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life. Then he thought back to Coruscant, and the question his Master had put to
him regarding his double-bladed lightsaber.
It made sense to me to be able to strike with both ends, Maul had answered.
With a note of approval, his Master had said, You must bear that in mind when
you go to Dorvalla.
Maul reached within his cloak and unclipped the long cylinder from his belt. One
end, then the other, Maul told himself. Both, to effect a single purpose.

Maul waited until the moon was low in the sky before he went to Lommite
Limited's headquarters at the base of the escarpment. The incidents of sabotage
had caused the complex of buildings to be placed on high alert. Armed sentries,
some accompanied by leashed beasts, patrolled, and powerful illuminators cast
circles of brilliant light over the spacious grounds. A five-meter-high
electrified stun fence encompassed everything.
Maul spent an hour studying the movements of the sentries, the periodic sweeps
of the illuminators, the towering fence, and the motion detector lasers that
gridded the broad lawn beyond. He was certain that infrared cams were scanning
the grounds, but there was little he could do about those without leaving
evidence of his infiltration. A probe droid would have been able to tell him all
he needed to know, but there wasn't time and he wanted to do this personally.
To test the possibility that pressure detectors had been installed in the
ground, he used the Force to propel stones over the fence. As they struck
specific places on the lawn, he waited for some response, but the guards
stationed at the entry gates simply continued to go about their business.
When he was satisfied that he had committed the results of his reconnaissance to
memory, he shrugged out of his cloak and leapt straight up over the fence,
landing precisely where some of the rocks he had tossed rested. Then he sprang
to a series of other sites that ultimately carried him to the wall of the
principal building, moving with such speed the entire time that whatever
holorecordings were being made wouldn't show him unless they were played in slow
motion.
He reached one of the doors and found it locked, so he began to work his way
around the building, testing other doors and windows, all of which were
similarly secured.
He tested the building's flat roof for motion and pressure detectors as he had
the lawn. Vaulting to the top, he was confronted with an expanse of solar
arrays, skylights, and cooling ducts. He moved to the nearest skylight and
ignited his lightsaber. He was ready to plunge the blade through the
transparisteel panel when he stopped himself, and peered more intently at the
panel. Embedded in the transparisteel were monofilament chains, which, when
severed, would trip an alarm.
Deactivating the blade, he reclipped his lightsaber and sat down to think. It
was unlikely that Lommite Limited's central computer was a stand-alone machine.
It would have to be accessible from outside locations. Bruit would have remote
access. Maul berated himself for not having recognized that fact earlier. But it
wasn't too late to rectify his oversight.
* * *
Maul returned to Bruit's dwelling just before sunrise. Unlike the headquarters
complex, the stilted house had no security. The chief of field operations either
didn't have enemies or didn't care, one way or the other. Perhaps Bruit was that