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  1. As he reached his decision, the men behind him reached
  2. their range. Professionals indeed: without a word, they
  3. leveled their weapons, and twin packets of galvenned
  4. plasma streaked at his spine. In even the best-trained
  5. human shooter there is at least a quarter-second delay
  6. between the decision to fire and the squeeze on the
  7. trigger. Deep in the Force, Mace could feel their decision
  8. even before it was made: an echo from his future.
  9.  
  10. Before their fingers could so much as twitch, he was
  11. moving.
  12.  
  13. By the time the blaster bolts were a quarter of the way
  14. there, Mace had whirled, the speed of his spin opening
  15. his vest. By the time the bolts were halfway there, the
  16. Force had snapped his lightsaber into his palm. At three-quarters, his blade extended, and when the blaster bolts
  17. reached him they met not flesh and bone but a meter long continuous cascade of vivid purple energy.
  18. Mace reflexively slapped the bolts back at the shooters but instead of rebounding from his blade, the bolts
  19. splattered through it and grazed his ribs and burst against
  20. a trash bin behind him so that it boomed and bucked and
  21. shivered like a cracked bell
  22.  
  23. Shatterpoint
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