They decided to go with the plan. It was not the best option, certainly not the most safe or foolproof strategy they could have devised, but it was the only one that felt achievable given the constraints they were working with.
The barren wasteland surrounding the West, the surveillance systems, the automated defenses, the force field itself, all of it conspired to make any conventional approach impossible.
So if they wanted intel on that barrier, they were going to have to do something unconventional.
And this plan, crazy as it was, at least had a chance of working.
"By the way," Riven said suddenly, her tone casual but with some amusement, "We're not the ones risking our lives now, right?"
She looked around at the others, her expression innocent, and then her lips curled into a grin.
The room exploded into laughter.
