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gear:drones:modified_dassault_janitorial_drone [2026/04/07 09:37] – created sylvaingear:drones:modified_dassault_janitorial_drone [2026/04/07 09:42] (current) sylvain
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 **Source book**: Stolen Souls **Source book**: Stolen Souls
  
 +Normally, the Dassault Janitorial drone is designed to clean
 +and wax hallways, replace light bulbs, vacuum carpets,
 +and clean bathrooms. The Dassault drone is becoming
 +more commonplace in office buildings, as the maintenance of this drone is cheaper by far than employing a
 +full-time metahuman janitor. This drone by itself is too
 +large to enter individual offices, but its bulky size makes
 +it perfect to hollow out and turn it into a smuggling compartment to hold a metahuman body (this drone can
 +hold a metahuman up to the size of a troll). To make this
 +extraction technique work, the Dassault Janitorial drone
 +needs to function in conjunction with the Transys Office
 +Maid, which is designed to operate in tight corners and to
 +fit inside offices. It is designed to have the dexterity and
 +precision to clean all the surfaces inside an office, particularly the floors, desk, and windows. But this drone has no
 +cargo capacity whatsoever. Most riggers equip the small
 +Office Maid drone with a concealed dart pistol and darts
 +filled with an appropriate sedative so that it can deliver
 +the knockout blow. The Office Maid is not designed to be
 +very strong, so riggers have to enhance its robotic arms so
 +that it can drag a metahuman to its partner, the janitorial
 +drone. It also needs to be strong enough to help load the
 +body into the other drone. The arms on this Office Maid
 +likely will not be reusable after making one extraction, as
 +its hydraulic systems burn out quickly under the strain. But
 +it is generally able to make it out of the building on its own
 +power to be repaired for future extractions.
 +The Dassault Janitorial drone has to sacrifice many of
 +its functions to be able to house a metahuman. But more
 +often than not, security personnel have more important
 +things to do than to see if a drone is doing its job. And if it
 +is painted to resemble another drone that’s active within the building, most security personnel will be satisfied
 +that the scheduled work is being done and not realize
 +that there are two drones with the same model numbers operating in the building (though as many runners
 +will tell you, there can always be pesky exceptions to
 +that rule). As is the case with the delivery drone, on-site
 +runner and decker support may be necessary to prevent
 +the exchange of the target between the two drones from
 +being spotted by bystanders and an alarm being raised.