For business reasons, I must preserve the outward sign of sanity.

— Mark Twain
Chapter 9, Page 17

Chapter 9, Page 17

As someone mentioned last page, the Springer drones are an evolution of today’s Big Dog robot.  Just put guns on it and a willingness to shoot anything that moves and you’ve got a killing machine.

That’s about all I told Michael, and he drew some great little bots.  Look at them, skittering down the hallway and — oh.  Oh, well.  I’m sure we’ll see more of the cute little guys later in the story.

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Soldier: No further. We have signal here. Scatter the drones. Watch your telemetry. If the drones get positive ID...we bug out and call for --- The place is wired to blow! It's a deathtrap!

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Discussion (6)¬

  1. Moxie Man says:

    Wait…. “chitter”, “chikka-chk”, “screee!”, and “scree…”?

    Those weren’t drones, where they? They were really squirrel mechs! 🙂

  2. Jackal says:

    Imminent beat down in 3…..

  3. Darls Chickens says:

    Home Alone XVII – These aren’t the droids looking for you

    Jacob, I’m surprised at you…planting bombs without little blinky red lights on them. That’s…that’s just not how it’s done!

  4. Remus Shepherd says:

    Darn, I should have put tails on them. Then they’d absolutely be squirrel mechs…

  5. Joe says:

    “It’s a deathtrap!” Ya think? I mean, He’d survive all these years and NOT see you coming? :evilgrin:

  6. Brad says:

    Hey! The five finger discount isn’t polite when dealing with the armed forces. >:-P