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[Killer of Fate]

If you have the Drone Manufactory or whatever it's called (I forget)

You get a new commodity. Drones.

Drones are automated troopers of relatively primitive intelligence. They cost a bit of money. They don't have to be paid a salary. They are not kept as crew. They are instead a commodity.

Drones could be additionally acquired from Remnants. And every Remnant Battlestation (undamaged one maybe) would include a Combat Drone Replicator (checked by now).

Why?

Remnants need civilian ships. Well, "civilian" as they are inherently a military organisation. The Automated Defense Fleets or whatever.

However AUTOMATED trait removes all crew. Making it difficult to design a Remnant siege ship for attacking colonies.

So, a Remnant AUTOMATED ship of logistical kind would have cargo and fuel only. And then would carry drones in its cargo holds.

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Planets I would expect to have a Combat Drone Replicator.
Culann, Kazeron, Nova Maxios (also give Nova Maxios a Pristine Nanoforge and a Star Fortress)

[Phenir]

Why would the remnants bother with a foot invasion when they could just glass the planet?

[Bungee_man]

Things like this get suggested every so often, but the chief issue is that there isn't really all that much depth added from extra items that do the same thing as crew or marines. If they're strictly better, players will just use them instead, if they're worse they won't get used, and if they're side-grades to each other, anything that requires marines is simple enough that people generally won't look to optimize.

As for Remnant ground invasions, I don't think that's their deal. Like the other fellow said, they're ancient automated warships conducting area defense and clearance, and are more likely to just eradicate anything in their space.

[Thaago]

On Remnants, one interesting thing which may just be an oversight is that habitable planets in their stronghold systems can still have the Decivilized condition, ie there are still many people living on them, albeit in a state of warfare.

So the Remnants don't even bother glassing humans who are planet-bound. They don't seem to care.

[Nettle]

One important thing to keep in mind about remnants, is that they never went rogue. There are no SkyNet trope going on here, no genocidal artificial intelligence gestalt seeking to end humanity. While they do attack anyone who dares to tread into controlled systems, they probably just follow the last directive they had. They are seemingly still completely subservient to their creators. Whatever TT-related settlements were left behind within the controlled systems, are probably safe from remnants.

[Doctorhealsgood]

Well they have some sort of "anxiety" related to omega but other than that they do seem to still keep doing what was asked of them so long ago. It's a bit weird but i guess it's just their highest unit in the hierarchy.

[HeimrArnadalr]

One important thing to keep in mind about remnants, is that they never went rogue. There are no SkyNet trope going on here, no genocidal artificial intelligence gestalt seeking to end humanity. While they do attack anyone who dares to tread into controlled systems, they probably just follow the last directive they had. They are seemingly still completely subservient to their creators. Whatever TT-related settlements were left behind within the controlled systems, are probably safe from remnants.

I'm not entirely sure that's the case. They seem to have either "outgrown" their original programming or been coöpted by someone or something looking for "Omega", and it's not clear that they would obey any new commands from Tri-Tachyon. Certainly they would have been useful during the Second AI War, but they saw no use in that conflict.
They do seem to be unconcerned with planets, though, aside from the fleet defending the Red Planet.

[Killer of Fate]

Why would the remnants bother with a foot invasion when they could just glass the planet?

because it's not actually a Remnant tool per say. Remnants can have drones to protect their own installations from raids. Mining, industrial facilities. Whatever. But it's generally about TT using it to make up for the fact that they have significantly less manpower than the rest of the Sector.

And it's also meant to be a consequence of Drone Replicator. Which Remnants just have by default.

On Remnants, one interesting thing which may just be an oversight is that habitable planets in their stronghold systems can still have the Decivilized condition, ie there are still many people living on them, albeit in a state of warfare.

So the Remnants don't even bother glassing humans who are planet-bound. They don't seem to care.

Or maybe they already did glass or raid the planet into death these people were on. And decivlized is all that is left. Which is more likely considering this is what they do to us when we try to live in their system.

This has actually made me realise how Tri-Tachyon worked with deploying Remnant fleets.

circa c+84 – Tri-Tachyon Corporation deploys AI warfleets

Due to lack of Domain technology controls and rising tension in the Persean Sector, Tri-Tachyon acts with free hand to deploy AI warfleets developed in secret in various systems on the fringe of the Core Worlds.

They didn't SEND them. They built stations and only stations with no means of intersystem travel. The Automated Fleets would fester inside the systems they were deployed in and then destroy the entire population there. Being used like sentient time bombs.

This makes me assume Hegemony didn't defeat most of the AI fleets. They didn't do anything in fact. Tri-Tachyon had a failsafe in the form of AI fleets being incapable of leaving their systems. And Hegemony just painted that as their victory.

Holy ***, I *** hate the Hegemony

Or rather what they stand for. Cause they don't exist. But they definitely remind me of something that does...