Mass Effect: Tech Talent: Combat Drone
Combat Drone
Time Taken: one round
Range: 100 meters
Prerequisites: Droid Programming 5D and Droid Repair 5D
This talent spawns a tech drone that draws enemy fire and can stun targets and damage their kinetic barriers. When activated the drone spawns near the specialist. It can work in two modes automatic or guided. In automatic mode the drone advances to the nearest target and tries to stun it. If successful the drone advances to the next target and so on. In that mode the drone may be kept up but you suffer -1D penalty to all other rolls. In the second mode the drone is steered by you and obeys your exact commands, but you can’t do anything else while operating the drone. If the drone is destroyed it disintegrates into nothing. Only one drone can be active at a time. In any case all synthetics will attack the drone first and after they destroy it, they will proceed to other targets.
Combat Drone stats depend on the skill set of the tech specialist. It’s move attribute is 12 and it can hover up to 5 meters above the ground.
| Droid Programming & Droid Repair | 5D | 6D | 7D |
| Physical Resistance | STR+1D | STR+2D | STR+3D |
| Strength | 1D | 2D | 3D |
| Stun Damage | 2D | 4D | 6D |
Targets roll their Stamina skill or Strength attribute to counter the stun, if failed the target is stunned for 2 rounds.