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[Hawk132]

Yeah, thought you put a turret on their backs for some reason.

[Yourmaster]

Granted, a turning turret to go on our troops would be a good idea. It attaches itself onto soldiers for an extra layer of defense.

[Taricus]

Light Fighter
A drone designed to be fast, well armoured and well-armed with a couple of frontal laser cannons. Designed to either act as an escort for our dropships, or by itself on a strafing run on any targets we designate.

[Digital Hellhound]

I figure our Warrior Casters are already good for shock - or if not, we should make some shock gear for them. I think support might be better. We're operating in unknown territory, a recon unit might be useful. I'm thinking a fast, flying drone, cameras in every direction, turret (a laser would be best) on a rapidly-turning circular platform.

If we want heavier support, a drone tank with a similar design might be good. Probably not flying, in this case.

Maybe piloted by organic brains, given our Biological-Mechanical mix.

[Hawk132]

Light Fighter
A drone designed to be fast, well armoured and well-armed with a couple of frontal laser cannons. Designed to either act as an escort for our dropships, or by itself on a strafing run on any targets we designate.

I think we need some of these.

drone tank

Spider tanks maybe?

[VoidSlayer]

Hmm... if much of our tech is volatile in earths atmosphere.. what about giving our soldiers some sort of high powered bomb they can throw?

As it is I support either the drone (with a self destruct system) or a light fighter with a single occupant.

Do we have the tech or are we reasonably close to being able to put a cloned brain with life support inside the drones?  If so do that.

[VoidSlayer]

Defense Drones

Short range automated drones which rely on rockets and gliding on retractable wings to maneuver in the atmosphere.  They attach to a drop ship (or other vessels) for entering and leaving the earth's atmosphere and feature heat shielding for defense.  Weapons include a high powered laser cannon and a self destruction charge which also doubles as turning the whole thing into a missile.

Although they can reattach for extraction they are generally considered expendable when needed.

[Hawk132]

Defense Drones

Short range automated drones which rely on rockets and gliding on retractable wings to maneuver in the atmosphere.  They attach to a drop ship (or other vessels) for entering and leaving the earth's atmosphere and feature heat shielding for defense.  Weapons include a high powered laser cannon and a self destruction charge which also doubles as turning the whole thing into a missile.

Although they can reattach for extraction they are generally considered expendable when needed.

I think more cannons/manueverability would be more effective, instead of stuffing the thing with explosives. We could even put missiles on it so it doesn't need to turn itself into one!

[Digital Hellhound]

Keep in mind our main weapons tech right now is lasers. Making good missiles, cannons etc. for the drone will likely be more complex than just adapting our current weaponry for it.

[~Neri]

How about we purge the few space stations they have in orbit first, same with all their satellites. We need to completely disrupt most of their communications.

We can take the humans on their stations for experiments.

After we secure orbit. We can focus on Air Superiority. Make some really nasty fighters and landlock them. Destroy their navies and all boats. Shut down their mobility.

Then we can start focusing on land.

[Taricus]

Again, they're going to notice that, and start uniting :|

We need to target little things. Minor shit that won't have them running to the organisation.

[~Neri]

Soo random aircraft/ships? Civvies will blame the governments and companies for the losses.

[Taricus]

Exactly. We just act like a little griefing shit going after random things rather than outright invading for the moment.

Though we still need to vote on a design.

[VoidSlayer]

Exactly. We just act like a little griefing shit going after random things rather than outright invading for the moment.

Though we still need to vote on a design.

I think the drone thing is a good first step towards some kind of air superiority fighter.  If we can design a hybrid jet/rocket capable of atmospheric and orbital flight eventually we would have the perfect weapon platform to protect our drop ships.

[Taricus]

Eh, why are we using primitive chemical rockets and jets when we have fusion power or somesuch. Just use a generator hooked up to some thrusters and let that thing fly.

And if it makes a big boom if it gets shot... well, it's not our planet