Johnny Winger and the Great Rift Zone by Philip Bosshardt

  ***ANAD will go to max rate replication for this config. Borer bots are simple things…what is the second element?**

  “Defensive shield…we need to be ready to meet this botswarm head on…Nguyen…Rounds, any structure on this swarm?”

  “Negative, sir,” came both replies. Rounds scanned his sensor board. “Rock’s too dense…my filters are having a hard time distinguishing swarm signals from seismic noise. I’m getting acoustics that resemble swarms from Config Zero but it’s hard to be sure.”

  “I get the picture,” Mendez said. “ANAD, I’m sending a config for basic defensive shield. Max rate on this as well.”