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Overmatron Variant of the Arachnomancer Disassembly Model

The Arachnomancer Disassembly Model are known to be extremely territorial. With most individuals willing to fight to the death to defend their nests and hunting grounds from members from any other disassembly drones. Paradoxically, they are also extraordinarily good hosts on the rare occasion they allow others into their nests. Composing a majority of these rare instances of hospitality is when two Arachnomancers come together to exchange base code as to undergo replication, the process of creating of a new drone. Due to their inclination for cannibalistic behavior, these code exchanges often end with one of the Arachnomancers being devoured. This does benefit the surviving Arachnomancer, as they gain a massive influx of materials which to fuel the creation process of their young as well as merging the devoured arachnomancer robo-arachnid swarm which bolsters hunting capabilities.

On average, an Arachnomancer will only undergo replication 0 to 2 times during their service life. This is due to them constructing around 50 to 100 new units within a single replication, though many of these young Arachnomancers are killed either from worker drones culling them, being eaten by other disassembly drones or being cannibalized by their siblings, also on occasion by their own parental unit. There are certain deviant individuals that will undergo replication dozens of times, each time with a different Arachnomancer who are devoured by the deviant individual. This causes the deviant to grow to prestigious size, often 3 to 5 times larger than an average Arachnomancer.

Once this transformation is complete, it triggers a radical change in behavior in all Arachnomancer within a vast area. Both the children of the deviant, now dubbed as an Overmatron, and unrelated arachnomancers will abandon their nests to migrate to the nesting site of the Overmatron. Once gathered, the arachnomancers will submit themselves to the will and service of the Overmatron and they shall begin to construct a massive web structure known as Stronghold, where the Overmatron shall reign from until her death.

These strongholds are massive threats, often playing host to hundreds of arachnomancers and their robo-arachnid swarms, which number in tens of thousands. A single stronghold is capable of picking an entire region clean of all drones, both worker and disassembly, in a few short years. Which after all food sources are exhausted, the stronghold will descend into chaos as the arachnomancers turn on each other, cannibalizing in an effort to survive. At the ends of this madness, the survivors will dissipate and migrate to new areas to find new hunting grounds and to build new nests. This marks the end of the stronghold and the reign of the Overmatron. ______________________________________________________________ @systemten New lore on the Arachnomancer!

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Disassembly Drone Model

[+++Seraphim+++]

It appeared from nowhere, in a blinding flash of light so bright that caused the onlooking drones vision sensors to recalibrate, leaving them momentarily blinded. It is a figure veiled in flames, hung suspended in the air by six, great wings. From it came a sound, faint and distant yet it vaguely resembled singing. To the drones below, it seem like an angel but such is a falsehood which hides the Seraphim’s true nature.

The Seraphim disassembly drone model is a burning figure who’s usually veiled in flames that hang suspended in midair by three pairs of ornate wings. Upon closer inspection, past the fires that cling to it reveals a corpse of a drone, either a standard disassembly or a worker drone, in a constant state of burning and regenerating. The drone’s form is in a constant flux, melting and fusing together but still maintaining the general shape of the drone they were derived from.

The mechanics of how a seraphim model operates is largely unknown, due to its state of perpetually burning it is assumed that, similar to the Dragon disassembly model, that the Seraphim functions is based in the unfathomable powers of the Absolute Solver rather in any conventional robotics and engineering. From what has been observed, seraphim does not need to consume oil or other materials which is a major deviation from the other disassembly models, it also begs the question of how the fire it generate is fueled as well as its constant regeneration. The wings of the Seraphim are alike to a standard disassembly drones, these wings cannot be retracted and seemingly unaffected by the fire. The wings seem to be only for keeping the seraphim suspended in the air, for locomotion the drone utilizes teleportation which isheralded by massive release of thermal energy and bright flashes of light.

A seraphim’s main and only form of attack is the ability to project concentrated bursts of energy to ignites the air and flash melts materials. Seraphim are incapable of using their limbs, which hang uselessly from their melting bodies.

Seraphim have never been seen interaction with others of their kind nor with any other type of disassembly drone. If a seraphim appears within an area inhabited by other models of disassembly drone, the individuals will either flee or hide. They seem to wander aimlessly until worker drones are detected, which the seraphim will seek out and disassemble them.

The most prominent behavior shown by all seraphim is that they are constantly displaying signs of extreme distress. They are either screaming, either silently or audibly, weeping, or begging. Due to behavior, it is theorized that the seraphim wasn’t fabricated to be a weapon but instead a punishment.

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Worker Drone Model

[+++Aquanaut+++]

Introduction

Planets hosting oceans, seas and other large bodies of water are quite common within the universe and hidden below the waters of those alien oceans is a wealth of natural resources waiting to be tapped into. However, due to the extreme environmental conditions such as the extreme pressure and cold, accessing those resources is a herculean task. Humans cannot be sent into those conditions and standard worker drones would be crushed by the sheer pressure of the deep sea. So, in order to exploit these hordes of resources, humanity took to the drawing board the assembled the solution, the Aquanaut.

Design

Unlike the highly replaceable standard worker drone, Aquanaut drones were built to endure the harshest of conditions at the bottom of the sea and to last for decades upwards of centuries.

Aquanauts are large, standing at 8ft tall and are incredibly bulky. They are constructed from titanium alloys as to allow them to withstand extreme pressures of the abyss. Their frames are rounded as to evenly distribute the force of pressure being pressed upon them as well as being reinforced with internal stiffeners to prevent them from buckling.

To help maintain a steady internal pressure, Aquanauts are equipped with an internal array of pressure sensors. Should their internal pressure require adjustment, Aquanauts are equipped with a gas extractor and exchange system to pull available dissolved gasses from the surrounding water into their internals or to safely vent them.

To ensure that Aquanauts have a reliable source of power, they are not equipped with the standard array of rechargeable batteries but instead a downscaled nuclear reactor. This allows the Aquanaut to remain active for a theoretically indefinite amount of time.

Aquanauts lack the nanite repair system most drone variants are equipped with; this is due to the fact that even the smallest breach in their chassis will lead to a catastrophic implosion that will instantly destroy the Aquanaut. This renders a repair system meaningless if death is ensured.

Aquanauts also lack both mouths and audio sensors, with both being unnecessary weak points. Instead, Aquanauts communicate through short range radio signals, sign language and with their screens.

Behavior

Aquanauts are tireless workers, constantly working upon the seafloor to extract the resources below. Often working in companies of one to two hundred individuals, they may seem cold and intimidating but in actuality they are extremely social. While working, the Aquanauts will be in constant radio contact with the group they're with exchanging stories, singing songs and cracking jokes.

Aquanauts are supported by maintenance facilities staffed by standard worker drones; these facilities are jokingly nicknamed as fish bases by the drones that live within them. Aquanauts are extremely protective of the worker drones that staff the fish bases, as without them they would slowly die off. Aquanauts form deep bonds with these workers, often joining in on sleep piles even though they don't need to power down into sleep mode.

______________________________________________________________ Afterword

I figured it would be appropriate that the first post on this blog would be a rewrite of the first fanmade drone I've written, the Deep-Sea Mining Drones now renamed to the Aquanaut Drone. You can read the original post here.

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Introduction

Hello, I am the Archivist Nemo and welcome to the Drone Archetype Archive. This blog was created to store all the drone variants I have written or will write.

The askbox is open, I am happy to accept drone variant ideas or to answer any questions regarding preexisting variants. All I ask is that those who do send asks remain civil and mind your manners, asks will be seen to in a timely manner but keep in mind that I may fail to do so as I am not a machine (yet).

I am in frequent collaboration with @systemten, with them drawing art and adding lore to the drones I've written. Additionally, they are creating a worldbuilding project for the solar system that Copper9 belongs to.

Finally, @eldritchwriter346 has written a few drone variants of his own as well making a masterlist of various fanmade drones.

Table of Contents

Drone Archetypes

Aquanaut Drone

Disassembly Drone Models

Seraphim

Drone Behavior and Anatomy

Disassembly Drone Anatomy and Behavior (Written by @systemten) Overmatron Variant of the Arachnomancer Disassembly Model

[nemoofunknownparadigm]

Drone Hybridization

They were an anomaly, a freak of nature, an unintended consequence of a union many would have assumed to be impossible.

The child of a butcherbird and a watchmen disassembly drone, they inherited the best features of both parents and as a result were by all means an apex predator.

Officially, they had no model name for what they are. Unofficially, those who spotted them and lived called them a Thunderbird.

To their parents, they were named Marigold after his mother’s favorite flower but all else named them, “Death.”

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Disassembly Kill-Models

[+++Blights+++]

Introduction

Upon the rotting carcass of Lethe3, beneath the sickly sky which swirls with great clouds of miasma and through the thick bacterial smog there is a grand jubilee underway amongst the mouldering ruins. A moribund celebration round a great pit of stewing sludge, prime breeding grounds for bacteria and viruses. The party goers are hulking things, drones they are but they so covered in fungus and bacterial growth that it’s near impossible to tell. With voices heavy with phlegm and mucus they bellow and shout, sluggishly they move but their excitement is evident. As the celebration continues, the sludge of the pit rises till it reaches the very rim and soon a massive bubble begins to bulge out. With a great snap it pops releasing a pillar of miasma into the sky, with that the blights go and gather their guest kept upon the sidelines. Drones of various types; armadillo, hazmat, and fanatics. Into the pit boiling with life they thrown with shout of glee. Their systems infested with the life within and they the drones soon rise again, reborn as family and with open arms the Blights welcome them.

Design

Blights are designed to be walking biohazards, to engage in biological warfare as to deny humanity their food stocks and to weaken them through highly infectious and rapidly mutating diseases.

Blights are massive, often standing up to 12ft tall, being extremely rotund as to fit as the cultivating organs needed for biowarfare. They posses six large exhaust ports upon their backs as to expel the brewing microorganisms once they are ready as well having a large ventilation grate in place of their mouths.

The internals of a blight as mostly organic as to facilitate the cultivation of diseases, with only the critical mechanical components such as the core, batteries and various wiring remaining. Within the blight are multiple stomach like organs outfitted to be perfect environments for the cultivation of various microorganisms such as fungi, bacteria and viruses. Within additional storage organs for the byproducts of the cultivations, mainly acidic materials.

Because they are constantly saturated in the bioactive smog they expel, blights are always covered in thick mats of bacteria and fungal growths. This offers brilliant camouflage, as they look more like a part of the environment than a drone.

As for weaponry, they mainly employ launchers to fire gas grenades for long range deployment of diseases, acidspewers to spray acids and they can even belch corrosive gases.

Blights aren’t meant for direct combat but due to their massive built and excess of organic materials within them, they are exceedingly tough. Able to shrug off high caliber fire at close range and regenerate whatever was blasted off within minutes. They also have a tendency to explode when killed.

Behavior

Blights are and extremely jolly and easily excited. Often singing songs as they trudge along expelling their noxious gases or taking great joy in the beauty of the putrid landscape before them. They are lovers of community, gathering together with other blights to built gardens. At the center of these gardens are massive wombpits, these are massive holes dug and filled with the contents of the collaborating blight’s stomachs. So friendly are the blights they often go out to visit the gardens of other blights to socialize and exchange biomatter, this friendliness extends to other drones who are taken to be give tours of their gardens.

The most important event for blights is when their wombpits reach critical mass and begin to bloom. When this occurs invitations are send out to the surrounding blights to come and join the jubilee being hosted. During these parties, drones are taken to be thrown into the pits, when these drones emerge from the pit, reborn as blooming drones, their systems contaminate with the countless microorganisms within, they are welcomed into the family. Often working to take care of the garden they are reborn into or wander across the putrid landscape of Lethe3.

Afterword

These disassembly drones were heavily inspired by the nurgle demons from Warhammer Fantasy and 40K.

[ @systemten New addition to Lethe3!]

[systemten]

Was bored- also it’s past midnight at time of posting this, so sorry of anything’s not coherent TwT-

saw @fandom-hopping and @the-demon-rose discussing DD UNN’s being like eggs- and thus, I adopted it- this- it’s now System Ten DD lore cannon- >:3

Would’ve done more art, but I ‘eepy- maybe I’ll do more art tomorrow- for now, have my little yap- :3

[darkxwolfdoesart]

So, @nemoofunknownparadigm made this post about Butcherbird drones [and later added this lore tidbit-]- and I let my brain run for a fair bit while thinking about this variant-

so, allow me to introduce you to: Butcherbjrd Disassembly Drones, the deceptive predator

[I don’t like how the art turns out- but I don’t wanna go redo it because I might make it worse- so unfortunately, suffer with me in seeing this TwT-]

they are one of the very few Disassembly Drone variants who do not care about whether it’s a Worker or a fellow predator that ended up on the menu- the way their tree works with the nectar means that they don’t have to worry about the bitter and sour after notes of DD oil, and I doubt it would bother them anyways-, they have absolutely no issues with anything, everything is fair game, even their rivals own cubs, whether incased in the UNN like protective shells of their first two weeks or free of them, it doesn’t matter, to them it’s food-, perhaps that’s truly where the Butcher part of Butcherbird comes from.

they imprint like birds, anyone a cub sees first is deemed their mother by their systems, regardless of whether or not their actual bio mother tries to enter the picture for whatever reason-, this fact was found out by researcher Shawn after he investigated Yang’s tree and found a UNN shell-egg, he took it in, assuming it was a stolen UNN from one of the cities, as Butcherbirds only produce in their 20s to 30s and Yang was 70-, however the little UNN’s shell split to reveal a tiny Butcherbird cub, who immediately imprinted on Shawn, much to the twenty year old Worker’s shock-, turns out that Yang had down something very uncharacteristic for a Butcherbird, and saved his daughters UNN after she was killed in a fight against a rival of hers- Yang clearly intended to raise the cub himself, but unfortunately he’d passed due to the Flocking-, Shawn decided to raise the cub, later naming her Lily.