"Robert E. Mills - Starfighter" - читать интересную книгу автора (Mills Robert)

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The Dark Empire spread across the star-fields in the
manner of a tidal wave, and all who encountered it (with
few exceptions) were convinced of its invincibility. It
was a creation of darkness, a juggernaut fueled by evil
and armored in the powers of the dark side of the
Infinite. Its might grew with each new conquest; and
horror and terror filled the shadows it left in its wake.
The empire seemed truly unstoppable. . . until one day
a strange combination of forces, both accidental and
intentional, vectored-in on the line of its progress.

It started with the invasion of the Primula galaxy, a
place where war had been unknown for over two
hundred years; and this act of naked aggression brought
together most of the principal actors in this cosmic
drama. . .
At this time, Dann Oryzon of the waterworld of
Aquaea, a young man who never knew his real parents
and one who had the rare honor of being adopted by the
dolphin-civilization of the Quee, was taken prisoner
aboard an empire startransport known as a slaver.
There he was befriended by Callix of Aurea Solis (the
golden planet that was the center of galactic resistance)
and his daughter, the lady Nila, with whom Dann later
fell in love. After an encounter with Lord Blorg, Callix
(even though Dann had tried to save his life) died; but
not before he pledged Dann to accompany his daughter
and carryon his mission. That mission was to locate the
Fellowship of Light, the mystical order that guarded the
Primula galaxy in the days before the era of the Great
Peace.
Dann and Nila were rescued by the first person to
shatter the myth of the Dark Empire's invincibility: the
star-pirate, Red Rian, a pilot of incredible skill and the
skipper of the good ship Hazard, perhaps the best fight-
ing ship to be found anywhere. With him were his
first-mate, the "fierce and lovable" Purpur, a giant
felinoid, and the young technical genius, Ween Leever.
Rian and the rest of his crew were all from the neighbor-
ing galaxy of Taylos, natives of the planet Urgel, a
world that had been destroyed by the Dark Empire in
retaliation for its leadership of that galaxy's fierce resis-
tance. Rian was a hard and blustering mercenary of a
man who lived only to avenge the extinction of his
family and people. . . a debt that could only be settled
by the death of Lord Blorg.

Through the agency of the wise, beautiful and all-
too-human androids, Altektu and D-Anacom, the ad-