Watchdog Unit
GUARDIANAssembly takes forty-seven minutes. Asset classification: expendable. Incident reports describe casualties as 'collateral safety outcomes.'
Field Assessment
Steel gray quad-rotor chassis with matte anti-reflective coating. Single red optic lens centered beneath the nose cone, continuously tracking. Light kinetic turret underslung between forward rotors. Seven-pointed sheriff star stenciled on hull top. Navigation lights pulse dim blue during patrol, shift to rapid red during engagement. The most-produced piece of military hardware in the Sprawl.
Persistent, methodical, patient. Flies grid patterns at sixty meters. Descends for engagement. Returns to pattern when threat resolves. Enforcers don't mourn lost Watchdogs. Overseers deploy them as sacrificial screens. Facility Seven produces replacements faster than combat destroys them.