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Zane sat back in his X-wing fighter, contemplating his explanantion for the general. Glancing at his chronometer, he sighed. Good, he still had lots of time until his hyperspace jump was complete.

"Hey, Squeaker?" he asked his astromech 'droid, R2-X5. "Think you can handle the ship for a while?"

Squeaker replied with an affirmative beep in the regular binary language of her kind, and took control of cockpit functions. "Thanks. Wake me up in one hour, okay?" Another beep, and Zane settled in for a quick nap before his arrival back at Danson base. He drifted off to sleep thinking about the mission he had just completed.

Having just been on a regular reconnaisance flight to the Charon system, he encounteredthree TIE fighters, the Empire's standard starfighter. His orders had been strict: Do NOT engage any hostile forces. However, when he exited hyperspace and entered the system, the TIE's were practically on top of him, and despite what his ordershad stated, he engaged them. He could have immediately jumped right back out, but his fighting spirit got the better of him. In the small battle, he cliipped his top starboard wing on one of his adversaries, causing slight damage, but that wasn't the real cause of his problem. It didn't matter that he had destroyed all three of his enemies, which was quite a feat for a rookie anyway, but he had deliberately disobeyed his commanding officer, damaging one of the New Republic's finest starfighters.

Suddenlly, the entuire ship shuddered, and the hyperspace motivators let out a spine tingling shriek before they failed completely. Squeaker beeped frantically, and Zane awoke from his much needed, but short slumber. With another quick glance at the chronometer, he realized that it was not time to wake up, and with a deep inner dread, realized the danger before him. The sight he saw through his dreary startled eyes was enough to make even a Jedi fear for his life. Ahead and to port was a massive, wedge-shaped Interdictor Cruiser, the Empire's latest technological terror.

These hulking starships were built much like Star Destroyers, the mainstay of the Emperial Navy, but slightly larger to accomodate the four large gravity-well generators that bulged from the superstructure and gave the Interdictor its characteristic shape. In a gravity well of any kind, a ship is unable to travel in hyperspace. Be it a planet, star, or any other object in space that emits gravity, a ship traveling in hyperspace that encounters such an area is immediately pulled back into real-space. These ships emitted their own gravity, and therefore jerking startled prey from comfortable travel.

Zaned yanked hard to starboard and hoped to pull out of the gravity-well, and back to un-affected space. Then he realized that the Interdictor was closer than normal for this type of situation. The readout that Squeaker transmitted to his telescreen told him what he didn't want to know: the Interdictor had just turned its generators on, and now the growing area of synthetic gravity was too large to possibly get out before the the coming battle was over. Zane had the choice of either being destroyed, or fighting. He chose the latter.

He pulled into a High-G turn in order to get on a direct course with the Interdictor, just in time to see the small flight of TIE fightersexit the cruiser's hanger. There was only one way to destroy an Imperial cruiser, and that was to first take out the two spherical sheild generators on either sideof the top of the bridge tower, then target the bridge itself with proton torpedoes. It was a difficult attempt, especially given only one fighter to do it with. In order to succeed, Zane had to avoid the laser batteries on the cruiser and the TIEs that had now almost intercepted him.

He pulled in close to the foremost tip of the triangular hull and targeted the port sheild generator with his blasters. as he fired repeatedly, two of the nine TIE's behind him collided with the hull, and another clipped his wing and flew into open space, too crippled to continue. the remaining persuers stayed onhim like rancors on raw meat. Zane looked up in time to see the targeted generator explode in a starburst of melted slag, and managed to pull out in time to to avoid becoming part of the scectacle. He pulled hard over, shooting at the other generator, but barely peircing the armor. Another 180 degree turn with TIEs all over him, but missing their shots. He destroyed one straggling fighter with a couple of laser blasts during the turn, diminishing his number of persuers by one. Another High-G roll back towards the cruiser, and he shot his lasers at the peirced armor. The delicate machinery inside melted away, and the remaining generator blew, leaving the bridge and central operations in a dangerously vulnerable position. With the command crew of the cruiser in complete disarray, the anti-fighter lasers on board shot more and more sporadically, leaving Zane a clear run on the bridge itself.

As Zane shot his last torpedoes, all of them, at the bridge, one of the TIE-fighters got lucky. As the rebel pilot shot over the rapidly disintigrating bridge, a monstorous explosion billowed into the path of the pursuing fighters, ridding Zane of his enemies, but not before a glancing laser shot struck his top starboard engine. In the next instant, the lone pilot's engine blew, ripping off the wing and hurtling his ship into open space, away from the shrapnel of the explosion of the Interdictor. Zane's last thought before losing conciousness in a heavily cartwheeling X-wing was how he was going to explain this to the general.

"Why Me !"Grimek yells at the top of his lungs. "I had to suggest going to Rashin !" Knowing nothing is there , Grimek try to deal with having to go out in a X-Wing for nothing !"Leia I think it be a good idea to see more of the outer planets like Rashin."Now I am stuck doing it ! Grimek gets into his X-Wing and flies off.