Damage lights flashed in all the wrong places, in particular one area not far from the portside auxiliary bridge. After the silence had lasted a moment too long, she raised herself from her chair to pull up ship schematics. Ciena waited for the red lights, the siren, the automated announcement sending all crew to escape pods-her signal to seal the doors-but they never came. Even loathing the Empire as she did, Ciena was too much a captain not to feel a pang at the wounds to her ship.Įnsign Perrin shoved down the lever that would set the self-destruct in motion. When the captain tried the self-destruct, it didn't work. Not one Imperial officer would hesitate before ordering the mass suicide necessary to keep a Star Destroyer out of New Republic hands. He had to disconnect the self-destruct systems as soon as possible. Thane’s job was simpler and far more critical. “If we can take out their last fully functioning main engine, we have a chance.” “Get to the control center for engine three,” Thane ordered through his comlink as he edged down a corridor already thick with smoke. In the pitch of battle, that meant only one thing:Īnd this is who prevented the self-destruct Although she’d never been aboard a ship when this had happened, she had learned the signs in the academy and relived them sometimes in her nightmares. There could be only one explanation.Ĭiena’s gut dropped. Each resulted in the same bizarre readings: gaps in the ship that had not resulted in vacuum. Then the Inflictor shook with another impact. The book offers explanation of the ship's end: The Rebellion tried to get the SD intact by boarding it and sent Thane to disable the self-destruct.

Most of this info is coverted in Ep7-prequel book ' Lost Stars'.

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