Drone Reactionary Force

The **Drone Reactionary Force** (**DRF**) is a militaristic drone faction led by LastStandGamers, AKA Arron. They served as the primary antagonist faction of 'Space Engineers: Colony Survival' and 'Space Engineers: Colony WARS'.

## History

### Colonist Cold War

#### First Encounters

On an unnamed Earth-like planet, Captain Jack Roberts led a ten-man crew of Colonist Survivors (CSS) living a peaceful life. However, the DRF also have a significant presence in that system, and desired to wipe out the Colonists or force them to leave. Arron, the leader of the DRF, used his drone units to spy on the Colonists' main base for weeks until the first move was made.

At first, Arron deployed multiple drop pods loaded with explosives (nicknamed "care packages") onto the Colonists' base, but they failed to cause any major damage on impact, and only alerted the Colonists to a potential threat. However, the second wave of about a dozen A-Bot Drone units encircled the base and moved in, slowly floating closer until they were within weapons range. Commander Craz's CNL Fighter was shot down and some minor damage was caused to the base and the CSS's Wyvern-class Gunship before all the drones were destroyed.

##### Gunship Theft and Recovery

In the chaos of the aftermath, Arron personally snuck into the underground hangar of the base and hijacked a gunship built by CSS member iValz. Several Colonists noticed the gunship flying away, but everyone assumed it was another Colonist flying it for some reason, until Captain Roberts noticed it was missing. They then launched a mission to a nearby outpost where Arron had stashed it and stole it back, although it was armed with a time bomb that exploded after a few minutes of its reclamation. Coordinates from a DRF drone team which had located a crashed starship elsewhere on the planet were also obtained by the Colonists as they retreated.

#### Convoy Attack

The next major engagement between the DRF and the CSS came when the Colonists deployed their new Rhino-class Mobile Base and a variety of smaller escort rovers to investigate the coordinates of the crashed ship. Arron ordered ground-based A-Bots to intercept them as the CSS convoy reached a DRF staging point in a savannah about twenty-five kilometers from the crash site. He also launched multiple giant cruise missiles from orbit, which heavily damaged the *Rhino* even without a direct hit.

However, as the Colonists pressed on to the site, the DRF had beaten them there, placing multiple squadrons of A-Bots around strategic canyon walls, boxing the Colonists in, although they managed to hold off the drones long enough to rescue the survivors of the crashed ship, Finn and Max. Arron also attempted to sneak aboard the Rhino and attack the CSS crewmen manually, but failed, only managing to hide a warhead aboard the mobile base before fleeing.

#### Takeover of the Colony Base

The DRF prepared a massive attack on the Colony Base, using two 300mm "Death Wheel" drone platforms escorted by a swarm of A-Bots and a few other drone models. Using the same tactics as the first attack, they surrounded the base and closed in, annihilating much of the surface-level base and severely damaging the Colonists' newly-built rocket transport. Multiple A-Bots attempted to stop the rocket from taking off but failed; nevertheless the Colonists had fled the planet's surface, leaving the DRF to take control of their former base and turn it into a production plant for drone units.

Space Operations

At some point, the DRF located the CSS's new space station, Watchtower Station, and sent a few space-variant A-Bots to attack it, altough very little damage was done. The DRF also attacked a freighter passing through the system, which was equipped with both bubble shield technology and a Spinal Laser Cannon. However, the Colonists managed to steal the freighter before the DRF could fully take control of it, granting them access to those pieces of tech. A few larger DRF ships of an unknown class attempted to attack Watchtower, but using the new Spinal Laser and shields, the CSS defenses made short work of them. However, the Colonists left the station and traveled back down to the planet with the rocket and the freighter, named the *Vanguard*, in order to try and reclaim their old base. Using their absence, the DRF sent a squadron of A-Bots to secure the space station and wait for them to return.