X-Wing The Bacta War by Michael A. Stackpole

Author:Michael A. Stackpole [Stackpole, Michael A.]
Language: spa
Format: epub
Tags: 7 ABY
Amazon: 0553579037
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1997-02-06T03:00:00+00:00

ground target his lasers had destroyed had been droid-driven or if it contained innocent bystanders. Coming in prior to dawn had been an

attempt to minimize the presence of innocents in the target zones, but

even minimal involvement of noncombatants meant some of them would

die.

Part of Wedge didn't want to care because the raid was meant to make

Isard pay for Halanit's destruction. That raid had been collateral damage

through and through, but murdering Thyferrans, Vratix, and assorted

resident alien workers would hardly make Isard atone for what she had

done. The only pain she would feel would be the loss of bacta and her

ability to produce it. To her, those we kill are reason enough for continuing

her predations, whereas those innocents she kills are just punishment for

our misdeeds.

Another part of Wedge wanted to abort the Twi'leks' run on the valley.

The damage done had been rather ample. The Deathseeds would only be

able to strafe the ground, sowing more terror in the populace, but probably

not doing much to further cripple the refinery. What has already been done

should be enough, but I know it isn't. He keyed his comm unit.

"Chir'daki, you are good to go."

He got a double-click acknowledgment from Tal'dira, then Corran's voice

broke in. "Lead, I have multiple eyeball contacts coming up off the deck to the north."

"I copy, Nine. Seven, you have command of the ground op. Two, Nine, and

Ten, on me to deal with the intruders." Wedge hauled back on his stick and brought the X-wing up in a loop. Rolling out to port, he saw Asyr pull up on

his star-board S-foil while Corran and Ooryl joined him to the left. "How many, Nine?"

"Eight, sir."

"I copy. Engage at will, but save your last two torpe-does." Standing off and shooting the TIE fighters down with proton torpedoes would be the safest

means of defeating them, but Wedge wanted to save some torpedoes in

case they ran into a heavy ship as they tried to get away. As nearly as I can

tell all of Isard's capital ships are five hours or more distant from here, but if one shows up I want to give it a barage that will keep it off us long

enough for us to escape.

The intervention of Thyferran Home Defense Corps pi-lots had been

anticipated. Their intelligence reports about qretu 5 had indicated the

placement of such troops on the world, though after Gavin had described burning three of them down on Halanit, there was open debate as to

whether or not the THDC pilots would dare come up and fight. Eight

starfighters were enough to discourage someone from bring-ing their own

freighter into Qretu 5's spaceport and demanding it be filled with bacta or to protect freighters going out to or coming back in from a convoy.

Isard didn't anticipate our coming in to this place in such strength and with

the intention of wreaking total havoc. Wedge linked the fire on his lasers,

pairing them, and evened out his shields fore and aft. A pair of missiles

from his port sizzled through the dawning sky and impaled distant specks

of black. Twin stars twinkled

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