Cassian Ando swiftly connected a miniature jammer to the maintenance room's control panel. At the end of the corridor, the alarm lights suddenly went out, and a low hum came from the ventilation ducts.
He lowered his voice and gave the order. "Seal off the passage to Zone B. Activate the electromagnetic locks."
The Rebel Alliance members disguised as soldiers immediately scattered into action. Seconds later, the dull thud of metal blast doors closing echoed from deep within the ship. The surveillance feeds in the main control room began to flicker, but the operators aboard Major General Komona's flagship, the Black, noticed nothing amiss.
But that was only one passage. He still had to seal the other three in order to completely cut off the barracks from the rest of the warship.
The barracks of an Imperial-class Star Destroyer were located on the third tier of the ship's central superstructure. They had five levels and covered more than a hundred thousand square meters, capable of housing up to 10,000 soldiers along with their weapons, equipment, and even armored vehicles.
The main elevator between here and the fourth level had already been jammed by electromagnetic locks, but several other routes remained open. One of them was especially wide, enough for armored personnel carriers and heavy machinery to pass through.
Cassian Ando quickly pulled up the ship's structural map and discovered that the unsealed passage led directly to the main engine room. If it was not closed in time, the patrols would soon notice something was wrong.
He and several other Rebel Alliance fighters disguised themselves as a patrol squad and casually approached a transit station, where several Imperial engineers were hard at work. As they walked over, one of the engineers nonchalantly came up to them, slipped a Password Cylinder into