Chassis
Often built with a low profile to avoid return fire, an artillery drone is a mobile weapons platform strong enough to support the heaviest of ranged armaments. Its heavily armored core belies its exceptional agility and mechanical precision, allowing the drone to perch atop precarious vantage points and make tiny adjustments to line up the perfect shot. |
Bigger than other chassis options, the combat drone moves along the ground and is outfitted with wheels, tracks, legs, or a similar form of propulsion. This drone is designed specifically for battle. It has an armored body and multiple weapon mounts, allowing it to pack a variety of armaments. |
The smallest of the chassis options, the hover drone is made from a lightweight frame equipped with miniature hoverjets, rotors, turbofans, or a similar form of aerial propulsion (small legs or wheels provide propulsion on land). This drone can fly at a good pace and avoid obstacles, but it is not very stealthy. |
Often built to resemble a sapient species, the protocol drone is an adept translator and negotiator programmed to sense and adapt to a wide variety of social situations and domestic tasks. |
Among the smallest of all drones, the sage drone is an ambulatory supercomputer designed to analyze its surroundings and provide real-time advice. The drone readily identifies and reacts to danger, proving an adept combatant despite its lightweight frame and minimal armor. |
Sleek and covered in a light-absorbing alloy, the stealth drone prowls along the ground on multiple small legs, silenced wheels, an air cushion, or some similar form of propulsion. This drone specializes in stealth and infiltration and can vanish almost entirely from sight as long as it remains perfectly still. |
Compact and resilient, the stormscout drone was developed on Shimrinsara to survive deadly weather and even direct lightning strikes—defenses that make them popular across the galaxy for entering dangerous areas, collecting samples for scientific examination, and recording their surroundings. |
Reinforced to shrug off falling debris and rescue cave-in victims, the tunnel drone uses a combination of digging apparatuses, sensors, and heavy limbs to detect, access, and (if necessary) subdue subterranean objectives. |
