Interesting! Nifty! Whee! but... Why wouldn't you bring along a way to preserve the four-wheelers? If they're valuable enough that you're slagging them to keep them from the enemy, they're valuable enough that it's worth a bit of effort to save them if you can.
Heck, for that matter, include a tiny, stripped-down speed drive set to "up", hit the button before you go, and pick them up in orbit later.
Also... no one's in the server building? No one's guarding the shuttle? the best response they can come up with doesn't even have waved armor? Mind you, there are certainy plausible reasons for any and/or all of these (it's night time, it's actually only a few full Reavers with local and not-fully-trusted backup, it's so hard to find good help these days, etc.) Also worth noting that *none* of these except the bit about the scuttling occured to me while I was actually reading.
Heck, for that matter, include a tiny, stripped-down speed drive set to "up", hit the button before you go, and pick them up in orbit later.
Also... no one's in the server building? No one's guarding the shuttle? the best response they can come up with doesn't even have waved armor? Mind you, there are certainy plausible reasons for any and/or all of these (it's night time, it's actually only a few full Reavers with local and not-fully-trusted backup, it's so hard to find good help these days, etc.) Also worth noting that *none* of these except the bit about the scuttling occured to me while I was actually reading.