Mylar scout drone

There are some vague or non-exact figures and information on this page. Some spading is required. Failure rate. (And other measurements)

mylar scout drone

This is a lightweight single-fixed-wing scout drone, designed to sail on the wind high above an enemy encampment for observational purposes.

Or in regular language, a shiny silver kite with a camera on it.

Type: combat item
Selling Price: 29 Meat.

(In-game plural: mylar scout drones)

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Recipe

	1 theoretical string	1 nanofiber cloth
	mylar scout drone

When Used

	You hold the mylar scout drone aloft and take off running towards your opponent. The drone announces, "TARGETED OPPONENT IS APPROXIMATELY <some number and measurement> FROM YOUR CURRENT POSITION." As you get near it, you start winding the string around it snowspeeder-style, and tangle it all up. The scout drone gets pretty much destroyed in the struggle.

or

	You hold the mylar scout drone aloft and take off running towards your opponent. The drone announces, "TARGETED OPPONENT IS APPROXIMATELY <some number and measurement> FROM YOUR CURRENT POSITION." Before you get there, however, that stupid tree eats your scout drone again. You hate that tree!

Notes

• The number given for your opponent's position is a random number, and the measurement can be:
  • akts
  • angstroms
  • attoparsecs
  • bushels
  • drams
  • furlongs
  • handbreadths
  • hogheads
  • klicks
  • knots
  • leagues
  • lines
  • pecks
  • picas
  • red shifts
  • stones
  • townships
• In combat, delevels by 10-12 levels and stuns for one round, when successful.
• Appears to fail 25% of the time.

References

• The tree that eats your scout drone is a reference to the kite-eating tree, from the comic strip Peanuts, that was always eating Charlie Brown's kites.
• "Winding the string around it snowspeeder-style" is a reference to the snowspeeders that used tow cables to trip AT-AT walkers in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.
• Most of the measurements are of distance. However, peck, bushel, dram and hogshead are of volume, stone is of weight, and township is of area. Redshift [sic] is a way of measuring movement in astronomy which works in the same way as the Doppler effect but it uses light instead of sound. The confusion of unit types is probably a reference to Han Solo bragging of doing the Kessel Run in "less than twelve parsecs" in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.

Collection

• 🥇: Michael Landon (#233582) - 9,435
• 🥈: gabrielgray (#1514605) - 3,407
• 🥉: mohindersuresh (#1514597) - 2,935
• #4: Pastahead (#486552) - 1,187
• #5: DevilCreme (#1488283) - 1,140
• #6: Mistress of the Obvious (#845708) - 905
• #7: Mikel (#92832) - 775
• #8: Mars the Infomage (#1264968) - 737
• #9: jlc2 (#2034002) - 633
• #10: volf (#1448028) - 627

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