THE KRYTOS TRAP

(Paperback)

pg.36-37: Wedge shook his head. "I've been given no data concerning the Iron Fist." Warlord Zsinj's flagship was one of the Super-class Star Destroyers created by the Kuat Drive Yard's shipworks before the Empire collapsed. The ships were, for all intents and purposes, fleets unto themselves. They carried 144 fighters, had a crew of over a quarter of a million people, and bristled with over a thousand missile launchers, ion cannons, and turbolaser batteries. Though the Rebel fleet had managed to destroy the Executor at Endor, everyone knew that ship had died because of luck, not skill. Description of the capabilities and stats of an Executor-class Star Dreadnought, and the assessment of Executor's destruction at the Battle Of Endor

pg.45: One bolt hit the torpedo 250 meters out. It failed to destroy it, but did melt its way into the body and ignite a fuel cell. The subsequent explosion pitched the torpedo off-course. When the onboard computer calculated the torpedo would not hit its target, it detonated the warhead, A TIE Interceptor shooting down a proton torpedo, and a description of a proton torpedo's inner workings and failsafes

pg.54: He tightened down on the trigger, pulsing kilojoules of scarlet energy into an eyeball's cockpit. Wedge shooting down a TIE fighter in his X-wing

pg.80: "Blasters have more than just a stun setting, you know."

pg.179: He doesn't breathe or sleep and can regenerate severed limbs. Biology of a Gand

pg.185-186: The stun-bolt caught Corran square in the middle of his chest. It did to his nervous system what an ion-bolt did to a machine. In one instant every nerve in Corran's body fired, instantly wracking him with pain, burning him up, shaking, crushing, and freezing him.
Corran wanted to nod, wanted to blink, wanted to do something to let Jan know he heard him, but he couldn't.

pg.204: The technology for creating and negating artificial and real gravity was ancient.

pg.230: Twenty ships—New Republic and privately owned freighters—would be traveling from Thyferra with a shipment of bacta bound for Imperial center.

pg.232: A pair of proton torpedoes would destroy most of the freighters, which meant a full dozen could die in the first pass.

pg.235: Fuel was good; acceleration compensator was set .05 off full; giving him a feel for his position in space,

pg.237: "A Super Star Destroyer has enough power to completely vape any of the ships in the convoy." A Star Dreadnought's destructive ability vs. 20 freighters

pg.242: Turbolaser fire had hit so fast that the latter half of the ship had been liquified. An amorphous blob of metal fringed with condensed metal mist, like the down from a silvery bird, trailed in the ship's wake.
He realized the Super Star Destroyer's turbolasers would have superheated the atmosphere in the ship. The crew would have been cooked inside and out in the blink of an eye.

pg.243: "Pash, I want you to take Two flight out of here and make for Tatooine. It's about eight hours out, give or take." Eight hour flight time between Alderaan and Tatooine

pg.271: A half dozen shots. It probably won't get through stormtrooper armor, but it can make them dive for cover. Corran Horn evaluating a holdout blaster's potential

pg.278: Stick the vibroblade in and modulate the oscillation rate. Vibroblade variable power

pg.291: He hit the button under his thumb once to shut the blade off. It remained lit. Corran frowned for a moment, then hit the button twice in quick succession, and the blade vanished. The double hit to turn it off guarantees it won't go down in combat if the button is hit accidentally.

pg.306: A proton torpedo streaked out, crossing the fifty meters between the X-wing and the warehouse in the blink of an eye.

pg.316: Two more quad bursts from the X-wing reduced the large chunks of vehicle into mist and metal hail. The vapor cloud-made up mostly of gaseous exlosives— X-wing lasers vs an airspeeder

pg.322: Wedge knew Super Star Destroyers had only come into service after the Battle of Yavin, which meant the Lusankya had to have been created and hidden on Coruscant before the battle of Endor. Unless the constructor droids just built it there, then built over it. The idea that a hundred-square kilometer area of the planet could have been razed and rebuilt to hide a Star Destroyer seemed beyond belief; especially with no one noticing the ship's insertion into the hole. Could the Emperor's power through the dark side of the Force have been sufficient to compel thousands or millions of people to forget having seen the Lusankya being buried?

pg.323: Out to the south the Lusankya's aft came free of the planet. The superstructure of the Super Star Destroyer and its general outline fit with what he remembered of Vader's Executor at Hoth and Endor, but the Lusankya hull appeared to be resting on a massive platform made up of hexagonal cells. It fit the bottom of the starship perfectly, with openings in the hexagonal field so weapons could fire down at targets below and TIE fighters could launch from the ship's belly.
Wedge frowned. What is that? It reminds me of a Hutt's repulsor-lift couch, but the Lusankya is a warship, not a lounging crime boss. Suddenly he realized his analogy wasn't that far of. The Lusankya is built for space travel, not fighting its way free of a planet. That must be a lift-cradle designed to get it up and out of the hole in which it was entombed.

pg.323-324: With the prow stabbing up into the sky, the Lusankya's thrusters ignited. Searing blue plasma vaporized huge chunks of cityscape beneath the ship's aft end. The destroyer began to move forward and upward out of the column of smoke that marked its birth. A ship that boasts a crew of over a quarter of a million individuals must have killed ten times tht many lifting off.

pg.324: The turbolaser batteries in the bow started firing at the skyhook as they came into range, then the broadside assault shifted to other weapons as the ship slid past. The verdant laser-bolts came so fast and so close that whole sheets of energy seemed to pulse from the Lusankya to the skyhook. In seconds what had once been an elegant disk with an Ithorian jungle paradise at its heart became a melted demilune with a forest fire crashing into the mountain district's towers.
As the Lusankya picked up speed, the gunners shifted their aimpoints and began firing at the upper atmosphere. Their shots hit and splashed color into the lower of the two shield spheres encasing the planet. Created to stop starship assaults from without, they proved just as powerful against an attack from within. Even so, after twenty seconds of the Lusankya's withering barrage, a hole opened in the lower shield.

pg.325-326: The Lusankya continued to pour fire into the planetary shields while what little ground fire that came up at it splashed harmlessly on its shields. The midship and stern guns fought to keep the hole in the lower shield open while the bow guns blasted away at the upper shield. The ship's assault sent waves of Rodian green energy skittering along the underside of the shields. The shields held at first, then began to erode, and finally collapse.

pg.332: Cracken worked a set of controls on the wall, fading the sequestrian opaquing of the transparisteel to nothingness.

pg.333: "The ship appears to have been buried beneath a portion of the cityscape southwest of the Manarai Mountains. It came up firing. Freeing itself it devastated over a hundred square kilometers. Millions are missing, presumed dead."
"The Golan stations don't have enough power to bring Lusankya down, but they can hurt it."

pg.335: Barely visible above them, the Lusankya exchanged fire with a Golan Space Defense Station. Gouts of green energy passed back and forth between them. The station's fire buckled the Lusankya's shield, collapsing the energy sphere that had kept the big ship safe. Explosions played along the huge ship's hull, but in their light Corran saw the Lusankya begin to pull away from the station.

pg.348-349: "I was a bit late because, quite frankly, the Jedi exhibits your man found in the Galactic Museum are, well, absorbing. I've been chasing all over trying to locate traces of other Jedi, then it turns out a repository of a lot of stuff is on the planet from which I've been basing my searches. While very little of it deals with training, there is a lot of material that lets me piece together some history."
"Corran mentioned he'd found quite a haul. He said it was rather macabre"
Luke Skywalker nodded solemnly as he stepped back from Wedge. "Once the Emperor isolated those rooms, they became his own private playground. As the Jedi in there were hunted down, the Emperor defaced their monuments."

pg.36-37: Wedge shook his head. "I've been given no data concerning the Iron Fist." Warlord Zsinj's flagship was one of the Super-class Star Destroyers created by the Kuat Drive Yard's shipworks before the Empire collapsed. The ships were, for all intents and purposes, fleets unto themselves. They carried 144 fighters, had a crew of over a quarter of a million people, and bristled with over a thousand missile launchers, ion cannons, and turbolaser batteries. Though the Rebel fleet had managed to destroy the Executor at Endor, everyone knew that ship had died because of luck, not skill.	Description of the capabilities and stats of an Executor-class Star Dreadnought, and the assessment of Executor's destruction at the Battle Of Endor
pg.45: One bolt hit the torpedo 250 meters out. It failed to destroy it, but did melt its way into the body and ignite a fuel cell. The subsequent explosion pitched the torpedo off-course. When the onboard computer calculated the torpedo would not hit its target, it detonated the warhead,	A TIE Interceptor shooting down a proton torpedo, and a description of a proton torpedo's inner workings and failsafes
pg.54: He tightened down on the trigger, pulsing kilojoules of scarlet energy into an eyeball's cockpit.	Wedge shooting down a TIE fighter in his X-wing
pg.80: "Blasters have more than just a stun setting, you know."
pg.179: He doesn't breathe or sleep and can regenerate severed limbs.	Biology of a Gand
pg.185-186: The stun-bolt caught Corran square in the middle of his chest. It did to his nervous system what an ion-bolt did to a machine. In one instant every nerve in Corran's body fired, instantly wracking him with pain, burning him up, shaking, crushing, and freezing him. Corran wanted to nod, wanted to blink, wanted to do something to let Jan know he heard him, but he couldn't.
pg.204: The technology for creating and negating artificial and real gravity was ancient.
pg.230: Twenty ships—New Republic and privately owned freighters—would be traveling from Thyferra with a shipment of bacta bound for Imperial center.
pg.232: A pair of proton torpedoes would destroy most of the freighters, which meant a full dozen could die in the first pass.
pg.235: Fuel was good; acceleration compensator was set .05 off full; giving him a feel for his position in space,
pg.237: "A Super Star Destroyer has enough power to completely vape any of the ships in the convoy."	A Star Dreadnought's destructive ability vs. 20 freighters
pg.242: Turbolaser fire had hit so fast that the latter half of the ship had been liquified. An amorphous blob of metal fringed with condensed metal mist, like the down from a silvery bird, trailed in the ship's wake. He realized the Super Star Destroyer's turbolasers would have superheated the atmosphere in the ship. The crew would have been cooked inside and out in the blink of an eye.
pg.243: "Pash, I want you to take Two flight out of here and make for Tatooine. It's about eight hours out, give or take."	Eight hour flight time between Alderaan and Tatooine
pg.271: A half dozen shots. It probably won't get through stormtrooper armor, but it can make them dive for cover.	Corran Horn evaluating a holdout blaster's potential
pg.278: Stick the vibroblade in and modulate the oscillation rate.	Vibroblade variable power
pg.291: He hit the button under his thumb once to shut the blade off. It remained lit. Corran frowned for a moment, then hit the button twice in quick succession, and the blade vanished. The double hit to turn it off guarantees it won't go down in combat if the button is hit accidentally.
pg.306: A proton torpedo streaked out, crossing the fifty meters between the X-wing and the warehouse in the blink of an eye.
pg.316: Two more quad bursts from the X-wing reduced the large chunks of vehicle into mist and metal hail. The vapor cloud-made up mostly of gaseous exlosives—	X-wing lasers vs an airspeeder
pg.322: Wedge knew Super Star Destroyers had only come into service after the Battle of Yavin, which meant the Lusankya had to have been created and hidden on Coruscant before the battle of Endor. Unless the constructor droids just built it there, then built over it. The idea that a hundred-square kilometer area of the planet could have been razed and rebuilt to hide a Star Destroyer seemed beyond belief; especially with no one noticing the ship's insertion into the hole. Could the Emperor's power through the dark side of the Force have been sufficient to compel thousands or millions of people to forget having seen the Lusankya being buried?
pg.323: Out to the south the Lusankya's aft came free of the planet. The superstructure of the Super Star Destroyer and its general outline fit with what he remembered of Vader's Executor at Hoth and Endor, but the Lusankya hull appeared to be resting on a massive platform made up of hexagonal cells. It fit the bottom of the starship perfectly, with openings in the hexagonal field so weapons could fire down at targets below and TIE fighters could launch from the ship's belly. Wedge frowned. What is that? It reminds me of a Hutt's repulsor-lift couch, but the Lusankya is a warship, not a lounging crime boss. Suddenly he realized his analogy wasn't that far of. The Lusankya is built for space travel, not fighting its way free of a planet. That must be a lift-cradle designed to get it up and out of the hole in which it was entombed.
pg.323-324: With the prow stabbing up into the sky, the Lusankya's thrusters ignited. Searing blue plasma vaporized huge chunks of cityscape beneath the ship's aft end. The destroyer began to move forward and upward out of the column of smoke that marked its birth. A ship that boasts a crew of over a quarter of a million individuals must have killed ten times tht many lifting off.
pg.324: The turbolaser batteries in the bow started firing at the skyhook as they came into range, then the broadside assault shifted to other weapons as the ship slid past. The verdant laser-bolts came so fast and so close that whole sheets of energy seemed to pulse from the Lusankya to the skyhook. In seconds what had once been an elegant disk with an Ithorian jungle paradise at its heart became a melted demilune with a forest fire crashing into the mountain district's towers. As the Lusankya picked up speed, the gunners shifted their aimpoints and began firing at the upper atmosphere. Their shots hit and splashed color into the lower of the two shield spheres encasing the planet. Created to stop starship assaults from without, they proved just as powerful against an attack from within. Even so, after twenty seconds of the Lusankya's withering barrage, a hole opened in the lower shield.
pg.325-326: The Lusankya continued to pour fire into the planetary shields while what little ground fire that came up at it splashed harmlessly on its shields. The midship and stern guns fought to keep the hole in the lower shield open while the bow guns blasted away at the upper shield. The ship's assault sent waves of Rodian green energy skittering along the underside of the shields. The shields held at first, then began to erode, and finally collapse.
pg.332: Cracken worked a set of controls on the wall, fading the sequestrian opaquing of the transparisteel to nothingness.
pg.333: "The ship appears to have been buried beneath a portion of the cityscape southwest of the Manarai Mountains. It came up firing. Freeing itself it devastated over a hundred square kilometers. Millions are missing, presumed dead." "The Golan stations don't have enough power to bring Lusankya down, but they can hurt it."
pg.335: Barely visible above them, the Lusankya exchanged fire with a Golan Space Defense Station. Gouts of green energy passed back and forth between them. The station's fire buckled the Lusankya's shield, collapsing the energy sphere that had kept the big ship safe. Explosions played along the huge ship's hull, but in their light Corran saw the Lusankya begin to pull away from the station.
pg.348-349: "I was a bit late because, quite frankly, the Jedi exhibits your man found in the Galactic Museum are, well, absorbing. I've been chasing all over trying to locate traces of other Jedi, then it turns out a repository of a lot of stuff is on the planet from which I've been basing my searches. While very little of it deals with training, there is a lot of material that lets me piece together some history." "Corran mentioned he'd found quite a haul. He said it was rather macabre" Luke Skywalker nodded solemnly as he stepped back from Wedge. "Once the Emperor isolated those rooms, they became his own private playground. As the Jedi in there were hunted down, the Emperor defaced their monuments."