We arrive at the drop point a week early. It’s obvious that the Cheo will try and ambush us, so we make our preparations accordingly.
We hollow out an asteroid and fill it with explosives.
We place holographic projectors on floating satellites, too small to be visible to the enemy’s surveillance ’bots.
We charge our laser cannons. We sow space with nanobombs. We gird on our body armour. And we wait.
He doesn’t show.