On his ninth birthday subgranules was given a plasmonic energy-transducer from his father.\xa0 Back then, you could still buy consumer grade tabletop tokamak reactors, so it wasn't unusual that he was trusted with such a modest power source.\xa0 What his father did not anticipate was subgranules' knack for getting large results from little material.\xa0 Salvaging the best parts from abandoned terraforming equipment, subgranules soon modified an aerial scout drone so that it was fast enough to keep pace with the Hey'kuum Sentinels.\xa0 Local authorities were alarmed that a civilian could build something that could match military grade equipment, and so on its maiden run buzzing the crowded market in L'Espace R'ughn, they shot it down.\xa0 Burning debris from the wreck set fire to a nearby liquid oxygen storage silo creating a minor firestorm, luckily causing minimal casualties.\xa0