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The two androids ran through woodland, leapt over rivers, and let nothing slow them down. At an average speed of 60kph, not even a hopper could have caught them in the crowded forests and dense urban areas that they used for cover – a hopper could easily match them for agility and surpass them for speed but hoppers needed clear airspace in which to fly. The vehicles couldn’t follow the androids through such obstructive terrain.
Human fugitives are easy to track; they can’t run at such high speeds and heat-signatures give away their positions. If the escapees had been normal sophonts, they could have been tracked by their GPS transponders. But these enhanced sophonts had no transponders to track – so they were able to disappear without a trace.
Once the androids were satisfied that th
