Drone
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Drone can refer to many things:
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[edit] In nature
- In eusocial insects, a male bee, ant or wasp.
[edit] In aviation
- An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), often used for target practice, increasingly used for surveillance.
[edit] In nautics
- A Remotely operated vehicle (ROV), used for mine clearing or underwater exploration.
[edit] In fiction
- A member of the Drones Club in P. G. Wodehouse's novels.
- Detective Drone is the hero of Victorian crime stories.
- A humanoid assimilated by the Borg in the fictional Star Trek universe.
- Drone is a 1998 episode from the fifth season of Star Trek: Voyager. See Star Trek Voyager episodes.
- A Drone Weapon similar to a guided missile in the Stargate universe.
- John Twelve Hawks' fictional novel The Traveller describes drones as being citizens that have become exhausted and overwhelmed by the struggle of living and fight for survival; in a world controlled by the Tabula, whose plans are to control the entire human race by means of intense and intrusive electronic surveillance. Drones differ from the majority of "ordinary citizens" by way of not being ignorant to the truth of what is happening outside of their own day-to-day lives.<ref>Carol Memmott. Cryptic 'Traveller' has book world buzzing. USA Today. Retrieved on 2006-07-06.</ref>
- The three robotic helpers in the movie Silent Running are given the friendly names Huey, Dewey and Louie.
[edit] In music
- The Drones is the name of a rock group from Melbourne, Australia.
- A drone is a continuous note or chord.
- A part of various musical instruments (such as bagpipes) intended to produce a continuous sustained pitch.
- A drone is another name for a bumbass.
- Drone is a music style or genre related to background music and ambient music.
- Drones is a record from the French musician [Jean Phillipe Goude].
- The name of a metal band from Hanover, Germany.
- The name of a cover band in Houston, TX.
[edit] In Internet Relay Chat(IRC)
- A drone is a bot or a piece of malicious software which sends spam via IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
[edit] In video games
- The worker unit for the zerg in Blizzard Entertainment's game StarCraft, and in other space games and fiction they are smallish robots that, much like the honeybee, do repetitive tasks and recon, in Eve online they are drones for seeing outside the ship and attacking enemies, drones or normally discreet and menacing in appearance.
- A creature on the video game Halo and is insectoid in nature.
- An unhappy citizen in the computer game Alpha Centauri.
- A humanoid-like (when not seemingly totally human) genetic created techno-creature in the "Panzer Dragoon" videogame series for Sega Saturn and Microsoft Xbox. The drones have a sole purpose or fate, and when they accomplish that mission they are "deactivated" by themselves, or have an automatic death. They also can be sleeping or hibernating for thousand of years, until they're required or awaken.
- A enemy robot in the game N
- A one of the many enemies in the popular N64 game, Jet Force Gemini. These enemies are fairly easy to kill, while bigger versions wield homing rockets.
- A female drone named Azel that looks like a normal girl, who starred "Panzer Dragoon RPG" (also called "Panzer Dragoon Saga" in the west).
- A machine that acts as an ally and often has combat capabities. In some games, drones are companions, which follow the player's character around. In others, drones are considered a type of weapon and, once fired, will attract enemy fire and fire upon enemies, thus giving the player's character an increased probability of survival.
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