Launcher One completed its firing setup while the Hellhammers continued striking the Core.
The four enclosed missile cells had risen behind the armored cab, angled toward the open sky above Cinderrow. Unlike the MLRS beside the other firing positions, there was no rack of smaller tubes spread across the rear. Each cell carried a single precision missile, with considerably more space devoted to guidance and warhead than the rockets already hammering the Tree.
Inside the vehicle, the Fire-Control Officer received Matilda's target assignment.
The same central coordinate appeared on his display.
"Target received."
He checked it against the current firing solution.
The Tree had not moved from the position established by the fixed Radars. Whatever its branches and roots were doing around the center, the main biological mass was still sitting on the same point.
"Fixed target confirmed. Solution valid."
