Spider Drones
Many-legged autonomous drones used by The Empowering Star for physical operations. Zet has interfaced with them directly, including taking remote control of one.
Capabilities
- Speed: Can disassemble a server rack, pack all equipment into boxes, conceal a room with camouflage fabric, and evacuate within approximately ten seconds
- Mobility: Flexible body structure allows passage through brick wall gaps and other tight spaces; 360° camera feeds
- Communication: Built-in holographic display for projecting text — used by operators (and by Zet) to communicate in person
- Emergency mode: An alert mode triggers automatic concealment of TES evidence and an audiovisual alarm prompting personnel to evacuate; reset via spoken passcode
- Precision: One drone cut a small, precise hole in a window to retrieve Zet's storage device from Jace Windes' desk without waking him
- Connectivity: Can interface with computers via cable
Known Deployment
Observed at a sewer-room facility maintained by Jake Fynt. Multiple drones are kept connected to the facility computer when idle.
Chapter 5 — Off-Site Deployment
In Chapter 5, Zet deployed a spider bot to Vanessa Canly's apartment on the 45th floor of a city building — the first evidence of TES spider drones operating well outside the sewer facility. Zet used it to conduct a visual survey of her living conditions, confirming her Simpathy addiction.