DART

An upgraded version of the Commander, the DART II (Dalmer Agent of Recovery and Termination) as such, is the second version of Robotic Agent in operation.

The DART was originally an experimental foraging robot, pioneering the genre of autonomous exterior agents, its original function was to forage for food and supplies when the underground productions could not suffice to the needs of the stronghold.

As versions progressed, the DART took on a more and more offensive role; recovery, cleansing infested areas, assassinations, and intelligence gathering became common missions for the polyvalent automaton.

Despite advances in the programming capacities of the DART, the mainframe couldn’t keep up with the updates and sheer quantity of programs, resulting in an increased possibility of failures the more programs were installed. Soon, all DART units were given the same basic programs for combat, survival, stealth, as well as magical skills, thanks to a mana reservoir.

**The High Kings model:**

The High King, in an effort to save his deformed son, placed him in stasis, and created Incubus, a technology company that would develop under his leadership revolutionary radio wave technology allowing his son to control the Dart over unlimited distance, for this he developed the  following technologies:

* **Infinite radio wave emitter**: this ultra powerful emitter allowed the Dart to be operational anywhere in the Dalmer kingdoms, which was a primordial objective for the High King, and later the Dart would improve the emitter to become operationnal anywhere in the empire, and then on a global scale
* **The speech module** (since his son could not speak, the Dart had the unique capacity to speak freely)
* **The brain wave translator**, which allowed his sons thoughts to translate as the Darts actions
* **The walking module**, since his son in stasis wouldn’t know how to, this module would allow him to simply think of movement and naturally move in the intended direction.
* **The comprehension module**, since his son received no formal or social education, this module would allow him to interact with the world. Interestingly, this allowed the Dart to communicate without prejudice to machines and other races alike

These technologies, given their controversial nature compared to Dalmer ethics, were developed by the High King in reclusive areas where he could operate in (mostly) complete secrecy, such as **Sarhals Respite** or **Ancrage**.

**Controlling:**

The DART comes in two variants, the Cloud or the Bollam

**Cloud**: The cloudina is the armor variant of the DART, requiring a conductor inside the armor.

**Bollam:** The Bollamatam is the remote controlled version of the DART, requiring a pilot to drive the DART via a console.

**Weaknesses:**

The main weakness of the DART is the nature of its missions, being in the open world means that it cannot follow directives the same way constructs, fabricants, centurions or robots do, as such the DART is confronted to exterior threats, the weather, environmental hazards, local populations, wild animals, the danger of the DART bringing back diseases, the danger of the DART malfunctioning and being captured by enemy forces and many others explain the relatively limited use of autonomous DARTs', preferring remote controlled units, in the hands of a trained engineer.