And trying to boot up separate systems would take even more time, he thought, cursing under his breath. "Even if we could manually release escape pods, we'd still just be waitin' to be picked off once the Seps get their ships up here."

     They didn't have a whole lot of options, and they couldn't even make use of their fighters to buy time if they couldn't get the hangars open, much less evacuate on shuttles for their not being made for traveling very far.

     "There's gotta be a way, got to be something we can...."

     Wait. Maybe there was...