"Yeah, I'd need a real feed for that. Or an-- internet, whatever." It's still disgruntled about that too. "So, I can watch what the drone sees, myself, in realtime. And I think I can jury-rig a way to replay parts of that on the CRT-television. I just can't do it simultaneously, because of the data limit."

It sits forward, elbows on knees in a more human posture than Laertes has yet seen it take. "If I'm in the room with the screen, I can relay the video as fast as I can edit it -- cut it down into pieces the game machine can handle. That's still going to be a delay of several seconds. And I have to be connected the whole time; if something goes wrong, I'll have to stop the display before I can go handle it."