Chapters 17-20 Summary

As they walk toward the Assemblage Chamber through the crowded Grand Corridor, Winter briefs Leia on a bounty hunter offering to sell information on activity at the Imperial shipyards at Ord Trasi, where three Star Destroyers near completion. It is one of 50 one-minute scripts they have run over three days, intended to smoke out Delta Source. Ghent is set up in a tiny, long-forgotten space to run his decrypting program. Among the latest group of messages transmitted is one of their decoys, which Winter recalls only 47 people overhear. Correlating this against an earlier hit, they have 127 suspects. Leia doubts any has access to all 15 teasers that have been passed. She dismisses high-ranking Councilor Tevv as a suspect and points out that Ghent's program must exclude those who hear data that is not later transmitted.

Bel Iblis brings Leia the latest on...