AMCO
I'm Sorry Dave
- Intent: 'Quantity has a quality all its own'.
- Image Source: Hive Drone by Sancient
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Deathwasps
- Manufacturer: The Globex Corporation
- Affiliation: Globex Security Division
- Market Status: Open-Market
- Model: SD-3 'Firebee' Security Droid
- Modularity: Aesthetics, programming, weapon system, etc.
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Hexaplast
- Classification: Class Four
- Weight: Extremely Light
- Height: Very Small
- Movement: Hexapod | Wings
- Armaments: Modular, options below.
- Blaster Beam Emitter
- Stun or Lethal.
- Heat Ray Emitter
- Ion Beam Emitter
- Sonic Emitter
- Blaster Beam Emitter
- Misc. Equipment: All standard equipment; sensors, anti-virus software, etc.
- Resistances: Firebees can survive in most environments, but are unlikely to withstand direct hits.
- Firebees are typically stored in hexagonal 'maintenance hives' when not in use, structures in which they are charged, repaired, and if needed built. They are well-suited for security functions but can be deployed to the battlefield from vehicles - or in some cases from specialised hives outfitted with repulsors that allow them to safely make landfall after being dropped from a bomber. Some of these can even replicate on-site!
- A variant known as the Inferno-pattern Firebee loses its emitter for a baradium bomb with a markedly lower yield compared to a conventional thermal detonator. It often locks its legs around a target or gouges into its flesh after priming in an attempt to lure in would-be helpers. Primed Inferno-pattern Firebees are almost impossible to remove without triggering a detonation, though 'irrational attempts' are still made.
- Modified Firebees can be used as tools of assassination - 'cooking' a brain with a heat ray can cause all but untraceable death.
- Firebees can be quickly assembled from hexaplast or even scrap, negligible quantities of rare materials, and a Visium battery.
- Swarm Tactics: Firebees are small, weak, and dirt cheap, but can pose a threat to unarmoured targets even alone. In swarms they can fell even the mightiest of foes, with sufficient numbers - three Firebees are a nuisance to an armoured soldier, a hundred is a death sentence.
- Cannon Fodder: Firebees are fragile and individually weak. They have a tendency to be destroyed in vast numbers in any conflict.
Quantity has a quality all its own. That was a hard lesson for Globex's perfectionistic engineers to learn, but learn it they did - cheaper even than the APT-A, Firebees are designed for only one form of combat, that being combat in which they heavily outnumber the enemy.
A lone Firebee is unlikely to be more than an annoyance unless it is of the more expensive Inferno-pattern or its target was stupid enough to take to the field without even the most basic of protection, but a swarm? A swarm is a terrifying sight to behold, for they have been known to blot out the sun when deployed to the battlefield. In security roles, their numbers tend to be more reasonable though no less threatening.
More than one trespasser has had their imminent demise heralded by a harsh buzzing.
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