The sharp report of a gun burst the silence, and a moment later the gate swung open.

Armatures are quadruped all-terrain heavy weapons platforms, akin to the armored fighting vehicles of other races. Geth being synthetic intelligences, armatures are not crewed vehicles, but intelligent entities, capable of independent decision-making and learning.

He then brings a second action in a West Dakota state court for property damage to his car. Quigley pleads res judicata. Under the Full Faith and Credit Clause and § 1738, the West Dakota court must consider whether Altieri's second action would have been barred by claim preclusion if he had brought it in East Dakota.

Well, we have seen this kind of phenomenon before, and the long-suffering reader will now be expecting a chapterful of negative results on the finite base property for relation-type algebras.