He was trying to remember which branch in the hallway to take-everything on a Star Destroyer looked the same-when the wail of an alarm shredded his ears and he felt the deck juddering harder.“The hell is going on?” he asked.The alarm was joined by the steel-drum roar of tearing metal and the sensation of a gentle breeze. The deck plating jumped as the Deliverance emerged from hyperspace for a scheduled course correction. It wasn’t his job to crawl inside her brain, but someone had to and she’d help him forget the image of Nath Tensent, Brave Hero of the Ssori.The droid gurgled ambiguously. “Kairos still sleeping on the U-wing, last you heard?” he asked T5. The sincerity of it all exhausted Nath until he excused himself, strolling away from the mess hall. ”They cheered and asked him for more, and he made them all feel like galactic saviors.

Now we’re going to come down on them hard. “Hell, I think they should’ve stayed in hiding. He had the routine down, though it hadn’t been how he’d wanted to spend dinner.“You want to know what I think about Shadow Wing running around burning planets?” he offered when they prompted him.

T5 rolled awkwardly through the mess as more pilots and crew drifted in off their shifts, and a dozen gathered around Nath to hear more from the Hero of Troithe.

The meal smelled like wilted vegetables and tasted like cleaning fluid. Nath Tensent settled at a table with a tray of gray meat braised in orange sauce. This passage focuses on one of the series' main protagonists, Imperial defector Nath Tensent, as he tries to fend off a group of buzzdroids attacking the Deliverance, a former Imperial Star Destroyer retrofitted by the New Republic. Play First, a little context before we get into the excerpt.

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