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!
Wait…. “chitter”, “chikka-chk”, “screee!”, and “scree…”?
Those weren’t drones, where they? They were really squirrel mechs! 🙂
Imminent beat down in 3…..
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!
Darn, I should have put tails on them. Then they’d absolutely be squirrel mechs…
“It’s a deathtrap!” Ya think? I mean, He’d survive all these years and NOT see you coming? :evilgrin:
Hey! The five finger discount isn’t polite when dealing with the armed forces. >:-P