Chapter Twenty
Aviary walked among the Destiny-class drones.
Shaped like giant wedges, their bodies weren’t much larger than a single-seat fighter aircraft, but their long, spindly wings spread ten times their width, their undersides white, and their topsides covered in solar panels to keep them permanently aloft.
She’d studied the files she had leached from Intron back in Brazil, so she was familiar enough with their design to know they carried rechargeable lithium-sulfur batteries, a single raised fin—antenna—for satellite transmissions on its topside, and a laser transmitter on its underside. Each wing had a hole large enough for a single vertical rotor that allowed the drone to take off and land vertically. That meant no long run-up; they could simply taxi out of this hangar and the
