The first time Fox noticed something was going on was when he saw a group of troopers excitedly talking about something they were seeing on a data-pad and then proceed to shut up the second they noticed Fox entering the room.
Fox spent exactly one minute and thirty five seconds making his coffee in the mess hall. The men didn't even move. They were probably planning some pranks. Fox made a mental note to watch out for the next few days and also to make a point of subtly mentioning latrine duty as a possible punishment for misbehavior. That's how he dealt with pranksters the last time and all the times before that.
No pranks came. Or maybe Fox was just too tired to notice. If someone wanted to prank him by, say, putting something into his bed... Fox hasn't even touched his bed for more than a month. His only sleep were the few hours when he passed out in his office and his stays in the med bay.
Or maybe the troopers weren't planning a prank. Either way, something was still up. He's been seeing a lot of troopers having fun and suddenly stopping when he stepped into the room. A suspicious lot of shinies lied to him about something, too.
"Aww, there you go. Good girl."
"Thorn, we're supposed to be patrolling the area, not petting a tooka!"
Thorn made a face at Thire. He loved his vod but he could be such a prick. Didn't he see Thorn had more important things to do than patrol duty? "That can't wait. Little Lady here won't."
"Oh my god, Thorn, you're such-" The words died on Thire's tongue when the tooka ran over and started rubbing around his legs. "I guess it can wait for a bit."
"Hypocrite." Thorn grinned at him.
"Shut up, I'm enjoying my time with Starlight."
"Starlight? Seriously? That's no name for a tooka!"
"Better than calling her Little Lady." Thire shrugged as if he hadn't just insulted Thron's name idea. "How does the survey look like, anyway? The last time I looked, Jek's name was winning."
"I haven't looked since yesterday. I still don't know how we managed to keep this all from Fox."
"Honestly, I don't either. He usually knows about everything. I saw him almost catch some shinies looking at holos of Starlight."
"Stop calling her that! There's no way anyone is going to vote for Starlight. Well, safe for you."
Thire wanted to answer but then he heard it. The march of heavy shoes. A clone. No one was supposed to be around at the moment. So either some lost shiny or Fox on one of his trips for coffee.
Thorn probably came to the same realization as he started shooing the tooka away. By the time Fox was there, there were no traces of the tooka.
Hound was on a walk with Grizzler. Technically, the massiff was supposed to be locked in a cage when she wasn't required to help with a case but she has always been restless and Hound couldn't bear it to watch her desperately bump into the door of the cage in hopes someone would let her out. So a secret midnight walk it was.
If someone else than the vode knew, Hound would get in trouble, possibly even decommissioned, if anyone reported him but there wasn't really anyone except for a few troopers patrolling the area. The vode all knew about his occasional walks. Fox even gave him somewhat of a permission when he told him that as long as Hound didn't get caught, it wasn't his problem. So it was all fine as long as Grizzler was good and didn't make much noise. She was usually well behaved.
Grizzler started barking loudly for no apparent reason.
"Grizzler!" Hound hissed.
Grizzler didn't stop. Something must've really excited her by the way she was pulling the leash, trying to run off. It was probably that damn tooka everyone seemed to be obsessed with. Well, everyone safe for Fox who either didn't know about it, which would be weird but possible, or knew about it and let it slide which, let's be honest, seemed pretty impossible.
"Grizzler! Hush!"
Grizzler didn't seem to listen. She was trained to be calm in emergency situations, not in the presence of a tooka. She only calmed down after Thorn gave her a treat. He dragged her out of there just in time to avoid some random passerby. He was lucky. The tooka... Let's just say it wasn't going to be that lucky if Hound caught a glimpse of it in the following days.
"Catch her!" Shadow called. Him and his batch mate were trying to pet the famous tooka. Only the animal got scared for some reason and was running away from them. They would let her run but she was running out of the barracks, in the direction of the senate building, and they weren't sure what would happen if she decided to run there.
"I'm trying!" Titan called back as he almost grabbed the tooka before she successfully dodged his hand and continued her run.
They kept chasing it without success. Then Titan collided with a vod.
"Commander!" They both snapped into parade rest when they realized just who they had ran into. Shadow only interacted with commander Fox once but it wasn't something that he wanted to repeat. The commander was scary.
"Is everything alright, troopers?"
"Yes, sir."
"Is there a reason why you're running around like a couple of cadets?" the commander asked. Shadow was sure he was raising his eyebrow under his helmet. It was pure luck they couldn't see it, it would make the whole situation even more intimidating.
"No, sir," Shadow said.
"There is nothing unusual going on. There most certainly isn't a tooka," Titan said at the same time. Shadow was so going to kill him once they were out of the commander's sight. If the commander didn't do it first. The older troopers who knew him better made it pretty clear commander Fox could never find out about the tooka.
"Well of course there's not a tooka. What would a tooka be doing in the barracks?"
Shadow almost didn't stop a huge sigh of relief. He couldn't believe they actually got away with this.
"Get back to your posts, troopers. And I better not catch you running around here again."
"Yes sir." Shadow and Titan said in unison. They both snapped a quick salute before they got going. That was close.
Fox couldn't help shaking his head fondly as he watched the two shinies walk away. "Idiots."
He felt a small body rub against the plastoid armor on his leg. He knelt to pet the tooka with his gloved hand. "So you're chasing my troopers around the barracks now? A little naughty, aren't you, Riyo? To think they actually ended up naming you Cute. At least I named you after someone important, isn't that right?"
The cat purred as Fox lightly scratched it's head. Fox decided to take that as a yes.
"How long do you think it will take them to find out I actually brought you here? I think it's going to be a long, long time."
Star Wars: The Bone Wars is just an entire episode of the Clone Wars where the Coruscant Guard is running around the city trying to help a distraught Hound find Grizzler.
Meanwhile, Grizzler is sitting under a sleeping and exhausted Fox's desk back at HQ, chewing on a bone the tired Commander gave him before passing out in his office chair.
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Cámara de Nikon que convierte a los perros en fotógrafos
Nikon creó una cámara que convierte a los perros en fotógrafos. El aparato tiene un monitor cardíaco para disparar cuando las pulsaciones del animal se incrementan. Por el momento fue probado un border collie llamado Grizzler.
Nikon emprendió un proyecto denominado Heartography. Se trata de un plan que otorga el rol de fotógrafo a un perro. Para ello desarrolló una cámara especial que dispara cada vez que el animal se emociona.
El aparato pertenece al modelo Coolpix L31, pero tiene la particularidad de albergar un sensor cardíaco. De esta forma, cuando las pulsaciones del canino se incrementan el dispositivo toma un retrato.
El primer probador fue un border collie llamado Grizzler. Entre las fotos se encuentran siluetas de pies humanos, gatos en lo alto de un edificio, otros perros, flores, entre otros objetos. En este video se lo puede ver en acción.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a6fd-wvIdw
La compañía sólo utilizó la cámara para lanzar una publicidad en Asia. No se conoce si el gadget será comercializado en un futuro.
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