title: Storm-Struck Asunder
author:  Ovid Orion 
description: Ovid Orion is a factory worker from the southern USA who has been writing poetry for three decades.
zlib_text: 
  
  
  **chapter one**
  
  
  ABOVE THE PLANET KASHYYYK, ABOARD THE **MILLENNIUM FALCON**
  
  
  The _Falcon_ banked over a vision of hell.
  
  
  Directly below was a roiling surface of blacks and yellows, reds and oranges.
  Eastward, the carpet of fire gave way to doomed forest. The line between the
  two zones was an irregular and uncertain one, and even at the distance of a
  couple of kilometers Han Solo could see individual trees at the border burst
  into fire, some of them exploding from the heat.
  
  
  Westward, superheated air rose in a column kilometers in diameter, hauling
  smoke high into the atmosphere, obscuring the afternoon sun. And it was the
  smoke column that showed the real danger of the maelstrom. As that column
  rose, it drew in air from all directions, constantly fanning the fire around
  it, feeding the voracious beast that burned out of control.
  
  
  It had once been an unbroken vista of soaring wroshyr trees and other foliage.
  But a few days earlier, the Star Destroyer _Anakin Solo,_ at the order