He offered them the direction of the test lab and they went to it.
"It seems that my father has sent to you some more men, Burman?" Lloyd questioned Burman, in passing.
"Yes, Lloyd. They have been invaluable. Already we have attained a forty percent increase in our production levels and only three percent of that is rejected as battle perfect." Burman sounded proud and Boyce was pleased.
Boyce remembered the day that he and Lloyd first set foot inside Alugean. It was a huge lifeless place full of silence, machinery and cratesful of supplies.
They went into the test lab and watched a half dozen men and women trying out the strength of the small, hand-sized weapons.
Twenty meters from them were sheets of different materials, that came down automatically after the weapons were tested out on each piece of the materials.
Materials of plastic, glass, wood, splintered and burned up after a single blast of the small guns that had both laser and electrophoric capabilities built into them.
The power of the small weapons evenly cut into the strongest metal slabs that they had on which to test these devices.
Burman was pleased to flaunt the devices that he helped to construct and both Lloyd and Boyce were impressed.
Lloyd looked at the weapons and tested the weight in his own hand. He fired a shot of the electrophora at one of the foot thick pieces of the wood and it splintered into a countless number of pieces.