Their escorting fighters went to full power and activated their own missile-guidance radars, only to find that they were still outside missile range to the attacking fighters. A new voice echoed from across the huge room.
It might only have been her imagination, and she certainly had no idea why she had said such a crazy thing, but it bought her an instant of time. None of the caterpillars were less than a meter and a half long.
He was sure that the troop training area was surrounded by still more effective detection equipment but they were probably completely superfluous because any fugitive would sooner or later succumb to the barren desert.