Order 66

Informationen zum Autor Karen Traviss Klappentext The Clone Wars rage to their bloody climax. Treachery reigns. Treason takes courage. Commandos, Jedi, and the entire Galactic Republic must face the end of life as they know it . . . and the dreaded dawn of a new empire. Even as the Clone Wars are about to reach an explosive climax, no one knows whether victory will favor the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) or the Separatists. But no matter who wins, the stakes are highest for elite Special Ops clones like the Republic Commandos in Omega and Delta squads-and the notorious renegade Advance Recon Commando troopers known as Null ARCs. And now even the deadliest weapon may not be powerful enough to defeat the real menace: the apocalyptic horror to be unleashed when Palpatine utters the chilling words The time has come. Execute Order 66. Translation: The Jedi have tried to stage a coup, and all must be shot on sight. With their faith in the Republic and their loyalty to their Jedi allies put to the ultimate test, how will the men of Omega and Delta squads react to the most infamous command in galactic history? Leseprobe 1 So, who’s to know whether Jango had more than one son or not, or even how old he is? Come on now, Spar, it’s time to be doing your bit for Manda’yaim. You don’t have to lift a finger. Just act like Fett’s heir while we sort ourselves out, so everyone knows we’re still in business. —Fenn Shysa, appealing to deserter Spar—former ARC trooper A-02—to pass himself off as Jango Fett’s son and heir in the interregnum following Fett’s death Mes Cavoli, Mid Rim, fifty years before the Battle of Geonosis “Get up! Get up and run, you little chakaar, or I’ll drag you up.” Falin Mattran could see the curling smoke of the mercenaries’ camp a couple of hundred meters away, but it might as well have been a hundred kilometers. He couldn’t get up: he couldn’t go on. He knelt on all fours, struggling for breath, every muscle burning, but he refused to cry. He was seven years old. Nearly. He thought it was six years and ten months, but he’d lost count in the war. “Can’t,” he said. “Can.” Munin Skirata was a big man with pockmarked green armor and a blaster that fired metal pellets. He loomed above, voice deafening, face invisible behind a helmet with a T-shaped visor that scared Falin the first time he saw it. “I know you can. You survived Surcaris on your own. And you’re not strolling in your fancy Kuati park now, so shift your shebs, you lazy little nibral.” It wasn’t fair; life generally wasn’t. Falin’s parents were dead, and he hated the world. He wasn’t sure if he hated Munin Skirata, but if he could have killed the man right then, he would have. Only exhaustion stopped him. He almost reached for the knife he’d taken from his father’s body when he realized Papa was dead and was never going to wake up however hard he tried to rouse him, but he couldn’t take his weight off both arms without collapsing into the dirt. “You can do it if you want to,” Munin yelled. “But you don’t want to, and that makes you a nibral. You know what a nibral is? A loser. A waste of space. Deadwood. Get up!” Falin wanted one thing, and that was to show that he wasn’t lazy or stupid. His dad had never called him stupid. Neither had his mother; they loved him and made him feel safe, and now they were gone forever. He struggled into a kneeling position, then stood up, swaying and tottering, before breaking into a run again. “That’s more like it.” Munin jogged alongside him. “Come on. Shift it.” Falin’s legs didn’t feel like part of his body anymore. He’d run so far that they wouldn’t do what he wanted; he was trying to run, but stumbling along in small steps, unable to find a steady rhythm. His lungs screamed for a rest. But he wasn’t going to stop and be a nibral. He didn’t want to be one of thos...

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• Autori: Karen Traviss
• Editore: Del Rey
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 19.05.2009
• EAN: 9780345513854
• ISBN: 978-0-345-51385-4
• Pagine: 496
• Dimensioni: 108 mm x 175 mm x 26 mm
• Serie: Del Rey Books; Star Wars; Star Wars: Republic Commando - Legends; Star Wars: Republic Commando - Legends
• Categoria: Narrativa > Science Fiction, Fantasy