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    Closed Thread Silence (Bette)

    Seventeen months after the Battle of Endor

    The VSD Termagant was equipped with a small forward hangar separate from its main fighter hangar. It primarily serviced shuttles and other support craft -- any time VIPs visited the Victory-class Star Destroyer, their transports were customarily received there. The hangar had its own flight crews, support systems, and supply holds, and its bays were easily cordoned off to maintain privacy and confidentiality where necessary.

    Currently, bays thirteen through fifteen of the forward hangar were playing host to a trio of highly exclusive guests.

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    Commander Thaddeus Grisham of Shadow Squadron was even more tightly wound than usual. It could have had something to do with the fact that he'd just in the last week been admitted into a military secret with Level Rho classification, a tall order even for a Commander. Or it could have been because he knew one of his lieutenants was in on it first.

    "Now, everybody pay attention. The brass up at R&D will be watching us like hawk-bats on this one, so we can't afford any screw-ups. We're finally taking our new blackbirds on a test run."

    He prowled up to the briefing room vidscreen, which jumped from its display of the Termagant idly orbiting Garos IV to a spit of a star system with a corona of dust and asteroids.

    "This is the Alnitak system -- if you can call it a system. Nothing but rocks and gas, scatters all long-range sensors and communications. About seventy million klicks out from the star is a smuggling depot -- the Rebels have been running supplies through there for years. It's never been strategically important enough to warrant a strike. It's a target of opportunity that won't attract much attention. Perfect honeymoon spot for our new Wraiths.

    "We're going in two flights of three fighters: a Wraith and two Defenders apiece. Our objective is to jump in and neutralize all targets of opportunity as quietly as possible. I will lead flight Alpha on a strike against the depot. Commander Davis will take flight Bravo and track down a Rebel transport we vectored into Alnitak just hours ago. Here's the drill. The Defenders will hang back in the thickest parts of the dust clouds where they can't be detected. Meanwhile, the Wraiths will take a few flybies of the targets and do some recon -- see how good these new stealth systems work. If all goes well, the Wraiths will initiate the attack. The Defenders will stand by to mop up anything that's left over.

    "Now this is important. We've chosen this system because there's no chance of a distress signal reaching Rebel ears. Our Wraiths have to remain a secret. That means NO ONE but Shadow Squadron makes it out of this system alive. Resistance will be very light; a couple laser cannons on the depot and two A-Wings at the most babysitting the transport. The Rebels have no reason to expect an attack, or they wouldn't use this depot. You shouldn't have any trouble wiping them out. If we're lucky, we'll be able to send our eggheads in a recovery craft to pick up the black boxes, find out exactly what the Rebels see before we vape them."

    The Commander closed down the vidscreen. "Once we hit the system, we maintain radio silence as long as we can. Anyone blows our cover, there won't be anything left to court-martial when I'm through with you. Secrecy is our top priority. All coordinates and contact codes are in your ship's computer. Any questions? Good. Now shut up and suit up. We launch in twenty minutes."
    Last edited by Tannis V'larr; Sep 2nd, 2006 at 01:00:03 PM.
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