A Success (well, mostly)

At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not intrepid, which is why we organized the expedition into the primary "nest" of the nano-robotic lichen last weekend. Thanks to the skilled participation of many of our finest operatives we were able to successfully eradicate this concentration of nano-robotic lichens and free the local citizens from their horrible grasp, but due to some complications the operation took slightly longer than we had hoped and allowed a small number (less than a few dozen) of these nano-robotic menaces to escape via a small aircraft that had apparently been prepared for their escape by the evil scientists from Darkle. We are reviewing the mistakes that caused the delay in the eradication and the holes in our intelligence gathering apparatus that allowed the small aircraft to escape our attention, but we are confident that with the NARLD devices you have installed you will continue to be safe, and that we will find these few escaped lichens over the next couple of days.