Drones, AI, and Automation

These things are prevalent in the day to day lives of everyone in Novaris in some fashion, even the most backwater worlds will have access to automation even if they don't have AI, and they'd certainly use drones to help map the planet.

Drones here is synonymous with robots, Androids, or any other form of machine capable of completing tasks piloted or by itself. Sure this means that a mechanical arm working in a factor is technically a "drone" but that's not what we're talking about here and I am too full of other ideas to be bothered making a clever way to tell them and what I want to talk about apart.

Specifically I'm talking about War Automation. The best example would be a SecuraCorp High Risk unit.

This unit is 6 bipedal drones with enough armor to take several kinetic rounds before being bothered, enough firepower to deal with large hostile groups or beast and enough tech crammed into them they could be rebuilt as a colonies worth of networking. These Bots are deployed via a Corvette sized carrier which deploys from a base or a carrier. Both the bots and the Corvette can be piloted manually, or rather the bots from workstations on the Corvette or automated to deploy in an area. The Corvette has several weapons designed for close air support and moves with the team to provide extra firepower, but if it takes damage it retreats to a safe location, orbit if it has to. The Corvette can also deploy smaller drones that fly and can provide more direct aid or firepower since the Corvette can't go everywhere and shoot everything. These are even more useful if the Capital ship has to retreat.

The Republic has their cheap clone of this but instead of the automation features it is fully piloted and instead of dropping bots it drops up to a platoon of infantry. It retains the deployable drones and those offer many of the same features