| pg.17: The Imperial Royal Guards flanking the doorway to Isard's office did not react to him at all. Unlike everyone else on the planet, they still wore the uniforms they brought from Imperial Center. A thick scarlet cloak covered the red armor and though no puddles formed at their feet, Vorru knew they had to be roasting inside it. Even more burdensome to them, though, had to have been the orders to relent and not treat everyone like a potential assassin. The Tyferrans reacted badly to the strict security Isard's Royal Guard imposed initially, so she has ordered her bodyguard to relax—something that will probably require gene therapy before they feel at ease doing it. | Imperial Royal Guard discipline |
| pg.111-112: The reserved hologram drifting above it proclaimed its glowing message in a multitude of scripts and stood almost as tall as a Jawa. Wedge held his hand over the holoprojector and let it do a quick scan of his palm. | Hologram reserved sign on a cantina table |
| pg.114-115: The Twi'leks had taken a TIE fighter's ball cockpit and married to it the S-foils of an X-Wing fighter. The S-foils were connected to a collar that allowed them to rotate independently of the cockpit [like B-Wings]. Wedge sipped a bit more whiskey. "They are hyperspace capable?" "Indeed. The twin-ion engines are used for main propulsion. The engines on the S-foils are smaller than those in your X-Wings, but they provide power for the hyperdrive motivators and shield generators. We have quad lasers for our weaponry—no proton torpedoes because we decided obtaining supplies of them might be difficult. | The Chir'daki, or Deathseed Squadron. |
| pg.119: Corran nodded. "So I was in for, what, a week?" "Two days." "What?" Corran frowned at the tech. "I should have been in there much longer than that for those injuries." The tech lifted his chin and gave Corran an imperious stare. "You are used to dealing with export-quality bacta, and a Xucphran product at that, friend. The bacta here is much more potent." | High quality bacta heals much faster |
| pg.127: Though the smallest of the ships Isard had in her fleet, it carried two TIE squadrons, equaling his force,and bristled with enough weaponry to be able to lay siege to whole planets. | Victory II class Star Destroyer Corrupter |
| pg.132: The flank Deathseeds evaporated in a cloud of green plasma. The turbolaser fire eroded all the sharp lines from Shiel's X-wing, reducing it from a sleek fighter to a fluid blob that slammed into the aft end of the Alazhi. | Corrupter firing on fighters point blank with port batteries |
| pg.132: Similarly, the transparisteel and quadanium-titanium alloy plates used in the freighter's manufacture twisted and flowed, tearing away and exploding outward, before they congealed into a warped mockery of what the freighter had once been. | Corrupter destroying a freighter |
| pg.132: "Condition Critical. Exit the system now on Critical vectors. Go! Go!" Asyr's voice pounded into Wedge's ears. "Wedge, what about..." There's nothing left of Gavin. "Go, Asyr, go now. Waiting around is just going to get you killed." Wedge hauled back on his stick and punched his throttle up to full. He glanced over to his left and saw Asyr's X-wing hanging off his S-foil. "Three seconds to lightspeed." "I copy, Wedge." Wedge hit a button on his console and made the jump to lightspeed. | X-wings jumping to hyperspace in 3 seconds |
| pg.132: It had always been the plan to scatter and flee if the Corrupter showed up, | Proof that X-wing pilots are not fearless in taking on a VSD |
| pg.133: "We're lucky we lost only four of our pilots." | Again, Wedge proving that a squadron of X-wings will not match a VSD |
| pg.136: "Analysis of your ship's data records show your gunners opened fire three seconds after reversion. A signal wnt out to Alazhi five seconds after reversion, and the volley of shots that destroyed Alazhi came eight seconds after reversion." | Speed of Corrupter's attack after exiting hyperspace |
| pg.144: Iella knew the armor would be almost useless for stopping a blaster bolt, but even deflecting it from the body's midline meant the wound might be survivable. | Ashern commando light armor |
| pg.148: The cant-winged craft bucked a little as it entered the frigid planet's atmosphere, reminding Erisi that the Interceptor would surrender some of its maneuverability to friction and drag. Maneuvers she could pull in the vacuum of space would get her killed below. | |
| pg.148: While slower and slightly less agile than the Interceptor, the X-wing's shields and ability to use proton torpedoes in addition to its lasers made it a superior fighter. | TIE Interceptor abilities |
| pg.150: The high-yield proton bombs shattered the transparisteel shield, fragmenting the sheets at ground zero. | TIE bomber munitions |
| pg.152: He knew he was dead unless he exercised the only option available to him, a jump to lightspeed, which he did blindly. He held the jump for fifteen seconds, which were the longest fifteen seconds of his life. | Blind hyperjump |
| pg.156: She brought her Interceptor around and vectored in toward the landing site. With the flick of a switch she cut in her repulsor-lift coils and extended the Interceptor's landing gear, even though she expected them to sink into the snow. Nice to have a ship with the hatch on top. | TIE/I landing gear |
| pg.159: It wasn't that they were sufficiently powerful to pierce a stormtrooper's armored chestplate as much as they evaporated it, and most of the person beneath it. | X-wing lasers vs. a stormtrooper |
| pg.161: Kilometers began to scroll up impossibly quickly on Erisi's range finder as the X-wing ran up to lightspeed and entered hyperspace. | X-wing speed |
| pg.170: Wedge's force was flying in at a strength of twenty four-two squadrons worth of snubfighters. The three losses to the Corrupter had been replaced by the Gand ruetsavii and their curious ships. The Gands flew heavily modified TIE bombers. The Quadanium solar panels at the front had been cut on a diagonal bias like those of TIE Interceptors and had a central cutout to provide the pilot with peripheral vision. The bomb delivery system in the secondary hull had been scrapped in favor of a concussion missile launching system with a six missile magazine, then a hyperdrive motivator and shield generators had been added. Two lasers completed the weapons array. | |
| pg.171: His onboard computer matched the terrain to the mission map it had in memory, sounded a mild drift alarm and Wedge corrected the problem almost unconciously. | X-wing computer capabilities |
| pg.171-172: Two proton torpedoes shot out on tongues of blue flame and streaked away at the building. They hit barely nanoseconds apart and detonated just after punching through the ferrocrete wall. Their subsequent explosions vomited argent fire out through the entry holes, then through the roof and out the windows on the upper three floors. The roof collapsed in on itself, leaving the fire on the building's interior lighting up the night like magma in a volcano's heart. The missiles, which were powerful enough to put quite a dent in an Imperial Star Destroyer, blasted apart unarmored buildings. | |
| pg.181: "Three hundred launchers and sensor packages; fifty should be snubfighter systems, the rest can be capital ship systems. Right now I want two thousand proton torpedoes and a thousand concussion missiles, though I expect those numbers to change." | |
| pg.186: The whole stratagy was to hit and run, which worked exceedingly well. Because the Thyferrans scheduled their bacta shipments it was possible for the Rogues to show up, force the Star Destroyers to scramble their fighters, pop off some proton torpedoes to take out a few TIEs, then scatter. | |
| pg.186-187: Engaging in a straight-up fight with even a Victory-class Star Destroyer like the Corrupter would be suicide for a squadron of X-wings. It was true that the large Star Destroyers were not particularly good at defending themselves against snubfighters—hence the development of the Lancer-class frigates—but even accidentally shooting down one or two X-wings would hurt the Rogues significantly. Conversely, aside from repeated proton torpedo salvos, there was no way snubfighters could cripple or destroy a Star Destroyer. If the whole squadron fired a salvo of torpedoes at the same time, they could certainly bring the Star Destroyer's shields down, but any captain worth his rank cylinders would roll the ship to present undamaged shields and keep shooting. If all his shields were stripped away he could still go to lightspeed before another torpedo could hit. Corran had no wish to commit suicide in an attack on a Star Destroyer, but cutting and running made him feel...criminal. | |
| pg.188: "Linna caught an unstart in one of her J-77 engines just as we swung through the fringes of Yag'Dhul's atmosphere." "—looks like a micrometeorite chewed up the alluvial compressor." Corran nodded. "That blows the pressure in the reaction chamber, and the engine pops out of sync with its twin. X-wing's damper system prevents that from happening." | A-wing and X-wing comparison |
| pg.193: Wedge's X-wing reverted to realspace above the plane of the elliptic in the Alderaan system. Spread out in a flat disc, the rubble that had once been Alderaan looked like the crumbs left behind after the cutting of a ryshcate. | |
| pg.193: Some of the chunks are large enough to screen even a Star Destroyer. If there was one there, the plan was clean and simple: The X-wings would target it with a full salvo of proton torpedoes, giving the other ships a chance to run. | The biggest asteroids from the remains of Alderaan can hide a Star Destroyer |
| pg.193: "Wedge, I'm getting anomalous contacts from the Graveyard on my IFF frequency." Wedge frowned. The Identify Friend/Foe involved the identification beacon all ships carried. It sent out a signal that other ships picked up, telling them the name of the ship and its identification designation. Smugglers often had two or three IFF modules that they could swap in and out to run under clean names. Contacts on the IFF frequency were simple rechecks of a ship's identity. | |
| pg.195: Interdictor cruiser carries a dozen TIEs at best, and is too weak when faced with two squadrons of snubfighters, one of which is carrying proton torpedoes. | |
| pg.196: "Rogues, slave your torpedo targeting to my signal." The only way to counter the Corrupter's threat was for the X-wings to hit it with a spread of proton torpedoes. The squadron, firing double shots, could pump out twenty two proton torpedoes. | |
| pg.197: If the second spread hits the Star Destroyer in an unshielded area, it could rip it apart. At two and a half kilometers he would get a firing solution on the Corrupter. Wedge pulled the trigger on his stick, launching two proton torpedoes. Launch report after launch report from his squadron rolled up on his screen. Hey, even the Gands got off two concussion missiles. The proton torpedoes slammed into the Corrupter's shields all along the ship's length. The shields acted like huge, invisible parasols to ward off the fierce energy unleashed by the proton torpedoes' detonations. Roiling plasma curved up and around, following the arc of the Corrupter's port shields as if some energy creature were trying to take a bite out of the ship. Then several torpedoes arrived late and pierced the shield at its heart, causing it to collapse. The tardy torpedoes and two concussion missles pounded the destroyer's hull, blasting apart armor plates and crushing turbolaser batteries. | |
| pg.198: Convarion knows we have a limited supply of proton torpedoes. If he survived this salvo, we've got one last shot to take him down. If he repairs his shields and rolls again, we're done, because then he can take all the time he wants to come after us. | Speed at which shields can be repaired after total loss on one side |
| pg.198: He knew bulkheads had already been sealed and the fires would go out as soon as the atmosphere drained away. | Bulkheads sealed seconds after attack |
| pg.199: The [five] heavy turbolasers concentrated their fire on the Destroyer's tower, burning through the hull on deck after deck. A pair of proton torpedoes stabbed through the transparisteel viewport, filling the bridge with blue fire, then detonated. The bridge's blocky outline plumped and softened for a second before the aft port corner blew out, vomiting golden fire. Backblast sent smaller golden geysers out through the forward viewports, | Immense damage the unshielded tower of a Victory 2 class Star Destroyer can take and still exist. |
| pg.200: The red light on Wedge's console went out as the ship's commander shunted power from the gravity well projectors to his shields. | Interdictor cruiser Aggregator shunting power from one system to another |
| pg.200: Most of the proton torpedoes, beginning with the two Tycho launched, slammed into the port shield. They exploded into a silvery firestorm that billowed up and out, then pressed in on the shield Unlike the Corrupter's shield, however, the Aggregator's did not collapse all at once. Gaps appeared at a couple of points, allowing a handful of torpedoes to skip through and blast into the ship's hull. Armor plates peeled away like dead, dry skin and secondary explosions ripped gaping holes in the Interdictor's hull. | |
| pg.201: "Running as fast as possible to Coruscant we couldn't get anything back here in time to save it." | Coruscant is too far from Alderaan to get a ship back to draw a VSD out of the Graveyard before it is destroyed. |
| pg.202: "I arrived with the IFF code, started broadcasting targeting information, and it did its job." | Automated ship Valient Thranta-class war cruiser. 300 meters long |
| pg.208: "Impstar deuces have a crew of nearly forty-six thousand people if you count the troops they carry in the mix. They have a lot of fire power. Granted that it's not terribly well suited for use against snubfighter squadrons, but an Impstar deuce will take a lot more pounding than a victim like the Corrupter before it goes away." | Details on ISD-lls, which also carry six squadrons of TIEs |
| pg.234: "You think real stormies would raid a jungle village wearing white?" Iella hesitated. "But on Endor, in the forests there, reports I heard...." "Trust me, Iella, they learned from that mistake. Getting drubbed by a Wookiee and a bunch of Ewoks convinced them to institute some reforms." | Not reforms, but reversions to Clone Wars-era camo |
| pg.240: Silver protocol droid Poe | |
| pg.242: An Imperial Star Destroyer Mark ll, like the Avarice, had little to fear from a squadron of snubfighters. He acknowledged that their use of proton torpedoes could, in fact, hurt his ship, but his own pilots were very good and his turbolaser crews repeatedly drilled in antiship and antitorpedo fire missions. | Star Destroyer turbolasers can target and destroy torpedoes |
| pg.280: "The Lusankya, as you well know, has more than enough firepower to obliterate the station." | Executor-class Star Dreadnought vs. an Empress-class space station with minimal shields and armaments |
| pg.280: A Super Star Destroyer can absorb all the damage it can do and still destroy it at leisure." | Lusankya vs the Thranta-class war cruiser, Valient |
| pg.287: "We are clear for a hundred kilometers around us, and Virulence is reporting similar clearance." "Push the sensor sphere out to two hundred kilometers, Lieutenant Waroen, and keep scanning the fringes of the system for the War Cruiser." | Lusankya's sensors |
| pg.288: While proton torpedoes and concussion missiles were certainly a danger to his ship, they were only a danger in vast quantities—far more than three dozen snubfighters could possibly deliver. | Lusankya damage limits |
| pg.288: "You're rather bold, Terrick, for having a station with minimal shields, a half-dozen laser cannons, and ten turbolaser batteries." | Shields and armament for a Empress-class space station |
| pg.288-289: "They powered up a gravity well projector. Its projecting a cone of energy in our direction. It can't hurt us—the bump was just our own gravity-keeping generators adjusting the gravity on the ship." The only thing the gravity well projector did was prevent them from turning and going to lightspeed while still in the cone. | Lusankya's gravity-keeping generators vs a gravity well projector |
| pg.290-291: Drysso turned back to the viewport and imagined the rippling fire of three hundred proton torpedoes and concussion missiles smashing into his forward shield. Under that onslaught it would collapse and the missiles would begin nibbling away on his ship. And that's only the first volley. The subsequent volleys would consume the Lusankya utterly and completely. | Damage limit for the forward shields of Lusankya |
| pg.291: "The [Star Destroyer] Virulence broke the locks by interposing itself between us and the station." | |
| pg.293: —the fighters could track and shoot down missiles before they could strike the Imperial Star Destroyer. | |
| pg.301: Up ahead Corran saw Ooryl's X-wing tighten its arc impossibly quick, swapping nose for tail in the space of two hundred meters. Corran rolled to port, then, as Ooryl had done, he reversed his thrust. | Agility of an X-wing |
| pg.302: "The snubs are too small for turbolasers to track them. The War Cruiser is in our aft, so my missiles are having difficulty finding firing solutions." "By all that's Imperial, you'll find solutions, Lieutenant Gorev, or someone else will in your position, do you understand?" | Poorly trained gunnery crew of the Lusankya, compared with the crews from the ISD Avarice |
| pg.306: 80 torpedoes, 20 fighter-class, the rest capital class collapse bow shields on Lusankya, shattering armor plates and triggering dozens of secondary and tertiary explosions. | |
| pg.307: Vaporized armor immediately condensed into metal clouds— | Star Destroyer firing on the unshielded Lusankya |
| pg.307: Over a hundred starboard ion cannons fired back at the Freedom in a display so massive it appeared as if sheets of blue energy had erupted from the Lusankya's side. The Imperial Star Destroyer's shields imploded, leaving azure lightning to skip across and arc all over the ship's surface. "Lieutenant Waroen, where did those missiles come from?" "The freighters, sir, they're launching missiles that appear to be using the starfighter telemetry to target us." Waroen glanced at his monitors. "Sir, I can reestablish the bow shield, but it will lower our protection elsewhere." | |
| pg.309: Reluctant to buy something and not use it, Booster hooked the sensors up to the station, noting that just lighting them up would be enough to make even the Lusankya think twice about engaging the station. | Snubfighter and capital ship sensor packages and snubfighter launchers hooked to the space station. [Only logical conclusion. The snubfighters already HAVE launchers] |
| pg.315: "Shields coming back up. I've got seventy percent of power." | Star Destroyer shield recharge after ion cannon broadside from a Star Dreadnought |
| pg.318: Captain Drysso laughed victoriously. As nearly as he could determine his Lusankya had been hit by over a hundred and fifty proton torpedoes and concussion missiles, but it had lost scarecly thirty-five percent of its combat ability. Maneuvering was hampered and shield power was falling sharply, but the Lusankya still outgunned its opposition. | |
| pg.318: "Guns, let him have everything!" "As ordered, Captain." The Lusankya fired its starboard weapons at the Imperial Star Destroyer, mauling it mercilessly. Turbolasers crushed the shields while ion cannon beams skittered over the Freedom's hull. Concussion missiles peppered the smaller ship, opening huge holes in the hull. Explosions wracked the Freedom, spraying debris in all directions. Yet even before the Lusankya's attack left Freedom adrift in space, the Imperial Star Destroyer blasted back at the Super Star Destroyer. Turbolasers drilled through the dorsal shields and stabbed fire deep into the Lusankya's heart. Blue ion lightning capered and danced over the hull, teasing fireballs to life in its wake. The Lusankya shook with the violence of those explosions and others. Drysso shouted at his staff. "Damage reports!" Waroen was first. "Ventral shields, down; dorsal shields, down; bow shields, down; starboard and port shields, down." "You mean to tell me I only have aft shields?" Another explosion shook the ship. "Not anymore, sir." | Star Dreadnought turbolasers and concussionm missiles severley damade an Imperial Star Destroyer, yet the ISD is still able to shoot back and disable the bigger ship before floating adrift Listing of a Star Dreadnought's shields |
| pg.320-321: "Pash Cracken? Where in the Emperor's dark heart did you come from?" "Booster's flagship. The gravity well pulled my unit out of hyperspace right on top of Virulence during their little standoff. Booster talked the captain into believing it was all part of the trap, so she surrendered the ship to him." So he finally found a ship that was big enough for him. | Booster Terrick receives his Star Destroyer, the former Imperial ship, Virulence. Also note that the Virulence had a female captain |
| pg.321: Fast and nimble, Pash's A-wings slashed in at the Lusankya. They flitted over the massive ship's surface, shooting concussion missiles at gunnery towers and sensor domes. | Sensor domes, not shield domes, correctly identified on the Lusankya. |
| pg.338: "Ha! This is an Imperial Star Destroyer Mark II we're talking about. It doesn't have a scratch on it. It is worth billions and billions of credits. I'll settle for a billin credits, payable in two hours, or I'm flying it out of here." | Booster Terrick talking about the Virulence |
| pg.340: "Perhaps, Booster," Karrde smiled in a very genial manner. "I think I want you to reconsider what Lieutenant Horn suggested. It strikes me that General Cracken is primarily concerned with your being in command of a ship with enough firepower to slag an inhabited world." | |
| pg.340: "You know the law, Lieutenant. A ship the size of the Virulence, in private ownership, would be allowed to lawfully carry how much in the way of weaponry?" Corran sat back. "Nothing that size in private ownership, but it would be something on the order of two tractor beams, ten ion cannons, and ten heavy turbolaser batteries." |