Chen Wei distributed the explosives, small charges with remote detonators that could be placed quickly and triggered from distance, and everyone took three charges each because if they died at least one person might succeed in placing them.
"Remember the plan," she whispered as the Daedalus grew larger. "Board through the blind spot, place charges in engine room and fuel storage, extract recipients if possible, retreat to extraction point, detonate when we're clear."
"And if we can't extract the recipients?" Min-seo asked.
"Then we blow the ship anyway and hope the explosion is fast enough that they don't suffer," Chen Wei's voice was cold. "This isn't a rescue mission, it's sabotage that might include rescue if we're lucky."
The ship loomed now, massive this close with its hull rising like a steel cliff and the sound of generators humming through the water, and Yoo could see the sensor sweeps painting the darkness in invisible patterns that Akasha Archive mapped automatically.
