@Cerebrate
{“In essence, though it’s just for mundane tasks; ‘Chores’ and the like, but the drone workforce won’t be rolled back this way. Speaking of which, they’ll have retrofits to make them something like my own retinue of bots, with a few additions too. Their wireless receivers’ll be shuttered by default unless authorized, but they’ll reply docilely to verbal commands from familiar voices, as well as to anthropomorphic kinesics, and hand gestures too. To effectively subsume them, the 1st Wave’ll now have to go as far as…
weeell, they’d have to smash the damn things open to do anything, but by then, they’ll just be left with a broken bot.”}
Within his own quarters, he and his cratebots gather belongings, then begin heading out of the vessel.
{“As additions to the pulse rifle I’d made back during the voyage, the think tank themselves are working on delivering a few more countermeasures for security to use against the 1st Wave’s own drones as well. There’ll be two directed energy weapons, and a third nondestructive extra device fully-lathed from the large assembler by tomorrow to that end.”}