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Shortest Trip to Earth: Simple Drone Guide

Posted on February 21, 2020
Drones are one of the best things you can have on your ship. They do not need food or any other resource, and they can fill the three labor intensive jobs: fire extinguishing, repair, and security (plus farming). If you have money to spare, you should always get as many of them as you can get.

Quick things to know:

Drones do not level up like the living crew. What you see is what you get with them

Drones are made to be dispensable. That said, a lot of them are fire resistant, making them great choice for cleaning up fuel nukes and such. Your living crew can and will take damage from fire a lot faster than drones.

You can never have too many drones.

Useless Drone

AKA Swearing Smallbot. Nonexistent health, no skills, no offensive capability. Can run really fast. Mainly used as a fate bonus at the end of the game or point defense fodder to get your nukes through enemy defense.

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Converted Drone

Most common drone.
All come with a Flamethrower with a short range.

Can do either Fire Suppression or Security

Health will either be 5-6 hit points
Speed will be 0.9-1.3

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Farming Drone

These little buggers are nice in the very beginning because they have a high farming skill right off the bat. Makes them really nice to have in Sector 8, when every resource counts. Makes an ok repair bot during battles.
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Gunnery Drone

Haven’t seen them sold in stations. Can be chosen in the beginning using fate points.
Comes in two varieties: DIY and Regular.
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DYI has less HP, slower, and not as good at gunnery. Good to use in the beginning when you have poor skilled crew or when your good gunner dies in a battle.

Research Drone

Can be chosen in the beginning using fate points. Decent health but as useful as a converted drone outside of laboratory.

Shortest Trip to Earth: Simple Drone Guide

Sensor Drone

Comes standard on certain ships. Ok fire suppresion. Decent sensor skill, especially in the beginning of the game or to replace a dead crew. Has little wings and antenna on top.

Shortest Trip to Earth: Simple Drone Guide

DIY Tank Drone

Can be chosen in the beginning using fate points. Skills compare to converted drone.

Slow and steady. Has a decent weapon and range. A lot of Health to survive most encounters.
Shortest Trip to Earth: Simple Drone Guide

Fire Suppression Drone

Stand apart from other drones by having an extra skill point in fire suppression. Fire resistant body means it can still get damaged if its caught in the middle of a blaze.

Comes in two flavors:
Slow, robust drone

Shortest Trip to Earth: Simple Drone Guide

Fast, lower health drone

Shortest Trip to Earth: Simple Drone Guide

Repair Drone

Like fire drones, an extra skill point in repair sets these apart from rest. Can never have too many of these. These come in two styles that I have seen:

DIY Repair – gets the job done. Nothing to look at

Shortest Trip to Earth: Simple Drone Guide

Industrial Repair Drone – Bigger, Better, Faster, Stronger. Not only does it have 3 points in repair, but also 2 points in security and with 24 points of health makes for a great defender against invaders.

Shortest Trip to Earth: Simple Drone Guide

Security Drone

Last but not least the security drones. These guys make sure that the invaders never leave your ship once embarked.This section has the most variety out of them all. These four drones can be acquired in the beginning using fate points or bought at a drone station in campaign.

DIY Guard Drone – Average health. Good range weapon albeit the reload is little slow.

Shortest Trip to Earth: Simple Drone Guide

Light Security Drone – Lowest health. Good weapon. Good speed.

Shortest Trip to Earth: Simple Drone Guide

Tactical Security Drone – Almost identical to the Light Security Drone

Shortest Trip to Earth: Simple Drone Guide

Heavy Sentinel Drone – AKA Terminator – Highest health, speed, skill, and weapon range. Guaranteed carnage.

Shortest Trip to Earth: Simple Drone Guide

Last Word

I name my drones by what they do just it easier(faster) to switch them between jobs in case anyone wonders (green repair = green thumb + repair)

If you see a drone that has different stats or weapon or is not mentioned here, please let me know as I’m still updating this guide as I play the game.

By Arkadus

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