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2011-11-18 Africa Horn

US terror drones kill 13 in south Somalia

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Posted by Fred 2011-11-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
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#1 liquidation drones Cool Name!

Posted by Water Modem 2011-11-18 10:33|| 2011-11-18 10:33|| Front Page Top

#2 The Predator
The Hunter
The Reaper
The Liquidator

Indeed, a cool name.

Posted by Steve White 2011-11-18 11:06|| 2011-11-18 11:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Rapid Offensive Unit

Rapid Offensive Units (ROUs) consist of little more than engines, weapons and the ship's Mind. While some ROUs are crewed, the crew complement on such vessels is much smaller than those of the more general purpose ships of the Culture, such as General Contact Units and General Systems Vehicles. ROUs and their demilitarised versions, Very Fast Pickets, are the Culture's fastest ships and have so far been described as having been outrun only once, by a GSV that self-optimised for speed (in the novel Excession). Immediately after the Idiran War, ROUs of the period could also be outrun by the small number (described as a limited edition by the Drone Skaffen-Amtiskaw) of Continent Class, subtype Prompt GSV. Subsequent developments have of course rendered this state of affairs obsolete, though the events involving the Excession give the lie to this assumption.

Known classes are:

Killer Class (200 meters long)[10]
Torturer Class
Psychopath Class
Gangster Class
Thug Class
Inquisitor Class (prototype)
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Posted by mojo 2011-11-18 11:55|| 2011-11-18 11:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Wait until the Ogre comes on-line.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-11-18 12:53|| 2011-11-18 12:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Or The Liquifier.

Posted by Grunter 2011-11-18 12:59|| 2011-11-18 12:59|| Front Page Top

#6 How about The Atomizer?

Posted by gorb 2011-11-18 13:53|| 2011-11-18 13:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Duckybunnypuppykittenmasher(tm)

Posted by M. Murcek 2011-11-18 15:00|| 2011-11-18 15:00|| Front Page Top

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