Thumpertm -

Thump-thump-thump. Pause. Thump.

To the children, it was something else.

When OrbitalCorp finally sent an auditor to investigate the drop in “resource anxiety” (their term for fear-driven compliance), she found a strange sight: a circle of children and miners sitting around a dormant cyan-stenciled machine, holding hands, their visors fogged with warm breath. ThumperTM

“Just a little thump.”