From: Tom Rutley (old_man_tom@intermail.fen)
To: Military Fen ML (recipient list supressed)
Subject: RE: Elephant Sightings #024. Spotted on Mars
Date: 31 July 2017
To: Military Fen ML (recipient list supressed)
Subject: RE: Elephant Sightings #024. Spotted on Mars
Date: 31 July 2017
Quote:Avril and I took a good (long-distance) look at the Kuat Drive Yards test ranges while we were making a areographic photography run for Google, and we saw your elephant being wheeled into one of their hangars. This birdie does look something like that royal ship out of Episode I; maybe that's what they're trying to build.It might be a scale model for aerodynamic tests, maybe an unpowered glider or even a wind tunnel mock-up. As to the who and the why, my mildly educated guess is that Kuat's trying to make a sportier competitor for the Bolithio.
If it is a Warsie bird, who's funding it and why did they wait so long to build it? And why is it so small compared to the source material?