It’s a short packet of information, shown in a three-dimensional display—before him, the surface of the planet Akiva grows bigger, blowing up like a balloon until it seems like he could reach out and move the whorls of clouds with the flat of his hand. Like a god. But it’s just a projection. A hologram. Data pulled from the probe droid still there in space. He sees what the droid saw: the small dot (illuminated by a red circle) representing the transport flying in, the SpecForce soldiers exiting the ship one by one (each a yellow circle). Then the flash of cannon fire. A turbolaser from the planet’s surface. That, from somewhere down below the clouds. The red circle flickers and goes dark, exploding in midair before it ever reaches the ground. One by one, the yellow circles flicker and go dark, too. Except for one. They lose his signal when he reaches the planet, but it would appear as if Sergeant Jom Barell of the SpecForces survived the attack. To what end, Ackbar does not know.
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