Support Drone
 Support Drone
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The best friend of the man-about-ship, this drone can carry out many tasks in your place.
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1 x Found in Daedalus | |||||||||
The Support Drone is a robot designed by 
Terrence which can perform generic utility tasks, like repairs, across the ship. The Daedalus starts with one Drone already built and active, and additional ones can be created via the Extra Drone NERON Project and 
Blueprints provided by the 
Robotics Expert skill. Drones, like 
Schrödinger, can be carried in your inventory and dropped off in any room.
Drone Actions
Drones carry out tasks at the end of every cycle. Having multiple Drones in a room increases the chance of success, as each Drone will launch its own, separate attempts at performing the action.
The Drone will attempt to perform one (or two with Turbo upgrade) of the following tasks per cycle, ordered by priority:
- If upgraded with Pilot, the Drone will board a Patrol Ship in the room and shoot Hunters.
- This lasts until all Hunters have been destroyed or the ship runs out of ammunition.
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Magnetic Net does not work as with human pilots: it doesn't land unmanned ships. The patrol ship stays with Daedalus during the move.
- If upgraded with Firefighter, the Drone will attempt to extinguish a fire in the room.
- The extinguishing action takes place before fire appears, so the drone can't insta-extinguish a fire before it does damage.
- The Drone will attempt to repair a broken object in the room.
- Base success chance and improvement per cycle are the same as those of a non-
Technician human.
- Unlike humans, Drones do not require
Scrap Metal to repair broken spacecraft.
Bug: Can repair a hidden broken object. The object remains hidden, but there will be a room log about the object being repaired.
- Base success chance and improvement per cycle are the same as those of a non-
- If there is nothing left to do, the Drone will randomly wander into an adjacent room.
- This happens even if it's in a character's inventory.
Upgrading Drones
A single Support Drone can be upgraded multiple times by a Robotics Expert. Each upgrade takes 2 Scrap Metal. The same upgrade cannot be applied twice.
Available upgrades:
- Firefighter: Can extinguish fires. The drone also becomes immune to fire.
- Turbo: 80% of changes to perform 2 actions instead of 1 each cycle.
- Pilot: Patrol ships are usable for the drones.
Tips
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Drones cannot randomly break. They can only break by fire or sabotage, which is not announced by NERON, or by  Green Jelly, which is announced by NERON.
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- Drones do not act as characters or
Cameras for the purpose of action privacy, meaning they will not affect 
Covert or 
Secret actions.
- Drones start with the same efficiency as a non-technician, but their efficiency increases with time. After a few repairs, they have a permanent 99% chance to succeed all repairs.
- Try to keep tabs on where Drones are, as they have a habit of wandering aimlessly around the ship and it might take a while to find one when you need it. Keeping a Drone in inventory won't stop it from sneaking away on cycle change.
- Drones are the preferred means of repairing Patrol Ships and the Pasiphae as, unlike humans, they don't need Scrap Metal to do so.
List of attributes
- This item is can become
Broken, requiring repairs before it can be used again.
- This item can be broken (rather than destroyed) when exposed to by
fire.
- This item grants a passive benefit when deployed in a room.
- This item cannot be hidden.
- When examined, this item displays the following text:
- The support drone fulfills the automatic maintenance objective planned for the Magellan project. Employing the Beta-Slave protocol it is almost possible to replace a human being. Aside from the minor issue of building the thing...
