The Han Solo Adventures 01: Han Solo at Star's End by Brian Daley

Author:Brian Daley
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Solo, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Han (Fictitious Character) - Fiction, Han (Fictitious Character), General
ISBN: 9780345282514
Publisher: Del Rey
Published: 1979-03-12T00:00:00+00:00

Han took inspiration from it. He bad at his side breadboarded computer overrides for the barges every function. His fingers stabbed at them as he shouted, Everybody brace! Were gonna-and was slammed back in his seat. Hed hit the cargo release, opening the barges rear dump-doors. Hundreds of thousands of tons of grain were poured into the dreadnaughts tractors, pulled toward the Shannadors Revenge by her own brute power, fanning out in a blinding con-trail, as the barge surged ahead with a lightening load. The dreadnaught was engulfed, her sensors muffled by the tidal wave of grain. Han, with one eye on his own sensors, saw that the warship was driving straight on through the hail of grain, closing quickly on the barge even though she was blinded. Her tractor beams were still clamped onto the barges stern, and Han wondered how long it would be before her skipper gave the command to open fire. There was only one other possibility. He hit the con-trols, cutting in the barges retrothrusters, and with virtually the same motion, slapped the emergency re-leases. His other hand hovered over the main drive control of the Millennium Falcon.

The barge shell shook, losing much of its velocity, while the reports of exploding bolts sounded through both the freighter and the larger ship around it. Super-structural elements, added to secure the Falcon and disguise her lines, were blown clear. A split second later, the Falcons engines howled to life, their blue fire tearing the smaller ship free of the breakaway sup-ports holding her and severing her external control hookups.

Han took the Falcon on the same course hed been holding, keeping the barge shell between himself and the Authority warship. The Shannadors Revenge, her sensors impaired, had failed to note the barge shells drastic drop in speed. The dreadnaughts captain was calling for a vector change just as the warship rammed the decelerating barge. The Shannadors Revenges for-ward screens flared with impact, and her anticoncus-sion fields cut in instantly on collision, as she cut the floating hulk of the barge shell in half in a terrific im-pact and suffered structural damage of her own. The warships forward sensor suite was disabled; she ro-sounded with alarms and damage reports. Airtight doors began booming shut automatically, triggered by decompressire hull ruptures.

The Millennium Falcon was clawing for the upper atmosphere. The thought that hed bloodied the nose of a battlewagon, escaping against all odds, didnt lighten Hans mood, nor did the thought that hyper-space and safety were only moments away. Occupying his mind was one simple, intolerable fact his friend and partner was now in the merciless hands of the Corporate Sector Authority. When the stars had parted before him and the ship was safely in hyperspace, Han sat for long minutes thinking that he couldnt remember the last time hed spaced without the Wookiee beside him. Rekkon had been right in arguing for escape, but that didnt change Hans feeling that hed let Chewbacca down. But regrets were a waste of time.

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