"You two going to behave?" she asked, after getting called to come in. The two drones didn't say anything, she hadn't given them any kind of intelligence - though a lot of people seemed to get along just fine without that - but liked to talk to them regardless. It was a huamnizing thing, and she liked those sort of things given the indefinite nature of her own existance.
Stepping in, she saw the two Nekos and the other groups. She had heard that Nekos were all clones of each other or somethingl ike that, so the similarities weren't really shocking.
"Hello, yes. I was out mining an asteroid field with my friend the other week and there were some big ones. And I thought, how do I get in? I could spend a few hours coring the thing out and peel it like an apple, but that's really labour intensive. Could blast it in half with a high power ship laser, but that'd vaporise half the ore, which is the whole purpose of being here in the first place.
So, my mind instead went to this" She'd let the first basketball-sized drone drop into her palm and pop open, emitters pointing to the roof and spiraling in an orbit around the drone. The lasers were short range, about twenty centimetres at best, but it was no wardrone, so that was not an issue. From there she displayed the 3d holographic video of the drone at hypothetical work.
"It's got a basic brain system that can fly a preprogrammed path, or can be controlled remotely if you prefer more hands on. Basic density scanner and drill lasers let it burrow through the rock and cut out chunks of large asteroids for the present miners to much more easily handle it without risk of payload or having to undergo lengthy labour. You can set a dozen of these to larger rocks and focus on the smaller rocks while it works. Convenience and efficiency in a small package. It is, The Rock-Splitter. It splits rocks. Literal naming convention"
She rambled a bit at the last before letting the drone return to it's hovering. And then looked at it for a moment.
"It doesn't hover. That's just a simple gravometric rig I cooked up so it would hover and look cool as I walked in. It uses loose ions as jolt-based vacuum propulsion" Egwene clarified, scratching the back of her head before looking to the next drone.
"Mining is really messy. Lots of dust and particulate matter. Easy to miss that there is ferric particles in these rocks that have spread out over time, too small to be noticed by most density scanners, but there anyway. So I made this to captialize on that. It's got four electromagnetic pads with storage bays behind it that can hold the metal dust it collects, and that can be reconstituted into proper ore when back on the ship. It won't be a ground breaking amount, but it will be more than otherwise got, and in a large field, you might see a good uptick in total output"
She then shuftled her feet and scratched her head a bit, looking nervous.
"It's...also, got a really...literal name. It is, the.....Rock...Sucker..."