I grabbed a few video windows and started playback. The drones were coasting along Bender’s trail, SUDDAR ensuring that they didn’t lose it, when the transmission from one of them abruptly disappeared. The second one cut off a millisecond later, before even the AMIs could react in any meaningful way. The third, though, took a glancing blow or near miss or something. It was disabled, but managed to reconfigure SUDDAR and get a low-res scan before that signal also disappeared.