Ves clenched his fist as he saw the giants scramble to retrieve the remaining ejected data modules.
They had known in advance that this would definitely be one of the most dangerous phases of the mission.
While the Rubarthan engineers had tried their best, the data modules were too small and weak to possess much ability. They struggled hard to escape the gravity well of the moon and also the obstruction of all of the cannon fodder in the way.
The fact that most of them succeeded to break free could already be regarded as a minor miracle as far as Ves was concerned!
Unfortunately, miracle or not, there was only so much the small data modules could do in the middle of alien-controlled space.
Ves knew that the retrieval of 17 data modules constitutes a success, but only partially. Even if they were roughly evenly distributed across the surface of the battle moon, the gaps in the data would make it harder to figure out the full depth of the alien superconstruct.
