Diligence Class Drone

Diligence Class Drones are rogue maintenance units found on planet Aether in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. Created by the Luminoth, the drones are composed of energy and generate it as an offensive measure. Their appearance and actions are seemingly based on the Scatter Bombu from Tallon IV.
They were the initial line of robots designed for cleaning duties and would do so by shooting focused beams to sterilize their environment from unwanted material. Being the predecessor of the Harmony-Class Drone, their range of movement is limited to small corridors. When the war against the Ing began, the Luminoth resorted to modifying several of their past inventions, including the Diligence, to be of some use as weapons against the enemy. Whether a result of this alteration to their programming or a lack of proper maintenance from their creators as their war dragged on, the Diligence Class Drones eventually went rogue and now attack anything that tries to cross their hallways.
When a drone is approached by Samus, it emits three constant streams of energy at the nearby surfaces from three red orbs that constantly rotate in a counter-clockwise pattern if she's facing the front of the drone; the fourth red orb, which seemingly serves no purpose, is always facing one end of the corridor and can be regarded as its "front". Because of the Diligence's movement, merely walking past it is impossible and will result in Samus getting harmed and pushed by the beams. They can only be destroyed with the Dark and Annihilator Beams, though it is possible to simply bypass them using the Morph Ball to quickly roll between the drones' beams.
Several of these drones were taken over by the Ing and turned into Dark Diligence Drones.
==Locations==
*Power Junction
*Dynamo Access
==Logbook entry==
==Trivia==
*Although the internal files explains the near identical appearance and behavior between the Diligence Class Drone and the Scatter Bombu, no in-universe explanation is given for this. It is safe to assume that the two entities underwent a process not dissimilar to the Triclops and Mechlops; an organism from Tallon IV brought over to Aether where the Luminoth would later build a robot based on it. It is known that the Chozo from Tallon IV once met the Luminoth, and therefore would explain how the Scatter Bombu reached the latter.
**A slight difference between the Scatter Bombu and Diligence Class Drone is that the Scatter Bombu emits streams of electricity, while the Diligence Class Drone emits energy beams.
**It is unknown what the drones' behavior was like when they were first built. By the time Samus encounters them, they are acting in an indistinguishable manner from their presumed Tallon IV counterpart, which is long after they were reprogrammed as tools of war and after they went rogue.
*Diligence Class Drones emit energy from three spheres positioned in an equilateral triangle. This symbol, resembling the Luminoth letter "F", is found on many other artifacts and creatures in Echoes, including the Luminoth themselves.
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Category:Aether
Category:Drones
Category:Sanctuary Fortress
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Category:Rogue
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Category:Luminoth Technology