This is an area the Slow Mover can defend with the inside edge of one his flails and even when dormant may automatically do so if alerted to our presence. It is unusual for a flyer to be caught by a flail, especially if the Slow Mover is dormant, but sometimes a dormant Slow Mover will bring the inside flat edge of a flail down hard on an exposed surface. Extinction is immediate and the flyer's cargo is lost, often spilt onto the Slow Mover's exposed panels. It requires a lot of training to prevent our younger flyers from return to spillage areas. Once one flyer has been downed, and especially when there has been a spillage, even a dormant Slow Mover will upgrade its defence systems and activate a flail.
Flails then are our main problem.
They stand between us and our ordained task of removing life fluid from exposed areas of Slow Movers. The Slow Mover defends his liquid life resource by the mechanical use of flails and attachments and by some biochemical and electro-technological apparatuses. This irritation leads to a quite irrational anger at our flying operations, often provoking an attack on flyers who are not contemplating an extraction. In those moments, the Slow Mover definitely declares 'war' on us flyers and with quite disproportionate effects - the extraction on the one hand of a few millilitres of life fluid as opposed to the destruction of various flyers and their machines. I well remember our very first instruction sessions.