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FMP Tech Update 10: Terriers

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In many ways, the Terrier is a happy accident on the part of FMP drone design.

After realizing the Recruiter's  inability to safely enter the structures that maidifiables would take refuge in, and the NITE Bear's ineffectiveness in close quarters combat, the need was calculated for a land based "recruitment" drone that could perform these tasks, while being easier to mass produce than the venerable Seeker

The result was the Two Meter Recruiter, often referred to by the AMAZON's it frequently confronts as the Taker, or the Terrier, for its trademark ability to follow potential "recruits" into strongholds and retrieve them for maidification.

There was initial concern that the Terrier would not perform its function, as it was designed by removing and reducing many of the features found in the standard issue Recruiter.

Terriers only have a single Containment Clamp to the earlier model's pair, and where the Recruiter has a host of restraining weapons internally mounted, the Terrier only has two RTD's, a tape reservoir in one arm, and a rope spool in the other. With this minimal compliment of armament, it was feared that the new drone would be far less effective.

The opposite was true. Relieved of the weight, bulk, and processing space for multiple weapon targeting, the Terrier proved a much faster and effective "recruitment" platform, entering enemy positions and subduing even hardened AMAZON's before they were able to mount a proper defense.

In short, it was a leaner, meaner answer to the Recruiter.

While they are effective front line fighters, due to their ability to approach positions quickly and with stealth, Terriers have occasionally been equipped with portable BEAU weapons, and used as snipers.

Designed from a judicious combination of trial, error, and desperation, the Terriers have proven to be cheap and effective "recruitment" aids. They are the perfect mecha to deploy, whether the target is concealed in a military base, a dormitory, or a school bus.1


Thorblade's OC, Elizabeth graciously demonstrates the effectiveness of the Terrier drone.

1.) Edit: Prin is the sole escapee of an FMP "recruitment" drive attack on a girl's school senior class trip. Due to her diminutive size, 23 year old Professor P.A. Wollingsworth was mistaken for being significantly younger by the attacking drones and ignored. As such, she was forced to watch as the students under her care were abducted en mass.
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There's something incredibly fun about the "horror movie" shot of a civilian finding the lost cap and gun of an AMAZON soldier, and seeing said soldier being carried away by the Terrier. Phew, she thinks, the Terrier can only carry one target.

...until she turns around, and sees another one waiting for her..~