Аннотация
Paul S. Kemp
Crosscurrent
CHAPTER ONE
THE PAST: 5,000 YEARS BEFORE THE BATTLE OF YAVINThe crust of Phaegon III's largest moon burned, buckled, and crumbled under the onslaught. Sixty-four specially equipped cruisers-little more than planetary-bombardment weapons systems with a bit of starship wrapped around them-flew in a suborbital, longitudinal formation. The sleek silver cruisers, their underbellies aglow in reflected destruction, struck Saes as unexpectedly beautiful. How strange that they could unleash annihilation in such warm, glorious colors.
Plasma beams shrieked from the bow of each cruiser and slammed into the arboreal surface of the moon, shimmering green umbilicals that wrote words of ruin across the surface and saturated the world in fire and pain. Dust and a swirl of thick black smoke churned in the atmosphere as the cruisers methodically vaporized large swaths of the moon's surface.
The bright light and black smoke of destruction filled ...
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