Drones
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This entry is for cataloguing the wide variety of drone types featured in Megaman Mush.
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Bird-Bots
The standard drone of the Loath family, the bird-bots are similar, but inferior to the servbots. Generally, while more independant, they are particularly unreliable and mouthy and often misinterpret orders to their own percieved benefit.
It is believed that the Glyde Loath stole the design for the bird-bots from an unnamed roboticist.
Bubble Bats
Also called Bomb Bats, Batons, or Batontons, these are bat-type drones used by the Robot Masters. When hiding under a rafter, such a bat can form in to a shape that resembles a "bomb" or a round sphere, and is, like the helmet of a Met, impervious to damage until the bat unfolds. They are relatively stealthy when in their invincible hibernating form, but easy enough to rouse when they detect something moving around.
Mets
The lowly metool (metall, meetal, meetol, etc), holds a position of wide acclaim in the world. Wide spread and used for a wide variety of purposes. The most commonly used purpose though, besides construction and similar grunt work, is as a low level combat picket.
They are characterized by being cute, simple in design, having an impenetrable nerpium shell and constantly saying the word/sound 'nerp,' particularly when walking.
Metools generally possess something around a 'dim animal' intelligence. They are however capable of understanding (somewhat) complicated orders issued to them, although they typically need some level of oversight.
Guts Man holds a particular relationship with Metools, with numerous paranoid suggestions that he is actually a super-complicated metool ride armor.
Dr. Landon DeVry created a special varient of the metool designed for intelligence, longevity and independance: The immortamet. Immortamets tended to be brighter then the average metool, but lacked the same physical strength of the standard met, as well as using only the norpium shell, as opposed to the impenetrable nerpium shell. Similarly, the immortamet's standard 'phrase' was 'Norp.' Immortamets frequently had additional equipment instead of their standard blaster, typically holoprojectors.
See also: Met Rebellion
PenPen
Adorable penguin robots that can shoot plasma. Some of them can also fly, which means they're not like real penguins at all. Gemini Man favors them over Mets and can apparently talk and communicate to them whereas he believes that Mets are vermin. They do not kamakaze explode, or say Dood, and any jokes that might indicate so are already overdone.
Preons
A new type of Maverick drone that has become the Maverick standard. Larger than drones used by other groups, they have square-shaped bodies with a human-like limb structure but no real defined "head." Preon drones come in many different varieties for possible contingencies, including Command Preons with limited capacity to order other Preons around, Shield Preons that protect Preon lines, and Nurse Preons used for medical operations.
Servbots
Servbots are the primary drone type used by the Bonnes. Possessing a higher level of sentience then the average drone, the servbots perhaps qualify as sentient AI minus. Servbots are distinguished by unflappable loyalty in the Bonnes, and a familial relationship with their creator Tron Bonne.
Servbots are capable of spectacular levels of independance, including independant reasoning and action, and are perhaps the most useful drones. Their combat capability is however limited by the fact that they, like the Bonnnes themselves, are not particularly blood-thirsty.
Sniper Joes
The sniper joe represents a higher combat model, and is generally used by the Robot Masters although the Mavericks have a similar drone model. The design, which consists of a robot armed with a weapon and a nigh impenetrable shield is believed to have originated as an insult towards Blues from Dr. Wily. Joes generally have some tactical intelligence, but do not function well in an assault capacity without direction. They are also generally not useful in close combat.
True to form, Dr. DeVry modified a variant on the Sniper Joe, called the Slasher Jane. The Janes were designed for close skirmish combat and disruption, and were designed to resemble adolescent female humans. For psychological warfare purposes, most early Janes were designed to perform a variety of 'feminine' actions such as giggling. Jane 16, Zestien, was Landon's first and only successful attempt at a sentient machine. Since Landon's eviction from Eurasia and the confiscation and subsequent auction of his property, Janes have been redesigned for a variety of functions by the Robot Masters and civilian concerns. Meddy is augmented with the programming of a Jane robot who was code-named Jenny.
Telly
Perhaps the simplest of Wily's drones, Tellys are essentially cylindrical drones with blue-green tops and bottoms and a black center. The main feature are two large eyes that act as sort of security cameras; the Telly is only able to spin around slowly into an enemy. Other variations include Fire Tellys, who are much more dangerous and are able to drop fireballs from cannons on their bottom; they are also the favored drone of Flame Man. The Giant Telly is a larger version of the Telly that can drop bombs.
