Axle hangs almost motionless in the night some five hundred meters above the
rooftop sign. In reality, he’s sitting in a van on the ground, but that is a
trivial detail. He’s jacked into his heavily modified Mitsuhama control deck and
flying his Aerodesign Condor LDSD-23 surveillance drone. It’s like hanging from
a balloon, dangling in empty air. Hydrogen gas cells provide lift. Turboprop 
rotors keep him on station. His eyes are Versatek zooms, thermographically 
enhanced, with a heads-up display in targeting mode feeding him data from his 
ground-seeking radar. He can see practically the whole world beneath him, every 
direction at once, kind of like looking through a super wide-angle lens, but 
without the distortion. Targeting sights direct his attention to everything that 
moves in the vicinity of the warehouse.