Star Wars Missions 008 - Togarian Trap
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The Rebels must have learned the time and location of the rendezvous point. The Togorians would have picked up the message easily, and they must have forwarded it to Rebel agents, who sent their own ship in. Dengar had been eager to off-load the prisoners and get his reward, so he’d shown up early, just as the Rebels had hoped. Eron realized that by the time any real Imperial ship reached the rendezvous point, the bounty hunters had already gone into hyperspace, headed for Tatooine.
“We lost them again,” Dengar said, crestfallen. “Solo must have known the meeting point He had them time the announcement to coincide with my arrival.”
Jabba the Hutt laughed heartily. “A worthy adversary indeed! I always liked Han Solo. Too bad I will have to kill him.”
The fifteen percent reward that the bounty hunters would get for Grubba was small pay indeed. Enough perhaps for Dengar to fix up his ship, enough for Eron and Udin to live on for the better part of a year, if they each lived frugally.
Small reward. Dengar seemed furious, but as Eron watched the monitor, saw the celebrations in the streets of Mos Eisley, she realized that people would be celebrating like this on hundreds of thousands of worlds. The heroes of the Rebellion had escaped!
Perhaps we failed, she realized. And in doing so, we won more than we had dreamed.
Yet Dengar raged and muttered under his breath, “It’s not over, Han Solo! Someday... we shall meet again.”
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