"Well I mean, they're sa-" he began, before he saw Quetzalli looking at him curiously. His 'savages' veered course "-aaaaaaaadly without our weaponry. We have a small armory, right? We can plant mines, they'd probably run away in fear of..." He squinted, and then looked to Quetzalli. He pointed at her and nodded. "We can distract them. Not by sacrificing any of us, but what if we proved we were gods?" 

Neil was thinking on his feet. "Quetzalli can show one of us the way back, and when we get back we rig one of the ziggurats with as much explosives as we have. Even if we can't topple one we can wreck it. We announce we're to be obeyed. If they don't listen, then we simply press the button and send on of their temples crumbling. I can do it." He nodded to himself as he spoke. "Taya, you might not be as familiar an engineer as I am, but you can at least handle thrusters. Junebug can guard the ship after she and I rig the charges, and I can head in with Quetzalli and play the part." 

"I calculate that has a 21.948% chance of succeeding sir." 

Neil blinked and looked up. "Lonney, what are you doing awake?" 

"We wanted to see if he still worked." Taya said with a guilty smile. Neil continued with "Zalli can teach me at least a phrase in the language. Enough to shout I am to be obeyed or something." 

"I teech, yes." Zalli said, her voice heavily accented yet still sultry enough to have him side eyeing her yet again.
[@Penny]