Nika was looking up at the three vehicles rolling down from the supply ship and didn’t like them one little bit. The big ship had a hangar-sized opening high on its side. The Mobile Landing Platform ship had a massive ramp almost as long as its deck on hydraulic jacks. One end of it had been raised so that the line of three vehicles simply drove off the supply ship, down the ramp as if it was a highway exit, and onto the main deck of the MLP. It was an impressive operation. It was the third vehicle that was bothering her, that and the specs that Sly had handed her without comment. All three were ugly as sin and looked just as dangerous, but she was used to that in military vehicles. The more they were adapted for IED attacks, the uglier they became. That wasn’t the problem. That the third

