Star wars Tales From the Empire by Peter Schweighofer

Author:Peter Schweighofer [Schweighofer, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Rebellion era
ISBN: 9780553578768
Google: cmdOGlEH_LoC
Amazon: 0553506862
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 1997-12-04T00:00:00+00:00

Blaze of Glory

by Tony Russo

“Every mercenary wants to be remembered.” Lex “Mad Vornskr” Kempo paused a moment as the jungle browns and greens of Gabredor III rose up toward their diving freighter. With a sardonic smirk, the spacer twisted around in the pilot’s seat and gazed at Brixie.

“A mercenary doesn’t retire gracefully. There’s no such thing as an Old Mercs Home either. What a real mercenary wants is to go out.

.. in a blaze of glory.”

“Really?” Brixie Ergo shifted around nervously in one of the acceleration chairs situated behind the copilot’s station. Space was tight in the modified Corellian light freighter, especially up front.

The craft rattled and shook as the vessel plunged deeper into the planet’s atmosphere. Kempo smiled a toothy, wicked grin.

“Absolutely.”

What sounded like a cross between an order and snarl came from the fur-covered being currently occupying the copilot’s seat beside Kempo.

“Leave the rook alone.” Sully Tigereye was a Trunsk, a stout alien species well known for their fighting ability and equally legendary short temper. Bristly brown hairs covered the length of Tigereye’s body except for his face and the palms of his hands. As if emphasizing his displeasure with Kempo, two shiny, sharpened tusks protruded from his lower lip. Brixie recalled stories her parents had told her as a child, about Trunsks being the showpieces of many a carnival show as gladiators and ring fighters.

If Sully Tigereye had ever been part of such a show in the past, he never let on. What she did know was that he had once been a highly decorated member of an elite New Republic infiltrator unit. No longer with the New Republic military, he continued to serve with his former colonel in a band of mercenaries called the Red Moons. It was Tigereye who had been appointed as team leader for this mission, and it was Tigereye who had chosen Brixie to come along as combat medic, although it was for a mission that Brixie still did not quite understand. JUst sitting close by Lex Kempo and Sully Tigereye made the former medical student uncomfortable, as if she was part of a group she did not truly belong to.

The mercenaries’ target was a Karazak Slavers Guild operation lurking in the jungle swamps and dense foliage on Gabredor III. Like the few Red Moon operation files she had a chance to study during her training period, any further information on the exact target and their reason for assaulting it would not be explained in detail until they landed.

That protected not only the Red Moons, but those who hired them. All of this secrecy just didn’t make any sense to Brixie. What could they hope to accomplish against an entire camp of slavers? Who thought up this brilliant strategy, anyway? Then again, she chided herself-joining a mercenary force like the Red Moons so she could find her parents was not exactly a brilliant strategy either.

Tigereye continued to berate Lex Kempo. “I didn’t ask her to be part of this team to keep you entertained.

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