“The bounty hunter has cleared the building.”
“Send a team after them. If the bounty hunter can’t talk Salazar into taking her to the Union Subdivision in the next half hour bring them both back here.” Lee shut down the communicator and turned to Kline. “How soon can you be ready?”
“Five, maybe six hours.”
“You have four.”
Kline’s eyes narrowed. “With three separate squadrons? That’s pushing it.”
“Our window of opportunity is shrinking by the second. The Union’s going to discover what we’re targeting—if they haven’t already.”
Lee and Kline entered the briefing room. The screens lit up, showcasing all known information about the Union’s Exodus Project assembly center. An incomplete, fractured holographic model of the production facility appeared above the center table.
Fra Mauro, earth’s moon. Where the Union had built the Exodus Project’s assembly center—a massive, isolated production plant defended with advanced, but discrete security systems. Any force attempting a surface or air attack would be thwarted before the attack could even begin.
The XLS had something else in mind.
Lee rotated the hologram. “The tunnel system we’ve built below the assembly center gives us access to each target.”
The screen displayed the underground tunnel that stretched from XLS Phase Travel headquarters in New London to the Union assembly center in Fra Mauro. Once it reached the production facility, the main tunnel branched off into three smaller corridors, each leading to a different area of the Union production plant.
Kline examined the underground tunnels. “Looks like the drill team got the job done.”
“Indeed. Three separate entry points,” said Lee, pointing. Each corridor leading away from the main tunnel lit up on the holographic screen. “Three teams, each with a singular objective. Red Team—demolition. They plant the spider nuke. Green Team confiscates the blueprints. Blue Team brings the power cells back here.”
An operative burst into the briefing room. “Sir, we’re picking up some chatter across the spectrum.”
“About?”
“We think they’re increasing security at the Exodus facility.”
Lee turned to Kline. “Get the teams ready. The final stage of Operation Yamato begins now.”
