Drone Variants

[Streaky Haddock]

 

So I was in IRC today and there were two neat ideas for Drone variants and I'd just like to see what everybody else thinks, and if anybody else has some more interesting suggestions. Bearing in mind these ideas come from people who have no idea how easy these are to implement.

 

Servitor Drone - Can carry items from A to B. Food, Tools, Beakers, Heads, whatever. Can dispense food from vending machines. Can be picked up and drank from like a reagent container, and displays whatever item/drink/whatever it is carrying on its head.

 

Law Drone - Resembles a briefcase. Can be carried and things can be placed inside and taken out of it just like a briefcase. Carries a Forensic Scanner, Voice recorder, can edit security records and has a Sec HUD and can summon Beepsky. It isn't allowed to directly intervene or assist in the capture of criminals and is sort of intended as an aid to the Warden, Detective, IA or NT Rep. Lawset would forbid anything beyond setting timers, updating records and scuttling along after the Lawyer.

 

[Regen]

 

Law Drone - Resembles a briefcase. Can be carried and things can be placed inside and taken out of it just like a briefcase. Carries a Forensic Scanner, Voice recorder, can edit security records and has a Sec HUD and can summon Beepsky. It isn't allowed to directly intervene or assist in the capture of criminals and is sort of intended as an aid to the Warden, Detective, IA or NT Rep. Lawset would forbid anything beyond setting timers, updating records and scuttling along after the Lawyer.

Sounds like a good warden, really

 

[Midaychi]

 

-- Farm Drone: A little spider-water tank or maybe a spider wearing a hydroponics bandana.

Would be there to help with botany; Would have a plant bag, syringe, a hoe, a bucket, a shovel, a mini-axe (can chop wood and pumpkins but can't be used for ghetto surgery or chopping people), ability to use hydroponics vendors, and it would have an organic claw for wielding botany-specific things instead of a magnetic grabber.

 

Also maybe it'd have a special module it can use to simultaneously place down a beaker labeled 'Um or Diethyl plz' and grow a pair of anime puppy eyes.

 

-- Scrubber Drone: a miniature spider-scrubber that can help to clean the air group it's in, has an internal pair of hyper-compressed air tanks they can switch to, wrench, air analyzer, selective scrubber module, air pump module, a pulse-fill and pulse-empty nozzle dock for using on tanks/canisters, and the ability to wrench itself to connector ports to empty or fill its air tanks. Maybe using a tank on a scrubber drone with the pulse module active would pulse fill what you use on it?

 

-- Autopsy drone: a miniature version of that cyborg sprite of the cyber-doc with the syringes poking out everywhere. Has the task of managing corpses in the morgue, making sure they're properly undressed and stored, and each has a cause of death printed out. They aren't allowed to interfere with any non-drone in the process of messing with the corpses, even if it's a changeling sucking them dry or the chef running off with an in-progress autopsy.

 

-- Forensics drone: A drone with a detective's hat, with a camera + universal recorder, fingerprint scanner and a forensics scanner, and an internal storage bay that captures photos taken/papers printed out. Also evidence bags, but laws specifically forbidding them from using the evidence bags for anything besides designated-by-security forces crime-scene investigation things that aren't currently being contested or reached for/used by anyone. Also the ability to remove evidence bags from forensics drone by hand, incase one's being a jerk about it or running off with your swag. They have the ability to deliver a parcel of data to the forensics office that can be slotted into the advanced scanner, but no ability to run/modify the advanced scanner themselves. Maybe skip the parcel altogether and just require a human to slot them into the advanced scanner, and for the drone to upload the scan data for analysis. Mostly intended as a detective's Aide, not a crime-finder/superhero.

 

-- Janitorial Drone: An assistant to the janitor cyborgs. Think the little scrubbing bubbles mascots, scurrying around on brushes. They'd have basic janitorial supplies and be tasked with assisting the janitor/janitor cyborg in keeping the station clean and well lit.

 

-- Courier Drone: A walking folder? Mini Cargo Tech figurine? I dunno. A drone whose specific job is to reply to pings on a specific section of the requests consoles, travel between departments, and write/template/design/handle paperwork. They'd have an internal storage bay and a printer (With template storage for copying from) for picking up/printing out paperwork and small parcels, and a copying module so they can copy/edit written papers for template printing later.. They would be the thing you would utilize for say; getting the HOP to authorize a borging request, or keeping track of things the R&D department gives out. Also to buzz furiously at people who refuse to handle paperwork, then skulk in some dark corner for the rest of the round, pretending to be a folder but then popping out for a jump scare.

 

-- Research Drone: An Anomaly hood with blinky eyes and spider feet. Job is to keep the science outpost orderly, to assist in researching the large artifacts, scanning rock slivers/filling the radiocarbons with coolant/fixing seals/ handling the sliver report and anomaly report paperwork Obviously can't do research by itself, as drones can't pull, would require human or cyborg assistance for anything involving pulling.

 

-- PDA Drone: An oddball. Doesn't have all access (but will have the access of an ID card slotted into it only if the ID card is still in the bot) or ability to manipulate computers and stuff, but can have pAI options activated if an inactive (or heck, active too. Why not?) pAI is slotted into it. Basically pAI 2.0 (although if its an active pAI, the functions would be limited to the pAI and not the drone).

They function as a pda for the person who uses them (Ie slots and registers a card), can manage notes and messaging (through messages sent by them are prepended to avoid confusion), can have pda carts loaded into them, have a chat display and limited emote functionality, and can be worn as a hat as well as in the pda slot. They can be run over any hat to replicate its visual looks (like a cham projector for your head), but not replicate any benefits or detriments of wearing said hat. Extra possible feature: PDA drones can chat with each other in the PDA messaging console IRC-Style, and the user of the PDA can access it. Has laws to prevent it from being a big tattle or screaming out to other PDAs if their user is getting nommed on by a changeling, etc. Their user would have to send those messages, or order the drone to do it directly. If their user dies and can't return, they just have to reset their ID (which resets all their notes and stored messages too) and find someone else to be a PDA-hat of.

 

-- Jukebox Drone: Basically a mini jukebox with spider legs, spews streaming music and has a shorter range than normal jukeboxes. Special laws require them to obey the wishes of humanoids pertaining to playing or not playing of music. People can also pick them up and use them, bringing up a fully functional jukebox interface. Also can function as a normal station intercom on request.

Finally, the jukebox you can wear on your head!

 

-- The Utilitool drone: Starts off looking like something silly. Can basically do nothing but move around and mail itself places. However, humanoids can pick them up and scan them on certain objects. This includes: Construction Tools, Surgery tools, Security gear (except for flashes/tasers/eguns/other inappropriate stuff), and anything else that makes sense for them.

Upon scanning, the tool will be stored in the Utilitool drone's database. Selecting the tool from the database causes the drone to morph into that tool. Either the Utilidrone or the Wielder can change what form the Utilidrone is in, and would replicate that tool's function exactly (except would be able to resist out of hands, have spider legs, self-motivation, etc.). They would have special non-involvement laws that require them to not have self-drive for their tool uses, only the wielder's intent/commands. Can scan a wider variety of forms when emagged.

 

-- Blueshield drone: Looks like a big badge with legs or something. Can't do much or have many modules, and their laws require them to obey the Blueshield. Their only purpose is to follow around/monitor the Blueshield's mark, and have a special module that can send a variety of different pings to the blueshield's PDA. Basically a walking death alert implant.

 

-- IAA drone: Maybe a mini fax machine or a coffee cup with legs or something. An IAA version of the Law bot that handles IAA affairs and can also act as a mobile fax machine for the IAA.

 

-- Library bot: Some sort of weird bot with spindly arms. Would be tasked with assisting the librarian with filling/sorting bookshelves, being a library-buddy, managing the book database, and managing checkins/checkouts for books.

 

 

And finally

-- Deathsquad drone: Like the research drone but a Deathsquad helmet instead of an anomaly hood. Admin spawn only, assists the Deathsquad with deathsquady things.

 

[Fj45]

 

Mining drone: do I really have to explain what it would do?

Space drone: EVA drone made to fix hull breaches, repair the outside of the station and explore space. Has a jetpack.

 

[DeletedUser]

 

Beep

 

 

[Qinetix]

Why not?