Star Wars: The Corellian Trilogy III: Showdown at Centerpoint by Allen Roger Macbride

Author:Allen, Roger Macbride [Allen, Roger Macbride]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780307796172
Publisher: Spectra
Published: 2011-06-28T04:00:00+00:00

Tendra Risant figured she had to be the first one in. She had to be. It didn’t take much of a guess to figure that whoever had dropped the field had done it to jump their own ships in, or that the ships would be at the ready. But even so, she would get there first. The Gentleman Caller was old and slow, to be sure, but how many other inbound ships were there likely to be inside the interdiction field?

It was not until after the automatics activated the hyperspace drive that it dawned on her that being first might not be the best idea when jumping into a war zone. After all, she knew for a fact that there were warships waiting in-system, at least some of them in the vicinity of Centerpoint—the spot she was headed for. The crews of those ships would be able to detect the interdiction field going down every bit as well as Tendra could—better, in fact. And they would know that meant ships—warships, enemy warships—coming in. So the incoming ships would be on alert, because the Bakuran ships would be on alert, with their weapons at the ready—in short, a fearful muddle of everyone on alert.

And she would get there first. All of a sudden, that didn’t feel like anything to be quite so pleased about.

For fleeting seconds Tendra considered aborting the run and bailing out of hyperspace early. But if she knew two things for sure, one was that she was not a particularly skilled or practiced pilot, and the second was that, lacking skill or practice, the odds on surviving an uncalculated jump out of hyperspace were near zero.

Besides, she didn’t have much more than fleeting seconds to think about it. The hop she was making was not long at all. In fact, the navicomputer was already counting down the final few seconds before the drop back into real space. There was little Tendra could do besides check her seat restraint and instrument display, and hang on for the end of the ride.

The navicomputer counted down to zero, and suddenly the viewport was a blaze of light once again, the starlines flaring down into the all-but-unchanged stars of the Corellian system.

The stars were the same, but not the rest of the sky. There, dead ahead, was the heart-stoppingly lovely sight of the Double Worlds, two blue, white, and green globes seen in quarter phase, their cloud tops and oceans and continents bright and clear and beautiful.

And there, directly and exactly between them, the strange shape of Centerpoint, a white-gray sphere with a fat cylinder stuck on each end. Her destination was in sight.

Tendra all but sobbed in relief. She had made it. She had made it. After all the endless days and weeks, time that seemed as long as months or years, she was no longer alone, cut off from the outside universe. She was here. And soon she would be able to get off this damned ship, stretch her legs

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