A Serefim assault ship made several passes over the landing area in front of the ice cave hideout. The Serefim crew could not see, nor could their ship’s sensors detect, Oprit Robia’s cloaked 4-D ships less than a kilometre away.
Seeing smoke billowing out the mouth of the cave, the ship’s captain spoke into his helmet microphone. “Sir, it seems the terrorists were alerted. This place looks to be abandoned. They set fire to whatever was inside the cave.”
Aboard the orbiter, Brigadier Migael fumed. “Goddammit! How did they know we were coming?” Migael looked around the room at the disappointed faces of his officers, none of whom wanted to make eye contact with their angry general. “Is it possible that this is just a decoy facility and our captives lied to us about the location of their re
