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Beep Beep. Beep Beep. The commlink beeped inside Phobos' ship. XV50 Squad 6 combat drone "Phobos" please come in. You are in violation of citizins rights and due process. Please respond. XV50 Squad 6 combat drone "Phobos" come in and explain the fact that all of the witnesses are now dead.
"It still isn't responding General Hammond." A pretty officer turned with her headset on and reported to the general.

He was not a tall man and his bald head shone under the flourescent lights. He was a hard military man bulky but mostly muscle, though at his age it was starting to go flabby in the stomach area. He didn't get much opportunity for physical activity now that he was a general. You had to make the hard decisions and those often came from behind a desk and not on the bridge of a ship. He did miss the excitement of being out there but someone had to be in charge. He looked at the veiwscreen which showed the stars over mars and vaguely you could see the drones' ship flitting in the distance. It was clearer on the radar a small blip on the screen. The drone had become a problem. No longer following their orders but doing whatever it darn well pleased. At least it still attacked pirates but it would be nice to arrest them and gain info on what connections they had and also gain whatever booty they might have had still on the ship. And dang it, the Martian government weren't murderers. This was a democracy not a dictatorship.