Star Wars: Classic Trilogy: Collecting A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi (Disney Junior Novel (ebook)) by Windham Ryder

Author:Windham, Ryder [Windham, Ryder]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Junior Novel
Publisher: Disney Book Group
Published: 2014-05-04T04:00:00+00:00

At Darth Vader’s command, the fleet of Imperial Star Destroyers was escorting Executor through the asteroid field. The warships fired at the obstacles in their path, but the asteroids far outnumbered the combined weaponry of all the warships, and the Star Destroyers were taking a severe pummeling. Incredibly, the Executor remained unscathed.

A large asteroid slammed into one Star Destroyer’s conning tower, and the ship was instantly engulfed by massive explosions. Evidence of the ship’s loss was immediately played out on the bridge of the Executor, where Darth Vader stood before hologram images of the commanding officers of his escort; one hologram, an Imperial captain, quickly faded and disappeared as his transmission—along with his ship—came to a violent end.

Vader ignored the vanished hologram and faced the three-dimensional projection of the Avenger’s Captain Needa, who reported, “…and that, Lord Vader, was the last time they appeared in any of our scopes. Considering the amount of damage we’ve sustained, they must have been destroyed.”

“No, Captain, they’re alive,” Vader said. “I want every ship available to sweep the asteroid field until they are found.”

With that, the conference was over. As the holograms faded out, Admiral Piett walked hurriedly onto the bridge and was almost breathless when he came to a stop before the Executor’s commander. Piett gasped, “Lord Vader.”

One look at Piett’s pallor, which was white as a sheet, and the Sith Lord knew the man was scared. “Yes, Admiral, what is it?”

Piett took a gulp of air, then tried to keep his voice from trembling as he said, “The Emperor commands you to make contact with him.”

“Move the ship out of the asteroid field so that we can send a clear transmission.”

“Yes, my lord,” Piett said as Vader’s menacing form swept off the bridge.

Vader proceeded to his personal quarters. When the Executor was out of the asteroid field, he stepped down from his meditation chamber to stand upon a circular black panel, a HoloNet scanner that allowed him to transmit communications across the galaxy. As the dark lord dropped to his left knee and bowed his helmeted head, the panel’s outer ring was illuminated. Vader slowly raised his gaze to the empty air before him, and the emptiness was instantly filled by flickering blue light.

The light assembled to form a hologram that was nearly as tall as the room itself: a large three-dimensional image of a cloaked head with eyes that blazed wickedly from shadowy, pitted features.

There was no mistaking the face of Emperor Palpatine.

Still kneeling before the immense hologram, Vader said, “What is thy bidding, my Master?”

From light-years away, on the planet Coruscant, the Emperor said, “There is a great disturbance in the Force.”

“I have felt it,” Vader said.

The Emperor continued, “We have a new enemy. The young Rebel who destroyed the Death Star. I have no doubt this boy is the offspring of Anakin Skywalker.”

“How is that possible?” Darth Vader managed to ask through his shock. Could it be…true?

“Search your feelings, Lord Vader. You will know it to be true. He could destroy us.

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