The Corellian waits for the TIE fighters to reach maximum firing range. To the naked eyee, they appear nothing more than a pair of faint stars. The massive Star Destroyer is not even visible.
He quickly designates primary and secondary targets for each of the Falcon’s gun wells, then presses the trigger. At the same instant, the TIE laser cannons flash red. The fighters swerve away to both sides and the Falcon’s energy bolts dissipate harmlessly into the starlit vastness.
The TIE bursts streak directly at the cockpit, but wither away a few hundred meters short. He drops the Falcon into an evasive corkscrew turn, then brings it back around to face the TIEs.
The TIEs continue toward the heart of the comet.
“Cowards!” Han calls. A moment later, he realizes that the Imperials are also responding to the distress signal. But since TIE fighters cannot carry passengers, Han knows they do not intend to rescue the sender.
“Leia!” he gasps. TIE fighters move faster than the Falcon. He is certain he can catch them by diving toward one of the twin stars and using its gravity to boost his speed. But will he be able to break free of it? Alternately, he can push his sublight engines beyond specifciation. That just may give him enough extra velocity to catch the TIEs, but he has placed the engines under heavy strain several times recently. The repeated overloading will begin to tell soon.
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