Another pass over her mountain, this one close. Shrike slipped the power levels down slightly, even though the generators were almost in inert state now. Chrenine sensors were respectable, and Shrike took no chances. The Chrenine scan concentrated on gravimetric pulses, trying to find her by slight weight anomalies on the mountain Shrike had chosen as her hiding spot. Shrike smiled. That would a dead end. She had reconfigured the hull of her scout craft to blend into the mountain's specific mass. The sensor sweep moved on. Shrike returned to her optic arrays and scanned the nearby wooded valleys. Nothing... ...until a whisper of something on ultraviolet caught her attention. Shrike adjusted the optics to scan more closely for ultraviolet backmasking. And there it was, A Chrenine assault force, thousands strong, stealthed expertly. But to Shrike's new optics array, they stood out like signal flares? |
