The first Phantom pair entered Silverpeak from the southwest at high altitude while the fighting below continued spreading around the Hive.
Neither aircraft approached the center directly.
Their route had been prepared before the assault began, with several strike boxes already marked across the industrial districts where Golden Eagle expected the Hive to expose enough mass for saturation bombing to become worth the damage.
Most of those boxes remained inactive. Three no longer did.
Inside the lead Phantom, the Mission Systems Officer watched the targets update through the System network as the Advanced Radar fed new movement into the strike picture.
The largest breach covered several industrial blocks.
Thousands of infected were still pouring from ruptured underground routes while more moved beneath them, climbing through the same freight and utility passages that had already broken open across the district.
