A thing called "Torque"
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Torque
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Their bilateral symmetry. Their skeletons and skin. Their intakes and exhausts. oft noted the many similarities between animals and artifacts, especially when it came time to feed the gun. Its need for oiling and cleaning likewise seemed indicative of a kind of mechanical metabolism.
And when fired, it birthed a litter. A litter of small fast death-puppies.
The opposing actuators in each smart-bullet are like the opposing muscles in the limb of an animal, their differential actions torque the canonical projectile, guiding it, an angry gnat, into the airplane’s anus.
Explosions. Fierce and alive. The combusting souls. . .
. . .of machines.