"Cheap plastic shit... My brother has one and he makes miniatures for his D&D games," Kale said. "But companies use them to create 3Ds of cars or other products. The one we had in the army we used to make spare parts of certain things. Apparently there's one that can make pizza... for a given value of pizza."

Not all scientists. He's friends with some very nice ones. The one in his unit was just annoying. "Field work is fun. I didn't get to do it as often as I'd like to. But there wasn't much call for it when I was in the army."