"To review. For Bluvink, we are planning to collapse the factory's weight atop its machinery and ordnance." Natalia herself has a half-dozen books open to various tables. Her hand hums the scales of stress-strain curves, and scrawls calculations in unreasonably neat lines. "Secondary targets include breaking as much machinery as we can find, and destroying over-ground or under-ground powering conduits. However, counter to this is timing. These explosives need to stay in place for an extended period. This is good, because we need small charges, anyway, if we want to collapse the building without touching off the ordnance."

"For Vindess, we are planning a complete collapse and cave in over several stages. I... Am not a--" She purses her lips as she tries to remember the word for geologist on Esthere, and then gives up and says "rock learner?-- but if no one in this room is, we should get one."