Eh? It was 90 now it's 5 miles farther away? Is it looping around to try and come at me from the side?
I have the drones set up wreckage as camouflage around the core cabin, and move floating wreckage to fill the space where my cabin was originally floating in the debris field, taking care to ensure the repositioned debris is moving at the same rate of speed as the debris field's natural orbital speed, so they blend in.
While they do this I try to explain to them that I wasn't asking them to analyse the rouge's id, I was just asking whether they detected a drone frequenting that area while it's transponder may have been active.
I start mirroring my signals through the signal drone, and salvage drones as they are moving about to make the origin of my signal harder to pinpoint.
I start pinging the rouge's communication system, and wireless network devices in a effort to trigger involuntary responses that may include routing data, serial numbers, IMEI code, and module id designations, that could be searched on the drone build archives to identify the mystery drone/mech.
I check the rouge drone's speed, and broadcast capability against the baseline levels in the archive of known drone specs in a effort to deduce it's type. Whether it's a basic sensor drone, security mech, or some sort of security based variant concocted by Tack, Quack, or the engineering division while I was offline. Or some sort of alien mech.
The fact it's babble seems to be related to hostility to radio signals, I consider the possibility it may be a variant with enhanced sensory capabilities that may be overstimulated by large quantities of radio frequency based signal input.
To counter this I stop transmitting communications to it using common radio band channels, and start using less commonly used digital protocols. I start broadcasting radio wave canceling signals to squelch the signals from the planet, and our surroundings, in a effort to produce a cone-of-silence in the rouge's location that's only penetrated by my own transmissions.( basicly the same as current day noise canceling headphone technology that cancels out ambient noise by using a mirror frequency of the audio wave frequency to disrupt the unwanted sound wave forms.)
Tells the rouge, "Did you just call me a r-;#)]¥]| ? I'd pop you in the mouth if I had hands, and could figure out where your mouth is!"
Gives Gerbura a report of the situation as I know it, so he doesn't assume I've just gone off the deep end myself.
Continues to try a wake Quack.