Chapter 20 - Teaser! (Patreon)

Still doing the final pre-publishing revision, but here is the teaser!  Oh boy, am I cutting it close...

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In my large duffel bag, and the smaller tactical backpacks the girls were also wearing, were 1.25-pound blocks of M112 Composition C4 Block Demolition Charges which I was intimately familiar with from my time in Iraq and Afghanistan and something my jail broken industrial replicator could produce pretty easily and in large quantities.

Though they weren't very destructive, at least when compared to the advanced explosives of this era, since they were simple chemical explosives, they were easy to replicate in large quantities, easy to shape, and easy to adjust the yield and detonate. With a simple enough trigger you could even detonate them in an energy dampening field and modern sensors probably wouldn't even recognize it. The idea wasn't to destroy the Collector vessel with the stuff; I had no such illusions on that score. No, nothing short of a giant nuke would do that and I didn't have the time or the tools to build one.