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Synopsis:
At Kuat Drive Yards, Darth Vader meets with ISB Central
Commander Sollaine and assigns him a mission: identify a
deep-cover Rebel spy in the Imperial ranks and deliver
him - alive - to Vader. Back at the Rebel fleet, General
Airen Cracken calls veteran thief Cryle Cavv and orders
him to find and rescue the same spy – Rivoche Tarkin,
niece of the late Grand Moff Willhuff Tarkin. Her name
will not protect her from a very public – and painful
– execution if he fails. He will be partnered with a
huge Velabri named Quillin Arkell. The thief tells
Cracken he will request a small favor in return – if
he succeeds.
Cavv and Arkell set out for Corulag. Meanwhile, on the
Star Destroyer Devastator, Sollaine learns of Rivoche is
treachery. He murders the ‘Devastator’s’ captain
when he refuses to go to Corulag at maximum speed and
seizes control of the ship. Forget Vader – he plans to
deliver Rivoche to the Emperor himself. In return for
his prize, he plans to take command of the Executor
itself…
When Cavv and Arkell arrive at Corulag, they find a huge
fleet in orbit of the planet. It is an engagement party
that Vader himself is attending. Rivoche is apparently
getting married to Vastin Caglio, son of Moff Jamson
Caglio. The Devastator tears its way into orbit shortly
thereafter, with Sollaine bullying and shooting his way
to the surface in a shuttle as the Star Destroyer picks
a fight and takes off.
Now undercover as partygoers, the two Rebels make their
way to Rivoche. However, Sollaine is waiting for them
just outside her quarters, with a squadron of Storm
Commandos. Cavv throws a thermite bomb into the group
and drags Rivoche and Arkell out of the palace. They
rush to the nearest available landing site, which is the
roof of the Royal Galaxy Hotel. Sollaine did survive the
blast and quickly hires 40 mercenaries to get to the
roof and help him catch Rivoche. Cavv, Rivoche, and
Arkell discover the trap just in time and avoid the
roof. Cavv calls in another favor and gets a Beylyssa
lookalike named Finn Varatha. With that backup, they
decide to rush the roof and take on all forty hunters.
As they take them all (and Sollaine runs off), Cavv’s
ship the G Cat (piloted by R2-RC) arrives. They are
chased by the entire orbital fleet – and then the
Devastator returns. Thankfully, the timely arrival of
the Executor gives Cavv the chance he needed to escape.
Vader personally executes Sollaine for his blunders, and
Cavv retains Arkell and Varatha for use in a Special Ops
Group of his devising…
Synopsis taken from Christopher
G. McElroy's Time Tales, www.theforce.net/timetales.
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