The Stalker is surviving Agency hardware. It ignores observation, patrols until it acquires line of sight or a strong carrier trace, and then commits to pursuit. Looking at it provides no protection. The protocol is to break line of sight, reduce the carrier signature and use branching corridors.
Its surviving command stack still identifies Operators as containment failures. No remote shutdown credential has been accepted since the Sector 7 incident.
The clamps
Its clamps contain rather than kill: it holds what it catches in a suspension frame. During the armed response operatives found that a dash breaks the clamps. Being Agency hardware, a Stalker does not rupture when an operative phases through it.
Origin
The Stalker drones were issued from the Sentinel Frame, S-DRN-09, which holds its coordinate where the Stalker pursues. The record of the Last Shift includes a service drone attacking personnel during the incident.
See also
Records cited
- LP-MAN-1993-S7, section 3, S-DRN-02
- Critical Response field manual, ENTITIES