Major Anso met Egan, Althea, and Nanzy at the mouth of a cave hollowed into the base of a cliff. With the anti-grav levitator engaged, they pushed their tiny 4-D ship into a salt cavern that Oprit Robia fighters had excavated. They parked it beside a much larger 4-D ship and a small six-passenger craft.
Anso led the group out of the hangar and into a corridor that opened to a single low-ceiling room some hundred metres deep and fifty metres wide. The cavern was outfitted with numerous two-metre-high cellulose divider walls. Only half a dozen Oprit fighters emerged to greet the newcomers.
Nanzy said, “I’d expected to see a larger force.”
“Ahh, logistical barriers have us holed up like gophers,” Anso replied with a laugh and a wave at their fortress beneath the mountain.
“How so?” Egan a
