Chapter Fifteen
Super Penelope
“Deep Core One. Deep Core One. This is Surface Nine. Do you copy? Over.”
“Roger, Surface Nine. This is Deep Core One. Copy? Over.”
“Roger, Deep Core One. What is your status? Over.”
“Roger, Surface Nine. We are about to go to phase two. Repeat, that’s phase two. Over.”
“That’s a roger, Deep Core One. Phase two. Over.”
Zadora’s deep-sea mining onslaught was well underway and into phase two. The drilling was massive and the seabed was being dredged; marine life was destroyed and sea creatures driven from their homes. It was chaos on every level; mass destruction.
Giant containers were lifted from the seabed and hauled onto awaiting cargo-ships. The operation was on a mammoth scale. Debris was tossed back into the ocean, and the clear sea, that was once
