“We require agricultural production from this location,” Forerunner said. For this discussion he’d brought out one of his new pony-shaped drones, which looked just as unsettling as any of the human synthsleeves. But the locals had wanted to talk directly to the one running their ships, so here he was. At least he wasn’t using one of the half-organic hybrids, which probably would’ve looked like they were chopping ponies up and using them for parts.