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Helen Holcomb grinned in satisfaction as the last of the Holcomb Garages transports, bearing the last of her personnel and remaining equipment, set down in the cavernous main docking bay of Hulk 854, or as it would soon be called, Holcomb 1. Already, some of the staff were celebrating; someone...

The Vengeance, as it turned out, did not have much left in her, especially as her crew began to desert. Gradually, the ship's weapon emplacements began to fall silent, and its engines sputtered and died. Eventually, even the remaining running lights began to fade out, indicative of serious...

Helen, not for the first time, regretted her choice of a light interceptor rather than a proper starfighter as the battle shifted to the mopping up of the pirate capital ships. Without missiles or torpedoes, there was a limited amount she could accomplish; she did what she could, however...

Helen, under normal circumstances, would not have thanked Kellan for staying his hand; in a real nekfight it seldom paid to hesitate when an enemy was in your sights, even if you were "stealing" a kill from a friend. In this situation though, the Lepi didn't mind; the pirates were disorganized...

The pirates, in general, were taking a long time to adjust to the changing situation; not really surprising, given that their combat experience up to that point had largely been jumping unarmed or poorly protected ships that strayed into their territory, or carrying out raids on similarly weak...

The pirate formation - if formation it could have been called - was in no way prepared to face fighter opposition, let alone on such a massive scale. As the defenders swarmed out to engage the attackers, the few unarmed ships in the convoy jumped to hyperspace, neatly removing non-combatants...

The seconds seemed like hours as Helen and the rest of the initial ambush group waited for the pirates to make their move. The Lepi had her active sensors powered down, but the freighter sheltering her had provided a mirror of its own scopes over their wired connection; she watched as brief...

Helen smiled at the Imperial's remark, shrugging at Kellan's observation. She was hardly a native to the Tion Cluster, but she'd found it was hard to spend any amount of time here and not hear something about the region's glorious, archaic past. "Everyone and their dad in these parts claims...

Helen nodded at the suggestions by the others around the table; reaching out to the holoprojector she tapped a button, causing the image to split into holographic models of several shabby-looking small craft. "It sounds as if we're all on the same page. I was actually going to ambush them too...

Helen pursed her lips at the Trandoshan's suggestion of getting stock in her company. Holcomb Garages was a brand new firm, and a large part of what little strength it had came from the fact that it was not beholden to outside influence, however benign it may or may not be. Most of her staff had...

BARANCAR, HIGH PARKING ORBIT, SOME DAYS AGO... "Caution, sensor ping 40 degrees right... get a spotlight on it, will you?" Helen watched as a light stabbed out from the rented Mu-class shuttle which carried the other members of the "house hunting" expedition. It played silently over an expense...

Helen Holcomb, ace pilot, secured the straps of her leather flight helmet under her chin as she ran, adjusting her goggles as well. Around her, droids and technicians milled about, rolling gantries and test equipment from a craft that sat in the middle of an open landing pit. One of them tossed...

Helen gave another feral grin as the enemy corvettes turned and began moving off, watching them as they retreated. The Lepi followed Bravebird's trajectory, keeping in the Crusader variant's blind spot. She fought the urge to swoop in and do some damage anyway; she had come here to hurt the...

Helen let out a brief "Woohoo!" of triumph as the lead Zann fighter went down in a hail of laser fire. Her celebration was short lived, however, as geysers of earth and vegetation began erupting around her; above, the nearest of the Crusaders was firing down at her with its ventral heavy laser...

Helen's mind was going at a pace similar to her fighter as she and it bore in on the enemy, turbine howling behind her. In-atmosphere fighter combat was an interesting dance, and one she was intimately familiar with; before leaving Tolvis VII, she had fought against starfighters very similar to...

Helen watched as the new, digital gauges of her aftermarket heavy laser cannon climbed to optimal levels, the weapon a major improvement over the bulky, delicate, primitive "raygun" weapon which had been fitted to the Starspark as standard. She looked ahead through her fighter's ring-shaped...

Helen Holcomb sat pressed into her acceleration seat, wisps of super-heated plasma playing over her little interceptor's aftermarket deflector screens as it descended through Kowak's dense, tropical atmosphere. The Tolvite Lepi gritted her teeth, listening to the space-frame rattle and creak...

The Bothan abruptly found the muzzle of a nasty-looking projectile pistol shoved under his chin. From the gloom to one side of the boarding ramp, a figure emerged, grinning in as feral a way as a Lepi could manage. "Supreme Headquarters Alien Defense Establishment.". Intoned the figure, one of...

Helen smiled, waiting for the comm channel to cut out before speaking again. She helped guide the little ship into the warehouse, the clam-shell doors at the front of which were gaping wide. The structure reminded the Lepi of an airship hangar she had once seen on her home-world. "Don't worry...

Helen leaned over to speak into the comm, rolling her eyes a bit at Zad's flippant response. She keyed the transmitter before speaking. "Sorry about my pilot, ground, he's new." She glanced over her shoulder at the door leading back toward the cargo bay. "We have a Rancor Sauce delivery for...