Shared my stryder idea with Alesya over a secure channel, and she gave me some great feedback for improving the concept.
She suggested tricking out my mek workhorse with interchangeable instrument arrays for more functionality, and to throw in manual control, in case our ship's crew wants to saddle 'em up for any jobs in the future.
Good thinking.
I winced when she said she wished she had one of my striders back when she was sampling battlefield contaminants.
But she probably has no idea I'd designed a lot of the weapons that caused the damage she used to study.
At least, I hope she doesn't.
I signed off after promising Alesya a stryder or two to try out on the Farm.
I'm curious if something that big clomping around will disrupt the artificial ecosystem they've got going up in orbit.