Some sort of video storage cubes

Heineman was marginally appeased when he was saluted by the soldiers of the Senate Guard as he strode past the Guardian Wards. Still, he could have wished the guards had been armed with fryguns rather than those distressingly quaint feudal-age jaghooks and turtle prods. The prospect of an encounter with foreigners from the Gulf and the Chasms always put such thoughts in his mind.
'We should ask for free showcubes,' said Nodo, speaking when they were just inside the Guardian Wards, in the circular courtyard known as the Senate Sanctum.
'Later,' said Heineman, who did not want to talk about showcubes, not right then. [NoP Ch3]

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