Imperium Drone
The Imperium Drone Ship is the most common battleship. They are normally housed in an Imperium Carrier. Most are piloted by the onboard AI unit assigned to the carrier. However, it can be directly piloted by a member of the Imperium Military Command.
These ships are very small, only meant to house one person, the pilot, or to remain empty. There is limited life supply time in the ship, upwards of 24 hours being how long a person could live in one of the drones. Mainly, it's loaded down with weaponry and defense mechanisms. Most of the regular infantry are no longer trained on how to pilot one of these, generally only officers or higher learn how to pilot one alone.
This is for a couple reasons. Firstly, since they can only hold one person, the Military Command doesn't want them wasted on low level soldiers. If an escape or evacuation needs to happen, the officers and specialized personnel should come first. Secondly, the time it takes to train someone to pilot one of these drones is wasted on line level soldiers.
Power Generation
The engine is a standard nuclear fusion engine, allowing for fast maneuverability in space.
Propulsion
Propulsion comes from the thrusters powered by the engine. It has 365 degree thrusters, able to move in any direction at any given moment.
Weapons & Armament
Two large laser beams on both the front and back of the ship. A matter condenser is also onboard, but to use it will consume the ship entirely. Generally a last ditch option to try to take something big out. There are a few dozen smaller laser weapons for close combat are also mounted all around the ship.
Armor and defense
Having a carbide hull, they also come equipped with nanorepairers. These take metal from a designated place within the ship and rebuild any hull damage or any damage that's occurred to the weapon systems. Once that replacement metal has been used up, it will continue to pull from non-critical structures to repair critical ones.
Communication Tools & Systems
If it's not being piloted by a person, it can stay in contact with its carrier as long as it's within 100 hexes. A person has a slightly longer range, an extended radio has been installed in every drone, as if they are being piloted by a person, something has gone wrong. A person can use the extended radio at the cost of power, but it will notify anyone within 500 hexes. It's not an encrypted signal, so the person needs to be wary of just using it if the enemy is still nearby.
Sensors
It can ping for anything within fifty hexes. Once it reaches fifteen hexes, it can scan for detailed information about the vessel it's spotted. It can also detect life, heat, movement, and water.
Nickname
the Dragonfly
Motto
In the depths of space, we are the only defense.
Manufacturer
Owning Organization
Price
five million credits a piece
Rarity
extremely rare outside of the Provincial Imperium, much more common in their space
Speed
five hexes per turn in space
Complement / Crew
generally no crew, piloted by AI
Cargo & Passenger Capacity
can carry one person, no passengers, no cargo
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