You are a victim of Imperial propaganda,” Tool said. “The Droid Gotra has occasionally gone to extreme measures, certainly, but we want nothing more than peace and freedom for ourselves, just like any sentient species.”

Tool’s voice was completely devoid of inflection, which Qi’ra found unsettling. You could tell a lot about a person by how they talked. In fact, she hadn’t realized how much she counted on inflection and affect to read a situation until it was gone. “You must be a powerful group,” Qi’ra pointed out, “to bid a billion credits for something.”

“That bid stretched our resources,” Tool admitted. “But it would have been worth it. We started as a loosely connected group of battle droids, beings who were abandoned after the Clone Wars or repurposed against their will for other functions. But now our organization is large, consisting of all manner of droids, even a few organic sympathizers. We have been working to establish a cell here on Corellia.”

Qi’ra righted one of the chairs and sat in it, turning her back to the mustached corpse. “So you’re a droid with a cause,” she said. There was nothing more dangerous than a true believer.

“The cause of droid equality is the most important in the galaxy,” he said. His words were passionate, but his tone was as emotionless as if he’d said, Please pass the rat porridge. To Tsuulo, Tool added, “I think we’ll be able to reactivate my fusion core soon.”

Tsuulo made a noise of agreement.

“So why did the Gotra want this cube so badly? We know it’s Imperial shield generator tech, created by someone called the Engineer. But we can’t read the blueprints. Not even Tsuulo over there can make heads or tails of them.”

“Heads or tails,” Tool intoned. “I will add that to my repertoire immediately.”

At Qi’ra’s confused look, Han explained: “He recently uploaded some programming that allows him to speak in clichés.”

“Metaphors,” Tool corrected.

“That’s what I mean,” Han said.

The way Han hovered over his flat-voiced friend was…interesting. He really cared about that droid. He had moved so fast, so unerringly, to get inside Tool’s innards and rewire him before he deactivated. Han was a handy guy to have around in a tough situation, she had to admit.

“You were about to tell us about the shield tech?” she prodded.

“You are correct,” Tool said. “It is a blueprint for a shield generator. A very special shield generator.”

“How so?” Han asked. Content that his friend was safe in Tsuulo’s capable hands, Han pulled up the chair beside Qi’ra and sat.

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