NARRATOR: Meanwhile, in a nearby virtual space...
PETEY: Did you get anything useful out of the data burst from Chinook's drones?
PUTZHO: I did. Correlating it with aperture resonances from the beam has provided a few thousand candidates for the gun's location.
PUTZHO: Our Oafan friends are running those down now.
PETEY: Considering the current trade imbalance between us, I think it's more accurate to call them “our Oafan employers.”
PUTZHO: Considering the number of long guns they have at their disposal, I want to call them friends.