>>6169516... Huh, hell of a find, Agent Monarch. That's actually a somewhat banged up and lightly damaged advanced anthroform remote infantry drone - AARID. Unlike the Flitdrones and HazeOrbs this comes with near-peer match to most humanoid flexibility, except proper engineered fixed all the dumb parts of the human body like your appendix, your lack of ability to see thermal imaging and the fact that if someone pokes holes in you you die. AARIDs see a lot of use in security operations and policing ops, and warehousing work. And search and rescue, naturally. A lot of sectors have automated workforces too, now that I think about it.
But there is a slight and marked drawback, which is that as is displayed time and time again, people tend to see something that looks like a person and assume it works like a person. It's actually an academically studied problem - I recommend a degree in mechatronics interfacing design if you ever want to go back to college - and leads to some complications. Consider that that any remote infantry drone is operated and managed by a controller usually, but must default to on-board, system-wide management and piloting software for autonomous operation. Are you seeing the issues, yet? Because these systems aren't general intelligences - like you and me - they're not great at inferring from datasets to novel situations. And in the actual world as exists, novel situations happen all the time!
So most AARIDs and drone ops in general rely heavily on custom mesh software and human management. But now your cost cutting exercise in automating the workforce has actually increased headcount *and* left you open to legal trouble. What happens if a so called autonomously operating drone offers a parking fee? Is that the city ordinances being actually violated, or. match to a most-common-event flag in its systemics?
Anyway, my point is, this thing is a heavily reinforced, humanoid frame with quite a few cool riot control and security features but please do not make the mistake of thinking its actually thinking or as smart as you, Agent. There's a reason we haven't yet made every police officer in the city steel skin and byteminded.
They work fantastic when paired with human operators though, so now at least we have a proper heavy deployment mechanized unit!
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>P-Series AARIDLimit 12
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Sensory 2 I Adapt 3 I Handle 2 I Process 2 I React 1 I Resist 5 I Infer 1
!Police Procedures 3
!Urban Environment Operations 3
!MeshOps 2
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#Armored 4, Strength 3, Mobility 2, Agility 2
#CQC Bonus 1
#Imagining Specs 3
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Pretty good sensors on this little guy and it looks like all the internal operations software is still mostly functional, if enormously out of date -- and some, uh, odd... bits in the ...
Where'd you pick this up again?
