***ANAD reporting swarm now in position at the following coordinates…*** the master rattled off a stream of numbers. Barnes watched as Sergeant Mary Swanson plotted the position of the swarm on the stratigraphic map displayed on the main console.
“Very well, ANAD,” Barnes reported back over the coupler circuit. She knew that nearly a kilometer of solid rock separated them from the swarm. “Stand by….” To her geotech Vance Jung, “what’s the verdict?”
The GET1 looked up. “Right on the button. He’s situated between these two faults, with a major fracture zone we plotted right below him. Red Hammer doesn’t know it but they’re sitting on a geological time bomb.”
Barnes smiled. “Then it’s time to light the fuse.” She ordered the detachments to return from their defensive positions and climb back aboard Gopher and Mole. “ANAD…commence the operation.”