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“All officers…is Fury Co Stand…for update”

“THIS…ARCHIMMUNES UMBERTO’S FANT…FIVE HYPERCANES…FORMED OVER…SYCORAX…ANOMALOUS PRESSURE CENTERS…EIGHTY KILO…PASCALS THE LARGEST…WINDSPEEDS OF EIGHT HUNDRED KILOMETERS PER…MOVING SOUTH” The signal cuts out and reestablishes “WILL MAKE LANDFALL ON…HELION COAST IN TWENTY…EXPECT CLOUD COVER TO THIRTY KILOMETERS HEAVY…FALL, TURBULENCE, ELECTRICAL…INTERFERENCE AND STORM SURGES…SECONDARY STORM FORMING OVER…WASTE OF LADON…”

Confused glances are exchanged “Hypercane?” Seneca frowns through his open cockpit

“Those aren’t possible except in the Ri up from behind with Kalindora

But I alone know that they very much are Grandmother, you left landmines everywhere

“Perhaps we should delay landing,” I offer neutrally The officers glare as if I’ve spit in their eyes

“Delay landing?” Ajax asks, incredulous “And let a bit of weather steal our glory? I think your tioodman”

“If there are five hypercanes over the Sycorax…”

“That’s a thousand kilometers from here”

“A storhty kilopascals has the capacity to cover all of Helios—ht-hundred-kilo Electrical will slag any orbital relay The Immunes mentioned a secondary storm If there are pressure anomalies in the desert, we should suspend the land—”

“Lysander, enough,” Ajax says

It’s the first tih they all knoho I am by now I pull it back There’s no way out of this No way to avoid alienating hi dumb, but then men die

Ajax continues “Thank you Seneca, I told you to take your men—”

“Ajax,” Seneca interrupts, “the northern drones have gone down”

Ajax bares his teeth “What do you one down? Did they report enemy contact?”