Use of the term "pulya" without any modification tended to irritate knowledgeable interlocutors in exactly the same way as pre-Zero gun nuts had reacted to laypersons who used the word "bullet." This reflected the fact that pulyas came in an even vaster range of sizes and types than old-school ammo. There were only so many things that could be done with a lump of lead. A far wider range of options lay open to the pulya engineer. An alternative term, "ambot," was also used. This was all context dependent. Grunts, who tended to see these things as necessary burdens to be hauled around in bulk, loaded into kats, unjammed from firing mechanisms, etc., tended to use "pulya," but once the projectile had actually been fired and begun to execute its program, it tended to be called an "ambot." When speaking of bulk supplies, people would say "botmo" in the same way that "ammo" had been used on Old Earth.