PATIENT ZERO -The lone survivor
the radio screamed, followed by a deafening, terrifying sound of localized gravitational compression, and then dead static.
The medical tent fell into a suffocating silence.
"Why?" Neema asked, her voice shaking. "Why would Malik attack a UN destroyer? He knows they have Project Genesis. He knows they are looking for an excuse to carpet-bomb the Quarantine Zone. He just gave them an act of war."
"He didn't do it to start a war," Baraka said, his tactical mind racing through the physics and logistics of the Lord Apex. He looked at Eliana. "What is the primary power source of an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer?"