“Let’s go to a supply barge,” Luke says, “A quartermaster’s uniform ought to get us aboard.”
Several hours later, they later, they arrive at a supply dock. Fifty Droids and a dozen sentient laborers are unloading the two barges that occupy the mammoth hangar. A platoon of stormtroopers roams the floor, but generally the armored forms appear inattentive. A quartermaster captain stands at the entrance to each barge.
Another repulsor cart enters the bay a moment later. A well-dressed Calamarian sits in the back of the cart with Sebastian Parnell. He is unusually pale, almost as white as Luke. Most Calamarians have darker, salmon-colored skin. As the cart passes, the fish-like Calamarian twists his bald, high-domed head around to study Luke. His two bulging eyes seem unusually menacing fora member of his race. Parnell pays no attention to Luke’s party and continues talking to the Calamarian. Luke breathes a sigh of relief.
“Now what?” Gideon asks.
“A diversion?” Sidney suggests. “Then we sneak aboard?”
Luke hesitates. A diversion does not make use of their best resource – his borrowed uniform. It has served them well so far, but will their luck hold for one more bluff?
Parnell’s driver takes his passengers to the closest supply barge. The Calamarian exchanges warm farewells with the general, then accepts a small bag and climbs into the depths of the barge. Luke finds the transaction strange; Mon Calamari is one of the few worlds in open revolt against the Empire.
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