Conrad was aboard Triton One.
For the past several days, the Naval groups had continued pushing farther away from Saicine and ASR-003, patrolling the coast and surveying whatever remained beyond the waters they had already cleared.
They found plenty of marine life but most of it wanted to kill them.
Large biological contacts still appeared from deeper water every so often, sometimes alone and sometimes in loose groups. A few tried to approach the ships before being driven away or destroyed, while others disappeared into deeper water as soon as the Wraiths moved after them.
Anchorage was worse.
Every attempt to push toward the city's nearby waters brought more hostile contacts onto the sonar picture. Some were small enough to ignore. Others were large enough that Conrad had no intention of letting them anywhere near the surface ships.
He stopped trying to force the approach in one movement.
