He broadcast on a wide range of frequencies. He decided to transmit his ultimatum before the Imperial forces tried anything stupid. The Caridan defense network spotted the Sun Crusher as Kyp entered orbit. Since that awesome victory Kyp’s obsession had gained momentum, and he had set out on a hyperspeed course toward annihilating the Empire.… The shock waves had been intense enough to blank the Sun Crusher’s viewscreens even as fire overtook Daala’s flagship, the Gorgon. At the last moment Daala had tried to flee the exploding stars, but to no avail. And he had blown up five stars to incinerate Admiral Daala and her two Star Destroyers. He had stolen design parameters of the Sun Crusher from the mind of its naive creator, Qwi Xux. He did not expect to find his brother still alive after so many years-but he intended to learn the truth.Īnd if Zeth was not there, Kyp had enough power to destroy the whole Caridan solar system.Ī week ago he had left Luke Skywalker for dead atop the Great Temple on Yavin 4. Now, as he orbited the military planet, Kyp’s face bore the tight, hardened look of a person who has been through the raging fire of his own conscience. Stormtroopers had crushed the colony, whisking Kyp and his parents to the spice mines of Kessel while conscripting his brother Zeth for the stormtrooper training center. Its untamed land masses provided an appropriate range of training environments: arctic wastelands, trackless rain forests, splintered mountain crags, and searing desert hardpan crawling with venomous multilegged reptiles.Ĭarida seemed the opposite of Kyp’s peaceful homeworld of Deyer, where he and his family had lived in raft colonies on the calm terraformed lakes-but that peace had been shattered years ago when Kyp’s parents had chosen to protest the destruction of Alderaan. The military planet was a largish world with high gravity to toughen the muscles of potential stormtroopers. On the fringes of the explosion, he had dropped off one of the Sun Crusher’s coffin-sized message pods so that the galaxy would know who was responsible for the victory.Īs his next target, Kyp would challenge the Imperial military training center on Carida.
Only days before, he had annihilated Admiral Daala and her two Star Destroyers in the Cauldron Nebula. With the might of the superweapon-as well as powerful techniques his spectral mentor Exar Kun had taught him-Kyp would extinguish all threats against the New Republic. Old beyond his years, Kyp Durron sat hunched over the controls with dark eyes blazing, intent on his new target.
The Sun Crusher plunged into the Caridan system like an assassin’s knife into an unsuspecting heart.
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