Hey Drone, Stay In Your Layer

Strict limits imposed on personal and non-commercial drones.

I had to revisit the selfie-drone timeline I explored some time ago to pick up my waxed jacket from the tailor. As I landed the janky time machine, a bright white flash caught my attention in the corner of my eye. It was a photo radar drone snapping a picture, citing me for surpassing the height restriction. I had no choice but to fly that high, as the slipstream nozzle descends from above.

Apparently, only commercial and government aircraft are allowed to soar beyond the Hypermetrosphere - an invisible boundary in the sky where anything flying beneath it is affected by a visual distortion field that causes all sensors and cameras to become nearsight-blind. Pilots navigating below this line can’t see the terrain they are flying over. In contrast, anything positioned above the Hypermetrosphere can potentially spy on the ground, like the drones operated by the Amazon Political Party Government and the Nabisco Military aircraft.

My dot-matrix signal interpreter relayed the details of the ticket to me.

Lucky for me I’m rocking retro reflective adversarial plates spoofing a non-existent AVTOL vehicle. So, good luck mailing me that ticket Po Po.

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