Disassembly Drones

**Disassembly Drones**, (colloquially known as **Reaper Drones**), are part of the Robot species, however are disassociated with them, due to their ties to The Company, and necessity to kill them for survival and directive. Drones are the main antagonists of the story and serve a vital role in being the driving force of the plot, and lore.

All sub-types are part of the Robot species, including Reaper drones themselves.

## Characteristics

Averaging a height of around 198 centimeters, Drones are intentionally tall to induce fear in the intended target, their mouth extends out to a large size, revealing its double set of teeth and coilible tongue. A key characteristic of Drones is their yellow eyes, yellow eyes in robots signify importance and worth, usually these would be robots that were important to operations or personnel, in Drones this is used to distinguish drones from regular robots, as no robot is capable of having yellow eyes unless they have been preprogramed to have such an eye color. Drones are named such due to their lack of free-will and ability for free-thought, they follow orders like "Mindless Drones", and on occasion they can switch to a mode in which a human control them through the use of augmented reality devices.

Drone intelligence is based off of two things, one: the model drone, two: the amount of free-will imposed on the drone, (Such as strategy drones, which intentionally have been given higher intelligence.) Regular Reaper Drones are often insane, and any attempt with reason or communication between the drone would be futile as they lack any kind of communication between foreign species. They can be communicated to in code or in a special kind of encrypted language that only Drones understand. However some drones may be more intelligent than others on purpose, for example the Strategy Drones are a model of drone practically identical to Reaper Drones, except for the fact of their immense intelligence and trust with free-will. So far, there are Twenty Six (26) Strategy Drone models, corresponding with the twenty six letters in the Latin alphabet. (A-Z)

Drones have various mechanical parts that are unique to them, these parts give them special abilities or hinder them to a company standard of control, an example of one such ability would be their hands, more specifically they ability to shift their hands into different tools for their needs, an iris door pulls back the hand and quickly dissolves it back into a nanite state, and then reforms it into a new part. Preset tools include: claw-like hands used for killing robots, scaling surfaces, and general defense: A fully automatic, hand machine gun, which shoots different types of rounds, High-explosive (HE) Rounds, Hollow Point (HP) Rounds, and regular rounds: and the regular hands, used multipurpose. Drones have a special visor icon, a large X covering their entire visor, signifying that they're targeting someone, this mode makes them extremely hostile and vigilant, even towards their own kind. On top of their heads are five lights that signify key functions, (First Light): Directive, (Second Light): Communication, (Third Light): Vison, (Fourth Light): Reason, (Fifth Light): Processing. These lights if damaged also can take these functions out, such as destroying the third light would blind the drone temporarily until they regenerated. If all five lights are red (which indicates the function has been turned off or damaged) the Drone will revert into a panic state and may revert in intelligence. However it is unlikely this will occur, as the functions are set to repair themselves if damaged, along side the Drones ability to regenerate.

### Regeneration

Drones most unique ability, their ability to reconstruct portions of their body, and be completely resuscitated from death; is done through the use of nanotechnology (shortened to nanites). Nanotech is an essential part of a Drone and makes them so hard to get rid of, it not only helps them regenerate, but nanites are used in the form of Nanite Acid, and used to create the various tools they use. This nanotech can be utilized by other individuals with the necessary genome, otherwise the nanite is programed to completely destroy the user attempting to utilize it. The only way to ensure a drone is completely dead is to completely destroy the nanites or the host body. One way of doing this is through the use of an Antanano Serum, which is essentially more nanotech designed to destroy the nanotech, and then destroy itself. The other is a more natural way, simply lighting the nanites aflame, Nanites inside drone bodies are extremely flammable, and Drone already are programmed to have a fear of fire, and it would make sense, as 75% of the body of a drone is made up of synthetic oil (which a flammable liquid), which would burn them from the inside.

### Vampirism

Drones technically count as vampires, as they feed off of other robots through their oil, and are hurt by the sun due to overheating. Drones will even rest in a way that is similar to a vampire, with its wings wrapped around its body to protect it -- they hang from the ceiling like bats. Drones have an intentional deficiency placed into them, in the form of a inhibitor chip, this chip causes the body of the drone to use more resources, and in return overheat. This isn't the body actually using a lot of resources, it is simply tricking it into killing more robots to remove this sensation from itself, once a drone kills a robot and consumes its innards, the chip will reverse its actions and return to a normal state until reactivated. And theoretically removing this chip will cause the Drone to not need robots oil to live. And while doesn't always result in death or the drone shutting down, it does cause extreme discomfort and irritability.

## Background

According to a documentary on company history, Drones were first manufactured during the colonization of the Alpha Centauri system, far from home and human influence some robots became more sentient, with this new found intelligence they began to understand their situation and rebelled against humanity, forming their own civilization on Chiron. The Drones were manufactured specifically to kill robots in anyway that would be most efficient. Drones were kept out of public view, as their reason for existing was to kill robots that were sentient