Star Wars - Coruscant Nights 02 - Street of Shadows by Michael Reaves

Author:Michael Reaves
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science Fiction, Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780099492122
Publisher: Arrow
Published: 2008-08-31T23:00:00+00:00

154 Star Wars: Coruscant Nights II: Street of Shadows thirteen

The Ploughtekal Market was probably not the biggest on Imperial Center, but then, it was hard to say for certain, since no one had ever measured its full extent. Furthermore, its physical boundaries and the density of merchants to whom it was home were constantly shifting. Those who did their business there, and often lived there as well, were reluctant to extend much cooperation to the authorities. If they could be censused, they could be taxed.

It was said of Ploughtekal that you could find anything in the galaxy within its hive-like depths. Legal, illegal, unimaginable: it was all there for those who knew how to work the innumerable streets and multiple levels. A large number of shops were not even listed on the electronic registries. You had to find them the old-fashioned way: by walking and asking directions.

Word moved almost as fast by mouth on the streets and avenues of Ploughtekal as it did via holocast.

Intel would reach the sector police of an establishment engaged in especially antisocial dealings, and by the time the cools had arrived at the indicated location, the entire business would have pulled up stakes and

vanished—only to reappear somewhere else, kilometers away and levels up or down, under a com-

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