Re: Name that doodad, greeble, keg of beer, or whatever.

Thomas Anderson wrote:

> > > The thing is that they both have a thing on the front that looks
like a
> > > 55 gallon oil drum.  ... The big question is what could they
possibly be?

An (expanding) Fascine, for dropping into deep ravines, which would
otherwise overload the Grav generator (which actually requires proximity
to mass to operate).

There. Nice, simple.  
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