Wait, 7

The earth comes back mist

of fine rock dropped

through the atmosphere from the drivers in orbit.

 

Wait, 6

Grinding the bedrock to dust

in the sky above our heads.

 

Wait, 5

Scaling barges fulgurate 

into the sky, to the zeppelin crucibles, 

ferrying the planet's core .

Wait, 4

We long ago discovered that 

our ore is easier processed in 

the outer atmosphere, at low gravity.

Wait 3

Wait 2

We have whiskey. Also gambling, and family.

Labor issues. Traffic. Small problems.

Wait

Back home on Kalkovac, we harvest 

ore, turnips.

Harsh wheat.

 

Intermission 4

Intermission 3

Let's return to 

the real heart of this chronicle;

infantry, and revolution.

Intermission 2

Enough about drones-

washing machines, circuit

 boards, and 

magnetic tape.

 

Intermission

Moving along.

 

Forty Days of Robots: Day 40

The Hess 71-B Mobile Processor And Diagnostic Assembly (MPADA). 

An advanced unit active in very limited numbers, the Hess 71-B MPADA was deployed by the 302nd in the capacity of archiving and monitoring exploration and map making operations in asperous, high nitrogen environs.

 

About 975 on Farlang 23, along the Polar Belt; Ghuani System.

Voyage of the Garden of Hiber, Year Three.

Thanks, Greg!

Forty Days of Robots: Day 39

Awake to switches, electricity. Copper

wire motors, whirring.

 

Forty Days of Robots: Day 38

A Warkon SD-11, mobile primary steam transfitting unit for troops concerned with water generating influence. Of the greatest utility in arid to semi-arid climates.

Forty Days of Robots: Day 37

Forty Days of Robots: Day 36

Temperance Differation Unit, a Model 12. These units are commonly modified from their original performance guidelines to calculate targeting arrays, a prevelant but non-regulation procedure.

Time and location of this photopic are unverified.

 

Forty Days of Robots: Day 35

Forty Days of Robots: Day 34

As I said, we learned that the hard way.

 

Forty Days of Robots: Day 32

They can be purloined, rewired, and sent back against us without us being any wiser.

Bio-cooked DTX Amsterdam Model 21 in attack mode, Tesulon Station, 929.

Voyage of the Gabion Orchard, Year Two.

 

Forty Days of Robots: Day 31

Forty Days of Robots: Day 30

Forty Days of Robots: Day 29

Corruptible.

Forty Days of Robots: Day 28

Difficult to control once they get out of sight.

 

Forty Days of Robots: Day 27

They have the unsettling tendency to kill the wrong people.

 

Forty Days of Robots: Day 26

But they're expensive, and much more difficult to produce then soldiers are.

They break when it gets windy, or too dry, or too cold.

Forty Days of Robots: Day 25

The truth is, a long time ago we all thought we might send the robots to fight our wars.

 

Forty Days of Robots: Day 24

Random Inquiry Mobilization Unit. 

Date and location unknown.