Poly

## Purpose

### Description

Automatically rebuilds destroyed structures and assists other units in construction.

## General

### Abilities

Repair Field:* Repair Speed: 0.62/sec
* Range: 6.25 blocks

## Research

### Research Cost

2800  Graphite
2800  Silicon

The **Poly** is a Tier 2 support Air Unit on Serpulo obtained after upgrading a Mono through the Additive Reconstructor. It gains several new features, such as a set of repair missiles, the ability to build, and a pulse that heals nearby units for a small amount (5 health every 8 seconds). In addition, it is a faster miner and flier. As it is a support unit, they have access to an extended array of behaviour options from command mode, including repairing damaged buildings, automatically rebuilding destroyed blocks, mining ores, and assisting the player in construction. In most behaviours, Polies flee from enemy units and rarely attack.

Poly can be upgraded into the Mega through the Multiplicative Reconstructor, either directly or by Payload Conveyors.

## Command Mode Options

 Repair
 Rebuild
 Assist Player
 Mine

## Strategies

### **For**

The poly is the earliest source of unit-to-block healing and automatic rebuilding, which are extremely valuable in the late-game to save time and resources. Advanced blocks such as the Exponential Reconstructor, Spectre, and Impact Reactor all take tons of time to build but are largely alleviated with a group of support units at your side. Their repair is faster than a group of Mend Projectors and can always be set to mine ores if they are not needed. The rebuilding option is also very powerful for quickly taking care of damage from an enemy wave, although it will cost resources and may prevent you from building other blocks.

Unfortunately, the Poly is rather fragile and can get caught by enemy projectiles, especially if they splash or pierce with a large area of effect. By default, they will flee from enemies but refuse to when ordered to directly move. Instead of first moving them to a location and then ordering them, order them to immediately rebuild or repair and they will head off.

Even though none of their many abilities except for mining are especially potent (now being able to mine Coal), the new v7 command feature makes Polies very flexible around your base, instead of like Monos focused solely on mining. Call a team of them over to hasten the build time of the late-game structures such as Exponential Reconstructor, Spectre, and Impact Reactor. Their repairs extend the survival of walls and turrets, but be careful to not let them wander into enemy fire. When a breach occurs, Polies will slowly restore your entire defense and heal the Core ship. If you need none of these services at the moment, you can always send them to assist Monos for Copper and Lead. If you want Sand, Scrap, or Coal, you must instruct them to mine those.

## Changes

 Version 6.0, unknown builds
* Is now made by upgrading a Mono through an Additive Reconstructor.
* Can now be upgraded into the Mega.
* Gained Repair Field ability.
* Gained a healing missile weapon.
* Now flees from enemy units.
* Command limit of 8 added.
* Description changed:
	+ Old description: "An advanced drone unit. Follows users. Assists in block construction."
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## Trivia

* The Poly is the only Tier 2 unit without any armor.
* Poly is named after the Greek prefix poly-, meaning 'many'.
	+ This likely refers to their multi-purpose nature.
* The Poly's missiles can be reflected by Phase Walls and Shielded Wall. This results in the wall being healed as the missile is transferred to the Phase Wall's team upon reflection, which is absorbed by the wall to heal it. This means the Poly does not shoot a laser projectile unlike the Nova or Mega, as neither of the two's projectiles can be deflected by Phase Walls.
* Poly has a different AI when it is spawned on the Crux team and the setting 'AI Building" is off. It acts similar to a Zenith, staying a distance away from whatever it is attacking.