Junebug narrowed her eyes speculatively. It wasn't a completely crazy notion, their big advantage was their tech and the locals apparent supernatural awe of them. Even if Wetumpkah was willing to risk their 'wrath' for personal reasons, it was highly doubtful the rank and file would be so bold.

"Alright," she said, zooming the map display out and panning across to the area the village was located in. Despite the fairly significant size of the structures the thick jungle had obscured them completely from the Highlanders optics during the landing approach. Now that she knew what she was looking for though she could roughly place the native settlement on the map. She tapped a finger to her lips in thought.

"Taya think you can set up a repeating station to patch a signal through from here to the village?" she asked. The girl started clearly surpised to be included in the planning. The girl had technical skills, particularly with comms and data but it went deeper than that. As an officer Junebug knew that the morale of her team was important and Taya had been having a rough go of it and she needed a win.

"Uh sure, I could set up a laser link to any one of those hilltops if you have the equipment on board, and then use a radio transmitter from there, because their is too much foliage for laser or microwave."

"Good we can use radio detonators."

"Ok, lets split up Taya get what you need for the comm links, Ill leave you to love birds to discuss theology or whatever and I'll prep the pyrotechnics."

"We have about 9 hours to local nightfall, which will be our go time," she concluded. They all nodded agreement and stood up to attend their own portions of the task.

"Birds?" Zalli asked in confusion as Neil lead her from the room.

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