For example, in one level you might be franticly defending escape pods while you wait for them to launch, and the next you'll be manning
an orbiting weapons platform, raining down destruction on the robotic insectors.
In a great transitionary, associative image to the next segment many eons later, the tossed bone (tool /
weapon) instantly rotates and dissolves into a white,
orbiting space satellite from Earth - a technological instrument, tool,
weapon (
orbiting nuclear
platform) or machine from another era that was ultimately derived from the first tool -
weapon.