The master holographic dispatch board inside the northern rail control tower flashed with three crimson collision trajectories racing across the continental map.
"Train Forty-Four is four minutes from District Four, Train Fifty-Two nears District Six, and Train Sixty-Eight speeds toward the Citadel," Jax reported.
"All three locomotives carry volatile mana-fuel bombs set to detonate on impact with the buffers," Lieutenant Zhao warned, pointing to the screen.
"The automated control consoles are locked down by Holt's master military encryption," Jax shouted over the sirens.
"Can we cut overhead power to starve their engines?" Kendra asked, gripping her war hammer.
"These hybrid arcane-steam juggernauts carry self-contained reactors, so cutting track power will not slow them down," the chief engineer answered.
"Every emergency track switch along the line has been physically welded shut," Sergeant Thorne reported from the records terminal.
