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Three hundred years ago, the Brazilian Space Agency discovered a rocky exoplanet only 38 light years from Earth. With a surface temperature of 1200 Celsius and nine times Earth's gravity, it's hardly the sort of place you'd take your dog walkies. Most days.
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disembodied robot calling out from limbo -- reported by Jason #100

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 

I told ROVER to attack one of the droids,
which he did. The droid and a version of ROVER end up in limbo, but
still active. The effect is pretty eerie.

ROVER starts forward, teeth bared. With paws reaching for the maintenance
droid’s throat, he pounces.  Midway through ROVER’s leap, the maintenance 
droid
draws a quantum disentangler and scrambles ROVER’s subprocessor. Momentum
carries ROVER’s body forward, though, and it lands on the surprised 
maintenance
droid.

ROVER is definitely down for the count, but you assume there is no permanent
damage. The same can’t be said of the maintenance droid, which you dispose
of. ROVER may be unconscious, but the space probe remains clamped in his jaws.

From limbo you hear the maintenance droid shout, “Winter Shadow, this is
maintenance droid. Some kind of colossal excavation robot is watching me. It’s
the size of a Jackrabbit-class cutter; it’s got huge, sharp... Well, I don’t
like the way it’s just looking at me. It’s creepy.”

“Roger, maintenance droid, situation acknowledged. We recommend that you
complete operations quickly and return to Winter Shadow.”

“Affirmative, Winter Shadow, that’s just what I’m doing. Um, thanks for 
the
advice.”

“That’s why we’re here, maintenance droid. This is Winter Shadow, out.”.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by dhakajack on 4 Oct 2009 at 12:28

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
duplicates issue 104

Original comment by dhakajack on 8 Oct 2009 at 2:10