GabriK: переводы

→Juno had kept herself together long enough to get them away from the Horuz system, and had even laid down a course to Kashyyyk, on Kota's insistence. Once they were in hyperspace, the general had with gruff directness told her exactly what had happened in the observation dome. That made her feel a little calmer. Better his noble self-sacrifice than Galen falling to the dark side forever. She understood that. If he had killed Darth Vader, that would have been the end of him-as she knew him. A life without hope was worse than no life at all.

→Gone. Dead. It amounted to the same thing. After everything they had been through, after all the battles he had fought ... at least, in the process, he had given everyone a chance to escape the Death Star.

→Even so, her grief had been overwhelming when she had collected the Rebels from the Death Star. Immediately on learning that Galen wasn't among them, she had wanted to turn back into the shock wave still expanding out from the shattered observation blister to rescue him, but the look in Kota's eyes had told her that there was no point. Galen was gone.

→She sighed. Running had never been an option. The Empire would have dogged them at every step, as would Galen's past. Deep down she suspected she had always known that it would end here.

→The sound of voices was soft in the night. She paid them no heed. The Rebels tried to include her, but what did it matter what she, an ex-Imperial pilot, thought of the Rebellion? What did she know of Galen's or Darth Vader's plans? She had been caught up in events, not always a willing participant. In her dreams, she still saw herself talking Galen out of that final mission and fleeing with him into the infinite starscape . . .

→In endless loops he felt his Master's lightsaber burning through his stomach and the coldness of vacuum sucking the air from his lungs.

→Part 2 - EMPERIAL

→The sound of a door clanging open in the hangar was followed by the sound of booted feet running toward the ship. Too late she closed the feed and focused on her own problems. A squad of troopers from the Emperor's ships had broken the seal on the Rogue Shadow's secret nest. They could only be coming for her.

→Her heart hammered in her chest. Standing, she smoothed down her black uniform and made sure her cap was straight. When she was sure her pistol was well out of reach, she opened the ramp. Taking a deep, calming breath, she went out to meet her fate.