Vader hit a switch and depressurized the interceptor’s cockpit, his armor shielding him from t
Vader hit a switch and depressurized the interceptor’s cockpit, his armor shielding him from the vacuum. Then, as he neared the transport’s midline, still swinging his ship left and right to dodge the incoming fire, he selected a spot on the transport adjacent to the gun bubble and, using the Force, took a firm mental hold on it.His interceptor streaked toward the gun bubble, aimed directly at it. Content with the trajectory, he unstrapped himself, overrode the interceptor’s safeties, threw open the cockpit hatch, and ejected into space.Immediately he was spinning in the zero- g, the ship and stars alternating positions with rapidity. Yet he kept his mental hold on the air- lock handle, and his armor, sealed and pressurized, sustained him in the vacuum. The respirator was loud in his ears.His ship slammed into the gun bubble and the transport, the inability of the vacuum to transmit sound causing the collision to occur in eerie silence. Fire flared for a moment, but only a moment before the vacuum extinguished it. Chunks of debris exploded outward into space and the transport lurched.[…]“Sir! Sir!” the squadron commander called, his voice frantic in Vader’s helmet comm. “Lord Vader! What’s happening, sir?”Vader’s voice was calm. “I’m docking with the transport, Commander.”Using the Force, Vader stopped his rotation and reeled himself in toward the large, jagged, smoking hole his interceptor had torn in the transport’s hull. Loose hoses and electrical lines dangled from the edges of the opening, leaking gases and shooting sparks into space. A portion of his ship’s wing had survived the impact and was lodged in the bulkhead. The rest had been vaporized on impact.Vader pulled himself through the destruction until he stood in the remains of a depressurized corridor. Chunks of metal and electronics littered the torn deck, the whole of it smoking from the heat of impact. The V- wings buzzed past the transport, visible through the hole in the bulkhead.“Sir?” said the squadron commander.“All is under control, Commander,” Vader said.Lords of the Sith, by Paul S Kemp -- source link
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