"I don't like being so completely out of contact this way. "It's this communications blackout, sir," Ardiff said. If they haven't picked up the trail by then, order them back."Įven without looking, Pellaeon could sense Ardiff's hesitation. "Have them try one more system we can transmit that far without relays. As expected, really-anyone who could afford to buy and fly a battlecruiser usually knew a few tricks about hiding it. Oh, and the sensor-stealthed assault shuttle you sent on the attackers' escape vector also just checked in. "Still no indications of activity anywhere in the system. "Anything new from the patrols?" Pellaeon asked. The techs' preliminary report on the debris from that destroyed Kaloth battlecruiser had certainly influenced his thinking, too. Of course, in all fairness, Ardiff had had the past thirty hours to cogitate on his theories. In the thirty hours since the failed attack on the Chimaera, Ardiff had gone from believing it to be a raid by New Republic General Garm Bel Iblis, to suspicions that it had been engineered by dissident Imperial elements, to similar suspicions involving similarly dissident Rebels, and was now apparently convinced that a pirate gang was responsible. "Thank you, Captain," Pellaeon said, carefully hiding a smile. Your ship is back to full fighting readiness." "All damage from that pirate attack has been repaired.
"Report from Major Harch, Admiral," he said briskly.
The Imperial Star Destroyer Chimaera slid through the black of space, its only companion the silent gas giant world of Pesitiin far below.Īdmiral Pellaeon was standing at the forward viewport, gazing out at the dead planet, when Captain Ardiff arrived on the bridge.
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