Ambush At Corellia by Allen Roger MacBride

Author:Allen, Roger MacBride [Allen, Roger MacBride]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“Nothing besides the fact that it’s Corellia,” Han said.

“But that’s enough to make me want to find reasons to bail out. The place has the politics of a snakepit.”

“That’s why I’m headed there in the first place,” leja said. Leia had managed to avoid most of the demands for her to appear at this planet’s coronation or give a speech at that planet’s university commencement, or rush out and settle this diplomatic tiff or stomp out that minor political brush fire. It had taken a lot of time and determination on her part to get things running so that she wasn’t being hauled off to every ribbon-cutting and every jurisdictional fuss throughout the New Republic.

The very fact that she had agreed to go to Corellia showed how important the place was-and how difficult it was going to be to straighten things out.

But if they could open Corellia back up to trade and normal relations with the rest of the Core Sectors, it would be an incredible breakthrough.

It would resolve half the New Republic’s diplomatic problems at a stroke.

Ieia’s very presence sent a signal, telling everyone just how much importance the New Republic attached to resolving the Corellian situation.

However, it also raised the trip’s visibility level that much more.

It meant the stakes, which had been high, were suddenly that much higher.

The dangers were too hypothetical, too unclear, to allow them to interfere.

Besides, the dangers might not even exist outside the fertile imagination of a junior NRI agent.

“We have to go in, don’t we?” Han asked.

“But we don’t have to like it,’, Leia said. “It’s almost time,”

she said. “You’d better get back forward and start getting ready.” Han let out a sigh. “Right,” he said. He gave her a kiss and headed back to the cockpit, but hesitated just outside the sealed hatch. He felt a strange sort of relief now that he had told her. The danger-if there was danger-hadn’t decreased at all, but at least the secret was out. He didn’t like keeping things from Leia.

But enough of that. Han wasn’t much interested in introspection in general, and right now he had other things to worry about. He slapped at the button, the hatch slid open, and Han dropped, rather heavily, back into the pilot’s chair.

It was time to go to work.

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