[Note: The following was recovered from a pre-Apocalypse War military training film, and illustrates yet another technology lost because of the War. - H]
“We Marines believe in close air support. Since the USAF is usually too busy to visit Earth, the Corps has assigned each of you your own personal air force. That gadget bolted onto the back of your M-70 armor is the M-823 Apshai personal-defense hive. It houses four Nanodynamics microbot cyberswarms, radiothermal-generator powered, with mission-tailored equipment packages. The repair and medical swarms will fix up you and your suit, with the hive having ducted access to your suit interior. The explorers are expendable recon assets whose utilization you should maximize in built-up areas. The devourers provide close personal protection against hostile swarms, and an antipersonnel capability against anyone stupid enough to close with you. Trust your swarmies like your brothers. They are a gestalt intelligence composed of 4,000 tiny little buddies programmed to do just one thing: look after your sorry butts.”
-Gunnery Sergeant Juanita Rodriguez-Martello, USMC, 2060
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