“A few hundred meters down, it’s warm enough for a swim,” Tarkos said, reading all the incoming data.
The ship righted itself, and Bria nudged the engines, which worked sluggishly in the liquid. She added sonar overlays to their tactical displays, and the city appeared as a huge ring below them that listed as it sank.
“The deep sonar readings have still not come back,” Tarkos said. “The depth of water here is so great that the pressures below are incredible. At those pressures, water is like metal. And with this tidal heating, it will be thousands of degrees down there. With that temperature, and the tidal forces shifting and sliding everything around, the cities will be ground to fragments. The Alliance won’t be able to collect anything useful.”
Bria dove the ship, following the
