#daa drones

[+++Seraphim+++]

It appeared from nowhere, in a blinding flash of light so bright that caused the onlooking drones vision sensors to recalibrate, leaving them momentarily blinded. It is a figure veiled in flames, hung suspended in the air by six, great wings. From it came a sound, faint and distant yet it vaguely resembled singing. To the drones below, it seem like an angel but such is a falsehood which hides the Seraphim’s true nature.

The Seraphim disassembly drone model is a burning figure who’s usually veiled in flames that hang suspended in midair by three pairs of ornate wings. Upon closer inspection, past the fires that cling to it reveals a corpse of a drone, either a standard disassembly or a worker drone, in a constant state of burning and regenerating. The drone’s form is in a constant flux, melting and fusing together but still maintaining the general shape of the drone they were derived from.

The mechanics of how a seraphim model operates is largely unknown, due to its state of perpetually burning it is assumed that, similar to the Dragon disassembly model, that the Seraphim functions is based in the unfathomable powers of the Absolute Solver rather in any conventional robotics and engineering. From what has been observed, seraphim does not need to consume oil or other materials which is a major deviation from the other disassembly models, it also begs the question of how the fire it generate is fueled as well as its constant regeneration. The wings of the Seraphim are alike to a standard disassembly drones, these wings cannot be retracted and seemingly unaffected by the fire. The wings seem to be only for keeping the seraphim suspended in the air, for locomotion the drone utilizes teleportation which isheralded by massive release of thermal energy and bright flashes of light.

A seraphim’s main and only form of attack is the ability to project concentrated bursts of energy to ignites the air and flash melts materials. Seraphim are incapable of using their limbs, which hang uselessly from their melting bodies.

Seraphim have never been seen interaction with others of their kind nor with any other type of disassembly drone. If a seraphim appears within an area inhabited by other models of disassembly drone, the individuals will either flee or hide. They seem to wander aimlessly until worker drones are detected, which the seraphim will seek out and disassemble them.

[+++Aquanaut+++]

Introduction

Planets hosting oceans, seas and other large bodies of water are quite common within the universe and hidden below the waters of those alien oceans is a wealth of natural resources waiting to be tapped into. However, due to the extreme environmental conditions such as the extreme pressure and cold, accessing those resources is a herculean task. Humans cannot be sent into those conditions and standard worker drones would be crushed by the sheer pressure of the deep sea. So, in order to exploit these hordes of resources, humanity took to the drawing board the assembled the solution, the Aquanaut.

Design

Unlike the highly replaceable standard worker drone, Aquanaut drones were built to endure the harshest of conditions at the bottom of the sea and to last for decades upwards of centuries.

Aquanauts are large, standing at 8ft tall and are incredibly bulky. They are constructed from titanium alloys as to allow them to withstand extreme pressures of the abyss. Their frames are rounded as to evenly distribute the force of pressure being pressed upon them as well as being reinforced with internal stiffeners to prevent them from buckling.

To help maintain a steady internal pressure, Aquanauts are equipped with an internal array of pressure sensors. Should their internal pressure require adjustment, Aquanauts are equipped with a gas extractor and exchange system to pull available dissolved gasses from the surrounding water into their internals or to safely vent them.

To ensure that Aquanauts have a reliable source of power, they are not equipped with the standard array of rechargeable batteries but instead a downscaled nuclear reactor. This allows the Aquanaut to remain active for a theoretically indefinite amount of time.

Aquanauts lack the nanite repair system most drone variants are equipped with; this is due to the fact that even the smallest breach in their chassis will lead to a catastrophic implosion that will instantly destroy the Aquanaut. This renders a repair system meaningless if death is ensured.

Aquanauts also lack both mouths and audio sensors, with both being unnecessary weak points. Instead, Aquanauts communicate through short range radio signals, sign language and with their screens.

Behavior

Aquanauts are tireless workers, constantly working upon the seafloor to extract the resources below. Often working in companies of one to two hundred individuals, they may seem cold and intimidating but in actuality they are extremely social. While working, the Aquanauts will be in constant radio contact with the group they're with exchanging stories, singing songs and cracking jokes.

Aquanauts are supported by maintenance facilities staffed by standard worker drones; these facilities are jokingly nicknamed as fish bases by the drones that live within them. Aquanauts are extremely protective of the worker drones that staff the fish bases, as without them they would slowly die off. Aquanauts form deep bonds with these workers, often joining in on sleep piles even though they don't need to power down into sleep mode.

______________________________________________________________ Afterword

The Arachnomancer Disassembly Model are known to be extremely territorial. With most individuals willing to fight to the death to defend their nests and hunting grounds from members from any other disassembly drones. Paradoxically, they are also extraordinarily good hosts on the rare occasion they allow others into their nests. Composing a majority of these rare instances of hospitality is when two Arachnomancers come together to exchange base code as to undergo replication, the process of creating of a new drone. Due to their inclination for cannibalistic behavior, these code exchanges often end with one of the Arachnomancers being devoured. This does benefit the surviving Arachnomancer, as they gain a massive influx of materials which to fuel the creation process of their young as well as merging the devoured arachnomancer robo-arachnid swarm which bolsters hunting capabilities.

On average, an Arachnomancer will only undergo replication 0 to 2 times during their service life. This is due to them constructing around 50 to 100 new units within a single replication, though many of these young Arachnomancers are killed either from worker drones culling them, being eaten by other disassembly drones or being cannibalized by their siblings, also on occasion by their own parental unit. There are certain deviant individuals that will undergo replication dozens of times, each time with a different Arachnomancer who are devoured by the deviant individual. This causes the deviant to grow to prestigious size, often 3 to 5 times larger than an average Arachnomancer.

Once this transformation is complete, it triggers a radical change in behavior in all Arachnomancer within a vast area. Both the children of the deviant, now dubbed as an Overmatron, and unrelated arachnomancers will abandon their nests to migrate to the nesting site of the Overmatron. Once gathered, the arachnomancers will submit themselves to the will and service of the Overmatron and they shall begin to construct a massive web structure known as Stronghold, where the Overmatron shall reign from until her death.