Okay, how's this?
Gina entered the office to see Ben cackling wickedly and rubbing his hands together gleefully.
"What's so funny?" asked his wife.
"This," said Ben as he put the video on the large screen he used for presentations. On it was video footage from one of the observatories used by the budding sciences division (Ben was seriously considering giving them their own branch of the Roughriders along with their own facility). It depicted a small drone that was starting to tail that new joint-project between the ESA and JAXA. While it was rather clunky in appearance, and slow in comparison to other Fen vehicles of comparable size, she and Ben gave hearty approval for the enterprise being exclusively hard-tech. From the time-stamp running in the corner of the screen, Gina could tell that the footage was only a minute old. Accompanying the video was an exchange of radio chatter.
“Unknown craft, this is VVS ship A Series of Unlikely Explanations. You are advised to stay out from behind the Heyerdahl. This is for your own safety, please acknowledge.”
"Oh come on, we will not damage ESA’s new toy, we just want to get a few more pictures... we keep nearly a kilometer distance between our drone and..."
At that moment, the drone crossed with the drive-plume of the Heyerdahl, causing the little device to flare brightly as it was suddenly forced to absorb energy far in excess of its design and subsequently sublimated.
"... WHAT THE HELL... IT VAPORIZED OUR CAM!"
"Series calling unknown craft, this won’t help any but... we told you so!"
Gina snorted at that. "Dummkopf."
Minutes later, a new video graced Fentube under the heading: Idiot Reporters Underestimates The Power of Hardtech
Gina entered the office to see Ben cackling wickedly and rubbing his hands together gleefully.
"What's so funny?" asked his wife.
"This," said Ben as he put the video on the large screen he used for presentations. On it was video footage from one of the observatories used by the budding sciences division (Ben was seriously considering giving them their own branch of the Roughriders along with their own facility). It depicted a small drone that was starting to tail that new joint-project between the ESA and JAXA. While it was rather clunky in appearance, and slow in comparison to other Fen vehicles of comparable size, she and Ben gave hearty approval for the enterprise being exclusively hard-tech. From the time-stamp running in the corner of the screen, Gina could tell that the footage was only a minute old. Accompanying the video was an exchange of radio chatter.
“Unknown craft, this is VVS ship A Series of Unlikely Explanations. You are advised to stay out from behind the Heyerdahl. This is for your own safety, please acknowledge.”
"Oh come on, we will not damage ESA’s new toy, we just want to get a few more pictures... we keep nearly a kilometer distance between our drone and..."
At that moment, the drone crossed with the drive-plume of the Heyerdahl, causing the little device to flare brightly as it was suddenly forced to absorb energy far in excess of its design and subsequently sublimated.
"... WHAT THE HELL... IT VAPORIZED OUR CAM!"
"Series calling unknown craft, this won’t help any but... we told you so!"
Gina snorted at that. "Dummkopf."
Minutes later, a new video graced Fentube under the heading: Idiot Reporters Underestimates The Power of Hardtech