Ten minutes after, he set out with the warriors.
Max had three days between him and the Grand Archive, across the most aggressively patrolled airspace on Vorga's floating island chains, with Morag warriors who had been waiting thirty-seven years for this specific journey and were therefore not going to be the limiting variable.
The Morag survivors knew Vorga Prime's geography the way people knew terrain they had grown up on and then spent decades studying from a distance, which was obsessively and with the specific detail that came from having no way to update the knowledge through direct observation. Their intelligence was excellent and thirty-seven years old in places, and the gap between those two qualities was where the three days lived.
